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If I wasn't already swimming in USB ethernets, i'd consider this.
Its good for the average person but for the people who actually have been with nintendo every generation, we're used to having to get a USB ethernet for nearly a decade and even a little more than that.

This was probably the only VN i've ever cared about to be honest. the RTS phases was fun too. Platinumed it pretty much instantly.
Although, i'm worried. I played this through on a PS4 slim and the RTS segments had some serious framerate issues when effects was going out the wazoo. (non existent when played on PS5.)
There really is no reason, given how powerful the switch is, that it won't happen here as well.

oh right. I should play this again sometime.

been playing through it again with a friend online. its just the oddest game lol. the story is truly just...late 90s japan but the gameplay is sensory overload lol.

for something of on rails shooting, though, its really just the only of its kind. you just don't see things like this anymore.

@invictus4000 they are both very different style of mario parties. Super Mario Party is a very condensed version of mario party, built for short times on the go and motion controls.

none of that is in classic mario party. No motion controls. The full, original, experience is there. Large boards, choices, endless destroying of friendships by attacking, impeding, or outright stealing stars, coins, and items.

its board games when they was actually fun but nobody likes being on the receiving end~

@PikaPhantom the game got datamined and placeholders files with no data in them was found alongside the existing boards.

Thats...odd. I played it for quite a bit online with my bud on some games and didn't notice much difference. Did forget how floaty MK64 is though. I experienced less framerate on starfox 64 as well. usually a smart bomb tanked the framerate and it just didn't happen for me.

still. i have 8 people on my family plan, they're all having fun with it. can't complain too much if they're enjoying themselves but doesn't make issues any less of an issue. some should be fixed.

edit: i do agree on the control mapping though. in starfox 64, ZL to lean left an R to lean right is...well thats annoying.

@Furpaw then i have the right to ask or tell you to stop mentioning me on such an ancient article.

Its honestly sad to me that this might be the last smash bros game. to see something from my childhood in '99 last for 22 years an just end feels like some kind of good chapter is about to end. the feels on that one, ugh.

@Wavey84 an thats great! personal preference is always the thing that should be taken the most seriously.

for us prime 1 was the best one. its too short but the one that felt most metroid. Metroid has always been about you traversing planets (or space stations lol) on your own, with safe areas places with someone to talk to. 3 definitely broke that. I just had a lot of personal beef with it, as did my friends. We didn't hate the game, far from it. We just think its the weakest of the three, in terms of story, setting, an gameplay.

@Thaliard to me, corruption is the weakest - by far. I don't have a single friend that looks back fondly on that game. Like...period. It just felt really off - it had the same issue that hunters had in that it just wasn't cohesive.

Prime 1 felt best, an Prime 2...only complaint i ever heard was that, now infamous, bosses was insanely hard and they had me do it for them.

box arts was so bad here back in the day that NOBODY took the boxart at face level. all it took was one time and everybody was on edge about what the game actually was.

basically, the back of the box with screenshots of the game was the face of the game for us waaaay back when. Wasn't until the SNES/Gen days when boxart started to match the game itself.

well two reasons online died. you could only form teams for matchmaking on ps an xbox and, for some unholy reason, you couldn't join a lobby with a race in progress. the key thing that lets lobbies fill...they didn't do.

you really just have to wonder about sumo digital sometimes.

@Furpaw why are you replying to a comment from 2018.

that is probably one of the silliest trailers i've seen in a long time and thats a great thing. Games really need more of that like they used to.

Still think the Wii U menu with all the miis running around an talking was one of the cooler social aspects nintendo has ever done.

...what. Do i gotta buy the game now then.

@Spiders No, I don't. i'm just blunt. always have been. always will be.

@Spiders "Performance Mode requires a high quality, stable internet connection" - because its sending more data at 60fps. been over this. You're comparing this to smash bros. that game is synced by frames and p2p. this is not.

