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[nynt9]

Announced on the direct: https://www.mynintendonews.com/2017/04/12/payday-2-is-coming-to-the-nintendo-switch-later-this-year/

Get paid to be the bad guys in the intense four-player co-op action game PAYDAY 2. Open the vault on #NintendoSwitch later this year.

I have no idea. Yay third party support, I guess?

I'd actually be super into this if it was launch Payday 2 and not micro transaction-riddled terribly-optimized-console-port payday 2.

 

[DooMAGE]

fun game

 

[Team Filler]

Well I guess we know that the Switch shop is microtransactions-friendly.

Seriously though, kind of excited about this.

 

[Shift Breaker]

Didn't this get awful support for the PS4/One version (with a memorable twitter exchange from one of the developers regarding it), or am I thinking of another game?

 

[Jonneh3003]

Why did you emphasise 2013?

 

[Magwik]

Why did you emphasise 2013?

You know why

 

[Maxinas]

It's an old ass game, but you could say the same for GTA5 and look at how it's still selling.

 

[Jonneh3003]

You know why

I do indeed aha.

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

Sounds good to me. It's the sort of game you wouldn't expect, but it would cetainly find an audience...in the current climate.

 

[nynt9]

Didn't this get awful support for the PS4/One version (with a memorable twitter exchange from one of the developers regarding it), or am I thinking of another game?

No you are correct. I loved this game at launch, but it should be avoided at all costs at this point.

Terrible performance on console, pay2win microtransactions and shady/assholish devs.

 

[benicillin]

Loved Payday 2, put in over 600hrs in it onPC, but never buy their console ports. Ever. They're universally bad.

 

[Sciz]

Didn't this get awful support for the PS4/One version (with a memorable twitter exchange from one of the developers regarding it), or am I thinking of another game?

IIRC that was about the last gen versions, but yeah, Overkill's track record for ongoing console version support is somewhere down in the basement.

 

[Jonneh3003]

I've never played Payday and I'm interested soley because it's a portable FPS, we don't have too many of those.

GIF from the presentation, presumably Switch footage:

 

[CertifiedFP]

Don't buy this. Overkill has worse console-version support than Valve did before Valve decided to completely drop console development.

 

[daffy]

They couldn't even announce a release date for this ancient videogame. smfh

 

[nynt9]

I've never played Payday and I'm interested soley because it's a FPS, we don't have too many of those.

GIF from the presentation, presumably Switch footage:

I would caution against preordering and wait for impressions knowing the developer's track record. Shame the only FPSs we got so far is a tainted one like this.

 

[Xaero Gravity]

Didn't this get awful support for the PS4/One version (with a memorable twitter exchange from one of the developers regarding it), or am I thinking of another game?

Game was broken on XB1 for about a year. Matchmaking wouldn't work.


With the way Overkill treats their console fanbase, they don't deserve a single cent from any of them. Fuck them.

 

[Shikoba]

Definitely one I wasn't expecting. I probably won't get it (as I already own it), but I'm curious how it will turn out on Switch.

 

[nynt9]

Definitely one I wasn't expecting. I probably won't get it (as I already own it), but I'm curious how it will turn out on Switch.

I'm really curious as to how this partnership happened, really. And how they decided to port it to switch.

 

[Maddocks]

paid 5 bucks for it on a flash sale for ps4, and after reading about the long waits between patches and content for consoles and how their twitter page says,"NEW STUFF FOR CONSOLES COMING REAL SOON!" and that was made in Feb and has yet to update the game and it doesn't look like it is going to come anytime soon probably wont update till switch release.

I say avoid at all costs.

 

[mrlion]

Why did you emphasise 2013?

Because the game is old. There. Is that what you wanted?

 

[BigEmil]

Terrible performance on console, pay2win microtransactions and shady/assholish devs.

This, especially shit devs

 

[JonnyDBrit]

I'm really curious as to how this partnership happened, really. And how they decided to port it to switch.

It's not completely out there, though it's still a bit strange. When you think about the basic format of the game - four player co-op shooter with non-standard objectives - there's some similarity with a certain other title that blew up big for Nintendo, and they may be hoping to convert that into a playerbase for Payday 2. If they can get a playerbase for Payday 2, then it's a player base for:
1) Multiplayer titles (not made by Nintendo)
2) First Person Shooters
3) A Mature title that isn't aimed at the J
Otaku crowd (compared to say, Senran Kagura)

Which if successful, can be used to try and argue for the Switch's viability as a platform to devs and/or publishers that are currently hesitant about hopping onboard, especially if they were burned last gen by the Wii U.

 

[nynt9]

This thread is redundant, go here: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1360090

 

[ROUGE_BLOCK]

I wonder how botched this port will be, and if there will be another Twitter fiasco when someone asks a simple question.

Find out later this year!

 

[Fantastapotamus]

I mean, Payday 2 was and probably still is a fun game. But....why.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

I've never played Payday and I'm interested soley because it's a portable FPS, we don't have too many of those.

It's also a multiplayer coop shooter that's heavily depending on coordination. So....you need voice chat to really get something out of this game.

edit: sorry for the dp, somehow had this open in 2 tabs

 

[Iced Arcade]

hmm how did this sell on the other consoles?

 

[DoctorFling]

Playing this locally with Switch buddies could be really fun. I know it would never happen but Left 4 Dead could be great too.

 

[DbaziNews]

Sumo Digital developed the Switch version of Payday 2

 

[FF:Enhanced_Reality]

I still can't wait to see what Digital Foundry say. Given that it runs terribly on PS4 and XBOX One, I wonder if Sumo has actually done it justice on Switch.

 

[Arkhan]

I enjoy this game and the first one. I hope that they provide as much as possible here, and not the poor support consoles have generally received with content.