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Episode 250: Choose Your Weapon

16 Comments on Episode 250: Choose Your Weapon

It’s the swords of Pyra/Mythra versus the guns of Apex Legends. In this milestone episode of the Random Nintendo Podcast, we share our impressions of the latest Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter and the arrival of EA’s free-to-play battle royale on Switch. Plus, we discuss new reports of a 4K Switch and our wishlist of features and February sales numbers.

But wait, there’s more! In celebration of 250 episodes, we’re also hosting a giveaway to win a $25 eShop gift card! Since this episode is all about competitive games, we want to know your favorite, Nintendo or not. Leave a comment below telling us your fav orite competitive game and why for your chance to win. We’ll announce the randomly chosen winners in our next episode on March 28, so make sure you don’t miss it by following us on Twitter @RandomNintendo and subscribing to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app.

As always, we’ve included links below for more on the news and games discussed in this episode. Enjoy and thanks for listening!

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Official Contest Rules: All registrants must be age 13 or older. The contest begins on March 14, 2021 at 12:00 AM PDT and ends on March 26, 2021 at 11:59 PM PDT. Visitors may only enter the contest once by leaving a comment below. Any additional entries that a given visitor makes will be disqualified. One (1) commenter will be chosen at random and receive one (1) digital code each redeemable for $25 in credit on the US Nintendo eShop. Random Nintendo staff members may not participate in this contest. Random Nintendo reserves the right to disqualify any entry for any reason. The winner will be chosen at random on March 27, 2021, announced in Episode 251 of the Random Nintendo Podcast, and then notified via email.

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16 Comments

  1. Since Nintendo considers Splatoon 2 a competitive game, I will definitely say Splatoon 2! Hope I win the contest!

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  2. First of all, thanks for the chance and the great content to listen to. Got my first ever Switch less than 3 months ago and for the time being I play only single-player games. However, if we take a bigger picture, Mortal Kombat 11 is undoubtedly the most favourite competitive game of mine. I’ve been playing this series since mid-90s across different platforms and hopefully will get it for Switch too. This game helps me relieve stress and have loads of fun along the way.

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  4. Thank you for an interesting question. Games are all about competition. I totally agree. Me and my buddies simply adore a good ol’ rivalry in various sport sims, be it FIFA, NHL, NBA 2K or Madden. Sport sims are the epitome of gaming in my opinion.

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  5. Thanks for this giveaway, happy to participate in it. Mostly I play single-player games on my Switch. As for competitive ones I adore all kinds of open world survival games such as Rust, H1Z1, DayZ, Don’t Starve Together and so on. And for the last two weeks I lost myself in Valheim, I’m sure, you heard of it. Great survival game, inspired by Norse mythology, with cute pixel graphics, which brings me and my friends tons of fun and joy. Recommended.

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  6. I love competitive games and the switch is a great console for it because of the multiplayer features it has. My favorite is Splatoon 2 since it has a lot of modes and it’s fun to play quick matches online, another favorite is Smash Ultimate but I only play it with my friends. Congrats for the 250th episode and thanks for the chance!

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  8. For me the Tekken series. I’m a fan since The first game and i been playing in competitions since 3. I hope more people try it and enjoy it like i do.

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  9. Favorite competitive game is definitely Smash Ultimate! It’s my favorite installment in my favorite competitive series. Special shout-out to NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz and the Mario baseball and soccer games. Sports games are fun, but they’re even more fun when they’re a bit arcade-like.

    Congrats on 250 episodes!

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    1. I feel like for me Smash Bros is definitely my favorite competitive game. I remember going over to a friend’s house to play Brawl. It was just a blast to see all of these different characters come together. Smash definitely opened me up to a lot of series I had no idea about too. With Ultimate it’s been a lot of fun speculating on the Fighters Pass and seeing which characters get added next with my all time favorite Banjo & Kazooie being the highlight

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  11. Definitely Smash Bros! Whether playing for fun or for glory it’s really cool to gather around some friends and see who is the best!

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  12. For me, right now Competitive games is full of FPS/Figthing games, if i really had to pick one would be a Puzzle one tho, specially Puyo Puyo (its more competitive in Japan) its so fast, you literally have to plan a strategy and both players have the literal 50% chance to win and are under the same conditions (Randomized puyos), while in other games you have the “This character/Build is better or “Meta” or the “This character counter that other”, i thinks thats why its my favorite , and really close by Tetris, yet i feel Tetris is mostly about speed thinking and not strategy!

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