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[KooopaKid]

Is this E3? Excellent presentation and very good for the future of the console.
I didn't fall in love with any of the games so far but Mr. Shifty looked very cool.

 

[LordRaptor]

I find it very stupid Nintendo didn't adopt industry standards.

you mean Playstation and Xbox standards, because they're the only gaming platforms that have mandatory systemic achievements.

Nintendo / Steam / Origin / UPlay / Amazon / Android / IOS / anything else I can't remember offhand don't give a fuck about achievements like you seem to

 

[Mutant]

you mean Playstation and Xbox standards, because they're the only gaming platforms that have mandatory systemic achievements.

Nintendo / Steam / Origin / UPlay / Amazon / Android / IOS / anything else I can't remember offhand don't give a fuck about achievements like you seem to

Steam, Origin, and uPlay all have achievements.

 

[Sesuadra]

So many games that will make the Switch the ultimate multiplayer machine!

So glad I got the 200GB microSD!

I did too. I already got 6 indie games on my "must buy after zelda/shovel knight/snipperclips" list. and then there is mk8/arms/splatoon all before autumn..

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Steam, Origin, and uPlay all have achievements.

He said mandatory.

 

[Vitacat]

I'm going physical whenever possible. So, for now I'm not planning to get a mSD for Switch. Thinking a good number of indies will fit into the free ~26GB internal storage.

 

[Crayolan]

Watched the video, sold me on Flipping Death. Feels like a weird mishmash of Tim Burton stuff and Psychonauts. Yes please.

 

[Spy]

you mean Playstation and Xbox standards, because they're the only gaming platforms that have mandatory systemic achievements.

Nintendo / Steam / Origin / UPlay / Amazon / Android / IOS / anything else I can't remember offhand don't give a fuck about achievements like you seem to

You're ignoring the fact that all of those services you listed have the ability for achievements, regardless if it's mandatory or not. The Switch doesn't even have a system in place.

It's not a huge deal to me because I'll just continue buying indie games on my PlayStation 4 or MacBook Pro but they could have made a new customer for these types of games on the Nintendo platform.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Watched the video, sold me on Flipping Death. Feels like a weird mishmash of Tim Burton stuff and Psychonauts. Yes please.

You should try the previous game, Stick It To The Man.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

You're ignoring the fact that all of those services you listed have the ability for achievements, regardless if it's mandatory or not. The Switch doesn't even have a system in place.

It's not a huge deal to me because I'll just continue buying indie games on my PlayStation 4 or MacBook Pro but they could have made a new customer for these types of games.

We honestly don't know this for certain yet. They could very well do as they said and implement My Nintendo Missions as they've done in their Mobile games. Nobody can test any online features yet.

 

[Interfectum]

We honestly don't know this for certain yet. They could very well do as they said and implement My Nintendo Missions as they've done in their Mobile games. Nobody can test any online features yet.

I highly doubt Switch has achievements or even My Nintendo Missions yet. We would have seen something about it by now... from indies, from the OS, from the dev info, something.

It's not a deal breaker for me but it is kinda dumb to not have achievements at this point. Most third party games already have achievements and are having to remove them for the Switch port. Not really cool.

 

[Zedark]

I'm going physical whenever possible. So, for now I'm not planning to get a mSD for Switch. Thinking a good number of indies will fit into the free ~26GB internal storage.

I think so, too. I will get a few indies (at most 10) in the first year, so no reason to upgrade with a micro sd card just yet since I will go physical wherever possible. These cards drop in price quite quickly as well, like almost halving the price for the higher capacities (I was told), so perhaps in a year you can get a 256 gb card for 40-50 dollars, which would be a sweet deal imo.

 

[Spy]

We honestly don't know this for certain yet. They could very well do as they said and implement My Nintendo Missions as they've done in their Mobile games. Nobody can test any online features yet.

While I don't believe MyNintendo Missions are on the Switch because we would have heard something by now, it's completely different than a proper achievement system where you can compare with friends and unlocks are able to be viewed internally, the OS.

Not through an external source such as a website.

