 welcome to the nintendo pride podcast episode twenty-five and i am the center of the dance your host joined as always by mister iraq more house gone and this week we have only three topics to talk about but they have multiple parts each topic and a lot of this is because there was a nintendo direct last week now we tend to be there very first ever nintendo prime reacts video you are not part of that i'm sorry but five jay gaming joined us and there was a lot of comments after the video that some people like us to add some more voices to the podcast not just us to all the time or us to all the time plus more people and that makes sense a lot of i think it's a few people for people five uh... and obviously we don't have enough in person friends that care enough about nintendo to have them here otherwise i would love to set them all up here only a big big in person pockets that we did it's all the informer back in the day when we were at uh... e three last year what i can tell you that i am in talks to the few people on trying to get at least a regular third voice or rotating third voice every week whether it's there and but that's fine to game in whether it's daniel which some of our people on youtube will know from some videos he's done or whether it's someone that you know i guess mason of delfino who we've had and past h mk has been on this podcast yet but uh... we have a month with some feelers out there because i get it sometimes you want to hear someone else's voice on this channel besides just be rambling nonstop all the time and eric on all right yeah all right uh... all right all right all right so anyways rose to hop right into it and the first time i talk about his arms and we're not going to talk about the nintendo direct stuff because as i've kind of covered all that in the reactions to it but we are going to also stuff that wasn't in the direct and part of this is the fact that there was an in-person event where media got to actually play the game for a significant amount of time though there's a bunch of footage of it out now on youtube and one media in particular that everyone always look forward to playing these games is digital foundry from euro gamer because digital foundry they do tech analysis so they aren't necessarily looking to review the game until you this is how good the game is rather they look at how good well it runs uh... that they do they can't pixels they can't frame rates that they look at draw distance they look at anti-aliasing shadow work and lighting and that they kind of break down all of that stuff so for people who care about you know kevin the ten most technically impressive game possible that's something that you go to digital foundry and trust their generally trust their opinion on uh... and they sat down with arms and got to record an hour and a half of direct feed footage so this is all based on the docked version not necessarily what's on handheld which again handle also hard to judge because there's no way to get a direct feed of handheld not even in ten though themselves as a record and really so it is what it is what we learned is some very interesting things for starters get into the really really really good stuff if you're gonna be playing arms by yourself in your house all the time or against people online by yourself generally if no analysis ever going to use split screen with you and it's always gonna be you on a single screen this game is gonna run at ten eighty p sixty fps or seven twenty p sixty fps handle that is awesome full ten full hd which is the max system can output sixty fps smooth sixty fps zero depths in their own affidavit there was even one frame drop anywhere or a half-frame for anything that is behind impressive and that's across all modes the exception to the sixty fps rule is if there is a four player split screen on a single system now there are modes in arms that support for players the two to two mode specifically so in that case the resolution not only gets cut to nine hundred p cuts the frame rates down to thirty fps and like in mario card a deluxe when you have the four players but screen one side of up like the left side of the updates one frame and then the right side updates a frame later and it's not really that noticeable but it is very noticeable that you are no longer running so basically what what's happening is the whole screens still refreshing at sixty fps but each individual players screen is only refreshing at thirty so i know that for for the non-type people that doesn't mean much for the essentially gameplay wise it's very noticeable since the rest of the time you play the game at sixty fps and dropping out of thirty in those instances and very hectic situations didn't feel that great they noted however again that's is just on a single system so if you're doing for player and you have two players on one switch two players on another switch not a problem everyone's running sixty fps now i did note the nine hundred p point anytime you're in split screen at all in arms it runs at nine hundred p and obviously as i said seven twenty p undocked because that's the max that can do so it's interesting that here's why this matters this is the first full triple a game made exclusively for nintendo switch hardware it's not a port breath of the wild was a port my credit deluxe was a port and as impressive as those games may be none of them have anything to do with what the max possible capabilities of the system are and arms might not even either it's really interesting that what they did in this i wish more developers would do this is they targeted they basically said look we're gonna try to keep this game is sixty fps all the time that we possibly can they couldn't pull it off in four player but they're like look we're going to keep it at sixty fps as much as we can so we're just gonna cut resolution and i think that's a smart move because we're talking about a fighting game precise button presses precise even you know in this game with the motion controls precise motions and flicks and and and you know even button presses involved in all that like there's a lot of precise move will moments where a frame drops that can mean the difference in your victory or defeat if it didn't drop for the other player yeah and it depends on what you were doing at the time so it's i love that they said look we're going sixty fps it's going to be sixty fps which can drop resolution and i almost wish in in four players with screen they would have dropped a seven twenty p but i think the reason that they said look we're gonna keep it at nine hundred is because it's four player sprit you gotta pixel density you don't want to like be like noticeably worse quality right great because you're talking about seven twenties please twelve and twenty p split across four things i know right i'm having a hard time talking so getting into in this bunch like are you impressed by this or is it just what you expected because this is the mario card eight deluxe team making this or mario card eight team sorry the locks was made by something all right okay yeah that is actually kind of impressive that they were able to get that much out of this game you know for being the first major title that is strictly a switch release so how do i want to put this it's impressive it is actually