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Check that out in the description below So we're going to talk about doom I don't know if that's much of a surprise given that there was an embargo lifted today And there's a ton of doom footage out there running on nintendo switch and throughout this video We're going to have various clips from a whole bunch of different videos that I have seen myself I will have links to the full videos in the description below and I encourage you to go check out this full videos Because you're going to get hands-on impressions, which is something I cannot give you because I was not at this press event And you're going to get you know More detailed analysis. I have a video down there I'll link from digital foundry where they talk about their hands-on impressions and they also talk about The footage that we have gotten so far From the nintendo direct and then they also go into creating a computer That is essentially specced the exact same as a switch and running the game there And seeing what the results are and kind of cross comparing to their own experience with the game To give you a better feel since direct feed footage was not allowed to be recorded of this game It was only off screen off the the portable mode In most cases tabletop mode for switch. So yeah, that's just kind of the way they handled this press event There was no docked mode available and no docked footage allowed to be recorded. So Let's talk about this game and let's talk about it because there appears to be Uh, a lot of mixed feelings on it and it's really weird So if you guys remember way back in the day, this isn't even that long ago a month back I was heavily defending mba 2k 18 And the way that they decided to approach the game with visual fidelity and cutting the frame rates down to 30 And obviously, you'll know when mba 2k 18 came out I had some criticism of it and the frame rate was actually one of them Specifically because it's not very consistent and it turns out that there's actually frame rate issues on all versions of mba 2k 18 And it it might turn out that mba 2k 18 is actually one of the worst mba 2k games in quite a while In fact, it's so bad that there are some people that actually prefer mba live 18 for the first time in decade or so So it's very interesting seeing what's happening with that game. So it might just appear that that game In general has some issues now what we know about doom is very interesting So based on digital foundry and some other outlets out there did some analysis We know the game does not run at native 720p In handheld mode. In fact, it appears to be running on what what looks like a dynamic scaler So it might scale up to 720p at times and downscale down to you know, 540p or me or 500p You know, it'll kind of bounce around to try to maintain a stable 30 fps And I know that 30 fps is what is causing a lot of the controversy So is the fact that it's not a locked 720p in a portable mode Because the original doom ran at 60 fps And I know what you're saying. I said the same thing about mba 2k The difference is is that with mba 2k We didn't have any footage of the game, right? They pretty much kept the game under wraps until You know a day or two before release when they finally had press events Well, now we have footage of doom shortly, you know a week after it was announced essentially and Now only do we have footage we have actual impressions from people who played it people who have Experience playing doom, you know, some of the footage you'll see here You can clearly tell it's people who know what they're doing in doom And some of the footage are going to be clearly from people who have never played it So you're going to kind of get both perspectives watching all this footage in the video and Here's what we learned The game apparently looks fantastic They're like and this is in portable So it's going to look even better in docked mode, but it looks fantastic And the the frame rate is super smooth There are a couple frame drops and that happens in instances where you have five or more enemies on screen at once And it's not like it's so bad. It's unplayable. It's just like a very small Uh frame rate drop in portable mode and that frame rate drop might not even exist if you play this in docked mode at all In fact, you know, maybe the resolution is locked at 720p or 1080p when it's docked because the switch does run at higher clock speeds then we don't know because they weren't able to test that but There's been a lot of backlash. I was going through this thread on neogaf and on reddit and So many people are like lolol can't even run at 720p lol can't even run at 60 fps lololol And they're ignoring what everyone who went hands on with this game had to say about it so Here's the deal A lot of people that went hands on with this game weren't even sure if it was running at 30 fps They were actually kind of thinking it might be 60 at the time and you know why you know why they said that because Well, we all prefer 60 even if you say I don't care about 30 and 60. Trust me. You'd rather it's still be 60 than 30 Even if you think you don't care They couldn't tell because the gameplay was that smooth on mobile technology The gameplay was that smooth It