Modern OLED panels really shouldn't have this issue anymore, there are so many ways for a screen to protect itself now... It just shouldn't happen anymore.
I myself have an OLED TV which is about 2.5 years old. I tend to use it together with my pc and through the smart tv functionality also for stuff like youtube a lot. So lots and lots and lots of static images, which is the worst you can do to an OLED. And as I told myself from the beginning, I am not specifically careful with that thing, because, after research, I just trust the technology. Guess what? No issues whatsoever, despite more or less abusive usage...
@Floki Might I ask what kind of devices you are talking about and from when? Were they smartphones (which by default are in a far worse situation for burn in then even my example)? Because what you are describing sounds strange to me. On devices like tvs (or a console), this shouldn't happen anymore at all, as they are basically repairing themselves while off. Or at least it is possible and they should do that.
@mr-duster
Agreed, it is a very strange deveolpment, especially in the Pokemon community, how people want to tell others what they are supposed to buy and what they shouldn't.
What I buy and what I don't buy is my own decision. It has no relevance to me what other people think the developers should do to earn my money.
EDIT: To make it a little more clear.
A game can be objectively horrible, as long as I want to play it, that is still my decision alone.
We can discuss whether it is horrible, I might also agree that it is horrible, but I can still want to buy the game. Or in other words: We just don't have an obligation to help others hopefully get games in the future that they like more.
@Jackpaza0508 "All interest in this game from me is gone. It's just gonna be glorified wild areas, isn't it."
I mean, yes? The wild area was essencially a small open world besides the rest of the game. What would be the difference between the wild area and an actual open world to you, besides size (which we don't know how big the areas will be in Arceus)? Just out of curiosity.
Sounds like how games like Xenoblade do it (not X). Basically a bunch of smaller open worlds that are somehow connected. This isn't rarely called "open world" though the Pokemon Company is correct in saying this isn't one then.
Personally, for me there is not too much of a difference, as long as the individual areas are big enough.
@VoidofLight Not sure what you mean by "loads of hp". Aside from the boss at the end, most monsters in rampage die in seconds. Many at the same time. I mean, you can just invest like 20 minutes (ahlf of that is just fighting the boss, as you do in Monster Hunter) or so to do that one rampage to unlock the rest of the hub quests with much more content. I don't think there could possibly be a mode I hate so much, that I wouldn't be ready to invest that kind of time to get past it.
@Shambo Yeah, I don't really get those comparisons here either. Look at these perfect blacks that an OLED can display... on your screen at home that likely can't display those blacks.
I love my OLED TV and I know that it can be a big upgrade for the Switch. But you won't see that in a comparison video, especially not over a standard LCD screen.
This seems like a questionable comparison. The picture comparison itself I mean. How can you tell how good an OLED Screen is, if you watch a video of it on an LCD Screen?
@Specter_of-the_OLED
The definitions are kind of strange in that department.
SSD is a Solid State Drive
eMMC is Solid State as well. The "Drive" part of SSD doesn't really make too much sense anyway.
So by name, you could say eMMC is a form of SSD, kinda.
But you are right, if it is eMMC then that usually doesn't mean it is an SSD by common defintion, even though the names would suggest otherwise imo.
@Shadowthrone I know the internal storage of the Switch isn't commonly referred to as an SSD, but it kinda is one. Or is there any difference between the Switch storage and an SSD that I am not aware of?
Well, maybe speed, but a SSD isn't defined by its speed. Switch is said to use flash storage, but a SSD is just flash storage in a container, not really an important difference.
I still believe the Switch will fail! Just kidding.
I was pretty confident, that the Switch would succeed. If nothing else it is the only handheld for Japan, and if japanese devs produce enough games for it, it will also get at least noteworthy sales in the west for those games.
What bothers me the most is actually the missing HDR support, which I don't understand... A home only version that rund the Games in higher resolution would also bei nice, but that is more of a nice to have in my eyes.
@HedgehogEngine Well, if the maximum resolution is only 1440p anyway, then anything above HDMI 1.4b would just be unnecessary. If the maximum resolution is only 1440p BECAUSE of the HDMI 1.4b port, then that would be a different story.
Never even thought about it, but there are quite a few good ones there. If I have to decide on one, I would take Gameboy though. I don't know why, but somehow that simple Pling is just great. Honorable mention: DS, Wii and Wii U.
Also, yeah the sound of the Super Famicom. I get why it is not in here as that is not really a start up sound in that sense, but that power switch sound...
@Octane I can never understand this "don't complain" argument in situations like this. If I understand correctly, he was being interviewed and was asked about his health. How is it complaining, if he just answers the question? Is he supposed to lie and say "everything has always been perfect" even if that is wrong?
Not to mention, he isn't even talking about any problems he currently has here, besides dry eyes, which really isn't anything big...
@Heavyarms55 Maybe inappropriate, but most people just seem to genuinly worry about his health. I wouldn't say that is comparable to the people who just want to dig into someones private life just because of curiosity.
@CharlieGirl "forced" diversity will always be better than NO diversity, because at least forced diversity can be improved."
How? The fact that it is forced is already the core of the problem. You can improve it by not making it forced, but that basically can't work anymore, because too many people would just assume it is forced at this point. It has actively hurt your own cause.
@CharlieGirl It can be a net win If the stars align or it could be a huge loss.
Even if someone does it right now, there are already so many annoyed people, that this would barely even help, since at this point everything can be considered "forced diversity" simply because it has become a save assumption. The ones who are doing it wrong right now make it harder for someone who does it right to succeed.
@CharlieGirl Normalizing things like that through media in itself is a good idea, but I fear the execution in modern media is so bad, it could very well have negative effects.
If you want to normalize something, you need to implement it in a way that feels natural. The way we often see it however, is that stuff like that is very obviously just in a movie/game because representation is supposedly needed. The intention behind that might be good, but the result doesn't seem natural at all, in fact it often feels artificial. I strongly believe that this doesn't help at all in normalizing anything.
If something like that is supposed to succeed, it should be executed in a less obvious way. The moment someone advertises it, it is already going in the wrong direction.
