Nintendo Switch Catch-All 2.0

Time to hype hype:

Nintendo-style ‘Wholesome Direct’ promises a chill time
75 games will be highlighted

Wholesome Direct will feature announcements from some of 2021’s most anticipated indie games and updates: Making-the-band-style interactive series We Are OFK, chill fishing simulator Moonglow Bay, and colorful farming game Ooblets. In Wednesday’s tweet, Wholesome Games said more information is coming about puzzle game Unpacking A Life, gecko game The Gecko Gods, and highly-anticipated life sim Paralives.

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There are more “wholesome games” than ever; the genre has seen a boom, The Verge reported in March 2020. These games largely have “smaller, [more] compact stories,” The Verge said, lending themselves to more “introspective experiences” than some massive, AAA titles

75 maaaaaaaaaaaaay be a bit too many titles for one vid, but cool on them.

Keithustus wrote:

Time to hype hype:

Nintendo-style ‘Wholesome Direct’ promises a chill time
75 games will be highlighted

Wholesome Direct will feature announcements from some of 2021’s most anticipated indie games and updates: Making-the-band-style interactive series We Are OFK, chill fishing simulator Moonglow Bay, and colorful farming game Ooblets. In Wednesday’s tweet, Wholesome Games said more information is coming about puzzle game Unpacking A Life, gecko game The Gecko Gods, and highly-anticipated life sim Paralives.

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There are more “wholesome games” than ever; the genre has seen a boom, The Verge reported in March 2020. These games largely have “smaller, [more] compact stories,” The Verge said, lending themselves to more “introspective experiences” than some massive, AAA titles

This sounds like it was purpose built for me. I imagine I know most of the wholesome chill games already, though.

garion333 wrote:

75 maaaaaaaaaaaaay be a bit too many titles for one vid

It's just a new Clubhouse Games sequel plus like 6 other titles.

Huge fan of Wholesome Games here. Go and subscribe to their YouTube now. They are regularly posting new trailers on there.

Now this I’m skeptically excited about.....

Dragon Quest 35th Anniversary stream May 26th! Stream will have English, can set reminder now.

What will we see?
- 1st glimpse of DQ XII?
- DQ 4-6 on Switch?
- DQ Monsters Joker 3?
- fixing the crappy DQ 1-3 port?
- DQ Walk outside of Japan?

Please enjoy

I really wish Nintendo would make a golf game set in Hyrule. They could call it...

The Legend of Zelda: Links

Spoiler:

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Adventure Mode, XP, that's all I wanted back. Loved that on GBA but skipped 3DS because it didn't have it.

Will definitely play.

The only golf games I've played are Golf on the Game Boy and Golf Story, but I'm getting warm blanket vibes from the basic gameplay plus the adventure mode this one. I've got my eyes on it now.

Plus the scramble looks like it will be chaotic fun.

Mario Golf is looking good. I hope the motion control implementation works well. I would love to use that for a bit.

The Game Boy Advance golf game was quite good. I really missed the adventure mode in Camelot-developed sports games. If you have a DS or GBA and can go back to it, it's worth it.

Hmmm. I might actually grab Mario Golf. That’s looking like a pretty full featured, fun game.

Does the eshop force you to wait between buying games? I bought a game and wasn't able to buy another. I kept getting a page not found error. Then after about 30 minutes or so I was able to buy the game. Then I tried to buy another game and got the same problem.

I haven't had that happen, no

I just bought and downloaded Toki Tori and Toki Tori 2 within minutes of each other the other day with no issues.

The e-shop is, however, a hot mess. And I've had it behave the way you're describing for no reason at all, but not specifically related to purchasing. Since there's no shopping cart I've also purchased items back-to-back before, but for impulse sales purchases and something more specific like the main game then the DLC.

But seriously, how is it so bad? If it weren't for Deku Deals I'd have purchased 1/2, if not fewer to the point of 1/3 or 1/4 as many games purely because I hate browsing the e-shop. Like how even just scrolling the new releases or sales page is laggy or can reset your entire progress and make you start from the beginning and scroll allllll the way down again if you get impatient and accidentally arrow off the page. It's garbage.

Yeah no cart really is baffling in 2021.

And when buying on the web then I have to reenter my password each purchase. Jeez guys.

Neat! I'd get it but I have an 8-bitdo SNES one which works well with the Switch if I need it to.

