Did everything download okay, Adam? No hope of recovering your save files, is there?


I'm kind of between games again where I often seem to find myself. I started replaying Command & Conquer Red Alert 2. My personal favorite RTS and I like to revisit every however many years it is between playthroughs. It's just so much fun and I know it so well it's fun to see how much better I can be, try new strategies, or just enjoy playing it. I am still chipping away at Arkham Knight every now and again between other things, but it just doesn't hold my interest for long. There are tons of side missions and things like you expect in an open-world game, but they're too hard to find for my tastes, and I am just not crazy about the Batmobile segments. The story is good, though.

I am working my way through re-watching the extended Lord of the Rings movies, so when I'm done I may reinstall Shadow of Mordor and play through that again. I get so immersed in that world. What are you guys playing?

I just finished Titanfall 2. It's pretty short, but it's brilliant. Between that and Doom, it's been an awesome year for single player FPS games.

I'm kind of between games as well. There's a bit of DLC for the new Deus Ex game that I want to try, but besides that I don't really have anything lined up. Maybe I'll finally complete try and complete all of the Dishonored DLC achievements. (I'm still missing Enough Coin to Disappear, dang it.)

Transferring 3DS Data: The Final Frontier.

Thanks to YouTube I think my wife can do this. Not me says I. :-)

See, here is the thing with the Switch and about Nintendo on a larger scale. It is almost a brilliant idea, but they just won't get out of their own way. I mean, maybe they just don't care and want to do their thing their way, but it seems to me they are leaving buckets of money on the table with missed opportunities.

Nobody was expecting something to blow the PS4/XBOne out of the water in terms of power, but from what I understand it's not even close, and barely an upgrade over the Wii U at that. I get that they're going for the portable/hybrid thing, but lack of power is one of many contributing factors that makes third-parties unwilling/less willing to put games on Nintendo's platforms. Is anyone going to go to Nintendo as their main choice for Call of Duty? Probably not, but it would be nice to have the option to play it if I already have the system Or dishonored, or Shadow of Mordor, or GTA, whatever. Especially with the portable thing! That is a huge opportunity that that the others can't touch. Switch may not be the prettiest graphics, but if I can play the current top games at 720P on the go, no one can touch that! But alas, that is unlikely. Yes, Nintendo's own games tend to be excellent, but they are also fairly few and far between, and with the only major launch title being Zelda, that continues. Also, while on that note...

Zelda is coming out for the Wii U, too, and the Switch is barely more powerful than the Wii U, and there's no major game on the immediate horizon for the Switch, and I have a Wii U already, so....why am I going to buy the Switch?

Now, in my opinion, the biggest untapped goldmine Nintendo is sitting on - they have one of, if not the, best catalogues of beloved classic games and intellectual property of anyone! All the kids who grew up playing NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, etc, are now adults who feel nostalgia and have their own jobs. Forget the pittance and meager offerings on their virtual console. They should go all in. Make classic gaming a core feature and promote the hell out of it. Also, suck it up, pay the licensing money, stroke the egos, do what they need to do to the classic Nintendo games made by other companies on that store. TMNT? Contra? Final Fantasies? Castlevanias? All of that - GET IT ON THERE. People will line up to give you money. Shoot, it's 2017. This is the time of Netflix, on-demand, binge-watching, cloud-enabled everything. I bet if they had a Netflix-style monthly fee that late you play anything from a certain console, including offline sync, man. They could print money.

As it stands now, I just have zero justification for the Switch. The only game in the near future I would be remotely interested in is coming out for a system I already own and is not likely to be degraded much. I don't commute on a train, so portable doesn't help me. The virtual console/retro catalogue is sparse and expensive, and I've already bought the available ones I really want on a previous system. I already have a gaming PC for my third-party games, so even if Nintendo had them it doesn't really help me. If it was a significant performance bump or had a bunch of can't-miss games or was a retro super machine, I might be agonizing more over the fact I can't afford it right now anyway, ,but as it stands now, the value just isn't there.

Most reports suggest the Switch is about 3 times more powerful than the Wii U. A number of the Wii U ports are running at both a higher resolution and a more consistent framerate, it supports Unreal Engine 4 which the Wii U cannot, and Mario Odyssey looks leagues beyond 3D World on a technical level (they added so much detail just to his mustache). It's less powerful when played in portable mode, but a 6.2 inch screen doesn't need to be above 720p.

Will also wait until later in the year because of the lack of launch software and not wanting to be constantly told its not in stock.

HD rumble looks pretty cool, and I'm glad motion controls are back. I was more upset about the pricing at first, but the more I think about it the more even the peripherals make sense. A PS Move still costs a ridiculous amount considering how long ago they came out, and the joy cons and Switch pro controller are the most technologically advanced controllers ever made.

The new Resident Evil is out, and I'm hearing good things about it. I've never played an RE game before, but this one looks pretty interesting. It looks pretty creepy, too; might be one to play with the lights on.