I'll believe it when I see it. While I am definitely one of the people who bought a Switch last week (for TWO games, ugh) after I was convinced I wouldn't, I suffer no delusions; I literally paid hundreds of dollars to gain admission to the privilege of paying $60 MORE every (hopefully) 3-6 months for a major first part IP. That's all. The stupid Nintendo games are just too stupid good and it makes me stupid angry and Nintendo is stupid and I hate them. 💸💸💸...
Open World
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2D side scroller
Been a TES fan since Daggerfall. What fun ride it has been. I hope to live long enough to play TES...15? Maybe advances in science will let me push it to TES 20.
I come from Wild West Web days of "warez", beastiity, and even [more criminal stuff] showing up on regular, public websites.
Since MS has the capital, if they care about the gaming division, why don't they just eat the loss at $350, buy off major third-party support, partner with Steam to achieve with a Windows [10/Direct] X-box what Steambox was loosely supposed to, and dominate the market share?
Sounds legit.
Are...are we seriously going to beat a horse that was never alive? Nintendo was just being a lying business marketer when they positioned Switch as a home-console. Would anyone have given a damn if it was positioned as a 3DS/Gameboy successor? No, because this is a portable handheld. We would be thrilled at how powerful such as thin tablet was at its price point. Last gen, nobody would have tried to raise concern about 3DS hardware specs, especially in relation to home consoles. Nintendo was ...
Camera issues, FPS issues, overkill on constant and excessive weapon breakage, weak enemy variation, anticlimactic boss rewards, and too few NPCs. The game is big, beautiful, and fun, but it's not perfect. 60 isn't fair, 70 is closer to fair. 75-80 is about right, I think. (Note: I didn't say the many positives, because they've already been said to death)
If Nintendo releases a best-in-class first party IP at least twice a year, they're golden. I almost hope they don't. The sooner those idiots go the way of Sega, the better off we all will be.
Since it's getting so much hype and praise, here are the criticisms:
- no tutorial for an essential task (cooking)
- camera issues (especially around trees)
- anticlimactic boss rewards
- severe frame rate drops *when docked*
Regarding that last one:
"These problems never manifested while playing Breath of the Wild on the Switch undocked as a handheld. While that wasn’t my preferred way to play — when...
Unless they have full backwards compatibility in a Windows-Game-Mode-Box that regularly releases with updated specs for enthusiasts. Xbox now is the Windows [10] Box. The [Direct]X Box. It is becoming what Steambox was going to be. I predict that they are going to announce full backwards compatibility going forward, with different tiers of box for different graphics settings that will auto-scale to the Box you have.
It's a handheld. A portable. A thin MINI TABLET for goodness sake. What is going through people's minds that it should compete with PS4 and XBS?!! I am hugely, hugely impressed that they got so much performance out of a device so small! The 3rd party support could never have been like home console 3rd party support; it would always only be able to be like that of 3DS. The expectations laid on Switch blows my friggin' mind. This is Nintendo's *exit* from the home console world....
SALSA DE AMIGO
Fool me once...
I wonder if people are still going to $#!+ on Xbox after it becomes what everyone wanted Steambox to be? That's obviously where this is headed. Xbox as a platform will be reduced to an app, like steam, or maybe even a special boot-mode of Windows 10. The "consoles" will then be merely various pre-made gaming PCs for various graphical settings.
Scorpio is going to be the introduction of PC-tiered graphics on consoles. MS will make games with variable graphics settings for entry, middle, and premium Xbox consoles, which will then be seen basically as Steam boxes.
I honestly don't get the hate. I'm enjoying the hell out of the game. Rally mode makes it endlessly enjoyable. I still haven't gotten all the special coins (each of which unlock a secret world), which would take a LOT more time than it does to breeze through the levels/story. Tons of unlockables and surprises through Rally. The game keeps on giving. They should have included a feature that lets users design and share their own levels. Maybe then more people would find it worth $10...
KISS: "Keep Incoming Software, Stupid"
Here's the reality: Nintendo has enough UNTOUCHABLE first party IPs that, if they would have just been better about a steady stream of releases, Wii U would have been more than fine. Hell, want to know how Nintendo can crush every other system in sales? Spend three years of development with a ton of new employees on the following IPs, launch with TEN of them, and then release new entries on a quarterly basis:
Ani...
The big thing I was looking forward to is the tandem use of both integrated CPU graphics and the GPU.
-a UI that actually works, and has little or no loading times
-apps that don't crash 7/10 times (without need of hard reboot)
-killer instinct 4
-battletoads
-tons of other games
-a working, consumer-friendly hololense