I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom and Rocket League, like always. I'm enjoying building vertical aircraft. Tall skinny flying contraptions. It's fun, partly thanks to elevator rails. I'm also loving Dodonpachi DOJ, Zerofire, and the Telenet Shooting Collection. Another fun one I'm playing is Salaryman Shi, which is like a strange Mario World rom hack. Good platformer! Also on Switch I'm enjoying BOTW, Mario RPG, Advance Wars 1+2, F Zero 99, and Pan Dimensional Conga Combat (sweet arcade style game that makes me think of Jeff Minter). I've also been enjoying the new OLED Deck by playing Teardown, Shredders, Flying Tank (awesome looking shoot em up that runs locked at 90fps), Cultic, and BeamNG.
I got this last night and played for awhile and it is awesome. I love the graphics, music, and gameplay in DOJ! I was already very interested, but this excellent review lit a fire under me and got me to buy it quick! Thank you! M2 does amazing work, especially with their elite ShotTriggers releases. Can't wait to playe more of this, and see what they release next year.
@gcunit Shoot em ups do seem like a different beast than other genres. I'm a big shoot em up fan, so I'm speaking from inside this view. Like, I'm strongly hoping for GunNac, Parodius, Battle Garegga, and other awesome shmups to come to Switch (even though there's like 500 on the system already!). I can play those games over and over and they're exciting in a unique way. I'm now thinking I can't explain this... Anyways, I was trying to say that I can totally understand how if, for example, M2 released Zanac and GunNac in a deluxe Shotriggers collection it would be worthy of a 10/10 (even though they're old NES games).
I tried this for a few minutes years ago on PS4 and was unimpressed with the uneven frame rate. Yesterday I played it on OLED Deck and it has the same jittery stuff in the beginning area. I also don't think it has much visual options, like Kingdom New Lands and a few other games that feel like console ports to Steam. Anyways, I finally actually got started and can see how awesome this game could be. It got up to 90 fps once I got to a mostly barren planet, but more importantly it felt fun to decipher alien text and just experience the exploration the game offers. I got stuck, and didn't know how proceed, so I quit playing, but hopefully I'll get back into it. Lovely music, dialogue, 4 eyed characters, etc.
Tears of the Kingdom. Just always feels fresh and exciting to explore. I don't understand it, but I'm glad because it's so fun! I just got Rytmos or whatever, where you do simple puzzles to create music. It's an awesome little game with kalimbas, gamelan, German electronic music, Ethiopian jazz, Hawaiian music, etc. I love it. Also Rocket League, F zero 99, Switch Sports, Mario Maker 2, Mario RPG, Mario Wonder, BOTW, oh qnd Marble It Up! Ultra has an awesome weekly challenge called grasshopper. It is remarkable how much it feels like being a grasshopper!
@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah, there's many games I try briefly, sometimes very briefly (like if the frame rate has problems). Also, I've played more like 700 plus games cuz I use two other users on my Switch, one for my Japanese store buying account and one for demos or likely crappy games that I don't want a game save stored for on my main account. Plus I play many, many hours of Rocket League on my laptop (and now also on OLED Deck). If I didn't love Rocket League so much TOTK would probably have over 600 hours.
Oh boy... 666 games played a total of 1,805 hours! Top 3: TOTK 336 hrs, BOTW 138 hrs, and Advance Wars 1+2 65 hrs. Metroid Dread was number 1 in January, the Metroid Prime won February, then Return to Dreamland Deluxe won March. So many awesome games this year. It's kinda too bad about Tears of the Kingdom being so good. Pikmin 4 and other excellent titles massively lost out on playtime due to the joy of exploring Hyrule.
Boosting the frame rate up to 60 (120fps on current gen consoles), and then adding this amazing cornucopia of add ons makes Doom 1993 one of the best new old releases ever. And Quake is right up there in the same lofty altitude! So cool that we keep getting awesome stuff for these games.
EDIT : maybe 120fps on Xbox Series X and PS 5 is only for Quake 1 and 2, I'm not sure. But I was recently blown away at how awesome Doom 1993 looks running at 90fps on Deck OLED. It looks better than Doom 1993 running on my 144fps laptop, which has a non-OLED crappy motion blurry LCD screen.
This is an extensive discussion, wow! I don't think he was trying to be dismissive of fans of more linear zelda games, but who knows. I've liked all Zeldas from the 1980s to now. Breath of the Wild still amazes me and I play it almost daily. Tears of the Kingdom is my favorite game ever. I met someone a few days ago who plays it as much as me. They didn't even know about the glorious elevator rail! Lol. So I told them the places you can get it, how you can't fuse it, but you can break it off of an autobuild if you on any older version of the game (and just use an apple or something if you're on the current patch). OK, that's enough. I love TOTK and BOTW and all other zelda games.
I'm continuously entranced by Tears of the Kingdom. In this replay I just got shining steps and quick recharge back. It is so amazing that after hundreds of hours the overworld still feels fresh to me. I also often marvel at how beautiful TOTK is. I'm playing it on a 32 inch TV with motion interpolation mostly keeping the game looking like it's 60fps. I love TOTK.
Also keep looking for various things in BOTW. I just hope the next Zelda feels as rich and fun to explore and play around in it's world. Also playing Advance Wars 1+2, Brotato, Mario Wonder, Mario RPG, XllZEAL (12 ZEAL, great shoot em up), Mario Maker 2 (I love Kaizo lite levels), F-zero 99, 1080 on NSO, Samba de Amigo, Ring Fit Adventure, Fitness Boxing, and Atari 50. And I'm always playing Rocket League, these days on laptop, Deck OLED, and docked on Switch.
