Social The Social Thread 3 - Switch 2 launches June

[SnakeFighter64]

Mario Kart always had exploration, how do you think people find those shortcuts?

**** me then I guess.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Which means we probably won’t have some if the more interesting or out there courses. Like how are you gonna fit Waluigi Pinball or Squeaky Clean Sprint into an open world map?

Sky High Sundae or whatever it's called is a returning track and we saw a 25M themed track, I think we'll see more stuff like that

 

[Noipoi]

But like… that’s not why I play Mario Kart. I play to go fast and win races.

And seriously why do people have such a hard on for exploration? It’s not that fun or interesting.

Idk I’m still hoping there’s at least a mode where it just warps you from track to track like the old games.

Because the world is a great big beautiful place full of wonder and surprises and curiosity and exploring is fun. And video games allow me to have that same feeling but in fantasy worlds with robots and dragons and stuff.

I love being able to immerse myself in a new world, especially a world from a series I love, and believe that I am a person living in this world and experiencing this fantastic journey.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

I wonder 'how' Snowgrave will impact the game since, ya know, Deltarune has save files.


Like, how many endings will this game have compared to Undertale....? If you don't Snowgrave in Chapter 2 but do in Chapter 3, how will the story change, etc....

Isn't it supposed to have only one ending?

At this point, heck, even as early as the the existence of the Weird/Snowgrave Route was confirmed, I've been starting to doubt that claim. It's obvious that at least something about the ending or the state of the Light and Dark Worlds and the people living in them are going to be influenced by the player's actions by the time the last chapter is over.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

You know there’s probably gonna be other modes that’ll allow you to play track by track like previous games and you probably won’t need to play the off track modes if you don’t want, right?

I hope so but I doubt it. This is this games “Nintendo Gimmick” and you don’t turn off the “Nintendo Gimmick”. You suffer through it as it brings down the experience and then 20 years later video essays get written about how shaking the controller was fun actually.

 

[Shroob]

The world is a dark, cruel, and uncaring pla---

Because the world is a great big beautiful place full of wonder and surprises and curiosity and exploring is fun.

 

[DaybreakHorizon]

Scalpers when Path of Radiance is easily accessible and doesn't require a blood sacrifice of the buyer's firstborn

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But Shroob, consider

The box,

People would sacrifice two children for that box and that disc.

The collector's market is insane. I spent a neat couple of months collecting PS3 physicals so I got into it and it's WILD.

 

[Noipoi]

I’m really excited to see how Snowgrave progresses

Discovering that in real time was so creepy but so awesome at the same time

 

[cashregister9]

I feel like the wackier Mario Kart tracks won't be that hard to implement, considering one of the staples of the whole franchise is pipes that teleport you.

 

[Shroob]

But Shroob, consider

The box,

People would sacrifice two children for that box and that disc.

The collector's market is insane. I spent a neat couple of months collecting PS3 physicals so I got into it and it's WILD.

I'm considering it

And I see your point

 

[Knight Dude]

I think the course to course style is neat, and a good way to shake things up, we'll have to see if they do a more general style of course changes. I wouldn't be too surprised if it stuck around.

I hope so but I doubt it. This is this games “Nintendo Gimmick” and you don’t turn off the “Nintendo Gimmick”. You suffer through it as it brings down the experience and then 20 years later video essays get written about how shaking the controller was fun actually.

Even as a Wii Motion Controls Hater like myself(most of the good games on the system functioned just fine without them), DS didn't really have a gimmick. Wii's literal gimmick was optional, as was MK7's. Double Dash was peak. So it's a wait and see.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Because the world is a great big beautiful place full of wonder and surprises and curiosity and exploring is fun. And video games allow me to have that same feeling but in fantasy worlds with robots and dragons and stuff.

I love being able to immerse myself in a new world, especially a world from a series I love, and believe that I am a person living in this world and experiencing this fantastic journey.

I mean sure I love experiencing places in the world but I plan my trips into it so I know where to go and what to do when. Surprises have the potential to be fun but more often then not they’re chaotic distractions that prevent you from having the fun you wanted to have and take away your human rights (still not over 2016).

And like…. I get the immersion thing but I have like… no desire to roll play that I live in a game world and run around exploring. I just wanna do the stuff the game developers wanted me to do. I have curiosity but not in the digital world. My curiosity is in like… reading books and learning things. I don’t wanna look under a random rock to see what’s there. Because the odds are it’s just dirt or bugs. So like… why bother?

Idk. It’s just a fundamental disconnect in how I have fun vs I guess how lots of people do have fun and I hate how often times I feel like I’m being told I have to sacrifice my linear guided challenge based experience and make do with a less guided open one that I can kind of play linearly if I plan or follow a walkthrough just do some other schmo can go run around in the tree line looking for stuff that isn’t actually there.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

As for Borderlands 4, I'm honestly really hyped for it.

...As long as it still has Claptrap. That is mandatory.