it's insane that there were people that actually thought it was running at 60 at the event Because it is running at 30 people who finally reviewed their footage and did some frame counting It runs at 30 fps But people were were so confused while the play in it that it tells you how little The drop to 30 fps Matters in the form factor of the nintendo switch and i'm not going to sit here and say you're not you'll you are Terrible if you're going to chastise this game because you want 60 fps You want 60 fps Look, if you want triple a third party games at 60 fps, you probably are not playing them on switch I'm just being honest If you want triple a 60 fps games You probably might not even be playing them on playstation 4 and xbox You honestly should go buy a gaming pc and i'm not saying that as a pc master race thing or uh What was you you run off to that better system? I'm just being honest with you if you want triple a high fidelity games at 60 fps or higher That's what gaming pcs are for i have a gaming pc I play games at 60 fps or higher i play games at under 60 fps because i rather push the visual fidelity for certain titles Uh surprisingly world of warcraft is one of those titles that even on my gtx 1070 I push the ultra settings and just sacrifice down to 30 fps instead of running at the 100 plus fps I kind of i just dropped a couple settings even to drop resolution i'm running that at 4k so Yeah, it's You could do some crazy things with gaming pcs But this is a tablet using mobile technology running doom And running it so well that on that screen on that little portable screen people had a hard time telling It was even running at 30 fps in the first place during gameplay We need to listen more to the people that are going hands on with these games because It's one thing to think that the drop the 30 fps and the 720p thing is this is this you know huge deal But when the people went hands on with it like look it doesn't matter the game is running fantastic It looks amazing and it was so hard to tell it was running at 30 anyways That lets you know that it's really not that big of a deal in the form factor that this game has taken And we learned obviously through this process that the game is uh, this port was handled by panic button Who are being labeled as essentially switch port experts? Rocket leagues also being handled by them. I won't be surprised if they're also handling the port of wolf assigned to the new colossus Uh, they apparently are becoming quickly a go-to company for third party game ports on switch They obviously know what they're doing Because based on some of the footage obviously some of the footage will be grainy I mean we're looking at off-screen footage of a tiny screen being blown up on youtube Uh, it's obviously not gonna be that good bad lighting situations there. There's a lot of noise a lot of whatever It's it's a not the ideal recording situation even for off-screen footage But it's still one of those things where people have consistently come away from this saying it's impressive It's visually stunning it, you know the 30 fps drop you think would matter, but it really doesn't seem to matter uh, this is People on the outside looking in and i'm one of you i'm one of the people on the outside looking in Are are just so quick to find any Possible reason to tear down games on nintendo switch and there are some valid ones I brought a valid valid uh criticism of mba 2k 18 on switch There are valid reasons to attack certain games on nintendo switch, but this is not one of them Everyone knows that third party games coming to switch are not going to be as visually impressive as Uh resolution intensives, you know 900p 1080p whatever 4k on the 4k consoles And they're not necessarily going to have the same frame rates as the games on hardware that's significantly more powerful than switch I mean come on you're not going to take those experiences and make them the exact same on switch And I think the expectation for that is absolutely ridiculous What people have to realize is that when you bring Multi-platform triple day third party games to switch There are going to be sacrifices and the question is obviously if those sacrifices are worth it You know with mba 2k 18, I would have liked to see them maybe You know drop back on the visuals a little bit and give us a 60 fps or even if they're Even if they're going to stick with 30 at least give us a consistent 30 fps Especially in my career my career apparently has fps issues on all versions of the game While on switch it's even worse and it would have been nice for them to fix that now granted This is an issue across all games. So just dropping back to visuals probably went to fix it They almost had some massive coding issues and did not do a very good job quality checking because the initial You know first half hour of my career and mba 2k 18 works just fine But then once you get beyond that it starts really really Crapping the bed But whatever like that was just a personal preference of mine Uh with doom You have people who have lots of experience playing this at 60 fps playing it on pc Playing at max settings and they're all saying it's so great And i'm watching this footage for myself So i'm able to judge for myself if I