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my in-laws found out i have a switch so they ended up getting me a switch gift card which is really nice of them, problem is i dont really play it all that much lol

I have zelda botw, mario odyssey, smash, and mario kart. what else is good to buy? should i buy diablo 3 for a third time like a fucking idiot
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xenoblade 2 is great, probably the best JRPG i've played in a while (much better then DQ11). the expansion is supposed to be good too.
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the great thing about the switch is that theres 5 good games to own, and then you dont need to buy anything else
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World Neverland: Elnea Oukoku no Hibi
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If you liked Harvest Moon, Friends of Mineral Town especially, you should really pick up Stardew Valley. I bought it last year when I got my Switch, and I still play it - it's the only game from my initial three purchases that has held up.

Skyrim is fun. I would check out the Puyo Puyo Tetris demo, that got a lot of play time on my Switch until I bought the full game this year. Agatha Knife is a really neat point and click adventure game if you're into that.

But if nothing else - I would consider looking into Stardew Valley. It's fantastic.
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teepan95 posted...

World Neverland: Elnea Oukoku no Hibi

How is this game? I remember being interested when it came out, but I never got it.
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Mutant football league
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monkmith posted...

xenoblade 2 is great, probably the best JRPG i've played in a while (much better then DQ11). the expansion is supposed to be good too.

i watched the dunkey video on it and i think xenoblade 2 looks like it is absolutely not for me

Parappa09 posted...

the great thing about the switch is that theres 5 good games to own, and then you dont need to buy anything else

thats kind of what i think too. when i get bored of smash bros in like a month my switch is probably going to collect dust until the new metroid comes out

MrMallard posted...

But if nothing else - I would consider looking into Stardew Valley. It's fantastic.

my brother suggested this game as well, ill look into it

teepan95 posted...

World Neverland: Elnea Oukoku no Hibi

is that the game that is a spiritual successor to Hado no Bado no Sado IV: /Shingo Dingo\ F.I.N.A.L. [Muramasa].exe ?

PoopPotato posted...

Mutant football league

this looks fun
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Buy every game available for the switch
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Romulox28 posted...

should i buy diablo 3 for a third time like a fucking idiot

Yes
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i dont have switch yet but I'll recommend TWEWY
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If you like D3, I bought it for a third time too and had a great time. The portability is crazy nice.

Do you have Hollow Knight? That game stunned me with how good it was, one of my favorites in years and like $10. Perfect for Switch too.

Have you played Doom? Great game and pretty masterfully done port.
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

If you like D3, I bought it for a third time too and had a great time. The portability is crazy nice.

i may have to do some travelling in january so that does sound like a good selling point

Mr_Biscuit posted...

Do you have Hollow Knight? That game stunned me with how good it was.

yea i have it on PC, it is a great game
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monkmith posted...

xenoblade 2 is great, probably the best JRPG i've played in a while (much better then DQ11). the expansion is supposed to be good too.

Gonna have to disagree with this. I'd vote this game most underwhelming game I really wanted to like and paid full price for.

Stardew Valley, Dead Cells, Okami - these might be up your street.

D3 is good but its just the same old shit really.
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XC2 is probably the worst AAA JRPG in a decade
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pinky0926 posted...

monkmith posted...

xenoblade 2 is great, probably the best JRPG i've played in a while (much better then DQ11). the expansion is supposed to be good too.

Gonna have to disagree with this. I'd vote this game most underwhelming game I really wanted to like and paid full price for.

Stardew Valley, Dead Cells, Okami - these might be up your street.

D3 is good but its just the same old shit really.

people seem very polarized about the game, what really turned you off from it?
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In addition to Doom, have you played Dark Souls? Skyrim? Etc

You may have played those elsewhere but similarly awesome games to have on the go.
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Irony posted...

XC2 is probably the best AAA JRPG in a decade

ftfy
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Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate if you need to kill some(or a lot) time.
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XC2 did nothing but underwhelm with its mostly annoying cast and basic mob fights that lasted forever.
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Thanks for proving me right
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PokemonExpert44 posted...

Irony posted...

XC2 is either the best or the worst AAA JRPG in a decade

ftfy

ftfy

Irony posted...

