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Re: Pokémon TCG Pocket's Next Expansion Introduces A Mega Mix-Up

SalvorHardin

@ShieldHero
It’s not really a big deal when you consider that if you’ve already played a regular EX or even two regulars and lose those the next point is a loss no matter what so there’s no unique penalty for playing the mega then who’s gonna be primed at that point to mop up what the opponent has left while being tanky enough to survive the process.

Re: "We Answer To Nobody But You, The Audience" - Digital Foundry Is Now Fully Independent

SalvorHardin

@elpardo1984
Probably not just look up their DF Clips channel which is usually dominated by clickbaity topics from their weekly show, the latest one has John bizarrely acting like the sky is falling for Switch 2 because that partner direct was a letdown. They also freak the hell out at any game still using FSR1, I’m not a fan of it either but their petal clutching is hysterical.

Re: Switch Is Now Within Touching Distance Of The DS' Lifetime Sales

SalvorHardin

@0_Cassiel_0
Oh yeah gotta love the jerk reaction to Jim where people were saying it was completely made up and Sony being spiteful, sites like this were running articles with the same attitude. Even before Layden backed it up you can find people doing estimates as far back as 2018 that the LTD was 159.2m-161.9m.
Let’s say that miraculously they did somehow sell 160m of those and presented proof of it what do you think the reaction would be? I predict the same as Jim got.

Re: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment Teases New Construct In Fresh Trailer

SalvorHardin

@solarwolf07
Licensed musou games are supposed to be bombastic fun celebrations of the properly just like the original HW not some vehicle for telling “canon” and being limited by that, the imprisonment era characters and lore other than Zelda are incredibly boring just like in TOTK just listen to the voice acting they still sound like they need a nap, never once did I sit through TOTK’s telling me the same things about that era and its smug dull characters over and over and thought that I want to know more instead of more about what happened between the game and BOTW which beyond a few scraps refuses to go into detail about.

Re: Switch Online's SNES Update Has Apparently Upgraded The CRT Filter

SalvorHardin

@mikegamer
Yes it has phosphors, and since the app was updated with 4K support it can do this down to the individual game pixel level. They had already done a similar effect on GBA NSO when it launched by simulating its LCD grid complete with subpixels.
@SillyG
4K is actually the best resolution for retro games since it does a proper full screen integer scale of 240p and has enough pixels to do proper CRT simulation. Sonic Mania’s CRT filter is one of the best example of this it runs at 4K on PS4 Pro/PS5 and looks incredibly sharp nothing about the image is degraded, the CRT effect enhances low res pixel art by giving it breathing room instead of being big blocky chunks of solid colors, games back then we’re made with CRTs in mind it’s why they used dithering for transparencies or color blending and also why games that heavily relied on this look awful unfiltered.

Re: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound Will "Average" 30fps On Switch

SalvorHardin

@ChromaticDracula
2D sprite based retro games play like total trash at 30fps, SNES NSO has a few of them and they don’t feel cinematic they feel like walking through mud. The original Ninja Gaiden trilogy were all 60fps and as difficult as they are they’d be near impossible at 30fps.

Re: Ubisoft Reportedly Cancels Star Wars Outlaws Sequel

SalvorHardin

@Kestrel
Yeah it’s like Gotham Knights it has the foundation to make a great Batman game that’s doing the things people love about the Arkham games and would have came out sooner than whatever Rocksteady is doing now, it’s what WB Montreal was actually in early stages of doing before WB killed it if rumors are to be believed.

Re: Donkey Kong Bananza Takes Inspiration From Dark Souls For These Gold Statues

SalvorHardin

Good change over Odyssey where coins are just completely lost on death.
Anyway this is the anti-from game you can instantly cancel all your moves and almost all attacks by enemies are unsafe with the way they can be easily countered or interrupted with your own, the combat is simple but it lets you be proactive in ways most games seem to be afraid of being these days

Re: Nintendo's Switch Online Playtest Program Returning, Includes Switch 2 Support

SalvorHardin

Don’t see the point of doing this again unless they want to see if they get the same reaction it got last time. People will be smartened up to what this is, so it’s going to be pretty subdued unless there’s something drastically different about it. The first one had the attention it got due to mindless speculation and then bolstered by Nintendo telling people not to discuss or share anything from it.

Re: 'Azure Striker Gunvolt Trilogy Enhanced' Announced For Switch

SalvorHardin

@Chocobo_Shepherd
About as often as I’ve played these game and have absolutely no idea what the core gameplay is trying to do and the motivation behind it, seems like a vehicle for nonstop voiced dialogue and cool sprite art that resembles their Mega Man games but the gameplay is nothing like it and feels like it was designed by aliens.

Re: Exclusive: Upcoming Fast Fusion Update For Switch 2 Introduces Photo Mode

SalvorHardin

This is will be nice to have considering taking ingame photos currently has you being exposed hard to the brutal reality of it’s image quality. I’d really love a proper upgrade for RMX at this point, just give me native 4K and a 1080p120hz mode, the next gen graphics of Fusion are nice but you get numb to them after a while especially with the image quality compromises they had to make that not even pure mode can solve.
If Fusion had simply looked as nice as Wipeout HD in order to balance out image quality and performance I would have been fine with that, instead it’s pushing a lot of modern rendering techniques and using DLSS at very low internal resolutions to offset the performance of doing that.

Re: Switch 2 Welcome Tour Developer Gets Officially Revealed

SalvorHardin

@cylemmulo
No characters and tend to be ragebait as I’ve mentioned before, no clue how it made all the way to market like that especially with how it makes you actually hate the mouse controls, it’s the anti Wii Sport/Play in that way. Zero Nintendo charm instead it’s just garbage rage inducing flash games you’d play in the 00’s to pass time.