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[megladon8]

Full title of Rocksteady's upcoming game is:

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

[Scar]

The Switch's mobility is its biggest advantage, along with the Nintendo first party exclusives. Focus on games that come straight from Nintendo and/or games that you want to have with you all the time, ie games with a high amount of replayability. My basic rule of thumb is that you can't really go wrong with any titles featuring Mario or his friends.

These games make the system worth buying, imo:

- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Super Mario Maker 2
- Mariokart 8 Deluxe*
- Splatoon 2*
- Super Smash Bros Ultimate*
- Yoshi's Crafted World
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U port)
- Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle

* Includes solo and couch co-op, but really requires a Nintendo Online sub to get the most out of them.

Great indies (but available on other platforms):

- Dead Cells
- Slay the Spire
- Into the Breach
- Celeste
- Undertale
- Stardew Valley
- Cuphead
- Hollow Knight
- Steamworld Heist
- Katamari Damacy
- Ori and the Blind Forest
- Streets of Rage 4
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Bayonetta 2
- Rayman Legends
- Enter the Gungeon

Nintendo first party titles will always be $60 retail, no matter how long ago they were released. They'll go on sale twice a year, during E3 and Black Friday.

Absolutely do NOT buy any triple-A port without researching it first. Every publisher has dumped old titles to the Switch, and a lot of the ports just suck. Either they play badly (stutter, long load times, etc) or they have noticeably shittier graphics than their PC/PS4/XBone counterparts. They're also more expensive, eg: I bought Witcher 3 for $15 on XBox. It's currently selling for $60 on Switch. (The only exception I've found to this is Diablo III, because Blizzard did a lot of extra work to tailor their port.)

PS: This is Irish, btw, in case that wasn't obvious.

Much appreciated, Skirish.

[Ezee E]

Full title of Rocksteady's upcoming game is:

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Day 1 Purchase.

[Scar]

I’m listening to Scarette talking to her friend about Animal Crossing, and now I know how she feels when I talk guns with Bauer and various nerd awesomeness with bac0n.

[megladon8]

I swear, the LA Meltdown chapter of Duke Nukem 3D is one of the greatest gaming experiences ever.

God I love that shit.

[Idioteque Stalker]

Finally put together a respectable campaign (as Romania) in super-deep WW2 sim Hearts of Iron 4. Despite some local annoyances (seriously King Carol, how many Bucharest villas does your mistress actually need), I managed to reclaim most of the Balkans, plus more. Split Czechoslovakia with Germany, puppeted Bulgaria, then annexed Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Greece. The Kingdom of Romania had become a sizable blob, roughly the size of France. I turned my eye toward Turkey.

This whole time (1936-1939) I thought myself a badass for keeping my politics non-aligned despite immediate pressure from communist Soviet Union to the east and fascist Germany/Italy to the north and west. Well, I won't be doing that again. No kingdom is an island when the entire world is burning. The Soviets demanded one of my states. Invincible and proud, I declined, and fortified the border. They declared war, and when I saw their massive army I panicked. Luckily, the United Kingdom invited me to join the Allies despite my politics. Little did I know this was my first real error.

My downfall was the false security gained from my long list of new allies, most of which (I was too foolhardy to see) had already capitulated to the Axis powers. Incredibly, I was holding the line against the Soviet Union. The UK invited me to join them in defending Luxembourg--psh, sure whatever. I'll say yes to save face and let them deal with it. After all, I had bigger fish to fry on the Eastern Front. I didn't realize that, in this timeline, Germany took Luxembourg before Poland, and I had unwittingly joined WW2 proper.

March 1940, the Axis powers had already conquered Poland, Denmark, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. With my entire army holding the line against the Soviets, I watched Germany and Italy waltz through my borders. Instead of rage quitting, I decided to show respect to my best Hearts of Iron run yet by seeing it through to the bitter end. The music turned sad and magnificent as those fuckers took Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Greece, and Bulgaria. The Allies saw what was happening and broke all ties. By June 1940, Bucharest fell.

Lessons learned for my next run: I'm not good enough yet to do it alone. I'll pick a side and go all in. A Communist France might be fun. Also, I'll be sure to actually know what war I'm agreeing to join.

[[ETM]]

Just lost the best 3D environment artist we had to Ubisoft... Dammit. I wish her all the best but this completely wrecks my process.

[Wryan]

[Morris Schæffer]

[Ezee E]

Getting into Ghost of Tsushima a bit more. Sure, the small plots are very similar, but it's pretty fun to go from spot to spot and honor the various shrines, find fox dens, and compose haikus.

[Morris Schæffer]

Reviews for MS Flight Simulator 2020 are out and if it's your thing, then the immersion and real world mapping is every bit as astonishing as the trailers have led us to believe.

The upcoming VR update seems like astonishing icing on the proverbial cake.

edit: reading further, this is really amazing. When you play online, the game makes use of real weather maps. So if it rains in London and your flying in the general area then it will rain in the game. Real air traffic is simulated in-game with virtual airplanes.

And the draw distance is so preposterously good, that landing lights can be glimpsed from faaar away, just like in real life.

[Ezee E]

VR Flight Simulator eh? I wonder what that's like.

[megladon8]

Is it true that the map is the entire world, seamless?

[Morris Schæffer]

It's prob real close.

[Dukefrukem]

[megladon8]

Can't wait, but I hope it doesn't force the multi-player aspect.

[Dukefrukem]

They don't show much gameplay but I assume it's based on the arkham games? Only it's developed by WB games and not rocksteady.

[Skitch]

They don't show much gameplay but I assume it's based on the arkham games? Only it's developed by WB games and not rocksteady.

I think they released a 7 min vid of gameplay as well? I didnt get chance to see it I had to run

[Ezee E]

Where's the Suicide Squad game?

[Dukefrukem]

Where's the Suicide Squad game?

Great question. The only thing I was looking forward to this weekend.

[Dukefrukem]

Not until 2022... igh (PS5 and Xbox 4 or whatever)

[Dukefrukem]

I think they released a 7 min vid of gameplay as well? I didnt get chance to see it I had to run

Looks good

[Ezee E]

Not until 2022... igh (PS5 and Xbox 4 or whatever)

So it is Bizarro Superman??

Well, will anticipate gameplay, but two years from now... Darn.

[Skitch]

I think its regular Superman under Brainiac control.

[Dukefrukem]

Is it true that the map is the entire world, seamless?

Very funny idea

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/714138428