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@DollyrotsFan1

Well that’s one interpretation. Frankly I don’t think Link and Zelda are openly romantic in any of the games I’ve played. But they clearly care deeply about each other but I think it’s deeper than romantic attraction.

@VoidofLight

I’m pretty confident they will dye his hair when filming starts.

I listened to the video’s audio (currently getting my son ready for bed) but I’m a bit perplexed on why Nintendo would run FSR upscaling when the Switch 2 literally has DLSS, which takes a big stinking dump on FSR.

Only thing I can figure is that it’s some of the Switch 1’s version’s feature set they decided not to change when it moved to Switch 2.

@AgentGuapo

Well most of them do have Day 1 patches. But you are correct that even the launch versions of most Nintendo made games are usually fine with a few notable exceptions. Like Breath of the Wild.

@DanijoEX-The-Kumiho

Wait this is getting a PS4 release?

Wow that’s… surprising to me.

@OldGamer999

I wonder if there is enough GPU overhead to do 60fps on Switch 2? Getting 60fps on a Steamdeck is really hard with that game. You have to run an IMO unacceptably low resolution with FSR to get anywhere close.

That said, the Switch does have DLSS and that does a more acceptable job of upscaling from a really low resolution. Street Fighter VI looks fantastic on Switch 2 and apparently the internal resolution in handheld is just 360p or something around that area. Even in docked it’s only like 600p. So if they dropped the internal resolution a bit more and lowered some settings (Switch 2’s texture quality is roughly equivalent to PC high, same as the other next gen consoles, with shadows and such being around low or medium PC equivalent with some custom work on the visuals and map geometry to improve performance).

But even doing all this, I wonder if it would get to a smooth 60. Or would it just be a mess. Handheld wouldn’t be that big of a deal thanks to VRR but we don’t have that docked yet. So if it’s fluctuating from 50-60 constantly it would look like garbage without VRR.

Looks like a fantastic game. I’m not getting it right now. Money be tight yo and I still need to finish Cyberpunk and some Switch 1 games on my Switch 2 I want to finish.

I’m gonna save it for a real dead period next year. Like when I desperately need something to play.

@Anti-Matter

60 fps was shockingly common on GameCube and PS2. It was common even on the OG Xbox. Development priorities were different back then due to CRTs letting you run really low resolutions like 480i and still looking acceptable. Plus a lot of the development features we have now didn’t exist back then or were in their infancy, so the way they built games was generally more performant than they are now.

By comparison, the 360/PS3 was some real nonsense. They could finally do real time lighting and shadows plus normal mapping and they abused the hell out of those techniques. Issue was the 360 and especially the PS3 just weren’t quite powerful enough to do all that at 60fps. So 30fps targets became the norm and frankly, most games of that era ran bad. Like way worse than people remember. If you have the chance, play Far Cry 3 on 360 sometime. That game ran terrible by today’s standards, usually hovering in the low 20s in framerate. The PS3 version is even worse. But there were a few games that bucked that trend. Ridge Racer 7 on PS3 ran at 1080p at 60fps. Because NAMCO chose to mostly use PS2 era techniques and combined it with the PS3’s raw compute power. No real time lighting or shadows and no normal mapping. And frankly from a tech standpoint, I’d argue that the Call of Duty games on those consoles were the generational standouts. Because they had modern techniques (except for lighting; I think it was still pre-calculated) but still ran at 60fps on both consoles.

I think the reason the Sixth generation ran so good as a whole was because they were still relying on graphical techniques designed for the original PlayStation and N64 for the most part, but with a huge power boost from the PS2, GC, and XB. The XB introduced individual shaders to console GPUs, but frankly most games didn’t take real advantage of that except late in the systems life.

@Peach64

I suspect we will be in “pseudo cross gen” for about 3 years into the Switch 2’s life. Which is fine by me. All of these games would have been pretty compromised on Switch 1. Just because they can run on it doesn’t mean they should.

Like they released RE4 Remake on PS4. Trust me, stay away from that version like the plague. That game was clearly built for the current consoles but it got back ported. And it was horribly compromised because of it.

Now that we have mouse mode on Switch 2, give us another Mario Maker Nintendo. And a new Mario Paint!