Also am playing lots of amazing games at 90fps on Deck Oled. Distance is a futuristic racing game that looks and plays incredibly well, super sweet game. There's lots of games on Switch that I vastly prefer on Deck OLED because they can have double or triple the frame rate. A good example is Inertial Drift, which looks incredible with it's rich purple/lavender world flying by at 90fps. I've been trying to find a shoot em up that runs at 90, but no luck so far (all are stuck at 60fps).
EDIT: I tried Natsuki Chronicles and it runs at 90fps and looks gorgeous in motion! I wish more shoot em ups supported high frame rates!
This game has the best glitches I've ever seen. For me, the discovery of the elevator railing was like a Biblical creation moment, lol. Or like the caveman discovering fire. And it is hilarious when people post videos about the glitches (acting like the game has problems), when it is so polished that I never would've encountered a glitch in 300 hours of gameplay if I didn't watch YouTube and read the hyrule engineering stuff. I hope they let us play version 1.0 off a cartridge on the next console! I'd hate to have to choose between higher frame rate vs more freedom (like with building with elevator rails).
It's always the frame rate. Tears of the Kingdom, Kingdom New Lands, Party Golf (at least on Switch), and many others just need higher frame rates (and more steady, or variable refresh rate capable hardware).
I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom and still can't believe how good it is. Just perfectly crafted for my taste and gameplay style. I'm also enjoying the hell out of Breath of the Wild. So fun to explore in that game and come across korok puzzles I don't remember, shrines I sometimes remember, etc. I'm also having fun with Get a Grip Chip, Mario RPG, Mario Wonder, Mario Maker 2, Fzero 99, Tetris 99, Worms WMD, Warioware (get it together and move it), Advance Wars 1+2, Switch Sports, Ring Fit Adventure, Doom (more new free download able levels), Quake (same, Spiritworld, or whatever it's called), and Give me toilet paper! I've also been really loving the Steam Deck OLED. First game I played was Kingdom Eighties and it runs locked at 90fps. It looks astonishing. I also played Dirt Rally, Tinykin, Rocket League, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Trackmania Stadium (wish Trackmania would come to Switch!), and Doom 1993 and they all run at a lovely 90fps! I messed with Doom 2016, Wreckfest, and Descenders and could get them up to 90fps, but Descenders has some pacing or other issue similar to Kingdom New Lands so it always has chop and stutter. I played Wreckfest at 90, 76, and many other frame rates down to 18 and even 10fps. So fun to be able to choose a frame rate! The OLED Deck is the nicest system I've ever owned. I hope Nintendo can bring similar quality to Super Switch 2, but with variable refresh rate! It would be OK also if Nintendo uses a higher hz screen like 120hz (like my phone has that I'm typing this on!). This OLED Deck kinda stresses me out since I love to play as many games as possible on Switch, but I'll want to buy multiplatform games only on Steam now so I can have 90 glorious frames per second (I don't care that AAA mega 100GB download games don't run at 90fps on Deck, I play lighter games for higher smoothness). If Nintendo releases a system that can play Tears of the Kingdom at 90fps I'll swear off all other systems, lol!
The most awe inspiring game I've ever played is Tears of the Kingdom, so it'll make sense if it wins. If it doesn't that's no big deal. I can't believe how generously packed with awesome stuff TOTK is. There's many armor/clothing pieces I haven't gotten yet, including one that gives you an awesome new way to attack. There's about 115 caves I haven't explored yet, at least 20 lightroots I haven't lit yet, and who knows how many side quests and koroks I haven't experienced yet. And I've played the game hundreds of hours. Of course I've spent plenty of time messing around, building ridiculous 5 story horse trailers, aircrafts that look like visual neurosis (with like 16 elevator rails going far in many directions), bouncing off bubbul frog's opaque bubbles in beautiful caves, and repeatedly using recall on sky rocks just to fly around and observe the beautiful light, clouds, and landscapes, and then gliding back to my horse to continue wandering about. Also, the theme that's in the big reveal trailer, the subtle shrine music, the Lookout Landing song, and the Colgera theme music (really the whole build up of music as you ascend into the sky onto the boats and over the circular wall of storm clouds) make this my favorite game soundtrack. Plus I already loved the Lurelin, Hateno, and Karariko themes. The caves also had expertly done sound design. Oh, and the Depths have awesome music/sound too!
@WrongChops Others said the same above. I also agree. Aside from the absolutely incredible Rocket League, Super Arcade Soccer is my favorite football/soccer game on Switch!
@Rykdrew No, way it works is you can see every move the other making until they end their turn and pass it to you. The online etiquette is to play quickly so the match goes relatively fast. There's a website or something where you can play Advance Wars by web, it might be more like passing online chess moves via email. But it could also be real-time, go quickly, I'm not sure. I love Warioware Get It Together, but haven't beaten it yet. I don't think I've unlocked online wariocup. Sounds fun though!
I'm playing a lot of Advance Wars Reboot Camp. I internet searched for, and found, a bunch of people who posted their friend codes. So I'm playing these ridiculous 1.5 hour online battles using Sami, Max, Andy, Lash, etc. I like super small maps, so that's what I'm creating, sharing, and sending online invites with.
I hope they make Switch Wars, or Switch 2 Wars, or Advance Wars DS for Switch. It's so fun playing the old GBA games and unlocking and buying music, COs, etc.
