Sheikah

I'd say I only really buy a few games a year; when Christmas or a birthday rolls around I can ask for games but then these are the ones that tend to sit on my shelf for a while before I ever get around to them. When I do get free time I often play online games like Overwatch, meaning I don't have as much time for other games. Online games tend to be great value for money this way (I recently learned I'd clocked 1003 hours in Destiny, for instance).

Yeah this is pretty cool - I did wonder if there was a way to get it off him without a fight but I ended up waking him.

Wrong. I care.

Translation: 'I'll get this back on topic so long as I have the last word.' The difference between what each of us said is that even if you append 'I think' to both of our posts, yours is still speaking for other people (even if not 'everyone', if not to be literally interpreted, still at least 'most'). It's making assumptions on behalf of others that are not corroborated.

Except I'm not. Like you said, you know it's my opinion without me explicitly stating it so. What you did, your fatal mistake, was to speak for 'everyone'. Saying that everyone realises motion controls are superior is where you went wrong and why you got the response you did. 'Who is this guy and why is he speaking for me?' There's a difference in expressing your opinion without using 'I think' and saying that 'everyone thinks X'. The latter indicates some kind of general consensus perceived around a matter which in this case, there quite clearly isn't.

Yes but in saying 'tend to be' I am conceding that in my opinion there are instances of motion control that do work (e.g. archery minigames in past Zelda remakes). I'm not just being all down on motion controls for the sake of being down on them. Obviously this is my opinion about motion controls tending to be pretty shitty most of the time, but the fact most FPS haven't integrated the gyro setup despite having plenty of opportunity to tells me that if they really were a leap forward in precision they'd be in more games. Don't forget that the PS4 controller, for instance, could do this. In answer to your question, you're being disrespectful in the somewhat immature way you respond to people. Responding to people and saying their comments are 'dull' and 'fucking ridiculous' is not cool.

Since when is 'tend to be' an absolute? Also a very disrespectful post.

Heart containers and rune upgrades will help.

It's not that my hands are particularly shaky it's that any amount of unsteadiness will register and throw off your aim with the sticks. I just found it annoying that moving my hands and the sticks were happening in conjunction with each other as a means to aim. I've had the same issue while playing Zelda docked with the joy-cons in the grip - while using a bow, I was trying to aim precisely with the sticks and the gyro was feeling counterproductive to my goal. In contrast, the archery minigame in Majora's Mask worked great with the gyro controls because you couldn't move, you were just aiming the bow with the gyro controls. I think the problem comes when you also have to move your character and aim (i.e. twin sticks).

Or use the sticks for aiming and then watch as the gyroscope automatically adjusts your aim in ways you don't want because you're not a robot with perfect steady hands. In particular on the testfire in handheld mode I found that my aim was being thrown upwards by the gyro and I was having to continuously press whatever button it was to reset the camera. Like all the time. It felt like the calibration of the camera was constantly getting messed up by the gyro. Yeah, you can tell I don't like most motion controls. I play so many FPS/shooters and not once have I felt that this would improve the traditional twin stick aiming!

To be honest it would be easier if you could plug a wire into the grip it comes with than remove the joy-cons and slide them onto the side of the system while in the dock.

Motion controls tend to be pretty bad by themselves but in this they were actively throwing off the aim I was doing with the sticks due to slight movements in my hands.

No idea, didn't try. I would hope so as there's just no way anyone who wants to be good at this would have them on.

This was how I felt after playing it too (never played original Splatoon before).

Yeah thanks, I did power it down just before and that fixed it. Weird bug.

I suddenly can't connect to the internet on the Switch...complains about DNS problems but using Google DNS doesn't fix it. I've been able to connect to the eShop and see online friends before so not sure what's up. Maybe something to do with the Splatoon testfire? Anyone else having problems?

Listen to this man. They make a wonderful game but then they complain about Sony's approval process as a reason for holding their patches up. It has been royally broken for years now on Vita; there's only so much they can blame on the approval process.

For the US it was announced ahead of time what date it would launch.

Been trying to find out the same. No news yet that I can find.

Rang Nintendo, mentioned the joycon desync issue and they offered to repair it immediately. They'll be sending a form via e-mail to print.

Massive spoiler there drift.

Apparently Nintendo have a left joycon fix: https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/nintendo-switch-joycon-desync-connectivity-issue-fix/ Will be contacting them when i get back from Amsterdam.

Link no longer works, so congrats to anyone who bought it while they could.

Everyone should buy at this price. Amazing value so soon after release.

I think audio logs are lazy, overdone across many games and quite jarring. People don't tend to talk to themselves very much so it's weird to have a story projected to you this way. I also remember games like BioShock where it was annoying to try and listen to them while doing other things. As for the point about it being better than a "magic phone", I disagree. The Sheikah developed it, who basically knew (and had probably archived) everything, so it essentially seems to function as a Pokedex, recalling information. I'd even go as far to say it's one of the least magical things going in Zelda. My phone can take photos and I can use it to find out maps and information I don't know. I have the Amazon app which will look up the identity of anything I snap. Just an amusing parallel between this and reality I noticed.