Thanks for proving me wrong

ftfy

lol
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

In addition to Doom, have you played Dark Souls? Skyrim? Etc

You may have played those elsewhere but similarly awesome games to have on the go.

ive played all those but it might be cool to have them portable

pinky0926 posted...

Stardew Valley, Dead Cells, Okami - these might be up your street.

dead cells looks cool actually
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The one thing to watch out for if you get a first person game is that the joycon sticks aren't the best for controlling them. I'd say get the pro controller, but it's expensive and you just want them portable so it might be best to stay away from Doom.
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monkmith posted...

people seem very polarized about the game, what really turned you off from it?

A number of things:

- Did a very bad job of teaching you how to play it. It just threw an entire book's worth of tutorial dialogue boxes at you right at the start and introduced so many mechanics while you were still just figuring out the absolute basics. It also threw the entire encyclopedic crafting and levelling system at you so you end up collecting a bunch of nonsense items with no idea what to do with any of it. I found it cumbersome and overwhelming.
An example of a perfect tutorial system to me would be Breath of the Wild. Not really any dialogue or descriptions, it just carefully introduces things at the beginning and invites you to use them. You learn through trial and error, not memorising what you read earlier.
- Sidequests were yet again very underwhelming. They did a better job than the first Xenoblade Chronicles but I still felt like I wasn't really invested in any of it.
- The combat started off dull and clunky and graduated into a bit like playing DDR, where you're just trying to time your button presses based on when colours pop up on screen.
- Speaking of combat, there's just so much of it. Why does it take so long to beat basic canon fodder? It's like a 5 minute battle every time even if you're just facing some low level street rats. The only way to actually get anywhere in a reasonable time is to avoid all battles.
- They didn't seem to give much thought to where the high level enemies are on the map. Maybe this was deliberate, but there's only so many times I enjoy being one-shotted by a level 90 giant bird because he happened to see me from about 900metres away and got aggro'd.
- The accents. I understand American fans really enjoyed this aspect but as a Brit I could not disassociate the accents I was hearing with the specific kinds of real life characters I would expect to have them. Nia for example sounds like a hairdresser from wales who gets wasted every friday night and ends up abusing the kebab shop owner at 4am.
- So much fanservice it was embarrassing

I could go on. I enjoyed the world and the music was pretty great, and there were aspects like the story and collecting blades that I was intrigued by. but ultimately I found it quite an annoying game to play.
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pinky0926 posted...

Nia for example sounds like a hairdresser from wales who gets wasted every friday night and ends up abusing the kebab shop owner at 4am.

you just described my dream girl
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pinky0926 posted...

monkmith posted...

people seem very polarized about the game, what really turned you off from it?

A number of things:

- Did a very bad job of teaching you how to play it. It just threw an entire book's worth of tutorial dialogue boxes at you right at the start and introduced so many mechanics while you were still just figuring out the absolute basics. It also threw the entire encyclopedic crafting and levelling system at you so you end up collecting a bunch of nonsense items with no idea what to do with any of it. I found it cumbersome and overwhelming.
An example of a perfect tutorial system to me would be Breath of the Wild. Not really any dialogue or descriptions, it just carefully introduces things at the beginning and invites you to use them. You learn through trial and error, not memorising what you read earlier.
- Sidequests were yet again very underwhelming. They did a better job than the first Xenoblade Chronicles but I still felt like I wasn't really invested in any of it.
- The combat started off dull and clunky and graduated into a bit like playing DDR, where you're just trying to time your button presses based on when colours pop up on screen.
- Speaking of combat, there's just so much of it. Why does it take so long to beat basic canon fodder? It's like a 5 minute battle every time even if you're just facing some low level street rats. The only way to actually get anywhere in a reasonable time is to avoid all battles.
- They didn't seem to give much thought to where the high level enemies are on the map. Maybe this was deliberate, but there's only so many times I enjoy being one-shotted by a level 90 giant bird because he happened to see me from about 900metres away and got aggro'd.
- The accents. I understand American fans really enjoyed this aspect but as a Brit I could not disassociate the accents I was hearing with the specific kinds of real life characters I would expect to have them. Nia for example sounds like a hairdresser from wales who gets wasted every friday night and ends up abusing the kebab shop owner at 4am.
- So much fanservice it was embarrassing

I could go on. I enjoyed the world and the music was pretty great, and there were aspects like the story and collecting blades that I was intrigued by. but ultimately I found it quite an annoying game to play.