I'm also making no progress at all in Tears of the Kingdom. I love making no progress in that game! I'm thinking about trying this new no power flight thing people discovered. They launch an elevator rail plane with the propeller from the far Eastern shrine while having the front wagon wheels partially in water. It's amazing that someone discovered this way to fly with no zonai devices, electricity, batteries, etc. (Well, it does use a steering stick, but no fans or anything you'd normally think of to use for flying)
I'm also looking for something in BOTW and really enjoying discovering korok puzzles, vistas, shrines, and just exploring.
Also playing Mario RPG, Ring Fit Adventure, Rocket League, Bad North, Switch Sports, Mario Maker 2, Mario Wonder, and the ever green Kingdom New Lands.
I really just want Wipeout 64. I still love that game. But I'd really want it spruced up too, so maybe I'd prefer an eshop release. If it just ran at 60fps that alone would be a dream I'd play for many many hours! Would also be cool to have Blast Corps, Body Harvest, San Fransisco Rush (all 3!), Tetrisphere (I've played it relatively recently on steam deck and I still love it), The New Tetris, the Micky Mouse Tetris game, Robotron 64, and Worms Armageddon. I'd also love it if they would fix Fzero X. It runs at 60fps on original hardware and on my Wii U virtual console version, but drops frames on Switch. I can tell it's at a lower resolution on Wii U, so I'd like an option to choose a smoother lower resolution.
Parodius next please! But Felix the Cat on NES is a blast. Love playing that game. Would also be great to get a bunch of old Bomberman games on Switch. But please release Parodius in some form, collection, or remake on Switch. That would be so fun!
@Shadeon_Koopa Karmazoo is great. Picked it up last night after reading about it here on Nintendolife. What a fun little gem with rich, Rich voice acting and good music.
I've been playing Scientist on Doom 93. That game has gotten better post release support than any other I can think of! Just realized I was talking about the Switch release, but that definitely applies to the original PC release.
Also Tears of the freaking Kingdom, BOTW, Mario RPG, Warioware Move It!, Advance Wars reboot camp (I love it even though they hacked the frame rate in half), Mario Wonder, Kingdom games (mostly 2 Crowns cuz it runs best on Switch, Kingdom Eighties targets 30fps on Switch — a console exclusive! Lol), Aleste Collection, Switch Sports, and exercise games like Taiko drum, Samba de Amigo, fitness boxing, jump rope app from the pandemic, and ring fit adventure. Also been enjoying Karmazoo thanks to Nintendolife. It sounds like it is voiced by Dracula, nuff said.
This game is fun! And I also really like the 60fps video sequences. I like being able to play in handheld and everything being 60fps, versus having to use my TV in docked mode to motion interpolate video sequences so they look like a smooth 60fps. Also, this game has some heavenly music!
Another great game analysis video from DF. I enjoy the Link's Awakening remake in spite of it's frame drops, so I'm sure I'll love this remake. I've never played the original and am excited to play it this way for the first time.
@Paej13 I had the main, biggest thing about TOTK spoiled by a youtuber I watch. It ended up being OK though. I cried when I heard it, then would mostly just have my heartstrings pulled while in game. Was kind of cool how the way the Zelda thing(what she does) was spoiled didn't bother me. No, actually I also remember crying when I beat the game for the first time. Beautiful
@Sonicka well said. I think I could list 50 or 60 things about the game that engender a sense of wonder. I'm playing both BOTW and TOTK a lot these days and one thing I'm really appreciating in TOTK is the lack of guardians. My favorite thing is exploring, wondering. Guardians ruin that vibe! Gloom hands, Gleeoks, and Lynels can do that, but they are placed better, or don't chase me as far, or something about them just works to allow me to traipze around Hyrule in the manner I enjoy. I also love that TOTK is like the best Pilotwings game ever. I've built aircraft that drift, it's so fun!
I also want to say that in spite of TOTK being by far my favorite game ever I can understand how some don't like it. I watch YouTube videos of TOTK gameplay and noticed some people not being able to complete early shrines, not ever getting comfortable with ultrahand, and other stuff. Makes sense, there's excellent games that I'm not into, or won't even ever try playing.
@Emacster There's what, like 200 caves and wells? Just the caves and wells make this better than every other game! Such a magical game in my experience!
I take issue with the "no milk" aspect! After playing every session of TOTK I almost always feel like I did a week ago when I went to the local grocery store. This awesome local dairy company had lots of $6 off coupons taped on their gallons of milk. So I got a gallon of my favorite organic milk for $1! That kind of generosity is what I experience everytime I fart around in Hyrule. I've bought the very nice hardback guidebook, but never open it since it would only reduce the joyfulness of discovery.
AND, I've been having this same general experience with Breath of the Wild, as if TOTK has retrained me on how to enjoy and project mystery and positivity onto it's older sister. Now, if Nintendo would just release a system that could play these siblings at 60fps, or 90fps, or God bless it even 120fps, I would probably not have time for anything else! The atmosphere, mist, clouds, climbing, mostly subtle music cues, dyeable clothing, catchable blue horses, buildable elevator rail jet planes, geoglyphs, 150 CAVES, etc etc etc are all so awesome it is actually incredible.
Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild are both top of my list to play everyday. I usually save TOTK sort of as dessert after I've played other games, then am too tired to keep playing. Can't believe how that game feels like childhood Christmas everytime I start it up and start wondering around not caring what I do or if I accomplish anything. Also playing Warioware Move It!(it's a super fun exercise game!), Super Famicom Wars with English translation on Steam Deck, Mario Wonder (amazingly fun game, love playing levels over and over), Taito no tatsujin festival whatever, Switch Sports, Rocket League, Kingdom New Lands, and Psyvariar (went on sale, was so happy to get it again after selling my physical copy a few years ago).
