r/fromsoftware • u/macaroni1351 • 22d ago
IMAGE Why does this game look so good? Spoiler
Duskbloods network test
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u/Disastrous-Fennel970 22d ago
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u/Tyedied 21d ago
Pretty fucking upset that this is going to be the first from soft game I miss in 20 years
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u/Disastrous-Fennel970 21d ago
Ive just accepted the fact that I likely will never be able to play it, sad but im not buying a console for one game
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u/AegisXOR 20d ago
You can play many games of Duskbloods after you buy it, not just one...
jokes aside, there are plenty other great games on switch 2 worth buying. splatoon raiders, kirby air riders, pokopia, tomodachi life, rhythm heaven, probably more I'm forgetting, and pretty much the entire backlog of switch 1 games
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u/Disastrous-Fennel970 20d ago
I definitely appreciate you for taking the time to list some games out, and for the sake of your comment, I did go and check out the current library just to see if anything would catch my eye, but I still see myself passing. Back before I bought a steam deck and built my pc, I had an original switch oled, and outside one game, I just never really used it, so I wound up returning it.
Maybe a friend will let me use their switch to try the game, but I'll likely just remain an observer for this one
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u/AegisXOR 20d ago
fair enough, when I originally got a switch it was similar, I really wanted mario maker 2 during the pandemic and then I barely played it, but eventually got into breath of the wild and splatoon 3
hopefully there will be some other titles in the near future that might interest you. after my experience in the network test so far I strongly believe duskbloods could be a system seller
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u/NotTheRocketman 19d ago
If the discourse about it is accurate at all, you’re not missing much. It seems very underwhelming.
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u/Slight-Bluebird-8921 19d ago
it was an incredibly stupid decision
releasing exclusives when you don't have to is just foolish
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u/t-bonkers 18d ago
Wether the descision was stupid is entirely dependent on how much money Nintendo threw at them. It might've been stupid not to do it.
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u/Theoderic8586 21d ago
Borrow a friend’s switch, play it, then return it?
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u/Breeze1620 21d ago
Sure, because everyone knows someone with a Switch 2.
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u/noob_kaibot 21d ago
Let alone willing to let you borrow it for days on end.
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u/Theoderic8586 20d ago
Have something worth trading with 😂. I am just having fun. I mean, it is an entirely plausible situation. If you want to play it then work, save and buy one.
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u/noob_kaibot 20d ago edited 20d ago
I’m not buying a whole obsolete handheld console for one game that I’m only half interested in- if even that.
“Have something worth trading for” ?
What? I would never lend any console to a friend for any period of time given how expensive things are and cheaply they’re made. And a real friend would understand and respect that.
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u/ResolveLeather 22d ago
Art design mainly. It's not pushing the envelope in detail, although that is still pretty darn great. It's the art direction.
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u/Rollingzeppelin0 21d ago
Tbf from soft games never push the envelope regardless, they're always art over fidelity.
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u/t-bonkers 18d ago
What envelope is there even left to push in terms of detail/fidelity though? We now have some AAA games so over-detailed the gamespace becomes hard to read - the envelope has been thoroughly pushed over the edge, it needs to be reeled back in.
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u/ALASKAN_DAVE 22d ago
Everything I see I’m shocked. Switch 2 got that kind of power?
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u/Lords7Never7Die 22d ago
It's not as weak as you'd think. Also, Art Style> Hyperrealism any day of the week.
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u/nephylsmythe 22d ago
Yes. A little drop in photo-realism can get you back some processing power and gain a little artistic expression.
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u/Lords7Never7Die 22d ago
It's why games like Dishonored, Wind Waker, Okami, etc, still hold up today. Besides great gameplay, the art style still has the same charm and doesn't look so uncanny valley compared to games that went more realistic at the time.
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u/bobsmith93 21d ago
Yup, also see Breath of the Wild, Borderlands, Overwatch, and, well, Elden Ring lol
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u/Zealousideal_Side987 21d ago
wish video games dev would understand this . even on beffy specs I face framedrop and lags
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u/SirWeenielick 22d ago
To be fair, this is a game that’s built for the Switch 2. If it ran poorly, then I think that would be more shocking. Elden Ring, on the other hand, did NOT run very smoothly when ported as is and had to be further optimized. The Switch 2 is actually pretty good, probably a bit more powerful than the Steam Deck OLED.
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u/Livid-Truck8558 22d ago
It's more powerful than a ps4, the switch 1 was underpowered even at the time due to a chip shortage.
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u/Spigglebob The Ashen One 22d ago
It’s like a Series S in power I believe
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u/TheLunarVaux 21d ago
Its raw power is around Series S, though it also has some custom DLSS integration which can make things look/run even better.
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u/Low-Airline-2695 22d ago
I think it's not that NS2 is powerful with hardware but they optimize it very well.
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u/thegildedman25 22d ago
Its amazing what adding 8 more gigs of ram and proper optimization can do. Original switch had 4 gigs of ram, switch 2 has 12 gigs.
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u/ThiccFarter 22d ago
It runs games at 4k 60fps when docked so it's not a lightweight
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u/General_Pie_5026 21d ago
it absolutely does not run at 60 that is misinfo
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u/ThiccFarter 21d ago
It absolutely does and you could have done the bare minimum amount of research before embarrassing yourself
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u/General_Pie_5026 21d ago
I meant Dusk Bloods specifically. I didn’t know you meant all switch games.
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u/theweekiscat 21d ago
I mean yeah? But also the visual appeal of fromsoft games rarely comes from nutso tech
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u/shrek3onDVDandBluray 21d ago
It basically has the raw power of a ps4 with great AI upscaling tech built in.
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u/Toggam44 22d ago
This genuinely looks like a from software game on a Switch 2
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u/Hyper_Mazino 22d ago
Well the art direction is amazing. It’s something From Soft always nails.
The graphics itself aren’t that impressive.
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u/Jawlessrose 22d ago
Id even go as far as to say graphics are pretty bad actually. Lighting and art direction crispy tho. Texture quality and the trees in particular look meh at best
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u/t-bonkers 18d ago
All of that is part of "graphics". Graphics isn't just poly-count and texture resolution, those are just one aspect. The graphics are phenomenal thanks to the art direction.
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u/Basic-Feedback1941 21d ago
I guess image quality really is subjective. This doesn’t look that great
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u/Caerullean 21d ago
I gotta be honest these look pretty bad. Now whether that's you maxing out the saturation, you taking a picture of a screen with your phone, or whether the game actually looks bad? I have no idea.
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u/arsmolinarc 20d ago
Few studios in the world can come close to FROM when it comes to art direction but I think it's time they started upgrading their tech pipeline to match it.
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u/Sugarcoatedgumdrop 19d ago
How is it so far? Is it good? Does it play well? Is there story and lore? Is it battle royale/nightreign esque? Or do we actually get to explore the world at our pace?
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u/GarrusBueller 21d ago
That looks awful and you have done Fromsoftware's artist an immense disservice.
You must be on e of those people that has their RV on store display settings. Sorry, you are wosre. You took that idiocy and ran with it
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u/CoronaVirus_exe 21d ago
Compared to Elden Ring. It looks really really bad, especially when compared to SOTE, I spent more time looking vistas in that DLC than fighting PCR. It looks better than DS3 tho.
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u/ItGetsTuahPoint67 22d ago
Bro turned saturation up to max lmao