 

[Noipoi]

Man it’s so crazy

When we first moved in to this place I’m at now there were only rumors of a new Donkey Kong game, specifically one developed by the Odyssey team. For years I’d go into every direct waiting to see it but it never happened.

Now, because it’s 2025 and money is crazy, we’re about to downsize to a smaller place. And who decides to finally show up?

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I think the course to course style is neat, and a good way to shake things up, we'll have to see if they do a more general style of course changes. I wouldn't be too surprised if it stuck around.



Even as a Wii Motion Controls Hater like myself(most of the good games on the system functioned just fine without them), DS didn't really have a gimmick. Wii's literal gimmick was optional, as was MK7's. Double Dash was peak. So it's a wait and see.

Things didn’t need to be shaken up! God I had a whole list of things I was hoping to see in a new Mario Kart and none of this was on it.

Can’t wait for the next smash where you have to parkour from stage to stage after the match ends and also donkey Kong looks like an idiot.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I mean sure I love experiencing places in the world but I plan my trips into it so I know where to go and what to do when. Surprises have the potential to be fun but more often then not they’re chaotic distractions that prevent you from having the fun you wanted to have and take away your human rights (still not over 2016).

And like…. I get the immersion thing but I have like… no desire to roll play that I live in a game world and run around exploring. I just wanna do the stuff the game developers wanted me to do. I have curiosity but not in the digital world. My curiosity is in like… reading books and learning things. I don’t wanna look under a random rock to see what’s there. Because the odds are it’s just dirt or bugs. So like… why bother?

Idk. It’s just a fundamental disconnect in how I have fun vs I guess how lots of people do have fun and I hate how often times I feel like I’m being told I have to sacrifice my linear guided challenge based experience and make do with a less guided open one that I can kind of play linearly if I plan or follow a walkthrough just do some other schmo can go run around in the tree line looking for stuff that isn’t actually there.

Honestly this is just insane to me because every game you claim to like and are upset about leaving you behind always had secrets and goodies you can't find just by going from point A to point B. Sonic pre-Frontiers, Rare DKC, pre Gen IX Pokemon, Banjo goddamn Kazooie, FFVIIR, the list goes on endlessly

 

[Noipoi]

Can’t wait for the next smash where you have to parkour from stage to stage after the match ends and also donkey Kong looks like an idiot.

Subspace Emissary

 

[Wademan94]

I hope so but I doubt it. This is this games “Nintendo Gimmick” and you don’t turn off the “Nintendo Gimmick”. You suffer through it as it brings down the experience and then 20 years later video essays get written about how shaking the controller was fun actually.

Or maybe this was just a natural direction to take the series which I’ve noticed has been a well received direction and you have the unpopular opinion again, in which there’s nothing wrong with that itself but you don’t have to express it in such an abrasive way

 

[Schnee117]

The open world also isn't even a "Nintendo Gimmick" it's what a bunch of other racing games have done over the past decade. It's just Nintendo's take on that stuff.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Every game that has stuff I don't like is objectively bad and every game that has stuff I do like is objectively good.

/s

 

[cashregister9]

The open world also isn't even a "Nintendo Gimmick" it's what a bunch of other racing games have done over the past decade. It's just Nintendo's take on that stuff.

In reality it's the Burnout Paradise complete cultural victory

 

[DaybreakHorizon]

So...I beat Final Fantasy 7 tonight!

The original one.

It really did live up to all the hype people give it. I had a great time with it. Even got the Platinum trophy and everything because I had that much fun with it.

I've played a LOT of games since I was last a frequent poster here (boy do I have STORIES to tell y'all about where I've been), but this is definitely one of the best ones I've played. :D

Please y'all we do not need to fight : (

 

[Noipoi]

In reality it's the Burnout Paradise complete cultural victory

But what about Burnout Revenge?

on the PS-Tooh?

 

[Wademan94]

I feel like the wackier Mario Kart tracks won't be that hard to implement, considering one of the staples of the whole franchise is pipes that teleport you.

The pipe that takes you to Squeaky Clean Sprint is just a normal plumbing pipe that has somehow been stuffed with a bunch of Mini Mushrooms

 

[Knight Dude]

Things didn’t need to be shaken up! God I had a whole list of things I was hoping to see in a new Mario Kart and none of this was on it.

Can’t wait for the next smash where you have to parkour from stage to stage after the match ends and also donkey Kong looks like an idiot.

My point is that each title likely introduced new ****. Gyro and Motion controls were optional. For all we know there's likely a mode or two that allows you to just play courses one at a time.

Melee's Adventure mode was already that more or less and Smash Run, but instead of DK looking dumber, Bowser moves like an old RC Car on a carpet.

In reality it's the Burnout Paradise complete cultural victory

That too.

