Its okay Ircha, don't force yourself. I had the same feeling with Persona. I never got hooked. Too much reading for me. Doesn't mean if a game is well-accepted, you'll automatically like it.
I love your dedication to this channel. Years of uploading and never once has it seemed like you've gotten tired of it, Never stop. We may be a small fanbase compared to others but i think i can say we are the most loyal. GAME ON, GIRL!!!!
Honestly as soon as you get all your party members in Dragon Quest 11 everything just gets better, the stories from town to town, the character development, the combat, everything just gets better if you stick with it!
I know right this game hit me hard in the feels, I cried so much like a baby and my husband who already beat the game first and accompanyingme while I play mine has to console me after the event nearly the end with Serena & Veronica I never cry on game as I know it’s just a game, but dragon quest story felt so real for me and this game is my 1st Dragon Quest game, now I wish they remake all the older dragon quest or make new one as this game became my No.1 game I love on this era
how far into it? I just don't care about the main character or the early companion that breaks you out of prison. I really only liked the childhood friend ...then she gets left behind in the first town :(
Oblivion was a game I was excited to get at launch, but struggled to get into. Restarted the game 3 times between launch and 2011, and quit after a couple of hours each time. Finally on the 4th restart in 2012 I got a little further in, got obsessed with the game, and became one of my absolute favorite games, glad I never gave up completely. I love Oblivion!
I just found your channel and have been binging your reviews all week! Now I have a list of games you recommended that I want to get. Thanks for your great reviews and personality - a new subscriber ☺️
Me too! If you have similar gaming tastes as Ircha, I think you can trust her reviews. I’m like 90% the same as her. I picked up Elder Scrolls Skyrim for the first time three days ago and haven’t been able to play anything else since. It’s just as awesome as she says it is.
I remember working as a cook at a seafood restaurant back in 2003 to 2005 and we all played video games mostly ps2 games and when someone finished a game we would bring it to work on display for fellow workers to borrow. Good ol days.😢
My current obsession is Hades and Genshin Impact. It doesn't run that great on my phone but I saw your video about it and had to try. Did not regret it.
Mmm I seriously underestimated Fire Emblem. Fire Emblem Echoes was my first and oh boy, the characters, the voices, the story, the tactics, the music. Addicted to the series.
When I started playing DQ XI, I quit after about 15 hours. I wasn't into combat, and I usually like turn based JRPGs. Few months passed, I finished FF VII Remake which has more action like combat and loved it, but at the end it started to tire me. When I finished it, I felt need for a more relaxing JRPG experience, especially in combat. So i started playing Dragon Quest XI for the second time, from the beginning. And it clicked! At start it is pretty basic but story is actually really good and so are the characters. In the later part of the game, game is really sad. Also, the lore is actually incredibly deep. I finished the game in about 90 hours. And then I saw there is more main story after the ending and game credits. So there is a "true ending". And the whole part after Act 2 is soooo good. 40 more hours, I got 130 hours in Dragon Quest XI and it became my JRPG of the generation. (Beside Final Fantasy XIV Online). Played it on PS4 Pro. Switch version visually is unfortunately a big visual downgrade, no matter the QOL stuff.
You don't need Nintendo to transfer your island. it's actually very easy to do it yourself. simply login on your cousins switch with your account. backup the island with Tom nook. then on your new switch startup the game and hold select before the game logo shows and it'll walk you through the island recovery. that's all you need to do. hope it helps.
Just subscribed to you after viewing your Dragons Dogma video.. It was such a solid review and you made me laugh so hard a couple times! (the title music) lol I downloaded it through the eshop sale and I'm so excited to start playing! 😄
For a game I've been struggling to get into: I've only started gaming at all recently, so when the Mario 3D All Stars came out, I was really excited to try out these games that everyone said were amazing. Don't get me wrong, they're good - but they're also REALLY tailor made for the original platforms - especially Galaxy! I LOVE the actual planets/worlds/whatever, but all the annoying stuff between each one with moving about the stars, or the 'special' levels with motion controls: it's really annoying, because I have so much fun, but in about five minute doses and then it's back to grinding through the boring stuff to reach the next world. I'll definitely finish it at some point, but I'm not binge-playing like I do with games that I really get into.
