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sweatshopking wrote:I thought BOTW, which i beat, was a classic nostalgia pitch held back by underpowered hardware giving you a basically empty world made much larger than it should have been for no other reason than to have a "large world." It's not as good as the witcher 3 in any metric, but is ranked much higher due to the pathetic nostalgia obsession of the thirty something nerds who make up the bulk of the games industry. I really dont get why people like the game. Combat isn't great, world is empty, graphics suck, and besides running repeatedly through totally simply temples idk what the game has to offer. I found it tedious, but i beat it because I've beaten all the other ones made by Nintendo.
whether the build quality is good is irrelevant Imo, since the hardware is SO many years behind. I wouldn't spend $300 on an Xbox 360 today, even if it had a small screen, and that's roughly the same power as a switch.
In the end though, glad you like it. Not everything is for all people.
DPete27 wrote:Pretty great...unless:
1) the unit won't recognize/load your game chip
---Haven't had this issue yet
2) you have poor reception between the unit and the controllers
---No issue at all last night playing Snipper clips. The Switch was right next to my AV receiver and next to some turned off laptops. Joy Con worked just fine.
3) your controller gets stuck on your unit
---Not had this issue. I a wrist strap did get stuck for a moment, but that was because I put it on upside down.
4) your dock scratches your screen
---Seems to me this is overblown. Anyways, I got a glass screen protector, so I'm good.
5) you get visual artifacts while playing games
---Haven't seen that yet.
6) loud high pitched whine
---Not so far.
There's more, but that's all I can remember off the top of my head. Yeah....no thanks.
steelcity_ballin wrote:I like my switch a lot. I'm really glad I bought it a few months ago, but there is a real lack of games for it - though this is to be expected with A) a new console and B) timid investors and developers after the Wii U failures. The early adopters despite a really non-existent game library are what made this possible, specifically having a killer polished game like BotW. Without BotW I don't think the console makes it for lack of dev support.
It's good to see the store getting a lot of new content. I still haven't finished BotW yet, but it's been fun to play and explore. I tried Arms but didn't care for it. Really excited for Fire Emblem as I love tactics-style isometric turn-based rpgs. I bought a few older NES ports like blaster master. Mario Cart 8 is fun too. I took a trip to Vegas ~ 4 hr flight and the switch did pretty well with any game for most of the flight except BotW which is more demanding. I bought an Anker portable battery charger now and I should get at least 10+ hours on the thing. The pro controller is my favorite controller yet.
It seems like it's full-steam ahead for the console though, with a host of games on the horizon and a constant stream of successful launch titles. New IP is never a bad thing. Happy to see it succeed.
sweatshopking wrote:whether the build quality is good is irrelevant Imo, since the hardware is SO many years behind. I wouldn't spend $300 on an Xbox 360 today, even if it had a small screen, and that's roughly the same power as a switch.
sweatshopking wrote:I thought BOTW, which i beat, was a classic nostalgia pitch held back by underpowered hardware giving you a basically empty world made much larger than it should have been for no other reason than to have a "large world." It's not as good as the witcher 3 in any metric, but is ranked much higher due to the pathetic nostalgia obsession of the thirty something nerds who make up the bulk of the games industry. I really dont get why people like the game. Combat isn't great, world is empty, graphics suck, and besides running repeatedly through totally simply temples idk what the game has to offer. I found it tedious, but i beat it because I've beaten all the other ones made by Nintendo.
whether the build quality is good is irrelevant Imo, since the hardware is SO many years behind. I wouldn't spend $300 on an Xbox 360 today, even if it had a small screen, and that's roughly the same power as a switch.
In the end though, glad you like it. Not everything is for all people.
southrncomfortjm wrote:-Breath of the Wild is probably as good as everyone says. I only say probably since I only got about 2.5 hours with it last night. But in that time I took the general consensus advice and was just curiously explored the game world. Exploring a bit often leads to unexpected fun, like finding a Korok seed, or finding a random big monster encounter. This is the exact opposite of how I felt with Mass Effect Andromeda where the forced/guided exploration got monotonous very quickly and was rarely rewarding.
derFunkenstein wrote:How is performance now a few months later?
derFunkenstein wrote:Are there any games that are even remotely interesting coming soon?
derFunkenstein wrote:How is performance now a few months later?
I don't, frankly, care too much about the hardware if the games are good. I started caring more about the hardware as consoles progressed because there were fewer and fewer games that really captured my attention. I'm kind of trapped in a pre-2000s gaming world with just a handful of very notable exceptions. That said, we have to consider the source of these comments. SSK isn't paid by Microsoft but he might as well be. I don't trust any of his opinions on tech, because I can't.
Are there any games that are even remotely interesting coming soon? The only other Switch title that's grabbed my eye so far as Ultra Street Fighter II, which is SSF2Turbo HD Remix with a couple extra characters (and a $40 price tag).
derFunkenstein wrote:What I meant by caring less about hardware is spec-for-spec comparisons with an Xbox or PlayStation. I can't be bothered with that crap. The Wii had some fun titles. The Xbox 360 had some fun titles. The PS3 had some fun titles. I own all three. If the fun is there I'll buy it, and the cost of a platform is just the cost of entry.