Sell it, like I hope to do with my Deck if I can get the 90fps capable OLED Deck. Seriously, with so many of my games digital I couldn't use the old OLED Switch for much.
For me Tears of the Kingdom is like game of the eternity. It has reignited my love for Breath of the Wild. I've had approximately 20 moments in the game where I couldn't believe how good it is, how surprising it is, or something awesome and remarkable. Also, since I'm highly into my Nintendo fan boy thing these days, all the winners would be Switch software. Getting Metroid Prime Remastered, Tears of the Kingdom, Pikmin 4, Mario Wonder, and Mario RPG Remake in one year is incredible. Plus, I really enjoy the Kirby remaster from the beginning of the year too(and many other releases this year).
@thesilverbrick Gamers have enjoyed frame rates above 100 for decades (there are awesome old CRTs that go up to 180fps, maybe higher). I didn't get to experience it until relatively recently because I've mostly stuck to consoles. I can say that I really enjoy the smoothness of 144fps. It's very noticeable to me.
@blindsquirrel One of the YouTube videos about the new OLED Deck talks about how awesome Dead Cells looks on the new screen running at 90fps. Lots of lightweight games can run at 90fps or higher, and will more responsive and beautiful for it.
I think it was the Linus tech tips video where they said Valve was evasive when asked why this awesome new 90htz OLED screen doesn't have Variable Refresh Rate (VRR). They conjectured that this oled panel has been made possible by the economies of scale created by the Switch Oled, but those economies don't play out well if you try to add VRR. It's a bummer, but I'm still really wanting to get one of these. If Nintendo releases a handheld that does 90fps, HDR, and OLED, and can run BOTW and Tears of the Kingdom (at that awesome 90fps smoothness), then I'm done for. I won't want to do anything else but ride a horse or fly an elevator rail aircraft around Hyrule in smooth heaven!
I love Warioware Move It. I haven't played it in multi-player yet, but have had a blast playing single player. I even had fun playing a couple 2 player games, but holding both joy con so I was player 1 and 2. It's a super fun game that I'm enjoying more than Get It Together, which I also really enjoy playing.
It looks like they fixed the frame rate for this game in this release! Back when this came out I was so disappointed at how choppy it looked and played. Cool that they brought both Castle Crashers and this up to a normal old frame rate from decades ago, lol. I'm going to have to get this and see what I think of it!
@NintendoDad No, it just released on eshop. I think it's Eigengrau. By chance I did just re-download Xeno Crisis to my Switch a couple days ago, but haven't played it.
I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom, Breath of the Wild, Warioware Move It, Mario Wonder, Daioh, the other new shoot em up where you can shoot in 4 directions (it's good, just forgot the name), Rocket League, subpar pool (love this game), and Floppy Knights. Oh, also some Pikmin 4, F zero 99, Parodius (on an emulation handheld rgb350 or whatever), and I'm wanting to play beam ng drive, but haven't gotten it yet.
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (Christmas 2023 Edition)
I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom and Rocket League, like always. I'm enjoying building vertical aircraft. Tall skinny flying contraptions. It's fun, partly thanks to elevator rails. I'm also loving Dodonpachi DOJ, Zerofire, and the Telenet Shooting Collection. Another fun one I'm playing is Salaryman Shi, which is like a strange Mario World rom hack. Good platformer! Also on Switch I'm enjoying BOTW, Mario RPG, Advance Wars 1+2, F Zero 99, and Pan Dimensional Conga Combat (sweet arcade style game that makes me think of Jeff Minter).
I've also been enjoying the new OLED Deck by playing Teardown, Shredders, Flying Tank (awesome looking shoot em up that runs locked at 90fps), Cultic, and BeamNG.
Re: Review: Dodonpachi DaiOuJou Blissful Death Re:Incarnation (Switch) - Poetic Bullet-Hell Perfection
I got this last night and played for awhile and it is awesome. I love the graphics, music, and gameplay in DOJ! I was already very interested, but this excellent review lit a fire under me and got me to buy it quick! Thank you! M2 does amazing work, especially with their elite ShotTriggers releases. Can't wait to playe more of this, and see what they release next year.
Re: Review: Dodonpachi DaiOuJou Blissful Death Re:Incarnation (Switch) - Poetic Bullet-Hell Perfection
@MARl0 I wish all M2 stuff would release globally on Switch! Especially their number 1 release ever, Battle Garegga!
Re: Review: Dodonpachi DaiOuJou Blissful Death Re:Incarnation (Switch) - Poetic Bullet-Hell Perfection
@gcunit Shoot em ups do seem like a different beast than other genres. I'm a big shoot em up fan, so I'm speaking from inside this view. Like, I'm strongly hoping for GunNac, Parodius, Battle Garegga, and other awesome shmups to come to Switch (even though there's like 500 on the system already!). I can play those games over and over and they're exciting in a unique way. I'm now thinking I can't explain this... Anyways, I was trying to say that I can totally understand how if, for example, M2 released Zanac and GunNac in a deluxe Shotriggers collection it would be worthy of a 10/10 (even though they're old NES games).
