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Re: Untitled Goose Game Is Out Now, And You Can Buy It Cheap For A Limited Time

SepticLemon

@USWITCH64 That would be like saying...

"Yes, I would like my games to be choppy."

Granted, I'm in the realm of playing PC games above 60fps with my GTX1070 and with a 144hz monitor. I can get games to look really silky and more responsive than a 60hz TV.

Simply put, 60frames-please would just want to have more 60fps luxuries on his system of choice. Granted the Switch is a portable, and has limitations. But there's certainly examples of lazy programing, inefficiency, and understaffed work loads going on that don't make these games the best that they can get. Untitled Goose Game is alright frame rate wise, but I think 60frames-please is correct that it's running somewhere between 30-60fps, but never touching those numbers.But it would be awesome to see the game run silky smooth at 60FPS. But it also depends on how the developers made their model animations too. If they did it under 60fps, it would be pointless to run it at 60fps.

But we can all dream. We simply want the best for our Nintendo Switch System.

Re: Untitled Goose Game Is Out Now, And You Can Buy It Cheap For A Limited Time

SepticLemon

@HeroOfCybertron Hello Hello, the developers of the game released a tweet yesterday saying that the game will be launched on 9am Friday in your local time. As it's 2:00pm here, we already had it for a few hours. But if my maths are right, that would make it 9am now for eastern standard time, so it might be out for you now if you live in the east of the US.

https://twitter.com/house_house_/status/1174652291288166400

Re: Japanese Releases Of Dragon Quest I, II And III On Switch Will Be Playable In English

SepticLemon

@Don It's mainly quality of life stuff.

You don't have to use a long list of commands to do things like you did in DQ1 and 2. You just walk up to something, press A, and it's context sensitive. But in the original NES game, if you wanted to open a treasure chest, you had to pause the game and go to a command to open the treasure chest.

My gripes with the iOS, Android, Switch and PS4 versions of these games is that even though it looks better than the Super Famicom remakes, the SuFami remakes are much more animated, the music is better, and a lot more work was put into them than these newer versions have.

Re: '90s Football Stars Is Now Golazo!, And It's Coming To Nintendo Switch This Week

SepticLemon

Heh! This actually reminds me of the early 90s when my Grandad had a thing for Italian Cup Football. Channel 4 would play a lot of Italian footy, and in the intro there would be a guy that screams "GOLAZO!" off his lungs! lmao!

https://youtu.be/x0aQ8QGEoGU?t=346

The game however... It just looks like a generic no rules football game. Behold the Kickmen looks like a better No Rule Football game to me. https://store.steampowered.com/app/529440/Behold_the_Kickmen/

Re: Japanese Releases Of Dragon Quest I, II And III On Switch Will Be Playable In English

SepticLemon

@60frames-please They used to have licencing issues when the games came out on the NES. Nintendo had to rename the games Dragon Warrior, because Dragon Quest in the west was the name of a Dungeons and Dragons rule book that had a trademark behind it. SquareEnix had to fight to get the Dragon Quest name for the west when DQVIII came out.

Technically, there should be no issues getting the games out onto western eShops, but the big problem is that these Switch versions are based on the PS4 versions, which are simply modified versions of the mobile Dragon Quest games. The graphics for enemies and the music is a bit mediocre if you compare them to the Super Famicom remakes.

Re: Japanese Releases Of Dragon Quest I, II And III On Switch Will Be Playable In English

SepticLemon

@Wavey84 Oh, and yes, there is a Super Famicom version of DQV, but it's an early Super Famicom title, the DS version feels like a real remake.

As for what system to play DQXI on. I'm not sure if the PS4 version has PS4 Pro support, I'll have to look that up. I'm currently playing DQXI on Steam and running it in the highest quality possible, which looks much better than what the Switch can do in its demo. But the Switch version does come with the 2D mode, which isn't in the PS4 and Steam versions, and the Switch version comes with better audio, as the midi in-game audio has be changed to recorded orchestrated music from the DQXI soundtrack. So there's some advantages with the Switch edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfdFU3O3nf8

Re: Japanese Releases Of Dragon Quest I, II And III On Switch Will Be Playable In English

SepticLemon

@Wavey84 DQXI is a bit more traditional compared to IX and X.