The moment now where the quality of the product may even appear to suffer from it, people are getting annoyed, amplify that by others telling them that they are not allowed to be annoyed and they get angry, which is something we largely already see right now.
Normalizing is supposed to decrease the number of enemies, the way this is going, I fear the number is increasing instead.
That is just my personal thought about this, I just think we have a scenario here, where everyone looses.
All that being said, it feels strange to write something like that under an article about Life is Strange, because those games seem to do a find job in that regard. Still, I felt like the discussion went in a more general direction already and I think it is a danger we need to keep in mind.
@jtmnm Ok then. First you go on a massive assumption and use that to borderline insult me, then you cite me without context. On the other side you neither agreed nor countered anything I actually wrote.
We agree on not wanting to continue the discussion with each other I guess.
@jtmnm I have no idea how you got any of this from my comment.
I only wanted to explain to you, that the difference in opinion might very well come from the difference in design and not just people bashing Game Freak. I barely argue against you at all, I just wanted to state my theory on why this discussion exists in the first place. Based on my personally opinion, in which BotW looks better, for no technical reason.
@Yorumi I think we aren't very far apart on our opinions on these general matters, actually.
Something that amazes me specifically is always the fact that so many people seem to deny that there is objectivity at all and I think a lot of confusion on the internet comes from it.
"This is good" is being used as if it is the same as "I like this".
A few things though.
About the Pokemon games:
I guess the amount of content declined with gen 6, but I did not get the impression that the amount of content really declined further in gen 8 or was already in decline before that, if it did, I definitly forgot something from gen 6 (I am not really counting gen 7 for anything since those games were different enough, that this would be its own discussion, I would say). Pokemon always had some kind of big bonus endgame thing which recent titles didn't have. On the other side, the move from 2D to 3D is an objective improvement.
At this point it gets a bit more complicated, as it now depends on what you value more, which would be more on the subjective side of things.
For reasons like this, I don't think it is so easily possible to say that this game is objectively worse.
The price going up is an argument you can make, I personally do not value that very high in this discussion in particular, simply because games in general got more expensive and not necessarily better. This is more of an argument against the whole industry.
My biggest problem with the Pokemon franchise isn't that it got worse, it is simply that it didn't get better enough, so to say. There is way more possible at this point but Game Freak kind of refused to upgrade the mainline games accordingly.
I agree that a lot of people buys products based on brands, however, if you lose a part of the customer base, that would still be a loss in revenue. And to be honest, maybe I am also just a litle bit used to franchises going under for me to care that much if it happens anymore.
Still no matter how many people you have who buy your products anyway, producing a good product will still sell more, since it captures the ones that look at quality additionally.
Still, I can get where you are comming from, there are these people who clearly do not care and just buy so they can talk about it with everyone else, not that we could do anything about that though.
The Star Wars franchise can be a counter argument to the power of these "buy everything anyway"-fans. Episode 8 got a ton of criticism and lost a lot of the loyal fanbase.
This were so many people, that Solo actually lost money after that. The people who would be happy with everything just because the title contains "Star Wars" were not enough for the franchise.
Also, to defend some people who don't know why they like something a little bit:
It really comes down to the difference between "good" and "I like".
You can "like" pretty much anything and it is sometimes hard to pinpoint why that is, especially if you don't tend to analyze media. You can also like things that are objectively bad, or even horrible. Something being bad basically just lowers the chance of someone liking it which makes it less liked on average (not counting the "I like no matter what"-crowd).
However, if someone doesn't say "like" but "it is good", then he must be able to reason why that is, as he must have come to that conclusion somehow and "because I like it" is not valid, as that does not necessarily mean that it must be good.
@jtmnm I just looked at the screenshots and it is pretty much as I remembered. Again I do agree that Arceus is on a similar technical level as the other games. That is my point (though I would kind of argue that Xenoblade 2 is a bit above that, regardless of the performace.).
The BotW screenshots still look much more pleasing to me overall. It is complicated to argue this objectively, as it really depends on who is looking at it. Since it is true for me and the graphics of Arceus cause such a discussion, compared to other big Switch titles, I think it is a relatively safe assumption, that the games aesthetics just do not work very well for many people.
When it comes to a technical comparison I am on your side.
"Also, Breath of the Wild's world design has been under fire for years; scrutinized for being "empty" and shameless use of copy-and-pasted assets. Legends looks to have this problem too, but it's hardly a unique one." Here you are mixing two different things. When I say "design" I really just mean design as in art. Not design as in game design, which is the context I always understood the "empty world"- argument to be in (more a "nothing to do" than a "looks empty").
Also, pretty sure these voices against BotW for the "empty" world have always existed, they just weren't very noticable because of the massive majority of people that vocally loved the game. Considering how much fun I had exploring the game, compared to pretty much any other open world game, I have a hard time understanding what is supposed to be empty about it, but I guess that also depends on what you are looking for in a game.
@Yorumi 1.) Holy cow are you reading much into what I wrote. I was only comparing the two extreme sides of this discussion from my personal experience. To be able to do that, I have to look at how much of what I read and literally can't just look at individuals. I did read much more big negativity about those games than positivity and the positivity largely comes down to arguing against the negativity. This, almost by default, means that I have seen many more extreme views from one side than from the other. I am not saying "one side has worse arguments", I just hear more extreme opinions from one side then the other. I would also argue that I am not really on either side, so I don't know where my confirmation bias is supposed to come form. I neither love gen 8, nor do I hate gen 8. (I did hate gen 7 however.).
2) I don't see where exactly the quality of mainline Pokemon games has dropped, unless you mean relative to the time the games were released in. I can completely understand all the rest though. I also agree with a lot of the criticism about gen 8, I just do not agree with how harsh the criticism is. If someone rubs into your face that "the game sold a lot", than I can understand that you get annoyed, the problem is simply, that I have seen people saying stuff in the realms of "anyone who continues to support this is part of the problem", far more often. And that annoys me just as much. Why? Because I am of the very simple opinion, that anyone can do with their money whatever they want (unless illegal, of course). In your eyes, there might be a decline in quality but in the eyes of another, this is not the case. You can't tell others whether they are supposed to like something or not, even if there are objective problems (yes, objective problems exist, some people try to argue against that, I am definitly not one of them). Arguments that do not seem to make any logical sense against the games are also something I see a lot, but that is another thing entirely. And for the protocol again, that does not mean that I think everyone arguing against the games holds the same position or anything in that regard.
