Broodwars has clearly just spent too much time watching rage bait YouTubers make mountains out of molehills..
Well, I wouldn't call YouTubers like ScottTheWoz or Arlo "Rage Bait"-ers, but yeah actually. It's been a slow news week and my office job gets very dull without something playing in my ear. It is helpful to know what people are complaining about, though. I don't GAF about Mario Kart, so I wouldn't have known about the outrage about Nintendo forcing players to play intermissions instead of actual races without it.
I originally intended to post this in the Switch 2 thread, but since we're here, why not:
I bought my Switch to play Switch 1 games with the performance they should have had at launch and to play the rare Switch 2 1st party exclusive, so from my perspective buying a Switch has been worth it so far. DK Bananza was extremely overhyped, but it was an enjoyable game, and I've made more progress in Xenoblade 2 in the last month than I did the last 8 years. The handheld experience is much better this time, and because I buy my games physically I have plenty of storage for all my old Switch 1 games. Apparently, Deadly Premonition 2 is actually in a playable state for the first time ever on Switch 2.
It is a console worth owning for my very particular use case, having a large backlog of games I either gave up on or never got around to, mainly due to very few games on the Switch even hitting 30 FPS, let alone 60. Fire Emblem 3 Houses was just infuriating at its sub-20 FPS. I don't intend to ever purchase anything other than the odd 1st party Switch 2 exclusive, so many of the Nintendo's decisions with the Switch 2 simply don't affect me. That said, there's a lot of small stuff about the Switch 2 that just bugs me, like my Switch 1 Pro Controller being unable to turn the Switch 2 on by itself and the home menu STILL not having themes of any sort (an issue I have with every console these days)
That said, I can't imagine ever using my Switch 2 as my dominant platform. The 1st party games are just too scarce and many just don't appeal to me, the pricing of absolutely everything is way out of hand, and as a physical game purchaser 3rd party games are a COMPLETE wash since they're almost all Key Cards. And Nintendo is burning a lot of goodwill with some of their decisions lately. For example, that DK Bananza DLC is blatantly cut content, and in no way earns that $20 price tag.
And nothing good has ever come of game mechanics being patented. I don't care how specific the use case is. We shouldn't have patents on game mechanics, as it just stifles innovation. Nintendo wasn't the first to invent a lot of what Pokemon does. They just did it better than anyone else at the time with extremely marketable execution, ending in 30 years of Game Freak just doing the bare minimum.
The Switch 2 has sold well out of the gate because there was ample stock, but we'll see how that momentum keeps up. I'm satisfied with my purchase for its very limited use case, but I absolutely understand why so many seem to be unhappy with it.
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