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On January 20 2018 01:23 Logo wrote:Show nested quote +On January 19 2018 04:02 maartendq wrote:
The switch turned my PS4 into a netflix player. If Netflix were to come to the Switch, I'd have a hard time finding reasons not to sell off the PS4, especially since the games bought the machine for, Bloodborne and The Witcher 3, I haven't played in a long time.
There's an easy reason not to do this, if you sell your PS4 you can't watch Netflix and play your switch at the same time. Though you could sell your PS4 for a Roku or other streaming device. --- Even in terms of having time, the Switch is great because you don't have to monopolize a TV or seclude yourself wherever your PC is to use it. There's a lot of value in being able to sit on a couch with your significant other while they watch TV and you play a game.
Due to circumstances, time together with my wife is at a premium, so I'd rather not spend it playing video games while she watches a show.
Besides, I think I can install Netflix natively on my TV. The only reason I'd rather use the PS4 right now is that navigating anything with a remote control is too much of a hassle.
Right now I'm looking forward to being able to play Dark Souls: remastered on the Switch, but I won't buy it before I know the port is good. Otherwise I'm a bit out of the loop in terms of upcoming and recent releases. Mario looked interesting for a while, but going by the reviews it seems to be a rather casual platformer. Mario vs Rabbids, on the other hand, has been on my radar for a while, but since I've got no idea how much playtime and replayability the game has, I am rather hesitant.
The thing is, with the last two generations of consoles (X360/PS3 and XBone/PS4) I've been burned a few times too many with €60 games that I barely got 10 hours worth of entertainment out of. So until I know a game will keep me entertained for a while (i.e. months), I have a hard time justifying to myself the purchasing price. It doesn't help that play time and replayability hardly come up during reviews either, mainly because reviewers are under pressure to be able to provide a fully written and edited review by release day. Breath of the Wild was a gamble that paid of extremely well, while Skyrim and Dark Souls are assured time sinks.
Edit: I just realised that it's not just total play time, but whether a game allows short gaming sessions. A game that requires you to play for at least a couple of hours per day to get the most out of it is not a game I will currently purchase. The Witcher 3 was a fantastic game, with an equally fantastic story line, but it took me a year and a half to finish, and that is without doing a single side quest once I got to Skellige.
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Yeah, it's really difficult to find games for people in your circumstance. I think that's why so many of the people I grew up with mostly stopped gaming. The nature of the industry is that casual games are mostly short while hardcore games are mostly made for binge gaming.
As an example, Persona 5 is one of my favorite games of last year. It took me maybe 160-180 hours to finish one play through of it because I tried to complete everything. But I would be hesitant to recommend it to somebody with 10-15 hours of play time every month, even if they skip all the optional stuff. It feels made to be binged through in 1-3 months rather than slowly played through in the space of 6-12 months. And that's a game that doesn't have the learning curve of other JRPGs like Xenoblade Chronicles.
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That's one of the things that made the dungeon design of TP and WW so accessible. Warp points and knoted structure allows for short sessions as opposed to something like the water temple, which isn't friendly to it.
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I found Mario Odyssey to be good for short sessions. You can pick it up for 15 minutes, make some good progress, put it down, pick it back up... Just keep in mind that 99% of the game is more of an exploration puzzle game and not good ol' platforming. I think that's why people found the post-game so difficult. It's just puzzle solving for the entire game. Then the one time you get to do good ol' classic platforming, it seems disproportionately hard compared to the rest of the game
For good ol' platforming, I enjoyed Shovel Knight and Meat Boy a lot, though you'd probably need a controller with a good D-Pad for those games. Meat Boy is great in short sessions, but it can piss you off quite a bit. Shovel Knight is not very hard (probably around Mega Man in difficulty) but very fun and has awesome music.
I'm looking forward to the new Meat Boy game and Celeste, though I think I'd prefer getting those on PC
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On January 21 2018 06:46 Purind wrote:
I found Mario Odyssey to be good for short sessions. You can pick it up for 15 minutes, make some good progress, put it down, pick it back up... Just keep in mind that 99% of the game is more of an exploration puzzle game and not good ol' platforming. I think that's why people found the post-game so difficult. It's just puzzle solving for the entire game. Then the one time you get to do good ol' classic platforming, it seems disproportionately hard compared to the rest of the game
For good ol' platforming, I enjoyed Shovel Knight and Meat Boy a lot, though you'd probably need a controller with a good D-Pad for those games. Meat Boy is great in short sessions, but it can piss you off quite a bit. Shovel Knight is not very hard (probably around Mega Man in difficulty) but very fun and has awesome music.
I'm looking forward to the new Meat Boy game and Celeste, though I think I'd prefer getting those on PC
I found the postgame hard because, quite frankly, I'm ass at platformers. There's a couple of the 2d challenges that I straight up quit. It's why I never owned a mainline Mario game until Odyssey since I had Mario Bros on the Atari 5200 I got 2nd handed to me as a kid. The individual challenges themselves weren't particularly hard, it was the lack of checkpoints that racheted up the difficulty.
