Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Has anybody played "Dear Me, I Was"? Just wanna make sure there's no woke shit.
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I have. It's a weird game: It's a visual novel with no dialogue at all. So you basically just watch things happen.

It's really charming and unique, but also very simplistic. I wouldn't call it woke, but it's not really a game either.

I'd recommend The House In Fata Morgana or Famicom Detective Club: The Smiling Man over it.
 
Drunk Knuckles said:
There's something bothering me about DKB. The insanely high scores it received don't seem to reflect the quality of the product. Even if you think this game is polished (which in my opinion it's not) and you find the gameplay loop satisfying, is there any aspect of this experience which justifies near-perfect scores across the board?
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I think its similar to Persona 5: the initial impressions of the game are great but it wears out it welcome as you play it more. I think Frogmire (Synthetic Man's brother) made a video praising it to high heavens and then souring on it as he played it. A lot of the super positive reviews are from people who didn't finish it. I can say I like what I played but even that was just the beginning of the game, so I can see how its scores got inflated.
Drunk Knuckles said:
It's hard for me to understand who this game is for. It's Mario Odyssey without the platforming, and Donkey Kong without any of the series' longstanding mechanics and aesthetic trappings. The other Kongs, Rambi and the kremlings feel like they were thrown in to check a box, particularly the latter since they only make an appearance at the very tail end of the game. And don't get me started on the transformation mechanic, which needlessly supplants the long-neglected animal buddies with the most horrific looking chimera-like hybrid abominations imaginable (accompanied by grating music that gets old after five minutes to boot.)
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Its for Nintendo. Nintendo has this bad habit, especially now, to focus on gameplay elements over everything else, so they waste a fuck ton of time on a feature only to be worse than the tight gameplay of previous titles. I think they also have a Minecraft fetish. They seem obsessed with the "make your own fun" that Minecraft has. ToTK was rehashing Nuts and Bolts for "make your own fun" and the whole building aspect. DK Bananza is a game about destroying the environment like Minecraft. That Public Test game that is SUPER SECRET yet everyone has seem it is very clearly a Minecraft game. They are obsessed with Minecraft and open world.

Aside, this mentality is going to bite Nintendo in the ass long term. Zoomies aren't spending the same money that Millennials did and the industry is going to be VERY Millennial focused for the next 10-15 years. They don't want games to be like Minecraft or Roblox. They want them to be like the Genesis/PS2/N64/360 style games that used to come out. Nintendo is missing the mark as the market would prefer a tighter DK Country like game than DK Rock Smashy game. Also, you are never going to get kids that like Minecraft and Roblox. They aren't going to leave. Do something else Nintendo
Drunk Knuckles said:
DK's redesign is another point of bewilderment. Not sure why Nintendo felt it was necessary to sand off all the edge from one of the only characters in their stable that appeals to an older demographic. Even if this is some effort on their part to "reclaim" Donkey Kong by reverting the character back to its roots, it seems silly to reject ~30 years of franchise development just to reintroduce DK to an audience that may not even exist. It's particularly baffling in light of the recent opening of the Donkey Kong section of Nintendo World, which is patterned primarily off of the Retro Studios games.
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Its clear that Miyamoto wanted to take back the character he designed. He's close to retirement so I'm sure this was a last hurray so the character will be based more on his design than Rares. Thankfully, the Tokyo EDA has soul so they still referenced the Rare games at least.
 
Harman Smith said:
I have. It's a weird game: It's a visual novel with no dialogue at all. So you basically just watch things happen.

It's really charming and unique, but also very simplistic. I wouldn't call it woke, but it's not really a game either.

I'd recommend The House In Fata Morgana or Famicom Detective Club: The Smiling Man over it.
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That's good to know. What a strange decision. I'll probably try it anyway.

Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
Thankfully, the Tokyo EDA has soul so they still referenced the Rare games at least.
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My hope is this is a one-off thing. Maybe the Country sub series will continue at some point more normally. I'm totally coping but we'll see... I think DKB didn't sell super great by AAA Nintendo 1st party standards, so maybe that's a good thing.
 
starborn427614 said:
Chibi Robo drops on NSO next week.
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I remember when I used to habitually scour eBay in the off chance that I'd find a cheap copy of this game. It's right up my alley and was made by people who are connected to some games that I really like (notably Moon: Remix RPG Adventure). A Switch 2 being cheaper than your average copy of Chibi Robo honestly tempted me when I first sat through that reveal Direct

I need to hurry up and mod my Wii already.
 
starborn427614 said:
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Chibi Robo drops on NSO next week.
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It's cool Ninty, I already pre-ordered the "extreme early access" bundle years ago and got the digital download inside the empty case.
Call me Captain McKillKosher.webp
 
Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
I think they also have a Minecraft fetish. They seem obsessed with the "make your own fun" that Minecraft has. ToTK was rehashing Nuts and Bolts for "make your own fun" and the whole building aspect. DK Bananza is a game about destroying the environment like Minecraft. That Public Test game that is SUPER SECRET yet everyone has seem it is very clearly a Minecraft game. They are obsessed with Minecraft and open world.
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Minecraft has buck broken Nintendo like Blizzard was buck broken by DOTA 2. It usurped Nintendo as the most popular content by children.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Minecraft has buck broken Nintendo like Blizzard was buck broken by DOTA 2. It usurped Nintendo as the most popular content by children.
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That's a good comparison but I would argue Nintendo was WAY more impacted by Minecraft existing than DOTA 2 for Blizzard. It made Blizzard seethe and resulted in a fight over the name, but by the time DOTA 2 was even a thing, Blizzard became an MMO developer rather than an RTS one. They tried to make HOTS, it didn't work, and they moved on. DOTA didn't influence Blizzard's decisions as much as WoW did (seriously, both OW and HOTS became Healer/Tank/DSP like an MMO). Nintendo, on the other hand, is turning the company over to chase the Minecraft dragon. I think they don't realize 1)Minecraft and Roblox kids aren't going to switch to Nintendo's and 2)The kid market isn't as viable as it used to be. Reggie told them #2 was going to be an issue in 2005 due to population decline. Then add the fact that youngest market is spending less and will likely play FTP games as a result. Kids aren't going to buy a $450 box and $80 games. Nintendo, at least in the short term, needs to target those people that grew up on Nintendo. That means gameplay needs to be more iterative and things Nintendo hates, like story, are going to have to be considered as the older demographic expects that now.
 
Definitely hyped for Chibi-Robo. I’ve never been able to get my hands on it.

Soul Calibur 2 is definitely the best game on the service so far. I hope this gets more people to play it.
 
Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
I think its similar to Persona 5: the initial impressions of the game are great but it wears out it welcome as you play it more.
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Can't agree with that at all. There's maybe a point when you reach the Elephant Bananza layer and you fight the bat thing three times that it feels a bit repetitive, but to me it was just as fun breaking through stuff at the end of the game as it was when I started it. In fact it only gets better the further down you go.
 
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I got a Switch 2 last weekend and am pretty happy with it so far. I hadn't used my switch in quite some time because the performance was very subpar and there weren't any first party games grabbing my interest over the past year. It's a huge QoL improvement. They really need to make an effort to go back and patch more switch games though. Updated games have a night and day difference, and the games left untouched feel out if place in comparison.
 
残念。 said:
I swear all PETA does is make up dumb shit just to see if they can get the world record of most "who gives a fuck" thoughts provoked simultaneously by a single article.
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Apparently it's a deliberate strategy, There was a big article on it a few years back. They purposely pick stupid targets to get people to talk about Peta because it gets them free publicity.
 
Never Scored said:
Apparently it's a deliberate strategy, There was a big article on it a few years back. They purposely pick stupid targets to get people to talk about Peta because it gets them free publicity.
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I'm convinced that PETA is actually an anti-animal group, given that the endgoal is more or less absolute segregation between mankind and the entire animal kingdom.
 
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