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P-MAC

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Nov 15, 2017
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I hate voice chat as a rule.

I did think the way the app worked was pretty cool though. It pumped out a push notification when Mario Kart started and the room full of online people were there. I also liked the game specific info on Splatoon, that was really neat.

I'm totally on board with this concept of decentralising account/game stuff off the machine, keeping it light and having everything else on my phone.

Same tbh. I understand why people are annoyed they don't have both options, but for me personally it's much easier to keep all that stuff on the phone.
 

HotHamBoy

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Oct 27, 2017
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No I'm not. You have done nothing to disprove what I said, and I regularly play the Mega Man Collections and ACA games on a daily basis.

You are very, VERY wrong. Quit doubling down

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xyla

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Oct 27, 2017
8,385
Germany
Runbow?

Or Astro Duel Deluxe, if you find it at a good discounted price.

Another is Party Golf.

All these are good party games, that are more fun with more people.

Me and mine really enjoyed Overcooked :)

Overcooked
Overcooked 2
Lovers in a Dangerous Time
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Light Fingers (comes out tomorrow, not sure how it is officially)
Party Golf
Mantis Burn Racing

Plenty of 4 player local games.

You should check out Sausage Sports Club.

man, anyone else not gettin nintendo online?



Ultra Space Battle Brawl

also on pc which you might have:
stikbold! 6 people on switch tho
runbow
inversus
the next penelope

Thanks for alle the suggestions! Most of them I've never heard or forgotten that I have already looked into them!
I'll look through them and maybe there's even one or two on sale...

Edit: It's times like these, where I wish, Ivisigun Heroes would be on the Switch.
 
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HotHamBoy

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Oct 27, 2017
16,423
Sure Jan. Because I just booted up 5 ACA titles and they use more than two buttons. And the Mega Man Collections use more than two buttons as well.

If you're not going to go into an argument knowing what you're talking about, then dont just try to make shit up on the fly.
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A ton of those Neo Geo ACA games only use 2 buttons. I'm not going to write them out, you can look that up on your own.
 

ginnokane

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Oct 28, 2017
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Ahem, yes, back to regularly scheduled thread posting...
I haven't seen it mentioned here but yesterday it was announced that Momodora Reverie Under the Moonlight and Minoria (a new game from the same dev) are coming soon http://www.siliconera.com/2018/09/1...moonlight-and-minoria-to-the-nintendo-switch/
Holy CRAP! I've been hoping for this for a while now. Would love to see a port of the other Momodora games as well if RUtM is successful on the switch. Maybe in the style of the Fairune Collection?

Also, Minoria is looking really good. Interesting that they're seemingly not porting it to the PS4 this time around. Switch has become the de facto indie machine confirmed.
 

Conrad Link

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Oct 29, 2017
3,650
New Zealand
The Pokken controller was actually 50% off in EB Games here the other week and I was really tempted to get it for 2D stuff. But I dunno I feel like they're gonna do a 'proper' retro one at some point.

Or if those NES things are a success they'll probably just churn out heaps of different ones of those lol. >_>

Edit: OH YAY Momodora! :D I didn't know about that, sweeet I've been waiting to play it for ages, waiting for a sale on Xbox that never comes. Switch version it is now!
 

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Game of the Day

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Turn-based strategy meets explosive mech combat. Be a hero, join the fight!

Commanders! Take to the battlefield in Ironcast and prepare for turn-based strategy like you've never seen before. Every decision you make plays a crucial part in deciding your fate, from collecting resources to choosing your next mission. Control a mechanised war machine and lead your troops to victory through a series of challenging battles, trade assignments and survival missions.

The roguelite style of Ironcast enforces that death is permanent, but rewards are persistent and no two campaigns are the same. With randomly generated missions, over 50 unlockable items and the potential for rare enemy loot drops, commanders will face a new crusade with every play through. With added HD rumble support, taking down the enemy has never felt so good!

Feature Overview:
  • Four ways to play, including full touchscreen functionality
  • Customise your Ironcast with a variety of unique combinations
  • Collect rare loot drops from fallen enemies to boost your systems

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$12.99/€14.99/£12.99 - NA web - EU web - Trailer

Last 6 GOTD
09/19 - Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
09/18 - The Mummy Demastered
09/17 - Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
09/16 - Aegis Defenders
09/15 - The Banner Saga
09/14 - Teslagrad
I have been waiting for this to go under $10... Looks really interesting.
 

jariw

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Oct 27, 2017
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I have been waiting for this to go under $10... Looks really interesting.