very impressive that they can have this be the way it is except for in like one certain circumstance yeah and there's breakable environments uh... they noted that there does seem to be some sort of a listing going on which for nintendo that's like a first nintendo does not use anti-aliasing like it means even mario card eight deluxe does not have it so if you look closely at the edges of the characters in the models and everything you can notice in juggies and this game you don't really notice in that much which means there's something some sort of pro post-processing going on and uh... that's just that's great like the lighting's great you know it the it's one of the you can kind of tell us the mario card eight team because it kind of feels like their style but it's so stylistic and how they approached it doesn't it's definitely not mario card so listening can lead to the next point because during the direct they announced three characters and all these new stuff i just want to know uh... there's ten i believe ten playable characters at work at the time label characters launch they're gonna release more post-release content stuff like what you know of course but i want to know eric i know that you are still on the fence with arms about getting it so it like you might get it someday uh... yeah but they want it it's not sure not sure just to depend on if i have the cash in the bank now there's like there's the money issue and also next weekend for this upcoming they're gonna have a global test fire where we can try or i'm sorry global test punch test fire is for all right right yeah so really so we'll get a chance to try it out next week nice so again will be able to see if it really is all it's cracked up to be at least from what they allow us to play now what i wanted to know though what is your favorite character design there because these designs are highly unique they are there to be honest i actually do really like them all wall but not right right no no that that's that's just one thing but i think i like a sports festival right exactly exactly um... i think i like master money the most was that just i don't know it's just the money money it's kind of awesome uh... he's big bulky you know and then it reminds me kind of a move of a move from the legends little bit okay okay so and i like playing a movie so uh... i know my sister i had to actually asked her shoulder the list of the characters yeah was a mechanic uh... yeah uh... she likes that because it looks like a yellow version of baymax from uh... big hero six yeah and she's the only one who so fun did they kind of give some backstory and arms during the direct and essentially it's we don't know what happened these people just woke up with it someday one day and had these are things really weird okay and she that one that your sister likes she is the only one that did not wake up and have anything funky going on she was actually that she built a robot okay to compete actually you know that actually makes sense because looking at her looking at everybody else they are actual human body where it looks like she's in a robot she's in a robot suit uh... so i'm gonna sound like a total seller on this one but it's only because i i can't believe the nintendo did it so i'm gonna say my favorite character it's a toss up i really like helix a lot really really really like helix some failed science experiment that is a green blob that just can bend and twist and do all these things okay yeah but he's probably gonna end up being my favorite at the end of the day yeah but i gotta go with twintella yeah and impressive there too one she's the only one who uses her hair instead of her arms like something funky happen to her hair uh... two she's apparently like super super famous but that's a comeback super famous and three she's thick she is thick and the thing is it i don't really care that she is but it's the fact that nintendo support a character in that is so obviously thick and it's not just that they put her in if you go back and you watch the direct in the footage they clearly show off her assets which nintendo does not typically do uh... like this is all bayonetta style uh... and it's probably part of her personality i'm assuming that she she's thick she knows that she's proud of it she's a famous singer something that's a little but who cares i just can't believe that i did it so i just for the pure decision of nintendo's the team in japan to be like what we're gonna put in uh... colored character that is thick and owns her sexiness it's kind of uh... they could i'm not like i know there's a lot of social justice warriors and feminists of the like all what we don't want women represented like do women exist in this way right exactly so uh... it's just what we don't want to see excited about it seem to be mails it's like well yeah i get it right but it's like but she's not like overly sexual actually just has a big but yeah she's proud of it or that will be instilled to us which rather see all the stick figures that are constantly all over gaming they complain about that all the time but then you actually get one that has semi decent human proportions and now you're gonna it's about what it's because they're focusing on her assets sexualizing her but you know it's i know anything is for two men so you're right automatically dismissed right is the way it is right it's just like the argument that uh... i've heard that some people of certain uh... races where they're like all your white so everything he says automatically dismissed and i'm just like that's racism yeah that's right there you're literally like you can't sit there be like i'm not a racist but because you're white you're right you like your opinion doesn't count right yeah that's not all that works good world people right exactly so like i'm happy that nintendo did this because it's showing nintendo doesn't have a lot of characters that are overly sexualized in the first place like they're one of the least companies for you to go after to be like well we're mad cause all your characters are not yeah so the fact that nintendo has one in this game like that is sweet like i'm just glad that nintendo is recognizing that people are diverse and we need to start including some of that diversity in our games uh... and that's why i'm really proud of that character again i think helix will probably be my favorite but we'll see what when the game comes out we'll get to actually helix is one of the characters we can play with during the okay then the test uh... we can't play with her so that kind of makes sense release kind of but we'll see uh... you cannot launch just not doing that well right right so that's just kind of my take on that show them on our next topic that i mean do you have anything else you want to say about arms you know i don't know if you saw the direct no i didn't i didn't watch the direct you can be more heads up on this so that i can actually pay more attention yeah there's that if you just visited nintendo prime dot net you would know i'm just saying you are a co-host on the nintendo prime podcast you can visit the site i'm out of here everyday everyday yeah i mean i know i don't know that's true that is true so don't blame me i'm a busy man yeah i know alright um... no i have nothing else to say forget