I'm wrapping up Yakuza: Like a Dragon. I really should have been done with it by now, but I let myself get pulled into the business side game. So really, my weekend was was half a dozen hours of me trying to run a Japanese conglomerate.
Oh, and I also streamed Yoshi's Story for 90 minutes today. It never ceases to amaze me how many people will pop in and watch these older Nintendo games. The reason I ended up playing that was the Snoopy game that I ordered from. GameStop ended up coming with scratches and I was unable to play it. So now I have to go to the hassle of returning it. Joy...
Larian CEO says Baldur’s Gate 3 won’t be coming to Nintendo Switch 2
In a Reddit AMA held on Friday, Larian CEO Swen Vincke was asked if Baldur’s Gate 3 will ever come to Switch 2, and if it’s even technically possible, considering the size of the RPG.
Vincke indicated that any future port was down to Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dungeons & Dragons owner Wizards of the Coast, which it has since parted company with for its next big game, Divinity.
“We would have loved to [bring Baldur’s Gate 3 to Nintendo Switch 2], but it wasn’t our decision to make,” he wrote.
While Vincke’s comments don’t rule out Wizards of the Coast putting out its own Baldur’s Gate 3 Switch 2 port, this reportedly isn’t happening. According to noted insider, NateTheHate, as of late last year, a Nintendo version isn’t in the works.
“While Larian would love to bring Baldur’s Gate 3 to the Switch 2… their relationship with Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast is not healthy,” they wrote.
In the same Reddit AMA on Friday, Larian’s CEO said it would stop using generative AI to create concept art in the process of writing Divinity, following criticism of earlier confirmation that it was using the technology.
I picked up Hades about 6 months ago. I think I put in 90 hours into it, and honestly I could have easily played another 20. Easily one of the best games I've played in years.
So I played a few Panic button ports on switch, 4 in total. I always thought Wolfenstein 2 looks like some super blurry desaturated flat crap.
Since I've been messing with hdr and also gamma in Outlast the first thing I did upon booting up Wolfenstein 2 was check and set the gamma as per the onscreen instructions. Turns out I had the gamma waaay too high which was in fairness the default. As soon as I set it right the game looks much better and more colourful.
Hmmm. Makes me wonder how well some of the Switch's impossible ports would play on Switch2. I bought Doom 2016 on Switch but stopped playing because it became such a blur. Perhaps the Switch2 would resolve the heavy dynamic resolution scaling.
I picked up Hades about 6 months ago. I think I put in 90 hours into it, and honestly I could have easily played another 20. Easily one of the best games I've played in years.
110 hours?! Yeah I needed a small game after Xeno X
I'm probably heading back to Penang. Taking the nephew to Asia for the first time.
I still want to go to Japan, I still need to see Europe. But my GF says she is not to keen on traveling around the world in our current state, don't blame her. So nothing planned yet.
Hmmm. Makes me wonder how well some of the Switch's impossible ports would play on Switch2. I bought Doom 2016 on Switch but stopped playing because it became such a blur. Perhaps the Switch2 would resolve the heavy dynamic resolution scaling.
Think I tried both Switch Dooms.
Doom 1 didn't seem to drop resolution. Doom Eternal looked about the same to me.
It looked weird at first till I set the gamma right. I have Mclassic too so I can make both look better.
110 hours?! Yeah I needed a small game after Xeno X
Been put off Hades because of Bastion. I still haven't played the next game they made, which I own. The futuristic one.
Dvader said:
I still want to go to Japan, I still need to see Europe. But my GF says she is not to keen on traveling around the world in our current state, don't blame her. So nothing planned yet.
America's state or personal reasons?
Japan seems to be getting cheaper.
One thing I just discovered after 20 years of travel, usually we'd see a catalogue for vacations and prices or call a travel agent and they would ask when we wanted to go and then give us prices.
Now I've been using aggregate prices sites like Booking, Kayak, Expedia.
And I searched one day and got an expensive prices, then checked again for a different date and the same holiday, same hotel was literally 50% of the price. I tried to recreate the same conditions and couldn't get the cheap price back.