@jtmnm I would argue there is a huge graphical difference between BotW and Arceus, but that is less about technical problems.
Good design makes you look past the issues and that is what BotW does very very well, since some things in that game just look horrible if you look at them isolated. The ground textures are not better then the ones of Arceus, trees in the distance become 2D sprites and much more... If you have a good overall design, people will not notice this as much. It differs a bit from person to person though, if you tend do look more closely at details, this won't work as well.
Arceus imo fails at this badly though. I would argue, that the game overall just doesn't look pleasing to the eye for most people, which is I think the real issue here. Graphical issues are extremely noticable here.
@Yorumi There is never a one way street on the internet. There are always people on both ends of the extremes, no matter what topic we are talking about.
In this Pokemon discussions however, there seems to be a clear winner of the "who brings the most bad arguments" price. You will probably disagree with me on which side that is, I suppose.
@Bentendo1609 Maybe, but it makes the comparison with Mario and Zelda still unnessecary. Pokemon did not get a free pass compared to those two.
I personally find it meaningless to complain about fans who just buy everything, as complaining about those people will never change anything. We can't even tell how many of these buyers even consider themselves fans. There could be many children who wouldn't think too much about it in there, people who just casually play the games without thinking much about it, previous fans of earlier gens who wanted to jump in again, people who played the game and hated it are still buyers as well and there are also people who are just happy with the games as they are. At the end of day, they all wanted to nuy the game, no matter which one, and we can want the game to be better as much as we like, but they can buy whatever they want.
@Bentendo1609 Especially Sword and Shield have been getting massive criticism for all kinds of stuff. I myself have discussed with the haters here about this what feels like a million times, because I find some of the criticism to go way too far, not that the problems aren't there at the core. And I have been called "part of the problem" a million times as well, since, as everyone knows, if you do not 100% agree with the mob, then you are automatically a blind fanboy. Been there again and again. In my experience, especially in recent years, people have complained and complained and complained and complained... Doesn't change the fact that it sold like hot cakes though, make of that what you will.
@Bentendo1609 "textures that look like ultra compressed mud from the Wii aren't an art style decision. You can make a game that is very stylised and crisp, and still be simplistic. Many indie devs manage it all the time. Pokemon is the biggest cash cow franchise in the entire world, bar none... they can do better."
You are jumping into a discussion about the textures on the Pokemon themselves. If you mean stuff like the ground texture, then I agree, but that wasn't what we were talking about.
"And here lies my biggest issue... people have called Zelda and Mario games lazy, and not worth £50/$60, and so on... but Pokemon gets a free pass all the time. And people who will sit there and be cynical about Nintendo not caring, and happy to sit there taking the cash for supposed sub-par work... need to start thinking the same for The Pokemon Company."
This point I cannot believe I am reading right now. I don't know to what sites you have been over the years, but I do remember some people saying that Mario and Zelda need to innovate. A very small minority of people, that is. For Pokemon I hear that argument all the time, to the point were I am honestly getting tired of it. Almost every single discussion about Pokemon is flooded with people complaining about the games, especially here. "Pokemon gets a free pass", are you joking?
@Mr-Fuggles777 I am almost sure that the textures on the Pokemon are a design choice they would never really change, as that is simply how they always looked. Also not that strange for an anime style imo.
Not really happy with the world design either though. A good design would be able to look more pleasing even with the Switch tech. Games like BotW or Xenoblade proof that point.
@SwitchForce 1. I acknowledge the drift issue solely based on the fact that this is being talked about all the time and by many different people. I did write however, that I would really be interested in a statisic about this, since I am not sure either how often this actually happens. However, from all I hear around the internet it seems to happen to a lot of people. Maybe that is wrong, but I can't make another assumption based on what I see.
2. It's hard to find any concrete sources for that, which is why I mentioned that this is just something I remember. Most discussions about this issue are several years old, which is also why I think that this is less of a problem today, lining up with my memory about this. Also, it almost has to be an manufacturing issue anyway, since, if it really is happening without an outside force being involved, it should happen to almost all units. There is no other difference besides manufacturing varaiation after all.
@Moistnado I acknowledge that the drift issue is probably very common, considering how much we hear of it. The cracking issue however, I remember being confirmed that it was because of a mistake made at a factory, mainly Switches comming from there and from a critical time frame (Mainly consoles from around launch) should have that problem.
Nintendos consoles have become less and less robust over the generations unfortunately, the DS could break relatively easily if it falls down and the 3DS had already an easy to break circle pad, even while using it normally. Hopefully this trend won't continue in later consoles.
@Moistnado I'm with @faint on that one. Drift, sure, that is an issue many people seem to have (though I would be interested to know what the percentage actually is) But apart from that I have never heard of many issues. Some people have cracks in the launch version, many don't. (If I remember correctly, the cracking issue was also fixed?)
My launch day Switch certainly is completely fine still, so it is for others I know.
But yes, I would agreed, that the Switch isn't as sturdy as previous Nintendo consoles. Doesn't mean it has that many issues though. Although that drift is already bad enough, of course.
@SilentS
When everyone on Namek were revived, Gohan was still on Namek himself.
Still pretty sure there is no way of interpreting it as Goku being dead at any point. The only time when that was in question was when Namek exploded at the end and there it was explained that he survived.
@SilentS
I am pretty sure that Goku didn't die there either.
Goku was the last to arrive at the battle because he was severly injured after what happened against Ginyu and was placed in a healing tank. When Goku arrived, Frieza was already in his last form after fighting for a while, Goku managed to hit him with a Spirit Bomb. Frieza survived and immediately killed Krillin which made Goku go ssj.
While ssj Goku and Frieza were fighting, everyone in Namek was, what you mentioned, revived and moved to Earth.
Goku specifically wasn't moved because he was beating up Frieza at the time.
@SilentS Goku didn't die against Frieza. It was shown later that he had escaped with one of the saiyan ships (I think Vegetas). Apart from that they tried to revive him with the Namekian Dragonballs, but that was refused, because he wasn't dead.
