I'm seeing several people calling downports shitty looking and I don't think any of you are saying that out of spite. Is there are difference in how we perceive things?
So I own DOOM, Wolfenstein and Witcher 3 (and way too many other games) and my most played game by far is Warframe. I play like 90% docked. I think these games in my collection of 50+ games are absolutely stunning. Can you describe what you don't like about this?
Aside from these I own a bunch of same-gen ports as well, like both Assasin's Creed games, Dragon's Dogma, Dark Souls, Skyrim, Outlast 1 & 2. I think the current-gen downports are superior to the slightly up-ports from last gen.
There's a bunch of (almost-)no-compromise ports like Dragon Quest XI and Atelier Ryza, which look nice but to me they seem a league slightly lower than the videos I linked above.
I'm honestly a bit sad that people have this opinion and state it so boldly, because it's a slippery slope on who are saying it as their opinion and some who are almost saying it as a fact. I personally adore these downports and I'm clearly the demographic who enjoys and buy these games. In some ways, I feel like it's counter-productive to discourage third party ports. I'm not a Nintendo gamer, my collection doesn't consist of 90% Nintendo games, but I know a lot of people who pretty much only play Nintendo games on their Switches.
I'm planning to buy Outer Worlds to see how that runs as well (and it's the only type of it's genre that actually made it to the Switch).
Curious on your (and anyone's) thoughts.
(those videos arent the best example as they are not direct screen captures, so filming gameplay like that kind of masks/hides some of the problems like low res + bad textures + framerate)
I haven't played other than witcher 3 on switch, and it just looked like "shit"
Part of the experience of that game (on ps4) is the beautiful environment, how it adds to the feeling and atmosphere to roam in the wilderness. (and sometimes it doesn't look that good on ps4 either).
I tested it on switch and the magic is just gone, resolution is way too low, world looks plain and empty, it barely runs on it and just looks like butchered cheap copy of glorious game.
IMO biggest problem is that many "modern" games wont even run on 720p aka screens native res. they just look soft and "out of focus" because of it, and it is annoying. Then they have to drop details and things like grass pop up way too badly, or the ground is just "naked" without details.
For doom I have read/seen on videos that it doesnt run 720p either?
Switch is just too weak for modern games.
I dont like "nintendo" games either, but those hide the weakness by cartoon like childish graphics at least.
And why the heck I would play shitty version that looks bad and runs bad, if I have ps4pro for the same game?
some say portability, but to me it doesn't add anything as I have no need to play games on the go.
to me it would be better that they would make games from last gen, ps3/360 games and older, because while they dont have "modern" graphics, they at least run 720p and make image look crisp. Sub 720p just looks too soft to me on that screen.
Even vita games look better when they run on its native res.