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PayDay2 and Doom, most likely

Whose money did he steal this time to make this one?

Fortnite, Fallout 4.... Those would be huge for me.

I checked the patch notes and you all can keep your motion controls. They improved the resolution and textures throughout parts of the game. I swear the graphical fidelity has seen a noticeable bump.

That or I am suffering from wishful thinking.

I'll consider it after reading some reviews.

@brendon987 the frame rate is better almost all around. It still drops, but not nearly as frequently. Also the shadows are improved.

I'm definitely satisfied, but I wouldn't mind a bit more polishing.

I bought it on Switch on a small sale a little while ago. I played it a bit, but decided to wait until the patch came out. I am happy to play it now.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Hmmm... 3 hours...

That might push me gently to the "don't buy" category...

So many times I considered buying this on PC. Now i feel justified in waiting.

I actually has issues with the first game on the Switch continuously disconnecting from the Wii U gamepad, and so i never finished it.

I don't know of I want to get it again though.

@hadrian Yes, but the Battle Royale mode in Fortnite is a secondary mode they only recently released. The primary mode is still in beta, and it is more like Minecraft meets tower defense.

@Dus You don't "finish" Skyrim, you wander off and do something else.

For VR, that probably brings up bad memories for Nintendo with the Wii poisoning the well for hardcore gamers, so to speak.

As for 4K, the TVs and monitors aren't that expensive (Best Buy and Microcenter frequently have sales around here for $299 4K TVs), but it takes a lot of horsepower to achieve that kind of resolution. The Xbox One X doesn't reach that standard in most of the games on it at this point, so the PS4 Pro and Switch have no chance to get there. There's also not a lot of content available for that standard yet either. The Switch also has the unique portability factor that excuses them to a point, but they should be seriously considering whether they can invest in the hardware for 4K resolutions on their next console.

Games are addictive in the same way any activity can be addictive. It hasn't been proven to have any unique factor that would justify it getting its own classification apart from any other non-chemical dependency addiction.

Games can be addictive in the same way gambling or body building or plastic surgery can be addictive. Bear in mind that it is still a serious problem when someone is addicted, mind you.

@sillygostly DOOM was 50 GB on PC and the other consoles. It wouldn't surprise me if it was on a 32 GB card for all regions.

@crashnnburn check the control options. There is a sensitivity option you can set.

I downloaded it this morning. Haven't played it yet

@kobashi100 the Switch docked is closer to 70% the power of the PS4.

I hope they fixed the AI issues described in the most recent releases of the game.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE post your thoughts on Yooka Laylee. I'd never played Banjo Kazooie, but I kinda wished I had.

@Dudrap1 Those grunts aren't all THAT intrusive.

@retro_player_22 just be forewarned that it's not uncommon for those kinds of cards to falsify the data storage information to report a much higher capacity than it actually has.

I'm just going to recommend everyone to go for the name brand cards. Transfer speeds on the off brand ones can be a big problem, and it's pretty easy to get a card from China with a fake file system that purposely mis-states the size of the card. It'll act like it has the whole whatever size it says, but just overwrites your files as you go past the acrual storage size.

@retro_player_22 did you ever fill those cards up?

@Shiryu Red Dead Redemption 1 is not likely to be re-released on any new consoles. Apparently they lost much of the documentation or original coding for game.

I got my fingers crossed for the sequel, though.

Nice, but I was hoping they would have a better way to play online with friends

I played it when it came out, and it was good (not great), up until it came to a plot twist two thirds of the way through that made little sense and ruined much of the plot for me.

The open world aspect is on par with Mafia III that was released last year. A lot of detail, but ultimately serves more for the setting rather than being a major draw for the game.

Back in 2009, I finally switched from the Wii with its lackluster release schedule and overall lacking games to the Xbox 360, and I was blown away with the sheer amount of content available at that moment. I kept the Wii for another 6 months before trading it in, and I didn't look back.

The first year owning the Switch has been giving me the same feeling, (and some of the same games, lol) and it's not even a year on the market. I have had to stop playing good games to make room for great games. To me, that is insane.