It plays a bit more like DQVIII, but focusing has been removed for a new Pep system, which is this game's equivalent of a limit break. But it's a little random, and you can't always rely on it to come when you need it. But the cool thing with pep is that if two or more characters are pepped up, and have compatible moves, they can perform a pep move together, which is way more powerful than a pep move done by just one character.

Playing in 3D, you can move your character around the battlefield like some modern JRPGs, but your position of characters don't make that much of a difference when it comes to outcome. There's pretty much no point of it being there to begin with, so I'm guessing that when SquareEnix was working on the game, position was going to be a factor in combat, but never came to be.

Re: Japanese Releases Of Dragon Quest I, II And III On Switch Will Be Playable In English

SepticLemon

@Wavey84 DQVIII is worth getting into, and is one of the better DQ games out there. If you want to get into a good retro DQ game, try out DQV, that, to me at least, is the best DQ game made with it's awesome story. I would avoid DQVI though, as it's quite dull compared to IV and V.

If you want to get into them, here's a list of the better DQ games.

DQIII for GameBoy Color, NES or Super Famicom
DQV for DS
DQVIII for PS2 or 3DS
DQXI for PS4, Switch or Steam

Re: Japanese Releases Of Dragon Quest I, II And III On Switch Will Be Playable In English

SepticLemon

Cool, but these are ports of the PS4 versions of DQ1-3, which I've been told aren't great.

The main complaints I've heard is that the enemies don't animate in battle, which is the same as the Famicom and NES versions, but the Super Famicom ports had animated enemies. Then the quality of the MIDI music is worse than that from the Super Famicom versions. It feels like Square Enix rushed these ports out to the PS4 and Switch really fast to make a quick buck.

Re: Classic DOOM And DOOM II Ports To Receive Performance Improvements In Future Patch

SepticLemon

@Realnoize Freezing?

The issue I've had before is that when you put the Switch into sleep mode, it would disconnect the log in with BethesdaNet. Meaning that when you turn the system back on to play it again, ti would pop up this window every 5-30 seconds about having to reconnect, even though you could only do that from the title screen, and not in game. But I haven't seen that since the update that removed the mandatory sign in, and you can just play it without interruptions even if you lose a connection.

Re: Poll: Have You Ever Had Problems With Nintendo Hardware?

SepticLemon

The systems that I've had problems with, were my GameBoy, my GameCube, and my original 3DS.

My GameBoy developed a fault where it would refuse to turn on; so out of curiosity, I took it apart to see if I could see a problem and I couldn't see anything that was burnt out or destroyed. So I assembled it back together again, and somehow it worked! No idea how I did it, it might have been something loose that got fixed as I apart the GameBoy back together again.

My original GameCube eventually stopped reading discs, so I contacted Nintendo over the phone and they asked me to clean the lens with a cotton swab and bit of windolene, but it still wouldn't work. The technician on the phone suggested that the diode for the laser that reads the discs might be faulty and needed a replacement. At the time Nintendo provided a two year warranty, and I was within it, so Nintendo sent me a paid stamp and address to send it back to Nintendo. I got it about about 10 days later and it worked a treat!

For the 3DS though, that was a different story. One day the system simply made a loud crack, and it stopped powering on. When I contacted Nintendo about it, they no longer did their 2 year warranty, and only did a 1 year warranty. I had to send the system over to Nintendo, and they ended up send me a bill of £80 for the repair job they did! I never knew what the problem was, but I begrudgingly paid the £80 bill and got my 3DS back shortly after.

Simply put, as you guys mentioned above. They just don't make stuff the way they used to. After all, there's a GameBoy that survived a bomb blast that's displayed in Nintendo New York; providing it's getting its power from the DC input rather than batteries, sure, but the GameBoy is super rugged in comparison to newer systems these days. Not to mention that older systems are simply easier to repair. Hell, the GameBoy itself has to be the easiest system to repair, not to mention all the 1st and 3rd party resources you can get for the system to repair them! It just makes me hope that we don't enter an age where things become so delicate and unrepairable!

Re: Nintendo Download: 15th August (Europe)

SepticLemon

Why on earth is Vs. Gradius on sale!?

Firstly, if you want a Gradius game, you can get Gradius 1 & 2 on the Konami Arcade collection, and the NES version in on the Nintendo Online NES service. Why on earth would you pay for an arcade version of an NES version of an arcade game!? :S