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31 minutes ago, denisb said:

I've never got metroid don't think I've even tried it since the nes version I played .

 

Personally im  hoping for a pikmin game early next year 

 

my 5 faveourite games if the year and 4 are Nintendo sort of

zelds 

mario 

last gusrdian 

mario rabbids 

and banjo kazooie on Xbox one 

 

You need to play Super Metroid, Metroid Zero Mission and Metroid Prime.

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51 minutes ago, revlob said:

It's interesting to think we've had the best Zelda and the best Mario in the first year of this console's lifetime. Nintendo are on top of their game in a way they haven't been in maybe twenty years.

 

It might not arrive in the first year, but do you think we will get the hat trick, and the best Metroid ever too?

 

Fingers crossed it'll also be home to the best Pokemon game too when that arrives. 

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I would take a NSMB or 2.5D 3D World while we wait for SMO2. SMO is something else, but they’re both welcome too. 

 

And Animal Crossing would be a very big deal in my household.

 

I love Stardew Valley - and it makes more sense on the Switch than it did on the PS4, where I barely played it - but I need real-world appointments through the week to see KK and buy some turnips. 

 

And Pikmin!

 

And a curveball like Luigi’s Mansion 3!

 

And a made for Switch Mario Kart!

 

I am so in love with this thing. 

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Axiom Verge is the purest clone, and an excellent one.

 

The Mummy Demastered is halfway between Metroidvania and Contra, and very good.

 

Forma.8 is a neat twist on the formula, very atmospheric albeit without the same level of Metroid power up progression. It's not a platformer, you control a floating orb.

 

Stretching a bit further, Cave Story is just an excellent side scrolling shooty exploratory platformer with backtracking and a cool world, characters and story, but it's unnecessarily expensive on the Switch. 

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15 minutes ago, TommyG said:

Hey guys,

 

I have SMO, Snipperclips, Zelda (Wii U), Mario Kart 8 (Wii U). What game(s) do I need next on the Switch?

 

There's this cool little game that people are getting excited about, I think it's called Super Mario Odyssey or something like that. ;)

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36 minutes ago, Stanshall said:

Axiom Verge is the purest clone, and an excellent one.

 

The Mummy Demastered is halfway between Metroidvania and Contra, and very good.

 

Forma.8 is a neat twist on the formula, very atmospheric albeit without the same level of Metroid power up progression. It's not a platformer, you control a floating orb.

 

Stretching a bit further, Cave Story is just an excellent side scrolling shooty exploratory platformer with backtracking and a cool world, characters and story, but it's unnecessarily expensive on the Switch. 

 

Cheers, went for both Mummy and Axiom

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1 hour ago, Stanshall said:

Given the press release/interview the other day about maintaining this release schedule (somehow), I expect that after Xenoblade, we'll get another Direct announcing the next wave of primo shit. 

With that in mind, here's what a reliable spoilerhound on GAF left as a goodbye post after the shitshow the past week:

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I'd say things like "I bet we get *insert game here* in threads just prior to announcements. Since I probably won't be around much longer, might as well give whatever knowledge/hints I have left:

 


-A sequel to a 3DS game is coming to Switch. Remember what was said about new character inclusion for Smash.
-Netflix (but not Hulu) is coming Q1. Announcement will be tied with a Netflix-produced show.
-Themes will arrive with a Dec. 25 update. Free if you own the game or amiibo.
-Metroid Prime 4 will have a subtitle that people know, Q4 at the earliest. First footage in January Direct.
-Little Mac was almost in ARMS. There's a reason he's not.
-A new spinoff is coming exclusively to the eShop using assets from a game already released

That's all I've got.

 

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4 hours ago, TommyG said:

Hey guys,

 

I have SMO, Snipperclips, Zelda (Wii U), Mario Kart 8 (Wii U). What game(s) do I need next on the Switch?

 

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is entirely worth it.

Also you want to get Splat2n, Arms and Mario Ubisoft X-Com and likely Xenoblade 2 when it comes out.

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Apologies for pasting something I posted elsewhere but this is my work in progress Switch recommendation guide:

 

Top Tier

 

Super Mario Odyssey
BotW
MK8D
The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth Plus

 

Excellent

 

Splatoon 2
ARMS
Rayman Legends
FIFA 18 (Farley was right to exchange this back, the best portable football game ever) 
USF2 (online is virtually dead, though)

 

Great

 

Mario & Rabbids
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Shovel Knight
Super Bomberman R (for multiplayer)
Thumper (psychedelic intense rhythm game) 
Deemo (rhythm game, piano based, pretty)
Picross S
Slime-san (Meat Boy style platformer)
Sine Mora
Butcher (2D pixelated Doom)
Cave Story+ (expensive but great) 
Sonic Mania

 

Worthwhile, YMMV

 

The Mummy Demastered (Metroidvania meets Contra) 
Golf Story (charming, quite funny, simple relaxing gameplay, may move up a tier when I finish it) 
Neuro Voider (twin stick, retro, loot upgrades) 
Snipperclips (original concept, only fun in co-op) 
Mr. Shifty (Hotline Miami meets Blink from Dishonored) 
Gonner (quirky roguelike shooter, has character, hard) 
Bulb Boy (spooky point-and-click, will be short)
Graceful Explosion Machine (high score chasing shmup, elegant mechanics but repetitive)
Axiom Verge (very good Metroidvania, likely deserves higher than this tier when I finish it)
Shantae (fun, challenging platformer based around the theme of tits)
Blaster Master Zero (NES style platform shmup fun, surprisingly varied)
Voez (beautiful rhythm game with mostly shitty J-pop tunes, some belters redeem it)
Forma.8 (Metroidvania, you control a kind of metal ball, sounds shit but very atmospheric)
Blazing Star (Neo Geo shmup, belter)
Garou: MOTW (NG beat em up, great)
Strikers 1945 (vertical scrolling shmup, remake, good but not great)

