Any Gamers Here?

[Florida Bullfrog]

Oh yeah, who’s getting a Switch 2? I’m going to get one primarily to play TOTK at a high frame rate. Couldn’t get into it when I tried it last year. I never left the tutorial sky island. The build mechanics were tedious for me with the choppy gameplay. If the game runs smooth, I may enjoy it more. I’m so spoiled by high frame rates and smoothness on the PS5 Pro that its hard to go back to sub 4k, 30fps gameplay. The one exception is for some reason, Cyberpunk seems to look better in its animations at 30fps than 60fps, as does Dead Dead Redemption. I’m guessing those games were originally designed with 30fps in mind and 60fps messes up the timing of things. Oblivion looks better at 60fps than 30fps, even though 30fps sports higher resolution. Same with Fallout 4. Monster Hunter Wilds looks right locked at 40fps with ray tracing on. 60fps looks too smooth and dull, and 30fps too choppy. 40fps looks perfect where any slight slowdown that may happen in monster movements just serves to make the battle look more cinematic and the monsters more epically large.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I have Oblivion remastered downloaded. At some point I may get to play a little. Fighting with video drivers.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

I grabbed persona 5 royal and have been enjoying that lately. I decided to play on hard although once I get more familiar with combat (this is my first persona game) I might switch it to merciless. I am still very early in the game but so far hard hasn't been too bad. I normally don't play games on hard mode (I play just to chill) but figured I'm good at strategy games and the game with the most hours in my steam library is hunter call of the wild which by it's very nature of being a hunting sim is a stealth game so I figured I'd be fine. Sneaking up on enemies in persona is definitely much easier than sneaking up on a herd of cape buffalo

Speaking of cape buffalo in hunter cotw, before I grabbed persona 5, I decided to hunt them. I pretty much only use the bow in that game so I had to get much closer than I otherwise would (preferably within 50 yards but I will certainly take longer shots if I can. Went well for the most part but I certainly got charged and trampled a few times. Imagine a herd of one ton to 2 ton animals and they're all mad at you. Cape buffalo aren't called black death and widow makers for nothing. IRL they are considered the most dangerous of the big 5 and while they are very aggressive in the game they are even worse IRL. Not only are they aggressive IRL but they hold grudges and take revenge. I would certainly not get anywhere near them IRL lol

I’d like to see COTW have a current gen overall in graphics. Then I’d probably play it more. Here’s COTW compared to Way of the Hunter, both on my Pro:

 

[FrostRanger]

I’d like to see COTW have a current gen overall in graphics. Then I’d probably play it more. Here’s COTW compared to Way of the Hunter, both on my Pro:

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I thought about trying way of the hunter but figured I already have one large hunting game, I don't need 2 especially since I own almost all the dlc for cotw other than a few weapon packs and the cosmetic packs (got most of the dlc when humble bundle had their cotw bundle a few years ago). In any case both are stunning games and I'm glad both exist

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

I thought about trying way of the hunter but figured I already have one large hunting game, I don't need 2 especially since I own almost all the dlc for cotw other than a few weapon packs and the cosmetic packs (got most of the dlc when humble bundle had their cotw bundle a few years ago). In any case both are stunning games and I'm glad both exist

There’s some things COTW does better, and other things WOTH does better. WOTH has some well developed animal AI and herd management dynamics. More realistic in that regard than COTW.

Yet the developers for WOTH are European and they seem to have personal experience (or good research) with animal
species found common to the American West or Europe, but poor understanding of whitetail deer. Its painful to see how unrealistic the whitetails behave and sound. I hunt the southeastern US IRL, so I appreciate COTW’s Mississippi map and its attempt to present a kind of hunting I’m used to. I would probably make an entire game of COTW’s Mississippi map if the game had a big gfx update. WOHT has some gorgeous vistas to look at and its a treat to simply sit on a mountain side and watch a group of mule deer feed through the meadow below.

