@Ryu_Niiyama Yeah, the demo ran in the low 20s pretty consistently, and then dropped harder in a few spots. Particularly in that first Hyrule Field map, where the grass seemed to make the game chug. I found it bothersome, and I'm pretty easy-going when it comes to performance (I'm not taken to expecting a handheld the size of a bar of chocolate to run like a supercomputer). I might actually grab it now, because the game itself was a lot of fun, and I think I'm over my disappointment about this not being a real prequel to BotW.
Gotta play HW: Definitive Edition first, though. And Fire Emblem Warriors. And get deeper into P5 Strikers. These musou titles are really piling up.
Yeah, same thing happened to me. The game went on sale, so I gave the demo a go and the framerate was so bad it made me feel physically nauseous and I am someone who isn’t very sensitive to frame rates generally.
@Ralizah I look at it as a twofer personally. Does the story change making it a new timeline? Yes but that isn’t new for Zelda as a series. OoT is literally make an alternative timeline:the game. If Zelda had no time travel then Hyrule would have been toast (and technically is with OoT, WW and Spirit Tracks and kinda sorta SS) long ago. Even LttP And LBW cheated and used the triforce to fix things. So I feel like if someone was annoyed at the storybeats in AoC then they didn’t pay attention in other Zelda games. Good doesn’t really win…just buys more time.
That being said the game does a good job at running right up to BotW before diverging. And it’s partially the calamity’s fault for the divergence anyway. But there is a cutscene that pretty much shows how each champion dies. It gets flipped of course but if you fade to black right there you can walk over to BotW and look at the tragedy in a new light. And the game is good at keeping track of where to pivot as in if event a had been changed Hyrule could fight back and its a bit satisfying knowing where it went wrong before and seeing them fix it. The best part is that it still leaves the wth happened to Ganondorf (considering the Gerudo no longer birth males and their ears grew pointed over time.) question for BotW 2. And besides with the curse of Demise being eternal and BOTW set beyond the original LoZ (which destroyed evil forever or at least made into ashes) it’s not like this is a true happy ending. Just one more generation surviving a little longer until it comes back.
At least you don’t play the normal musou games or all of the other spinoffs. I still gotta get samurai warriors 5.
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Yesterday I bought Saints Row IV, Siberia 1 & 2 collection and Siberia 3 in the Nintendo eShop sales.
I already owned Saints Row 3 for Switch but was wondering if they ever patched that game? I remember there being problems when it launched. Was thinking of playing it again now.
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@kkslider5552000 Full version was reportedly pretty rough when it came out as well. If it's in good shape now, then they've definitely been patching it.
@Ryu_Niiyama I don't think there would have been as much disappointment over the story if Nintendo hadn't built it up as a true prequel instead of something that explores a "what if?" time travel scenario. Many people, myself included, were expecting a well-executed tragedy, like XC2's Torna expansion, because that's the natural expectation you'd have coming from BotW.
But I'm a big believer in appreciating games for what they actually are, so I'm glad I'll be able to go into it without a chip on my shoulder.
I can't imagine playing all of the various Warriors games. There's so many of them! The idea of playing 10+ Kiseki games and the ten Yakuza and spinoff games I've missed is intimidating enough.
@rallydefault If you see Best Buy has stock, you should still ago as soon as you can since there's still high demand, especially for Christmas. Good luck!
Took me almost eight hours, but I finally unlocked a new class in Loop Hero, The Necromancer. Kinda amazing how much this is able to refresh the gameplay - for the lack of a better term - ahem, loop, in a game that is so deceptively simple on the surface. I wasn’t sure on this to begin with, especially as I don’t like rogues, but playing a couple of loops a day and usually only doing one or two loops in a sitting has made the game really addictive for me. I think maybe if you played this for hours on end it would be maddening, but it’s perfectly suited to the drop in and out handheld experience on the Switch I think. A real surprise gem and deffo on my “best of 2021” list for sure.
The issue it had was, it looked sharp and native res, but that led to frame drops and stutters. So they patched in dynamic res to alleviate the chokepoints, and it's pretty good now. You can see res dropping momentarily when it's at work, but it stays running smooth, the way I like it. I also haven't had any crashes since the patch released, which, I had 2 on loading screens before that.