Summed up my thoughts. I really wanted to like the game but I just couldn't. Exploration was decent and I liked unlocking the skills to get to new areas or treasure, but the cannon fodder enemies taking forever to kill even when they weren't a threat took the enjoyment out of it.

Most of the characters were just annoying, and I have no idea what the developer was thinking with some of those awful costumes. Anime costumes usually look kinda stupid, but this was next level
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Oh, if you're interested Valkyria Chronicles 4 is great. I've only played 1 prior, and the grenadier class alone makes this one a step above.
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Dead Cells is one of my favorite games from 2018. im not big into the rogue genre but its a ton of fun.

im really enjoying Octopath Traveler. it's a great dose of old-school JRPG. my only gripe is that it features eight characters with completely disjointed stories that don't connect in any way. at all. otherwise i really, really like it.

monkmith posted...

xenoblade 2 is great, probably the best JRPG i've played in a while (much better then DQ11). the expansion is supposed to be good too.

fwiw i didn't care for XB2 very much. it's quite the time sink. i gave it like 40 hours of time and i was barely half-way through the game and i just gave up because i completely lost interest. pinky's gripes cover mine as well for the most part.
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pinky0926 posted...

- The accents. I understand American fans really enjoyed this aspect but as a Brit I could not disassociate the accents I was hearing with the specific kinds of real life characters I would expect to have them. Nia for example sounds like a hairdresser from wales who gets wasted every friday night and ends up abusing the kebab shop owner at 4am.

lol, i never really thought about how the accents would come off for someone living in the UK. you can use the japanese audio, but i can understand not liking that choice too.

pinky0926 posted...

- Did a very bad job of teaching you how to play it. It just threw an entire book's worth of tutorial dialogue boxes at you right at the start and introduced so many mechanics while you were still just figuring out the absolute basics. It also threw the entire encyclopedic crafting and levelling system at you so you end up collecting a bunch of nonsense items with no idea what to do with any of it. I found it cumbersome and overwhelming.
An example of a perfect tutorial system to me would be Breath of the Wild. Not really any dialogue or descriptions, it just carefully introduces things at the beginning and invites you to use them. You learn through trial and error, not memorising what you read earlier.

the tutorial was pretty poor, i did end up having to look up a video to figure out how the combo system worked. i did find that once i figured it out the combat was probably the best i've ever seen in a JRPG.

pinky0926 posted...

- Sidequests were yet again very underwhelming. They did a better job than the first Xenoblade Chronicles but I still felt like I wasn't really invested in any of it.

i dont think i've ever played a game filled with truly compelling side quests. there were several blade related ones i'd say were well written, and a number of fetch quests that pretty much just finished as i played.

pinky0926 posted...

- Speaking of combat, there's just so much of it. Why does it take so long to beat basic canon fodder? It's like a 5 minute battle every time even if you're just facing some low level street rats. The only way to actually get anywhere in a reasonable time is to avoid all battles.

you're kind of supposed to avoid combat, that's literally the whole point of having the mobs on the overworld field. hell the whole leveling system is built around picking and choosing how much combat you want, since it boosts exp if you're under leveled in an area and dumps it into a pool for you to pick and choose when you want to level.

pinky0926 posted...

- They didn't seem to give much thought to where the high level enemies are on the map. Maybe this was deliberate, but there's only so many times I enjoy being one-shotted by a level 90 giant bird because he happened to see me from about 900metres away and got aggro'd.

only instance i'd agree with you here is in the early game Gormott area, and that's mostly because i insisted on cutting straight lines across the area.

pinky0926 posted...

- So much fanservice it was embarrassing

i felt like the fan service was pretty typical of JRPG to be honest, i guess tora sticks out though since he built a sex bot... i'd say i felt about as much shame playing it as i did playing mass effect 2 with its ludicrous amounts of miranda ass shots and jacks tits hanging out.
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Oh, if you haven't played the Crash trilogy, that's also great.
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Romulox28 posted...

monkmith posted...

xenoblade 2 is great, probably the best JRPG i've played in a while (much better then DQ11). the expansion is supposed to be good too.

i watched the dunkey video on it and i think xenoblade 2 looks like it is absolutely not for me

Dunkey is great and funny and all, but never listen to him when it comes to RPGs.
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monkmith posted...

i dont think i've ever played a game filled with truly compelling side quests. there were several blade related ones i'd say were well written, and a number of fetch quests that pretty much just finished as i played.

