Pretty happy with this CoD on Switch 2 so far.
It's a bit on the expansive side even for the standard version, but it is a fair amount of content, even with the single player campaign being a bit short. DMZ is pretty much a campaign on it's own. Overall, it feels pretty much back to decent form after several bad Call of Duty-releases. Plus, the Switch 2 version looks decent and runs fine. And I do feel the developers should get extra credits for all the options available...you can pretty much tailor everything when it comes to controls and availibility to suit your personal preference. And I really like you can pretty much remove the dead zones completely on the sticks...I just hate action-shooter games that makes aiming hard by adding a huge deadzone to the right stick...
Hope the prolonged waiting for docked VRR means it's also a working one, and not like on PS5 where VRR "worked" in just some cases and malfunctioned in most.
I wont upgrade even if it comes an Oled model, I think the current screen is good enough. Ive got a Oled TV, so I was pretty disapointed when Nintendo announced Switch 2 would be using LCD...but now that I've been using Switch 2 in handheld mode for a year, I don't even think about it anymore.
If it's stable 30 on the TV, it's perfectly fine for me. I hardly even notice the difference between a stable 30 and 60, it's only when in goes down to 25 or lower that it annoys me. Graphics looks good, might be my big autumn/winter RPG game...would be very nice as it's a free update too. CDProject really wants to be on Switch-gamers good side, it seems.
Very nice to see CD Project keeps supporting Switch/Switch 2. Very nice with a free remaster, I just might then take Witcher 3 for another run. Hoping for a 40fps VRR mode when playing in handheld.
Thats how the law works. The law is written objectively, and it's up to the courts to decide if the defense or the prosecutions case fits within the meaning of the law, it's not supposed to be up to anyone to bend it to fit their own criteria of "morals".
They're not struggling. They can afford hardware to pirate/steal on. And games are not that expansive either, there are tons of games on sale all the time for close to nothing. Face it, some people just don't want to pay no matter what the price is when there is the opportunity to steal it with close to no risk.
And no, it's not a depression, people are not especially poor these days that they have to visit soup kitchens etc. We had far less money in the 90's.
Yeah, everyone got their own morality, which is why we need a law that is objective. Otherwise, there will be one hundred and one reasons why you or me, or any one else, shouldn't have to pay for our games. Luckely, videogames is a hobby no one needs to live a full life, so at least all the so called arguments about "free is best for humanitarian reasons" is all but irrelevant.
The pick-and-choose mentality to the rule of law is not a very wise mentality. There is as many lines that could be drawn that there are people. Why can't I steal your car, you might be richer than me, you can just get another one etc.
The difference in loading times is neglectable on Switch 2 between cartridge, SD, system storage. It's in the range 2-5 seconds difference in most games. Most of the loading times on Switch 2 is decompressing texture files, so you wont win much by going digital. On the other hand, you'll save over 60 gigs of storage by buying Oblivion on cartridge.
Lego City undercover is most probably faster loading on Switch 2 due to much more effective de-compression, it doesn't do it on the CPU as the old Switch did.
I can't think of any game on Switch 2 that's specifically designed to use the storage as a sort-of-RAM like a couple of games on PS5, so speeds beyond 400-500MB/s probably doesn't do much of a difference.
lol, I remember I actually played the PS4 version years ago. The controls was absolutely mad, every button did like 8 different things. And the framerate was like 15fps, maybe even down to something like 10fps when there was many buldings and zombies.
Switch 2 being part on open beta, but not early access - my guess is this is bcause a third party studio handles the Switch 2 version, might be panic button or something like that.
We'll see.
I think the later trailers on Oblivion on Switch 2 looks alright. But generally, I think it was a bad move to bake the game into Unreal Engine 5. The Anniversary editions of Skyrim shows that their in-house engine is already capable of making their older games look fairly modern and nice. They should just have ported Oblivion to a newer version of creation engine, and replaced the assets with new ones. Why they choosed the unreal-path is a mystery to me, it seems to just have trashed the performance..
I think it's been alright since the 1.5.2 patch, only the laggy cutscenes bothered me.
Tried the new version this morning, they've fixed the cut-scenes, but it looks a bit softer as they now have removed the option to turn off anti-aliasing. Very nice with the free DLC! I just love this game, with the free dlc, Im not regreting I paid fullprice for this one.