Looks like the Wii U version of BotW got some attention after release, too, which is nice. I'm not planning on buying a Switch until they're widely available and the games are there. It's evident from both posts that there's not much on the horizon. It's unfortunate, but expected. Pokemon will be the big seller in my house. She's a Pokemon fanatic and has played through Pokemon Moon once with each starter option.
derFunkenstein wrote:I'm not planning on buying a Switch until they're widely available and the games are there. It's evident from both posts that there's not much on the horizon. It's unfortunate, but expected. Pokemon will be the big seller in my house. She's a Pokemon fanatic and has played through Pokemon Moon once with each starter option.
derFunkenstein wrote:"something every month" just means there will be months (potentially several consecutive) where I don't see anything I want. I'm sort of OK with that, because I have a larger personal library of games to play, but it doesn't bode well for a system's long-term viability. Wii backwards-compatibility was why I got a Wii U - our Wii had bitten the big one and I saw four or five Wii U games I wanted. Unfortunately we haven't bought anything for it since until BotW.
Pizzapotamus wrote:Well major first party releases on a monthly basis is a lot more than they've done for any console in a long while and is more than "not much"
southrncomfortjm wrote:How is the hardware so many years behind? It's using a new-ish Nvidia mobile processor. No one else has done what Nintendo's done with this console. And, overall, raw graphics power doesn't mean as much to Nintendo as it does to Sony and MS. So why does the power of the console matter? As a portable unit, I'd say build quality is more important than raw power since it doesn't just sit on a shelf.
As for BotW, obviously I can't make a final determination on it yet since I'm only a couple of hours in. It's definitely a different game than Witcher, and I'm happy for that. I got bored with Witcher 2 pretty quickly and therefore didn't try 3.
bwoodring wrote:
"Not everything is for all people", but anyone who likes Breath of the Wild is a thirty-something nerd with a pathetic nostalgia obsession. That's really weird, because my 13 year old son who has never played another Zelda game has been playing it constantly for weeks.
What a passive-aggressive dick comment.
derFunkenstein wrote:That said, we have to consider the source of these comments. SSK isn't paid by Microsoft but he might as well be. I don't trust any of his opinions on tech, because I can't.
southrncomfortjm wrote:Pizzapotamus wrote:Well major first party releases on a monthly basis is a lot more than they've done for any console in a long while and is more than "not much"
How long can they keep it up though? We don't know what's coming past December (or at least I don't know), but they've hit basically every main franchise by that point except for Metroid (and that will take a few years), Kirby, mainline Pokémon (also a few years), and Super Smash Brothers. Even best case scenario, but mid next year, every main franchise will have been tapped with either a new game or a Wii U port. What then? It won't matter much to me since I don't need a ton of Nintendo games to keep my happy, but we'll see what the masses have to say.
sweatshopking wrote:
Nothing passive aggressive at all. Dickish? maybe. I didn't say anyone, i said the bulk of the reviewing industry who simply is filled with nerdy ass 30 somethings who love nostalgia. the game is objectively not as good as witcher 3 yet ranks higher. Explain it.
southrncomfortjm wrote:steelcity_ballin wrote:I like my switch a lot. I'm really glad I bought it a few months ago, but there is a real lack of games for it - though this is to be expected with A) a new console and B) timid investors and developers after the Wii U failures. The early adopters despite a really non-existent game library are what made this possible, specifically having a killer polished game like BotW. Without BotW I don't think the console makes it for lack of dev support.
It's good to see the store getting a lot of new content. I still haven't finished BotW yet, but it's been fun to play and explore. I tried Arms but didn't care for it. Really excited for Fire Emblem as I love tactics-style isometric turn-based rpgs. I bought a few older NES ports like blaster master. Mario Cart 8 is fun too. I took a trip to Vegas ~ 4 hr flight and the switch did pretty well with any game for most of the flight except BotW which is more demanding. I bought an Anker portable battery charger now and I should get at least 10+ hours on the thing. The pro controller is my favorite controller yet.
It seems like it's full-steam ahead for the console though, with a host of games on the horizon and a constant stream of successful launch titles. New IP is never a bad thing. Happy to see it succeed.
I think there are enough good games for right now, especially when so many of them are of a pretty high quality. Basically at least 1-2 solid releases a month. BotW, Snipper Clips, Splatoon 2 and Mario will hold me through the rest of the year easily.
steelcity_ballin wrote:2 of those games you mentioned aren't out yet. Splatoon 2 is supposed to be next month IIRC, and Odyssey slated for October. I would disagree highly on the number of AAA-style titles. There's BotW, Mario Cart 8, Arms, and a lot of crappy neo-geo ports and some so-so indie games they are overcharging for. This is a dev issue, not Nintendo's fault entirely, but come on - $30 for some of these titles is ridiculous - hell sometime Nintendo is to blame, look at the SSFII port they wanted $40 for. It is trending towards the better lately with a lot of devs getting involved, but until those games materialize they don't count.
southrncomfortjm wrote:There are a lot of good/decent games out - don't discount Disgaea 5, Binding of Isaac, I am Setsuna, and Shovel Knight.