 

Would Refund, YMMV

 

Fast RMX (looks good, very fast, feels limited) 
Oxenfree (I hate all the characters) 
Flip Wars (decent in local multiplayer, competitive puzzler, very limited) 
Koi (a rip off of Flow, mobile game tier)
Wonder Boy (looks gorgeous but gameplay is very dated and limited, to my tastes)
NBA Playgrounds (even shite with friends)
Severed (I don't understand the praise for this, hard to play on Switch with one hand, probably better on 3DS)
Mighty Gunvolt Burst (Mega Man/Metroidvania type of thing, decent but not as good as Blaster Master or Shantae, or Cave Story, for that matter)
Earth Atlantis (interesting concept, 'free roaming' shmup hunting bosses to unlock the map, not as fun as it sounds, unusual visuals quickly become drab)
Kamiko (cheap rip-off of HLD)
1-2-Switch (fun at a party if the moment is right, I've had two great fun nights filled with laughter, didn't justify the cost of this tech demo)
Minecraft (it's Minecraft, my first experience of Minecraft, I love the peaceful atmosphere but I just don't have the motivation to really get into it)
Tumble Seed (an interesting, unique puzzler and much more accessible now it's patched, beautiful presentation, just...not...really...fun)
Lego City Undercover (mildly amusing writing, very limited gameplay, runs poorly)
I Am Setsuna (a very dull JRPG with repetitive visuals and music)

 

No Conclusion, Limited Playtime

 

Count Lucanor (intriguing start, very creepy pixelated adventure, not enough time to assess)
Flame in the Flood (beautiful presentation and music, survival game, probably not my thing due to time in menus and crafting)
Kingdom New Lands (beautifully presented tactical base builder/resource management kind of thing but it's a mobile game really, very simple controls, quite buggy)
Jydge (an exact cross between Mr. Shifty and Neuro Voider, probably therefore better than both)
Thimbleweed Park (enjoyable point and click, Ron Gilbert's all over it)
Steamworld Dig 2 (charming presentation, Spelunky-esque platforming plus loot upgrades)
 

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9 minutes ago, Stanshall said:

 

Would Refund


Wonder Boy (looks gorgeous but gameplay is very dated and limited, to my tastes)

 

 

Of course it's dated - it's 30 years old! It's STILL fantastic though.

 

 

9 minutes ago, Stanshall said:

 

Mighty Gunvolt Burst (Mega Man/Metroidvania type of thing, decent but not as good as Blaster Master or Shantae, or Cave Story, for that matter)

 

It's not really a Metroidvania. It's Mega Man X in different clothes. One of the best eShop releases so far. Better than Blaster Master and I preferred it to Cave Story. Not played the latest Shantae.

 

 

9 minutes ago, Stanshall said:


Kamiko (cheap rip-off of HLD)

 

 

Kamiko's style predates HLD - it's the 4th game in a series that dates back years before HLD. They may look similar, but they're really not in terms of gameplay. Kamiko is much easier, for one thing!

 

9 minutes ago, Stanshall said:

Lego City Undercover (humorous writing, very limited gameplay, runs poorly)

 

It crashes occasionally, but it doesn't "run poorly". It's still the best Lego game, and even more so now it's two player. I've 100%ed it twice now.

 

 

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Marlew

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I've added 'YMMV' to the 'would refund' section. I'm obviously not saying these tiers are carved in granite, just giving my brief feelings about all the games I've bought and played on the Switch. Apologies if I've undersold or reduced some games you like to what seems to be a pithy phrase. Great to see another perspective on some of these games. 

 

Thanks for the info about Kamiko, I wasn't aware of the history. I played it through once, twenty minutes or so, it was pleasant but I'd sooner have the fiver back. It's superficially similar enough to HLD for it to be a reference point. I appreciate that it's supposedly a high score chaser, in principle. I couldn't imagine replaying it, even with a different character, though. 

 

Wonder Boy is exactly what you'd expect from a direct port with updated graphics, and therefore YMMV, if you're a fan of the original or that era's approach to level design.

 

Lego City Undercover was a daft purchase because I've never liked the Lego games for their gameplay. I wanted something with a bit of exploration but it was mechanically too simplistic, in my opinion. I also think it runs sluggishly both in handheld and docked and makes me feel a bit queasy. That might just be my physiological problem but I'm no frame rate/graphics loon, at all. 

 

I'll give Mighty Gunvolt Burst another go one day. I got it early doors when there was relatively little available and it still slipped down the list. I took to Blaster Master above it but I know it has some fans.

 

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6 minutes ago, SMD said:

How can you hate Wonder Boy

 

I didn't say that. I said it's not my thing, a port of the original game with gorgeous graphics. 

 

Maybe the 'would refund' section is a mistake, and should just be a brief description of the game instead. I wasn't trying to be provocative. 

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46 minutes ago, deKay said:

Stuff 

 

 

Hold on, just realised you're the guy who's not playing Odyssey because he's playing Stardew Valley instead. I deeply regret my respectful replies in this thread. You're a bad wrong un. 

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