Ironcast is really good! I spent a lot of time with that game last year. Arrived at the final boss once, but never beat it. It's a bit more dependent on luck with the random patterns than a game like Into the Breach, but even with a "bad" pattern there's lots to do strategically.
 

Epilexia

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Jan 27, 2018
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What's wrong with the Beat'em Up Bundle?

They don't have a CRT shader in games that were originally conceived by the graphic designers to display a lot of effects and advanced techniques like text gradients, textures or depth of field effects in the scenarios through the characteristic tech specs of a tube display, including scanlines, brightness contrasts or halation.

This thing is inadmissible, when the Hamster arcade releases and the M2 titles are including superb CRT shaders. And the last 6 collections of Capcom classics included CRT options.

Plus a really high input lag, specially in the CPS3 emulated games, but this last thing comes with no surprise. It's one of the defining things of Digital Eclipse in the last decade.

So I'm sorry Capcom, but I will continue playing these games in Retroarch, with CRT shaders and with advanced options for GPU sync to mitigate the latency.

Switch's replica NES controllers only work with emulated NES games
Pro Controller remains the only official way to get a d-pad for Switch games.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018...ontrollers-only-work-with-emulated-nes-games/

Please Understand.

So you need to use gigantic bold typographies to say a pretty obvious thing.

That a controller with only 2 face buttons instead of 4 buttons, without the ZL and ZR triggers, without two sticks, without the clickable L3 and R3 buttons in the sticks and without gyro controllers or HD rumble because of course, they are NES controllers designed for NES games only using 2 main face buttons, it's not supported by default by the rest of games designed for a controller with 6 extra buttons and 2 sticks in mind.

Surprise!

But please, now explain me the logic in generating a negative message behind this, and what's your master plan to integrate this as a default controller in the rest of games.

I don't understand.

EDIT:

Also, by reading the rest of messages in the thread, including the examples that you cited.

Do you know that the Hamster Arcade Archives games had options to remap the buttons to every single button in the controller?

So the games will be broken, because they will not detect a controller with all the intended buttons.

The only way in which Hamster games can use a NES controller, is via patching the games, to integrate the API of these new NES controllers.

And once again, in this example, it's easy to see why the controller is not supported as a default option, without patching every single game to support this controller. And why the Switch OS will never integrate these as normal controllers.

'Knight Terrors' is other pretty fascinating example that you are using, when the game don't support the Pro Controller, being the only game in my library without this option. Good luck, waiting to Nicalis to patch the game to include the NES controller support, when they didn't care about the Pro Controller. And I fucking adore this game, and priced at 3 dollars, I can live with this.
 
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degauss

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Oct 28, 2017
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Don't forget Nintendo's historical views on the monetary value of its software library.

$60/year would be super cheap coming from Nintendo. PS Now is $99.

I'm pretty confident their plan is to charge for a sub to each system seperately. I can't prove it but I think it's pretty obvious.

A single SNES game is $7.99 on VC. I bet they charge $15-20 for a yearly sub to SNES.

I hope you are wrong, or at least if you are right, I hope that it's a very small price creep by a few dollars, kinda like Netflix does with HD.

Sony give out like $1000 of games a year with their subscription. If I keep subscribing, I keep a massive, otherwise expensive game library as a bonus built up over many years.

Nintendo have an online infrastructure that isn't as good, and free games that aren't as valuable, even if you start to add in SNES and N64. It doesn't matter how much they value their back catalogue.

They shouldn't be looking at $60 and thinking 'we can do that too' any more than Sony/MS should be looking at Netflix for $120/year and thinking 'lets shoot for that'. Stay away from that pricing. (which so far, they are doing).

On top of that, the status-quo might not always even be that expensive. There's the Fortnite problem. There is this huge tension now with free games like Fortnite not requiring PSN subscriptions to play online, and regular paid games requiring it.

Publishers right now must be looking at Fortnite and thinking, 'fuck'. Not only do they have to get people to buy their game (vs FREE), but because it's a paid game, it's going to require a subscription to play online (vs FREE). It's nuts. It's adding insult to injury.

SONY/MS are going to have to have a free, or greatly reduced sub-tier (of course, without the bonus monthly games), or many publishers are just going to move to making free games which are heavy on 'v-bucks'.

