Breath of the Wild is perfectly playable, has a perfectly reasonable performance profile given its scale and the hardware it runs on, and it is - and always will be - an incredible game.
The only way to convince developers to make performance a higher priority is to hold them to a higher standard. I doubt most here are such sticklers that they would avoid playing every single unstable or low res game but its worth scrutizing if one wants things to change. The developers that can meet these standards deserve to be rewarded.
But that's the thing. It can't. Not without downgrading the game's scope and complexity.Yes, BotW could look and run better, but I don't necesarily think that means the game has aged badly, more that the Switch itself feels very dated by today standards.
Exactly. It's nice to know the ins and outs of a game's technical stuff, but you can't make it the primary reason to enjoy the game or not.I stopped carrying for DF analysis and discussions and my gaming moments got better.
don't get me wrong, they do a great job, but somethings are better if you ignore it. at least when it comes to these technical aspects.
It is because of these things that people cannot stand gamers.This forum's obsession with performance, and particularly frame rates, is tiresome enough, but it's really wild that some of y'all don't have the self-awareness to realize that it's not a priority to the vast majority of people.
If that is the truth it means that 99% of all video games age badly
This is just an incredibly bad take, the game is exactly the same as when it released and it's still a masterpiece. You just have a problem with the system which is fine, the game has nothing to do with your problems.
This is an enthusiast site though. In context would you expect anything else?This forum's obsession with performance, and particularly frame rates, is tiresome enough, but it's really wild that some of y'all don't have the self-awareness to realize that it's not a priority to the vast majority of people.
Yeah, imagine a gamer talking to someone who bought a Switch during the start of the closedown. "Yeah, that doesn't even do 4K or 60fps, what a loser!"It is because of these things that people cannot stand gamers.
Isn't it mostly a locked 30 after the patch apart from a few areas in the game? 900p also isn't what I would call blurry, looks good enough.
But as has been mentioned, yeah just emulate it if you want better.
This is an enthusiast site though. In context would you expect anything else?
I get not liking stuff and opinions, everyone have different tastes. What I don't get is saying people have no standards when they enjoy something, or don't care for what people like the Op care about. A 60 fps game is not magically a 10 out of 10 and a 30 game is not automatically a bad game.
Being a gaming enthusiast means more than being obsessed with resolution and framerate to the point of becoming a condescendent gatekeeper.
I think you should start by not assuming the discussion around performance is being had in bad faith. I assure you that I like video games. I don't think that the demand is artificial, we're just naturally going to be looking toward the next ways gaming can improve and load times/performance issues have been particularly egregious these last few gens.What if the average gamer actually don't care that much about higher performance standards but this demand is artificially created and marketed to justify new boxes?
4th to 5th gen games kind of had a downgrade in overall performance but nobody gave a shit back then because holy shit 3D games! 5th to 6th gen even your grandma could see how more complex were the 3D models and stuff. 6th to 7th gen was justified with HD tvs and then normal people started to talk about resolution and frames per second because, yeah, new boxes needs to be justified somehow.
Not saying fast loadings and smooth performance aren't really great in the new consoles, but regarding the lack of it as the game not aging well while it's probably the current main reference for open world games, is tasteless to say the least. Those people obsessed with performance even likes videogames for starters, or it's all about the tech fetish? I honestly don't know.
I would call this more a hot-takes site than an enthusiast site. Regardless, I would say most enthusiasts still have self-awareness.This is an enthusiast site though. In context would you expect anything else?
Every modern game that fails to hit a 60fps merits big criticism.
No excuses.
If they were actually enthusiastic they would just solve their problems by buying a computer. But that suggestion is met with hostility because they just want to complain on the internet and not actually fix it.This is an enthusiast site though. In context would you expect anything else?
I get not liking stuff and opinions, everyone have different tastes. What I don't get is saying people have no standards when they enjoy something, or don't care for what people like the Op care about. A 60 fps game is not magically a 10 out of 10 and a 30 game is not automatically a bad game.
Entusiast people are the worst people, tbh.This is an enthusiast site though. In context would you expect anything else?
The issue with your comparisons is that movies are almost never 720p. With them usually being film, they're at about 4K level, or at least 2K when it comes to films with heavily special effects. 30fps meanwhile, has been a general standard for 3D games for quite some time outside of particular genres. Yeah, some are 60fps, but it's almost always the exception rather than the rule.If everyone had kept this "It's good enough!" mindset, we wouldn't play in 3D or Dolby Atmos now. We wouldn't play anything. We would still ride horses instead of cars. The problem is not people expecting more, it's people expecting less and being ok with it.
I wouldn't even complain if Nintendo let me spend more money for a system that can run BotW at 1080p & 60fps, like it should in 2021, I would really love to, but they don't let me.
This is a gaming forum. Of course people expect better around here. Do you think people on a movie forum would be happy with the latest James Bond releasing at 720p or with stereo sound, claiming it was "good enough"?
I discovered 60fps when the SNES was a thing. Obviously compromises had to be made when 3D gaming became the norm but I'm seriously surprised that people still defend poor performance in 2021 like it was anything outrageous to expect games to perform better than they currently do.
That's Nintendo for you. They keep making games for hardware that isn't doing their work justice.
You went through OP's post history and thought this was good enough to post as some kind of gotcha?Looking at your post history perhaps you just have a problem with the Switch in general and it's not Zelda which is the problem?
People like yourself are being far more of a "condescendent gatekeeper" than OP is. It should be okay to speak about preferences on technical aspects without all this bullshit.Being a gaming enthusiast means more than being obsessed with resolution and framerate to the point of becoming a condescendent gatekeeper.
"Having fun? But the game only runs at 30 fps and dips into the high 20s sometimes! Look at the ugly shadows! It's not even native 1080p, how can you play it on a 4K OLED and not vomit? How can you have fun like this? No, really, how? Please stop having fun."
Posts like the above... are, imo, far worse than anything in the OP.
I mean if you quote my one meme post instead of the many others where I laid down my arguments it's super easy to make me look bad.People like yourself are being far more of a "condescendent gatekeeper" than OP is. It should be okay to speak about preferences on technical aspects without all this bullshit.
Posts like the above... are, imo, far worse than anything in the OP.