Re: Review: Outer Wilds (Switch) - A Sublime Spacewalk That Stutters Can't Spoil
I tried this for a few minutes years ago on PS4 and was unimpressed with the uneven frame rate. Yesterday I played it on OLED Deck and it has the same jittery stuff in the beginning area. I also don't think it has much visual options, like Kingdom New Lands and a few other games that feel like console ports to Steam. Anyways, I finally actually got started and can see how awesome this game could be. It got up to 90 fps once I got to a mostly barren planet, but more importantly it felt fun to decipher alien text and just experience the exploration the game offers. I got stuck, and didn't know how proceed, so I quit playing, but hopefully I'll get back into it. Lovely music, dialogue, 4 eyed characters, etc.
Re: Review: Outer Wilds (Switch) - A Sublime Spacewalk That Stutters Can't Spoil
@GravyThief they are randomly selected from the pool of screenshots. Don't think there's ever text related to the image.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 16th)
Tears of the Kingdom. Just always feels fresh and exciting to explore. I don't understand it, but I'm glad because it's so fun!
I just got Rytmos or whatever, where you do simple puzzles to create music. It's an awesome little game with kalimbas, gamelan, German electronic music, Ethiopian jazz, Hawaiian music, etc. I love it.
Also Rocket League, F zero 99, Switch Sports, Mario Maker 2, Mario RPG, Mario Wonder, BOTW, oh qnd Marble It Up! Ultra has an awesome weekly challenge called grasshopper. It is remarkable how much it feels like being a grasshopper!
Re: Your 'Nintendo Switch Year In Review 2023' Stats Are Available Now
@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah, there's many games I try briefly, sometimes very briefly (like if the frame rate has problems). Also, I've played more like 700 plus games cuz I use two other users on my Switch, one for my Japanese store buying account and one for demos or likely crappy games that I don't want a game save stored for on my main account. Plus I play many, many hours of Rocket League on my laptop (and now also on OLED Deck). If I didn't love Rocket League so much TOTK would probably have over 600 hours.
Re: Your 'Nintendo Switch Year In Review 2023' Stats Are Available Now
Oh boy... 666 games played a total of 1,805 hours! Top 3: TOTK 336 hrs, BOTW 138 hrs, and Advance Wars 1+2 65 hrs.
Metroid Dread was number 1 in January, the Metroid Prime won February, then Return to Dreamland Deluxe won March. So many awesome games this year. It's kinda too bad about Tears of the Kingdom being so good. Pikmin 4 and other excellent titles massively lost out on playtime due to the joy of exploring Hyrule.
Re: DOOM, DOOM II And Quake Just Got New Free Add-Ons, Rip And Tear Today
Boosting the frame rate up to 60 (120fps on current gen consoles), and then adding this amazing cornucopia of add ons makes Doom 1993 one of the best new old releases ever. And Quake is right up there in the same lofty altitude! So cool that we keep getting awesome stuff for these games.
EDIT : maybe 120fps on Xbox Series X and PS 5 is only for Quake 1 and 2, I'm not sure. But I was recently blown away at how awesome Doom 1993 looks running at 90fps on Deck OLED. It looks better than Doom 1993 running on my 144fps laptop, which has a non-OLED crappy motion blurry LCD screen.
Re: Disney Illusion Island Announces Free 'Keeper Up' Update, Out This Week
This is a fun game. I'll check out this new update for sure.
Re: Zelda Producer Responds To Fans Who Want A More "Traditional Linear" Adventure
This is an extensive discussion, wow! I don't think he was trying to be dismissive of fans of more linear zelda games, but who knows. I've liked all Zeldas from the 1980s to now. Breath of the Wild still amazes me and I play it almost daily. Tears of the Kingdom is my favorite game ever. I met someone a few days ago who plays it as much as me. They didn't even know about the glorious elevator rail! Lol. So I told them the places you can get it, how you can't fuse it, but you can break it off of an autobuild if you on any older version of the game (and just use an apple or something if you're on the current patch). OK, that's enough. I love TOTK and BOTW and all other zelda games.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 9th)
I'm continuously entranced by Tears of the Kingdom. In this replay I just got shining steps and quick recharge back. It is so amazing that after hundreds of hours the overworld still feels fresh to me. I also often marvel at how beautiful TOTK is. I'm playing it on a 32 inch TV with motion interpolation mostly keeping the game looking like it's 60fps. I love TOTK.
Also keep looking for various things in BOTW. I just hope the next Zelda feels as rich and fun to explore and play around in it's world. Also playing Advance Wars 1+2, Brotato, Mario Wonder, Mario RPG, XllZEAL (12 ZEAL, great shoot em up), Mario Maker 2 (I love Kaizo lite levels), F-zero 99, 1080 on NSO, Samba de Amigo, Ring Fit Adventure, Fitness Boxing, and Atari 50. And I'm always playing Rocket League, these days on laptop, Deck OLED, and docked on Switch.
Also am playing lots of amazing games at 90fps on Deck Oled. Distance is a futuristic racing game that looks and plays incredibly well, super sweet game. There's lots of games on Switch that I vastly prefer on Deck OLED because they can have double or triple the frame rate. A good example is Inertial Drift, which looks incredible with it's rich purple/lavender world flying by at 90fps. I've been trying to find a shoot em up that runs at 90, but no luck so far (all are stuck at 60fps).
EDIT: I tried Natsuki Chronicles and it runs at 90fps and looks gorgeous in motion! I wish more shoot em ups supported high frame rates!
Re: Round Up: Everything Announced At The Game Awards 2023 - All Switch Game Reveals & Trailers
I'm glad I read this page just to get the line super F from anti matter. I needed to laugh!
I'm kinda put out because TOTK didn't win every award ever, but it's OK because I know how endlessly amazing it is!