@PBandSmelly
To be fair though, several characters died multiple times in the show, which is why I never fully get that joke about Krillin. I mean sure, but really? Should be more so a joke about the whole show.
Even Goku died twice.
Edit: Goku technically died three times even, If you include the other timeline.
@BloodNinja
Stock prices generally go up when a company does better than previously, there must be some kind of growth, otherwise prices won't go up.
Investors invest in a company because they want to make money off it.
All that being said, if you wanted to invest in something right now, would you invest in Nintendo? You could invest in any other company in the world, would you invest in Nintendo right now? If your answer is yes, why?
If potential investors tend to say 'no', then stock prices will go down.
Nintendo, right now, doesn't give any particular reason to believe that the company will grow in the future. In fact Nintendo themselves forcasted that they will not grow in the near future.
If no one wants to invest in a company, prices will go down, naturally.
Of course, there are some investors who are really just fans that want to own some Nintendo stock, but these are probably a very low percentage, especially relative to how much they are spending. Also, even them, why would they invest NOW? Wouldn't they have bought stock already a long time ago?
A possible reason to invest in Nintendo right now, may be, that the prices fell so far down, that the company is undervalued again. In that case the value will go up again and people bet on that.
If Nintendo stock goes up right now, then that is the likely reason, however the exact point at which something like that happens is hard to predict.
All that being said, the current situation isn't necessarily a bad thing in the long rung. Companies don't just grow all the time anyway, so this isn't an unnormal situation.
@SilentHunter382 I disagree with a lot in that picture, actually. 1. I have a Steam controller here and I do not see much of an issues, honestly. I prefer other controllers, but there aren't any technical issues as far as I can tell. I mean, the controller works like an Xbox Controller if nothing else and can be very easily configured for each game if necessary.
2. Steam Link may be too poorly advertised, still not really an issue. Just didn't sell as much as might have been able to. Also, the Steam Controller was also sold for pretty much nothing at the end. No idea why that isn't mentioned.
3. Steam Machines were a franchise. I specifically talked about systems released by Valve themselves. Steam Machines were supposed to be released by Alienware and the likes, just using Steam OS and the Steam Controller. Didn't work out, true.
4. I guess the "glorified tech demo" is supposed to be Half Life Alyx? The game that is one of the highest rated games on Steam total with 98% positive rating, praised by basically anyone who played it. Calling that "glorified tech demo" makes no sense to me. There are quite a few other VR supporting games as well, but not too many. VR still has a hard time catching on because of cost, that is true for all VR headsets on the market though. Still maybe the best VR headset on the market and to be honest I would personally love to have that thing. Also sells quite well from all I have heard, considering the very high price.
All in all I would say Valve hardware works pretty well, but they often try very new concepts that don't always catch on. If I wanted to buy the Steam Deck (not that much into handheld gaming myself), I wouldn't have any problems buying it. Whether it sells well isn't even relevant for that decision imo. All of the Steam hardware had pretty high quality and did it's Job, as far as I could tell. Of course I would still wait for reviews, simply because it is a new kind of product for Valve, so I would still be too cautios for pre ordering.
@SilentHunter382 They don't? Index VR seems to be pretty damn good from all I hear. Steam Link as well, there just wasn't too much interest in the concept. The Steam Controller has also much more of a conceptual problem and not so much bad quality.
I don't really remember any other pieces of hardware they themselves released.
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Re: Talking Point: Should We Be Worried About Screen Burn-In With Switch OLED?
Modern OLED panels really shouldn't have this issue anymore, there are so many ways for a screen to protect itself now... It just shouldn't happen anymore.
I myself have an OLED TV which is about 2.5 years old. I tend to use it together with my pc and through the smart tv functionality also for stuff like youtube a lot.
So lots and lots and lots of static images, which is the worst you can do to an OLED. And as I told myself from the beginning, I am not specifically careful with that thing, because, after research, I just trust the technology.
Guess what? No issues whatsoever, despite more or less abusive usage...
@Floki
Might I ask what kind of devices you are talking about and from when? Were they smartphones (which by default are in a far worse situation for burn in then even my example)?
Because what you are describing sounds strange to me. On devices like tvs (or a console), this shouldn't happen anymore at all, as they are basically repairing themselves while off. Or at least it is possible and they should do that.
Re: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Won't Actually Be An Open-World Game
@mr-duster
Agreed, it is a very strange deveolpment, especially in the Pokemon community, how people want to tell others what they are supposed to buy and what they shouldn't.
What I buy and what I don't buy is my own decision. It has no relevance to me what other people think the developers should do to earn my money.
EDIT: To make it a little more clear.
A game can be objectively horrible, as long as I want to play it, that is still my decision alone.
We can discuss whether it is horrible, I might also agree that it is horrible, but I can still want to buy the game. Or in other words: We just don't have an obligation to help others hopefully get games in the future that they like more.
Re: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Won't Actually Be An Open-World Game
@HenHiro
"I'm pretty sure they said "open world" in the first reveal or am I wrong?
On a broader sense you could still call this open world, people call the Witcher 3 open world."
Did they say it is open world? I think everyone just assumed that from what we have seen in the trailer, though I could be wrong.
But yeah, the definition of "open world" is not always the same for everyone, especially with these Xenoblade-like semi open worlds.
Re: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Won't Actually Be An Open-World Game
@Jackpaza0508
"All interest in this game from me is gone. It's just gonna be glorified wild areas, isn't it."
I mean, yes? The wild area was essencially a small open world besides the rest of the game.
What would be the difference between the wild area and an actual open world to you, besides size (which we don't know how big the areas will be in Arceus)?
Just out of curiosity.
Re: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Won't Actually Be An Open-World Game
Sounds like how games like Xenoblade do it (not X). Basically a bunch of smaller open worlds that are somehow connected.
This isn't rarely called "open world" though the Pokemon Company is correct in saying this isn't one then.
Personally, for me there is not too much of a difference, as long as the individual areas are big enough.
Re: Want Cross-Play And Cross-Progression In Monster Hunter Rise? Let Capcom Know In This Survey
@VoidofLight
Not sure what you mean by "loads of hp". Aside from the boss at the end, most monsters in rampage die in seconds. Many at the same time.
