Literally a video from a parallel universe; that's the only way this makes any sense to me.
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Digital Foundry: Luigi's Mansion 3: Switch Tech Breakdown - A Playable CG Movie on Switch?
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Literally a video from a parallel universe; that's the only way this makes any sense to me.
You seem focused on Nintendo delivering a game that's going to attempt to compete with the big boy console shooters. I just don't see that being a motivation for Nintendo or Retro.
Honestly the AA was the only thing that I noticed while playing the game, but I was so blown away by the other things they were doing that it wasn't a big deal. When I've been selling this game to my friends the things they do with lighting and overall IQ are some of my biggest talking points. They are wizards with their hardware.
If Capcom sold me this game on PS4pro, I wouldn't question it one second, it is to me just as impressive as Resident Evil 2. How is this even possible? It is melting my eyes.
I can't argue with and lie about my feelings, this is blowing me away the same way Resi 2 blew me away, it's stunning.
Sometimes I feel like people forget what a game without AA looks like.
LM3 has a decent solution. Not amazing but their is obviously an AA solution in place.
LM3 has a decent solution. Not amazing but their is obviously an AA solution in place.
My wife isn't a gamer, but she watched me playing LM3 handheld for a bit and she said she was blown away by how good it looked. The praise and recognition is highly deserved IMO.
Not at all. I'd be delighted if they hit Halo 4 levels of visuals with some better textures and effects like particles (which was 30fps on the 360 with extreme optimisation using a 3.2GHz CPU). I'm mentioning the CPU in particular because that piece of the hardware make up has a massive bearing on framerate. Switch obviously has much more memory and a more modern and more powerful GPU.
Halo 4 had a $100 million budget though. Overall I'm keeping my graphical expectations in check for Metroid Prime 4 in particular and using other much smaller scale impressive looking Switch games to gauge how it might run on the Tegra chipset.
Also remember the meltdowns over how "unimpressive" the new Pokemon looks (because of mainly budget constraints) and Pokemon will sell 5x as many copies as a new Metroid even if it sells twice as well as MP3. Budget will have a massive bearing on how far Nintendo will push the boat out in terms of pushing modern visual fidelity.
This is great work, as others have said the animations appear to be top-notch and the artistic direction fits the lighting and shading solutions hand-in-glove.
There is definitely anti-aliasing. It's very hard to miss given the cartoonish rounded-edges art style.
There is definitely anti-aliasing. It's very hard to miss given the cartoonish rounded-edges art style.
Prime 4 will look and run great for the hardware, whatever it may be. Retro has yet to earn any doubt about their capabilities as engineers, and the fact that Nintendo was willing to completely reboot the development shows that they're serious about the game getting all the love it needs, even in the likely event that it winds up selling the normal Metroid numbers.
Yup I can totally agree on this one the game looks freaking beautiful on my 4K TV(55" q70r)
especially the grass/garden level with all the blades of grass. Im going to floor 9 wich is the museum so it only can get better
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Lol what's happening in this video?"it looks bad","it looks like a 3ds game"....wait what?ah ah ah !
I just wanted to add that Next Level Games knocked it out of the park with the animation. They have a fantastic animation team over there. The work they did for PUnch Out Wii was equally amazing. Really if you haven't looked at that recently you should check it out.
Almost, you have to unlock Gooigi first, but that's fairly early on.
Yeah I read about how to unlock it but wasn't sure if everything was playable after that. Thanks!
Definitely screen space. You can easily see reflected details being clipped by the viewport as the camera position changes. Still a really beautiful, lovingly animated game. I can see the style not appealing to someone, but it's hard to fault the technology or attention to detail.
It's a terrific-looking game for sure, without many frame rate drops. One early scene on floor 8 had my jaw almost on the floor at how good it looked and I would love to see some CG shorts from the team.
It's also one of the rare cases where it doesn't have one clearly superior mode, while the video does point out some dialed-up effects on the docked mode I found the switch between docked and handheld seamless. A few scenes are packed with so much detail I did find myself returning to the big screen just to get a better reading on the objects.
It's also one of the rare cases where it doesn't have one clearly superior mode, while the video does point out some dialed-up effects on the docked mode I found the switch between docked and handheld seamless. A few scenes are packed with so much detail I did find myself returning to the big screen just to get a better reading on the objects.
Neither has an nba2k game and yet...... but seriously for me this game has pushed this ip/series to the top of my list. They better release some dlc for this game more floors and such. Taking my time but can't get enough.
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I don't think that's a particularly good argument when Prime 4 will be developed only for Switch, whereas NBA2K is porting down from the PS4/XB1 versions. Retro is going to maximize the hardware to its fullest potential.
Will remember not to take stock on any tech opinions from Kinda Funny. Luigi's Mansion 3 is gorgeous.
I think Prime 4 is going to be a Switch 2 title, for for the current Switch Luigi is the best looking Nintendo published game I'd say. Lets see if BOTW2 or the next 3D Mario can top it.
Yeah I saw it in motion this week-end, looks and runs great, that's a must get.
Also nice to see that the game is in an almost perfect state, at launch, on version 1.00.
Also nice to see that the game is in an almost perfect state, at launch, on version 1.00.
I play on OLED. Switch games looks great with full range. With limited RGB the image is far more washed out. But on some TVs you must activate full range on the TV too (separate for every HDMI port).
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Haven't noticed that exactly, but if you walk behind objects that obscure Luigi you can still see his reflection, so it must be drawing something distinct.
Ya I noticed that too...it seemed everyone on the show thought it looked bad...no idea what they were thinking though.
Most mainstream podcasts are usually just echo chambers, it's an outlier when they really disagree with each other from what I've heard.
Limited and full range should look virtually identical if configured correctly.
If limited range looks "washed out" compared to full range, it means that your display is not configured to use it correctly.