Got one back the 2nd time they were in stock.

I'm not buying that until someone confirms no drift.

I am actually not kidding at this point. Shame on Nintendo...

Spoiler:

Yes, I realize that the D-pad likely won't ever drift, but if it has the same cheap innards as a Joycon then I don't want to give Nintendo my money anymore. I'm hugely disappointed in them.

I'm less unhappy with them since they've repaired every single joycon problem I've had for free, no questions asked (one of the launch batch that had disconnection issues, two with stick drift).

Like, sure, they dun screwed up, but they're owning it.

Have had the SNES controllers for a long time and they’re fine. The only problem is if left unused for months the batteries empty.....more on me than them.

Jonman wrote:

I'm less unhappy with them since they've repaired every single joycon problem I've had for free, no questions asked (one of the launch batch that had disconnection issues, two with stick drift).

Like, sure, they dun screwed up, but they're owning it.

I'm glad they're owning that, but I actually spoke with Garion a bit about my attempt to remove the back of my Switch so I could examine the fan, which has become increasingly loud. Is it just a dust issue? Or does it need to be replaced? I still don't know, because some of the screws were already stripped before I could even touch them, and the only way I'd be able to remove the back panel is if I broke the casing.

Which, admittedly, has already been a bit busted. I've never dropped my Switch, yet I only found out after carefully trying to work on the back that there are all kinds of cracks in the vent and pieces of the shell broken apart. At most I can imagine is the tablet-holder I have for when I play laying in bed was applying some force or pressure that caused the cracks, but this is coming from a company whose reputation for hardware was founded on the sturdiness of the GameBoy. I can't tell you how many times I dropped my GameBoy on concrete as a kid, and that thing barely had a dent in it. While I'm dealing with a form-factor that allows for less sturdiness, it's far more broken than it ought to be for having suffered no such trauma.

I don't have JoyCon drift, nor did my dock ever create any sort of scratch on my still-unprotected screen. In those ways I'm lucky. But the shell is broken in places and the fan is a gamble as to whether it'll go berserk or not. It just gives this sense that the Switch is the most cheaply made piece of hardware they've put together, and that's a serious disappointment. So I can honestly understand Garion's perspective. I'm glad Nintendo owned up to the JoyCon's faulty development, even though it seems like they haven't actually fixed it (I keep hearing stories of new JoyCons developing drift). What I want, however, is for them to actually make their products sturdy again.

Yeah, I have some similar fan whirring issues.

But also, my Switch is 4 years old (bought at launch). It's been on countless trips with me, albeit in a case, but still, and racked up a 4-digit number of hours of use. It's been dropped a handful of times, and still soldiers on.

Given that difference in use vs a console that sits in the same place in your living room, that doesn't seem like a bad run for a piece of portable electronics, to be honest. How many years do you get out of another tablet device before it gives up the ghost? A cellphone?

And to be honest, the comparison to a GameBoy isn't apples to apples. The tech is soooo different that it's like complaining that your car breaks down more often than your horse and buggy does.

For a better comparison, I went through three XBox360 units over the life of that console. Still on my first Switch.

Jonman wrote:

For a better comparison, I went through three XBox360 units over the life of that console. Still on my first Switch.

I must be insanely lucky. I haven't had a single console that broke on me before moving on to the next iteration. No red rings, no yellow lights, not even a jet-engine PS4.

Perhaps drifting controllers are my karma equalizer.

Dyni wrote:
Jonman wrote:

For a better comparison, I went through three XBox360 units over the life of that console. Still on my first Switch.

I must be insanely lucky. I haven't had a single console that broke on me before moving on to the next iteration. No red rings, no yellow lights, not even a jet-engine PS4.

Perhaps drifting controllers are my karma equalizer.

I actually think this means you aren't a real gamer.

I have had two left joycons drift and both times Nintendo was really good about repairing them. It's great that they're owning it. I wish it wasn't a problem to begin with.

Garth wrote:
Dyni wrote:
Jonman wrote:

For a better comparison, I went through three XBox360 units over the life of that console. Still on my first Switch.

I must be insanely lucky. I haven't had a single console that broke on me before moving on to the next iteration. No red rings, no yellow lights, not even a jet-engine PS4.

Perhaps drifting controllers are my karma equalizer.

I actually think this means you aren't a real gamer.

That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me all week