Why did they change THPS4 so much though? I was never that into it (I was a fanatic on 2 and 3) but why did 4 get so heavily redesigned. It wasn’t as good as 2 or 3 but it wasn’t bad.

Funny how he’s finally starting to age. Dude looked ageless from 1989 until like last year.

@Serpenterror

I’m talking about the PC game. That was an unmitigated disaster in every way.

Pokémon The First movie is dark. Like shockingly dark for a Pokémon story.

@Nintendo4Sonic

Only thing I didn’t like about 4 was how the system mechanics really didn’t work with Chun-Li well. She’s still solid on that game but FADC really hurt her since the Chun strategy involves using her stupid range pokes, like low medium kick. You get punished hard on SF4 for using the usual Chun play style and she doesn’t take good advantage of FADC. That game was built for the Shotos more than anything else, since all of them had fantastic FADC combos. That’s the one street fighter game where I didn’t main Chun most of the time. I played Ryu and Sagat more than anyone else. I also played Chun a ton since she’s my girl but I had to drop her as my main due to how good Ryu and Sagat’s FADC combos were.

@Lucami

Forza Horizon, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and Gears of War Remastered are likely in my opinion.

@Anachronism

They could do a proper sequel to Rise targeted at lower end hardware.

@DTfearTheBEARD

My Sony supports VRR. It would be nice if the Switch 2 supported unlocked frame rates and used VRR to clean it up. A number of PS5 games have modes like that and it was fantastic.

@Nintendo4Sonic

I don’t think a game has to be perfectly balanced to be great. Third Strike has some wonky balance, with Chun, Yun, Makoto, Ken, and Dudley basically dominating the rest of the cast. But it’s still a fun old time.

And let’s not even start on Marvel 2. Talk about busted game balance. At least the low tiers in most games can put up a fight. Like on 3rd Strike Remy is objectively terrible but the system mechanics are strong enough that you can take wins with him. Throwing someone like Marvel 2 Ryu (worst Ryu ever) against Magneto or Storm is just no hope.

@MontyCircus

They are essentially 3rd party now but they’ve confirmed they’ll keep making consoles. Basically they are doing what Sega could have done has Sega not been broke by 2001.

@Anachronism

MHW barely runs on the PS5 or Series X and you need a beefy rig to run the PC version. It’s an unoptimized mess. Rebuilding the game from scratch is would be good for all versions.

@DTfearTheBEARD

Actually the dock supports VRR output. Someone recently proved that by hooking up a Steamdeck to the Switch 2 Dock using a conversion USB C cable.

It’s the Switch 2 itself that can’t output VRR to an external display. The good news is that Nintendo could add it at some time. VRR is a mess on TV standards and that’s why it took Sony almost a year to update the PS5 to support it. Nintendo will probably add it at some point.

@Nintendo4Sonic

3rd Strike aged perfectly. As did Garou: Mark of the Wolves.

I agree about many of the other ones. I was a huge fan of Alpha 2 back in the day. Now, I don’t really care for it much anymore.

Super Turbo is still fantastic to me, though. Even though that game is frankly broken. Claw specifically. He breaks that game in too many ways. The balance is pretty bad anyway but Claw is just something else on Super Turbo. Just wall dive the opponent until they die. If you hit low it’s safe on block. And you can option select a throw from it or even his super if you have meter. There’s no way to really counter it unless you have miracle reads.

Even my main is pretty busted on that game. Chun Li is oppressive on Super Turbo but people are so obsessed with Old Sagat and Claw and Boxer that they sleep on her. Her close medium punch is like plus 8 on block. So I just spam that move constantly and if they keep blocking, it’s a free high damage throw or if they decide to challenge it in any kind of way they’re gonna lose to it. Also, her super is glitched and very oppressive. Just input the motion and then keep holding forward and it’s stored. So if you’re fighting a chun player and they just start walking towards you it’s time to freak out because you can unleash the stored super by just pressing kick. She’s utterly dumb on that game and I love her for it. She’s not 3rd Strike Chun by any stretch (that’s the poster child for a busted character) but she’s dumb on Super Turbo too.

@MyMemory

Only thing I’d compare it unfavorably to is 3rd Strike. But 3rd Strike was one of two perfect 2D fighting games (the other being Garou: Mark of the Wolves) so that’s not really fair. Nothing will ever measure up to those two. It’s a fine fighting game in its own right.

