- All right, full disclosure. I was already working on a video and then Nintendo announced their Direct and then they had their
Direct, and there's not a lot of stuff that's in that Direct
to warrant a full video. But I'm going to be talking about a lot of that
stuff that they announced in that Direct, in this video anyway. So I'm going ahead with the video anyway. I mean, you're gonna wanna occupy yourself in the meantime, until
these games come out, right? Most games are $60. That's pretty standard across the board. The value that you get
out of them is variable. I've spent four hours on a
game and felt totally content. I've spent 20 hours beating a game and I felt like I had to
drag my way through it the whole time. There are some games that
I play for say 460 hours and feel like I need more,
for some sick reason today. Today I wanna talk about all of the Nintendo Switch games
that are seemingly endless. Games that players lose themselves in. Games that are potentially dangerous. Games that will get your family
to start worrying about you. But at least you're getting
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you're interested in a game, but not entirely sure if you have the time to commit to beating it. It's not always accurate, but it does do a pretty good job of telling you around how long
it would take to beat a game if you're just doing the main story, if you're doing the main plus extra, which is usually how most
of us play our games. And there's completionist. If you sort by main plus extra on the Nintendo Switch and
you go all the way to the end, the longest game is Farm Together. You know, Farm Together,
remember Farm Together? I'd be willing to bet that it's because almost nobody
submitted time for this thing, but I feel bad for the ones that did. Either these people were so desperate for an Animal Crossing type
game that they settled for this or they don't even know
that Animal Crossing exists. But it has a 7.6 user score on Metacritic. What the- For real though, these are the types of games
that we're talking about. Games that you could just
spend an endless amount of hours on and just melt away. Games like Animal Crossing, New Horizons and Stardew Valley. Animal Crossing is a game, I probably never would've purchased if making Nintendo based content wasn't my job. And I certainly never
expected to sink 70 hours into the game. A game that I didn't really
think I was that into. 70 hours is a lot to throw at one game, but that's baby numbers
compared to the thousands of hours that lots of people have sunk into Animal Crossing since launch. For me personally, my end goal was to create my little city. I built the roads and I
felt like my time was done. But for many others, it's about collecting everything,
finding new residents, keeping up with the updates
that release every few months. There's seasonal updates and most recently it was announced we were getting Mario 35th anniversary items. Little late to the party, but that's okay. We'll take it. Animal Crossing is a
living, breathing world that always has something
that could hook you or it might not. And you might just spend a
measly 70 hours on it. Like me. Wish the Mario stuff was in
it while I was playing it. You're not gonna hook me
again Animal Crossing. Part of the problem with
these time sync games is that it's hit or miss. Either the game is gonna
slap its shackles on you and hook you in, or you're
gonna spend a few hours on it and then you're just
gonna be done with it. None of the games on this list
are guaranteed to hook you, but I'd be willing to bet
that at least one of the games on this list would. Stardew Valley is very similar to Animal Crossing in the
way that it hooks people, except that there's 12 potential
candidates for marriage. So there's a dating SIM aspect. And naturally, on top
of building your farm, players wanna see what
it's like to date them all. And as you can imagine, and
this can take a lot of time. So similar to Animal Crossing, players spend endless
hours building their town and building their relationships. Unlike Animal Crossing, this
game is only $15, but neither of these games are games that would sink their claws into me. I need fast paced action. I need immediate gratification. I need something that I feel like I'm getting better at, something that I could win. Something that makes me
wanna put my controller through the wall sometimes. I'm talking, of course, about my two most played Switch games, Super Mario Maker 2 and Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. Mario makers should be no surprise to any of you if you've
watched this channel before, but you might be surprised to
learn that my most played game on the Switch is actually
Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, by like a wide margin. 460 hours might not be a lot to you. And there's plenty of people who have way
more hours than that, but that is a lot for me
