Ever wondered what would happen if Doom and Guitar Hero got it on and had a baby? BPM: Bullets Per Minute is what. It's an FPS roguelike with a focus on shooting, reloading and jumping to the game's music, and it looks pretty incredible – as you can see from the trailer for the PC version shown below.
As is tradition whenever a cool game hits PC, Awe Interactive – the developer behind the game – has been asked if there's any chance of a Switch port, and this is the reply that was given to Nintendo Life reader Adam Bardugo:
It's just a matter of time and ability for us, really. If the game does well on PC and we have enough skill without the team getting burnt out, it'll be on Switch. We don't want a bad port; we want the game to feel slick, so it's if we can achieve that. I think it's very much possible at 30fps. I'd like to get more though. But for now, we're focusing on the PC version.
While Switch owners are used to hearing this kind of sentiment, we'll still be crossing our fingers and toes that BPM does somehow make the leap over to Nintendo's console.
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Rogue-like rhythm FPS with procedurally-generated levels and inter-run persistent upgrades? Only flavor-of-the-month thing they're missing is...no, wait...they got them all.
Seriously though, would give this a shot on switch, or if I ever upgrade my PC.
Hands up - who does want a bad port?
So me it sounds like hell, not thanks
Why bother? It will be 30fps and not worth playing
@gcunit "wants" or "has a seeming immunity to"? After all, I've had a blast of a time with one too many games that others labelled "bad ports".
@nhSnork hell yeah! I remember when having a great time with a game was way more important than resolution, FPS and all this *****! I’ve just finished playing AC Bloodlines for psp and had a great time even though people telling this game’s graphics suck. People are too spoiled nowadays!
@freitasXsau You're right , this game is perfect for the Switch !
That reminds me, I still gotta check out P.N.03 on Gamecube at some point.
@KingSinister the biggest problem nowadays in my opinion is the legion of haters, without any real reason! Free hate that’s all! If you don’t like the game, don’t say anything and don’t buy it, don’t play it! Go find a game or a console that makes you happy! I own a ps4 and it’s been MONTHS I don’t play because it’s not convenient. I ONLY play on the go, switch is my main console and I don’t care about 60fps, I care about having the best time playing a game!
This is a better response than the Wii U days where the devs would say no or just tell people there were no plans for a Wii U version.
@freitasXsau online people are gonna be fuming when they see the next generation of hardware playing games at 30fps. Lol
I don't blame development teams though. The vast majority of people watch a YouTube trailer and visuals is the first thing they look for.
@kobashi100 I teach basic programming for kids, and basic programming is very complicated. People think that it’s very easy to develop or port a game. Empathy is what’s lacking!
I’m just tired you know? This is the first time I’m writing in a forum in my life, because I’m really tired of all this free-hate. People who care about visuals, from the bottom of my heart, go buy a PS4 pro or ps5, or even a killer PC. That’s okay, but stop coming to a NINTENDO SWITCH website talking bad things about the company or the console. You’re not going to make any money out of it. Play your game lá at 60fps and be happy. I prefer my portable gaming life. My last console was a PS Vita and bought my switch lite last week because portable gaming is the only thing I go for.
@freitasXsau I've noticed Nintendo sites in general tend to attract trolls. Regardless of what system it is, the legion always comes at some point. Ironically, it seems to be Sony fans doing the bulk of the trolling. They claim to have the most games to play, but talk the most crap (even on Xbox sites, tbh). Xbox fans rarely troll Nintendo (or Sony) sites.
Anyway, it's a pretty bad way to spend time. Imo, of course.
@IronMan30 totally agree with you! This “my console is better than yours” war is ridiculous. Totally childish stuff.
@freitasXsau it looks like saying you dislike the "trolls" that disagree with you is the new "trolling". While you are entitled to enjoy poorly ported games, I personally have a problem with being marketed to with PC footage and then finding a different experience when I boot it up. I love low poly and pixel art, partly because I like the aesthetic and value gameplay over graphics, but also because it is much more likely to run properly on switch. I don't need ps5 games, just games that work. Imagine a rhythm based game like the one above that suffered from slowdown, frame skipping and poor control latency. How would you follow the rhythm?