If this happens in a market where Nintendo have crept their subscription up to $60 because they added some SNES games, it's going to look as ridiculous as in the past when they offered the single $7.99 VC SNES game.
 
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tolkir

tolkir

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Oct 25, 2017
4,252
Goddammit, it's announcing daily 4 or 5 visual novel on the TGS for Switch, even Saturn classics. We'll see 1% of them. :(

https://gematsu.com/2018/09/eve-burst-error-r-coming-to-switch-in-october-in-japan

So you need to use gigantic bold typographies to say a pretty obvious thing.

That a controller with only 2 face buttons instead of 4 buttons, without the ZL and ZR triggers, without two sticks, without the clickable L3 and R3 buttons in the sticks and without gyro controllers or HD rumble because of course, they are NES controllers designed for NES games only using 2 main face buttons, it's not supported by default by the rest of games designed for a controller with 6 extra buttons and 2 sticks in mind.

Surprise!
But please, now explain me the logic in generating a negative message behind this, and what's your master plan to integrate this as a default controller in the rest of games.

I don't understand.

It's a Rich Text Editor feature. If you copy the title of the article, it's copied font style and size too.
 

Youabra

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 27, 2017
892
Spain
Now that's NSO is, well, online, I hope they mention the exclusive discounts to subscribers in the weekly Nintendo Downloads news today.
I was so annoyed when they just said 'Lol keep waiting for news!' in the Direct. If the subscriptions are starting on the next week, go out with a bang and show some big discounts to sell the service, Nintendo!!

Anyway, changing topic, it seems I'm getting close to the ending of FF15PEHD and I must say, if this is truly a recreation of the original game, then screw you SE for
straight up show Gladio with some scars late in the game without any explanation, and later make the same with a blind Ignis without, once again, showing why is he like that.
 

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Ironcast is really good! I spent a lot of time with that game last year. Arrived at the final boss once, but never beat it. It's a bit more dependent on luck with the random patterns than a game like Into the Breach, but even with a "bad" pattern there's lots to do strategically.
Nice. Maybe I should get it now.
Goddammit, it's announcing daily 4 or 5 visual novel on the TGS for Switch, even Saturn classics. We'll see 1% of them. :(

https://gematsu.com/2018/09/eve-burst-error-r-coming-to-switch-in-october-in-japan
As a VN lover, I am very happy with these news. Eve Burst Error is widely considered as a masterpiece. In Japan, there was this magazine called "Saturn Magazine" and it ranked 1st in the popular vote for best Saturn game, beating both Grandia (2nd) and YU-NO (3rd).

Another famous one is Dies Irae, which is going to launch on 18th October. I am also very tempted to pick up Steins;Gate Elite, which is launching today.

BTW, this one has the possibility of coming to the west.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/yu...do-ps4-psv-switch-pc-feb-2019-in-japan.69709/
 

unicornKnight

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Oct 27, 2017
13,187
Athens, Greece
I've been looking for some game for 3-4 players local co op action/beat em up/whatever and the following look interesting:
Moon hunters
Hammerwatch
Escapists 2
Nine parchments

Which of these would you choose or if you have an ever better recommendation, it would be very welcome!

Also, anyone played Overcooked 2 4-p co op?
 
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Epilexia

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Jan 27, 2018
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If I need to create a rank with the all-time best visual novels, 'Steins;Gate', 'Eve Burst Error' and 'YU-NO' will appear in the TOP 5 close to 'The House in Fata Morgana'.

So three of the landmarks in the genre have been announced for Switch. Now, we need to cross our fingers to see if 'Eve Burst Error' and 'YU-NO' will see an English translation in its Switch versions.
 

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If I need to create a rank with the all-time best visual novels, 'Steins;Gate', 'Eve Burst Error' and 'YU-NO' will appear in the TOP 5 close to 'The House in Fata Morgana'.

So three of the landmarks in the genre have been announced for Switch. Now, we need to cross our fingers to see if 'Eve Burst Error' and 'YU-NO' will see an English translation in its Switch versions.
There are so many VN masterpieces out there. I hope more will be bought onto Switch.

Now, maybe I really should start playing my JP copy of Higurashi...
 

Ninjadom

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Oct 25, 2017
5,194
London, UK
ACA Excitebike is our tomorrow. Looking at the screenshots this game seems far nicer than the NES version. Anybody got any experience of the arcade version?

