Thread: Nintendo Direct June 18th @ 7am PT (40 mins)
Chozofication
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Yeah though textures are better than halo 4 but the rest is comparable. I mean switch has >6x the usable ram vs 360 so textures have to be better
And twice the fps
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Is it a Switch 2 game? I was under the impression it is a Switch 1 game.
Anyways, I disagree with your disagreement. It isn't a wow by any standard, just a few extra fancy things going on with that fire and smoother fps, but the models certainly have more polygons, but it still looks like a smoothed out Gamecube, maybe Wii release of the Prime games to my eyes. Hence looking like it runs on Dolphin emulation.
Well go on youtube and search for dolphin footage. It looks very extremely low poly with simple geometry, no normal maps and fancy effects.
ExpandKong
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Nintendo games are rare in that more often than not they end up looking better at launch than in their initial reveal. I'm not super worried about MP4.
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I don't need to go on youtube and search for dolphin footage. I have played the Prime games on Dolphin. I am talking about the games being smoother and higher FPS as a result, which MP4 looks like in this in initial teaser with some extra stuff that is ok, but not mindblowing.
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Yep, that's a good
Thought it was a remake of a GameCube game before the logo came up.
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I am not shitting on Metroid. I am critiquing Nintendo's showing on this long in the tooth developed game.
Pay attention.
It's a Switch game (the best looking one by far). What the fuck did you expect? Ray tracing?
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Lol. I have already handled your two ripostes and you seem mad. What is your next complaint on my opinion?
You are going to have to cope and seethe.
Chozofication
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Look at the rocks behind the ship in the beginning, clearly dense and detailed and maybe even physically based?
Also it kinda looks like it's not in the final stages of development yet, could probably get better.
I'm more wondering if the locations and art will be varied, I hope it's not like Echoes where everything looks similar.
I'm never mad. If you think this looks like a 2002 game enjoy your ignorance, but no need to be cheeky about it.
DonDonDonPata
Bridge Burn Man
Graphics shmraphics
N64, GameCube, and Wii U were Nintendo's beefiest pieces of hardware relative to the competition and they all fell flat on their faces.
Nintendo does more with less, and they do less when using more. Keep em at handheld grade hardware and they'll keep churning out bangers.
N64, GameCube, and Wii U were Nintendo's beefiest pieces of hardware relative to the competition and they all fell flat on their faces.
Nintendo does more with less, and they do less when using more. Keep em at handheld grade hardware and they'll keep churning out bangers.
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I think it looks like most up to date Prime game, that being 3 released in 2007, on Dolphin.
My answers were not good enough, so instead of accepting my critique you decided to get upset. It is in your language on your third reply to me.
Erdrick
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Perfect. I'll snag the PS5 version. That's a day before my birthday, too.
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Everyone was expecting Saga Frontier 2 Remake since they did a Remaster of 1.
Now people are still expecting Frontier 2, but now a SaGa 3 Remake eventually.
Romancing SaGa 2 Remake looks absolutely incredible, possibly even more then the already fantastic looking Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake.
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Shaqazooloo
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You guys thought Metroid Prime 4 looked bad? What?! I thought it was an easy contender for best looking Switch game..
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I didn't think it looked bad. I think it didn't look as good as it should in that 2 minute press release for being in development these past 7 years. It looks like a glossy version of an old game running at a higher resolution.
The models, the character movements, the constrained environment, the scripting etc... It was ho-hum once you get past the OH MAH GAWD NEW METROID PRIME GAME!
Which is where I was before I clicked the play button.
The models, the character movements, the constrained environment, the scripting etc... It was ho-hum once you get past the OH MAH GAWD NEW METROID PRIME GAME!
Which is where I was before I clicked the play button.
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When I first saw Resident Evil 6 announced I watched the trailer and was horrified at the graphics. So I refused to even look into it for years. Eventually I found the game on sale used for about $11 a few years later and decided might as well with no hesitation. Bought it and was surprised to see that the game looked great. Way better than the trailer. After that experience I never worried about graphics. In-game, I can't remember the last time graphics disappointed me with any one of my purchases
Then what the heck would Switch 2 launch with (I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that it's likely to drop March 2025). MP4 being a 2025 game would be absurd at this point but stranger things have happened.
Both things can be true.
Meh.
It'll probably be good. But that's what it took them seven years to show? Ugh.
ExpandKong
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Well, it's what took Retro five years to show, anyway. Plus probably one more year to go, realistically.
thebigR
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I have never played a SaGa game but 2 remake has me interested, do I need to play the previous game?
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Never really played them, just heard by their reputation. SaGa are very, very unconventional RPGs from what I hear. Ie, one example may be leveling up too much can actually fuck you over.
SaGa Frontier and Minstrel Song (Romancing Saga 1 Remake) are usually recommended to newcomers to the series. Default difficulty for SaGa is seen as very hard compared to other RPG series.
