{"id":2394,"date":"2017-10-13T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/talking_point_what_games_are_you_playing_this_weekend_-_the_triumphant_return"},"modified":"2017-10-13T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:00:00","slug":"talking-point-what-games-are-you-playing-this-weekend-the-triumphant-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/13\/talking-point-what-games-are-you-playing-this-weekend-the-triumphant-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? &#8211; The Triumphant(?) Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/talking_point_what_games_are_you_playing_this_weekend_-_the_triumphant_return\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/talking_point_what_games_are_you_playing_this_weekend_-_the_triumphant_return\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\" alt=\"The Nintendo Switch - guaranteed to help you meet your future soulmate on the bus\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Nintendo Switch &#8211; guaranteed to help you meet your future soulmate on the bus<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A little while ago a Nintendo Life regular sent us an email to ask where the &#8216;What Games Are You Playing This Weekend&#8217; (WGAYPTW\u2122) series had gone. Of course, our chums over at <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/\">Push Square<\/a> have never stopped doing it, but we drifted away from the series a few years ago here on Nintendo Life.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Partly because it got a bit disheartening. We seemed to be playing retro and &#8216;other console&#8217; games more than anything else, as Nintendo was in the midst of its &#8216;oh no what do we do about Wii U&#8217; phase, and the 3DS could only offer so much. And so the series quietly got put on the scrapheap.<\/p>\n<p>Yet times change and, to be fair, anyone with a Switch that can&#8217;t find something interesting to play must have insanely <em>particular<\/em> standards. There are normally 2-3 tempting retail releases every month (many more at this time of the year) and more high quality Switch eShop games than we can keep up with. Let&#8217;s not forget the 3DS either, which shouldn&#8217;t be cast aside quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>And so it feels like a good time to bring the series back. Assuming enough of you care \/ bother to comment with your weekend plans we&#8217;ll re-introduce this with our staff&#8217;s weekly entries. As for this time around, because this writer is completely winging it this one is mostly down to you, our charming community.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go first person to get us started with my weekend gaming plans. I just bought\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/wulverblade\">Wulverblade<\/a><\/strong> and it&#8217;s terrific, and nice and\u00a0<em>different\u00a0<\/em>from anything else I have on Switch. Since doing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/feature_going_deeper_with_the_flame_in_the_flood_on_nintendo_switch\">interview with the developer<\/a> I&#8217;m also hugely intrigued by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/flame_in_the_flood\">The Flame in the Flood<\/a><\/strong>, so I&#8217;m going to be a right big-spender and buy that for the weekend. Sure, I could get it on Steam, but the option to play it on the handheld is tempting &#8211; to be honest, as a Nintendo fan I also like to try and &#8216;support&#8217; the eShop anyway, doing my humble part in making the store financially worthwhile for all these incredible indie devs. Beyond that I&#8217;ll also play a bit of MLB The Show on PS4, because it&#8217;s the post-season and I&#8217;m up until 3am (here in the UK) most nights watching baseball. GO CUBBIES!<\/p>\n<p>So, what will you be playing this weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Switch &#8211; guaranteed to help you meet your future soulmate on the bus A little while ago a Nintendo Life regular sent us an email to ask where the &#8216;What Games Are You Playing This Weekend&#8217; (WGAYPTW\u2122) series had gone. Of course, our chums over at Push Square have never stopped doing it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}