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Johnny Ryall wrote:The talk of difficulty and comparisons to dark souls put me off it for the longest time, but honestly haven't struggled that much so far, but then I guess it could ramp up towards the end.

I hate when I'm looking forward to a game and then people say how it reminds them of Dark Souls. Literally don't bother getting it in the end.

DarkRula wrote:

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:I played Mario Kart GP DX the other day and it got me thinking why haven’t Nintendo released the various versions of the arcade series on one of their consoles? I doubt it would be difficult or expensive to convert. Seems like an easy win for them surely?

Because while the tracks work well for the arcade, and they'd be a nice bonus in a console game, they feel unneeded when the series already includes a new version of each of those locations per game. As DLC, I would welcome it, especially since I played one of the tracks that got ported to the CTGP and found it good.

Mario Kart GP is crap though. The handling is terrible, the tracks are bland and the new power ups are uninspiring. Bar the Mario characters it just feels like a knock-off kart game.

Mario Kart 8 is ahead of it in every way imaginable.

I imagine the GP tracks, which are pretty wide, wouldn't be suited to the home console's handling. They would be even more dull.

Parksey wrote:

DarkRula wrote:

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:I played Mario Kart GP DX the other day and it got me thinking why haven’t Nintendo released the various versions of the arcade series on one of their consoles? I doubt it would be difficult or expensive to convert. Seems like an easy win for them surely?

Because while the tracks work well for the arcade, and they'd be a nice bonus in a console game, they feel unneeded when the series already includes a new version of each of those locations per game. As DLC, I would welcome it, especially since I played one of the tracks that got ported to the CTGP and found it good.

Mario Kart GP is crap though. The handling is terrible, the tracks are bland and the new power ups are uninspiring. Bar the Mario characters it just feels like a knock-off kart game.

Mario Kart 8 is ahead of it in every way imaginable.

I imagine the GP tracks, which are pretty wide, wouldn't be suited to the home console's handling. They would be even more dull.

So why not offer it as a cheaper Eshop only game, or do you think it would damage the brand?

So I have an 8Bitdo N30 Pro controller on order - mainly for my Mac, but it says it also works with a Switch - anyone tried one?

No but I've heard they're really good, especially if you want a proper dpad.

We've got guests and their son has been playing the switch most of the time. As the tv was free I suggested he could dock it and use that, he went to pass the switch but did it not looking and dropped the strawberry floating thing Luckily I caught it before it hit the floor but strawberry floating hell

This is why I usually hide my stuff when kids come round

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:

Parksey wrote:Mario Kart GP is crap though. The handling is terrible, the tracks are bland and the new power ups are uninspiring. Bar the Mario characters it just feels like a knock-off kart game.

Mario Kart 8 is ahead of it in every way imaginable.

I imagine the GP tracks, which are pretty wide, wouldn't be suited to the home console's handling. They would be even more dull.

So why not offer it as a cheaper Eshop only game, or do you think it would damage the brand?

Both the power-ups and handling wouldn't matter for DLC, and the tracks themselves would more than likely reworked to fit with the console game. That's the best option, just as a nod to the arcade tracks. There isn't a need to even put all of them in.
Just don't bring the full arcade games to console. They work better as arcade experiences.

Can I transfer the data from one SD card to a bigger one? I assume I could just plug them both into a pc and click and drag all the files between the two? Would that cause any issues. I bought a 32gb one a while back but that’s clearly not going to be big enough long term.

Yes you can, there are instructions on Nintendo's site. I had a fair bit of trouble getting my new sd card to not corrupt initially, but once it was sorted it was all good. Also it looks like you have to download everything once you've made the swap, but the moment you start a game it finds the old data right away.

Ad7 wrote:Yes you can, there are instructions on Nintendo's site. I had a fair bit of trouble getting my new sd card to not corrupt initially, but once it was sorted it was all good. Also it looks like you have to download everything once you've made the swap, but the moment you start a game it finds the old data right away.

Ok thanks I'll have a look and see if I can work it out.

what switch game did you play today.

I'm surprised you had enough time to play games, given the intense barrel-scraping in that post.

Ad7 wrote:

BOR wrote:Tried Captain Toad demo and I’ll buy it when the price drops down to under £15.

If you're going to get it, save it for Christmas

Edit: Just played the demo, the strawberry float at that cursor

Yeah it would be nice to play at Christmas time.

Fisher wrote:what switch game did you play today.

splatoon 2 and xenoblade chronicles 2

Fisher wrote:what switch game did you play today.

xenoblade chronicles 2

Pedz wrote:

Johnny Ryall wrote:The talk of difficulty and comparisons to dark souls put me off it for the longest time, but honestly haven't struggled that much so far, but then I guess it could ramp up towards the end.

I hate when I'm looking forward to a game and then people say how it reminds them of Dark Souls. Literally don't bother getting it in the end.

I wanted to come back on this after initially making the comparison as I didn't want to put anyone off the game. With regards the comparison to DS, the difficulty is less of thing if you're decent at platformers (I'm not). I see the similarities in the tone of the environment, the way in which you open shortcuts as you progress through the level, the fact that the currency you collect is lost when you die but you can return to the same spot to recover, it's also very slight on descriptive text with little to no tutorial, the resource management for recharging health. Also, like DS, the game is very fair - boss battles are tricky if you rush in, a measured approach usually ends up being much easier.

It also doesn't rely on muscle memory as much as something like Guacamelee does (in certain stages), which is good for an old git like me.

Updated Minecraft yesterday and now Im able to earn Xbox acheivements on my Switch. What a world!

Fisher wrote:what switch game did you play today.

i didn't play any games yesterday fisher as I was out, and watched the football, haven't actually had much time recently to play at all you seem pretty organised, do you schedule in a minute every day to play some switch? i wish i could what games have you got penciled in for this week? is there free enough time to download a demo or something else from the eshop

Poor Fisher doesn't even have time for uploading an avatar

Ad7 wrote:Poor Fisher doesn't even have time for uploading an avatar

It should be a digital clock saying 23:49. I might make one for him .

Fisher wrote:...

Here we go, dude - this image could work as your avatar:



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Rex Kramer wrote:

Pedz wrote:

Johnny Ryall wrote:The talk of difficulty and comparisons to dark souls put me off it for the longest time, but honestly haven't struggled that much so far, but then I guess it could ramp up towards the end.

I hate when I'm looking forward to a game and then people say how it reminds them of Dark Souls. Literally don't bother getting it in the end.

I wanted to come back on this after initially making the comparison as I didn't want to put anyone off the game. With regards the comparison to DS, the difficulty is less of thing if you're decent at platformers (I'm not). I see the similarities in the tone of the environment, the way in which you open shortcuts as you progress through the level, the fact that the currency you collect is lost when you die but you can return to the same spot to recover, it's also very slight on descriptive text with little to no tutorial, the resource management for recharging health. Also, like DS, the game is very fair - boss battles are tricky if you rush in, a measured approach usually ends up being much easier.

It also doesn't rely on muscle memory as much as something like Guacamelee does (in certain stages), which is good for an old git like me.

As a yardstick as to how bad I am at platformers, it's just taken me about 15 attempts to beat Hornet. Cracking sense of achievement though when I'd done it.