Any weird/controversial opinions? I’ll start. Before the remake, the best version of Resident Evil 4 was the Wii version. The Wiimote controls old Resi’s tank controls better than any other controller at the time. The PC version had a bunch of little bugs and detractors that the Wii version just doesn’t have.
I’ll extend this by saying that the Wiimote is actually pretty damn good for shooters, and particularly good for accessibility. Not having to cramp up my hands to press buttons is awesome for having arthritis. Aiming with the Wiimote and moving with the nunchuck just feel really natural, you barely have to move your fingers for anything.
Every console shooter should come out with well-implemented gyro aiming that is turned on by default. It’s ridiculous how much you gain in precision by using it after only a little bit of practice
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This is a good one, I salute you! RDR2 is one of my favorite games of all time, I had to clutch my pearls for a minute there!
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Great world, terrible game.
I feel like modding is sometimes a good answer to situations where a developer has spent a lot of money creating assets, but the gameplay that they made with those assets is limited.
I wonder if there’s potential for ways to try to take commercial advantage of that, like have another developer basically bulk-license the assets from an existing game and then just produce new gameplay. I can’t really think of many examples off the top of my head. Some commercial FPS mods, but usually they make larger changes than to just gameplay.
This is the perfect take. As soon as I unlocked the open world, I hunted all the legendary animals, got all the cool gear, upgraded my weapons, and that was pretty much the end of it. I played like 3 more missions and they were all boring time consuming garbage.
I feel dirty for upvoting your objectively wrong opinion, but you earned it!
Handheld gaming is on average more fun than console or PC gaming.
XP leveling systems and fast travel are bad mechanics that make games worse for their inclusion.
We don’t need a new switch or any stronger gaming hardware at all. There are games 10 or maybe even 20 years old at this point who nail realism. Once I’m in the flow of the game, I wouldn’t rate e.g., Dark Souls 1 visuals below Eldenring despite their ~10 year gap. So I’d prefer not spending on a new console every so often.
More recently, I couldn’t tell you the difference between a PS4 and a PS5 release without a side-by-side comparison. Maybe in loading times, but a PS4 with an SSD would have done the job. Once again, I won’t spend on a PS5 for as long as possible.
Lastly, without this focus on graphics, development time and cost probably wouldn’t be so ridicolulous as it is today.
Power isn’t just about graphics though. It’s also about scope and general performance.
Pokemon scarlet isn’t going for realism, but it’s junky as hell.
Even botw and totk get noticeable frame drops and those are also not trying to be realistic
You’re right, there are certain edge cases.
As for Pokemon, that’s just bad software. It struggles on the same console every Xenoblade game runs on. Or both zeldas you mentioned.
As for botw/totk, they are actually my prime example for this opinion. If you can run a physics simulation within an open world on that scale, I cannot fathom what you couldn’t do on the switch - disregarding basically the same with better graphics.
You could argue for stable 60 FPS in the games I mentioned, and I’d accept that. But as for me, I cannot tell you whether or not Zelda or any of the Xenoblade games run at 30 or 60 anyways.
Tears of the Kingdom noticeably drops to about 10 fps in certain areas. I love the game but it’s pretty annoying.
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Mario Kart is not a fun casual party game, because it rewards skilled metagame play way higher than racing skill.
While valid game design, it means new players will just be crushed by bullshit and not know how to improve by just playing better at the game in front of them.
I find Zelda BOTW to be extremely boring. The dungeons are carbon copies and tedious. The art design is boring and kinda ugly.
Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard would be the best thing to happen to WoW in a long time.
Interested to see how hot this take actually is but… The Nintendo switch is the best console ever made. As a lifelong Nintendo fan boy (Nes, right the way through) I may be a little biased but I have also owned various PS/Xbox and I don’t think I’ve spent as much time on any console as the Switch. Being locked inside for a few years during the pandemic helped, but even a year or so after that I’m still playing. It helps that Breath of the wild is maybe one of the best games ever made, and Tears of the Kingdom is, so far, an incredible sequel. But also playing Overcooked with my wife and more recently Mario Kart (a personal “couples goal” of mine I never thought would happen) has filled so many lazy Sundays with hours of gaming joy.
That’s a big claim when the Steam Deck exists
I picked up the switch the other day (it was getting dusty so I wanted to put it in the electronics box) and was surprised at how light (by mass) it was. I almost turned it on. But the call of the deck, the smell of it’s exhaust, the non drifting controls, the Bluetooth m+kb, the deck is my new favorite console ever. (That said there are still some ui improvements that absolutely need fixing)
Yeah, Steam Deck costs a little more, can play newest AAA titles handheld, can play Switch games too, can buy a shit ton of games for cheap because of Steam Sales, and gives you a whole desktop if you plug it in a dongle. Also, it’s an open system, so you can actually install any OS on it, if you like.
I love my Switch SO much, but I find myself playing Switch games on my computer way more than my Switch now…
Honestly, I would almost agree with that, if the damn thing was not so crappily made.
I’ve replaced way too many drifting sticks and broken joycon rails. Also needed to replace the backplate that broke around the corners because it’s made of that crappy brittle plastic, and had to replace the internal fan that was dying and started make helicopter noises.
Also its wireless is shit, getting the poorest WiFi signal of any device I have, and having joycon Bluetooth fail when I’m three meters away if I’m not in the right position.
Love the games, like the concept, hate the execution.
Now that’s a hot take!
I find it incredibly uncomfortable to play on. Games are way too expensive too, and the console is massively underpowered. To each their own though.
Agreed. Enjoy the hot take tho. I love the pro controller and I love playing switch games on my computer.
Making eSports teams be a thing was not a sustainable idea. Standard sports have stable rules, steady attendance revenue. Electronic sports are at the mercy of each game’s developer and can’t attract as many attendants
People spend way to much time complaining about how games are not perfect in their eyes, instead of taking it at face value. They get literally outraged when a game doesn’t function exactly how they want, instead of finding a game they actually enjoy.
Back in the day we’d just pick whatever looked cool at the store and hoped it was decent. People have the right to complain, but its gotten out of hand and modern gamers are whiney as all hell.
Edit: just want to clarify, I’m mainly refer to post launch and established games. If a game promises somthing and is released half baked, 100% people are in the right to complain.
Games where there’s no way to tell how to beat a level without encountering each of the surprise traps and then trying again are not “difficult”. They are an entirely different category much closer to “tedious”.
New Super Mario Bros U is the best 2D mario game. Even more so if it is including Luigi U (which some shipped with)
I used to really like it, but after Mario Maker, I noticed the controls in NSMBU feel different, and I couldn’t go back to it.
It’s great, but as the 4th in the “New”-series it didn’t really feel fresh, and it soon got overshadowed by the Maker games.
It was the first one of the four that was actually challenging, so that’s a big deal.
In no way was nsmbu overshadowed by mario maker. The quality of levels is not there in those games. Either kaizo or very dumb are the two options of mario maker levels
People dismiss it because it’s part of the NSMB series, but it’s basically Super Super Mario World.
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Breath of the Wild is merely okay.
It’s kind of tedious, the weapon durability system is annoying, and the visuals are held back by the Switch’s weak specs.
