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That was certainly one of the worst buildup to payoff ratios ever. If the rest of the season had been strong, that may have been a decent finale, but after the relentless slog-fest leading up to it, they needed to step up with an hour of unmitigated brilliance and that was far from it. And...

Yes, he is. The patch seems nice. Very noticeable improvements on the Switch, though it's still not entirely without frame drops. It sounds like the Wii U version got some similar love, too.

This game belongs nowhere near the bottom of that list. I will agree to a general lack of Zeldaness in two areas: Music (nearly all of the epic stuff is saved for the castle at the end) Lack of traditional dungeon-crawling

I know others have said this, but it does have an early EQ-vibe. I love that you're dropped into a huge, mysterious world with little direction as to where you can safely go, yet you can go just about anywhere as long as you manage to not get killed. And you will get killed. A lot. Also like in...

Yeah, just get the Switch. As long as you have a decent TV it'll look better, and while it still can't maintain a solid 30fps while docked (those low-resolution circa 2009 cartoon graphics sure are demanding) it's much less of a stutter-fest than the Wii U is. Also, the portable mode is...

So I finally tried out the portable "mode" on a whim. I played Zelda on the TV for a bit, then undocked the Switch and brought it up to bed and figured I'd try it for a few minutes after the wife fell asleep. It's now three hours later I could still play for another three... Sure , it's no...

The joycons themselves are feather light, and the undocked switch doesn't seem heavy at all to me. It is pretty damn big, though. And I've had no range issues so far from about 12 feet away. The UI is pretty comical coming from the Wii U. It's very barebones and fast, whereas the Wii U's is a...

Between Zelda, Mario Kart and Odyssey I'll be fine for the next year. The list of games I still need to finish on PC and other consoles is pretty ridiculous.

I walked into a Gamestop today and they had a few behind the register, so I grabbed one of the god damn things. So far I like it. The joycons/adapter feel perfectly fine to me. I have no immediate desire to rush out and buy another controller at all. The dock looks like shit. When playing in...

Man, I remember doing the Gamestop hop thing back when the Wii was released where you'd time out the various UPS deliveries and wait around to see if they had enough come in to cover your place in line. Yeah, never again.

I've been playing on the Wii U. Visually, it is very close to the Switch. The slightly higher resolution and better anti-aliasing offered by the Switch is noticeable on a large TV if you're the type to make note of such things, but most "normal" people would probably never pick up on the...

Where did you find a Switch for sale? Or did you pay EBay prices or just pick up a Wii U?

It does seem reasonably smooth at 30fps. As you say I'm sure they designed the animations with that limitation in mind. It's when it locks at 20 that it becomes dog shit. And I'm certainly an admitted frame rate snob.

RE: Wii U FPS, I'm not saying it's unplayable or anything, or that I've died as a result, but as someone who is used to 60fps PC gaming, it's really irritating to be locked at 20fps in villages and other dense areas. I'll tolerate typical console frame rates under protest, but Zelda gets...

Yeah, that's my problem, too. I do have the Wii U version, and while it's "close enough" to the Switch in terms of pure image quality, the frame rate drops on the Wii U can get brutally bad. Whenever I play it I find myself wishing I had a Switch, but I don't want to buy a god damn Switch. I'm...

I'm not sure exactly what "many hours" means, but if you've opened up and at least started to explore all of the major areas and still claim that a game in at least something resembling a similar genre is significantly better, I find that very difficult to believe. I will certainly give Zelda a...

Have you played Witcher 3? I can't comprehend a game improving on it terms of open-world depth and detail any time soon.

Alright, you assholes win. I suppose I have to pick this up now despite not being able to finish any other 3D Zelda I've tried. I went back and forth between Wii U and Switch, and while watching some streams on my big TV I could definitely see a slight improvement on the Switch, but fuck that...

