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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11972 Points : 12064 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Sun 20 Feb 2022 - 22:13 | |
| Hmmm...I might look into it then. |
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neil Wii U Port
Posts : 199 Points : 199 Join date : 2021-02-19
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Sun 20 Feb 2022 - 22:28 | |
| There’s nothing to lose by it. Freepost I think, and you get stuff back quick. I was prepared to pay each time but never got billed. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26465 Points : 25299 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Wed 23 Feb 2022 - 20:42 | |
| I've just got my three drifting out-of-warranty Joy-Cons back. Not sure if they're fixed yet, but it was definitely free! So worth a shot Jas. Given that I've picked up two 3DS games recently, I've been struck by just how much my playing has changed from the 3DS era. I always used to turn the 3DS off whenever I went away from it, so it took that bit longer to start everything up again. Meanwhile I never fully turn the Switch off, meaning it's just a button-press away from jumping back into a game. That immediacy has a bigger impact than I'd appreciated: it's a higher barrier to entry for me to play a quick snippet of Pocket Card Jockey during my lunchbreak if the 3DS is off at the time! Mind you, the 3DS has a Rhythm Paradise Megamix theme, so it's still better. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15079 Points : 15257 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Thu 24 Feb 2022 - 9:00 | |
| Hmm . . . with the whole clamshell thing I don't think I ever turned my 3DS off either. On the one hand, closing one game and loading another is quicker on Switch. On the other hand, the 3DS is much smaller and pocketable - I'm more likely to whip my 3DS out of a pocket on a five minute train ride than to try to unzip my Switch.
The most likely outcome, of course, is that I sit at the back of the carriage and unzip something else. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24016 Points : 24416 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26465 Points : 25299 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Fri 25 Feb 2022 - 18:47 | |
| - Buskalilly wrote:
- On the one hand, closing one game and loading another is quicker on Switch.
Depends on the game to be honest! I've had some chunky fellows taking a while to load on Switch. Do you still have a launch model boss? I remember that they sped the loading time up on later models, which certainly doesn't help my view. Getting an OLED can't come soon enough... |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15079 Points : 15257 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Sat 26 Feb 2022 - 1:54 | |
| I do have a launch one, yeah. And sure, it depends, but the kind of games I want a five minute go on are the ones that load sharpish! |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26465 Points : 25299 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Sat 16 Dec 2023 - 11:01 | |
| Yearly stats: - Spoiler:
I don't think there's anything massively surprising in there. I played 186h of TotK, 108h of Octopath 2 (a 6/10 game), and 62h of Chained Echoes (an 8/10 game, well worth a look for RPG fans). Both April and especially November coincided with there being no big games I was into to play - my most played game in April was Persona 4, which I'd eventually dump, and in November it was one hour of Dave the Diver. Every other month there was at least one big notable game I spent at least 19h on. Three of those big notable games were TotK. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24016 Points : 24416 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Sat 16 Dec 2023 - 12:14 | |
| Did you not play Xenoblade FR in April? |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26465 Points : 25299 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Sat 16 Dec 2023 - 13:30 | |
| Think I might have not got around to it until May. I wasn't gaming a lot in April anyway, I had a lot of days off spent with The Lady and friends. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24016 Points : 24416 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Mon 18 Dec 2023 - 20:24 | |
| Also, I know you use scores properly so 5 is average and 6 is above average, unlike the games' industry where 70 is a 0 on Fantasy Critic (And 77 is the avg score on the site).
Just see Octopath II get that score seems low, as sure not seen your IGNs etc mention it come GOTY chat but Nintendo themed YT channels along with RPG ones, Octopath II is super high on the lists.
It is one I still want to play, but may have my 2D-HD fill for the year in Star Ocean.
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26465 Points : 25299 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Mon 18 Dec 2023 - 20:30 | |
| I try to for sure, and there are a lot of things to like about Octopath 2. I think some other sites might be more forgiving about the onslaught of random battles that you can't really turn down unless you want to come out of the other side horribly under-levelled. I also think that the Dancer drags the entire cast down, and that the writing on the whole isn't actually that good. There's more about my reasoning here.I really wanted to like Octopath 2 more than I did. It's up there with my great gaming sadnesses from this year, along with Sea of Stars hiding its decent ending behind an awful game-spanning fetch quest, and playing through the whole of Melon Journey. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Wed 20 Dec 2023 - 10:05 | |
| Not got my Switch recap stats to hand, but much like many of us I had May as my most played month thanks to TOTK. I thought TOTK would storm to the top of my most played chart, but I literally had the exact same hourly playtime for TOTK and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 which I played at the beginning of the year. My third placed game was Fire Emblem Engage, so that's a thing. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15079 Points : 15257 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Wed 20 Dec 2023 - 10:09 | |
| - JayMoyles wrote:
- My third placed game was Fire Emblem Engage, so that's a thing.
Ninth best game of the year, one better than Final Fantasy XVI |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Wed 20 Dec 2023 - 10:13 | |
| Clive Rosfield, a well written and fantastically acted protagonist obviously pales in comparison to bland toothpaste boy. |
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Treesmurf Dry Metal Baby Princess
Posts : 4201 Points : 4203 Join date : 2013-01-17 Age : 34 Location : Manneh
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Wed 20 Dec 2023 - 20:56 | |
| - Spoiler:
Did somebody say end of year stats? No surprises with number one here either, it really is outstanding on every level, the equally outstanding previous game is also my number three with Dragon Quest Builders 2 sandwiched between them. You can tell that I was off work for most of July with that 106 hours of gameplay, even a baby couldn't derail that. |
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6742 Points : 6905 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Thu 21 Dec 2023 - 18:58 | |
| - 2023 Year in Review:
That’s 2023 in a nutshell, with Zelda taking up 72 hours, FC 24 taking up 30 hours and Pikmin 4 taking up 20 hours. Bayonetta 3 and Super Bomberman R 2 both got around fifteen hours, but mostly my year was spent playing games I could rattle through in about five hours. I'll need to give Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Sonic Superstars more time, perhaps that'll happen in the New Year. |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11972 Points : 12064 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Thu 21 Dec 2023 - 23:46 | |
| My Switch year in Review: - Spoiler:
No real surprises for my top 3. Other games I had a lot fun with this year were replaying remastered versions of Metroid Prime & Ghost Trick then stuff like Mario Wonder, Pikmin 4 & Vampire survivors. Also finally getting to play Excitebike 64 through switch online which I loved was a big highlight. What a year for video games. (get the feeling I'm forgetting something though) |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15079 Points : 15257 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Fri 22 Dec 2023 - 1:07 | |
| 40 games, 614 hours. I think that's up on last year? - No surprises:
I like that on my monthly chart you can see Zelda and Mario come out . . . |
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Jimbob Bargain Hunter
Posts : 4635 Points : 4661 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 42 Location : Milton Keynes
| Subject: Re: I'm a Switch, I'm a Lover, Talk About It With Each Other Sat 23 Dec 2023 - 10:24 | |
| Just to reiterate on the official post of Nintendo, my top three games were Tears of the Kingdom SNES online Breath of the Wild (I forgot, at the end of last year I started playing it in Master mode)
Seems a bit daft, but I played Tears of the Kingdom for months. And I haven't got Super Mario Wonder yet, otherwise I suspect that'd take over (*wonders is Santa is listening*) |
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