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I played Jeff Minter's Akka Arrh for about an hour last night before bed, and I'm finally starting to understand how to play this game. It's a bit more strategic than Tempest 4000 in the sense that you have a limited number of bombs and you want to use as few as possible for each level. You place a bomb to destroy enemy ships with the intention of creating chain reactions. When your bomb goes off, it creates a shockwave killing an enemy ship, that ship's destruction creates another shockwave that destroyes another enemy and another and another if you place your initial bomb well. There's more depth added later on with the use of bullets too. Really cool game.
Ooh yeah!
I think there will be third-party games early on of course, it just seems like a lot of medium to small developers still do not have access to development hardware. So Nintendo has been very selective with who they allow to do it."
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Digital Foundry on switch 2
Got the platinum trophy for Monster Hunter Wilds yesterday so decided to try out Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate. Seems to be a whole collage of stuff from the previous MH games. Am quite enjoying it right now but sure am missing those quality of life changes they made from World on.
Why? Because Nintendo thought the company was too unstable at the time, worried they might shut down studios and possibly misplace or lose the dev kits in the process. He later confirmed the publisher in question was Embracer Group, a company known for its recent mass layoffs and restructuring.
“I don’t know if their plan changed (this story was from maybe eight months ago), but I know companies that split off from Embracer ended up going back to Nintendo and renegotiating, and they were more amenable.”
So not only are smaller developers still waiting, but even big publishers aren’t guaranteed early access if Nintendo doesn’t trust their stability. That’s a bold move, but maybe one that makes sense if it’s trying to avoid leaks or complications.
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So no Runner games?
Seems to be some buzz around a possible Final Fantasy IX Remake. Perhaps an announcement at the Switch 2 Direct this Wednesday.
I never really understood the love for Final fantasy 9. It was a good game, no denying that. But I didn't think it was really anything special that we hadn't seen in the series before. I don't know, it's been a very long time since I played it. I could have forgotten something.
Yeah, kind of feel the same way myself. I enjoyed it and will get the remake if it gets made but it’s not really high on my favourite FF games. Very middle of the road for me.
I got to know, how many hours did it take for you to get that platinum for Wilds?
I believe it was about 190 hours. Probably would have been shorter had I focused specifically on it though.
Insider Gaming is reporting that a developer told them at GDC that "at least some of the Switch 2 devkits don't have 4k output"
It's a bit weird that they're saying "at least some of" does this mean the other devkits do have 4k output?
Useless.
What's Nintendo music like? I have no Switch online.
So anyway, someone bid £100 for my old copy of Jet Force Gemeni.
And my bank is giving every customer £50 as a reward as they merged with another bank.
I also stored up amazon gift card balance from Christmas. Switch 2 is virtually paid for.
Then my car insurance is due in 2 weeks at £1700 FFS....
Must be alot to show.
But didn't the OLED dock have 4k compliance?
"The chipset in the dock is specifically the Realtek RTD2175N-CG. Unable to find this precise model on the web, but I assume the RTD2173 is a predecessor. It’s being used in this adaptor,” the post reads.
Chipset: RTD2173
Compliant with DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI HDCP 2.2/1.4, HDR 10
Video Resolution: 720p, 1080p, 4K30Hz, 4K60Hz,4K120Hz (w/DSC), 8K30Hz and 8K60Hz (w/DSC)
Audio Support: 7.1-ch PCM
Bandwidth: Up to 32.4 Gbps
While Realtek hasn’t listed this exact chip on its site yet, it seems to be an upgraded version of the RTD2173, a chip that already supports 4K60Hz, 4K120Hz with compression, and even 8K with Display Stream Compression (DSC). The takeaway here? The Switch 2 dock may actually be capable of much more than what the dev kits are currently showing.
Still, nothing is confirmed yet, and it’s always smart to treat this stuff with a bit of skepticism until Nintendo gives the official word.
dammit, I need to leave for an appointment after half an hour.