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Switch Game Club inaugural shortlist Oh god the sheer excitement I present 2 games to you that fit the criteria of being quality and bringing variety, whilst also being under a tenner. If you have any other games you think are demanding of inclusion on this shortlist please speak up. Voting is by reactions to this post. Embrace innovation! Closing for votes Monday (8th) at 17:30. Furi Adventure, Fighting, Shooter, Action Currently GBP8.09 (55% off) “This supremely stylish, arcade-style dueling game is in the same intensely engaging vein as some of the greatest action games of all time - Metal Gear Solid, Devil May Cry, No More Heroes, God Hand - specifically when it comes to boss fights” Games Radar “Furi distills the basic nature of things I find ‘cool’ and combines them into a stylistic, excessive boss gauntlet. It’s all here: anime cyborg ninjas, a pulsing neon aesthetic, an energetic synthy score, dynamic and responsive combat, and enemies that talk a whole lot of shit.” PC Gamer “The exciting, genre-bending combat of these intense, one-on-one duels, all rendered in super sleek neon tones and with enemy art direction from the creator of Afro Samurai, kept me entranced” IGN To vote for Furi leave a 'like' on this post with a 'Haha' The Gardens Between Puzzle Currently GBP8.99 (50% off) “A miniature meditative masterwork. This time-bending story is an impeccably crafted minimalist model of video game and puzzle design.” 4 / 5 – The Guardian “The Gardens Between is a masterpiece of minimalist storytelling, creating a shockingly moving, personal experience. Featuring a gorgeous, surrealist style and challenging but fair puzzles, this is a must-have title for anyone who enjoys puzzle games.” 9.5 / 10 – Gaming Trend “Along with mind-boggling goodness, the presentation is fantastic. The Gardens Between managed to suck me in and leave me begging for more.” Destructoid. To vote for The Gardens Between leave a 'like' on this post with a 'Confused' Lets do games!

Shameless copy and pasting incoming. I want to kick off a Switch eshop subdivision of this group. Whereas the existing group focuses on retro games, this will focus on Switch eShop games, preferably in the GBP10 zone, and even better if we can get something on sale. Cause who doesn't like a good deal right? We will aim for quality first, and then variety second. That way we have the best chance of enjoying the games. I think we do one a month. That leaves plenty of time to get through the game thoroughly, and plenty of leeway if those of us with busier lives find it hard to spare the time. 1st of every month we create a shortlist of candidates, then people can vote by 'Liking' my post and using the emoticons to indicate their preferences. I think this is a better method than the existing method of everyone creating a post for their votes, since it stop me missing anyone's votes, and keeps everything cleaner. Doesn't mean that you can't still argue in favour of a game though. There's obviously no requirement for you to get every game - if you don't like the look of one you can always take a month off. Discuss any aspect of the game you want, let us hear your thoughts. Please be careful with spoiler tags, but lets say anything in the first third of the game is fair play. If you are up for it let us know below, and please make a noise if you have any objections to the set up. I will follow shortly with a shortlist for you guys to vote on, and add to if you wish.

Alright bugger it, lets give it a go in the existing thread then, and you can close this. Im a little concerned it won't get enough visibility, but lets face that when we come to it. Good bye dear thread, I hardly knew thee.

Hey Drahkon. I haven't got any other consoles to play on at the moment, and I'm sure you can understand that I would have no interest in arranging a game club I can't take part in. If its not going to work to do a Switch exclusive club than its best we kill this thread before it gets into flow. Could we maybe gauge the interest for a separate thread first? I understand the need to keep the forum clean and orderly, but if enough people are up for it surely we can spare the web space?

Hello all, and welcome to the Switch Game Group page. Shout out to the major inspiration for this the NE Game Club over on General Gaming. Whereas that group focuses on retro games, this will focus on Switch eShop games, preferably in the GBP10 zone, and even better if we can get something on sale. Cause who doesn't like a good deal right? We will aim for quality first, and then variety second. That way we have the best chance of enjoying the games. I think we do one a month. That leaves plenty of time to get through the game thoroughly, and plenty of leeway if those of us with busier lives find it hard to spare the time. 1st of every month we create a shortlist of candidates, then people can vote by 'Liking' my post and using the emoticons to indicate their preferences. There's obviously no requirement for you to get every game - if you don't like the look of one you can always take a month off. Discuss any aspect of the game you want, let us hear your thoughts. Please be careful with spoiler tags, but lets say anything in the first third of the game is fair play. If you are up for it let us know below, and please make a noise if you have any objections to the set up. I will follow shortly with a shortlist for you guys to vote on, and add to if you wish.

Any chance we can turn the items low for a go?

We playing tonight?

Alright I've recovered from the initial rejection, though the emotional scars with stay with me for a long time. I'm busy today but I'll get this set up tomorrow over on the switch board. Get thinking of what games you want to play!

Fair enough

Looks great guys, but I'm going to be restricted by the fact that my retro stuff is in storage. Would there be any interest in a £10 switch eshop round?

