nekunando

I'm wondering what to play between now and the release of the Switch 2. The little taste of Nintendo Switch Sports earlier in the week has made me think I should definitely try to enjoy that a little more!

FC 24 is a terribly frustrating experience on Switch and I generally hate EA too. The news that Codemasters could close only increases the hatred! Unfortunately, FC 26 will be one of the games I'm most interested in playing on Switch 2 this year 😖

I wonder if F-Zero GX being there on the GameCube app on day one will kill interest in this game or if it will encourage people to pick up a brand new game in the genre. Personally, I can't wait to be able to play F-Zero GX on Switch 2 and give it (and Mario Kart World) all the attention they deserve. I don't think Fast Fusion would get a look in as a result! It's actually kinda the same with Street Fighter VI. It's one of the few launch games I may have been interested in but I want to properly get into Soul Calibur II instead!

If Mario Kart World is only half as good as Burnout Paradise, I'll never play another game again 😂

Burnout was great on the GameCube 😀 It felt pretty fresh at the time and everything was even better with Point of Impact! I would definitely have been interested in picking up Burnout 3: Takedown if it came to GameCube but sadly it wasn't to be and, as such, I haven't ever really played it. I do own it now on PS2 but actually only recently took a notion to play it. Unfortunately, the image was so blurry that it was practically impossible to play 😕 I never had much interest in the series beyond that as, like with everything, they seemed to take it further and further away from what made it great. I picked up Burnout Paradise on sale for Switch a few years ago and, while I ended up beating it, I wasn't much of a fan of it at all. I never liked the open nature of it and feel like the racing, course design and variety of environments all suffer because of it. Hopefully Mario Kart World will be OK in this regard but it certainly seems like it'll be more than OK!

If it's German to have played the Pepper Grinder demo months ago on Switch and not have been sold enough to purchase the game, then I guess I'm German..? I don't think you guys appreciate how difficult it can be to have such narrow interests 🥲

All the detail you need is that I felt absolutely no joy during my brief time with it and feel absolutely zero desire to go near it again. I never liked it aesthetically and it actually made me feel a little sick when playing, which obviously didn't help. You're probably right with it being not my style of puzzles. I honestly could not be bothered. You and me both!

Yes, Portal. I only bought it because it was under £4 in a sale and while my eyes and my gut already told me I wouldn't like it, I bought it because then at least I would know for sure at that price. And now I know. You and everyone else in the world are free to enjoy it. I'll be absolutely fine never touching it again!

Given that the post got 3 likes, I'm not sure I made it clear enough that I didn't get on with any of these games and almost certainly won't be back to any of them. The most annoying thing is not the fact that I don't like them but it's that I knew I probably wouldn't enjoy most of them and yet I inevitably talked myself into getting them in various sales in recent years. Massive lessons to be learned going into the Switch 2 era 🥲

Ruben..

I'm off work the week before the launch of the Switch 2 but I've had it confirmed that I can work the Monday of that week in exchange for taking Thursday 5th June off the following week 😀 I'll have launch day off 😁

ISS 2 was my Gamecube launch game (or, at least, the game that came with the console for my birthday shortly after release 🙂) and I loved it! I knew it wasn't as good as Pro Evolution Soccer but I still had a blast with it and thought the commentary was pretty decent at the time. It doesn't feel particularly great to go back to but I do have the urge to throw it on for a game later just for fun 😅

I never played Dark Legacy but I'm a little disappointed the N64 game hasn't come to NSO yet. I'm not sure I'd play through the whole thing again but I do have some nostalgia for it!

I'd say I'm pretty close to your individual ratings there but I'm definitely more excited overall than 5/10 😅 I placed my pre-order as soon as was possible with Smyth's on the evening after the Direct. I was always going to get the console no matter how excited I ended up being for it. Mario Kart World obviously looks sensational but, while I'm really glad that plenty of third parties seem to be on board with releases of some of their biggest games, it's the Gamecube games I'm most excited to play again! I went through the entire Switch generation loving the joy-con and never invested in any other controllers. I used contact cleaner to alleviate the drift issues as much as I could but I think I'm starting to lose the battle with the majority of my five sets. It's a shame but the upgrade feels like it is coming just in time as their reliability becomes ever more concerning 😖 With that in mind, I've ordered the Switch 2 Pro Controller to hopefully collect on launch day with the console. There's something oddly exciting about finally playing with something much more ergonomic and I hope it lives up to the hype that seems to have been building around it. I don't think I've held a properly comfortable controller since the Gamecube so my fingers are crossed that this one fits like a glove! The lack of triggers is a little disappointing in terms of racing games but, to be honest, the digital buttons are better for most other games and the fact that Codemasters aren't currently working on a rally game at all means it's a genre that is once again unlikely to be well-represented on a Nintendo platform. Thank goodness for Mario Kart and F-Zero GX out of the gate then, eh 😁