@Jayenkai

A lot of it came down to how floppy Microsoft became in the later years of the 360. That started the funk they’ve been living with ever since. They took too much importance from their meta data with the 360 online usage, thinking the consoles were only being used to watch Netflix. Which looked like it did because back then smart TVs weren’t really a thing yet and every gamer with a girlfriend had to share their console with their SO who watched all their tv on it. Microsoft thought the actual gamers were just using them as streaming boxes, which was as far from the truth as possible.

Shoot my girlfriend at that time was watching a ton of tv on my PS3. So my usage hours looked screwed up. I suspect many people went through the same thing.

@HeadPirate

Yeah I remember the fallout of DaiKatana. They really overhyped that nonsense back in the day. And it was a total bomb.

@Alpha008

They’re falling apart. Which is weird considering Microsoft as a whole posted record profits last year. But the games division… Man something must be going on at the corporate level to cause all this.

@Coalescence

Dude is a genius level designer. But that’s really it. He doesn’t know how to actually manage a project.

He’s a lot like Yuji Naka in that regard. Good at one aspect of game design, but super overrated at every other aspect. For Naka, his skill was in programming. Dude was a whiz at programming any console he worked on. Phantasy Star on Master System is a work of art by 8 bit standards, and he programmed that by himself. Sonic the Hedgehog on Genesis was also a work of art for its time period. But when he got his own studio at SE and had to handle every aspect of game design, suddenly we got Balan Wonderworld.

@LaurenceJ1987

Dude take from me (a crackhead who plays online knockout a lot) you do not want to be in first until the last cycle of the tour. I’m serious. Being in first is a detriment to you. You get bad item box drops and blue shells are handed out like candy on this game. Plus shocks are almost constant. Being in second or third is much better. Frankly I don’t even worry about my placement outside of being at the minimum place to continue on to the next section for most of the race.

I’ve put about 25 hours into it. Mostly Knockout Tour online; that mode is straight crack cocaine. I’ve also beat all the Grand Prix cups in single player on 150cc. And I’ve beat all the Knockout single player stuff as well. Although I will admit I still have two cups left to get gold on.

@N00BiSH

Both wrong. It’s clearly X4.

I don’t think it’ll get to Switch 1 sales. The Switch 1 had the holy grail of being the official console with the official game (Animal Crossing) of Covid. Switch sales exploded during that time.

I certainly hope something like that doesn’t happen again.

@Fiergala

The early to mid 360 era was the lightening in a bottle moment for Microsoft. They’ve been a joke since then.

Didn’t this lunatic make that disaster called DaiKatana?

I’ll be honest. That franchise feels like it was so of its era that it can’t be done today anyway. If you replay Perfect Dark, it feels so late 90s with every fabric of its being that it doesn’t really feel like it can exist today.

@CaleBoi25

Yes it picks up. It’s a very slow burn at the start.

That’s a lot of layoffs.

This is starting to feel like 1983.

@Antraxx777

Ultimately this comes down to how the console business has always worked. 1 gamer buys 1 copy of a game. When they are done with it, they sell it or give it someone else. The publisher doesn’t care about that part of it. They just care about that first purchase.

The whole idea of whole households having multiple consoles and wanting to share games between them wasn’t really accounted for in the old days. And with digital, the industry still firmly believes in the “1 game for 1 gamer” mind set. Thus they all make it super annoying or impossible to share games with friends, like you can with various streaming subscriptions. Because it’s fundamentally opposite of how they want things to function.

I honestly think that’s why some companies are pushing so hard (like Microsoft) for game streaming to become useable. At that point, from a business sense, you can move on from the “1 game for 1 gamer” mindset while still keeping your profit margin.

@WiltonRoots

I suspect 32 gig cards will turn up sooner or later. I doubt anything smaller than that will show up.

One thing is that a lot of this is influenced by the market price and availability of NAND storage chips, which Nintendo uses in the Switch cards for their capacity. At this point, the market has mostly standardized on 64 gigs for the smallest size. Chances are if you want something smaller than that, you’ve got to order them into production instead of just getting them off the shelf. I suspect Nintendo settled on 64 gig capacities right now because those are already in mass production and easier and cheaper to purchase. Other sizes probably requires special ordering.