I mean, you can just invest like 20 minutes (ahlf of that is just fighting the boss, as you do in Monster Hunter) or so to do that one rampage to unlock the rest of the hub quests with much more content.
I don't think there could possibly be a mode I hate so much, that I wouldn't be ready to invest that kind of time to get past it.
But to each their own, I guess.
Re: Want Cross-Play And Cross-Progression In Monster Hunter Rise? Let Capcom Know In This Survey
@VoidofLight
"still doesn’t change the fact that I can’t finish the hub quests because they’re forcing it on me.."
You hate it so much that you can't even be bothered to do it once or twice and instead would stop your entire progress?
Re: Video: Want More Switch OLED Comparison Footage? Feast Your Eyes On This
@Shambo
Yeah, I don't really get those comparisons here either.
Look at these perfect blacks that an OLED can display... on your screen at home that likely can't display those blacks.
I love my OLED TV and I know that it can be a big upgrade for the Switch.
But you won't see that in a comparison video, especially not over a standard LCD screen.
Re: Nintendo's Monster Hunter Sale Discounts Five Games And Lots Of Rise DLC
@Specter_of-the_OLED
I am a bit curious: What do you consider as "Monster Hunter 5"? World? Or something completely different for some reason?
Because I am pretty sure World and Rise are both supposed to be gen 5 Monster Hunter.
Re: The First Switch OLED Comparison Video Has Surfaced
This seems like a questionable comparison. The picture comparison itself I mean.
How can you tell how good an OLED Screen is, if you watch a video of it on an LCD Screen?
Re: Talking Point: Remember When People Thought Switch Would Fail?
@Specter_of-the_OLED
The definitions are kind of strange in that department.
SSD is a Solid State Drive
eMMC is Solid State as well. The "Drive" part of SSD doesn't really make too much sense anyway.
So by name, you could say eMMC is a form of SSD, kinda.
But you are right, if it is eMMC then that usually doesn't mean it is an SSD by common defintion, even though the names would suggest otherwise imo.
Re: Talking Point: Remember When People Thought Switch Would Fail?
@Shadowthrone I know the internal storage of the Switch isn't commonly referred to as an SSD, but it kinda is one.
Or is there any difference between the Switch storage and an SSD that I am not aware of?
Well, maybe speed, but a SSD isn't defined by its speed.
Switch is said to use flash storage, but a SSD is just flash storage in a container, not really an important difference.
Re: Talking Point: Remember When People Thought Switch Would Fail?
I still believe the Switch will fail!
Just kidding.
I was pretty confident, that the Switch would succeed. If nothing else it is the only handheld for Japan, and if japanese devs produce enough games for it, it will also get at least noteworthy sales in the west for those games.
What bothers me the most is actually the missing HDR support, which I don't understand...
A home only version that rund the Games in higher resolution would also bei nice, but that is more of a nice to have in my eyes.
Re: Hardware Review: Can You Really "Make Your Own Switch Pro" With This $100 Dongle?
@HedgehogEngine
Well, if the maximum resolution is only 1440p anyway, then anything above HDMI 1.4b would just be unnecessary.
If the maximum resolution is only 1440p BECAUSE of the HDMI 1.4b port, then that would be a different story.
Re: Talking Point: Which Nintendo Console Has The Best Start-Up Sound?
Never even thought about it, but there are quite a few good ones there.
If I have to decide on one, I would take Gameboy though. I don't know why, but somehow that simple Pling is just great.
Honorable mention: DS, Wii and Wii U.
Also, yeah the sound of the Super Famicom. I get why it is not in here as that is not really a start up sound in that sense, but that power switch sound...
Re: Nintendo Confirms It Won't Be Attending Tokyo Game Show
@TowaHerschel7
As I wrote, with third party games yes.
But first party, every month?
Re: Nintendo Confirms It Won't Be Attending Tokyo Game Show
@Pokester99 "a game a month or two is nothing demanding."
Now you just have to tell us which company actually manages to do that.
I don't know any.
Including third party, sure, but Nintendo has plenty of that this year as well.
Re: Random: Don't Worry About Masahiro Sakurai's Health, He's "Okay" Right Now
@Octane
They ask him about it, because people around the world are talking about it.
My question stands: Is he supposed to lie for no reason?
Re: Random: Don't Worry About Masahiro Sakurai's Health, He's "Okay" Right Now
@Octane
I can never understand this "don't complain" argument in situations like this.
If I understand correctly, he was being interviewed and was asked about his health. How is it complaining, if he just answers the question? Is he supposed to lie and say "everything has always been perfect" even if that is wrong?
Not to mention, he isn't even talking about any problems he currently has here, besides dry eyes, which really isn't anything big...
Re: Random: Don't Worry About Masahiro Sakurai's Health, He's "Okay" Right Now
@Heavyarms55
Maybe inappropriate, but most people just seem to genuinly worry about his health.
I wouldn't say that is comparable to the people who just want to dig into someones private life just because of curiosity.
Re: Soapbox: Life Is Strange On Nintendo Switch Signals Better LGBTQ+ Rep To Come
@CharlieGirl
Which doesn't contradict what I am saying.
It just shouldn't be forced.
Re: Soapbox: Life Is Strange On Nintendo Switch Signals Better LGBTQ+ Rep To Come
@CharlieGirl
"forced" diversity will always be better than NO diversity, because at least forced diversity can be improved."
How? The fact that it is forced is already the core of the problem.
You can improve it by not making it forced, but that basically can't work anymore, because too many people would just assume it is forced at this point.
It has actively hurt your own cause.
Re: Soapbox: Life Is Strange On Nintendo Switch Signals Better LGBTQ+ Rep To Come
@Vexx234
And now imagine there is a game that contains diversity but actually isn't forced, would you even be able to tell anymore?
That is how deep we are in already.
Nobody can win anything out of this anymore. Everyone looses.
Re: Soapbox: Life Is Strange On Nintendo Switch Signals Better LGBTQ+ Rep To Come
@CharlieGirl
It can be a net win If the stars align or it could be a huge loss.
