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Nintendo Switch: Rock Around the Dock

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Shower thought from this morning:

    Do you think Super Mario Odyssey is going to draw anything from Homer's Odyssey?

    Like.. I was thinking about the whole wedding framing device. That reminds me a lot of Odysseus and Penelope, right?

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    Shower thought from this morning:

    Do you think Super Mario Odyssey is going to draw anything from Homer's Odyssey?

    Like.. I was thinking about the whole wedding framing device. That reminds me a lot of Odysseus and Penelope, right?

    Yes. They've said that that's literally it's namesake.

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  • BronzeKoopaBronzeKoopa Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    Yeah Nyko's switch accessories look cool, and some are kind of weird:

    A joy-con grip that has a battery for extended play, storage for game carts/micro sd cards, and a phone mount for use with the upcoming online app?
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    A fan cooler you can attach to the dock for added cooling, if your entertainment setup is cramped/enclosed
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    A metal kickstand replacement I think, that also has extra sd card storage? Can you actually hotswap micro sd cards if you have too many games?
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  • Ivan HungerIvan Hunger Registered User regular
    Frem wrote: »
    Athenor wrote: »
    Shower thought from this morning:

    Do you think Super Mario Odyssey is going to draw anything from Homer's Odyssey?

    Like.. I was thinking about the whole wedding framing device. That reminds me a lot of Odysseus and Penelope, right?

    Yes. They've said that that's literally it's namesake.

    I wonder which level will be the one where Mario sleeps with Circe.

    And then with Calypso.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Enlong wrote: »
    skeldare wrote: »
    First Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Switch footage, including a look at motion controls

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L64aGm6L7R0

    I feel so bad for Xenoverse. Now that FighterZ exists why would I want a clunky beat em up with a Sonic OC?

    I dunno about you, but I still want to have a female Human character kick the shit out of every Saiyan ever, and resolve weird time shit.

    Well now you can do that by
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    cloudeagle wrote: »
    As for no Monster Hunter on Switch, there's a theory online that it's the result of an odd moneyhat. MonHun is bigger in Japan than the west, and Nintendo is Sony's only competitor over there. Dunno if that's true, but considering Sony pretty much subsidized Street Fighter V, I can't rule it out.

    Except XX switch is already announced for Japan. It's just possibly not coming over here.

    Its not according to a Capcom twitter account. Theyre basically abandoning their portable base that they spent like 6 years building.

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    My sister needs that kickstand. She took it to play with my little niece and nephew and they loved it, but fought over it, and it fell/snapped off a few times, and now her kickstand is super loose and just flops open all the time.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    that grip for the phone mount might be a near necessary accessory when the online service eventually launches..... assuming the app supports landscape orientation, which I'm not convinced of, because Nintendo.

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Yeah Nyko's switch accessories look cool, and some are kind of weird
    I am intrigued by that case with the integrated battery - it looks pretty nice just as a case, and apparently has an integrated stand for the Switch, but the battery thing is like icing on the cake. I wonder how bulky it would be, though.

    I'm also impressed with how the extended battery looks like a sleek extension of the console rather than a janky, bulky thing that was bolted on in haste.

  • IncindiumIncindium Registered User regular
    Man I really want one of those SNES30 Pro controllers that 8bitdo premiered at E3. Scratch that I want the Super Famicon version of that with the colored buttons. Guess it's good I didn't buy one of their other models yet.

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  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    Wow, I haven't seen Nyko put this much effort into something for some years now. Does this mean I'm buying Nyko products once more?

  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    Remember when Odysseus entered his hall and threw a hat at the suitors?

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  • GMaster7GMaster7 Goggles Paesano Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    So I've heard that Odyssey will follow the closer-camera, tightly controlling style of 64 and Sunshine, rather than the farther-removed, larger-view-camera style of 3D World/Land, Galaxy, etc. As much as Galaxy is one of my top games of all time, and as much I adore 3D Land, I am really excited to hear this.

    Also: seeing a little more actual footage of Mario+Rabbids kinda assuaged my fears that it'll be an oversimplified "find randomly placed weapons around the arena" game. Classes with skill trees, weapon unlocks/purchases, Overwatch from XCOM (maybe my favorite feature in any strategy game)... there's potential there. Can't believe some of these games are coming so soon.

    Also also, to whomever was asking about the Hollow Knight release: we don't know yet. I would imagine in the next few months?

    Edit: Per Google: "In a blog post on its site, Team Cherry explained that the Switch port is now feature complete, and that testing and optimization is all that’s left to do. The post also explained that the upcoming Hidden Dreams DLC, which launches in July, will be included for free with the Switch version. The new DLC will be adding in two new boss fights, two new music tracks to accompany them, a new upgrade, and a new Stag Station."

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    PLA wrote: »
    Remember when Odysseus entered his hall and threw a hat at the suitors?

