probotector Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 2 hours ago, Rob Rule said: We don't really know. Giant Robot's tech-demo bedfellow, Starfox Zero's control and movement engine, was the most controversial/most inconsistently seductive part of Platinum's game. It had plenty of lovers but didn't speak to the majority. Same with Starfox Guard. It could be something slim that is legitimised by the novelty, or sheer fun, of the Labo side of things. This is Nintendo's MO these days. Potentially great games ruined by shitty controls. My favourite feature of the Switch is the return of the SNES button layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce Poodle Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Also, if anyone here watches commercial kids’ TV, they’ll know that practically every advert break features a Nintendo ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 16 minutes ago, probotector said: This is Nintendo's MO these days. Potentially great games ruined by shitty controls. My favourite feature of the Switch is the return of the SNES button layout. Ruined is a pretty strong word, would you care to elaborate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opinionated Ham Scarecrow Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Night in the Woods came out on Switch today? Essential stuff for anyone who liked Life is Strange. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, Gizamaluke said: Night in the Woods came out on Switch today? Essential stuff for anyone who liked Life is Strange. Is that US only for now as I didn't notice it on the UK store? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nespresso Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 23 minutes ago, Gizamaluke said: Night in the Woods came out on Switch today? Essential stuff for anyone who liked Life is Strange. Yeah it's one of my favourite games of 2017! If you're a fan of adventure games then definitely give it a go people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0b Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 3 hours ago, Gizamaluke said: Night in the Woods came out on Switch today? Essential stuff for anyone who liked Life is Strange. Ooh, thanks for the heads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quest Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 It's meant to Feb 1st and I can't see it on the UK store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrock Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 7 hours ago, VN1X said: Yeah it's one of my favourite games of 2017! If you're a fan of adventure games then definitely give it a go people. Hang on! It's not an FPS, you sure you played it? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Thread Owner Posted January 19, 2018 Author Share Posted January 19, 2018 8 hours ago, Gizamaluke said: Night in the Woods came out on Switch today? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarlaccfood Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 9 hours ago, Protocol Penguin said: Wow, that’s very a good explanation. Makes a lot of sense to me. I too witnessed many people being unaware that the Wii U was even a new and different console to the Wii. (Interestingly, basically every non-gamer I showed my Wii U to loved it, and to be honestly were more impressed the central gimmick than I ever was. Perhaps if Nintendo hadn’t massively messed up on the product name and image, maybe they could have had more much success with the Wii U?) Nintendo remembering to advertise this time has massively helped. We all remember the ads for Wii and DS. Can anyone remember any WiiU adverts? It's like they thought keeping the Wii name would mean they didn't need to spend any money on marketing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RubberJohnny Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 13 hours ago, SMD said: To a lot of people, the Wii U never existed. Anecdotally I knew loads of people who had Wiis and assumed the Wii U was just another Wii. They didn't know it was a separate machine or what the tablet controller did and that spoke to the major problem Nintendo had with the platform. But the flip side is that for many, the Switch is the next Nintendo console. Like they went away and did something else or got a PS4/Xbox One and now this is the new thing. If you ask people what they think Nintendo did in the meantime, they probably couldn't tell you. This seems pretty unconvincing too, we had lots of anecdotes about people thinking the Wii U was a controller, but when told it was a new console, none of the anecdotes ended with them rushing out to buy it - there was no pent up demand! There was just no demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opinionated Ham Scarecrow Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 1 hour ago, deKay said: No. Giant Bomb and their lies!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdx2 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Nasty https://mobile.twitter.com/dwrkoa/status/953814630870089728 looks like it was programmed in a lunch break.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quest Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 I read that the devs lost the source code and had to rebuild the entire thing from scratch. Looks like it didn't go too well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprite Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Sorry to revisit a topic I know has been covered but, on the subject of power “bricks” for travelling with the switch. We have a USB big power bank thing that is something like 22,000 .. it’s this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00F5Q4F0U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_rYByAbM42PMYZ Will this sufficiently charge the Switch? If I wanted to play and charge, would I need something else? The plane will probably have USB sockets but I’m not sure if they’ll be powerful enough to charge off so wanting to cover bases thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nespresso Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Ah