Even if someone does it right now, there are already so many annoyed people, that this would barely even help, since at this point everything can be considered "forced diversity" simply because it has become a save assumption.
The ones who are doing it wrong right now make it harder for someone who does it right to succeed.
Re: Soapbox: Life Is Strange On Nintendo Switch Signals Better LGBTQ+ Rep To Come
@CharlieGirl
Normalizing things like that through media in itself is a good idea, but I fear the execution in modern media is so bad, it could very well have negative effects.
If you want to normalize something, you need to implement it in a way that feels natural.
The way we often see it however, is that stuff like that is very obviously just in a movie/game because representation is supposedly needed.
The intention behind that might be good, but the result doesn't seem natural at all, in fact it often feels artificial.
I strongly believe that this doesn't help at all in normalizing anything.
If something like that is supposed to succeed, it should be executed in a less obvious way. The moment someone advertises it, it is already going in the wrong direction.
The moment now where the quality of the product may even appear to suffer from it, people are getting annoyed, amplify that by others telling them that they are not allowed to be annoyed and they get angry, which is something we largely already see right now.
Normalizing is supposed to decrease the number of enemies, the way this is going, I fear the number is increasing instead.
That is just my personal thought about this, I just think we have a scenario here, where everyone looses.
All that being said, it feels strange to write something like that under an article about Life is Strange, because those games seem to do a find job in that regard.
Still, I felt like the discussion went in a more general direction already and I think it is a danger we need to keep in mind.
Re: Random: Rapper Soulja Boy Claims He Owns Atari, Atari Doesn't Agree
@JasmineDragon
If he bought some shares of the company, then he technically owns (part of) the company.
Perhaps that is what's happening?
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@jtmnm
Ok then.
First you go on a massive assumption and use that to borderline insult me, then you cite me without context.
On the other side you neither agreed nor countered anything I actually wrote.
We agree on not wanting to continue the discussion with each other I guess.
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@jtmnm
What is your problem with any of that?
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@jtmnm
I have no idea how you got any of this from my comment.
I only wanted to explain to you, that the difference in opinion might very well come from the difference in design and not just people bashing Game Freak. I barely argue against you at all, I just wanted to state my theory on why this discussion exists in the first place.
Based on my personally opinion, in which BotW looks better, for no technical reason.
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@Yorumi I think we aren't very far apart on our opinions on these general matters, actually.
Something that amazes me specifically is always the fact that so many people seem to deny that there is objectivity at all and I think a lot of confusion on the internet comes from it.
"This is good" is being used as if it is the same as "I like this".
A few things though.
About the Pokemon games:
I guess the amount of content declined with gen 6, but I did not get the impression that the amount of content really declined further in gen 8 or was already in decline before that, if it did, I definitly forgot something from gen 6 (I am not really counting gen 7 for anything since those games were different enough, that this would be its own discussion, I would say). Pokemon always had some kind of big bonus endgame thing which recent titles didn't have. On the other side, the move from 2D to 3D is an objective improvement.
At this point it gets a bit more complicated, as it now depends on what you value more, which would be more on the subjective side of things.
For reasons like this, I don't think it is so easily possible to say that this game is objectively worse.
The price going up is an argument you can make, I personally do not value that very high in this discussion in particular, simply because games in general got more expensive and not necessarily better. This is more of an argument against the whole industry.
My biggest problem with the Pokemon franchise isn't that it got worse, it is simply that it didn't get better enough, so to say. There is way more possible at this point but Game Freak kind of refused to upgrade the mainline games accordingly.
I agree that a lot of people buys products based on brands, however, if you lose a part of the customer base, that would still be a loss in revenue. And to be honest, maybe I am also just a litle bit used to franchises going under for me to care that much if it happens anymore.
Still no matter how many people you have who buy your products anyway, producing a good product will still sell more, since it captures the ones that look at quality additionally.
Still, I can get where you are comming from, there are these people who clearly do not care and just buy so they can talk about it with everyone else, not that we could do anything about that though.
The Star Wars franchise can be a counter argument to the power of these "buy everything anyway"-fans. Episode 8 got a ton of criticism and lost a lot of the loyal fanbase.
This were so many people, that Solo actually lost money after that. The people who would be happy with everything just because the title contains "Star Wars" were not enough for the franchise.
Also, to defend some people who don't know why they like something a little bit:
It really comes down to the difference between "good" and "I like".
You can "like" pretty much anything and it is sometimes hard to pinpoint why that is, especially if you don't tend to analyze media. You can also like things that are objectively bad, or even horrible. Something being bad basically just lowers the chance of someone liking it which makes it less liked on average (not counting the "I like no matter what"-crowd).
However, if someone doesn't say "like" but "it is good", then he must be able to reason why that is, as he must have come to that conclusion somehow and "because I like it" is not valid, as that does not necessarily mean that it must be good.
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@jtmnm
I just looked at the screenshots and it is pretty much as I remembered.
Again I do agree that Arceus is on a similar technical level as the other games. That is my point (though I would kind of argue that Xenoblade 2 is a bit above that, regardless of the performace.).
The BotW screenshots still look much more pleasing to me overall.
It is complicated to argue this objectively, as it really depends on who is looking at it.
Since it is true for me and the graphics of Arceus cause such a discussion, compared to other big Switch titles, I think it is a relatively safe assumption, that the games aesthetics just do not work very well for many people.
When it comes to a technical comparison I am on your side.
"Also, Breath of the Wild's world design has been under fire for years; scrutinized for being "empty" and shameless use of copy-and-pasted assets. Legends looks to have this problem too, but it's hardly a unique one."
Here you are mixing two different things. When I say "design" I really just mean design as in art. Not design as in game design, which is the context I always understood the "empty world"- argument to be in (more a "nothing to do" than a "looks empty").
Also, pretty sure these voices against BotW for the "empty" world have always existed, they just weren't very noticable because of the massive majority of people that vocally loved the game.
Considering how much fun I had exploring the game, compared to pretty much any other open world game, I have a hard time understanding what is supposed to be empty about it, but I guess that also depends on what you are looking for in a game.
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@Yorumi
1.)
Holy cow are you reading much into what I wrote.
