-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Zelda: Link's Awakening Switch First Look + Game Boy Upgrade Comparisons! | Digital Foundry
- Thread starter Equanimity
- Start date
This is my main concern, Yoshi looked quite bad in handheld mode and I'm hoping Link's Awakening doesn't suffer the same fate.
I think it may be a hardware bottleneck of the Switch. Triple buffering was pretty common on the Wii U, so they wouldn't go backwards like that for no reason.
Nintendo does not care, they've done this before and it was fixed by launch
Triple buffer creates more input lag than double buffer. If they also think they can get the frame rate under control by release, then double buffer is the better solution for smoother controls.
The game was simply not made for free movement like ALBW. Puzzles & dungeons are built around the eight-directional movements and changing it would mean changing a lot of layouts (which wasn't the point of this remake).
Great video as always. Awesome seeing Link's Awakening back in the spotlight.
The music is a mixed bag for me, with some tracks sounding like faithful recreations and others losing a lot of "oomph". The graphics look gorgeous though.
I do wonder if the smooth scrolling is going to make the overworld feel smaller.
The music is a mixed bag for me, with some tracks sounding like faithful recreations and others losing a lot of "oomph". The graphics look gorgeous though.
I do wonder if the smooth scrolling is going to make the overworld feel smaller.
I need to hear it without the sound effects and whatnot to judge that. I could barely hear it in the video.
True enough. Somehow I feel as I get older I have less tolarance for sub 60fps games.
Resolution will most likely improve and framerate will definitely be established to either 60 if they hit the target or cap it at 30. Mario odyssey was locked to 720p but got a resolution boost up to 900p dynamic. Whats great is that the game seems to be done, only this polishing up phase is left now, so no worries imo.
Is it just me or does Link move way slower in the remake? Potentially to compensate for the lack of forced screen transitions?
So it doesn't cap at 30 like some people thought, they just didn't iron out the drops in the overworld. It's fine, it should be fixed in time for launch.
BotW is the only double-buffered game by Nintendo though, AFAIK. All others use triple buffering.
There is no hardware bottleneck that prevents triple buffering, and most Switch games run triple buffered. All it does is take slightly more VRAM than double buffered, since one more frame has to be stored in memory.
If you have a 100% stable framerate, double buffering has 16.67ms less input lag at 60FPS. @So if you are confident you can deliver a consistent framerate without a single drop, it's actually a good idea to make the game run double buffered and offer more responsive controls.
I think it's pretty obvious they are confident they will offer that experience by launch.
Man, I can't wait for this game. It will be the first Switch game that really gets me to play it and not be able to stop I am guessing.
The art style of this game is absolutely superb. It looks incredible for 1440x792.
This resolution is not sub HD, and this game is >30fps. It will be fully 60fps by launch I'm sure.
This resolution is not sub HD, and this game is >30fps. It will be fully 60fps by launch I'm sure.
is the game UE4 or not? they just posted a blog about all the UE4 games at E3 and din't mention link's awakening
Nobody knows yet. But it doesn't seem like Nintendo is required to disclose whether or not it is, so I'm not sure if we'll know any time soon.
We did but then the UE4 logo/copyright was removed from all of the subsequent trailers after E3 2017 IIRC, and it wasn't present on the product page. There was even a thread here speculating that they changed the engine between E3 2017 and 2018, but all they did was just stop showing the UE4 logo.
Low resolution and framerate issues coupled with great graphics and nice depth of field are staples of UE4 Switch games, so I'd say it's very likely.
Does anyone know what GPU clock Yoshi was using in portable mode?
OP
OP
And also to be fair, 1404x 792 is not sub-HD. It's an in-between resolution between 720 and 1080p