• Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Yep. Anything the switch can do, the steamdeck can do (probably better).

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      I really disliked breath of the wild. Especially how empty it feels and how bad it looks, different strokes I guess.

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          It looks dated, the grass without textures looks ugly and the faces look plain, and even with all those compromises the game can’t run at stable 30 FPS, cmon

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        It’s not a Zelda. I wish they hadn’t destroyed the franchise by removing the main mechanic, but they wouldn’t have been able to sell such a mid game without the draw of the franchise.

        I would far rather have far fewer side quests with actual content instead of “collect 10 crickets” “collect 10 lizards.” I’d rather be in the dungeons solving puzzles than wandering around for tens of minutes looking for temples. I’d rather spend more time shooting arrows than looking for arrows.

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          If those are your complaints, I’m genuinely confused about what you think “real” Zelda games are. Zelda has always been so much more than dungeon crawling, but it seems like that’s all you care about. Plenty of other Zelda games had things that weren’t just dungeons (like horse riding, fishing, mini games, talking to characters, shopping, mini puzzles, etc.) and involved a fair bit of wandering and searching. Once you actually play BOTW and TOTK you don’t even really need to bother looking for arrows anymore, they’re fucking everywhere and you can buy them all over the place.

          Sounds like you just aren’t a fan of Zelda, which is fine. But your claim that the recent games destroyed anything is just plain silly.

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            They’re completely different. Since you haven’t played them, the older games have a wide variety of interesting tools that unlocked a new area. Yes, exploration was linear, but things were fun and new instead of grinding out yet another segment of stamina bar to spend another several minutes climbing rock faces to get to more of the same glider/magnet/ice block puzzles.

            If you think the new ones are the same type of thing at all you are willfully closing your eyes. It’s cool that you like a mid game about collecting various numbers of nearly indistinguishable plants and critters but I wish Nintendo had done it with a new franchise. It’s grating to have people claim they are Zelda fans when their favorite title is the soulless grinding entry.

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              Since you haven’t played them,

              So wrong there. I’ve played nearly every title. My favorite has been A Link to the Past. But, there will always be a place in my heart for the original. The N64 games were okay, but don’t hold the same childhood nostalgia. There’s a good chance I’ve been playing Zelda longer than you’ve been alive. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

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                If you don’t want to hear people assert you haven’t played this or that, perhaps you yourself should not do so.

                If you cannot tell there is a significant difference in gameplay that started in BotW you weren’t paying attention during nearly every title you played.

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                  Pay attention this time. Nobody said they weren’t different. I just said you seem to only like one aspect of the many varied aspects of the many varied Zelda games. Your reading comprehension skills are trash or you’re just burning straw men to make yourself feel better. Stop being a troll.

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        Eeeeehhh does a “more or less” gesture with a hand

        I tested for a bit. Some games yeah. Others not really. The Zeldas are about the only things from the Switch that I really miss and whether you use Suyu or RyujiNX, Tears of the Kingdom runs like shit. Like pretty much unplayable.

        Gonna give it a shot when Prime 4 drops though.

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    Too many good games! Yes, the hardware is old (it was old when it launched!), but good games are good games. There’s still so much fun to be had. :-)

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    Nope, I still love to play it in bed (I’ve never played it docked since it was the handheld aspect that drew me) and just relax

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    Actually, my SteamDeck broke so I’ve been back to using my Switch a lot more! I picked up Yooka-Laylee on sale and have been really enjoying it!

    Hell, if the price is right and my digital purchases all carry-over, I might even consider buying Switch 2, it’s been a great little system.

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    It’s the only console we have, so I don’t think we’re going to leave it currently. I like playing Balatro still, and need to finish Tears of the Kingdom.

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    Honestly the Steam Deck has made me realise just his much missed potential and poor design decisions the Switch had. Not to mention Nintendo being a scummy company…

    So yeah, my Steam Deck has basically replaced the Switch for me.

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    After my joycon drift got too bad I just never replaced them and stopped playing. ACNL is better than New Horizons anyway

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    I barely used it to begin with. Mostly had it for first party exclusives and portability, but once emulation got to the point where it delivered a superior experience the Switch became a dust collector.

    The fact that I barely used the Switch made me hold off on getting a SteamDeck for a long time. Now that I have one, my high end gaming PC is the thing collecting dust and the Switch feels like a cheap toy.

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    I rotate between switch, ps5, and PC regularly (not to mention older systems). But there have definitely been games where I avoided them on switch because i knew they’d run like ass.