I never even heard of Oblivion as i was in a travel, partying, study - games break at the time so im definitely going to buy it right now thank you :) Also I duno if this is helpful at all but i got my animal crossing transfered to my switch lite i was actually shocked i thought they would refuse. I just emailed them said my switch won't connect to wifi anymore and the next day they emailed back and it was done. Now it wasn't all true but it is true that it wouldn't recieve wifi unless the signal is very strong so never works from my bedroom but it's not fair that they are refusing such a simple service to people so whatever
Can't believe you can't get into Dragon Quest XI. Best game on the Switch imo. I played it mostly handheld and the graphics are amazing. It looks just like a PS4 game and not blurry at all so idk what going on with your game. I took hundreds of screenshots because it looks so amazing. I guess it's just not for you because if you don't get sucked in from the beginning you're not going to like it. I love that when you think the game is over it's just getting started and then when you beat the game you find out there's even more to do lol it's the game that keeps on giving. Also it has the awesome 2d mode.
I know right this game hit me hard in the feels, I cried so much like a baby and my husband who already beat the game first and accompanyingme while I play mine has to console me after the event nearly the end with Serena & Veronica I never cry on game as I know it’s just a game, but dragon quest story felt so real for me and this game is my 1st Dragon Quest game, now I wish they remake all the older dragon quest or make new one as this game became my No.1 game I love on this era
There were so many games that I started and never bothered to finish. I would love to see Oblivion and Morrowind ported to Switch! Those two I'd definitely finish LOL
I know right this game hit me hard in the feels, I cried so much like a baby and my husband who already beat the game first and accompanyingme while I play mine has to console me after the event nearly the end with Serena & Veronica I never cry on game as I know it’s just a game, but dragon quest story felt so real for me and this game is my 1st Dragon Quest game, now I wish they remake all the older dragon quest or make new one as this game became my No.1 game I love on this era
Dragon Quest XI gets really fun later in the game, especially with the time travelling and experiencing the changes in the world, and doing part of the story all over again. :D -- My favorite "menu based" JRPG (w/o hub world) is perhaps Fairy Fencer F (and its sequel), it's really fun to play, with a turn-based battle system. But the best turn-based battle JRPG by far to me is Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel I (didn't like II as much, and don't know if I'll play III). -- And I'd like to thank you on behalf of my brother and myself for your Animal Crossing videos. We recently started playing it, and can't stop ever since! :D (My brother already spent over 400 hours in the game and he has created a beautiful island -- but he's retired, and has more time than I do! :D -- myself, I play it almost daily for a bit but I already have the museum and the good versions of Nook's shop, administration building and marketplace. ;) )
You CAN use the transfer service for AC, Nintendo is just stupid about it, but it’s super simple. If you can get a hold of the old switch one more time, have both switches ready. Log in on the old, update animal crossing to the newest save, enable backup, then exit. Keep your wifi on for a few minutes after, and then reopen the app to confirm your island has been backed up(when you start the game back up on the old switch on the bottom left you should see a date of the last backup file). Then log in on the new switch(assuming you hopefully don’t have a new island on it now, if you do, I think you will have to delete it first), and as soon as you see the black screen with the nintendo logo press the minus button! That should force the restore screen popups, it should tell you that there is a backup save file available. It might give you a warning(I forgot exactly what it says something as in the restore can’t be “reversed” if it overrides current data), but just click through and you will have your island back. Nintendo is trash for hiding all of these instructions from us. I had restored mine the day that it came out. I noticed the day after I did the process, the instructions I used from the website were actually changed so that if you didn’t answer “yes” to the switch being stolen OR damaged/repaired it would deny you access to the info. So just incase, my instructions were a bit confusing you can always go to the website(just remember to press yes to the conditions, it won’t record your response it’s just a drop down menu lol): en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/49983/~/how-to-back-up-and-restore-island-save-data-%28animal-crossing%3A-new-horizons%29#DT:t1-q1a2_t1-q1a2-q2a1
I recommend you get deeper in the story of Dragon Quest XI to get into it. Its an amazing game and you'll see why as you get further, also try DQ III on the Switch eShop and DQ V and VIII to get you into the series as those 4 are the best ones.
