{"id":7772,"date":"2018-09-20T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2018-09-20T21:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T02:53:52","slug":"another-miniature-nes-in-a-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7772","title":{"rendered":"Another miniature NES, in a fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nintendo Switch Online service debuted a couple of nights ago. I, obviously enough, subscribed immediately. I\u2019m not necessarily happy about having to pay for online play now, but it\u2019s less than half the cost of an annual PS Plus subscription. And I had that nice year-and-a-half of free online play, so I won\u2019t be too butthurt about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk features: Playing online is cool. I have a Monster Hunter on Switch now, so it\u2019s an absolute necessity. Also I like to entertain the thought that I will play <\/span>Splatoon 2<\/b> again at some point. I think those are the only two online games I care about. There\u2019s <\/span>ARMS<\/b>, I guess, but I\u2019m even less likely to play that than Splatoon 2. Smash has historically bad online play, so we\u2019ll see about that one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cloud saves\u2026 I honestly don\u2019t care about. Yeah, it would suck to lose hours of progress through a thing. The truth of it is that I always have way more fun with the beginnings of games anyway. Dunno why, and I don\u2019t have the time right now to do a deep psychological examination of myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently Switch Online subscribers will get exclusive deals. I\u2019m hoping that means bigger discounts on games in the future, but all you get right now is the opportunity to buy the special joycons shaped like NES controllers. Which is not something I\u2019m interested in. They\u2019re $80, which is less than a regular joycon pair, but they also don\u2019t function with any games aside from…<\/span><\/p>\n

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NES Online is the real \u201cvalue add\u201d for the subscription service. It\u2019s basically NES Netflix, NESflix, if you will, in which you are granted unlimited access to an ever-growing library of NES games. This is cool! I prefer owning things, but this is the way that media is offered now, so I\u2019ll go with the flow. There are currently 20 games on offer, with a paltry three to be added each month. That\u2019s not enough, but what can you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

Me, I plan to just enjoy what I get. There\u2019s no point in complaining, especially since Nintendo is going back and adding online play to any games that can support it. At first, this seems like a <\/span>dynamite<\/span><\/i> feature. But then you try to go and play some online <\/span>Dr. Mario<\/b> and realize that you\u2019re only allowed to play with people on your friends list. <\/span>That<\/span><\/i>, I\u2019m going to be salty about. I want to be able to just hop in and play online <\/span>River City Ransom<\/b> and <\/span>Tecmo Bowl <\/b>with randos. But instead I have to schedule playtime with someone on my friends list. Now I have to download the Discord app and figure out how to use Discord, and also how to actually interact with people in a way that will make them want to play <\/span>Double Dragon<\/b> with me. It\u2019s an all-around bummer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one \u201csaving grace\u201d if you will, is that you can also download the Famicom Online from the Japanese eShop, if you want to play the Famicom versions of all these games. There aren\u2019t really a lot of reasons why you\u2019d want to do this (aside from being a dumb weeb), but <\/span>The Legend of Zelda<\/b> at least has enhanced music and sound effects in the Famicom version. It\u2019s not much, and I\u2019m reasonably certain that Nintendo will keep the library of games the same between regions, but it\u2019s still a neat little feature.<\/span><\/p>\n

So yeah, that\u2019s about that. I kind of hope we see something like the PS Plus or Games With Gold deals where subscribers get free modern games, but the slate of NES games is enough to satisfy me. And there\u2019s the suggestion that SNES games won\u2019t be far behind. It\u2019s pretty good!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nintendo Switch Online service debuted a couple of nights ago. I, obviously enough, subscribed immediately. I\u2019m not necessarily happy about having to pay for online play now, but it\u2019s less than half the cost of an annual PS Plus subscription. And I had that nice year-and-a-half of free online play, so I won\u2019t be … Continue reading Another miniature NES, in a fashion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mario","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games","category-zelda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7773,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions\/7773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}