{"id":6696,"date":"2017-12-01T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/talking_point_what_games_are_you_playing_this_weekend_-_countdown_to_the_holidays"},"modified":"2017-12-01T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:00:00","slug":"talking-point-what-games-are-you-playing-this-weekend-countdown-to-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/01\/talking-point-what-games-are-you-playing-this-weekend-countdown-to-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend &#8211; Countdown to the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Xenoblade WOAH.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/talking_point_what_games_are_you_playing_this_weekend_-_countdown_to_the_holidays\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/talking_point_what_games_are_you_playing_this_weekend_-_countdown_to_the_holidays\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Xenoblade WOAH.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Over the past couple of months we&#8217;ve brought back WGAYPTW\u2122, in which a number of our team talk about the games they&#8217;ll be playing over the weekend. With Switch and 3DS releases we haven&#8217;t exactly been short of options, and as we head into December there&#8217;s plenty to play.<\/p>\n<p>The big arrival this week is certainly\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_2\">Xenoblade Chronicles 2<\/a><\/strong>, but every week also brings a whole lot of eShop titles. Without any further ado let&#8217;s get to this week&#8217;s picks.<\/p>\n<h3>Anthony Dickens<\/h3>\n<p>Having finally completed\u00a0<em>that really difficult level<\/em>\u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\"><strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong><\/a>, I&#8217;ll be mainly going back over the Kingdoms to hoover up as many Power Moons and Purple Coins as I can get my hands on. I&#8217;ve found this to be a totally refreshing experience as it doesn&#8217;t matter if you play the game for 15 minutes or 5 hours straight, you&#8217;ll always find new things and get a sense of achievement. Seriously going to have to consider this against Breath of the Wild for game of the year. Aside from that, I&#8217;ll also be brushing up on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/rocket_league\"><strong>Rocket League<\/strong><\/a> skills and maybe dabble in some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/resident_evil_revelations\"><strong>Resident Evil Revelations<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Tom Whitehead<\/h3>\n<p>Having battled through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_2\">Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for review<\/a> I&#8217;ll be jumping into some different games this weekend. I just bought\u00a0Resident Evil Revelations and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/resident_evil_revelations_2\">Resident Evil Revelations 2<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for Switch (with the EU discount deal) and have <em>really\u00a0<\/em>enjoyed the motion aiming so far (portable and TV), which reminds me of the glory that is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/resident_evil_4_wii_edition\">Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition<\/a><\/strong>. I&#8217;ll be writing about that over the weekend, but I&#8217;m mainly working through the first one right now; having reviewed it on both 3DS and Wii U\u00a0<em>back in the day<\/em> I&#8217;m enjoying another run, especially with the awesome new controls.<\/p>\n<p>I recently cleared the brilliant\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/rive\">RIVE<\/a><\/strong> on Switch, too, but will go back to try out some Challenges. Away from my Switch I&#8217;ll likely get into more\u00a0<strong>Football Manager\u00a0<\/strong>on PC, and continue my playthrough of Telltale&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>The Walking Dead<\/strong>. That&#8217;s enough for one weekend!<\/p>\n<h3>Mitch Vogel<\/h3>\n<p>A friend recently convinced me to pick up <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/stardew_valley\">Stardew Valley<\/a><\/strong>, and that&#8217;s likely what&#8217;ll consume most of my time this weekend. I\u2019m not one for Harvest Moon-esque games, but there\u2019s something about Stardew Valley that is so amazingly addictive. I don\u2019t think anything has hooked me like this since Breath of the Wild. It\u2019s really a simple game on the surface, but perhaps that\u2019s what I find so appealing. Playing through a relaxing game like this is a nice change of pace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that, I\u2019ll be putting some time into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\"><strong>Splatoon 2<\/strong><\/a>; the latest update got me back into playing. I really do love playing through Salmon Run. Though it\u2019s exceedingly difficult and I tend to lose more than I win, it\u2019s quite a rush, and is my favorite shooter \u201chorde mode\u201d by far.<\/p>\n<h3>Ron DelVillano<\/h3>\n<p>After reviewing entirely too many of them, I&#8217;ve secretly become a huge fan of the licensed LEGO titles &#8211; so much so that I picked up a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/lego_marvel_super_heroes_2\"><strong>LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2<\/strong><\/a> for Nintendo Switch during a recent Black Friday sale. So while the rest of you are exploring the world of Alrest in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, I&#8217;ll be causing havoc in Chronopolis as Silk and Howard the Duck. I&#8217;m also hoping to finally finish Breath of the Wild and clean up some more moons in Super Mario Odyssey, but those blocky heroes are really calling to me.<\/p>\n<h3>Ryan Craddock<\/h3>\n<p>Another weekend approaches and, once again, Super Mario Odyssey will likely take up most of my spare time. I\u2019m nearing the end of my Power Moon hunt now; there are just a handful of Kingdoms remaining for me to completely explore before I get my hands on every last Moon and the scary prospect of life after Odyssey is starting to creep in. Of course, by \u201cevery last Moon\u201d, I actually mean \u201cevery last Moon apart from the jump-rope one and the volleyball one because they are actual demons from the darkest depths of Hell\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If I have any extra spare time on top of this, though, I\u2019d really like to finally get stuck into Metroid: Samus Returns. I\u2019ve had the game sitting in my house since release but I haven\u2019t managed to get the time to start it. At the very latest I\u2019d like to be playing this \u2013 or even have completed it &#8211; over the holidays and, now that I\u2019ve laid down that goal for the whole world to see, there\u2019s absolutely no backing out!<\/p>\n<h3>Tony Stephenson (Mr Facebook)<\/h3>\n<p>Well, after failing miserably at trying to finish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/legend_of_zelda_tri_force_heroes\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda:\u00a0Tri Force Heroes<\/strong><\/a> at an event last weekend, I think it is only right I get something finished at least. My 3DS needs some loving so the priority for me will be to finish <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/metroid_samus_returns\">Metroid: Samus Returns<\/a><\/strong>. Only 17 more pesky Metroids to gather, it should only take an hour or so, right? Also, my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/ever_oasis\">Ever Oasis<\/a><\/strong> save file has been neglected for an age. A truly beautiful game, it&#8217;s like they made a new 3DS Zelda game and gave it the wrong name! I&#8217;m close but those sand alligator thingies are being a pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for the Switch, I think a good session on Splatoon 2 is in order. I&#8217;m yet to play the new stage and need to get my rank up to A on Rainmaker. Perhaps some Salmon Run as well if I can get my team organised. Probably get Power Moon collecting in Odyssey for a bit as well, I&#8217;m sadly lacking at around 250 \u2013 need to hit that 500 mark. Oh, then there is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/golf_story\">Golf Story<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 I think I&#8217;d better take Monday off and make it a long weekend!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s what some of us will be playing this weekend &#8211; share your plans in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of months we&#8217;ve brought back WGAYPTW\u2122, in which a number of our team talk about the games they&#8217;ll be playing over the weekend. With Switch and 3DS releases we haven&#8217;t exactly been short of options, and as we head into December there&#8217;s plenty to play. The big arrival this week is [&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-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","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=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}