JWeinCom said:
RolStoppable said:
This reminds me of a conversation I had earlier this week during the weekly boardgame evening. The conversation shifted to Switch games and a friend of mine asked, "What about Super Mario 3D World, that's releasing soon." I answered, "What about it? You'll buy it and I'll borrow the game from you." Why bother with an option to buy extra content when it's that easy to play the new content for free. |
For people who don't have a friend to borrow Mario 3D World or who wouldn't want to? Seems pretty straightforward. AngryLittleAlchemist said:
"Over the past year" isn't the current day and time, nor is it the next few months. And that's all I'm talking about. I don't particularly care for a lot of the big games releasing like Persona 5 Strikers or Bravely Default II, but I'd be lying if I said Bowser's Fury, Monster Hunter Rise and New Pokemon Snap aren't titles I'm excited for. I'd even go as far as to say the first few months of this year is actually the most packed Switch has ever been in it's first few months in a year (2017 Switch kind of got a pass for releasing in March and I guess you could say 2020 is technically the most impactful for Animal Crossing, but neither were definitely the most consistent for new releases). It's nice to have a 3rd of the year where there's enough big releases that I can say I'm satisfied whilst also not particularly caring for a lot of the new big games. |
If it doesn't matter to you than whatever, but it does to me. In 2018 for instance, the first half of the year was slow, but Xenoblade Chronicles, Mario Odyssey, and FE Warriors had all come out pretty recently, so I didn't mind that nothing big was coming out. But this year I don't have a big backlog on my Switch, so the wait is less palatable.
As for this year's lineup on its own merits, it's meh. We'll see what Pokemon Snap does, but if it follows in its predecessors footsteps it will be a charming diversion, not a major release. Bowser's Fury is DLC that can't be purchased separately. And, that's all that's coming from Nintendo themselves, which is pretty week. Even with one major and one semi major 3rd party release (Rise and Bravely) it's still a fairly week lineup imo. |
I feel like it's difficult to debate in these terms mainly because I don't find those to be mutually exclusive qualities of a games. By many reviewers and critics descriptions, Animal Crossing: New Horizon was the de facto "charming diversion" of 2020. It was also a major release that has taken up over 600 hours and counting of my time with the Switch. Because Pokemon Snap is heavily dependent on replay value, I don't see how people wouldn't be able to spend a lot of time on the title as well, perfecting their scores and taking just the right poses to share on Twitter or other social media.
Aside from that I think it's not really fair to say that 3D World is 'just' a DLC, when the entire original game was rebalanced to be faster, online MP was added, and the Captain Toad segments were changed to allow for 4 player co-op among some other bits I might be missing. If you're not interested in it there's nothing wrong with that, but I don't think it's really fair to say it's just a rerelease of the original with some DLC tacked on.
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