Maybe it's the Northern Irish in me but I'm hoping Conor Bradley makes that position his own next season. We obviously need a replacement for Trent but I don't want someone to come in and restrict Bradley from getting the opportunity he has surely been waiting for and probably never could have expected!

We can only hope Sony and Microsoft rush out even more powerful hardware with higher costs and increased development times. That will solve everything!

Visually, I thought Virtua Striker looked class on the GameCube all those years ago! It's a shame the gameplay couldn't match and, while I played it a decent amount, it always felt very messy. Even though it was an arcade game, I kept hoping there was a hidden depth there that I was missing that would suddenly turn it into a much more rewarding experience but I'm still wondering 😅

I wasn't sure what way it was going to work but having had time to think about the update, I'm pretty sure it's a very good thing for my situation, thankfully 😅 I own a Switch OLED as my secondary Switch with my original primary system in the hands of my kids. With the Switch 2 coming, I was wondering how I'd work it with 3 Switch consoles in the house and wanting my kids to have access to both Switch 1 and Switch 2 with their own accounts. From what I understand, it should be fairly easy to link their Switch with the Switch 2 and pass virtual game cards between them and be playable by all users on both systems. I can then keep my OLED as is with just my own account and carry on with the internet check as I do now 🙂 I think it is going to work perfectly for me after some original worries after stories about the update emerged this morning!

I'm pretty much with Dean on this one! I like everything to be available if the mood strikes and there are, of course, many games that will always be there to go between throughout the lifecycle of the console (Mario Kart being one of the most obvious). There are certainly games that don't need to be kept around and I'm happy enough to archive them when I'm finished. Red Dead Redemption was the most recent example of that for me! I don't feel like the 512GB card is going to be anywhere near enough for me personally so I'll have to hold out until at least 1TB but ideally 2TB. I imagine that is a few years away, unfortunately, and the lack of storage will impact what Switch 1 games I bring along for the ride. With all of the Game Key nonsense and whatever else, it's looking like digital is the way forward for me on Switch 2 and that too will have an impact on how little space is available. Normally, I'd have the majority of first party releases on cartridge but those will now also be downloaded. Thankfully, Nintendo usually keep the file sizes down! One relief I have is that I was tempted to buy a 1.5TB Micro SD last year on sale in preparation for Switch 2 but something told me that it just may not be compatible. That has turned out to be the case! Having said that, I'd have been happy to sling it into my Switch OLED and have absolutely everything downloaded at last 😅

Must be getting close to half way in Travis Strikes Again and it's just feeling like a game to burn through, tick off and move on. I think Tunic and Daemon X Machina are both on the 'Delete' pile. Certainly wouldn't be wasting precious Switch 2 space on them 😅

The game looks unbelievable! I'm feeling genuine excitement for a game for the first time in ages!

I never really like long, drawn-out boss attack phases where you have to wait ages before you can attack so I was praying I wouldn't make a mistake on the final boss in case I had to repeat that whole rigmarole again 😅

I've suffered a few too many of those over the years, unfortunately 😕 I think I paid maybe £11-12 for it in a sale a few months ago but it feels like I'll just have to write that off. My time is worth more than the hours of tedium it would take to see Tunic through to the end. As for Sonic Superstars, if you're interested in replaying levels, hunting for medals, grabbing all of the chaos emeralds and exploring every path then I'm sure there is probably something in the game form you. I personally don't feel any desire to revisit any of the stages and I don't think the bonus stages are particularly enjoyable either. Also, what was the deal with the Sand Sanctuary boss?! I must have spent close to 10 minutes going through cycle after cycle of weak enemy attacks trying to figure out how to inflict damage myself before ending up on YouTube yo find the answer. Going by the comments on the video I watched, I definitely wasn't the only one disgusted by the games lack of direction with that particular part!