General Videogame Thread

Had the chance to play the Switch at a recent event in Manchester. An extremely impressive device which surpassed the expectations I had for it. Think of it as a high powered portable console with a docking station so you can also play the games on a TV.

The most shocking thing for me was just how small it is. The actual console is not that much bigger than an iPhone Plus without the controllers attached and it's a lot thinner than you would think as well.

Nintendo potentially have a huge hit on their hands here, although I do think the price will initially hold it back once the hardcore have grabbed a load of them.

I'll be picking one up early on now. Just been reading the previews for Zelda and sounds like it could be something special.
 
From one of the Zelda previews:

Nintendo has talked about how they went back to the very first NES game for inspiration, which sounds like hyperbole given the technology gulf between 1986 and now. But actually, the comparisons are entirely valid.

Having just completed it, we couldn’t help but think of Horizon Zero Dawn while playing Breath Of The Wild, and how simplistic it now seems compared to Zelda. You also have a bow in Breath Of The Wild, but you have to account for how arrows arc through the air, rather than it just acting like a low-tech sniper rifle. Boomerangs have to be caught manually on their return and the best way to defeat the skeletons that appear at night is to chop of their head and punt it into a river, like a goalkeeper trying to make a clearance.

You always expect a Zelda game to be good, but the attention to detail and willingness to innovate in Breath Of The Wild is well beyond our expectations.

We’re doing our best to find faults here but the truth is we’re hugely impressed. We already know some things we can’t talk about here, and other secrets that have been hinted to us by Nintendo. At this stage we’d shocked if this didn’t turn out to be the best Zelda since Ocarina Of Time. It may even surpass it, and since many still regard that as the best video game ever made it becomes almost impossible to overstate just how good Breath Of The Wild is.
 
ManCityX said:
From one of the Zelda previews:

Nintendo has talked about how they went back to the very first NES game for inspiration, which sounds like hyperbole given the technology gulf between 1986 and now. But actually, the comparisons are entirely valid.

Having just completed it, we couldn’t help but think of Horizon Zero Dawn while playing Breath Of The Wild, and how simplistic it now seems compared to Zelda. You also have a bow in Breath Of The Wild, but you have to account for how arrows arc through the air, rather than it just acting like a low-tech sniper rifle. Boomerangs have to be caught manually on their return and the best way to defeat the skeletons that appear at night is to chop of their head and punt it into a river, like a goalkeeper trying to make a clearance.

You always expect a Zelda game to be good, but the attention to detail and willingness to innovate in Breath Of The Wild is well beyond our expectations.

We’re doing our best to find faults here but the truth is we’re hugely impressed. We already know some things we can’t talk about here, and other secrets that have been hinted to us by Nintendo. At this stage we’d shocked if this didn’t turn out to be the best Zelda since Ocarina Of Time. It may even surpass it, and since many still regard that as the best video game ever made it becomes almost impossible to overstate just how good Breath Of The Wild is.
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Friday can't come soon enough.

@ManCityX when you consider the size of the device relative to its power ie more powerful than a Wii U and capable of outputting at native 1080p it really is an impressive feet of engineering. And it actually looks stylish for a change, really sleek and modern. I think Nintendo have knocked it out of the park with this thing. The advertising has been great as well.
 
ManCityX said:
From one of the Zelda previews:

Nintendo has talked about how they went back to the very first NES game for inspiration, which sounds like hyperbole given the technology gulf between 1986 and now. But actually, the comparisons are entirely valid.

Having just completed it, we couldn’t help but think of Horizon Zero Dawn while playing Breath Of The Wild, and how simplistic it now seems compared to Zelda. You also have a bow in Breath Of The Wild, but you have to account for how arrows arc through the air, rather than it just acting like a low-tech sniper rifle. Boomerangs have to be caught manually on their return and the best way to defeat the skeletons that appear at night is to chop of their head and punt it into a river, like a goalkeeper trying to make a clearance.

You always expect a Zelda game to be good, but the attention to detail and willingness to innovate in Breath Of The Wild is well beyond our expectations.

We’re doing our best to find faults here but the truth is we’re hugely impressed. We already know some things we can’t talk about here, and other secrets that have been hinted to us by Nintendo. At this stage we’d shocked if this didn’t turn out to be the best Zelda since Ocarina Of Time. It may even surpass it, and since many still regard that as the best video game ever made it becomes almost impossible to overstate just how good Breath Of The Wild is.
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Sounds good my 8 year old son is pestering me for a Nintendo Switch and after reading that review I might invest.

Horizon Dawn Zero arrives for me today can't wait to get bashing it later on.
 
Final paragraph from EDGE's perfect Zelda review:

'Nineteen years on, Ocarina is still held up as the high-water mark of one of gaming’s best-loved – and greatest – series. Now it may have to settle for second place.'
 
citytill1die84 said:
Sounds good my 8 year old son is pestering me for a Nintendo Switch and after reading that review I might invest.

Horizon Dawn Zero arrives for me today can't wait to get bashing it later on.
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It will be brilliant for multiplayer with him (as it basically comes with two controllers). Probably the best local multiplayer experiences since the N64 days I would imagine. Mario Kart is out at the end of April, so I'd maybe wait until then, if not Christmas when a few more games are out. He'd love the upcoming Splatoon 2.

It'll be great for kids (and adults when the missus wants the TV!) because they can take it on car journeys and play it downstairs when the TV is in use.

These vids show it off well:

System overview



System trailer

 
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I'll have a Switch and Breath of the wild to play on this week as my lads got one coming,
I couldn't make the Nintendo event at Gmex last week but I was told that Mario Kart 8 deluxe is also something to behold, and 1-2 Switch is a bit weird but fun, then you've got Mario Odyssey later this year, a new open world Mario, can't wait.
 
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