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ZeroDS

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Oct 29, 2017
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Any picked up any of the Sega Ages games? They look great just looking for some opinions
 

SpottieO

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Oct 25, 2017
11,613
I tried playing Undertale, I really did, but something about the game just 100% did not click with me. I put two hours in to it and decided that I would rather be screwing around in Cities Skylines.
 
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Epilexia

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Jan 27, 2018
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ACA Excitebike is our tomorrow. Looking at the screenshots this game seems far nicer than the NES version. Anybody got any experience of the arcade version?

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This Vs. arcade version added two new exclusive tracks, they re-arranged the obstacles in the other 5 courses, they changed the structure so it will mix time trial events with competitive events against the CPU and it also added 3 different difficulty modes. But being an arcade game, it lost the circuit editor.

The thing is that this arcade version was used as the base for 'Vs. Excitebike' in the Famicom Disk System, exclusively released in Japan and later released in western countries through the Wii U virtual console.

But while based in the arcade version, it added some extra modes and now the circuits created with the editor can be saved.

I will say that the definitive version of 'Excitebike' if you can play only a game, it's the Famicom Disk System version, if you can live with the sub-par NES emulator of the Wii U.

But from an historical perspective, this arcade version is very interesting for collectors and enthusiasts of the original game.

While the main arcade mode was added in the FDS version, they changed the soundtrack. So this is the only way of playing this new arcade mode with the original soundtrack.

And other interesting thing is that this Hamster release, contrary to the Virtual Console releases or the NES online service in Switch, it includes online leaderboards and an extra Hi Score mode.
 

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ACA Excitebike is our tomorrow. Looking at the screenshots this game seems far nicer than the NES version. Anybody got any experience of the arcade version?

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It's awesome. I'll be picking this up on Switch. There's a Famicom Disk System version as well that I played on Wii U and loved it. Hopefully they bring it to the NES app in the future!
 

Pirateluigi

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Oct 27, 2017
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Played through a couple eshop games this week:
Gone Home which I'd somehow never played before. I really liked it as a narrative, but it's a short game with almost no replay value. Still, I appreciate it for what it was.

Broforce this game was so much more fun than I expected. It's a very, very silly game but I kind of loved every minute with it.

Toki Tori 2+ I played this back on the Wii U and a replay confirms this game is still a masterpiece.
 

Lite_Agent

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Oct 26, 2017
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Somewhere. I think.
NA:

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Also new this week:
 

Ninjadom

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Oct 25, 2017
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This Vs. arcade version added two new exclusive tracks, they re-arranged the obstacles in the other 5 courses, they changed the structure so it will mix time trial events with competitive events against the CPU and it also added 3 different difficulty modes. But being an arcade game, it lost the circuit editor.

The thing is that this arcade version was used as the base for 'Vs. Excitebike' in the Famicom Disk System, exclusively released in Japan and later released in western countries through the Wii U virtual console.

But while based in the arcade version, it added some extra modes and now the circuits created with the editor can be saved.

I will say that the definitive version of 'Excitebike' if you can play only a game, it's the Famicom Disk System version, if you can live with the sub-par NES emulator of the Wii U.

But from an historical perspective, this arcade version is very interesting for collectors and enthusiasts of the original game.

While the main arcade mode was added in the FDS version, they changed the soundtrack. So this is the only way of playing this new arcade mode with the original soundtrack.

And other interesting thing is that this Hamster release, contrary to the Virtual Console releases or the NES online service in Switch, it includes online leaderboards and an extra Hi Score mode.

Ah! Very good write up. I never knew about the Famicom Disk Version and wasn't even aware it's on the eShop for Wii U. I've got the 3D Classic version by Arika on 3DS. And the NES version on the Nintendo Online Account and NES Classic Mini.

Now do you know about the arcade board used? Because the screens of the arcade look vastly more colourful than what the NES version looks like. It actually seems like the arcade board isn't a modified NES, like what was used for Vs. Super Mario Bros.
 

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Pretty ridiculous Sega Ages isn't coming to the west today. Don't the Japanese versions have English language support? If so, it's baffling this wasn't a global launch.
 
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tolkir

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Oct 25, 2017
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Pretty ridiculous Sega Ages isn't coming to the west today. Don't the Japanese versions have English language support? If so, it's baffling this wasn't a global launch.

It's already up in Europe. The price is €6.99

Don't pay much attention to the NA PR. They always omit something.

Edit: Risk of Rain surprise release.