This is why Bloodstained was very disappointing. Crazy that some thought Switch can't do better.
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Ori and the Blind Forest announced for Nintendo Switch. Launches Sept 27. Published by Xbox Game Studios (Up: 1080p/60fps docked, 720p/60fps portable)
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This and The Witcher 3 are showing that, given some good optimizations, game should run smooth with little (or some in TW3s case) compromises.
Even Warframe has benefited over time with DE (and Panic Button?)'s updates. (Cetus now runs smooth compared to the slideshow at launch.)
So yeah, I'm going to get Ori and Cuphead, but I'd really hope there will be a physical edition for both games.
It wasn't really DLC, Moon re-released the entire game as a separate product. If you own the original game, you can upgrade for $5. Lots of tweaks, some new abilities, and some new areas.
If I understand the machine translation right, it's out in Japan on Sept 28th, likely at 1AM Japan time which is 12PM ET/ 9AM PT on the 27th anyway. Can anyone verify please?
Finished again last month because of gamepass on pc (Played the original version on Steam also). Nintendo players that don't know the game, do a favor to yourselves and buy this jewel!
If that Rodjr user wasn't banned I'd so reply lol.
I'm so excited for this! Any chance we can see the home menu icon? Also, when might this be available to preload? And what's the file size? :3
I kinda thought that this was a huge Metroidvania I wouldn't have time for, but apparently this game is 8-10 hours long which is perfect for me. I can't wait, it looks absolutely beautiful!
Expected file size under 4gb
For those asking about the game size - we have done quite some work on compression for Ori's continuous streaming so we expect the size to be under 4gb for this one.
Fantastic to hear. Thanks for all of the effort on this and I'm excited to take it everywhere with me so I can cry in public a lot.
Under 4gb also could mean....👀
Hey thomasmahler do you know if the achievement list will be a seperate listing that the one we currently have on Xbox/Windows (aka a stack)? Would like to unlock the achievements again :P
Bloodstained is a 2.5D game running on UE4, whereas Ori is a mostly 2D game (albeit with some 3D graphical effects) running on Unity. Doesn't make Bloodstained a good port, but it's an apples-to-oranges comparison.
We thought that most folks would want to unlock the achievements again as they replay the game so the unlocked achievements on your Xbox/Windows Live account won't transfer over. We will also have a nice little UI for achievements in the game so those that don't have Live would still be able to fully enjoy them.
I always personally found it interesting how people perceive the technical complexity of 2d games over 3d games being that much easier.
We actually found that high quality multi layered 2d is just as hard if not harder to optimize than 3d for the same camera perspective. With 3d you have the GPUs and engines built to render in that way efficiently. You can rely on all kinds of built in optimizations and efficiencies, you have out of the box content creation pipelines.
With 2d all bets are off. There's no great "built in" support for it in any engine it and you have to re-invent the rendering stack in ways that allow you to handle the insane overdraw and memory bandwidth efficiently for rendering tons and tons of overlapping semitransparent parallaxing sprites. Especially if you want a lot of them to create the sense of 3d depth using stacked 2d sprites and you want to make the world animated on top of that. And then you want all of that to stream seamlessly without any loading times and fit in a small package... All of this is much harder than it seems :)
Bloodstained is just not very well optimized on any platform. It is not that obvious on more powerful hardware, but it runs bad on any platform despite being a relatively simple and undemanding game technically. Being a simple 3D game should even help it running better in contrary to a full 2D game.
Anyway, Ori looks and run really great. That's how a port should be made.
Perfect game for the Switch. Or any platform really. Some sections in Ori might tempt me to throw my Switch across the room though ... best I stick to playing the game on PC and Xbox :)
Good stuff! With the amount of time between the releases that's definitely the way to go.
Does switching to a 3D pipeline in Will of the Wisps help lighten those difficulties? Or does it make things harder since the 2D and 3D elements have to blend together seamlessly in real time and require more work and resources to do so?
I love how WotW looks from what we've been shown so far. It's really surprising how much of it leap it is seeing as the original already looked outstanding.
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I appreciate and loved every aspect of this game, but, September is absolutely stacked and I already finished this game on Xbox One. If it's $15, I'm in day one. If it's $20 or more, it's going into my eShop wish list and I will wait for a sale. No disrespect to Thomas and his crew, I just have a ton of full-priced games swallowing up my gaming budget for the month.
...having to pay the final balance on my F4F Varia Suit Samus didn't exactly help the wallet either, but that's a whole other topic.
Fair points. It's still an apples-to-oranges comparison, though, given that the two games use different engines and are doing very different things technically.
Man, this explanation is really appreciated, for us not-that-technical-savvy gamers.
Still no word on a retail release?
This kind of post is very interesting to read, thank you!
This kind of post is very interesting to read, thank you!
So to clarify, the XBL integration will be available at launch on Sept 27th? The game doesn't have multiplayer does it? If not then cross-play wouldn't apply then. :P
Also, is Moon owned by Microsoft? The Ori site's description is conflicting:
So... yes or no? :P
Thanks again for dropping by and answering all of our questions! :)
Look out Tom, that icon means the difference between success and failure! :P It MUST pass the Neiteio test! :P
I can second this.
Interested to see how good Will of the Wisps & Silk Song end up being.
So will the Achievements notification be more diagetic? Will I be able to turn them off? I dislike how system level Achievement notices can take me out of a game in the same way you get a "Battery low" notification if your controller is almost out of juice (and in the latter's case, it's justified as a way to tell you to either take a break and charge your battery or simply charge your controller while still playing).
I'm glad there's still people out there who still appreciate the work that goes into these 2D games. Games like LabZero's Indivisible and even Team Cherry's Hollow Knight have a ton of work and love put into it that you can't just call these games a "cheap production that utilize retro aesthetics to overcome its visual shortcomings" that so many a "hardcore gamer" think of then they think of the term "indie". And even then, you have Yatch Club games Shovel Knight which are very pure to the 8-bit concept.
This is why I always cringe when people demand 2D games to be sold for extremely cheap prices.
