therealnickmurphy.bsky.social
Well, I guess…
Chicago - 🏳️🌈 - Practical Liberal
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If you’re going to rant, please know the difference between “bare” and “bear.” It’s “bear with me.”
And claiming price gouging just ruins your whole opinion piece. But have a great day.
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Ok. Tell me how Mario Kart World plays on Gamecube. I'm sure it's fab.
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You're out of your mind if you think the 3.5 million people are all "diehard gamers." I know you're just trying to cope with your lame prediction, but you have to understand that your social media circles are NOT indicative of the general video game public's perception.
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Plus, if I don’t play for a few weeks, I forget what I am doing 😂. I restarted a 2023 TOTK save last night. I’m still trying to figure out what to do next.
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I’m just a button masher, when it comes down to it, and having to stop and think about parrying or jumping out of the way, etc. Is just not my way of playing.
What I loved most about BOTW &, especially TOTK was getting to all the towers and opening up the map. Once I had to grind, I lost interest.
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I am playing a bit every day after work until bedtime. Love it!
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Agree! I never finished, and this is helping.
I’m just not as good of a Zelda player anymore, and I need all the help I can get.
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The arguments never change. You made your choice. Enjoy your hardware and let the others who made a different choice enjoy theirs.
I don’t want the SteamDeck or PC games, and that’s ok. You don’t want Switch 2, and that’s ok.
Move on.
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LOL - Yes yes, you’re so niche and cool. Better than everyone else because you choose a hand held PC over a regular console.
As a 50 year old who grew up in this argument, you do realize this is a tale old as time? You’re the ones who chose the Amiga over Windows because it was so much better 🤓
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Mostly Mario Kart and restarting my Tears of the Kingdom save file. I never finished TOTK or BOTW, and Zelda Notes is a good add on. The graphic upgrades are impeccable.
II restated Super Mario Odyssey and some indie games. I’ll check out the Splatoon 3 update tomorrow.
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You could have started before this post, too. Yet here we are.
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Me!
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I started playing it again today for the first time to see what it looks like on Switch 2. I kinda became frustrated because I didn’t remember exactly what I needed to do.
I think it had a lot of great ideas and looks extra good on S2, but I agree it is pretty much just an experiment.
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Yes yes, your opinion is the only correct one. You’re the one who can’t defend it. You just make blanket statements that are dull and borderline stupid.VR is about as niche as the SteamDeck.
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I have owned every Nintendo home console, but the Wii U was the first one I was going to skip. Then the FOMO hit, and I ended up buying more games for it than any other console (then rebuying them for Switch).
Nothing, and I mean nothing, could have made me buy a PS or Xbox. Not my kind of games.
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You’ll be waiting a long time then. I’ll be enjoying the Switch 2 in the meantime.
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The upgrades for both Zelda’s make me want to finish them both (yes, I never beat them…that’s a me thing, not a game thing), and while I have just played through Cap World in Odyessy, the graphic bump looks great there, too.
Bayonetta 3 runs like a dream now.
MK World is great!
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I had this thought the moment they announced game share. It would be the way to bring over Wii U games that relied on the second screen, too (Nintendo World, Wind Waker HD, etc). Imagine Mario Maker with your old Switch acting as the gamepad!!
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I would say I am 98% docked. I have taken the Switch with me when I travel sometimes, but it is the first thing taken out if I need room (this will be more-so with the bigger S2).
I prefer the TV and pro controller!
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One minor (very minor) quibble. I kept my Switch pro controller to save money, and I don’t need the C button or extra buttons.
For whatever reason, you cannot wake up the console with the old pro controller. So, I need to keep the joycon out.
Not a big deal, but kind of annoying.
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The updates to both Zeldas are equally as amazing, which is making me want to pickup where I left off or start over.
The free updates and quality of life changes are immense. Bayonetta 3 runs flawlessly now.
While I could have waited until the next Mario comes out, I am glad I didn’t. It’s great!
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It’s sleek and runs great. I had never owned a Mario Kart until the Wii U and Switch, and while it may not be my favorite game, I really enjoy Mario Kart World. As soon as you see the levels, you know the horsepower in the S2. They are jaw dropping.
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I’ve had the Switch since day 1. I play 98% docked. So, the OLED was not needed. I was *ready* for the upgrade. The last two games I bought were Pikmin 4 and Bayonetta 3, which both had either abhorrent load times or performance issues. I needed something new.
The Switch 2 is everything I wanted.
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It’s not a review if you don’t own one.
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No one thinks it will top the Switch, and that’s okay. I don’t want to have to live through a pandemic again for it to catch lightening in a bottle again.
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Whiner.
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Or…you’re just not very dialed into the real world outside social media.
Just because you can type it doesn’t make you a business analyst.
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Anyone who has played it and held it in their hands knows it’s not a “minor upgrade.”
Please don’t comment on something you don’t own. Thanks.
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It wasn’t free to develop. Do you do your job for free?
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Getting the old console when you know the new one will be out in six months and plays all the previous consoles games, means you don’t really research your investments, but go off.
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So…. They suck for doing a system launch the correct way?
Can you please go take a Xanax or something?
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I think “confirmed” is bit of a stretch. It’s their opinion it is. I am a Switch 2 stan, but all this does is trigger the graphic wh#res.
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If every company didn’t have to sink hundreds of millions of dollars into game development to satiate the need for cutting edge games at 1990 prices, we would be in a much better place.
But here we are arguing more expensive games to develop need to cost $50-60.
Grow up.
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You think we’re stupid. I think you’re incredibly stupid and unwilling to pay for the innovation you demand from companies.
Move on with your life. Games are underpriced and that is what is ruining the industry.
Every game has to be a hit to pay for the next one. Innovation is out the door.
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Yes, and they were underpriced as game development costs rose exponentially.
Gamers want more complex and graphically intense games, but they simply think they deserve not to pay for it because of some arbitrary “standard” set 20 years ago.
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Not sure if you want to do this or if it really helps overtime, but you can change the setting so you don’t have to press A. I got used to it in 8 Deluxe, and I prefer it now.
You can still get the boost at the beginning, but oddly, the setting doesn’t carry over to Free Roam.
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And 58% of SteamDeck sales….
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Or maybe declaring something “absurd” and “overpriced” is just a wrong opinion.
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There was never “potential” for a price cut.
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Yeah. I have a Switch 2. I started on Atari 2600, but I have had every Nintendo console since the NES.
I’m good.
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Switch 2 will sell more than the entirety of handheld PCs in the first two months.
There is no need for a SteamDeck in a Switch world. Unless you’re a dork.
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I’m really enjoying MK World, and I am even playing online, which I never did on Switch. But I have put a lot of in Tears of the Kingdom, too. I am either going to keep going with my new save file or try to resurrect my old one that I never finished. I restarted Odyssey, too. I’d checkout Indies.
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I fired up Pikmin 4 today in the hopes the load times would be better, and I didn’t really see much. I’m going to hope they have a patch like Splatoon 3.
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Because not everything will be released on both, but I bet Splatoon 4 will. They can’t ignore the Switch install base.
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The price will never go down. When has Nintendo ever done that? Sure, there might be a lite version or whatever, but even the Switch 1 is still the same price.
If anything, at least in the US, the price could go up as long as there is still a lunatic in the White House. I am glad to have mine.