Man, I watched some live streams on the big TV where my Wii U is, and there was definitely a noticeable difference between the consoles that didn't really come through on the YouTube vids. In each case the Switch was easily sharper, had less aliasing artifacts, as well as better overall contrast...

I've tried several times as I've heard that since it came out. I can't do it. I don't know exactly why. I played the shit out of Mario 64 when it released and it was the same kind of weird N64 3D engine. OOT just never grabbed me. The goofy NPC art-style and weird bloopy voices like spronk said...

I've never been able to finish a 3D Zelda. I've tried OOT several times. I just can't seem to maintain interest for long. It always feels like a struggle so eventually I ask myself WTF I'm doing and then it'll sit for a couple of years. After a while I'll pick it up again and forget where I am...

Jesus fuck. Some of you people could use a solid roundhouse kick to the testicles.

Trump's too easy of a target and it's making creative people like Oliver lazy. I'm sure that's all a strategic component of his 48D chess game, or whatever.

I certainly wouldn't call it tiny. The PS2 era textures for the PC drove me bonkers. They seem to be all gone and the game is much better looking. However, it's not exactly a titanic improvement, and 60 gigs for a texture pack is ridiculous. But if you have the free space and hardware to take...

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with going for an i7 these days. The list of games that will take advantage of HT is currently pretty small, but I expect that will change.

That combo is showing as $370 for me. Too big of a jump to be justifiable, IMO. The Kaby Lakes seem to be virtually identical with the exception of easier and more stable overclocks above 4.5GHz or so. Diminishing returns really start kicking in at those speeds. For an extra $20 or so, sure...

I picked up the i6600k and a Gigabyte G1 board for $300 as a bundle. You're not getting close to that with a 7000 series any time soon.

I'm not sure why it's hard for people to believe that a six year old processor is outgunned in games by the latest model. Clearly gotta be placebo effect! Of course a hefty GPU upgrade is going to make for a much more significant difference, but this thing is absolutely faster and smoother. And...

Whoops, yeah..typo. That should be 970, which was OC'd to well beyond stock 980 speeds. I'm still only on a 60Hz monitor, so the 970 to 1070 jump wasn't going to do a whole lot for me as I was maxing at 60fps before in pretty much everything. I found the 1070 for $330 during a Black Friday sale...

I recently put together a new system after 5 years with an i2500k. I didn't realize just how long in the tooth Sandybridge had become until playing around with the i6600k. I've got it OC'd to a cool and stable 4.5GHz and it absolutely shreds through everything. GPU-wise I had an 870 in the old...

Star Wars has been selling mountains of crap to children since 1977.

This line is not in the movie. Clearly not true? They could have been receiving plenty of other transmissions. We don't know that Vader knew he was literally chasing the Death Star plans. He was cutting his was through armed rebels who were shooting at him. And? This was clearly a...

It's time for Russia, China and North Korea to stop fucking around and just destroy the Internet once and for all.

No one wants to hear about your Monday night.

This thread is now worse than the prequels.

I don't know that I've ever seen so many varying opinions from so many people regarding the same topic all being wrong. Impressive.

Yes, and just as important to remember is that the movie experience in general was vastly different then. Almost no one had a VCR or cable TV. The Web didn't exist. Watching a movie like Star Wars was truly an event. You'd be immersed in the memory of the experience for months afterwards. I...

I liked Rogue One a lot, but also don't understand how any sensible person could rank it above the OT. Even above Jedi is a stretch. ANH and ESB are perfect Star Wars films. RotJ is 3/4s a great Star Wars film. This was an admirable and enjoyable effort, but it's not in the same category. I'm...

Don't even joke about this horseshit. If they simply have to remake something, have at it with the prequels. For all of their issues, the one thing about them that truly ticks me off happens when I throw on ANH and watch the hulking terror that is Darth Vader emerge through the smoke and...

The prequels have a handful of good specific moments, but they are surrounded by two+ hours of horseshit. Mace vs the Emperor was terrible, btw.