@Smackosynthesis
Yeah. I wish developers stopped using Unity, it's been aweful performance-wise in every game ever relesed using it...
They often don't bother optimizing games on Xbox and Playstation, as they're more or less PCs. They have to optimize it to even run on Switch 2, as it is ARM based plattform where you cant just push over a x86 based game
Physical are still quite a big thing on Switch/Switch 2, and Nintendo is a very conservative company, so I think physical are gonna stick around for at least 10 more years on Nintendo.
@Boogaloo_Jenkins
It's the other way around.
Blu-ray discs are almost free to produce, Switch 2 cartridges are quite expansive as they actually contains rom memory.
A remaster of the original Black Ops (Xbox 360/PS3/Wii) would be alright, the last decent CoD campaign. This one, I'm gonna skip. I'll just stick to Splatoon 3 and Apex Legends, they're better shooters...
If they just could bring ports of the HD Shenmue 1 & 2 collection on Switch 2, I would be so happy. They can skip the joke called Shenmue 3, I'm ignoring that game.
2026 looks good for Switch 2 so far. I started with RE9, then Pokopia. Soon, it'll be Star Fox and Yoshi to cover the rest of the summer. Nintendo just needs 1 or 2 big releases for fall/winter, and 2026 is gonna be solid.
I kinda prefer World over 8. But it might just be that I got so tired of 8, as I played it on and off ever since the Wii U version. The "battle royal" 24-player open world mode of World made it feel so fresh.
2. Is probably due to memory constraints. Back on Switch 1, many games disabled video capture if they wanted to squeze out all the performance from the console. Game chat seems to be reserving a fair bit of the systems memory, so mb its too much to be using video capture at the same time chat is running.
The functionality in itself is good, it's just that Nintendo introduced it 10-15 years too late. It would've been great for chatting on Wii U / 3DS, today everyone just uses discord etc.
Yeah, there is much more interesting RPG-series out there these days. Personally, I'm more interested in Switch 2 editions of Kingdom Come 1 & 2. And to be honest, this latest showcase of Fable looks a bit bland.
Gamepass has been a huge flop for Microsoft, with subscribers lingering at the same numbers for several years now. Nintendo just needs to keep pushing it's quality products, Microsoft Xbox ar the one with low-effort games.
This game should probably been delayed on all platforms until december, it's in a very bad state right now. I don't really care personally, I just hope it'll be an OK port on Switch 2 when it's finally released.
I wonder how the Switch 2 version will be at launch, the current PS5-built shown at state of play seem to run at 15fps...
Another one of those releases where you wait for 6 month to get a decent version.
They added a scar, doesn't that make him unique and charismatic? 😂
@AverageGamer
Sean Connery was fairly young during his first James Bond-movies, he just had that old face since his mid-20s. I don't think they had to make Bond look like a school boy to have him "young and fresh"
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Re: PSA: Nintendo Ending Google And Apple Sign-Ins On Nintendo Accounts In 2027
Good.
Keep Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter/X out of the consoles.
Re: 4 Things You Need to Know About Cities: Skylines - Expanded Edition on Nintendo Switch 2
Just got it for something like 14.99 on the eShop. Thats nothing for a game like this.
Re: Review: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (Switch 2) - Best-In-Class Bombast That Doesn't Shortchange Nintendo Gamers
@Ayazumi_Osaka
lol! There are many, many 30fps games on PS4 and Xbone. "60 fps connsoles"...yeah, jist as Switch 2 is a 120 fos console 😂
Re: Review: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (Switch 2) - Best-In-Class Bombast That Doesn't Shortchange Nintendo Gamers
Pretty happy with this CoD on Switch 2 so far.
It's a bit on the expansive side even for the standard version, but it is a fair amount of content, even with the single player campaign being a bit short. DMZ is pretty much a campaign on it's own. Overall, it feels pretty much back to decent form after several bad Call of Duty-releases. Plus, the Switch 2 version looks decent and runs fine. And I do feel the developers should get extra credits for all the options available...you can pretty much tailor everything when it comes to controls and availibility to suit your personal preference. And I really like you can pretty much remove the dead zones completely on the sticks...I just hate action-shooter games that makes aiming hard by adding a huge deadzone to the right stick...