I understand the idea that livestreams or Let's Plays of games can broadcast secrets, plot twists and spoilers for all to see, but most Nintendo games focus on gameplay. Watching available videos for their games doesn't supplant the experience of playing the game. If we were talking about visual novels, that's one thing. I've never watched a video of Mario Kart 8 and told myself "wow, that was a great game. I don't need to buy it now."

@Agent721 compatibility reasons, most likely

The more I look at the gameplay videos, I'm wondering if they were just refusing to take the steps required to improve the frame rate. Most games would remove assets or environment beyond a certain distance in order to free up system resources ans to keep a steady frame rate. In this game, they try to refrain from doing that as much as possible, and I think that is a big source of slowdown.

Heck, some properly implemented fog might have helped, and also made it seem more mysterious.

@SLlGEACH_EIRE I'm in the same boat. I was really looking forward to it.

It looks like they could try and reduce the view distance and rework the textures to squeeze more performance out of it. The textures look simple, but it looks like they're wasting a lot of resources on them.

@maruse I find @SLIGEACH_EIRE has three kinds of posts:

-exaggerated negative posts
-poking fun posts
-legitimate complaints.

I will admit I like to confuse them as well with playing dumb posts.

L.A. Noire is NOT a game I would recommend. I played it through on the Xbox 360, and part way through they completely drop the ball on the plot. Unlike GTA, this game is almost entirely plot driven, and you didn't have a lot of side stuff worth doing.

I just got Rocket League, and wow, Nintendo should just hire Panic Button. The game is amazing, and they have support for a party system like Xbox Live.

I guess it's NOT a coincidence that it looks like the box art is giving me the finger....

I'm happy to hear these improvements. I'm hoping Bethesda patches Doom soon with video recording, and I hope Skyrim has the same.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE You think the box art is a joke and the game is a statement?

@daveh30 it reminds me of my memories playing the GBA versions of Doom 1 and 2 on GBA.

@PlywoodStick The original box art was criticized. The version the Switch uses is the secondary cover for the game. I think I heard you can reverse the Xbox one and PS4 box art and you get the same design.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE a lot of sacrifices to run the box art?

I own Doom on PC, and I'm happy to have it on Switch too. I keep experiencing issues with shadow quality slowing the game to a crawl on PC in lots of sections where a major environment change occurs. It requires minimizing and alt tabbing, and sometimes changes in shader settings to fix it.

The Switch version has an odd audio bug that causes audio to drop out. Of much rather have that issue.

As for resolution, the PS4 and Xbox One had dynamic resolution set and would frequently drop below 1080p there too. I honestly don't mind the performance of Doom on the Switch. The shadows can be pixelated and the textures have issues up close, but it still looks impressive. The frame rate is very solid and I am happy to be playing this on the Joycons. I don't understand what people are complaining about for controls for the game, although I do have a history of playing FPS games on older systems and running at 15 to 24 FPS, so maybe my experience in games is different.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE The game doesn't have a manual of any kind. Just tutorials. I had to look online at strategy guides for older versions to figure out how to switch to cockpit view (press right stick). That is definitely a problem.

But honestly, I love the game for what it is. My son is 3 and is begging to play this game whenever possible. We start up a tutorial. He drives the tractor into oncoming traffic and eventually into the river. I even heard there's an actual game to it too.

But yeah, old school simulation with some honestly nice graphics. If what I just said excites you, pick it up immediately.

Netflix has the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 season and IT Crowd. As long as those remain, I will have a hard time canceling.

I use YouTube and Amazon Prime video more.

Hulu stinks.

I...... Wow. I need more money, and time...

Gimmie gimmie Ginnie!

Reminds me of the bird people town in Breath of the Wild.

@Nintendoforlife that is a placeholder page with the wrong price. They could be advertising the download version.

My son loves tractors, so I plan to get a physical copy if Farming Simulator soon.

I'm also a fan of simulation games too.

1-2 switch might be worth $10 to somebody, but if Nintendo is smart they will just make it a free download on the console's 1 year anniversary and give a coupon to those that bought it.