I think @deKay might know the answer to that one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny5 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 21 minutes ago, sprite said: Sorry to revisit a topic I know has been covered but, on the subject of power “bricks” for travelling with the switch. We have a USB big power bank thing that is something like 22,000 .. it’s this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00F5Q4F0U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_rYByAbM42PMYZ Will this sufficiently charge the Switch? If I wanted to play and charge, would I need something else? The plane will probably have USB sockets but I’m not sure if they’ll be powerful enough to charge off so wanting to cover bases thank you It’ll be fine. It will charge the Switch when you’re not using it and will extend the battery life while playing. I don’t know if it’ll give enough power to charge the switch battery while you play though, probably depends on how demanding the game is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprite Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 38 minutes ago, Jonny5 said: It’ll be fine. It will charge the Switch when you’re not using it and will extend the battery life while playing. I don’t know if it’ll give enough power to charge the switch battery while you play though, probably depends on how demanding the game is. Thanks 16 hours of flying would be a lot more fun if it included 10 hours of Mario, say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outspaced Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 More accessory questions, have any of you fine people bought a Waterfield Arcade Switch case? If so, does the UK charger fit in there too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce Poodle Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 11 hours ago, Gizamaluke said: Night in the Woods came out on Switch today? Essential stuff for anyone who liked Life is Strange. Really? Not heard much about this but Life is Strange is one of my all time favourites - this is similar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPickford Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 It doesn't look much like Life Is Strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opinionated Ham Scarecrow Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Thematically, if not visually. I normally hate anything anthropomorphic, but NitW is an exception. It's utterly charming. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrock Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 I could be completely wrong here, but I think it was @grungekid who was asking about broken joy con latches too. Turns out they're called joy con buckles and they are selling metal replacements on eBay. https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/L-R-Alloy-Metal-Card-Buckle-Lock-Parts-for-Nintendo-Switch-Joy-Con-Grip-4-Sets/162827265800 I've ordered that set because my shithead son has broken 3 out of the 4 joy cons we own. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cohen205 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 What a lovely term of endearment 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezycold Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) 14 hours ago, ZOK said: Games were seen as universally dorky until the Wii came along?! Sorry, this is nonsense. To non gamers, yes. The Wii broke through to a group of people who had previously regarded videogames as being childlike or for nerds. Mums and such. Edited January 19, 2018 by freezycold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chooch Posted January 19, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 19, 2018 21 minutes ago, freezycold said: To non gamers, yes. The Wii broke through to a group of people who had previously regarded videogames as being childlike or for nerds. Mums and such. My Mum never thought I was a nerd! She said I was handsome and clever and BRAVE. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grungekid Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 1 hour ago, Adrock said: I could be completely wrong here, but I think it was @grungekid who was asking about broken joy con latches too. Turns out they're called joy con buckles and they are selling metal replacements on eBay. https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/L-R-Alloy-Metal-Card-Buckle-Lock-Parts-for-Nintendo-Switch-Joy-Con-Grip-4-Sets/162827265800 I've ordered that set because my shithead son has broken 3 out of the 4 joy cons we own. Yup I dropped my switch off the couch on carpet and it put a dint in one of them so they wouldn't latch correctly. Ended up selling the joycons as a second pair to someone on here and getting a new set... Gutted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie John Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 What point did you guys get up to in Stardew before you stopped playing it? I've been playing it exclusively since the start of the month and have only just got up to the winter of my first year. I think it's a great game, but as it doesn't have an 'ending' as such and, like others sims, could potentially go on forever, I think I need to draw a line for when I'll have 'completed' it, otherwise I'll never play anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nespresso Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 10 minutes ago, Jamie John said: What point did you guys get up to in Stardew before you stopped playing it? I've been playing it exclusively since the start of the month and have only just got up to the winter of my first year. I think it's a great game, but as it doesn't have an 'ending' as such and, like others sims, could potentially go on forever, I think I need to draw a line for when I'll have 'completed' it, otherwise I'll never play anything else. Come back once you've finished all of the community center tasks. (also there's a Stardew Valley thread) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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