I picked up Destiny 2 on PC shortly after it came out, and have been playing that the past few weekends, but it just wasn't grabbing me.
Not entirely sure why, it's a well-made game, clearly huge-budget and well polished, controls well, nice graphics, etc. but a lot of the time it felt like a chore. At its best there were moments that felt like the good parts of the Halo 1 & 3 single-player campaigns - usually when you get in the middle of 2 alien factions already fighting each other. Those parts were few and far between though. Most of the missions felt too long to me, and there was a lot of "run a really long way, encountering no enemies to get to the next part".
It also has the same problem Borderlands has - trying to meld a skill based game, where accurate shooting counts, head-shots do more damage, etc. - with a stat-based game - where your gear determines how powerful you are, much moreso than skill. Like Borderlands this results in many enemies just being bullet sponges, which is tedious.
There also seems to be less loot that in Borderlands, particularly less good, useful loot - most of it is just "destroy for credits", every time.
I do plan to go back and give it another try at some point though - I'm only at level 15 or 16 so I assume there's a lot more to unlock at max level (20) and I at least want to get one of those Sparrow speeder-bike things.
So anyway, since I wasn't into that I wanted to find another game for the Thanksgiving break. What I should have done is pick one out of my Steam library, or maybe buy something on sale. What I actually did was pull the trigger on getting a Nintendo Switch, since I planned to get one in January anyway, and Amazon still had them in stock - which I figure may not last, and they may become hard to find again until after xmas.
Lucky for me, I totally don't regret it. I got Zelda: Breath of the Wild with it (I'll get Mario later) and what a freaking game that is. The hardware limitations are obvious. It doesn't look current-gen, it doesn't even look like one of the better X360 or PS3 games from a technical standpoint - it's very jagged on a TV, no anti-aliasing, and the resolution it's being rendered at looks to be quite low, I wonder if it's even 720p. The draw distance is pretty low too - details fade very quickly.
The art direction though is masterful - it combines the cell-shaded look of Wind Waker (my favorite Zelda game since the original) and the older Link of later games. Like Blizzard, Nintendo really knows how to work with what they've got.
I'm liking the split controller too - very comfortable just to have one in each hand. Good for RSI too, can stay in a very relaxed position. I was thinking about getting the Pro controller, but so far I think I like this better. Odd sensation when they're both vibrating and not connected though.
The game has 2 things I love;
1) It encourages exploration and just general dicking around - I love games like Skyrim, Fallout 3/4, New Vegas, etc. because you can just ignore the main quest, go off and explore and it's both fun and beneficial to your character because you're still leveling up, collecting loot that will be useful later, and so on.
2) You get get into some genuine "emergent gameplay" type adventures. I'm still very early in the game - I've only picked up the bomb power and the magnetic power so far. So I was wondering around, just exploring the map and came across of one of the Moblin skull bases. Those generally have a chest or two, but this one was well guarded - archers and several higher-level enemies with armor. I'm still at the 3-heart base level.
So I tried pushing some rocks down on them from a cliff. Didn't do much but piss them off. So I tried chucking some bombs down at them - that was working, but when I tried to just drop one off the cliff edge, I screwed up and fell off. I figured I was dead since it was a long drop - but I survived with half a heart of life left, surrounded by enemies. So I limped the fuck out of there as fast as I could, all while being pursued. I healed up a little - didn't have much to work with, and then tried chucking bomb back at them.
What I didn't know is, you can set the grass on fire - and wind spreads the fire, really quickly. It happened to be windy as fuck. So I wound up torching the whole place, while running away from the fire myself. That took out all the enemies except the one on the guard tower, so I snuck up to him, climbed up and ganked him - then claimed the treasure chest.
Awesome game.