 

[-Shade-]

Oh yeah, who’s getting a Switch 2? I’m going to get one primarily to play TOTK at a high frame rate. Couldn’t get into it when I tried it last year. I never left the tutorial sky island. The build mechanics were tedious for me with the choppy gameplay. If the game runs smooth, I may enjoy it more. I’m so spoiled by high frame rates and smoothness on the PS5 Pro that its hard to go back to sub 4k, 30fps gameplay. The one exception is for some reason, Cyberpunk seems to look better in its animations at 30fps than 60fps, as does Dead Dead Redemption. I’m guessing those games were originally designed with 30fps in mind and 60fps messes up the timing of things. Oblivion looks better at 60fps than 30fps, even though 30fps sports higher resolution. Same with Fallout 4. Monster Hunter Wilds looks right locked at 40fps with ray tracing on. 60fps looks too smooth and dull, and 30fps too choppy. 40fps looks perfect where any slight slowdown that may happen in monster movements just serves to make the battle look more cinematic and the monsters more epically large.

I don't think I'll be getting a Switch 2- it took us forever just to get our first switch, and we haven't even had it a year. If we ever get around to getting the 2nd one, it'll be years from now

 

[FrostRanger]

So I accidentally stayed up all night playing persona 5 royal. I just wanted to get past the first boss, didn't think it'd take that long lol.

Part of the problem I think was my party is underleveled. Did I have enough time to spend a day leveling? Yes. Did I? Nope.
Once such incident that was evident is when I got to the chapel area. The party was starting to run low on supplies, HP and SP. Just a bit farther so I can get to the next safe room I thought. Morgana asking if I was sure I was ready should have been my cue to turn back but I didn't want to have to immediately fight a strong enemy upon leaving the other safe room so I figured it'd be fine. Who did I run into but the heavenly punisher miniboss. Again, I was in somewhat of a rough state with some of my party members starting to get low on SP and one or 2 of them weren't at full health either (I did have a few items left but didn't use them). My party was also level 8 and I was playing on hard. I quickly realized how bad things were when heavenly punsher one shoted 2 of my party member while they were guarding. Turns out if anyone has less than about 120hp consider them dead.
With my only revival item being used up, there wasn't much to do but wait for the inevitable tpk.

By some small miracle, the tpk never came. I managed to somehow kill him with only Ann and joker. What I had to do was guard when he's preparing to use his attack, use the next turn to heal, depending on the state of their health spend the next turn attacking with one and healing with the other or doing basic melee attacks with both. It was a very close fight too, joker just ran out of SP as the fight ended, if the fight went on any longer I likely would have lost

Kamoshida himself took me 3 tries and by the third try I went back to better prepare. It was a very long fight as I had to restore several people's sp several times. Ann and Morgana were pretty much mostly on healing duty while joker and ryuji attacked. The party was only at level 10 and could have honestly been better equipped. Due to some segments taking longer than they probably should have, he was almost dead by the time ryuji stole the crown. I honestly wished I leveled up 'cause Morgana's level 11 skill, media would have been extremely useful in that fight

I think when I get back to it imma grind for more levels as I imagine the second boss is going to be even worse (and imma switch the difficulty to merciless 'cause why not)

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I dont plan on getting a switch 2 might get a ps5 in the future not sure though but Im kinda over nintendo sick of buying the same games for a new system.

 

[FrostRanger]

I probably won't get a switch 2, thanks to humble bundle, I already have a very large steam library (434 games currently) and I generally don't game on the go, nearly all of my gaming is done at home so while I was sorely tempted, I couldn't even justify the expense of getting a switch, other than a few titles there's not much I'd be interested in playing and even those titles I'd probably be interested for like a few hours then get annoyed (rhythm heaven being one of the titles in question) and aside from that, I've already caused enough nerve damage from gaming at awkward angles and I could see the switch being problematic in that area
(big reason why try and avoid keyboard and mouse if at all possible despite being a PC gamer, a controller is much easier on me ). I've already dealt with a pinched nerve in my left arm which left me with so little grip strength I couldn't even press the button to turn my phone on for 4 months, I am fine now but even so I have to be careful else I start getting numbness so no handhelds for me

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

I dont plan on getting a switch 2 might get a ps5 in the future not sure though but Im kinda over nintendo sick of buying the same games for a new system.

I was disappointed that Nintendo isn’t giving free updates to their Switch 1 games. Unless you’re a subscriber to Nintendo’s premium service, its going to cost about $10 a game to upgrade them to Switch 2 gfx.