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[Kotaku] The Switch Just Can’t Handle Overwatch
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Just put the money you would have used to buy Overwatch on Switch towards The Witcher 3 Switch instead.
Yeah, that was my thought too. Headline seems more damning than the actual content.
Is it just me, or people insisting wifi is unusable for gaming in 2019 living on a different planet than me?
Do they just keep their service provider's shitty router and never spend money for a real one? What gives?
Yeah, didn't want to derail this thread too much but still voice displeasure at their shit handling of the situation.
Do they just keep their service provider's shitty router and never spend money for a real one? What gives?
Yeah, didn't want to derail this thread too much but still voice displeasure at their shit handling of the situation.
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We knew all of this, though.
Also Overwatch supports native voice chat on the Switch, did she not test for that?
Also Overwatch supports native voice chat on the Switch, did she not test for that?
I suppose Blizzard gets clicks at the moment. Negativity about Blizzard even moreso.
Also, y'know, Kotaku.
Not to mention most people are very likely playing over wifi on their PS4/XB1 and even PCs.
There is a real, observable difference between a hardline on a 1ms monitor vs. wifi on a TV, but I'm with you. Wifi and a TV is suitable for 97% of the gaming public.
Definitely. It's fine. Seems like making up criticism to me.
I heard that it does, them missing that doesn't shock me given the rest of the article though.
Oh well, at least the article wasn't child hentai this time.
To me it's always been like this and there's like a few people who actually write good stuff.
Can't believe they would write about one of the biggest games of this generation coming to the hottest selling video game console right now.
Jason's paternity leave has been rough on this website.
The article is not very well researched. In fact it seems the author never really played the game, just invented a clickbait headline and made up content afterwards.
Kotaku is really going downwards in the last two years, its a shame.
Free Hong Kong.
Kotaku is really going downwards in the last two years, its a shame.
Free Hong Kong.
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I think the most interesting part is that it has severe dips during shooting sections and motion controls are ass to the writer.
An afront to the gaming pantheon more than any other before it! Should this heresy be allowed to continue the entire empire could collapse. Children, screaming in the streets as their eyes bleed from the inability to cope with seeing something so horrifying. Adults, asking why such a horrid thing could ever exist while rightfully avoiding and condemning it.
How, how could such a tragedy ever befall this noble landscape? Have our thoughts and prayers going up to the framerate and IQ gods been unheard... How have they not intervened! Could those so called gaming gods just be mortal inventions?
Where were you in Link's Awakening threads? Got a laugh out of me. You would think that Nintendo murdered someone's first born in half of those threads.
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Lag, not dips. Lag could happen for any number of reasons.
And there's plenty of hands on impressions and even videos out there of people using the motion controls and saying they're really good.
I'm filing this one under ignore for now, but will give the game a go tomorrow to see.
Avoided them for the most part wasn't intending to get it until it was randomly gifted to me. Played through it beginning to end with most of the side content and came out unscathed and thinking it was an amazing, albeit short, game.
I always assumed it was an American thing. I've never had a wired connection, I wouldn't even consider it. I've never had a problem in the however many years this gen has been.
It's probably some made up #Gamer™ bullshit, like crying about framerates.
Huh? People were complaining? It looks gorgeous.
Motions controls have a learning curve.
I give zero credence to the media when they talk about motion controls after all their arguments they made up to say that the wiimote had inferior accuracy and responsiveness when compared to dual analogs.
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Yeah, definitely. I'll probably use the Splatoon style option for this though. The ideal way to play for me is analogue for sweeping movements, motion controls for fine tuning. After awhile, you can keep a reticule over a characters head in a way you never could with sticks.
The issue generally isn't one's own WiFi being shitty. It's being stuck in a lot of laggy matches in online Switch games because so many other people are on shitty WiFi. Be it bad home setups, people trying to play on bad hotel or bar/restaruant/cafe WiFi etc.
Motion controls are a huge win for this port, but it running at 30fps killed any curiosity I would have had for this.
this. thought they were gonna bring up performance issues or something
not to undermine the china controversy
Honestly I think it's mostly a holdover opinion from shitty wifi routers people had 20 years ago.
That said, since the Switch is portable there's probably a bunch more people playing on shitty wifi at MacDonalds or whereever.
30 fps for Overwatch would be the deal breaker for me if I was contemplating getting this game in the Switch. The rest of those are whatever.
Eh, I understand being critical of Blizzard right now but that is a poor headline with some of the info inside being not very factual. And while I agree it's not the best version of the game, saying the Switch can't handle it is ridiculous imo.
Played almost 3 hours today and had a blast. Voice chat is there and I promptly disabled it. Motion controls feel good, and the framerate seems solid.
"Can't handle" would suggest that the Switch literally cannot run it, or to an adequate degree. While 30fps might be an issue for some, the game is still plenty playable.
The major issue IMO is the controversy.
"Can't handle" would suggest that the Switch literally cannot run it, or to an adequate degree. While 30fps might be an issue for some, the game is still plenty playable.
The major issue IMO is the controversy.
Based on other previews I've seen, that's weird, I agree that the timing is bad for all those reasons (the Hong Kong stuff and the game's age), but other than that, it sounds like a good port. The article sounds like the author didn't want to praise it because Blizzard is not in a good place for that right now so she found a way to do that.
I was interested in playing it but I'm boycotting everything Blizzard because of the whole China situation.
Wifi on the Switch is pretty bad, I have to keep it close to the router to be able to get a decent signal. That said, never had any problems playing Splatoon 2 but constantly having problems playing Smash so I guess it depends a lot on the game's implementation.
I was interested in playing it but I'm boycotting everything Blizzard because of the whole China situation.
Wifi on the Switch is pretty bad, I have to keep it close to the router to be able to get a decent signal. That said, never had any problems playing Splatoon 2 but constantly having problems playing Smash so I guess it depends a lot on the game's implementation.
No cross progression really killed my interest in this one. If they ever get around to adding that I'll have another look though
The headline was harsher than where the article ended. It sounded like, by the end, that the Switch version is fine for casual play but not where you should go for the best experience, which I think is what everyone would realistically hope for from this port. Reading that the author got a gaming PC for Overwatch, I think the author's perspective and experience won't match most people's. I should say that it appeared to me that the article (based on skimming) was fairly open, and mostly the headline is just a little extreme.