Re: "A Colossal Upgrade" - Digital Foundry Delivers Its Tech Verdict For The Witcher 3 Remastered On Switch 2
Looks nice, Ill give it a go when the new dlc releases next year...the game should be properly patched by then...
Re: Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour Updated To Ver. 1.1.0, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
I think Welcome Tour was alright for the release, but no way I'm gonna go back to it now. )
Re: Nintendo Switch 2 System Update 23.0.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Hope the prolonged waiting for docked VRR means it's also a working one, and not like on PS5 where VRR "worked" in just some cases and malfunctioned in most.
Re: Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake Price Seemingly Revealed
@Matt93
At a 59.99 price point, it's probably not a big effort remake.
Re: Rumour: Nintendo Might Be Updating The Switch 2's LCD Panel
I wont upgrade even if it comes an Oled model, I think the current screen is good enough. Ive got a Oled TV, so I was pretty disapointed when Nintendo announced Switch 2 would be using LCD...but now that I've been using Switch 2 in handheld mode for a year, I don't even think about it anymore.
Re: The Witcher 3 Remastered Resolution And Frame Rate For Switch 2 Revealed
If it's stable 30 on the TV, it's perfectly fine for me. I hardly even notice the difference between a stable 30 and 60, it's only when in goes down to 25 or lower that it annoys me. Graphics looks good, might be my big autumn/winter RPG game...would be very nice as it's a free update too. CDProject really wants to be on Switch-gamers good side, it seems.
Re: The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Remastered Confirmed For Switch 2, Launching Next Month
Very nice to see CD Project keeps supporting Switch/Switch 2. Very nice with a free remaster, I just might then take Witcher 3 for another run. Hoping for a 40fps VRR mode when playing in handheld.
Re: Nintendo Wipes Out Hundreds Of Switch Emulator Repositories
@charliecarrot
Thats how the law works. The law is written objectively, and it's up to the courts to decide if the defense or the prosecutions case fits within the meaning of the law, it's not supposed to be up to anyone to bend it to fit their own criteria of "morals".
Re: Nintendo Wipes Out Hundreds Of Switch Emulator Repositories
@Por-E-Gone
They're not struggling. They can afford hardware to pirate/steal on. And games are not that expansive either, there are tons of games on sale all the time for close to nothing. Face it, some people just don't want to pay no matter what the price is when there is the opportunity to steal it with close to no risk.
And no, it's not a depression, people are not especially poor these days that they have to visit soup kitchens etc. We had far less money in the 90's.
Re: Nintendo Wipes Out Hundreds Of Switch Emulator Repositories
@charliecarrot
Yeah, everyone got their own morality, which is why we need a law that is objective. Otherwise, there will be one hundred and one reasons why you or me, or any one else, shouldn't have to pay for our games. Luckely, videogames is a hobby no one needs to live a full life, so at least all the so called arguments about "free is best for humanitarian reasons" is all but irrelevant.
Re: Nintendo Wipes Out Hundreds Of Switch Emulator Repositories
@charliecarrot
The pick-and-choose mentality to the rule of law is not a very wise mentality. There is as many lines that could be drawn that there are people. Why can't I steal your car, you might be richer than me, you can just get another one etc.
Re: Round Up: The First Impressions For Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Switch 2 Are In
Looks good enough. As long as you can opt-out on PC-console-multiplattform multiplayer, Switch 2 players should be on par with Xbox och Playstation 5.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews For The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered On Switch 2 Are In
@Jeronan
The difference in loading times is neglectable on Switch 2 between cartridge, SD, system storage. It's in the range 2-5 seconds difference in most games. Most of the loading times on Switch 2 is decompressing texture files, so you wont win much by going digital. On the other hand, you'll save over 60 gigs of storage by buying Oblivion on cartridge.
Lego City undercover is most probably faster loading on Switch 2 due to much more effective de-compression, it doesn't do it on the CPU as the old Switch did.
I can't think of any game on Switch 2 that's specifically designed to use the storage as a sort-of-RAM like a couple of games on PS5, so speeds beyond 400-500MB/s probably doesn't do much of a difference.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews For The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered On Switch 2 Are In
@Jeronan
No. It uses Switch 2 cartridge, and Switch 2 doesn't have NVMe storage.
