Zelda on OLED looks incredible. Here is an off-screen pic from my phone:
Thank you all, appreciate the input. I have a three year old, so not quiet gaming age but she may like to watch or play something simpler.
CraigM
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You are wrong! She is gaming age.
My 2.75 year old loves playing. Mario Kart is aces for this. There is auto steer and auto accelerate, and he loves playing against his siblings. He even plays by himself sometimes.
Animal Crossing, Lego games, and Zelda also are games he can dither about in and enjoy himself. Katamari Damacy is one I have for PS2 he also enjoys.
So your 3 year old is clear!
My 4 year old is really behind on learning language. A friend of mine with a 3 year old is saying his kid is behind too, and that his doctor is saying itās one of the results of kids not socializing with other kids during this Covid year.
But anyway, all that is to say, when I watch things with him with language (like Sesame Street), he seems to want to imitate that and speak more. But he keeps finding these chick (baby chickens) shorts on his Amazon Kids tablet with no speech, and after watching those, he only wants to speak in nonsensical exclamations and grunts, just like in that cartoon. I wish I could find that fucking cartoon in the tablet and ban it.
Anyway, I was trying to picture most Nintendo games like Mario, and I think thereās very little English spoken in most of these games, so it wouldnāt be good to play it in front of him, it will only encourage him more to speak only in grunts and exclamations instead of learning a language.
Does Nintendo have any games in which characters speak English? Lots of it?
CraigM
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My 4 going on 5 year old was behind on speech. Sheās actually improved a lot over the last year. We just got her in with a speech therapist, which has. been all over Zoom call. Its done wonders.
Actually, irony, my 2 year old seemed a little behind. When his older siblings went back to class in person, he actually started speaking more. The last month his speech has gotten much better.
I think this may largely be due to not being able to rely on his siblings for speech. All this to say each situation is different.
One thing we do is enforce words. If they want something they need to ask and use words. If they point and grunt Iāll tell them āuse. your wordsā, and if they donāt Iāll walk away and let them cry. Its effective.
For the etcs, Iād add:
Xenoblade Chronicles 1 & 2
Astral Chain
Bayonetta 2
Monster Hunter Rise (though itās coming to PC early next year)
Golf Story
Linkās Awakening
Zelda Skyward Sword HD
Pokemon Sword/Shield
and imminently, Shin Megami Tensei V (hopefully)
Iām sure thereās more Iāve forgotten, plenty of great stuff on Switch!
Thereās a lot of great games mentioned in this thread, but most arenāt really suited for short-burst gaming. That said, one great thing about the Switch is that you can put the console to sleep without closing the game and then resume exactly where you left off, which should make the more epic titles manageable even when playing an hour or less at a time.
As far as specific games, I donāt think anyone has mentioned The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa, which rules and might fit the time constraints if you play it one in-game day at a time. Also, Iāve been enjoying playing rounds of the new Mario Golfāwhich take well under an hourāas a good āchill and decompressā activity.
I actually didnāt know these games were available on the Switch. Maybe I should borrow my sonās device and check them out, been hearing about them forever.
Xenoblade and Xenoblade 2 are on Switch, but Xenoblade X is sadly still trapped on Wii U.
Yeah Iād buy that again in a heartbeat if they ever released a Switch version!
Unfortunately(?) itās probable that the Monolith Soft team has been busy helping with Breath of the Wild 2.
Iāll get Mario Kart for sure as well as Breath of the Wild. I think that should be good to start with for me.
Canuck
3520
Iām still tempted to get Monter Hunter on sale but, God man, Iāve still got both BotW and The Witcher sitting in shrink wrap.
My Switch is still sitting in āplacedā status. Itās not being prepared or shipped or anything, so Iām guessing Iām not actually getting it on Tuesday.
Well FML. My Switch has had this issue for a couple weeks now, where it would stop recognizing the right joy con when itās attached (I play 80% portable probably). No issues if I play with the joycons unattached.
Through mucking about with de-syncing the joycons, restarting the Switch, the steps Nintendo lists, it would eventually come correct. But I guess that stopped yesterday. Just wonāt effing recognize!
Soā¦ the responsible thing would be a repair. The irresponsible thing would be buying an OLED Switch.
So can anyone recommend a service that pings me when an OLED Switch becomes available somewhere?
geggis
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You know, now you mention, I recall having the same issue with a joycon and it was quite alarming, but then it started working again.
Iām going to reply to myself here because I often see people on this board tell others how AMAZING Steam is and how bad Nintendo is (along with Epic, Sony and/or Microsoft) with regard to āsharingā videogames.
The Switch works just like Steam. You can only play one game at any one time via your account. The slight difference being you canāt share your library of games (I assume) with other people on the same device if itās not the primary device, but since only one person can ever be playing at any one time, thatās sort of moot anyway. Just sign into the main account on secondary devices and play the game. *shrug*
I know this now because I set up my account on a Switch Lite this weekend that I own alongside my TV-based Switch. Download games, download the saves (if needed) and it phones home to see if someone else is playing on a different device.
This really is the same as it works anywhere else for the most part, so despite all the claims it is somehow inferior or inconvenient or whatever, it is just fine. If you have three or more Switches in your house, then yeah, buy a cartridge, but even so everyone could have the primary Switch profile on their machine and use that one to play all those games as long as only one Switch is playing it at any one time. And again, thatās exactly how Steam handles this. I havenāt tried it on PlayStation lately, but I think thatās similar. If you want multiple users to play at the same time, you need multiple copies of games in 2021.
There are a few games that tie saves and progress the user-account (essentially enforce a single save slot per account), so this isnāt 100% foolproof.
But, I agree that the āNintendo games sharing is badā criticisms are overblown. The worst I can say is that the process for changing which console is your āprimaryā isnāt super clear.
I read everyoneās point as āit sucks as much as Steamā. I donāt get how you cannot not complain about the way weāre treated as scums universally.
Reality is most people are scums. Theyāll game it for their own advantage. Thatās why Sony closed up their loophole with PS4 after everyone was āGame Sharingā on PS3.
Most people (here) also think Steam is the most amazing gaming service the world has ever seen.
Have you been paying attention to the fact that Metroid Dread is already being emulated on PCs? Itās a guarantee that will hurt sales of the game.
Steam library sharing is actually kinda worse. You canāt sit at my PC and play one of my games while Iām over on your PC also playing a different one of my owned games.
With the Switch, since youāre on my home system everything is available to anyone. Since Iām me on your Switch, I can play my things. (Online features are a different thing though)
