Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@DarthNocturnal
Ok, thanks for the confirmation. Still gonna get it, just a tad disappointed. Guess I'm hopelessly traditional lol

After recent Nintendo things like Labo VR branching out beyond just Labo games and Yoshi's Crafted World (Ninjarama), I wonder if Nintendo Land's possibly making a comeback.

What does that level have to do with Labo?

@Octane It isn't, Labo VR branching out and Yoshi's Crafted World being 2 separate recent Nintendo things. Ninjarama reminds me of the ninja Nintendo Land minigame.

I’d probably be interested in another Nintendo Land. But they’d need to populate the plaza with actual online players (like the avatar thing on PS3)

@Grumblevolcano I'm sorry, I don't see the connection.

To anyone who's played Hob yet, Is it like a 2d/3d zelda game? I saw some brief gameplay and immediately thought zelda gameplay. Is it any good?

I wonder how long until they announce Virtual Boy games for Labo VR.

For actual modern VR games the screen is too low res, the console too heavy and too weak to really be successful. A Virtual Boy emulator though seems perfect for this. Far more so than it would have been on 3DS.

Sure it’d be niche fan service for all of the game (singular) worth playing on it but it’d generate disproportionate interest amongst Nintendo fans.

@StuTwo I’d at least play Mario Tennis. But not Waterworld. Not again.

@NintendoByNature
Skip Hob.

The game is actually fantastic. The problem is Panic Button took their usual “nuke the resolution” approach for handheld mode.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that I’m playing Darksiders in handheld mode- a far, far more demanding game in full 720p with all its AAA visual spectacle, which even has a 60fps option... yet Hob looks like Xenoblade 2 in handheld mode. I was really enjoying it on the TV, then I undocked it and was like wth Panic Button.

You know, people say they’re so talented to get any game running but I’m inclined to believe that’s just not true. The studio that ported Darksiders, now that’s a talented studio. The guys who brought Skyrim and Diablo 3, now that’s a talented studio. The Dark Souls port, that was from a talented studio. The fact these AAA games can run 720p in handheld mode, yet Panic Button can’t even get Hob above 500p just makes you wonder how good DOOM and Wolfenstein would have looked had any of these other studios been given the opportunity.

RIP Torchlight II

@JaxonH thanks man. I had no interest in the game til I saw a video beat em ups posted and thought it looked decent. At least you saved me some money 😋

I thought Yoshi was all happy and cute, that nothing overtly dark was there. Then I played the level “Be afraid of the dark”. Have fun playing that one with the kids, parents 😂

@AlohaPizzaJack, yeah, that level would've freaked me the heck out as a kid. I know Nintendo has had some surprisingly dark moments in it's games before (some more so than this), but I still can't believe they based a Yoshi level on a slasher flick theme, lol.

@RR529 Makes me wonder if Luigi’s Mansion 3 will have a bathtub scene like Eternal Darkness now, haha

Ok, for some reason NOW my Switch Pro Controller wants to work with Bluetooth for my system. It didn't want to before, but now it does. Regardless I can finally play games on Steam without a bad controller :^]

Perhaps NLife will talk about this particular level. I probably won't purchase it until I buy other games that I'm more interested. So I may check it out when I have it or by a walkthrough video, or through this site.

So someone just went from "Panic Button is amazing look what they got running" to "They arent good enough".

There is a difference between stuff like Rocket League, Hob, DOOM etc. That Panic Button has ported, and stuff like Skyrim, and Darksiders.

The former are PS4 games.

The latter are 360 games.

Plus a lot of the former run on out of date, no longer supported by the developers engines, or proprietary engines.

Now you can argue that "Darksiders is the PS4 remaster" but you look at the lightjng and its actually cut below even the original release, and performance isnt 60fps.

Furthermore, resolution WOULD be the thing to be cut. Yes Skyrim was a good port but it didnt have many of the features of the remaster, didnt maintain 30fps and hit 900p maximum.

So imagine a game with downscaled PS4 assets instead of upscaled 360 ones, it would obviously need to hit a lower resolution on that alone as there are no lower quality assets to pull from, to hit the same average performance.

Then there are other factors such as what the game is doing, how much it is loading at any given time, balancing all the factors.

Its not incompetence, its prioritising.

It's confirmed that the physical Switch version of Wolfenstein Youngblood is just a download code in a box.

Stretching the definition of a ''physical version''

Wait....wait...hold up.

So North America gets boxes in stores with no cartridges in them, making them download only...

But Europe only gets a box for the Deluxe Edition, the standard is just download only without the box in stores?

So.….why put the boxes in stores at all?