I was only comparing the two extreme sides of this discussion from my personal experience. To be able to do that, I have to look at how much of what I read and literally can't just look at individuals. I did read much more big negativity about those games than positivity and the positivity largely comes down to arguing against the negativity. This, almost by default, means that I have seen many more extreme views from one side than from the other.
I am not saying "one side has worse arguments", I just hear more extreme opinions from one side then the other.
I would also argue that I am not really on either side, so I don't know where my confirmation bias is supposed to come form.
I neither love gen 8, nor do I hate gen 8. (I did hate gen 7 however.).
2)
I don't see where exactly the quality of mainline Pokemon games has dropped, unless you mean relative to the time the games were released in.
I can completely understand all the rest though. I also agree with a lot of the criticism about gen 8, I just do not agree with how harsh the criticism is.
If someone rubs into your face that "the game sold a lot", than I can understand that you get annoyed, the problem is simply, that I have seen people saying stuff in the realms of "anyone who continues to support this is part of the problem", far more often. And that annoys me just as much. Why? Because I am of the very simple opinion, that anyone can do with their money whatever they want (unless illegal, of course). In your eyes, there might be a decline in quality but in the eyes of another, this is not the case. You can't tell others whether they are supposed to like something or not, even if there are objective problems (yes, objective problems exist, some people try to argue against that, I am definitly not one of them).
Arguments that do not seem to make any logical sense against the games are also something I see a lot, but that is another thing entirely.
And for the protocol again, that does not mean that I think everyone arguing against the games holds the same position or anything in that regard.
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@jtmnm
I would argue there is a huge graphical difference between BotW and Arceus, but that is less about technical problems.
Good design makes you look past the issues and that is what BotW does very very well, since some things in that game just look horrible if you look at them isolated.
The ground textures are not better then the ones of Arceus, trees in the distance become 2D sprites and much more...
If you have a good overall design, people will not notice this as much. It differs a bit from person to person though, if you tend do look more closely at details, this won't work as well.
Arceus imo fails at this badly though. I would argue, that the game overall just doesn't look pleasing to the eye for most people, which is I think the real issue here. Graphical issues are extremely noticable here.
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@Yorumi
There is never a one way street on the internet.
There are always people on both ends of the extremes, no matter what topic we are talking about.
In this Pokemon discussions however, there seems to be a clear winner of the "who brings the most bad arguments" price.
You will probably disagree with me on which side that is, I suppose.
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@Bentendo1609
Maybe, but it makes the comparison with Mario and Zelda still unnessecary. Pokemon did not get a free pass compared to those two.
I personally find it meaningless to complain about fans who just buy everything, as complaining about those people will never change anything.
We can't even tell how many of these buyers even consider themselves fans. There could be many children who wouldn't think too much about it in there, people who just casually play the games without thinking much about it, previous fans of earlier gens who wanted to jump in again, people who played the game and hated it are still buyers as well and there are also people who are just happy with the games as they are.
At the end of day, they all wanted to nuy the game, no matter which one, and we can want the game to be better as much as we like, but they can buy whatever they want.
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@Bentendo1609
Especially Sword and Shield have been getting massive criticism for all kinds of stuff.
I myself have discussed with the haters here about this what feels like a million times, because I find some of the criticism to go way too far, not that the problems aren't there at the core.
And I have been called "part of the problem" a million times as well, since, as everyone knows, if you do not 100% agree with the mob, then you are automatically a blind fanboy.
Been there again and again.
In my experience, especially in recent years, people have complained and complained and complained and complained...
Doesn't change the fact that it sold like hot cakes though, make of that what you will.
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@Bentendo1609
"textures that look like ultra compressed mud from the Wii aren't an art style decision. You can make a game that is very stylised and crisp, and still be simplistic. Many indie devs manage it all the time. Pokemon is the biggest cash cow franchise in the entire world, bar none... they can do better."
You are jumping into a discussion about the textures on the Pokemon themselves. If you mean stuff like the ground texture, then I agree, but that wasn't what we were talking about.
"And here lies my biggest issue... people have called Zelda and Mario games lazy, and not worth £50/$60, and so on... but Pokemon gets a free pass all the time. And people who will sit there and be cynical about Nintendo not caring, and happy to sit there taking the cash for supposed sub-par work... need to start thinking the same for The Pokemon Company."
This point I cannot believe I am reading right now.
I don't know to what sites you have been over the years, but I do remember some people saying that Mario and Zelda need to innovate. A very small minority of people, that is.
For Pokemon I hear that argument all the time, to the point were I am honestly getting tired of it. Almost every single discussion about Pokemon is flooded with people complaining about the games, especially here.
"Pokemon gets a free pass", are you joking?
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Introduces The Hisui Region
@Mr-Fuggles777
I am almost sure that the textures on the Pokemon are a design choice they would never really change, as that is simply how they always looked.
Also not that strange for an anime style imo.
Not really happy with the world design either though. A good design would be able to look more pleasing even with the Switch tech.
Games like BotW or Xenoblade proof that point.
Gameplay looks intriguing though.
Re: GPD Has Plans For Its Own Switch-Style Handheld Device Powered By Android
@SwitchForce
1.
I acknowledge the drift issue solely based on the fact that this is being talked about all the time and by many different people. I did write however, that I would really be interested in a statisic about this, since I am not sure either how often this actually happens. However, from all I hear around the internet it seems to happen to a lot of people. Maybe that is wrong, but I can't make another assumption based on what I see.
2.
It's hard to find any concrete sources for that, which is why I mentioned that this is just something I remember. Most discussions about this issue are several years old, which is also why I think that this is less of a problem today, lining up with my memory about this.
Also, it almost has to be an manufacturing issue anyway, since, if it really is happening without an outside force being involved, it should happen to almost all units. There is no other difference besides manufacturing varaiation after all.
Re: GPD Has Plans For Its Own Switch-Style Handheld Device Powered By Android
@Moistnado
I acknowledge that the drift issue is probably very common, considering how much we hear of it.
The cracking issue however, I remember being confirmed that it was because of a mistake made at a factory, mainly Switches comming from there and from a critical time frame (Mainly consoles from around launch) should have that problem.