Still had a great time though, despite ranking it 4/7 of the Switch games I own.
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On January 21 2018 06:46 Purind wrote:
I found Mario Odyssey to be good for short sessions. You can pick it up for 15 minutes, make some good progress, put it down, pick it back up... Just keep in mind that 99% of the game is more of an exploration puzzle game and not good ol' platforming. I think that's why people found the post-game so difficult. It's just puzzle solving for the entire game. Then the one time you get to do good ol' classic platforming, it seems disproportionately hard compared to the rest of the game
For good ol' platforming, I enjoyed Shovel Knight and Meat Boy a lot, though you'd probably need a controller with a good D-Pad for those games. Meat Boy is great in short sessions, but it can piss you off quite a bit. Shovel Knight is not very hard (probably around Mega Man in difficulty) but very fun and has awesome music.
I'm looking forward to the new Meat Boy game and Celeste, though I think I'd prefer getting those on PC
Shovel Knight is quite fun. Challenging, but not frustratingly so. Playable in short sessions too: one level at a time. I find it quite playable without D-pad, although sometimes the game misinterprets what I want to do.
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Has anyone here bought Rime? I've been waiting for it to get released on the switch, but the many complaints about performance issues has put me off of buying it. Have there been some performance patches by now?
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I played mario odyssey about 2-3 hours and it is one of the most enjoyable games i've played in a long time. The universe is just full of color and joy  I thought i have learned all the movement skills after playing it for few hours but then i watched a speedrun until the part i played, and oh boy was i wrong :D
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So by Summer it could easily be said that Sony, Nintendo are the big movers in the video game industry.
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Honestly, the Switch is a game changer. Not sure i can't go back to non-hybrid consoles
yesterday i was playing Stardew Valley (awesome game, btw) and suddenly the Eagles vs Vikings game started and i just took the Switch out of the dock and continued playing, game finished, put it back on and kept going, an hour later i wanted to go to bed but keep playing, what did i do? Took the switch out of the dock and continue playing for about an hour (which means now i'm really sleepy)
At this rate, the switch might not even get better games but it already changed my view on how video game consoles should be.
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On January 21 2018 06:08 Gahlo wrote:
That's one of the things that made the dungeon design of TP and WW so accessible. Warp points and knoted structure allows for short sessions as opposed to something like the water temple, which isn't friendly to it.
BotW follows on that pretty well. Save (almost) anywhere + short dungeons lead to a nice ability to play for a little bit then stop even though the world is pretty huge and there is a lot to do.
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Butbthat little is not 10-15 minutes. While you can play for that amou!t it is hard to keep up with things if you just play with 15min intervals
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I can relate so much to all those stories about adulthood and gaming haha. As for me, it's not even that I have less time to play (and I do) it's more that I've had to change to way I play.
Used to do a shit ton of Dota, now, I'm merely catching up with tournaments during lunch at work.
Even though I still love to death old school RPG and Divinity Original Sin 2 is my absolute GOTY 2017 (yes, above Zelda), after 100+h, I just want it to be over. Playing Zelda in short sessions of 30min during train commuting, while my gf watches TV, in bed, etc was fine, sitting 2H in front of the computer, it's getting really hard to find the time.
Despite me claiming for years that Hearthstone is a shit game compared to Magic, I barely have time for a 4H tournament once in a while but Hearthstone is good enough and I can play it on my smartphone.
And so on and so forth...
Anyway, I'll probably take a Mario break soon, not sure I can force myself to grind all the remaining moons right away. Next, I have Ys VIII and Bayonetta 3 on my radar but I think those are still a while away... Undecided between Darkest Dungeon and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 so far.
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I can't play games on either consoles or PCs nowadays, haven't touched my PC since i bought my Switch as even if i have games I want to play there, I just don't see how...
More and more I realize that the NS is the best gaming console of all times, is just the one that fits on every single situation...
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I think the Switch is a working (wo)man's best friend. The stuff you guys describe applies exactly to me as well. Would love to grind some total war but free days are becoming increasingly rare, which makes spending it on long gaming sessions feel like such a waste.
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I'm not fond of Hearthstone's current meta. It used to be such a great toilet game when it was focused on aggro and mid. If I see my opponent is a priest or mage, I already know that I'm going to eventually concede before the game is over.
I had such a backlog from the Steam Summer sale and buying 3DS games that I've barely had time to play my new Switch. I think Project Octopath Traveler is the next game I'm looking forward to. I miss 90s JRPG goodness.
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Nice, i had heard the rumors and i'm glad they were true. I really prefer having my stuff physically so this is great news.
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The fact that an indie Steam game, the first by its developers, is getting a physical release on a Nintendo console is pretty dope and speaks to the quality of the game.
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