    Yeah I was totally picturing Mario getting back and having a tearful reunion with Baby Mario and they come up with a plan to have Mario eat an Old Mushroom to turn into Old Mario so nobody would recognize him, and they go up to the mansion to find Peach insisting that one of the Koopa Kids has to be able to accurately complete a fireball-throwing obstacle course, which nobody can do like Mario, and they all laugh at the old man who wants to try, and he does it immediately and they all gasp and he tosses a fire flower to Baby Mario too and they both slaughter everyone there.

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  • skeldareskeldare Gresham, ORRegistered User regular
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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    skeldare wrote: »

    Laura Kate Dale losing more credibility.

    I mean maybe it was planned at one point but part of leaker credibility is not leaking things at a point where plans can still change drastically.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    I really suspected that BG&E wasn't coming to the Switch.

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  • Linespider5Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
    skeldare wrote: »

    Not that shocked. I mean, I would've been delighted if it was, but. Yeah.

  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    PLA wrote: »
    Remember when Odysseus entered his hall and threw a hat at the suitors?

    Yeah I was totally picturing Mario getting back and having a tearful reunion with Baby Mario and they come up with a plan to have Mario eat an Old Mushroom to turn into Old Mario so nobody would recognize him, and they go up to the mansion to find Peach insisting that one of the Koopa Kids has to be able to accurately complete a fireball-throwing obstacle course, which nobody can do like Mario, and they all laugh at the old man who wants to try, and he does it immediately and they all gasp and he tosses a fire flower to Baby Mario too and they both slaughter everyone there.
    Wouldn't a jumping contest be more apropos?

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  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    urahonky wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Darkewolfe wrote: »
    Hyperbole, but no one can claim Nintendo doesn't iterate the same core franchises in an interesting way. It's the only console where you definitely ask, "What's the Mario this season?"

    Yeah they should really make Zelda an open world game.

    What do you mean by that anyway? You mean a Mario game is a Mario game? Well, duh. Gears of War is a Gears of War game and Halo 4 and Halo 3 feel the same too. That's not a bad thing, but is funny that Nintendo is the only company that gets flak for that.

    Not saying they're right, but it IS a hell of a lot easier to give Nintendo that flak when they are the longest lived and most successful player in the game.

    When is the cutoff in time for it to be a problem? Halo 1 came out in 2001. That's 16 years ago and each Halo game is essentially the same (again, not a bad thing... Though I didn't enjoy Halo 4). Is it protected from flak because Nintendo has been around longer? As soon as Nintendo goes away then it'll be okay to give them shit?

    For the record: I don't really care. I just have a friend who makes fun of me for buying the Mario games because "they're all the same" and then nearly died at the footage of Assassin's Creed Origins.

    Number of Halo games: like eight across 15 years?

    Number of Mario games: more than 100 across 30 years?

    What is this I don't even.
  • BronzeKoopaBronzeKoopa Registered User regular
    Treehouse stream will be up again 1 EST. Pokken DX tourney at 1:30 EST, and the ARMS tourney at 6:30. There's been some speculation of maybe another big game announcement, but that seems unlikely. Probably going to just showcase more gameplay stuff of what has been announced yesterday.

  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    Darkewolfe wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Darkewolfe wrote: »
    Hyperbole, but no one can claim Nintendo doesn't iterate the same core franchises in an interesting way. It's the only console where you definitely ask, "What's the Mario this season?"

    Yeah they should really make Zelda an open world game.

    What do you mean by that anyway? You mean a Mario game is a Mario game? Well, duh. Gears of War is a Gears of War game and Halo 4 and Halo 3 feel the same too. That's not a bad thing, but is funny that Nintendo is the only company that gets flak for that.

    Not saying they're right, but it IS a hell of a lot easier to give Nintendo that flak when they are the longest lived and most successful player in the game.

    When is the cutoff in time for it to be a problem? Halo 1 came out in 2001. That's 16 years ago and each Halo game is essentially the same (again, not a bad thing... Though I didn't enjoy Halo 4). Is it protected from flak because Nintendo has been around longer? As soon as Nintendo goes away then it'll be okay to give them shit?

    For the record: I don't really care. I just have a friend who makes fun of me for buying the Mario games because "they're all the same" and then nearly died at the footage of Assassin's Creed Origins.

    Number of Halo games: like eight across 15 years?

    Number of Mario games: more than 100 across 30 years?

    Mario Bros
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    Super Mario Bros 2
    Super Mario Bros 3
    Super Mario Land
    Super Mario Land 2
    Super Mario World
    Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
    Super Mario 64
    Super Mario Sunshine
    Super Mario Galaxy
    Super Mario Galaxy 2
    New Super Mario Bros
    New Super Mario Bros 2
    New Super Mario Bros Wii
    New Super Mario Bros WiiU
    Super Mario 3D Land
    Super Mario 3D World
    Super Mario Odyssey

    100<19???????

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  • DaveTheWaveDaveTheWave Registered User regular
    What an amazing list of amazing games.

    Sorry, I've just never looked at them one after the other like that before. It's like a little tracker of my life. Or that part of it, anyway.

