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It had such a good cooperative experience that we could even play with my 4 year old pretty quickly. We even had a big night out for dinner after we finally beat the crown world. :-)
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If you are not interested in Zelda though, there is almost zero reason to spend the money on a Switch right now.
There are a couple of very nice third-party games available on the switch now too (Snipperclips are great!) and the updated Mario Cart is just a week away. But indeed, Zelda would be the main reason to get one right now.
I'm imaging Mario & Co racing around in shopping carts, grabbing and tossing bananas etc..
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The new Zelda is amazing. Not only the best Zelda game ever made, I think it's just one of the best 3rd person open-world adventure games ever made, for any system, period. Definitely a system seller. I'm interested in nothing else right now though - the rest of the available games seem like Indie shovel-ware or re-releases. Shovel Knight. Come on, that's like 2 years old by now. I'll still buy every Nintendo game th…
I was ready to throw money at it until a friend of mine told me I had to farm some sticks to get weapons because it wears out. Can you confirm ?
It's a little sad to see that awesome sword you kinda got attached to break, but....there's always something new to try. Two-handed spears, giant hammers - adds nice variety.
I'm yet to farm anything.
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There are a couple of very nice third-party games available on the switch now too (Snipperclips are great!) and the updated Mario Cart is just a week away. But indeed, Zelda would be the main reason to get one right now.
But unlike the original Wii, there's no Wii Sports to get people who would normally not even buy a console to buy in.
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That's my concern for the Christmas period. A lot of Nintendo fans are early adopters, that's why they're buying a console with one significant game in March. For the general public they need to have more on offer than that. Here are new AAA games which we are assured will be out by Christmas: Zelda Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Skylanders, NBA 2K18, Arms, Splatoon 2. There's tons of indie names (e.g. Shov…
Zelda is (supposed to be) amazing (haven't played it), Mario Kart 8 was amazing, and Splatoon was amazing (assuming sequel will be). TONS of gamers didn't get to play any of them because the WiiU sold so poorly, so for a great many people they're 'new' games and worth buying the system for.
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"Zelda DLC"? Really? Even Zelda now? Ugh.
I don't think calling it DLC is fair. Back before the DLC craze, this would have simply been an "Expansion". The core game is so good, so expansive, that it doesn't bother me in the slightest that there's upcoming "DLC". Don't get me wrong - I hate the trend in general, but in this case it's not a bad thing. Edit: Ok, I realize that they even call it DLC on zelda.com, but my point still stands: these are expansions.…
Now don't get me wrong, I'm very optimistic, and have already bought/pre-ordered it (it's a gray area which to call it, because it unlocks some things immediately, but the bulk of it isn't available for a few months), but my optimism is mainly based on the Mario Kart 8 DLC, not what they've announced about the BotW DLC itself.
Nintendo has a real chance of dominating Christmas this year, if they get Mario Odyssey and Zelda DLC right. For that reason, the latter will be pure fan service, I think. Do we know already what AAA games will be released on PS and Xbox during that period?
"Zelda DLC"? Really? Even Zelda now? Ugh.
But why is DLC fundamentally bad? To me it seems to match the tick-tock-tock nature of engine development: build a game, spend years on an engine and content, price it at full price, then release a series of cheaper content-only products that use the same engine. Use that income to pay for next gen engine development.
The alternative is that developers can only release content if it's feature-length and using a next generation engine? That seems like a pointless demand.
Nintendo has a real chance of dominating Christmas this year, if they get Mario Odyssey and Zelda DLC right. For that reason, the latter will be pure fan service, I think. Do we know already what AAA games will be released on PS and Xbox during that period?
"Zelda DLC"? Really? Even Zelda now? Ugh.
I'd argue this statistic is easy to manufacture when Nintendo console sales are generally artificially limited by their production rate. Is it that the Switch is the most immediately desirable system in Nintendo's history, or just that it's the most quickly produced one in history?
I'd argue that manufacturing millions of game consoles is far from easy.
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There are a couple of very nice third-party games available on the switch now too (Snipperclips are great!) and the updated Mario Cart is just a week away. But indeed, Zelda would be the main reason to get one right now.
> Mario Cart I'm imaging Mario & Co racing around in shopping carts, grabbing and tossing bananas etc..