Digital Foundry: Doom Eternal on Switch

[Pemalite]

Vodacixi said:

Good Lord... C'mon, one more time. Third one is the charm.

Then pay attention to the evidence and I won't need to repeat myself.

Vodacixi said:

You didn't get into specifics AT ALL in your first statment. After saying that "it's the worst way to play the game" you said that if people didn't care about performance and graphics, it was a good option. But that's not the same as specifying that you were only talking about technical aspects. That's why you engaged in an argument with me about portable PCs also having gyro controls and portability (despite me specifying that those advantages were mostly on the console competition) despite in your own words not being interested in discussing those aspects, and that's why four people agreed with me when I called you out on your first statement. Clearly, I wasn't the only one that thought you were speaking in general. Since I'm not alone on this, maybe, just MAYBE you should consider the possibility that you didn't explain yourself properly... or that you are flat out lying to me for whathever reason.

I LITERALLY quoted myself getting into specifics in my last post.

The SPECIFICS were I was pointing out VISUALS and FRAMERATES.

Again... I shall quote myself again.

Pemalite said:

If you don't care about framerates and visuals and wish to play it in portable mode, you really can't go wrong unless you get a handheld PC or use xcloud.

That was in my first post, thus making your entire complaint ultimately redundant.

Vodacixi said:

That's why you engaged in an argument with me about portable PCs also having gyro controls and portability (despite me specifying that those advantages were mostly on the console competition) despite in your own words not being interested in discussing those aspects, and that's why four people agreed with me when I called you out on your first statement. Clearly, I wasn't the only one that thought you were speaking in general. Since I'm not alone on this, maybe, just MAYBE you should consider the possibility that you didn't explain yourself properly... or that you are flat out lying to me for whathever reason.

To be fair, whether people agree with you or not is irrelevant, there are people out there that get together and believe the Earth is Flat.

The like-feature is more to do with popularity rather than a construct that determines the truth of a post, making that point fallacious.
And I don't care what other users think of me, I am here to do a job, post, and engage others. - I'll leave the pointless interpersonal politics to those who care for such things or have the time.

Vodacixi said:

If all you are going to do is keep repeating like a parrot that you were talking about technical matters all the time without truly adressing the incoherences that statement has... then please, don't. Just don't say anything else. If that's the case, you win, ok? You explained yourself perfectly from the beginning, you never changed your mind mid-argument and no one besides me misunderstood you. You did everything great. Have a good night.

I wouldn't need to repeat myself if you bothered to even read my quotes that rebukes your prior statements.

My opening post in this thread was talking about framerates and visuals which are the technical makeups of the game, the quote (Which I have now conveniently posted twice for you now) reaffirms that.

Do learn to read.

OTBWY said:

Those are rather expensive handhelds

You get what you pay for.
You want the absolute best and cutting edge hardware? That's not free sadly...

curl-6 said:

Pemalite said:

I don't think Crysis is actually that impressive.
We need to remember... As a game it released on PC and was optimized for a Core 2 Duo+4GB of Ram+Geforce 8800GT @720P.

Consequently, that is roughly inline with the Switch's capabilities.

But what they did go and do is port the game to an engine which takes advantage of the newer graphics features in newer GPU cores and took advantage of newer CPU's larger abundance of threads... So we were able to get a visual and performance uptick.

I used to be a moderator for the Crysis forums and I always believed Crysis (On the original engine) would have been a great fit for the Switch, getting a remastered version on a newer engine was just icing on the cake.

Luigi's Mansion in general has always been a tech showcase on Nintendo platforms, it's the lighting and mapping that really makes the scenes pop... I remember playing the original on Gamecube and was in awe at the visual makeup when I was younger.

I really need to pickup the game and add it to my collection actually.

As old as Crysis is the Switch version still looks pretty great in my opinion thanks to modern additions like SVOGI, updated water effects/depth of field/motion blur, etc. There aren't very many Switch games that look better to me, the few that do are more artistically stylized fare like Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Trine 4, and as mentioned Luigi's Mansion.

It definitely does look great... And you are right that the ray tracing (SVOGI) does give it a good tick in the pants as far as visuals go.
But Crysis for all intents and purposes (as in the original game and not the remaster) would have been entirely possible as is on the Switch, the Remaster just brings with it new technical aspects that leverages the maxwell GPU to a better degree.

Win/win for us all.

I am really excited to see what Metroid brings to the table, Metroid on Gamecube was a technical feat... So I expect similar results with the Switch.

Last edited by Pemalite - on 20 January 2021