Today was the first day in about 2 weeks that I could have played some Zelda. Note the 'could have' because my eldest son misplaced our last fully functioning right joycon. He tossed it in a bag when we went out for the weekend and it hasn't been seen since.
Damn kid. He loses stuff at a a
Staggering speed. It's like his superpower. It's anever ending bill lf stuff we have to replace.
Speaking of the shit build quality of the Switch, I think mine is dead. Awhile ago it became unusable as a portable, the battery running out in 15-30 minutes. Now I can't get it to connect to the TV via dock.
Speaking of the shit build quality of the Switch, I think mine is dead. Awhile ago it became unusable as a portable, the battery running out in 15-30 minutes. Now I can't get it to connect to the TV via dock.
That's no good. But I agree, of all the Nintendo stuff the Switch is second worst after the first DSLite and it's broken hinge problem. Step it up Nintendo! Joycons are shit.
Fun day, I guess. Cam up with a new flavour for work (consumer snack food I work on) as well as a solution for acheiving a colouring that has been elusive.
Then went to the Doctor. He thinks I have a torn rotator cuff, which sounds cool, because that's what major league baseball players get, but when you understand it means you cannot raise your arm above 110 degrees, is less cool. Especially if you attend certain kinds of rallys. JOKE, I JOKE!
Speaking of the shit build quality of the Switch, I think mine is dead. Awhile ago it became unusable as a portable, the battery running out in 15-30 minutes. Now I can't get it to connect to the TV via dock.
That's no good. But I agree, of all the Nintendo stuff the Switch is second worst after the first DSLite and it's broken hinge problem. Step it up Nintendo! Joycons are shit.
Get an OLED. regardless of the screen the build quality is miles ahead. Joy con's still shitty though.
Onto Skyward Sword, nearing the end, reflecting on how much I've enjoyed the game. It must ha e mixed memories for most, I never replayed it as it launched late and once SDTVs went the way of the Dodo I felt no inclination to return.
This is a great Zelda game. At first after TOTK it felt a bit stiff, a bit old. Then it opened up and the relentlessly excellent design shines through. I also think the motion controlled combat is the best in the series.
Slicing off pieces of a boss is immensely satisfying. Whacking the crap out of Ghihiram had me standing in front of the TV for the first time in over a decade.
Where the game doesn't work is the atmosphere, it's both a positive and negative. On the one hand it's always striving to do something new, sky world's, new characters, species, scenarios. On the other hand it veers a touch too far from fantasy staples, with weird mole rats, with 30s gangster slang.
The art style is at the same time, beguiling and on the other hand crude and childish at times.
The motion controls for aiming and sword controls are excellent. But then most other motion control is used in annoying superfluous ways like balancing on a rope or swimmin!
If they had a more in depth and customisable options menu you could specify what you want to use buttons for and what you don't.
Overall The game is much bigger than I remembered and I love the unconventional Dungeon settings like inside a ship.
Ive never really had hardware issues from Nintendo until the Switch. The joycons are the number one issue that needs addressing for the Switch successor.
Yeah I think for the Switch 2 they don't need to do too much to the form. Just put in some more powerful hardware and fix the damn joy-cons. After that they're done. And maybe release it in atomic purple.
Yeah I think for the Switch 2 they don't need to do too much to the form. Just put in some more powerful hardware and fix the damn joy-cons. After that they're done. And maybe release it in atomic purple.
Speaking of the shit build quality of the Switch, I think mine is dead. Awhile ago it became unusable as a portable, the battery running out in 15-30 minutes. Now I can't get it to connect to the TV via dock.
My Switch Lite died as well. It won't even charge. Nintendo's repair service requires you to fill in an endless form, which I'm procrastinating. It's telling when I'd rather just buy another JoyCon set than jump through the required hoops. Especially for the Lite, where I'll send it in and they'd let me know it'll be €200 to get it repaired.
I'll tell you, my biggest regret when I bought my Retroid 3+ is that I didn't go for either the atomic purple or the clear ice blue. Nooooooo.... I had to go for the classic NES look. I'm a schmuck.
My Switch Lite died as well. It won't even charge. Nintendo's repair service requires you to fill in an endless form, which I'm procrastinating. It's telling when I'd rather just buy another JoyCon set than jump through the required hoops. Especially for the Lite, where I'll send it in and they'd let me know it'll be €200 to get it repaired.
For some reason Nintendo has always fixed ma shit for free, even when it's out of warranty. Even when I expected to be charged. By the time I expect an email or letter, instead the item is returned fixed. With no charge.
I'll tell you, my biggest regret when I bought my Retroid 3+ is that I didn't go for either the atomic purple or the clear ice blue. Nooooooo.... I had to go for the classic NES look. I'm a schmuck.
Those do look very nice. While I like my RG351 handheld, I should have bought a larger one like yours.
Those do look very nice. While I like my RG351 handheld, I should have bought a larger one like yours.
it's a grass is greener thing. I look at a lot of smaller models like the Miyoo-Minis, and wish I had one of those. That's mainly because I prefer having the screen above the controls, and not between. But I still like the extra power of the 3+. Just wish it had a tiny bit more for the PS2 games.