I just find it hard to believe that 2 years in I still have yet to hear any convincing proposals for how we move forward as a country and maximise these possibilities that I've been told are now open to us. I voted remain and we lost - fine, I can accept that. So whats the plan? We get to make our own trade deals? And do what with them? What's the strategy, the goal, the potential benefits? I'm not saying they're not possible, I just want someone to tell me what they were thinking we can get out of this? The utter breadth of failure over the past 2 years, not just of May and the Tory's but the whole of parliament to manage this is just outstanding, and cannot be seen as anything other than symptomatic of a system that is no longer fit for purpose. Its not just Brexit - where to recap Parliament has lacked the collective political confidence to clarify the nations desires and requirements, and then failed to provide a convincing vision of the future and deliver it. Its not just Brexit - I honestly cannot think of how in the now 30 years I've been alive anything has gotten better in the UK (though I am thinking in particular in selfish terms). Is there someone here who can convince me our version of government still suits our needs?

Katana zero, FFX and cuphead will go on the wish list until it's on sale. There's just so much I want to play on the Switch I don't know where to start - hard to believe this is a Nintendo console. I think back to the days when I'd fight the console war online by listing out all the great games you could by on the GC. Now I wouldn't know where to start. Have we ever done a Game Club on here? Like a book club, it's forces you into new experiences. Might work for all these Indies. EDIT: Just seen we have one on the other console section. Egg on face, ignore me.

Haven't played Soma or Little Kings Story, but will keep an eye out for it on the Switch

I'm sold (as soon as it comes on sale). Thank you for the answer. As for story, my favourite RPGs carry me through on the strength of their world building rather than the narrative (Skies of Arcadia, Paper Mario, Xenoblade chronicles off the top of my head.) Video games in general are still so far behind Literature and Film in narrative work that I can only think of a handful of games that I've played where the story has stuck with me: Last of Us, MGS3, Mother 3, Killer7. There's probably some greats I'm forgetting, and would love to be reminded of them.

As a more specific variation on vileplume's question: which one of these FFs has the best battle system? Couldn't give a toss about story, but me needs a deep and tactical battle system.

Time? I'm not well versed, but I'll learn. Count me in.

Bluetooth support, higher res and bigger battery would be my guess for the higher spec. Only thing I'd want is a bigger screen, but that's probably the most unlikely to happen.

Halo trilogy on the switch wouldn't be a bad call. The portability would be great.

If the question is who would we want to 'join the fight', then any character with a history and a potentially unique set should be welcomed. Theres no doubt that Minecraft is a milestone game, it's just it wasn't really part of Nintendo's history. Then again neither is persona. However Minecraft is the most likely by far, being that it's still a viable product for Microsoft, and they would only ever allow this if they could get something out of it.

If the question is who would we want to 'join the fight', then any character with a history and a potentially unique set should be welcomed. Theres no doubt that Minecraft is a milestone game, it's just it wasn't really part of Nintendo's history. Then again neither is persona. However Minecraft is the most likely by far, being that it's still a viable product for Microsoft, and they would only ever allow this if they could get something out of it.

Does the Microsoft relationship mean we might start seeing some of the Rare IPs back on a Nintendo console? Just imagine how lovely that would be. Perfect Dark remaster on the eshop? Conker in Smash. One can dream.

Surely F4 will be the first one to be shoehorned in? XMen will take years of scene setting - you'll have to some kind of crises event to explain the sudden appearance of mutants. F4 you can just slip right right in.

@Hero-of-Time so much I agree with there.

That's the read I got from it as well. Transferable save states may allow streamers to publish their builds for their subscribers to use as well. There's too many unknowns to reason how this will do, but at least they know their market. But putting the business sense of this behind and getting to whats important - fuck Google they aint getting my money. They got enough. The software will be bland as all hell - highlighted by the presence of Jade Raymond, helm of the blandest game series of all time, so I doubt I'll be missing out on anything. This bit really pissed me off (I'm in a bad mood today): "Someone could be watching a trailer for a game, click the option to play now and be playing within five seconds. “No download, no patch and no install,” Harrison said. “Stadia offers instant access to play.” He said it reduces the friction between being excited about a game and playing it." Fuck off with your friction bullshit. You know how impulse buying works, and you know the easier you make it to buy the more you can take advantage of people's weakness to it. Delayed satisfaction is a virtue, an indicator of self-control and a path to creating a good work ethic. This erodes that. Older generations give a lot of shit to the millennials and younger generations for how much we spend, but this is what we're up against, the power of big corporations, massive teams of data informed, elite educated sociopaths spending every last waking hour trying to figure out how to squeeze every bit of cash out of individuals who have never been more defenseless against their methods. /rant. Blood sugar low.

And here we are in total agreement. With this movie in particular it seems Marcel forget what has given their Marvel heroes such an edge over the DC attempts over the past 10 years - that they are flawed, and therefore human. When they come together in Avengers or civil war it's these character flaws that create the drama. Captain Marvel in particular needed that grounding of humanity since the whole film centers around the curious alien nature of her backstory. Anyway, an easily forgotten bridge film and deserving of far less of our time than we've already given it. On to Endgame, which cannot possibly live up to the expectations I'm placing on it.