Re: Random: Explore Hyrule In First-Person With This Zelda: TOTK Glitch
This game has the best glitches I've ever seen. For me, the discovery of the elevator railing was like a Biblical creation moment, lol. Or like the caveman discovering fire. And it is hilarious when people post videos about the glitches (acting like the game has problems), when it is so polished that I never would've encountered a glitch in 300 hours of gameplay if I didn't watch YouTube and read the hyrule engineering stuff.
I hope they let us play version 1.0 off a cartridge on the next console! I'd hate to have to choose between higher frame rate vs more freedom (like with building with elevator rails).
Re: Round Up: Every Switch Announcement At Day Of The Devs - The Game Awards 2023 Edition
The Llamasoft Jeff Minter Story game is a dream come true. Can't wait to learn more and play tons of his older games that I've never seen before!
Re: Talking Point: What Are The Worst Parts Of Your Favourite Games?
It's always the frame rate. Tears of the Kingdom, Kingdom New Lands, Party Golf (at least on Switch), and many others just need higher frame rates (and more steady, or variable refresh rate capable hardware).
Re: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Is The Next Entry In Digital Eclipse's Gold Master Series
Holy fing crap this is awesome news! Can't wait to play this!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 2nd)
I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom and still can't believe how good it is. Just perfectly crafted for my taste and gameplay style. I'm also enjoying the hell out of Breath of the Wild. So fun to explore in that game and come across korok puzzles I don't remember, shrines I sometimes remember, etc. I'm also having fun with Get a Grip Chip, Mario RPG, Mario Wonder, Mario Maker 2, Fzero 99, Tetris 99, Worms WMD, Warioware (get it together and move it), Advance Wars 1+2, Switch Sports, Ring Fit Adventure, Doom (more new free download able levels), Quake (same, Spiritworld, or whatever it's called), and Give me toilet paper!
I've also been really loving the Steam Deck OLED. First game I played was Kingdom Eighties and it runs locked at 90fps. It looks astonishing. I also played Dirt Rally, Tinykin, Rocket League, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Trackmania Stadium (wish Trackmania would come to Switch!), and Doom 1993 and they all run at a lovely 90fps! I messed with Doom 2016, Wreckfest, and Descenders and could get them up to 90fps, but Descenders has some pacing or other issue similar to Kingdom New Lands so it always has chop and stutter. I played Wreckfest at 90, 76, and many other frame rates down to 18 and even 10fps. So fun to be able to choose a frame rate! The OLED Deck is the nicest system I've ever owned. I hope Nintendo can bring similar quality to Super Switch 2, but with variable refresh rate! It would be OK also if Nintendo uses a higher hz screen like 120hz (like my phone has that I'm typing this on!). This OLED Deck kinda stresses me out since I love to play as many games as possible on Switch, but I'll want to buy multiplatform games only on Steam now so I can have 90 glorious frames per second (I don't care that AAA mega 100GB download games don't run at 90fps on Deck, I play lighter games for higher smoothness). If Nintendo releases a system that can play Tears of the Kingdom at 90fps I'll swear off all other systems, lol!
Re: Nintendo Reminds Fans Zelda Is Up For Nomination At This Year's Game Awards
The most awe inspiring game I've ever played is Tears of the Kingdom, so it'll make sense if it wins. If it doesn't that's no big deal. I can't believe how generously packed with awesome stuff TOTK is. There's many armor/clothing pieces I haven't gotten yet, including one that gives you an awesome new way to attack. There's about 115 caves I haven't explored yet, at least 20 lightroots I haven't lit yet, and who knows how many side quests and koroks I haven't experienced yet. And I've played the game hundreds of hours. Of course I've spent plenty of time messing around, building ridiculous 5 story horse trailers, aircrafts that look like visual neurosis (with like 16 elevator rails going far in many directions), bouncing off bubbul frog's opaque bubbles in beautiful caves, and repeatedly using recall on sky rocks just to fly around and observe the beautiful light, clouds, and landscapes, and then gliding back to my horse to continue wandering about. Also, the theme that's in the big reveal trailer, the subtle shrine music, the Lookout Landing song, and the Colgera theme music (really the whole build up of music as you ascend into the sky onto the boats and over the circular wall of storm clouds) make this my favorite game soundtrack. Plus I already loved the Lurelin, Hateno, and Karariko themes. The caves also had expertly done sound design. Oh, and the Depths have awesome music/sound too!
Re: Best Nintendo Switch Football Games
@WrongChops Others said the same above. I also agree. Aside from the absolutely incredible Rocket League, Super Arcade Soccer is my favorite football/soccer game on Switch!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 25th)
@Rykdrew No, way it works is you can see every move the other making until they end their turn and pass it to you. The online etiquette is to play quickly so the match goes relatively fast. There's a website or something where you can play Advance Wars by web, it might be more like passing online chess moves via email. But it could also be real-time, go quickly, I'm not sure.
I love Warioware Get It Together, but haven't beaten it yet. I don't think I've unlocked online wariocup. Sounds fun though!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 25th)
I'm playing a lot of Advance Wars Reboot Camp. I internet searched for, and found, a bunch of people who posted their friend codes. So I'm playing these ridiculous 1.5 hour online battles using Sami, Max, Andy, Lash, etc. I like super small maps, so that's what I'm creating, sharing, and sending online invites with.
I hope they make Switch Wars, or Switch 2 Wars, or Advance Wars DS for Switch. It's so fun playing the old GBA games and unlocking and buying music, COs, etc.
