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it's very bad for fighting games or anything that requires precision d-pad movement. it's at least fixable in several ways if you don't mind taking upon yourself to clean it up. it's just really weird that Nintendo, with basically a lock on a bulletproof d-pad design over the history of their consoles put out one with issues.
Is it maybe Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles?
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Like you got a pro controller so you might as well try it out. The d-pad is still more comfortable than the joy-cons, if you don't get hit with errant inputs. You might be able to fix those with the tape mod. But if a d-pad is mainly what you are after, there are better options for less money, and I'd consider returning if you can.
I often prefer d-pad movement for games, and own and love many 2D games. I forget offhand which of the following Switch games allow d-pad movement but I have games like Stardew Valley, Night in the Woods, Blossom Tales, Mercenary Kings, Worms WMD, Ultimate Chicken Horse, the NES app, and most recently Sega Ages Phantasy Star and the Genesis collection.
I play pretty much exclusively with the Switch docked with the pro controller and it's all perfectly fine.
So yeah, I'm the vocal minority that plays mostly 2D games. Pro controller is great. I feel zero need to look into any mods of any kind.
I just played through it with a friend. It was good but very short. But I always just want more, more, more OC2, so nothing will satisfy me.
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Cute little animals farm and run a shop in a lovely 3D setting? That's Garden Paws. It's out early access (but very playable) on Steam but isn't due for the Switch until December 2019.
If you're talking about the eshop, there's a sale on all 3 Nintendo systems right now, with more titles due to be added.
Disclaimer: I'm in Ireland, so it's the euro eshop I'm talking about. I'd be very surprised if it's not worldwide.
Check your local Nintendo website, as there should be listings there. 3ds and Wii U have a banner on their shops, but on Switch they are just listed in the sales section.
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I feel Nintendo will do one after Xmas like they have done for the last couple of years but then again I have no idea
So I take it the Pro controller doesn't have the Joy Con's drifting problems?
My armchair hypothesis is that the design of the joy con sticks makes them more susceptible to dirt and grime. It's easier to just see for yourself, but the thumb stick just has a small rubber cap covering its mechanics, and you can flip it up with just a toothpick. The pro controller is a more standard stick where that "cap" is instead a solid piece of plastic that moves with the stick, and all that covers the mechanics, making it much harder for anything to get inside. So yeah, it shouldn't have that problem because it's like any other stick.
When my joy con was starting to stick, it was really easy to see what was happening via the calibration tool. I'd flick it left, the stick would return to center, but the software would still register it as tilting left before slowly coming back, like some piece of dirt or sticky grime was still pressing the internal mechanics. And after I took some canned air and a qtip with rubbing alcohol to it, I haven't had any problems.
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I keeping an eye on the shop, but it's almost all indie or shovelware stuff on sale right now. I mean the actually awesome heavy hitters
I'm sure it will on steam, but I'd like to play it on my big screen
"Save 2% on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe! Aw hell, you know what? It's the holidays, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is 3% off!"
What they should do is wait 3 months and then roll out the sales, because then people will be done with their first game or two and if they didn't buy Mario Kart or Zelda in their first batch, they will suddenly hear about the sale and go "ooh there's my next game."
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Like, hell, could you imagine if Activision or EA was running Splatoon? We'd be up to our eyeballs in cash-only paid outfits or OP weapons.
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Jackbox Party Pack 4 is on sale for $15 and Party Pack 5 is on sale for $20 (each one is $10 off).
It's hard to say which one is better, they both have awesome games and at least one stinker. Highlights of pack 4 are Fibbage 3 (similar to Balderdash, come up with a convincing lie) and Survive the Internet. Fibbage 3 also includes an alternate game mode that involves the players themselves, sort of an icebreaker or Newlywed game -- "the strangest place Jim has ever slept" and everyone writes down what they think will be Jim's answer, plus Jim's actual answer, and then everyone needs to guess the correct one.
Highlights of pack 5 are You Don't Know Jack (classic irreverent trivia), and Split the Room, a party game take on the Will-You-Press-The-Button site concept.
All games are fully played on phones and tablets with web browsers, so everyone has a controller. They also have parental control settings so you can turn off inappropriate content.
These types of questions always make me out to be some sort of boring person (hint: it's true!) because I'd say: "On the couch" or something.
That is totally ok because the important thing is to have fun with the game.
Something you might write when you're making up an answer for someone else is "I've never slept in a strange place, I'm boring" because the use of first person helps sell your answer as the right one, even though it's a filthy lie.
One of the questions for me was "what would you get in the guiness book of world records for" and several people wrote "video games." The actual answer I wrote was "whistling the fastest after eating crackers" because it is true! I...won a contest once.
I did not know we had an Olympian in our midst.
The eshop doesn’t even have real sales on good indies, so don’t hold your breath waiting for a sale on a first party game.
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I would disagree with that. I've gotten some 25-50% off sales on a number of games. There are some good sales on good indies right now even. But it's tougher to keep an eye on it without using a third party site to email you reminders.
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Not in the slightest. It has a good heft too. In Splatoon it takes a while to get used to because the analog sticks are more towards the center of the pad, but in Smash it's just about right.
With my Cons (launch unit), drifting wasn't obvious in games like Splatoon and Mario Kart when you were making rapid movements constantly, but for stuff like Odyssey and Zelda (to a lesser extent) it got nasty. I died way too much in Odyssey because Mario would slowly walk over an edge I didn't intend to move over.
Pro is a solid piece of kit and it lasts for hours battery wise. I just leave my Cons on the system these days.
Honestly, Splatoon is almost the perfect game for micro-transactions and free-to-play stuff. I'm glad Nintendo has some scruples (considering they ARE in mobile games after all) about that sort of model, and hopefully that holds. It probably will since the wheels are starting to come off the whole lootbox/micro-transaction model these days.
There was a sale during E3, black Friday and some other occasions this year. The big games DO get price cuts.
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It's worth it at full price. It is a mountain of content.
You don't go into Donut County looking for a challenge, you go into Donut County looking to have the pants charmed off you.
I was... well not underwhelmed. Perhaps merely whelmed. I beat it in a single sitting, about an hour, maybe 90 minutes. It has cute art. A cute story. It's Katamari inspiration is obvious. But each level goes so quickly. After a few they begin to have a gimmick. Seriously. The back half of the game has a gimmick per level.
I guess if it's any indication, I have zero regret accidentally buying this on PC instead of Switch. Because after having beaten it, I'll never touch it again.
sale must have been quick because it's back to normal already
Which will be great when it's on sale for $5, not $13.
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There's no shortage of charming games with shallow and/or unsatisfying gameplay.