Scarlet Graces and Emerald Beyond focus purely on gameplay and don't appear to have villages/towns and shops per say the somewhat conventional Romancing Trilogy.
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Can already tell it's gonna be hard to not daydream about this one. To say I'm hyped is an understatement. I could hardly believe that they brought back Mario's Rainbow Castle and Western Land... Just seeing a new Mario Party game was a shocker in itself. I'm not kidding when I say that it was 100% written off as a next gen game for 2025 in my mind. To say I'm hyped for this game is an understatement for sure, because its vacation island theme was strong enough but they're also adding two extremely solid retro boards that match everything shown
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-Honestly do you guys play these games or do Digital Foundry benchmark videos on them??? MP4 looks siiiiick.
-Cool to see a new 2D Zelda, I really thought it was going to be A Link Between Worlds remake.
-Nothing else I cared about but a pretty solid showcase for this late in the game.
For real! Definitely sharing code with the Prime Remaster which is the handily the best looking game on Switch (or maybe Astral Chain.... )
-Cool to see a new 2D Zelda, I really thought it was going to be A Link Between Worlds remake.
-Nothing else I cared about but a pretty solid showcase for this late in the game.
For real! Definitely sharing code with the Prime Remaster which is the handily the best looking game on Switch (or maybe Astral Chain.... )
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Yes, I play the Metroid Prime Games. I played them day of release, I played them on Dolphin, I played the remasters on Wii, I played those remasters on Dolphin.
The game, for the reasons why I stated, looks like the formula hasn't changed (which is concerning when they tend to iterate on each subsequent release for their IP's), and it is probably due to Nintendo holding out for a bigger showing later.
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I thought the new Zelda was a A Link Between Worlds port, or a remake of the Oracle games at first.
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I didn't expect a formula change... in fact I'm pretty confident that the reason they scrapped the original in 2019 and hired Retro is they probably went too far off book with the initial concept. Metroid fans are fickle as fuck... they want Prime. I don't know what the "Breath of the Wild" ground-up reimagining of Metroid would be, but it ain't coming from Nintendo!
As far as the look goes, it looks like MP Remaster which looks waaaay better than an up-rez to me, but I don't play on Dolphin so if it looks the same to you, who am I to say
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The formula I am talking about is about a jump in tech from the first trilogy. Prime 3 had that using the Wii-mote, and it was fine. So much in that playing the other two with the Wii collection remaster was a preferred way for me.
That 2 minute trailer showed NOTHING NEW. And I didn't expect that. I do expect Nintendo to have something up their sleeve. They always do, but I am surprised they were so restrained in this showing. <-my only point. Nintendo fans can either be butt hurt about that reality or stay mad.
I'm a Metroid fan. So much, that I want Nintendo to knock this out of the park, but with Dread, they are giving the IP the attention Japan can muster, which is to say, not like they do with Mario or Zelda.
Kinda bummed they didn't announce Super Non-Binario
cryptoadam
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Zelda Luigi Mansion Mario Party. Nintendo is going to kill it in Japan until 2025. Switch will have a great end of the year over there. Mario Party sold 20 million copies so Jamboree is going to be huge.
I think with this line up we might not.get a switch 2 reveal until Nov or December so they don't hurt Japanese sales.
I think with this line up we might not.get a switch 2 reveal until Nov or December so they don't hurt Japanese sales.
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I don't know if you'd call it new, but the amount of action and motion in every frame is pretty innovative for the series. Going back, Prime looks positively static... Back in the day they had that "cinematic storyboard artist" hire everyone thought meant cutscenes and narrative... maybe it was this? and that "living" style is throughout the game? Something more of a real-time event happening rather than the Sherlock Holmes crime scene scanning of a relatively dead world?
I'm not butt hurt lol, just wondering why we saw two different things.
What's your thoughts with Dread? Not sure what you mean.
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Dread was a 3.5 out of 5 in what should have been a 5 out of 5 for Nintendo. I won't go into it here, as I have discussed it previously. I'm glad they made a side scroller Metroid game, it just wasn't fantastic.
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Man, awsome Direct.
Hyped for DQ and Mario and Luigi. And Fantasian with a bigger screen. And Romancing Saga 2. And Metroid, kinda simple underwhelming show up but cool. And Mario Party, gonna be fun with the nephews. And Capcom collection, please fucking work tight on Switch! And... hell, all that was cool!
What a banger!
Hyped for DQ and Mario and Luigi. And Fantasian with a bigger screen. And Romancing Saga 2. And Metroid, kinda simple underwhelming show up but cool. And Mario Party, gonna be fun with the nephews. And Capcom collection, please fucking work tight on Switch! And... hell, all that was cool!
What a banger!
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Gonna be honest, loved it till i got to the part where the colored parasites started fucking everything up and the game became a eace against them. Like hell naw I'm too old and distracted for all this rush.
