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neptuniadoesstuff · 19 hours

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New Switch, New Gameplay #01

So I just got my new switch today & uh... yeh... (Also I literally have to restart my entire game playthroughs... NOT THAT I WAS HAPPY ALREDY- :') )

(Btw I named my frikin rival Jeremiah... as in like... Jeremiah Greenbel bcs I like bullying him.) (My character is named Neptunia-)

#neptuniadoesstuff #my pics #pokemon #pokemon brilliant diamond #New switch #nintendo switch #Yeh I had to name the rival after the frikin Florida man. What did u want me to do?

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pillowprincessvarric · 4 months

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I swear to god that green day has had this exact same "scandal" like five times now.

#saw the headline about switching redneck agenda to maga agenda and had to check like three times #to ensure that it was actually a new article and not an old one

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bitchofdarkness · 7 months

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I hate how fandom has become "if you haven't created anything in this very specific time frame after the release of the show/movie, everyone will have moved on"

And call me old fashioned, but that's just not me. I sometimes take ages to create and publish. And I will love a show or movie for such a long time (years, babes, years) that I just can't relate to the fast consumerism that's going on.

Because, let's be real, it can get really lonely in a fandom if most have simply moved on to the next shiny thing. Is what's created less worth, just because it was created outside the hype? Why is it such a taboo for this new fandom generation to love an old or "late" fic or art?

It's so tiring and I'm too old for the 30-seconds-hype-tiktok-shit. Just tired. So, so tired.

#semi rant #cry into the void #and no i'm not shaming young ppl in general #it's this new wave of people entering fandom which can happen at any age lbr #and I don't understand them nor do I want to atp #if you're wondering why you can't rb anymore: I switched it off bcuz people can't fucking read and piss me off with their dumb additions

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britesparc · 2 months

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Weekend Top Ten #624

Top Ten Things I Want from the Switch 2

Peering behind the curtain a little bit this week, it does feel a bit strange to be discussing the Switch when it’s really the Xbox that’s dominating headlines. At the time of writing, we’re coming off a couple of weeks of frenzied speculation about Microsoft – all their games are going multiplatform! They’re leaving the hardware market entirely! – that ended with a fairly nondescript announcement video which doesn’t feel like it’s changing the status quo too much. There’s some interesting discussion to be had about Microsoft’s approach; and, given how happy Sony seem to be about the PC releases of some of their big exclusives, I guess you could argue that the age of massive first-party games being tied to one particular piece of hardware is well and truly over.

Well, apart from Nintendo.

Nintendo have operated in their own space at their own speed for about the last twenty years now. Long gone are the days when it felt like the company was locked into the bitter console war arms race; once Sony out-performed them in the nineties, they had great success doing their own thing. The DS, the Wii, and the Switch have been massive, and their games remain as good as ever. And now it’s more or less an open secret that they’re going to be releasing a successor to the Switch very soon; rumoured for ages, teased and hyped and – to some extent – leaked. Finally, if rumours are to be believed, it’ll be out in about twelve months; a disturbingly speedy-feeling seven whole years since the original Switch launched. It looks like, finally, we’re getting a proper Switch 2.

And so – because I’d already planned this in advance and because unpicking the minutiae of the Xbox announcement requires a bit more nuance and, well, time – I’m going to list ten things that I hope whatever the successor to the Switch does. As it’s Nintendo, I imagine there’ll be some wrinkles and quirks; they very rarely do “the same again but better”, even though I think that’s really all that most fans want nowadays. Nintendo are masters at coming up with stuff that we don’t know we want, however; who could have predicted the runaway success of the Wii when we first saw that nondescript image of its controller? Anyway, I’ve got no idea what new gameplay gimmicks or revolutionary play mechanics they’re going to pull out of their enormous green pipe. But I still have some thoughts about stuff that I do want to see. And that’s what this list is! Not very complicated this week.

Still be a Switch: I can’t imagine Nintendo moving away from the concept, but a console that remains a handheld which can be docked to allow to allow for connection to a TV feels like an essential component of, well, Nintendo itself. They’ve always had a handheld and a home console, since the NES and the Game Boy in the eighties; now they’ve married the two so successfully, I can’t see them separating. And nor should they.

Have better graphics: I mean, this is a given, right? The Steam Deck can run almost every PC game you throw at it with a form factor not much larger than the Switch; sure, it’s not exactly a current-gen console in terms of visual quality (and, being a PC, means performance can be variable), but it proves that Nintendo can deliver much greater visual fidelity in a next-gen Switch. I’d hope they’d be able to produce a 4K output when docked, even though I imagine stuff like ray-tracing is off the cards.