Re: DayZ Brings Gritty, Zombie-Survival Multiplayer To Switch 2 Next Month
@Max_the_German
lol, I remember I actually played the PS4 version years ago. The controls was absolutely mad, every button did like 8 different things. And the framerate was like 15fps, maybe even down to something like 10fps when there was many buldings and zombies.
Re: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta Starts Next Month
Switch 2 being part on open beta, but not early access - my guess is this is bcause a third party studio handles the Switch 2 version, might be panic button or something like that.
Re: Fallout 3 And New Vegas Remasters Announced, But No Release Date Yet
@MamaSymphonia
We'll see.
I think the later trailers on Oblivion on Switch 2 looks alright. But generally, I think it was a bad move to bake the game into Unreal Engine 5. The Anniversary editions of Skyrim shows that their in-house engine is already capable of making their older games look fairly modern and nice. They should just have ported Oblivion to a newer version of creation engine, and replaced the assets with new ones. Why they choosed the unreal-path is a mystery to me, it seems to just have trashed the performance..
Re: Exclusive: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Receives Massive Patch On Switch 2, All DLC Now Free
I think it's been alright since the 1.5.2 patch, only the laggy cutscenes bothered me.
Tried the new version this morning, they've fixed the cut-scenes, but it looks a bit softer as they now have removed the option to turn off anti-aliasing. Very nice with the free DLC! I just love this game, with the free dlc, Im not regreting I paid fullprice for this one.
@Smackosynthesis
Yeah. I wish developers stopped using Unity, it's been aweful performance-wise in every game ever relesed using it...
Re: Bethesda Shows Off Oblivion Remastered Switch 2 Physical Release
@Rentaro
They often don't bother optimizing games on Xbox and Playstation, as they're more or less PCs. They have to optimize it to even run on Switch 2, as it is ARM based plattform where you cant just push over a x86 based game
Re: Talking Point: As Sony Bins Physical, How Long Until Nintendo Follows Suit?
Physical are still quite a big thing on Switch/Switch 2, and Nintendo is a very conservative company, so I think physical are gonna stick around for at least 10 more years on Nintendo.
@Boogaloo_Jenkins
It's the other way around.
Blu-ray discs are almost free to produce, Switch 2 cartridges are quite expansive as they actually contains rom memory.
Re: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Revealed For Switch 2
@RiasGremory
Have you tried Black Ops back in the day? That was a good one too. Interesting story, great Vietnam setting.
Re: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Revealed For Switch 2
A remaster of the original Black Ops (Xbox 360/PS3/Wii) would be alright, the last decent CoD campaign. This one, I'm gonna skip. I'll just stick to Splatoon 3 and Apex Legends, they're better shooters...
Re: Feature: "When I Saw Animal Crossing, I Felt It Was 'FREE'" - Yu Suzuki Talks Shenmue III Enhanced
If they just could bring ports of the HD Shenmue 1 & 2 collection on Switch 2, I would be so happy. They can skip the joke called Shenmue 3, I'm ignoring that game.
Re: Stop Stressing, Nintendo Says More Switch 2 Games Are Coming
2026 looks good for Switch 2 so far.
I started with RE9, then Pokopia. Soon, it'll be Star Fox and Yoshi to cover the rest of the summer. Nintendo just needs 1 or 2 big releases for fall/winter, and 2026 is gonna be solid.
Re: Nintendo Reveals Star Fox GameChat Character Avatars And AR Filters
@TobiasAmaranth
Valve is even more late with the tech, Nintendo used it back in 2011 on 3DS...
Re: Mario Kart World Has Been Updated To Version 1.6.0, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@rvcolem1
I kinda prefer World over 8. But it might just be that I got so tired of 8, as I played it on and off ever since the Wii U version. The "battle royal" 24-player open world mode of World made it feel so fresh.
Re: "We Have Begun R&D" - Crimson Desert Dev Shows Interest In A Switch 2 Port
Doesn't seem to work on Steam Deck, but woth the right optimization, it could probably run at 30fpsn on Switch, if they use plenty of DLSS.
Re: PSA: Switch 2's "GameChat Welcome Offer" Ends This Month, Try It Out For Free While You Still Can
@Anti-Matter
You have to pay to call and text with your phone too.