 

[Camper Van Beethoven]

If a game has its own internal achievement system I can live with that. It's beyond stupid Nintendo is still so behind the times though

 

[foxuzamaki]

While I don't believe MyNintendo Missions are on the Switch because we would have heard something by now, it's completely different than a proper achievement system where you can compare with friends and unlocks are able to be viewed internally, the OS.

Not through an external source such as a website.

Instead of something that gives you discounts and other incentives?

 

[Spy]

Instead of something that gives you discounts and other incentives?

Easily. Who cares about a 30% discount on a $7.99 game? Especially when you're not able to choose the title that's discounted. I don't know what these other incentives are that you speak of but I would like nothing more than for Nintendo to get with the times and stop trying to be different when it comes to things that have become standard.

 

[Zedark]

Easily. Who cares about a 30% discount on a $7.99 game? Especially when you're not able to choose the title that's discounted. I don't know what these other incentives are that you speak of but I would like nothing more than for Nintendo to get with the times and stop trying to be different when it comes to things that have become standard.

I think getting discount on smaller games as a reward for fulfilling achievements is pretty neat actually. I still see what you are saying, though. A system of visible achievements would be nice, though it is hardly an issue for me personally.

 

[LordRaptor]

Steam, Origin, and uPlay all have achievements.

Origin has achievements (origin points) on 3 games.
Like... that barely even counts as statistical noise, let alone 'a system'.

 

[Spy]

Origin has achievements (origin points) on 3 games.
Like... that barely even counts as statistical noise, let alone 'a system'.

Origin is not a gaming system like the Nintendo Switch is, it's a service like Uplay. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are gaming systems that have mandatory achievements.

Steam isn't even a gaming system but you'd be hard pressed to find a game released in the past few years that doesn't have achievements.

 

[Waji]

Easily. Who cares about a 30% discount on a $7.99 game? Especially when you're not able to choose the title that's discounted. I don't know what these other incentives are that you speak of but I would like nothing more than for Nintendo to get with the times and stop trying to be different when it comes to things that have become standard.

Maybe you do, but I prefer Nintendo Missions because it gives a reason to get these useless achievements if there is.
To each his own. I absolutely don't see why they should do the exact same, that's almost the definition of "boring".
I'm sorry for you, just don't buy the Switch and that's it.

 

[blu]

Superb direct! Looking forward to getting a handful of those on the eShop this holiday season!

 

[Crayolan]

Origin is not a gaming system like the Nintendo Switch is, it's a service like Uplay. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are gaming systems that have mandatory achievements.

Steam isn't even a gaming system but you'd be hard pressed to find a game released in the past few years that doesn't have achievements.

Undertale

 

[LordRaptor]

Origin is not a gaming system like the Nintendo Switch is, it's a service like Uplay. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are gaming systems that have mandatory achievements.

Steam isn't even a gaming system but you'd be hard pressed to find a game released in the past few years that doesn't have achievements.

Origin is as much a platform as Steam is, and no, I don't have to look particularly hard to find a game that doesn't have achievements on Steam.
I can just click the "recently released" tab.

You can pretend that a mandatory system for achievements is "industry standard" all you want to, but it literally is not, and I don't believe it ever should be.

If developers want to add achievements, they're welcome to. If they don't, they shouldn't have to. Thats what actual options are.
Given The Binding of Isaacs progression system is entirely achievement related, at least one title does in fact have achievements.

 

[hatchx]

Fantastic lineup.

Too many games to name landing right on my radar. Shit.

I didn't consider RIME an Indie game though, so it felt weird to see it on the list.

Also kind of expected the presentation to show some love for Snipperclips, but I guess that's kind of a 1st party game at this point.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

The decision to buy a lot of these indie titles would be such an easy choice for me if the Switch had an achievement system. Nintendo really messed up by not embracing industry standards.

You get to play them anywhere though. Isn't that more important than achievements? The lack of d-pad is the real deal breaker for some games for me though.

 

[Zedark]

Fantastic lineup.

Too many games to name landing right on my radar. Shit.

I didn't consider RIME an Indie game though, so it felt weird to see it on the list.

Also kind of expected the presentation to show some love for Snipperclips, but I guess that's kind of a 1st party game at this point.

Well, it used to be a collab with Sony, so I see why you would think that. Tequila Works has bought the IP back from Sony, though, so now they are independently developing it.

