Metroid Dread discussion

[AngryLittleAlchemist]

curl-6 said:

Zippy6 said:

I think every game you've listed there looks better visually than this. They might not all be as technically advanced (kirby particularly) but they look polished and combined with their art styles choices create a pleasing looking game. My comment about "looks like it started as a 3ds game" is simply a statement that I don't believe that this game looks like a game built for the Switch from the ground up should look like. It misses the mark for me. Yes it is miles ahead of a 3ds game in terms of models, textures, VFX and everything else, but it is lacking. Materials and shaders particularly are the problem for me. I will have to choose my words more carefully in future, but to me this looks like it could be a remaster not a brand new switch game.

New Horizons is a gorgeous polished art style and visuals so very confused that was one of your examples. But clearly everyone has different tastes.

Nintendo not developing it themselves makes a lot of sense because this doesn't look like it's getting the most out of the Switch at all to me.

Fire Emblem Three Houses:

Pokémon Sword/Shield:

Metroid Dread:

Add the fact that Dread runs at double the framerate of the two above it and I'm really not seeing how it falls behind them graphically.

That is a generous view of Three Houses because it's the overhead view. That game legit looks just as bad (in some ways worse) as Sword and Shield and just didn't get the flack for it because FE isn't as big of a franchise (even though the 3DS ones look super good for the 3DS, lol)