@NEStalgia
Switch headphone audio is superb. It allows a direct connection to the audio source. The limit is literally just the quality of your headphones. I use Hifiman Arya (v3 with Stealth Magnet planar drivers) and the sound is just excellent.
If you're going to use wireless, I recommend a headset with dedicated wireless USB-C dongle. You won't get great sound but you'll get far better than Bluetooth, which was virtually unusable for me on Switch. It's one thing to listen to music where delay doesn't matter. It's quite another to play a game where audio sync issues stick out like a sore thumb.
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@JaxonH It's not so much that Switch's DAC is bad or anything, it's just that a majority of games seem to have pretty compressed audio on Switch. I mean it's not "bad", but it's not worth whipping out the planars for. Docked, I have the planars, though Though I do HDMI extraction and run it through some external switching and equipment first, so all the consoles feed the amp.
This is purely for handheld, so light and unintrusive is key. Definitely sold on bone conductors for handheld. Been doing that since they first came out, and it's just liberating not being isolated while playing. Obviously not highest SQ, but it's really cool for portable play. But...yeah, with wired ones out of production, and USB audio delay being an issue....maybe I'll have to try those knock-off wired ones.
@NEStalgia
Some games do, but most in my experience sound great. In fact you'd be surprised just how many Switch games have 5.1 surround. Not that that benefits headphones but any game with 5.1 is going to have, at the very least, decent stereo audio.
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They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
@JaxonH I should have seen it coming, but shamefully, I did not
@Anti-Matter I don't think they're any licenced IP or anything. If they happen to look close to SM or Aikatsu designs, I think it's probably intentionally "inspired by" but not official 😆
I've followed the Game Builder Garage community very closely since launch and this is the most impressive thing I've seen. I got the game at launch and played the tutorials and tried to make something and gave up, everything I see people do with this game makes me want to make something in it even more.
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Pretty hype. I would've preferred the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster came before it, but I'll take it regardless. But between both it makes me wonder how far along Unsung Story is? I know it was available in early access a couple years ago, but I haven't been following its progress.
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Imo, Final Fantasy Tactics is overrated. I'll gladly take a remaster because maybe that could modernize it enough to feel playable. But my goodness, I couldn't stand War of the Lions. So slow and sluggish, just downright painful trying to play that game.
I've never played Tactics Ogre beyond the first hr or so (SNES VC inject on 3DS). But I hear it's fantastic. And definitely the inspiration behind Triangle Strategy, which I love.
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