KOTOR, Witcher 3, Oblivion, to name a few games that were full of interesting sidequests. It is a problem in JRPGs though.

pinky0926 posted...

you're kind of supposed to avoid combat, that's literally the whole point of having the mobs on the overworld field. hell the whole leveling system is built around picking and choosing how much combat you want, since it boosts exp if you're under leveled in an area and dumps it into a pool for you to pick and choose when you want to level.

A JRPG where you avoid combat not because the foe you encounter is too difficult, but because it's too boring? I don't think that's a good design choice.

pinky0926 posted...

i felt like the fan service was pretty typical of JRPG to be honest, i guess tora sticks out though since he built a sex bot... i'd say i felt about as much shame playing it as i did playing mass effect 2 with its ludicrous amounts of miranda ass shots and jacks tits hanging out.

Typical or not it's still kinda ridiculous and a shame because the first XBC was not like this.
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pinky0926 posted...

KOTOR, Witcher 3, Oblivion, to name a few games that were full of interesting sidequests. It is a problem in JRPGs though.

KOTOR maybe, i honestly cant remember. witcher 3 had plenty of bullshit fetch quests. and olbivion was only a passable game because of the side quests (if you count guild quests as side quests that is). otherwise it was a slough through portals.

pinky0926 posted...

A JRPG where you avoid combat not because the foe you encounter is too difficult, but because it's too boring? I don't think that's a good design choice.

ever played pokemon? or any final fantasy? dragon quest? you always get to a point where fighting is annoying as fuck, and all those games offer you ways to avoid it.
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NameMeWhatever posted...

Romulox28 posted...

monkmith posted...

xenoblade 2 is great, probably the best JRPG i've played in a while (much better then DQ11). the expansion is supposed to be good too.

i watched the dunkey video on it and i think xenoblade 2 looks like it is absolutely not for me

Dunkey is great and funny and all, but never listen to him when it comes to RPGs.

dunkey & i have pretty similar tastes on games. i have pretty much no patience or interest in JRPGs
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monkmith posted...

pinky0926 posted...

KOTOR, Witcher 3, Oblivion, to name a few games that were full of interesting sidequests. It is a problem in JRPGs though.

KOTOR maybe, i honestly cant remember. witcher 3 had plenty of bullshit fetch quests. and olbivion was only a passable game because of the side quests (if you count guild quests as side quests that is). otherwise it was a slough through portals.

I think the significant thing W3 did was turn those fetch quests into something more. While yeah, you were still doing a fetch quests, the writing was so good that it gave you a reason to do the fetch quests, because there was a very good chance that something that seemed basic was going to evolve into a more involved quest chain with interesting characters and choices to make.
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The World Ends With You

Stardew Valley

Persona 5 should be announced for the Switch next week

SMT5 is gonna be on the Switch but we don't have a release date for it yet

Disgaea 1 and 5 if you want some fun SRPG action

Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk if you want a dungeon crawler

YS8

Pokken, Fighterz, Hyrule or FE Warriors, Mario Tennis, Bayo 1 or 2, Captain Toad, Splatoon 2, ARMS, Katamari Reroll
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Conflict posted...

TC just said he doesn't like jrpgs so he's not gonna be interested in any of those games except Stardew

Didn't notice lol. Well, they're still cool

PokemonExpert44 posted...

Download every game available for the switch for free

The game I've put the most hours into is Pic a Pix Deluxe

If you don't like Picross, this is not for you

If you do like Picross, this is like if Picross had a billion puzzles (instead of 100), with most of them being multicolor

Most of the game's content at this point is in the DLC, since the base game released over a year ago and has had new DLC drop every two or so months

My major gripe with the game is that there's only one music track, and it is terrible. I play with the audio off, lol
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Warframe: It's free and it's fantastic
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thanks for the advice everyone, i got overwhelmed & decided to throw the gift card in the trash
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Romulox28 posted...

thanks for the advice everyone, i got overwhelmed & decided to throw the gift card in the trash

Lmao
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CM_Ponch posted...

Romulox28 posted...

thanks for the advice everyone, i got overwhelmed & decided to throw the gift card in the trash

Lmao

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