@Moistnado you’re right, it’s not honest to buy something like you said, marketed with pc footage and receive another thing. I just don’t get all the hate towards something. I guess I’m too old for all this fight hahaha For example, that Ark game you know? The game in my opinion is not good in any platform, but the switch port is somewhat unnecessary. It’s one of the worst ports I’ve seen so far, I can be wrong, but it’s really ugly. I think a lot of money was wasted, and they didn’t get the reception they’d like.
@IronMan30 I have to mentally prepare myself for comments here and in PushSquare--it doesn't help that Sammy at PushSquare actively encourages trashing Nintendo with the way some of the articles are written, such as trashing Nintendo for taking down fan games in Dreams that used Nintendo IP.
Most noticeable was the Zelda BotW-like game that led to a Chinese Nintendo fan smashing the PS4 but over in PS, they reported it as just another crazy Nintendo fan. Or how they talk about how the port-begging here is pathetic then forget about review bombing Astral Chain, and getting mad that Horizon Zero Dawn gets a PC port...
I wonder why it's so hard to just let people like what they like and not need to trash Nintendo fans or vice-versa. Me trashing Sony or Microsoft doesn't make me enjoy Nintendo games more. Someone trashing Nintendo games doesn't convert me to being a loyal Sony fan.
@Severian I don't have a PS console, so I don't visit pushsquare that often. The few times I have gone, it does seem to be the biggest echo chamber between it, PureXbox and NL. They have easily the heaviest bias towards their favorite console manufacturer of the three related sites.
Also, Pushsquare does seem to be from the mods themselves. The Xbox mods seem to be the mildest in inviting trolls and posting heavily biased articles for or against other consoles or Xbox.
Funnily enough, NL does encourage some of the trolling on its own site towards its supposed favorite console manufacturer, unlike the other two. I guess what I'm getting at is Nintendo "fans" hate Nintendo as much as the trolls but don't troll much, while Xbox fans have become even keel (and troll a little more than Nintendo fans) and Sony fans are just the most delusional of the bunch (and tend to troll the most, instead of actually playing their favorite consoles).Perhaps Sony fans don't have as much to play as they let on?
Also, I hit the mute button daily on this site...lol. In any case, trolls aren't worth the effort.
@freitasXsau I love good ports and good ports take time, effort and a little bit of luck. The Alien Isolation port is miraculous. The Wii-U ports to switch work really well 90% of the time.
What I do not like is the trend of releasing a game with significant issues, continue promoting it when there are clear problems, waiting for complaints, announcing a patch, releasing a patch that has no impact on the issues, getting more complaints, announcing another patch, releasing paid dlc- which they worked on instead of a patch, offering 10% off the game as a sale when when it still isn't in a playable state, promising a patch is still coming, putting on a half price sale while people who paid full price are still waiting for a patch to play it, releasing another game, the one they made when they should have been fixing the broken one they forgot about.
There should be a quality assurance system on the eshop, I think steam has a good refund system where you can get money back if you are immediately met with disappointment. I think this would stop most of the ranting about performance of games, and also encourage devs to release games in a more finished state.
@IronMan30 I find Xbox to be the least bothersome--not because I have yet to meet an Xbox fan who hates on Nintendo, but because most of those criticisms just come down to graphics or Nintendo's business model, but then they can't really say much in praise of Microsoft either.
Yep--PushSquare actively encourages console war mentality from the editors, but a lot of the users there have been pretty nice with me so far when directly interacting rather than when they speak in general.
Most of my experience being trolled was actually here on NL--whether it was someone who complained I was going off the flow of conversation which was off-topic (yes, I was called a troll for staying on topic because it didn't match the flow of conversation) and another time because someone said complaining about some game prices being too high on the e-shop just means people are poor and poor people don't deserve to play video games or even be gifted consoles and games.
For all the good games on Xbox, PS, and Nintendo consoles, I still don't get the need to go trash a company when they could be playing games as you say, haha.
Love the avatar pic you have--Bill Hicks was and still is a genius alongside George Carlin.
interesting reminds me of quake
This game reminds me of Crypt of the Necrodancer, but I wonder how much harder or accessible it will be given its nature as an FPS.
there's another rhythm shooter i saw on the gorilla collective, metal: hellsinger, oh looking it up looks like there's yet another, Audica.
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