think what they're saying Backs up now obviously i'm not getting as good of a viewpoint as they are It's going to look way better in person That's going to look in a compressed video online in a bad lighting situation blown up on youtube When it's such a tiny screen. I mean the video i'm staring at right now As i'm talking about this of doom Uh, literally the screen is blown up bigger than the screen is on my actual switch It's just not an ideal situation I'm able to look at this and able to be as I guess as objective as I possibly can and just say Dan this looks good It looks smooth. It looks really really good. Is it going to look as good as the other consoles? No, but the sacrifices they made I think are correct because doom is a game where yes I understand that 60 fps is a big deal and shooters. I'm not going to ever downplay 60 fps I want 60 fps and everything but doom is one of those games that it's one of those bloody guts and gore games where there is Some importance on the visual aspect of the blood guts and gore That's kind of what made this doom game in 2016 It was not the greatest shooter in the world But the blood guts the gore the the kind of thing that that really doom can get away with Needs some better visuals In my opinion to make the game what it is and it appears that the visuals on this are good They are on par if not a little better than low settings on pc They don't approach medium settings, but they're kind of the happy medium between low and medium There is some draw distance on it Which isn't even really a thing on the lows like the lowest pc settings You know the switch version actually looks better than the lowest possible pc settings So as I said, it's kind of an in between Low and medium it looks really really good. The frame rate is pretty dang consistent And again, this is undocked mode. This is in docked mode and again We don't know, you know does docked mode somehow get up to medium settings That would be crazy if that happened because certain that that's kind of what PlayStation 4 and Xbox one run at But it's just this idea that doom is this terrible port and it's a prime example of why people should not buy switches It's just baffling to me and I understand there's haters out there But even people who own switches i've seen you know getting upset about this and maybe it's because of mba 2k18 I think mba 2k18 might have tainted people's opinion of multi platform third party games on switch that run at 30 fps just because of How uh janky that that game actually runs and I still play mba 2k18 like I still really enjoy it But I think Because of how that game turned out people are worried and doom doesn't appear to be anything remotely close To what mba 2k18 is it looks like a smooth experience all the way through from what people have played There are people that have played hours of this game a couple plus hours Uh in the center world reports over the put up a half almost a half hour Worth the footage of the game because they weren't able to record the entire time of course and it's just It's awesome to me that this is coming to switch that we're also getting the new colossus and as As igm pointed out i'm going to have another video on this too and later You know how third parties are running out of excuses I think fans are running out of excuses to uh to criticize switch So now they just got to come up with excuses because doom. Yes lower resolution lower graphics lower frame rate That's to be expected any multi platform can come into switch Those are the three things that are going to happen. What matters is does it run at a consistent frame rate? Does the visuals have a consistency to them and is the game smooth? If all the answers if it checks all three of those boxes That's a worthwhile third party port to me and I feel like most people that are going to buy games on switch Are buying them with the understanding that no it's not the best looking version ever But they don't care because the convenience of taking it anywhere and using it at tv Is well worth it to you over having the better visuals and I feel like the better these third party games sell on switch Maybe the bigger Beating that these dev developers will take the look we don't need to invest 500 million dollars or whatever I know it's an exaggeration into a new triple a game that has the highest visual quality ever And then sacrifices and gameplay elements because People would rather have convenience, you know over the highest possible visuals in the world So that's just me just my take a little salty on this whole thing, but uh Yeah, I'd like to know what your guys just take on doom go watch that footage go get the impressions Uh, give me your own thoughts on what doom looks like on switch. I think it looks fantastic I think it is again, I said this before with me a 2k, but I'm gonna I definitely mean this with doom This is how third party ports should be happening on switch. This is fantastic I if this is how all multi-platform third party ports were in the future. I am okay with that Anyways, I'm defender of a chance from nintendo prime if you like this video You know what to do if you just like the video hit that dislike button subscribe for more and folks I will catch you in the next one