Gaming Smack My Switch Up: The Nintendo Switch Discussion Thread (was: NX)

Keeping the tablet screen resolution at 720p is crazy to me. I would expect at least 1080p, if not 1440.

 

Yeah I mean, that part is kinda nutty. But while for certain games like TRPGs I do play handheld a lot, I'd still prefer to play big games on a screen. And for that, I want my 4K. At least the handheld screen will be OLED. And I presume if it's gonna run games at 4k, that means a newer, better processor and RAM.

 

There seems to be some dispute over how much a difference 720p vs 1080p makes for the handheld screen. Regardless, it's not a deal breaker for me since I'd mostly be playing on my TV anyway.

 

IMO the article makes it pretty obvious they were trying to keep the tablet screen as cheap as possible (it sounds so flimsy it almost becomes the perfect use case argument for a screen guard), and if I had to guess, the old screen is now so out of date they were forced to upgrade to the next bad tier.

 

Eh, I mean... I can see the difference between 720 and 1080 on my phone but... Barely.

 

Poorly scaled UI text elements are like exactly where that difference matters and it’s exactly what the common complaint has been with the undocked Switch because they cheaped out the first time. They can’t cheap out as much as they did because now nobody wants to make 720p LCDs, but if they really are outputting to 4K when docked the problem is going to get way worse.

 

I pre-ordered Skyward Sword for July. My plan is to do a Zelda playthrough (hoping that Twilight Princess and Windwaker get some sort of remaster for the Switch) for the second half of 2021. Unless I magically obtain a PS5. But I have OoT, MM, and ALttP for the 3DS, and obviously BotW.

It's just a shame that the best Zelda games, Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon, will never get a remaster.

MAH BOI

 

I still play my Vita and it's OLED screen is still impressive. Id rebuy a new Switch model and keep my old one for...stuff.

 

I’m going to wait it out and see if it’s a necessary purchase - big shock coming from me, I know. Nintendo has kind of a bad habit of pushing out a mid-generation “upgrade” that gets maybe... five or six total games of official support as every external developer hedges on the bulk of consumers having the lower end hardware - which is invariably the correct assessment. If it’s a big enough jump it’s actually “Switch 2” (although thanks to Nintendo’s stupid nomenclature this would not be the same as a “New Switch”, *sigh*) then that’s a different conversation entirely, obviously.

 

I’m so hungry for this, I could eat an Octorock.

 

I think a lot of having this upgrade is so they can still get more third party games released. You kinda have to have a system capable of 4k these days to run many of those.

Of course I also hope there are better versions of exclusive Nintendo games on the Switch Pro or whatever it's called. But I wouldn't necessarily want them to be exclusives to the Pro. Do what Microsoft and Playstation have done and release most games on both last gen and current gen, at least for a year or so.

 

RELEASE THE SWITCH PRO NOW, GOD DAMMIT!

 

Trying to gauge everyone's opinion here on this, but:

Who here thinks that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is a better game in terms of story than Breath of the Wild?

I don't know, maybe it's because I feel like the cast of characters has more time, more dialogue, and more of a "presence" than BOTW (which literally seems too empty, though of course I still enjoyed it immensely)?

Probably a cold take, but I do like the story so far in Age of Calamity compared to BOTW... which isn't saying much, though I've heard that people go back and forth on this topic.

 

I haven't played Age of Calamity quite yet, but it would be hard to be WORSE at storytelling than BotW

 

I... honestly did not know that Age of Calamity was an "alt-reality take" on the backstory.

Spoilers!

 

Forked out for Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. Brilliant game so far. I'm enjoying it more than Donkey Kong Country Returns because I felt the controls were clunky. The bosses are really putting me through my paces too.

Skyward Sword could be my next buy

 

Tropical Freeze is a god-tier 2D platformer. Among the best I’ve ever played. As a huge fan of the original DKC trilogy since childhood, Tropical Freeze was the true return to form that I wanted Returns to be.

I was the same as you, @The2ndQuest, I dabbled in it on the Wii U but never got far. The rerelease on the Switch with the pro controller catapulted it on my favorite games list. It’s so special. The level design, the music, the gameplay... Ugh. It’s a masterpiece.

 

The music definitely took me back to my childhood, especially the underwater levels. I then did some research on the game only to find David Wise was back as the composer