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Hogwarts Legacy for Nintendo Switch releases on November 14 | First Trailer Released
Krappadizzle
Member
I'm actually impressed at the downgrade.
It looks like dog-shit though. To be expected.
Scalability can be an important factor, it was hugely important for PC gaming of the 90's and early 2000's. It became less prioritized as development budgets skyrocketed and consoles homogenized so many requirements.
It looks like dog-shit though. To be expected.
Scalability can be an important factor, it was hugely important for PC gaming of the 90's and early 2000's. It became less prioritized as development budgets skyrocketed and consoles homogenized so many requirements.
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AnotherOne
Member
to no ones surpirse it looks horrible on the switch.
Krappadizzle
Member
Yeah, to change the art style to match the power would be a lot bigger of an undertaking than what they did here. But it is what would have made things look vastly better, but they'd probably have to develop two separate games at that point.
Dr. Wilkinson
Gold Member
Oof. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should!
Dr. Wilkinson
Gold Member
I imagine the down-porting involved a lot of work and this was the soonest they could do it. Originally planned for July, but the porting work didn't start until earlier this year, as I recall.
Disco Dave
Member
Someone tag the cucks at Digital Foundry.
How often do we see a game engine scaling from high end PC all the way down to the Switch and hitting every console in between?
And yet crickets from DF.
How often do we see a game engine scaling from high end PC all the way down to the Switch and hitting every console in between?
And yet crickets from DF.
Tams
Gold Member
The Switch is potentially their biggest single market for them though, with a lot of the fanbase fine with far worse graphics so long as they aren't absolutely shit.
The artful mincer
Member
I wonder what the loading will be like in Hogwarts Castle.
That was pretty next gen which everyone took for granted. Walking through Hogwarts was almost completely seamless on ps5, XSX. The loading was far more obtrusive in the last gen versions
That was pretty next gen which everyone took for granted. Walking through Hogwarts was almost completely seamless on ps5, XSX. The loading was far more obtrusive in the last gen versions
Chupanibre
Member
It's nice to see yet another port where the developers make good use of the most freely available image scaler for the Switch.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
They took their time to do so, this is a lot of custom work. Still, people know it is never like flicking a switch when you target higher end consoles first.
LordOcidax
Member
Welcome to Neogaf… some people expect PS5 level graphics from a 10 years old mobile hardware.
blacktout
Member
I bet we'll see a DF video on release day or soon thereafter. This is just too enticing a subject to ignore.
thatJohann
Member
Uh this looks amazing for the Switch, don't know what y'all are smoking. This looks to be a super impressive port. Can't wait for DF
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
touchfuzzy
Member
If the performance holds up then that's actually looking like a very impressive port job. Will really come down to performance though.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
I dont think it looks bad at all. Certainly a downgrade but who cares. Its a weaker system.
BlackTron
Gold Member
It looks fine for a Switch port of this graphically demanding game. Which, lets face it, is still shit.
I dare say the job is impressive even. But you can't tell me your eyes don't bleed looking at that.
Edit: I wonder if you guys are watching the video on small phone screens
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Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
The comments here are like for a different game or something, lol, that looks perfectly fine. If performance is stable. It didn't look like a bland mess like Witcher 3 can at times or like Ark at launch or like the early MK1 videos, character faces look and animate nicely, spells, lighting, shadows are in...
Just one instance that seemed to imply performance issues in whatever that round lake, well, whatever surface, hopefully they've otherwise taken care to redo most of the other visual effects so that they still look okay with less particles, transparencies or whatever causes the performance drop there.
Just one instance that seemed to imply performance issues in whatever that round lake, well, whatever surface, hopefully they've otherwise taken care to redo most of the other visual effects so that they still look okay with less particles, transparencies or whatever causes the performance drop there.
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TheUndeadGamer
Member
I agree. I think it looks fine for a Switch game.
If I only had a Switch, I’d be perfectly fine playing this version.
MK1 on the other hand……
CamHostage
Member
That's what I'm most concerned about. The trailer looks fine for the most part (some of the effects like dragons emerging from clouds are missing layers and effects needed to sell the reality, but then facial animation and framerate appears fine (albeit no controlled gameplay appears to have been shown) and the sense of the world is there. It's not a game tuned at all to the Switch's abilities, instead it's cut down significantly from an already requirement-intensive high-end game, but especially in portable form I could see this being a pleasant way to experience the story and mess around in the world. However, if traversal is heavily hampered by loading times, that would be a real issue.
(Too bad Switch could never upgrade its IO and storage solution; I'm hopeful the next hardware focuses on instant access because that's been a bigger impact on gaming than the graphical progress with this gen's consoles.)
Freeman76
Member
What u expect? 4k 60? It was always gna look like dogshit
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
Will Hogsmead be the new Blighttown?
It's the same people who expect Switch 2 to have 4K60FPSRTHDRLGBTQ.
tkscz
Member
And not a single Harry Potter fan with a switch is going to give a shit. They are going to buy it and enjoy themselves.
Laieon
Member
Taking into account the Switch's specs, I'm legitimately impressed at what they managed to accomplish with this.
Love my Steamdeck, but it's battery life is nowhere near as good as my Switch OLED's and it's also a lot beefier. As someone who is all about one bag travel (and usually just travels with a big backpack), if I'm truly looking to play Hogwarts on the go (and not just portably at home), I think Switch makes a ton more sense just because it takes up less real estate and has a better battery.
We'll see how it fares in actual gameplay though, these graphics ain't great but I'd be find with settling for them. If the game runs at 15 FPS, that's another story, and I'm usually the kind of person who things 30 is fine as long as it's stable.
Love my Steamdeck, but it's battery life is nowhere near as good as my Switch OLED's and it's also a lot beefier. As someone who is all about one bag travel (and usually just travels with a big backpack), if I'm truly looking to play Hogwarts on the go (and not just portably at home), I think Switch makes a ton more sense just because it takes up less real estate and has a better battery.
We'll see how it fares in actual gameplay though, these graphics ain't great but I'd be find with settling for them. If the game runs at 15 FPS, that's another story, and I'm usually the kind of person who things 30 is fine as long as it's stable.
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They've done a tech review for all releases so far so I don't see how this would be any different.
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lughnasadh123
Member
Conjurus sh'ton monius
While perhaps not of the technical type of wizards some were thinking of, it it looks perfectly fine for what it's running on. Switch owners know damn well what to expect with that hardware.
While perhaps not of the technical type of wizards some were thinking of, it it looks perfectly fine for what it's running on. Switch owners know damn well what to expect with that hardware.
Lucifers Beard
Member
Doesn't look too hot, but it's not bad for a Switch version. It'll sell like hot cakes.
Zathalus
Member
The new Steam Deck has a bigger battery and the screen and SoC consume less power. The current deck does the settings I mentioned at just over 2 hours so the new deck should get around 3 hours on battery life. Drop settings down to low and you can lower the TDP to get close to 4-4.5 hours while still looking quite a bit better then the Switch version.
It's a bit lighter as well so the trade off would be 420g vs 640g and larger device but you get similar battery life and a better looking game with a really bright HDR screen.
Yamisan
Member
Thats no excuse. The Switch shouldn't be so weak for the time period it was released and its price.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I know youtube compression is still shit but looks like major cutbacks to get this running, not sure what the people saying it looks good are watching.
Hope it sells millions on Switch.
It looks HORRIBLE! Plain and simple. I don't hope it sells millions. But if it does, I'm not going to be mad.