So apparently the news is legit confirmed in the past 2 days that switch 2 or whatever the new system is, can run the Unreal engine Matrix demo looking like PS5.
Also that it uses DLSS 3.5 and might be able to do raytracing better than non-nvidia hardware because of the DLSS.
FF7 remake was ported over to test and looked the same as the Ps5 version. A BOTW port was shown as a tech demo too.
Personally these reports somewhat worry me, I thought it was going to be a ps4 level portable hybrid system. Will it even be a switch with beefy specs or is the price going to be extortionate?
Maybe the DLSS is doing the heavy lifting, i've been fairly impressed with some switch games that achieve a sharpish image and steady frame rates using a temporal resolution.
Damn kid. He loses stuff at a a
Staggering speed. It's like his superpower. It's anever ending bill lf stuff we have to replace.
Speaking of the shit build quality of the Switch, I think mine is dead. Awhile ago it became unusable as a portable, the battery running out in 15-30 minutes. Now I can't get it to connect to the TV via dock.
That's no good. But I agree, of all the Nintendo stuff the Switch is second worst after the first DSLite and it's broken hinge problem. Step it up Nintendo! Joycons are shit.
Fun day, I guess. Cam up with a new flavour for work (consumer snack food I work on) as well as a solution for acheiving a colouring that has been elusive.
Then went to the Doctor. He thinks I have a torn rotator cuff, which sounds cool, because that's what major league baseball players get, but when you understand it means you cannot raise your arm above 110 degrees, is less cool. Especially if you attend certain kinds of rallys. JOKE, I JOKE!
Get an OLED. regardless of the screen the build quality is miles ahead. Joy con's still shitty though.Onto Skyward Sword, nearing the end, reflecting on how much I've enjoyed the game. It must ha e mixed memories for most, I never replayed it as it launched late and once SDTVs went the way of the Dodo I felt no inclination to return.
This is a great Zelda game. At first after TOTK it felt a bit stiff, a bit old. Then it opened up and the relentlessly excellent design shines through. I also think the motion controlled combat is the best in the series.
Slicing off pieces of a boss is immensely satisfying. Whacking the crap out of Ghihiram had me standing in front of the TV for the first time in over a decade.
Where the game doesn't work is the atmosphere, it's both a positive and negative. On the one hand it's always striving to do something new, sky world's, new characters, species, scenarios. On the other hand it veers a touch too far from fantasy staples, with weird mole rats, with 30s gangster slang.
The art style is at the same time, beguiling and on the other hand crude and childish at times.
The motion controls for aiming and sword controls are excellent. But then most other motion control is used in annoying superfluous ways like balancing on a rope or swimmin!
If they had a more in depth and customisable options menu you could specify what you want to use buttons for and what you don't.
Overall The game is much bigger than I remembered and I love the unconventional Dungeon settings like inside a ship.
If Nintendo can't be arsed to make a console that works for a few years, I don't want to buy their even more expensive version of broken.
Which reminds me, I need to cancel Nintendo online!
Ive never really had hardware issues from Nintendo until the Switch. The joycons are the number one issue that needs addressing for the Switch successor.
Agreed, but in clear ice blue.
New Atari console plays 2600 and 7800 carts.
It's a classy console, but the price point is bananas.
Especially since you can mod the Retron 77 to play all the games for much less.
https://gameunder.net/retron77
Me too!
My Switch Lite died as well. It won't even charge. Nintendo's repair service requires you to fill in an endless form, which I'm procrastinating. It's telling when I'd rather just buy another JoyCon set than jump through the required hoops. Especially for the Lite, where I'll send it in and they'd let me know it'll be €200 to get it repaired.
Does the Retron 77 support paddle controllers? I read on Atariage forums when it released that it didn't, which was a deal breaker for me.
I'll tell you, my biggest regret when I bought my Retroid 3+ is that I didn't go for either the atomic purple or the clear ice blue. Nooooooo.... I had to go for the classic NES look. I'm a schmuck.
For some reason Nintendo has always fixed ma shit for free, even when it's out of warranty. Even when I expected to be charged. By the time I expect an email or letter, instead the item is returned fixed. With no charge.
Those do look very nice. While I like my RG351 handheld, I should have bought a larger one like yours.
it's a grass is greener thing. I look at a lot of smaller models like the Miyoo-Minis, and wish I had one of those. That's mainly because I prefer having the screen above the controls, and not between. But I still like the extra power of the 3+. Just wish it had a tiny bit more for the PS2 games.https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sources-nintendo-showed-switch-2-demos-at-gamescom/
Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom
https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-demoed-switch-2-to-developers-at-gamescom
So apparently the news is legit confirmed in the past 2 days that switch 2 or whatever the new system is, can run the Unreal engine Matrix demo looking like PS5.
Also that it uses DLSS 3.5 and might be able to do raytracing better than non-nvidia hardware because of the DLSS.
FF7 remake was ported over to test and looked the same as the Ps5 version. A BOTW port was shown as a tech demo too.
Personally these reports somewhat worry me, I thought it was going to be a ps4 level portable hybrid system. Will it even be a switch with beefy specs or is the price going to be extortionate?
Maybe the DLSS is doing the heavy lifting, i've been fairly impressed with some switch games that achieve a sharpish image and steady frame rates using a temporal resolution.