I'm also making no progress at all in Tears of the Kingdom. I love making no progress in that game! I'm thinking about trying this new no power flight thing people discovered. They launch an elevator rail plane with the propeller from the far Eastern shrine while having the front wagon wheels partially in water. It's amazing that someone discovered this way to fly with no zonai devices, electricity, batteries, etc. (Well, it does use a steering stick, but no fans or anything you'd normally think of to use for flying)
I'm also looking for something in BOTW and really enjoying discovering korok puzzles, vistas, shrines, and just exploring.
Also playing Mario RPG, Ring Fit Adventure, Rocket League, Bad North, Switch Sports, Mario Maker 2, Mario Wonder, and the ever green Kingdom New Lands.
Re: Nintendo Updates Switch Online's N64 Release Schedule
I really just want Wipeout 64. I still love that game. But I'd really want it spruced up too, so maybe I'd prefer an eshop release. If it just ran at 60fps that alone would be a dream I'd play for many many hours!
Would also be cool to have Blast Corps, Body Harvest, San Fransisco Rush (all 3!), Tetrisphere (I've played it relatively recently on steam deck and I still love it), The New Tetris, the Micky Mouse Tetris game, Robotron 64, and Worms Armageddon.
I'd also love it if they would fix Fzero X. It runs at 60fps on original hardware and on my Wii U virtual console version, but drops frames on Switch. I can tell it's at a lower resolution on Wii U, so I'd like an option to choose a smoother lower resolution.
Re: Talking Point: Does Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Need A Full Remake?
If they just increase the frame rate by about 35 that would be awesome!
Re: 'Felix The Cat' Konami Collection Surfaces On The ESRB
Parodius next please! But Felix the Cat on NES is a blast. Love playing that game. Would also be great to get a bunch of old Bomberman games on Switch. But please release Parodius in some form, collection, or remake on Switch. That would be so fun!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 18th)
@Shadeon_Koopa Karmazoo is great. Picked it up last night after reading about it here on Nintendolife. What a fun little gem with rich, Rich voice acting and good music.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 18th)
I've been playing Scientist on Doom 93. That game has gotten better post release support than any other I can think of! Just realized I was talking about the Switch release, but that definitely applies to the original PC release.
Also Tears of the freaking Kingdom, BOTW, Mario RPG, Warioware Move It!, Advance Wars reboot camp (I love it even though they hacked the frame rate in half), Mario Wonder, Kingdom games (mostly 2 Crowns cuz it runs best on Switch, Kingdom Eighties targets 30fps on Switch — a console exclusive! Lol), Aleste Collection, Switch Sports, and exercise games like Taiko drum, Samba de Amigo, fitness boxing, jump rope app from the pandemic, and ring fit adventure. Also been enjoying Karmazoo thanks to Nintendolife. It sounds like it is voiced by Dracula, nuff said.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Technical Analysis Of Super Mario RPG On Switch
This game is fun! And I also really like the 60fps video sequences. I like being able to play in handheld and everything being 60fps, versus having to use my TV in docked mode to motion interpolate video sequences so they look like a smooth 60fps.
Also, this game has some heavenly music!
Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Technical Analysis Of Super Mario RPG On Switch
Another great game analysis video from DF. I enjoy the Link's Awakening remake in spite of it's frame drops, so I'm sure I'll love this remake. I've never played the original and am excited to play it this way for the first time.
Re: Soapbox: Six Months Later, Tears Of The Kingdom's Sense Of Wonder Is Still Unmatched
@Paej13 I had the main, biggest thing about TOTK spoiled by a youtuber I watch. It ended up being OK though. I cried when I heard it, then would mostly just have my heartstrings pulled while in game. Was kind of cool how the way the Zelda thing(what she does) was spoiled didn't bother me.
No, actually I also remember crying when I beat the game for the first time. Beautiful
Re: Soapbox: Six Months Later, Tears Of The Kingdom's Sense Of Wonder Is Still Unmatched
@Sonicka well said.
I think I could list 50 or 60 things about the game that engender a sense of wonder.
I'm playing both BOTW and TOTK a lot these days and one thing I'm really appreciating in TOTK is the lack of guardians. My favorite thing is exploring, wondering. Guardians ruin that vibe! Gloom hands, Gleeoks, and Lynels can do that, but they are placed better, or don't chase me as far, or something about them just works to allow me to traipze around Hyrule in the manner I enjoy.
I also love that TOTK is like the best Pilotwings game ever. I've built aircraft that drift, it's so fun!
Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED, Says Switch OLED Paved The Way
@BinaryMessiah Years ago I was posting on nintendolife about how awesome the Vita OLED was/is. Beautiful screen!
Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED, Says Switch OLED Paved The Way
@BinaryMessiah The steam deck does feel very close to perfect in my hands. I also love the back buttons, they're just fun to idlely push, lol
Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED, Says Switch OLED Paved The Way
@blindsquirrel I would probably never ask for anything to run at 4k. I like smooth frame rates so much that I'm totally OK with 720p or even lower.
Re: Soapbox: Six Months Later, Tears Of The Kingdom's Sense Of Wonder Is Still Unmatched
I also want to say that in spite of TOTK being by far my favorite game ever I can understand how some don't like it. I watch YouTube videos of TOTK gameplay and noticed some people not being able to complete early shrines, not ever getting comfortable with ultrahand, and other stuff. Makes sense, there's excellent games that I'm not into, or won't even ever try playing.
Re: Soapbox: Six Months Later, Tears Of The Kingdom's Sense Of Wonder Is Still Unmatched
@Emacster There's what, like 200 caves and wells? Just the caves and wells make this better than every other game! Such a magical game in my experience!
