None
4353
I just picked up Golf Story and put a few minutes into it and I can already tell I’ll be spending a good amount of time with it.
Clay
4354
In case any of you are as absentminded as me… I just realized last night that I have $15 in Nintendo coins/money/gold/whatever that I can spend on the Switch store. They expire after a year.
Luigi’s Mansion 3 in 2019!
The original Katamari Damacy for the Switch!
Cities Skylines!
Isabelle in Super Smash Bros.!
New Animal Crossing in 2019!
Seriously, there are just too many games to play these days.
Deadline
4358
Trying to figure out the Final Fantasy to try out give that there are so damn many coming.
9? Or maybe 12?
I played 12 and found it uninspired. 7 is still the best it’s ever been if you can get past its age. 9 is passable. 10 is supposedly good but I never played that one.
CraigM
4360
Man I strongly disagree. 7 is ok, but overrated. 6 is the best. In fact all 3 SNES era games are fantastic. 10 is good, but has some odd parts that might turn you off (the laugh…). 12 is better than average. Not as good as 4-6, but better than 7,8.
Just my take, but if you were only going to play one and hadn’t played any before, I definitely pick 6.
This is what I think as well. Too bad VI isn’t announced for the Switch (yet).
OK, going with 6 is fair :P
Enidigm
4363
Can you hide or block the Nintendo eStore entirely from kids with parental controls? There’s a bunch of risque anime crap in there.
Also, can you hide games from kids, or do you have to erase them from the Switch?
You can set the eshop up to require your password. In fact I think that’s the default. I guess don’t give your kids the password.
Not sure about hiding games, though.
There’s a simple answer to all of this, though. Just buy another Switch for the kids! Easy peasy.
So next week you will no longer be able to unlink your account from the Switch. I double checked, I’m linked up with my Nintendo account and it’s all good, but what happens if I want to sell it some day? How does that work? Not that I want to per se, but still, it’s worth asking I think.
I also read that with the upcoming change/subscription, it’s possible cloud saves will not work unless you are a subscriber.
magnet
4366
I think you can still unlink your account from the Switch hardware. But the User profile on your Switch is going to be permanently linked to your Nintendo (i.e. eShop) account. That means the save games (in your User profile) will be permanently linked to a Nintendo account (in the cloud). Kind of like how a user profile on an Android phone is linked to a Google account in the cloud.
When you sell your Switch, they are both wiped together.
Doesn’t seem any different than when you sign up and pick your name for Xbox Live or PSN unless I’m missing something.
DaveLong
4368
It’s roughly the same. People are losing their minds all over the Internet because if you stop paying for the service Nintendo may not hold onto your cloud saves (you still have your local ones) until you feel like re-upping your service again.
People on the Internet are insane.
No, that’s crappy. Both Sony and Microsoft will maintain your save data through lapses in paid service. Both also offer options for local backup. Not to mention their failure to enable cloud saves in a number of games is baffling.
Yeah, no, Nintendo deserve some grief for still managing to fuck up basic functionality when it comes to anything related to the internet.
First of all, it’s still a pointlessly user-hostile annoyance that the only way to transfer/backup your saves is with a paid service. Cloud backup shouldn’t be the only defense against a hardware failure or some other accident. Let me copy them to a memory card or something.
Next up, you still can’t use a cloud save for everything even once you’ve signed up and are paying. Nintendo can decide not to allow it for certain games because of some bullshit about stopping cheating that somehow the rest of the world managed to figure out without restricting save backups.
So yeah, the saves being deleted if you let your subscription last? I don’t expect Nintendo to keep them forever, but they should give you a window, like 90 days or something. That’s the least of these concerns, but they add up.
I love my Switch and I’m happier with Nintendo than I’ve been in a long time, but it sucks that they keep screwing up these little things and I will continue to say so.
magnet
4371
According to Nintendo:
We are unable to guarantee that cloud save data will be retained after an extended period of time from when your membership is ended.
That’s pretty vague, but it does sound like some sort of window exists.
The real issue is the requirement of cloud saves to get any backup at all; the deletion after a lapse of any significant duration is something you should pretty much expect from any paid cloud service.