"Why would that be the case - that the connection speed maintains the framerate - unless the client is waiting for an update from the network to draw the frame, i.e. delay-based netcode?" - Its the case because its sending more packets at 60fps than at 30fps. thats it. at 60fps its sending double the amount of packets than at 30fps.
There are MANY types of netcodes. The server is the host client. You are sending all of your data to the host client and moving yourself in the server client. You will rubber band back to where you was if you are not sending data consistently.
Thats the reason. Consistent packets being sent at double the data rate than 30fps.
In terms of netcode, its actually not even close to consider dedicated server netcode to p2p netcode.

This game is dedicated server. its different. gotta accept that.

"My point is the developers are putting the impetus on user’s connections when plenty of games can maintain their frame rate regardless of their connection quality with rollback. It’s odd."

The game is not gonna slow down from a bad connection. Because its a dedicated server game, your client can't slow down. Again, for every frame your client draws, it has to send more data per frame drawn BECAUSE its doing more calculations. flat out. 30fps. 60fps. 120fps, 144fps an so on. The client will send more data at each and every one of those framerates. Doesn't mean the server will accept them all, but the client will continue to send it.

To dumb it down and simplify it for you. No game in existence slows down from a slow connection. the client will just pause and wait for the next viable packet if the game is synced by frames - of which you keep using smash as an example.
Since this is NOT synced by frames, that won't happen.
Nor is the devs saying that.
Devs are saying - higher framerate? more packets. more packets? need a more stable connection for a consistent experience. How to do that? wired connection.

thats it. thats what they're saying.

edit: annnd i'm gonna end it there, i'm tired.

double edit: your client can slow down from the game engine being overloaded. this is not a network thing, but depending on how the engine and the netcode work together, if the game is not getting consistent updates - can actually affect the framerate. This is rare and only in games that have poor engine code and bad netcode implementation.
But that isn't the case here.

Really if you took even a glance at a video game's code...its an utter miracle that mass of code can even cohesively work as well as it does, if at all.

@Spiders its not the graphics. its the amount of frames. lowering the graphics makes it easier for the cpu and gpu to render more frames.

also slowdown in online smash isn't due to hardware performance. thats what this is about lolz.

@Spiders what i meant is that the amount of packets the client will send is capped to how fast the server is going. if the client is 70 frames but the server tickrate is only at 60hz, its still just going to send up to those 60 frames.

...splatoon is also a different beast because its not on a dedicated server and uses nintendo's pia p2p netcode.

you're free to look yourself, i already looked at this game in real time anyway. i wire it all through my computer when i wanna look at everything.

oh. for 60fps this game uses around 70-75KBps up an down for the ones wanting to know how much bandwidth it uses. It really isn't much.

edit: should also rephrase. some clients will send as fast as its frames.

@OnlyItsMeReid @Spiders @Chardir @Prizm @Imerion the higher the framerate, the more packets your client will send.
in other words, you're gonna use less upload at lower frames and more upload at higher frames. the more packets you send, the easier it is for wireless to lag behind dramatically. That isn't ping related, its a packets-in-order kinda thing. its cause standard wireless is half duplex and not full duplex.

note that some games have fixed data rate usage. Just about all dedicated server clients send packets to the server based on their framerate though. depends on what hz the server is capped at in how far it'll go. tickrate for this game is likely 60.

tl;dr - you're at a disadvantage, network wise, at 30 frames. you're on a level field at 60 frames but will be sending more packets/using more upload. This will make slow nets highly unstable, especially wireless.

confirmed. this man did not play mischief makers.

@blindsquarel that was because in fortnite, the data the client sent was directly tied to the framerate. So the server was receiving less data from the switch client.

That won't apply to apex. Apex client is sending out the same amount of data at all times, its not tied to framerate.

@Kanbei your account level has nothing to do with your MMR.

it'll take your son's mmr, your mmr, and whatever mmr your third is - average it then use it to search.

@JonnyD108 its 60fps on base ps4, just not a stable one. PS4 pro had no issues. same for xbox one. OG has issues but X1X had none. also means PS5 and Xbox Series have zero framerate issues too.
Switch is 30fps only.

ah man, he really was the best sonic VA to me. His voice absolutely fit back then.

Great, now i'm having a ton of childhood flashbacks.

@Bobb that was just the controller though...

but yes, i did too considering how rare they are and how much they are now.