to be investing in a game. And then people still comment, actually, that's not a lot of hours. Like, okay dude. Like this is some sort of competition. You over there with your 1000 hours still losing to this guy. How does that feel? These days, Smash really
just pulls me back in, whenever there's a DLC fighter like Pyra, who was just announced yesterday. Playing as, or even just
against the new characters are a great way to make the
game feel fresh and updated, which is great. 'Cause I pretty much stick to
Captain Falco no matter what. I mean, I liked (indistinct) and I think Pyra looks kind of cool too. I'll dabble with her for a little bit. But smash brothers is also one of my go-to games to play with friends. So it's the only game
where I'll just randomly hop in people's arenas, if I see them streaming it or something. This is a good time to mention, we have a discord channel and that discord channel does
community games every once in a while in the open chat. And they mostly play guess what? Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. And I've been known to jump in on the rare occasion, but
it's mostly community driven. I rarely ever play games
recreationally anymore, which is the sad truth that
comes with a job like this. But in the rare occasion
that I do have time when something's rendering or I'm waiting for something to download, I can jump into quick play real quick. It makes me feel like I'm
exercising my smash muscle, in the rare event that
I'm like out on the street and someone challenges
me to a game of smash. Which did happen to me once at a Moe's. It was one of the game first came out and these high school kids
absolutely destroyed me. I was playing a Sonic
with a sideways joy con, what do you want for me? I'm aware that not everybody is gonna have the same experience that I've had with Super Mario Maker 2. But that is my second most
played game on the Switch. I like to pitch it as
just an endless 2D Mario. I think Nintendo does a bad
job of selling this game as Mario, but you build the levels. I've only ever built one level, it's called you killed my son. Here's the code for it. Have fun. I spend almost all of my time
playing other people's levels. It's a little different than
other 2D Mario games in that, things get real wacky
with their creations. So you'll see things here
that never would have happened in mainline Mario games, but that's part of the charm of it for me. I love the multi-player, even though the connection abysmal. They've done a pretty
decent job updating it, which also kept it fresh. We got a link power up. We got the Super Mario 2 power up And these fundamentally
changed the way people design certain levels. There are whole levels designed around these power-ups. There's also the addition of super worlds. I'm currently trying to get my way through RubberRoss's world, which is brutal. But it's like there's a whole game inside of a game. It's as if a random person released a DLC for a Nintendo game almost two
years after it was released. That's pretty damn cool. I'm also frequently pulled back
in by the ninji speed runs. I'm kind of addicted to
getting gold in all of them. I'm not looking for world
records or anything, but whenever they drop a new one, which is about once a month
at this point, I have to get within the top percentile
before the rankings go away. There's a lot that drags
me back into this game. It's not perfect by any means, but there's a limitless amount of content that will keep you occupied
for many, many hours. So if you like 2D Mario and you haven't picked
up Mario Maker 2 yet, you're making a grave mistake. One of the biggest time
syncs on the Switch since the Switch of launched
back in March of 2017 is The Legend of Zelda:
Breath of the Wild. Not only is this a really long game, but you can spend hundreds of hours just dicking around in
the massive lively world. There's tons of stuff that
the game throws at you. You'll boot it up one
day thinking you're gonna be doing one thing, and then all of a sudden, bam, you have to fight a Lynel. Personally, I've only ever
spent 25 hours on the game. And 25 hours is a lot of
time to invest into a game, but that is chump change
for Breath of the Wild. I only ever beat two divine beasts, that is less than halfway through
the main goal of the game. Currently AJ is streaming
Breath of the Wild over on the Fanatics for Twitch channel. So I decided to ask him, what the (indistinct) are you
doing back in that game again? - Breath of the Wild for
me is and has always been a seemingly endless sandbox of things to see and do. So when it came time
for me to decide games that I would have fun
with streaming on Twitch, Breath of the Wild was an obvious go-to. Even though I already put in over 200 hours of just playing through it on my own time for fun, back
when it originally released. Will this game allow me to do
insert random outlandish thing that any other open world action probably would never even think
to include in their game? This is all that random
stuff that will fall in a Breath of the Wild
life hack compilation. Like holding torches