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  • Linespider5Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
    Not sure if I should be delighted, puzzled or depressed that Retro had nothing to show at E3. My grand hope is that their efforts of late are allowing them the opportunity to make a new IP of some kind.

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  • ChiselphaneChiselphane Registered User regular
    What an amazing list of amazing games.

    Sorry, I've just never looked at them one after the other like that before. It's like a little tracker of my life. Or that part of it, anyway.

    It really is nothing short of amazing that all of those games are at worst good and many of them absolutely great. And encompassing so much variety as well.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    And that's not including the spinoffs, like Yoshi's line of games, Wario's line of games, or Donkey Kong's excellent line of games.

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  • Jubal77Jubal77 Registered User regular
    Unlike Halo I still look forward to playing a branded main line game from Mario.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    So for us Canadians.... Super Mario Odyssey is currently listed at $100 from online Canadian online retailers. I really hope that's an incorrect placeholder......

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  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    And that's not including the spinoffs, like Yoshi's line of games, Wario's line of games, or Donkey Kong's excellent line of games.

    And all the sports, kart, RPG and other genre-departures.

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  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    in a reply to a tweet, 8bitdo say's that those speakers work with Switch using Bluetooth. I have no idea how that would work but that's what they said:




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  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    wunderbar wrote: »
    So for us Canadians.... Super Mario Odyssey is currently listed at $100 from online Canadian online retailers. I really hope that's an incorrect placeholder......

    I hope it's a placeholder too but honestly... I pre-ordered it anyway. I'm not fooling myself; even at $100, I was going to buy it. It's the #1 game that I'm looking forward to now that Zelda is finished; and it doesn't help that it's been my wife's #1 game since the original trailer back in March. Amazon.ca Prime has 20% E3 games right now too, so I can snag it now at ~$80 before tax. And then hopefully it is a placeholder and the Amazon guarantee will automatically give me the price drop.

    Hey, there's an interesting thought. Anyone know what happens to percentage discounts when the price changes? I must imagine the discount amount gets reduced as well to 20% of the new price. Otherwise I'm going to make out like a bandit.

  • PookiepooPookiepoo Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    Athenor wrote: »
    And that's not including the spinoffs, like Yoshi's line of games, Wario's line of games, or Donkey Kong's excellent line of games.

    And all the sports, kart, RPG and other genre-departures.

    Mario even spent some time as a typing educator at one point, if I remember correctly.

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  • VanderbrentVanderbrent Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    So, nintendo's sound design has been really on point lately. For example the full version of the song from the super mario odyssey trailer:
    https://youtu.be/5qgOeXbFQ9U

    It's now stuck in my head like the arms theme.

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  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    Treehouse Day 2 stream is up:

    https://youtu.be/otmXUsVWlDA

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  • skeldareskeldare Gresham, ORRegistered User regular
    Looks like mostly just Pokken and Arms today.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    skeldare wrote: »

    To be fair, nobody is getting BG&E2. At least that's what I told myself after watching that trailer where they screwed up the game title at the end. I'm sure a video editor got fired for that one...right, right?!
    That trailer was so awful. #notmybg&e

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  • MorranMorran Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    skeldare wrote: »

    Ancel commented that while bge2 was not switch exclusive "as far as he know", but they had also not revealed any platforms at all, and that the platform select buttons were just bugs.

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  • FiggyFiggy Fighter of the night man Champion of the sunRegistered User regular
    urahonky wrote: »
    Darkewolfe wrote: »
    Hyperbole, but no one can claim Nintendo doesn't iterate the same core franchises in an interesting way. It's the only console where you definitely ask, "What's the Mario this season?"

    Yeah they should really make Zelda an open world game.

    What do you mean by that anyway? You mean a Mario game is a Mario game? Well, duh. Gears of War is a Gears of War game and Halo 4 and Halo 3 feel the same too. That's not a bad thing, but is funny that Nintendo is the only company that gets flak for that.

    He's saying they do incredibly innovative things with the same core franchises, unlike others that might rehash the same IP over and over with little change. It was a positive comment.

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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    edited June 2017
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    skeldare wrote: »

    To be fair, nobody is getting BG&E2. At least that's what I told myself after watching that trailer where they screwed up the game title at the end. I'm sure a video editor got fired for that one...right, right?!
    That trailer was so awful. #notmybg&e

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  • Handsome CostanzaHandsome Costanza Ask me about 8bitdo RIP Iwata-sanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2017
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    skeldare wrote: »

    To be fair, nobody is getting BG&E2. At least that's what I told myself after watching that trailer where they screwed up the game title at the end. I'm sure a video editor got fired for that one...right, right?!
    That trailer was so awful. #notmybg&e

    I loved that trailer. I 've never played the original game though, maybe thats why.

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  • RidleySariaRidleySaria AnaheimRegistered User regular
    I thought the trailer was visually impressive but I hated the characters. A lot. So unlikable. And I'm not a prude about cursing (just look at my post history) but the f-bombs felt REALLY out of place.

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