Nintendos consoles have become less and less robust over the generations unfortunately, the DS could break relatively easily if it falls down and the 3DS had already an easy to break circle pad, even while using it normally.
Hopefully this trend won't continue in later consoles.
Re: GPD Has Plans For Its Own Switch-Style Handheld Device Powered By Android
@Moistnado I'm with @faint on that one.
Drift, sure, that is an issue many people seem to have (though I would be interested to know what the percentage actually is)
But apart from that I have never heard of many issues. Some people have cracks in the launch version, many don't.
(If I remember correctly, the cracking issue was also fixed?)
My launch day Switch certainly is completely fine still, so it is for others I know.
But yes, I would agreed, that the Switch isn't as sturdy as previous Nintendo consoles. Doesn't mean it has that many issues though. Although that drift is already bad enough, of course.
Re: Random: Krillin Can Now Apparently Revive Himself In Dragon Ball FighterZ
@SilentS
When everyone on Namek were revived, Gohan was still on Namek himself.
Still pretty sure there is no way of interpreting it as Goku being dead at any point. The only time when that was in question was when Namek exploded at the end and there it was explained that he survived.
Re: Random: Krillin Can Now Apparently Revive Himself In Dragon Ball FighterZ
@SilentS
I am pretty sure that Goku didn't die there either.
Goku was the last to arrive at the battle because he was severly injured after what happened against Ginyu and was placed in a healing tank. When Goku arrived, Frieza was already in his last form after fighting for a while, Goku managed to hit him with a Spirit Bomb. Frieza survived and immediately killed Krillin which made Goku go ssj.
While ssj Goku and Frieza were fighting, everyone in Namek was, what you mentioned, revived and moved to Earth.
Goku specifically wasn't moved because he was beating up Frieza at the time.
He didn't die at any point.
At least that is how I remember it.
Re: Random: Krillin Can Now Apparently Revive Himself In Dragon Ball FighterZ
@SilentS Goku didn't die against Frieza.
It was shown later that he had escaped with one of the saiyan ships (I think Vegetas).
Apart from that they tried to revive him with the Namekian Dragonballs, but that was refused, because he wasn't dead.
Re: Random: Krillin Can Now Apparently Revive Himself In Dragon Ball FighterZ
@PBandSmelly
To be fair though, several characters died multiple times in the show, which is why I never fully get that joke about Krillin. I mean sure, but really? Should be more so a joke about the whole show.
Even Goku died twice.
Edit: Goku technically died three times even, If you include the other timeline.
Re: Random: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Player Takes The Old Man To Meet... Another Old Man?
@dux
Easy.
Beedle isn't a person, it's a franchise.
Re: Random: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Player Takes The Old Man To Meet... Another Old Man?
Considering what he is, it stands to reason, that he may be able to multiply himself.
No logic error here
Re: Nintendo's Stock Price Sees Biggest Fall In Two Years Following Earnings Report
@BloodNinja
Stock prices generally go up when a company does better than previously, there must be some kind of growth, otherwise prices won't go up.
Investors invest in a company because they want to make money off it.
All that being said, if you wanted to invest in something right now, would you invest in Nintendo? You could invest in any other company in the world, would you invest in Nintendo right now? If your answer is yes, why?
If potential investors tend to say 'no', then stock prices will go down.
Nintendo, right now, doesn't give any particular reason to believe that the company will grow in the future. In fact Nintendo themselves forcasted that they will not grow in the near future.
If no one wants to invest in a company, prices will go down, naturally.
Of course, there are some investors who are really just fans that want to own some Nintendo stock, but these are probably a very low percentage, especially relative to how much they are spending. Also, even them, why would they invest NOW? Wouldn't they have bought stock already a long time ago?
A possible reason to invest in Nintendo right now, may be, that the prices fell so far down, that the company is undervalued again. In that case the value will go up again and people bet on that.
If Nintendo stock goes up right now, then that is the likely reason, however the exact point at which something like that happens is hard to predict.
All that being said, the current situation isn't necessarily a bad thing in the long rung. Companies don't just grow all the time anyway, so this isn't an unnormal situation.
Re: Random: 'Switch Vs Steam Deck' Memes Are A Thing Now, Apparently
@SilentHunter382
I disagree with a lot in that picture, actually.
1. I have a Steam controller here and I do not see much of an issues, honestly. I prefer other controllers, but there aren't any technical issues as far as I can tell. I mean, the controller works like an Xbox Controller if nothing else and can be very easily configured for each game if necessary.
2. Steam Link may be too poorly advertised, still not really an issue. Just didn't sell as much as might have been able to. Also, the Steam Controller was also sold for pretty much nothing at the end. No idea why that isn't mentioned.
3. Steam Machines were a franchise. I specifically talked about systems released by Valve themselves. Steam Machines were supposed to be released by Alienware and the likes, just using Steam OS and the Steam Controller.
Didn't work out, true.
4. I guess the "glorified tech demo" is supposed to be Half Life Alyx? The game that is one of the highest rated games on Steam total with 98% positive rating, praised by basically anyone who played it. Calling that "glorified tech demo" makes no sense to me.
There are quite a few other VR supporting games as well, but not too many. VR still has a hard time catching on because of cost, that is true for all VR headsets on the market though. Still maybe the best VR headset on the market and to be honest I would personally love to have that thing.
Also sells quite well from all I have heard, considering the very high price.
All in all I would say Valve hardware works pretty well, but they often try very new concepts that don't always catch on.
If I wanted to buy the Steam Deck (not that much into handheld gaming myself), I wouldn't have any problems buying it. Whether it sells well isn't even relevant for that decision imo.
All of the Steam hardware had pretty high quality and did it's Job, as far as I could tell.
Of course I would still wait for reviews, simply because it is a new kind of product for Valve, so I would still be too cautios for pre ordering.
Re: Random: 'Switch Vs Steam Deck' Memes Are A Thing Now, Apparently
@SilentHunter382
They don't?
Index VR seems to be pretty damn good from all I hear.
Steam Link as well, there just wasn't too much interest in the concept.
The Steam Controller has also much more of a conceptual problem and not so much bad quality.
I don't really remember any other pieces of hardware they themselves released.