makes boy Zelda warmer or throwing metal weapons at enemies during a lightning storm, can cause them to get struck by lightning. Distracting a group of Bokoblins by throwing a remote bomb into the fray and having them play soccer with it. All of these things are
interactions that I discovered just by asking myself, I
wonder if this would work? There's just so many systems in this game that effortlessly communicate
amongst themselves, that makes this grand, seamless experience that you wouldn't expect
was coded by people. The second thought that
crosses my mind a lot while playing Breath of the Wild that drives my progress
forward, can be summed up as, what the (indistinct) is that? Things like discovering the three dragons that fly across Thyphlo. Seeing that glowing horse
creature that's a tribute to a (indistinct) in a far off vista while being on top of
a cliff or paragliding. Turning off the HUD elements and just letting my curiosity guide my way through this game is what
got me this many hours deep into Breath of the Wild. And I think it's going to carry me through hundreds more
hours, if I'm being honest. - So like, that's the big
time syncs that I can think of that people spend a lot of time on. At least the big Switch titles. Of all of those, the only one
that wasn't a Switch exclusive was Stardew Valley. There's also Dragon Quest Builders 2, which I am only including now because Woods said he would murder my whole family if I didn't. The Switch has other notorious time syncs that aren't so synonymous with the Switch, but you could still
play them on the Switch. Games like, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Minecraft, which is literally endless. Terraria. I know people who have
hundreds of hours in Warframe, which is a free to play game. You can download it right now. And there's also Asphalt
9: Legends, which is on the how long to beat list,
all the way at the end. But I think that's only
because it's free to play and it takes a long time
to unlock everything, unless you buy into it. But Asphalt also has a pretty in-depth multiplayer component. So I guess it's right up
there with Warframe too. And that's another free one
you can download right now. And yes, I do have sponsored videos on both of those games,
but there's no great games. I purposely tried not
to include games that are just really long. Games that you can spend a really long amount of time playing, but have a definitive end. Games like Fire Emblem: Three Houses. There's different
storylines you can go down, but you're really just
playing a long game over and over again. Octopath Traveler is a similar story. There's also the recently announced Project Triangle Strategy. Not a single person at that company had a better name than this? Xenoblade Chronicles. Dragon Quest. Those are all super long games. Monster Hunter is also a long game, but there's a multiplayer
that might pull you back in for many, many hours. And there's also all of the
different weapon classes that you can grind for. And there's a new one
of that coming out too. If you want some team-based multi-player, maybe Splatoon 2. Or the recently announced, Splatoon 3, which was a major shock
in this list direct. Maybe that'll hook you for many hours of online play. The Switch used to get a
lot of flack for not having a very large library. Now it's getting a lot of flack for not having a lot of new
releases or for having a lot of ports from other
console's in its library. But I just listed a
whole butt ton of games that you can spend your
whole God damn career on. So if you're worried that you don't have that
much to play right now, maybe give one of these games a try and dump your whole life into it. And for that, I'm very sorry. Unless that game is Mario Maker 2, in which case I'm not sorry at all. Welcome to the party bitch. What do you guys think about
all these times sync games for the Nintendo Switch? Is there any game that I left out that you spent a lot of time on? Is there anything in
this list that you have spent an absurd amount of time on? Leave it in the comments below. Add me on Twitter or anything and all of those other media garbage. I don't know if it's just
because like I'm in this bubble, but for whatever reason, it
feels like the Nintendo Switch has a lot of people just like sinking all of their time into it. Maybe it's because of the
convenient form factor. It's just easy to pick up and play. But it seems like there's more
people stuck playing games in this than most other
consoles through the years. Except PC games. PC games. I mean, people just
live on a PC all the time. Anyway, we got new
videos here all the time. We got videos on the podcast channel. I just posted a reaction
of the Nintendo Direct. If you want to see more of
that, you could watch it with me and see me go, "Oh my
God, Mario golf, crazy." And we got streams on twitch.tv/wulffden, where we're gonna be playing Mario 3 World tonight with a bunch of friends. Its gonna be great. And thank you Skillshare
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