 

[Hockeyfan44]

My thoughts on the Switch "2": 450 before tax and warranty is completely outrageous (I'd understand the cost if the Switch 2 were as powerful or even more so than the PS5 and XBOX Series X, but not for a console on par with or even below the last gen-I'd be better off getting a Steam Deck, which I still can't afford either.) I'm so tired of Nintendo being a generation behind and acting like what they unveiled is revolutionary. Gone are those days when they actually were. And $80 for 1 game?? Yuck.....And Mario Kart throwing in random animals and enemies are racers is just baffling. No Kirby, no Samus, no Lucina,no Shulk (all characters that would have made WAY more sense as guest racers) I am glad Kirby is getting an Air Ride sequel (it is legitimately good to see Nintendo let Sakurai-san do something other than Smash for a change, I'm fairly sure it was a badly needed change of pace for him, given Smash is all he's worked on for over a decade from what I'm aware of), and it's long overdue for DK to get another game. I wish Marvel Rivals were coming to Switch,, but no. So yeah,, Nintendo really dropped the ball here, sadly.

 

[Wademan94]

Can’t wait for the next smash where you have to parkour from stage to stage after the match ends

Okay but like, it’s called a platform fighter for a reason and since Ultimate was severely lacking in platformer stuff I think it’d be nice to have more platforming stuff integrated into the next entry.

Also DK has to have his redesign in order to have a revamped moveset that feels closer to his game iteration rather than the generic gorilla moveset we currently have, so be it

 

[Knight Dude]

So in Prime 4, we see the HUD, the weapons are now on the left side and not the right.

The part that interests me is that the missiles are now on the weapon wheel. I wanted to see if the game will have a set of weapons like Prime 1/2/Hunters and not a singular gun that upgrades and that's it. But it could be the missiles change out instead this time around? Or that missiles are counted as a beam with an ammo count? I could see being able to manage Ice and Standard Missiles. If the other 3 are beam types, I wonder they will run on ammo like 2 and Hunters. If they do, I hope they remember to do the "Charge shots on empty ammo will give you a regular shot to open doors" that Prime 2 did. I thought that was a really smart way to ensure players don't get stuck. I can't remember if Hunters did that too, since not all weapons had charge shots. But the amount of doors that needed certain weapons was lower I think (and with so many weapons they split the bill, more or less.)

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Okay but like, it’s called a platform fighter for a reason and since Ultimate was severely lacking in platformer stuff I think it’d be nice to have more platforming stuff integrated into the next entry.

Also DK has to have his redesign in order to have a revamped moveset that feels closer to his game iteration rather than the generic gorilla moveset we currently have, so be it

He should at least get the Coconut Gun.

But will it still fire in spurts?

 

[cashregister9]

Piranha Plant Switch 2 Camera

 

[Noipoi]

You know I'm actually kind of unsure about the Switch 2-

Piranha Plant Switch 2 Camera

 

[TheMightyP]

Ok, hear me out; we do get a Smash game where we parkour to different stages like Snake mentioned. Cause this time the universes collided so now things are wack, and the Smash cast has to restore it. So we traverse mashed up worlds, beating the universes respective enemies and bosses, and prevent the universes from imploding thanks to the works of the various villians in the cast. Give it a story as well.

And call it Subspace 2.

 

[Wademan94]

He should at least get the Coconut Gun.

But will it still fire in spurts?

Legitimately I do think DK could take some notes from Kragg in RoA, especially if we pay homage to his block moves using barrels

 

[HyperSomari64]

The Project X Zone IP should remain in dormancy

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Im havi g a manic breakdown. So I drew

 

[Shroob]

The Project X Zone IP should remain in dormancy

I feel bad that you have this hyper-fixation on this series. I know you like it a lot but, man, it's gotta suck being this obsessed about something.

 

[Wademan94]

Ok, hear me out; we do get a Smash game where we parkour to different stages like Snake mentioned. Cause this time the universes collided so now things are wack, and the Smash cast has to restore it. So we traverse mashed up worlds, beating the universes respective enemies and bosses, and prevent the universes from imploding thanks to the works of the various villians in the cast. Give it a story as well.

And call it Subspace 2.

I had like a spin-off action game in mind with a similar premise except the heroes would be in trouble and you’d be playing as the secondary characters like Luigi, Zelda, Meta Knight, etc. to rescue them

 

[Knight Dude]

I hope some of you guys hop on Soul Calibur 2. I still have my physical copy from years ago.

The only down side is that it's strictly a console port, and not adding Spawn and Heihachi as far as I know. Then we could the perfect official version.

But there is a W.I.P mod called Soul Calibur 2 plus. Which adds Spawn and Heihachi, but with different models, though their textures are applied to them, so Heihachi has long hair like Mitsu, but he's still got the Hamaka, the facial features and his actual moveset.

 

[DaybreakHorizon]

For my next game I decided to start playing Yoshi's Island (I was gonna play Neva but I have learned it has a sad ending). I was playing on my 3DS before bed but didn't get far so I booted it up on an emulator MY TOTALLY REAL SNES.

Holy **** this game looks beautiful.

 

[cashregister9]

They increased the price of amiibo again 🥲

Why did I have to get cursed with the hobbies that involve buying things???