 

[Jintor]

Hell of a showcase

 

[ryechu]

Undertale

and thank god for that.

 

[Javier]

Amazing presentation. Interested in Blaster Master Zero, Overcooked, Yooka-Laylee, Pocket Fighter, Wargroove, Runner 3, Flipping Death and Stardew Valley. Everything else looks great, too.

 

[Speely]

It's very promising to see that the console will have healthy indie support early on. Combining lots of good indie games with arguably the best first-party development in the world means that the dearth of Western AAA games we will presumably see won't have as adverse an effect as it otherwise would.

Plus there are lots of games on that list I want. And Thumper with HD Rumble... hnnng.

 

[entremet]

Don't have time to read the thread or watch it. Was it good?

 

[Interfectum]

Don't have time to read the thread or watch it. Was it good?

yes

 

[jon bones]

Don't have time to read the thread or watch it. Was it good?

yeah man

 

[T.O.P]

Don't have time to read the thread or watch it. Was it good?

Sogood.gif

 

[GDGF]

I saw some great looking 2D shoot-em-ups and beat-em-ups. Those were my arcade staples back in the glory days.

Two players out of the box. This system is going to be so good<3

 

[Aostia]

You should try the previous game, Stick It To The Man.

Great game
Hopefully Flipping death will be as good

 

[Cerium]

Don't have time to read the thread or watch it. Was it good?

Best Nintendo Direct in ages.

 

[Lingitiz]

Don't have time to read the thread or watch it. Was it good?

I feel it's similar to that moment when Sony unveiled all of those indie devs on their stage at E3 2013. I think there may be actually more games here.

 

[ncslamm]

Can we admit how great of a presentation this was? This was a great presentation and one of the best from Nintendo. This is why I love Nintendo Directs. It flows so well and when you have great content it works.

It was very well done.

Yooka-Laylee is "coming soon." Doesn't the game release in April for all other platforms? I wonder how long it will take to port.

 

[Litri]

Finished watching it now on youtube and I liked it. Nintendo is really taking indies seriously and as a big chunk of my Wii U library is indies I will need to go big. I'm leaning towards the Samsung MicroSDXC 256GB EVO Plus UHS-I. Fast and reasonably cheap for its size.

 

[maxcriden]

You get to play them anywhere though. Isn't that more important than achievements? The lack of d-pad is the real deal breaker for some games for me though.

Yeah, I hear ya. Still hoping for the split d-pad setup to work decently, and for a d-pad joycon soon.

 

[casey_contra]

A lot of people are saying this kind of reignited the hype that was lost during the January presentation...

They showed a lot of big 3rd party devs in January... but the biggest advantage in this presentation? The Games!

Software sells. People don't... usually.

Edit: The title of this post was a mistake lol.

 

[McGruber21]

0mg. There were so many great loolimg games in this! 10x more exciting than the Switch event. I need these in physical form though :/

 

[Vitacat]

0mg. There were so many great loolimg games in this! 10x more exciting than the Switch event. I need these in physical form though :/

Would be nice, but realistically very, very few will get physical releases. :-/

 

[maxcriden]

When people click on the games on the Switch it shows "My Nintendo" achievements or awards or something like that. It almost implied each game might have something.

Wait, really?! That'd be awesome. I thought that screen was just for entering points through registering a physical copy?

 

[theSlacker]

Wow, I'm glad I took the time to watch that. A bunch of those games looked really good, and I don't normally do digital only console games.

 

[TunaMarshmallow]

Am I crazy, or was today's showcase about 5x better than one could reasonably have expected?

 

[Skyzard]

You get to play them anywhere though. Isn't that more important than achievements? The lack of d-pad is the real deal breaker for some games for me though.

Joycon d-pad really isn't that bad. Maybe for some super tight platformers, but otherwise I was pleasantly surprised. The analogues are pretty good too.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Annoyed there's no date for Overcooked, since I was debating buying it the other day on another platform. If it's gonna be just a month I'll wait, but if it's like Q4 2017 I'm not gonna bother.

 

[smashballTaz]

I was really really hoping for the Rocket League rumour to be a thing. I've got my fingers crossed for an E3 announcement for that still. Quite a few good looking interesting games down, not bad!