Nintendo Switch

Apreche · August 1, 2018, 3:49pm

HUGE Mario Tennis patch today.

Gonna go at it again.

Rochelle · August 4, 2018, 9:16pm

Apreche · August 5, 2018, 1:03pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VotLqDrUO6U

Cremlian · August 5, 2018, 1:34pm

Yay! maybe they will stop playing that instead of Magical Drop on the neo Geo arcade machines at MAGFEST :-p

Neito · August 5, 2018, 5:08pm

You know Magical Drop is on the switch, too, right?

Apreche · August 5, 2018, 5:36pm

Of course. I got it the day it became available.

MATATAT · August 6, 2018, 3:00am

I bought Magical Drop 3 and Money Puzzle Exchanger, and I think I like MPE better. New Picross also . More of the same but still good. The puzzle piece feature they added is kinda neat.

SuperPichu · August 9, 2018, 3:51am

I got a switch today. Couple of things

The hacking scene for this thing is amazing. It can boot linux reasonably well.
Holy crap Mario Odyssey is really good.
Why did Nintendo ruin the d-pad? (I know why, the d-pad needed to be buttons for horizontal use, still sad though)
My friend code is SW-7196-5312-0527

Josh · August 9, 2018, 3:02pm

Is it possible to run Android on the Switch?

SuperPichu · August 9, 2018, 3:21pm

I haven’t tried, nor do I think anyone else has, but it’s basically the same chip as the Shield TV so probably although I imagine getting the joycons to work would be a nightmare.

Churba · August 9, 2018, 3:23pm

Can’t imagine it would be too much of a nightmare - after all, people got Joycons working as a combined controller with PC pretty much immediately.

SuperPichu · August 9, 2018, 3:46pm

True, the bluetooth support on linux for the switch is a little buggy right now though. Currently the joycons only work wired (connected to the console).

Spookyswirls · August 16, 2018, 1:56pm

Monhun demo is out! Will try it after my interview.

Apreche · August 16, 2018, 1:59pm

Yep, I saw that. I’m gonna try it.

Neito · August 16, 2018, 4:57pm

If you’re gonna play any Monhun, play World, it’s worlds better, pun not intended. Generations still uses a lot of the old systems for things, which causes some quality of life issues.

Apreche · August 16, 2018, 4:59pm

Is there a free demo?

Neito · August 16, 2018, 7:17pm

I… don’t think so?

Apreche · August 17, 2018, 1:30pm

I played that Monster Hunter demo on the Switch last night. If that is representative of what all the Monster Hunter games are like, then I have no idea why that shit is popular. Awful controls. Buggy and finnicky. Not even the graphics were polished. I can’t even say it’s just another average walk around and hit things game. It’s a bad walk around and hit exactly one thing game. Deleted.

SkeleRym · August 17, 2018, 1:40pm

The big thing (that I see) in the Monster Hunter games is that the monsters react in naturalistic, consistent, and surprisingly complex ways to you and the environment around them.

That is a big draw. Imagine if the Hynox in BotW was ~3x more complex in terms of its overall behavior.

Churba · August 17, 2018, 1:42pm

I think it’s why world has hooked me so bad. It’s what Rym described, but they’ve clearly spent a whole hell of a lot of time and effort polishing, tweaking, and fixing all that finnicky shit, the bad controls, the bad cameras, all the shit that made the old Monhun games a real pain in the ass to play.