Re: Nintendo Shows Off Icon Design Proposals For Switch 2's 'C' Button
@neo9eo
2. Is probably due to memory constraints. Back on Switch 1, many games disabled video capture if they wanted to squeze out all the performance from the console. Game chat seems to be reserving a fair bit of the systems memory, so mb its too much to be using video capture at the same time chat is running.
Re: Nintendo Shows Off Icon Design Proposals For Switch 2's 'C' Button
@Shepdawg1
The functionality in itself is good, it's just that Nintendo introduced it 10-15 years too late. It would've been great for chatting on Wii U / 3DS, today everyone just uses discord etc.
Re: Video: Pragmata Demo Side-By-Side Graphics Comparison (Switch 2, Xbox Series S, PS5)
Weird how Switch 2 version actually tends to look better than the Xbox-version. Is it the dlss that eliminated the jaggies?
Re: Nintendo Will "Carefully Consider" A Switch 2 Price Increase, Says Furukawa
I hope they reconsider and stay on the release price point, at least for 2026.
$450 is weirdly affordable today, with competetion ranging from $550 - $650 (not cointing in PS5 Pro)
Re: PSA: Apex Legends Switch Version Shutting Down This August
@Jack_Goetz
I return to it every second weekend. It's time for some new tracks and drivers tough.
Re: PSA: Apex Legends Switch Version Shutting Down This August
@HugoGED
It's like Mariokart, you'll be tired of it for several month, up to a year. Then all of a sudden, you want to sink another 100hrs into it.
Re: Google's 'Project Genie' Is Basically A Huge Plagiarism Tool, So When Will Nintendo's Legal Ninjas Strike?
So...yet another half a million AI-scam games on the eShop?
Re: The Fable Reboot Is Reportedly "Under Consideration" For Switch 2
@CaptainQuo
Yeah, there is much more interesting RPG-series out there these days. Personally, I'm more interested in Switch 2 editions of Kingdom Come 1 & 2. And to be honest, this latest showcase of Fable looks a bit bland.
Re: Rumour: Bethesda's Newest IP Is Still Reportedly On Course For Switch 2
@Max_the_German
I'm OK with loading times, as long as it's not "loading times" for controller inputs, like in the Skyrim port...
Re: Video: We've Played Assassin's Creed Shadows On Switch 2 - Here's 12 Minutes Of Gameplay
Looks good. But I'll wait for a Valhalla port.
Re: Switch 2 Sells Over 10 Million Units, Nintendo Increases Forecast Even Further
@Striker21
Gamepass has been a huge flop for Microsoft, with subscribers lingering at the same numbers for several years now. Nintendo just needs to keep pushing it's quality products, Microsoft Xbox ar the one with low-effort games.
Re: "Go Tell Nintendo" - Ex-Blizzard President Responds After Xbox Calls Exclusives "Antiquated"
Exclusives are not outdated, it's just that Microsoft Xbox are unable to create high-quality exclusive game titles.
Re: Resident Evil 0 Remake Rumours Make The Rounds Again
Could be cool with real co-op option and graphics/gameplay in the league of RE2 Remake. The original does have the perfect set-up for co-op action.
Re: Hitman: World Of Assassination Updated On Switch 2, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Still waiting for this little beauty to come on sale for Switch 2.
Re: Borderlands 4 Has Been Delayed For Switch 2, Digital Pre-Orders Cancelled
This game should probably been delayed on all platforms until december, it's in a very bad state right now. I don't really care personally, I just hope it'll be an OK port on Switch 2 when it's finally released.
Re: Poll: So, Will You Be Getting Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 For Switch?
Might be getting Galaxy 2 digital on the eSHop.
Re: 007 First Light Is More That Just Spies And Style, Launches March 2026 On Switch 2
I wonder how the Switch 2 version will be at launch, the current PS5-built shown at state of play seem to run at 15fps...
Another one of those releases where you wait for 6 month to get a decent version.
Re: '007 First Light' Deep Dive Gameplay Is Coming Later This Week
@World
They added a scar, doesn't that make him unique and charismatic? 😂
@AverageGamer
Sean Connery was fairly young during his first James Bond-movies, he just had that old face since his mid-20s. I don't think they had to make Bond look like a school boy to have him "young and fresh"