Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

Utnayan said:

So Metroid prime 4 Dec 4 everything else remakes and bullshit.

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I'll believe Metroid Prime 4 exists when I actually see it on a store shelf.

The bike stuff...why

Nintendo has burned through all their goodwill with me over the years so I'm not going to jump up and down cheering every time they announce something like their fanbase does.

CaughtCross said:

If I could play them normally on the Switch id be more interested. I dont want to have to use the eye thing. I have my Virtual Boy from the 90s still. It sucks to use.

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The one cool thing about Virtual Boy is the Wario Land game on there. TBH I like that game (and the Wii one, Wario Land: Shake It) more than I liked any of the actual numbered Wario Land sequels on the GBC and GBA. I mean, Wario Land 4 was okay, but 2 and 3 bored me to tears and went on way too long. It's a shame because Wario Land 1 was one of my favorite games as a kid. Like top five on Game Boy, easily.

Siliconemelons said:

The virtual boy Wario Land is a very good platformer that, like most VB games no one saw.

RedAlarm is a fun space corridor shooter that you go free roam in the boss sequences

Tennis is great but mostly because its fairly simple and the 3d makes it fun

The two Japanese games they show as becoming available will be awesome.. I hope as I never got to play them. One or both are super rare and expensive I’ve on eBay. The one with the moon cover is like 500$

Just checked eBay… forgot about Jack Bros and WaterWorld …

Jack bros is like 900$ its shown on the Nintendo direct, waterworld is not, so it may stay its 500$ on eBay lol

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This Virtual Boy thing would be cool if it was just straight emulation (playing it on the TV in as 3D-ish as they can make it).

However, you need a $100 add-on, and it's a headache-inducing headset, plus you need the Switch Online Plus or whatever the expensive subscription is.

What teh fock

Pokemon Gen 10 leaks for anybody that missed it.

The villain is basically Trump lol

"Procedurally generated" raises huge red flags. Not sure I want to play a procedurally generated Pokemon game. Give me something carefully refined and curated by real people.

What they should do is just make another Scarlet-type open world-ish game, while fixing the graphical issues and various other things people didn't like about Gen 9. Have a few storylines playing out side by side and let the player roam the world and tackle things in any order they want, limited only by their character power (kinda like Elden Ring). Gen 9 did all of this decently well, even if it got hated-on for the most part it seemed like.

spronk said:

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"Everything old is...still old, but we expect you to pay for it again lol"

I haven't used my Switch 2 since July. Been trying to figure out if there's anything upcoming that would make sense to play on it, like something retro-style, just to get some sort of use out of it again.

Noodleface guess what? Gaming weekend this weekend.

spronk said:

yeah i took mine on vacation even and never turned it on. there are games i wanna play, like finishing dk bananza and starting xenoblade 2 but i finally hit that age where i'd almost rather do anything else than play a video game. so weird to say that

i even bought pokemon za and was gonna play my first pokemon but my nephew (big into all that pokemon shit now) said the new game sucked so i returned it lol

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It's because they all suck more or less and we need better games. Usually we are treated to one or two actual good games per year

spronk said:

yeah i took mine on vacation even and never turned it on. there are games i wanna play, like finishing dk bananza and starting xenoblade 2 but i finally hit that age where i'd almost rather do anything else than play a video game. so weird to say that

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There are some great Pokemon games and Z-A isn't one of them.

On Switch you've got a few options. Let's Go Pikachu is a remake of Gen 1, which would seem like a no-brainer on a good first Pokemon to play, but it has some really tedious game mechanics. Pokemon Legends Arceus is full of empty space and little respect for your time; most people love it, but as someone like you who needs some real motivation to even turn on a game, I don't recommend it.

That leaves Gen 8 (Sword/Shield) and Gen 9 (Scarlet/Violet). Gen 8 is more your traditional Pokemon RPG, go from town to town defeating gym leaders. Gen 9 is more of an "Elden Ring Pokemon", open world and has tons of objective markers to hit, with three different main storylines that can be progressed in any order and parallel to each other. Personally I loved Gen 9, but a lot of people didn't because it has framerate issues.

TLDR: Pokemon Sword is probably a good first one to run through and get the idea of whether you like the series or not. If you want to go back and play Gen 1 retro-style and try to capture the magic of someone else's nostalgia, run Pokemon FireRed (GBA, Switch Online might have it, or the eShop, and easy enough to emulate if they don't).

Personally I'm also in the boat where turning on a game has become more and more difficult as time goes by, and I frequently drop a project soon after starting it. Helps to plan things out. Like I've got Red Dead Redemption and Xenoblade 3 pencilled in as my "finish by the end of the year" games (+RDR2 if I have time, +Metroid Prime 4 if it actually launches) to give me some focus. I pretty much never replay anything besides Fromsoft games, either, everything else is a one and done these days.