Then I used google AI to ask "what month is cheapest to travel to (destination)
When I input the month into travel search aggregate sites, I got that 50% off price. When you have multiple people it amounts to literal thousands off.
My Samsung 4k kinda crapped out on me. It has a shadow on one side from a burned out led strip. I bought a Sony Bravia OLED, quite the upgrade for me.
Oh, and I also streamed Yoshi's Story for 90 minutes today. It never ceases to amaze me how many people will pop in and watch these older Nintendo games. The reason I ended up playing that was the Snoopy game that I ordered from. GameStop ended up coming with scratches and I was unable to play it. So now I have to go to the hassle of returning it. Joy...
OLEDS are super cool.Try watching some 4k hdr 60fps videos on YouTube. Wildlife and travel ones.
Sony though... that must have been expensive.
So I redownloaded Wolfenstein 2 to see if I could finish it.
In a Reddit AMA held on Friday, Larian CEO Swen Vincke was asked if Baldur’s Gate 3 will ever come to Switch 2, and if it’s even technically possible, considering the size of the RPG.
Vincke indicated that any future port was down to Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dungeons & Dragons owner Wizards of the Coast, which it has since parted company with for its next big game, Divinity.
“We would have loved to [bring Baldur’s Gate 3 to Nintendo Switch 2], but it wasn’t our decision to make,” he wrote.
While Vincke’s comments don’t rule out Wizards of the Coast putting out its own Baldur’s Gate 3 Switch 2 port, this reportedly isn’t happening. According to noted insider, NateTheHate, as of late last year, a Nintendo version isn’t in the works.
“While Larian would love to bring Baldur’s Gate 3 to the Switch 2… their relationship with Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast is not healthy,” they wrote.
In the same Reddit AMA on Friday, Larian’s CEO said it would stop using generative AI to create concept art in the process of writing Divinity, following criticism of earlier confirmation that it was using the technology.
I picked up Hades about 6 months ago. I think I put in 90 hours into it, and honestly I could have easily played another 20. Easily one of the best games I've played in years.
Oh hello this is hilarious.
So I played a few Panic button ports on switch, 4 in total. I always thought Wolfenstein 2 looks like some super blurry desaturated flat crap.
Since I've been messing with hdr and also gamma in Outlast the first thing I did upon booting up Wolfenstein 2 was check and set the gamma as per the onscreen instructions. Turns out I had the gamma waaay too high which was in fairness the default. As soon as I set it right the game looks much better and more colourful.
Hmmm. Makes me wonder how well some of the Switch's impossible ports would play on Switch2. I bought Doom 2016 on Switch but stopped playing because it became such a blur. Perhaps the Switch2 would resolve the heavy dynamic resolution scaling.
110 hours?! Yeah I needed a small game after Xeno X
I still want to go to Japan, I still need to see Europe. But my GF says she is not to keen on traveling around the world in our current state, don't blame her. So nothing planned yet.
Wolfenstein III? Yeah, I'm down for more.
Think I tried both Switch Dooms.
Doom 1 didn't seem to drop resolution. Doom Eternal looked about the same to me.
It looked weird at first till I set the gamma right. I have Mclassic too so I can make both look better.
Been put off Hades because of Bastion. I still haven't played the next game they made, which I own. The futuristic one.
America's state or personal reasons?
Japan seems to be getting cheaper.
One thing I just discovered after 20 years of travel, usually we'd see a catalogue for vacations and prices or call a travel agent and they would ask when we wanted to go and then give us prices.
Now I've been using aggregate prices sites like Booking, Kayak, Expedia.
And I searched one day and got an expensive prices, then checked again for a different date and the same holiday, same hotel was literally 50% of the price. I tried to recreate the same conditions and couldn't get the cheap price back.
Then I used google AI to ask "what month is cheapest to travel to (destination)
When I input the month into travel search aggregate sites, I got that 50% off price. When you have multiple people it amounts to literal thousands off.