So there’s a chance as the Switch 2 is more established Nintendo will get manufacturers to produce 32 gig capacity NAND at Switch 2 performance at a price Nintendo is willing to pay. But that’s just me speculating.

@WiltonRoots

Like 2K. “We are going to use a 4 gig card to literally hold the title screen for our 90+ gig basketball game. Rest has to be downloaded.”

Game looks super impressive. Once they release a proper Sega Saturn style controller for Switch 2, I’ll probably pick it up.

@Anachronism

I’m not real sure why Nintendo couldn’t just allow Switch 1 cards for Switch 2 games where the load times wouldn’t be terrible. Same thing with the SD cards. They should have allowed the console to read the older SD cards at least for Switch 1 games. On PS5 you can play PS4 games from a USB hard drive but you can only store PS5 games. You have to move it to SSD storage to play it. Nintendo could have done the same thing.

Game key cards are dumb. I’ve said this numerous times. It gives you the worst points of both physical and digital. Only real thing going for it is that the game isn’t tied to your account so you can resell and trade the game with no issues.

But if you don’t do that, the key cards are really really stupid.

@Killercrab

The PS5 uses UHD Blu Rays (essentially quad layer Blu Rays originally developed for 4K movie releases) with 100 gigs of storage. The Series X can also read UHD Blu Rays but Microsoft ships physical games in traditional dual layer 50Gig Blu-rays. Mainly because MS, until recently, was still fully supporting the Xbox One with physical game releases and the VCR XBONE can’t read UHD Blu Rays. Matter of fact, it wasn’t uncommon (I know Elden Ring was released like this) for the XBOX One version of a game to be on the disc, while the disc acted as a key for the Series versions of the game. The later revisions of the XBONE can read UHDs. But Microsoft has mostly depreciated physical media on its platforms. Most games are essentially keys for the download at this point.

On PS5, most games are still fully shipped on the disc. That’s not applicable to all games; call of duty games are literally disc keys. And chances are this is going to change over time since Sony is aiming to depreciate physical media for the PlayStation family, but have been slower at it than Microsoft because Microsoft’s user base got very tied to Gamepass very fast. Sony’s PS Plus Extra has had a much smaller impact on consumer spending habits. But I suspect the PS6 will either be digital only or physical games will all be disc keys.

One interesting thing about Blu Ray though is that technically you can layer it 16 times in the specification. They’ve prototyped 400 gig Blu Rays before in the past. But there’s not really a demand for a disc with that kind of storage space so they haven’t been produced.

@WhiteTrashGuy

I doubt it will be that quick. More than likely they’ve been working on two games at once and I suspect the next 3D Mario (which will certainly be based on the loop introduced in Bowser’s Fury) is probably 3 or 4 years away at this point.

The least surprising news of all time.

This looks so Japanese it honestly hurts a bit.

@StyrofoamCup

Agreed.

People used to blame the actors for how awkward the Star Wars Prequels were. (Which their reception has changed just to how much a dumpster fire the Disney Sequels were, but I lived through all 3 prequels being released and I remember the reception) and people tried to blame the actors. I’d always point out that no one could make some of Luca’s writing sound natural.

Like the “I’m haunted by the kiss you should never have given me” line from Episode 2. No actor, not even someone like Gary Oldman, could have made that sound natural. That wasn’t Hayden’s fault. It was Lucas’.

That’s unfortunate.

I’ve only played one Front Mission game. Front Mission 4 on PS2. I fell in love with that game, especially its political intrigue and its super interesting world building that is like a much deeper version of Strangereal from Ace Combat (basically it’s very similar to our world, and even uses our countries, but the history is different and that’s explained in the game’s lore).

I’ve always wanted to try the other games in the franchise. But man SE is really bombing these remakes. I’ve heard bad things about 1 and 2 as well which is why I never picked them up. I hope they don’t bomb 4 whenever they decide to remake it.

To be fair, 4 actually holds up to modern standards. If they just upressed the assets (especially the 2D art assets) it would still be a pretty game by today’s standards.

It looks good. But I’m not 100% sure if I’ll get it. Chances are I’ll wait to grab after I finish Metroid Prime 4. Basically save it for a real dry spell.