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@Ralizah hmm, I will agree to disagree then. They explore pretty well how everything keeps going wrong and make a clear showing of points that if there hadn’t been a change, then abject failure is the result. So unless someone needed to see blood and guts spattered (which won’t happen in a Zelda game) it’s pretty easy to go “crap so that’s what happened”. And Hyrule is still pretty battered by the end. I do wonder how it impacts lines of succession/personal lives of characters involved that either didn’t die or had their lives altered. I suppose that is what fanfic is for. That being said if you played this before BoTW I can see some of the outrage. Because it will be harder to pick out what is divergent vs original timeline.
I’m thinking I will go back grinding on Octopath Traveler. I have a general idea of the true ending because I have the guide but I am trying to 100 percent the side quests so I can put it to rest. Almost done with GAA 1 as well. Backlog work is hard work.
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No doubt. Switch OLED in stock, and the Series S is also starting to appear in stock regularly. And now I understand why MS made the Series S. They were playing chess, not checkers.
I bet Nintendo is just cranking them suckers out on the assembly line.
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@JaxonH Excellent. That’s great to hear. I’ll definitely boot it up. I’ve never played the fourth game so getting it bargain price made it perfect timing to jump in on that.
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@Ryu_Niiyama It's good to hear you're taking so well to the game's narrative angle.
Did you play the DLC? I rarely buy additional content for games, but it adds a decent amount of story/narrative content, it might be worthwhile.
@JaxonH I see at least a few Series S consoles pretty much any time I hit a Walmart or GameStop now.
Always saw Series S as a smart move. Not necessarily from the angle of 'maybe this'll be easier to supply to people in a pandemic that has disrupted supply chains,' but it goes well with M$'s focus on sucking people into the Game Pass rabbit hole.
Keeping fairly steady with Sony in the hardware arms race is a big win for them, because basically all they need to do at this point is buy time until their Game Pass exclusives machine starts to go into overdrive.
Got my first d-pad modded joycon in the mail today. And despite not having a pivot, it's pretty good. Dang good. It can do every move with Ryu in Ultra Street Fighter II except the half circle fireball 🔥
There's just no topping that Hori d-pad, which is by far the best d-pad I've ever used in my life. It's that good.
But because you can do fireball half circles with the analog stick, it's really not an issue. And it has all the other features like HD Rumble, Gyro and wireless. I'm still gonna try to figure out a way to get that Hori d-pad into the modded joycon shell, but until then, this is 98% of the way to perfect.
@Ralizah
It's true that ppl buy what's available. Just having products on store shelves is a win. It's almost like they pulled a rope-a-dope. News outlets and leaks focusing on MS making, "the most powerful console in the world", which forced Sony's hand to go all out in response, then they come in on the sly with a $299 console that still plays all the same games and can actually remain in stock for the most part. Like... I'm starting to recognize these guys know what they're doing.
All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans
God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John
Took me almost eight hours, but I finally unlocked a new class in Loop Hero, The Necromancer. Kinda amazing how much this is able to refresh the gameplay - for the lack of a better term - ahem, loop, in a game that is so deceptively simple on the surface. I wasn’t sure on this to begin with, especially as I don’t like rogues, but playing a couple of loops a day and usually only doing one or two loops in a sitting has made the game really addictive for me. I think maybe if you played this for hours on end it would be maddening, but it’s perfectly suited to the drop in and out handheld experience on the Switch I think. A real surprise gem and deffo on my “best of 2021” list for sure.
Wow, so unlocking the Necromancer was the key to clearing the second boss. Second run as a Necro, got to the boss for the first time and beat it on my first go. Sadly I had some sort of bug with the text so I missed all of the story associated with that boss, so that kinda sucks.
@Ralizah Yep! I am stuck on a few of the DLC unlocks and I think I am missing one character but having the dlc from the get go really helps keep the game from being grindy, but there is a LOT to do in this game. They do a mix of fetch quests and actual levels and I have to say I am glad for the fetch quests, there really is a lot to do. When I got to end credits I was like “oh I’ll clean up what’s left…wait why are more quests popping up?! Aww crap, there is post game…” and unlike katanakami where the post game was so insane that it put me off the game (Mahoroba is too long) I am still happily bouncing around and finishing quests.
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Say no more. I’m in. Wish I would’ve picked it up on sale recently but, I’ll grab it in the next.
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Something seems up with Mario Party Superstars matchmaking, for some reason only the MP1 boards (Yoshi's Tropical Island, Peach's Birthday Cake) appear.
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