Have an SSD: I can’t remember what the “leaked” specs were saying about this, but one of the things that puts me off using the Switch is my impatience when it’s loading. Animal Crossing in particular is a game that just feels like it takes forever to boot up. With all the other consoles, and most modern PCs, all sporting lightning-quick SSDs, Nintendo really needs to adopt the technology.

Be fully backwards-compatible: we’re increasingly moving into an era where we want to keep our game library active; the idea of a generation ending and a new one beginning with no crossover is probably gone for good. So I think Nintendo has to allow us to play current-gen Switch games on their next console; this means our existing digital library crosses over, and also that we can plug in all our Switch game cards and jump back in. To be fair, Nintendo is usually pretty good in this area, and rumours are the new Switch will be no different.

…and make old games look better: tied into being backwards compatible, I’d like to see something approaching the upscaling (and even frame rate-boosting) that contemporary consoles manage. Xbox especially is great in this area – even having one purchase of a game giving you access to (potentially) an Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC version. Regardless, the possibility of playing years-old games such as Breath of the Wild or Mario Kart 8 in 4K and 60fps is very appealing.

Give us better profiles: one thing that I love about Xbox (and PlayStation, and Steam, for that matter) is the way they handle user accounts. Nintendo has sign-ins and profiles, but they’re rudimentary; it feels almost like it’s just a way of keeping tabs on whose save is active. I’d love it if we could get much better Nintendo accounts, especially as they’re going to be carried across two generations of the Switch. Can we have cloud saves, so we can carry our Zelda progress to the new machine? What about leaderboards or stat tracking? What if – hear me out – we had some kind of Nintendo version of achievements or trophies? Basically I want to feel like “this is my identity in the Nintendo ecosystem”, if that makes sense.

…with some added bells and whistles: it’s pretty great, to be fair, that you already get access to older games from previous generations through your annual Nintendo subscription. But I’d like this to go further. PlayStation and especially Xbox give you loads of benefits from your subscription; obviously the biggie here is Game Pass, which gives you “free” access to brand-new games. Perhaps a selection of relatively recent “classic” games could be incorporated into the “Expansion Pack” subscription? Or at the very least, bring GameCube-era games to the service. I’d also, personally, like it if they ventured into streaming; maybe we don’t need to install those old NES and SNES games to play them? Other perks – discounts at the store, for example – would be really nice too.

Make the touchscreen more useful: the Switch touchscreen is all well and good, but generally speaking it’s only useful to navigate the dashboard or type your credit card number into the store. Having some kind of system-level “touching the screen is equivalent to pressing A” would be useful, at the very least in menus (tapping the screen rather than navigating with the sticks). More games that really made use of the touchscreen would be good, especially in strategy games. But what would really be impressive is if they could replicate the “virtual controller” that Xbox have when streaming on mobile – with the sticks and buttons replicated on screen – even though I guess it’d be a rare occasion when you’d be playing without the Joy Cons attached.

Improve the Joy Cons: speaking of which – they’re a bit flaky, aren’t they? The whole technological concept of the Switch, with its removable controllers that contain a whole lot of gubbins, is still impressive; but if there’s a weak link, it’s definitely the Joy Cons. Tiny and prone to breaking (and with “stick drift” seemingly inevitable), they’re also fiddly to get on and off. Making them physically more robust, perhaps a bit larger if possible, and tweaking the removal/reattachment process would all be very nice decisions.

Don’t call it the “Switch 2”: yeah, that’s a really boring name. Only Sony can get away with that stuff without it seeming derivative or uninspired. Personally I’m in favour of “Super Switch”, but I’m a nineties kid. Ultra Switch? Switch Pro? You want it to feel like a proper generational leap; I always felt Wii U, and the console’s close physical similarity to its predecessor, made it feel more like an add-on than a replacement. It’d be cool if they could think of a name that echoed its predecessor without adding a suffix, although I’m stumped trying to think of an example. “Switcheroo”?

There ya go. Ten things I’d like to see. Other ideas bubbling under: USB disc drive to allow direct compatibility with GameCube, Wii, and Wii U games; bringing back the Wii Fit balance board; and having video apps such as iPlayer and Netflix.

Anyway, can’t wait to find out exactly what it is, what it’s called, and what it costs.

#top ten #games #gaming #nintendo #console #nes #snes #gamecube #wii #switch #switch 2 #new switch

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bisexualpercyjacksons · 4 months

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