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With games now jumping from one generation of consoles to the next, when is the best time to play something? Is there ever a best time?

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Being entirely honest: You can skip Tears of the Kingdom. I don't think it's a particularly fun game. It's a miraculous piece of software, the various systems interact without crashing...somehow. But I don't think it's a particularly fun game.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

Emulate it. I'm pretty sure that there are active forks of Switch emulators that lay low.

[–] JoeTheSane@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nintendo has always had my favorite exclusives. My whole life, I’ve been guiding Mario, Link, and Kirby directly into pits hundreds of times a day. I just don’t think I can keep feeding Nintendos greed anymore and I’m a little sad that that part of my life might be over.

[–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

Pirate it, then store it? Then you could keep all your favourites forever.

I’m playing it on the Switch 1

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago (10 children)

On Switch 2 you get only HDR and 4K,no new textures or better graphics. You pay $10 to utilize the console you bought over a game you have.

On Switch 3 you will need to buy it again, only for $ 120.

The flood of remakes and remasters shows how the innovation in large gaming corporations has run dry.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a little disingenuous. There are other gameplay features added for the Switch 2 version.

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (22 children)

You mean the app guide and building sharing through QR? That's on your phone. I speak for BOTW and TOTK.

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[–] Nima@leminal.space 23 points 1 week ago

just don't give this company any more money at this point in time.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Patient gamers FTW!

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

Just buy a PC. Then you don't have to wonder about this sort of nonsense.

E: you can safely ignore this exchange, I was wrong, Switch 2 is backwards compatible and the "enhanced editions" are only $10 for the upgrade.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't buy, build. It's easier than a Lego set, and extremely satisfying when it boots up for the first time. Plus by hand picking all your parts you can ensure that you have high quality components that will last you a long time.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How are you going to build something you haven't bought?

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You know what I mean, wiseass. 😂

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

It's not difficult but it is complicated, and requires specialized knowledge.

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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Im going to emulate this. Recently I was able to afford me a new PC with a Ryzen 5600X CPU with a RX 7600 GPU, it's time to gaming for me.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I bought it at release and emulated it 2 days after. Much smoother on PC, even with shader recompiling. Only reason I did it was to remove the duplication patches, but the improved graphics fidelity was a major side benefit.

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Either wait for the switch 4, or just port it to pc and enjoy

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

If you already have a Switch then play it now. If you don't, then wait.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nintendo fucked me over with the WiiU and Zelda BotW... won't buy anything from them ever again

[–] Linkandluke@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They released a game for a console you already owned, and then released it again on the new console, and people got mad? I dunno.

I loved my Wii U, and loved playing BotW on it. I guess it wasn't designed to use the control pad in any special way, which was a bit of a drag, but it played great.

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I'm still waiting for xbox 12 before getting skyrim...

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For me the answer is pretty clear, right now with my overclocked Switch 1, I get above 40 FPS most of the time (60 in certain areas) with BOTW and also I am using Fizeau to improve the colors to make it look more like a Switch OLED (it even looks great on the TV), I don't expect TOTK being too different.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

It is pretty good for a system that is capped at 30 FPS though, and 40 FPS is the very minimum it reaches, it usually stays around 50-60, but we all already knew the Switch 1 internals were underclocked.

I think I could aim for a more stable 60 FPS but my Switch still has the OG thermal paste and the environment where I live is hot, so I am more than comfortable with what I can get without harming my Switch in this scenario.

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