Where the heck is star fox zero...?

SA1 parody.
NL mentions dat song
song is SA2.

i don't think i was on the same page as NL here.

Oh man, this game took up so much of my time, and my cousin's too, on our n64. lost count of all the times we replayed this one. I'd love to see it come back.

@companyoflosers no, below zero isn't done yet.

this is surprising, i shoved countless hours into these on PC.
Although I question how much it'll struggle to hold 30 frames...i know areas on my PC go from 120+ frames to slightly below 60 at times.

oh man, i had some time with this one.

@RPGamer Owari no Seraph / Seraph of the end.

@Thundertron55 X is its own thing for now. Although if the end of 2 was anything to go by, it'd probably fit in like that.

@status-204 thats not how it works man. What you're asking for would fundamentally put more strain on the GPU.

TL;DR - The gpu tech in the switch is too old for what you're asking for. Make do with what you got, cause its already pushing the hardware heavily.

In PC land, shadows is one of the, if not at times THE, most intensive friggin thing in gaming. Most people shut them off to get as much performance as they can or use attempt to use low res static shadows if they gotta have something.

A lot is already happening graphically what with all the models running around. To ask for more is pretty much telling your switch to jump off a cliff at this point. Its already struggling to render things as is.
The GPU uses nvidia's maxwell architecture which is 2013* tech. Thats the GTX 700 series up to the 900 series but its power is roughly in the 700 range because the chip in the switch came out in 2015. There just isn't enough horsepower under that hood, its incredible devs are doing what they are already with it and the games still look that good.

@DaCh33f oh absolutely. its better the problems appear now than in final release.

But the annoyance comes from the fact a lot of us don't have a whole lot of free time to spare.

So much for that hour of testing...a half hour has been spent just trying to get past character creation...

edit: and now the servers are apparently down.

Dang...has it really be 3 years already? Still doesn't feel like that long...

Can't decide if i want this on switch or PS4 first...

I'm so conflicted.

@Hagemaru That really is just people in general though. People will always just be people no matter where you go.

Good to have them back then. Especially since we've started moving into an age of multi-platform crossplay games and console...(brand ala Xbox/Win10 things) exclusivity, better that everyone is engaged as a whole rather than at each other's necks over brand allegiance.

@SwitchForce I have quite a few chinese friends. Two are like family to me. Do not insult this or throw random racist slander on no basis whatsoever.

Grow up kid.

edit: Actually, done giving you the light of day. You're just pulling this out of your butt for the sake of it i'm sure.

@SwitchForce I have no idea what you just said or how that is misleading. Distribution centers have been testing positive for the virus.

I'm saying I, as in myself, do not want to run a risk. You do what you want but I don't recall giving false information.
Don't be that guy.

edit: also work on your english.

can't say i want something manufactured in china right now until the whole virus thing gets under control...

the ad just wasn't great to begin with. it didn't show anything off except one lady with too much nailpolish goin WOAH THIS THING I DIDN'T EVEN LOOK AT IS CUTE!

egh. they need to work on these 'ads'

herb system complex...? do wut now? I remember building 6 herbs and shoving them in the container in less than two seconds every time. Hardly complex tbh.

@Dakotastomp I'd have to make a new save entirely. Which I don't want to do as this save was my 100% completion save.

Now its 100% never gonna be 100% again. lolz. To play the rift...i'd have to do a new game and pray the game doesn't decide to throw the relic off a ledge with a kill zone below it.

@Alpha008 My PC has an 8 core, 16 thread cpu 16GBs of ram and an overclocked sapphire RX580 8GB....

and even that struggles to run metro. The game's optimization is not great but the game is so good it doesn't matter much. However, in metro it was taken to another level of bad.
My save is forever broken by not being able to access the rift in the world because it decided to spawn one of the relic items and make it just disappear into the ether.

...also MP in hat in time is also not that great. All players just play independent of one another. They only see each other with no physical or even story interaction. Looks pretty odd at times though.

@jockmahon gotta remember. its a port of a wii u game. Most already got their fill in japan.

@Xaessya unlikely. paladins definitely didn't do it and you'd piss off a very large userbase.