Re: Soapbox: Six Months Later, Tears Of The Kingdom's Sense Of Wonder Is Still Unmatched
I take issue with the "no milk" aspect! After playing every session of TOTK I almost always feel like I did a week ago when I went to the local grocery store. This awesome local dairy company had lots of $6 off coupons taped on their gallons of milk. So I got a gallon of my favorite organic milk for $1! That kind of generosity is what I experience everytime I fart around in Hyrule. I've bought the very nice hardback guidebook, but never open it since it would only reduce the joyfulness of discovery.
AND, I've been having this same general experience with Breath of the Wild, as if TOTK has retrained me on how to enjoy and project mystery and positivity onto it's older sister. Now, if Nintendo would just release a system that could play these siblings at 60fps, or 90fps, or God bless it even 120fps, I would probably not have time for anything else! The atmosphere, mist, clouds, climbing, mostly subtle music cues, dyeable clothing, catchable blue horses, buildable elevator rail jet planes, geoglyphs, 150 CAVES, etc etc etc are all so awesome it is actually incredible.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 11th)
Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild are both top of my list to play everyday. I usually save TOTK sort of as dessert after I've played other games, then am too tired to keep playing. Can't believe how that game feels like childhood Christmas everytime I start it up and start wondering around not caring what I do or if I accomplish anything. Also playing Warioware Move It!(it's a super fun exercise game!), Super Famicom Wars with English translation on Steam Deck, Mario Wonder (amazingly fun game, love playing levels over and over), Taito no tatsujin festival whatever, Switch Sports, Rocket League, Kingdom New Lands, and Psyvariar (went on sale, was so happy to get it again after selling my physical copy a few years ago).
Re: Talking Point: If 'Switch 2' Is Backwards Compatible, What Will You Do With Your Switch?
Sell it, like I hope to do with my Deck if I can get the 90fps capable OLED Deck. Seriously, with so many of my games digital I couldn't use the old OLED Switch for much.
Re: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Wins Nintendo GOTY At Golden Joystick Awards 2023
For me Tears of the Kingdom is like game of the eternity. It has reignited my love for Breath of the Wild. I've had approximately 20 moments in the game where I couldn't believe how good it is, how surprising it is, or something awesome and remarkable. Also, since I'm highly into my Nintendo fan boy thing these days, all the winners would be Switch software. Getting Metroid Prime Remastered, Tears of the Kingdom, Pikmin 4, Mario Wonder, and Mario RPG Remake in one year is incredible. Plus, I really enjoy the Kirby remaster from the beginning of the year too(and many other releases this year).
Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED, Says Switch OLED Paved The Way
@thesilverbrick Gamers have enjoyed frame rates above 100 for decades (there are awesome old CRTs that go up to 180fps, maybe higher). I didn't get to experience it until relatively recently because I've mostly stuck to consoles. I can say that I really enjoy the smoothness of 144fps. It's very noticeable to me.
Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED, Says Switch OLED Paved The Way
@blindsquirrel One of the YouTube videos about the new OLED Deck talks about how awesome Dead Cells looks on the new screen running at 90fps. Lots of lightweight games can run at 90fps or higher, and will more responsive and beautiful for it.
Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED, Says Switch OLED Paved The Way
@blindsquirrel If Valve can do it for $550, I bet Ninty could do it for less.
Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED, Says Switch OLED Paved The Way
I think it was the Linus tech tips video where they said Valve was evasive when asked why this awesome new 90htz OLED screen doesn't have Variable Refresh Rate (VRR). They conjectured that this oled panel has been made possible by the economies of scale created by the Switch Oled, but those economies don't play out well if you try to add VRR. It's a bummer, but I'm still really wanting to get one of these. If Nintendo releases a handheld that does 90fps, HDR, and OLED, and can run BOTW and Tears of the Kingdom (at that awesome 90fps smoothness), then I'm done for. I won't want to do anything else but ride a horse or fly an elevator rail aircraft around Hyrule in smooth heaven!
Re: UK Charts: Mario Wonder Soars As WarioWare Lands With A Whimper
I love Warioware Move It. I haven't played it in multi-player yet, but have had a blast playing single player. I even had fun playing a couple 2 player games, but holding both joy con so I was player 1 and 2. It's a super fun game that I'm enjoying more than Get It Together, which I also really enjoy playing.
Re: Mini Review: Alien Hominid Invasion - An Explosive, Superior Sequel
I got this and the HD remake and like both. In my playtime they both seem to be locked at 60fps. They're snappy, responsive, and fun to play.
Re: Mini Review: Alien Hominid Invasion - An Explosive, Superior Sequel
It looks like they fixed the frame rate for this game in this release! Back when this came out I was so disappointed at how choppy it looked and played. Cool that they brought both Castle Crashers and this up to a normal old frame rate from decades ago, lol. I'm going to have to get this and see what I think of it!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 4th)
@NintendoDad No, it just released on eshop. I think it's Eigengrau. By chance I did just re-download Xeno Crisis to my Switch a couple days ago, but haven't played it.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 4th)
I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom, Breath of the Wild, Warioware Move It, Mario Wonder, Daioh, the other new shoot em up where you can shoot in 4 directions (it's good, just forgot the name), Rocket League, subpar pool (love this game), and Floppy Knights. Oh, also some Pikmin 4, F zero 99, Parodius (on an emulation handheld rgb350 or whatever), and I'm wanting to play beam ng drive, but haven't gotten it yet.