About the blurryness on the Switch, yes, that does happen so much on third party port games. But I wonder why they don't fix that, take Witcher 3 for instance, it had a lot of it. But the devs updated it and allowed us to remove the AntiAliasing and thus the blurry. More companies should do that. The coming Monster Hunter Arise is a perfect example of crisp clear graphics, a game intended for the Switch.
I know you didn't ask for a detailed explanation, but I'm still going to try to explain why companies generally don't do this. The reason they don't is generally because blurry is the best they can do without spending ridiculous amounts of time and money optimizing the game for the switch. It's just a vastly inferior piece of hardware. When you port games, you typically don't want to rewrite the entire code from scratch (again, because of the cost and time it would take). It's easier to use a program to translate it from one programming language to another, then fix it up enough to be presentable. On PS4 and X-box there is usually enough leeway for it to run decently. On Switch they have to decide if they want performance or graphics and make compromises accordingly. PC is a mixed bag because there is a huge amount of variation in hardware as opposed to a console, though the benefit is typically massive processing power. As for anti-aliasing itself, you are basically rendering the entire set of visuals twice and merging the two sets of images in real-time. Higher AA means more images, thus 4x AA means four images so you get less of a chance that things are choppy. As you can imagine, this is a very graphically intensive process that was not reasonably possible back in the day. You also need to overlay these images properly, or else they will look weird. Typically you use AA to fix blockiness and pixelation. Good AA will still leave reasonably sharp images, but poor quality will leave blurriness. So in your example (Witcher 3), I don't know the details, but I can venture a guess that they either realized the game was good enough without AA or they discovered a way to improve performance to get it to acceptable levels using the power that would normally be reserved for AA, or...they just plain optimized it. Regardless, It's a tradeoff that works well when properly implemented and not so well when you are just trying to get the rest of your code to work. That is why games designed or redesigned specifically for the Switch (or any other platform) tend to do better than games that were ported. It makes sense from a business perspective as well because if you are porting a game, how many users only utilize that specific platform? If the number isn't high, the chances are that they may have played your game before and most people will not repurchase a game on another platform unless it is a masterpiece. So you don't want to spend a fortune making it perfect when an 80% solution is a fraction of the cost, even if you lose some buyers - so long as you can get it decent enough for the majority of your target audience (or at least enough people to make it profitable).
@@Kaidkb I personally wouldn't say vastly inferior. Just inferior. I mean the Switch maybe behind Xbox one, PS4 and PC but it is still more powerful than the PS3 for example. But your right in everything else. 👍
@@Jin_Jon Yes but vastly suggests that its several generations behind of the other 2 and they are 10 times more powerful, which they aren't. Vastly inferior is like comparing the Nes to the Wii. 😉
I've recently been getting into yakuza 0 and I must say it's really good, I also tried pikmin 3 for the switch my first time experiencing that series, it was fun, I also picked up the wonderful 101, the first ever platinum self published game, can't wait to try that , pure platinum baby!
For DQ11, what helped get me invested was I watched the Dragon Quest movie "Your Story" on Netflix. It reminded me of playing the original DQ games and Final Fantasy games and Chrono Trigger and getting lost in their worlds. DQ11 does have a slow start but it gets good.
I know right this game hit me hard in the feels, I cried so much like a baby and my husband who already beat the game first and accompanyingme while I play mine has to console me after the event nearly the end with Serena & Veronica I never cry on game as I know it’s just a game, but dragon quest story felt so real for me and this game is my 1st Dragon Quest game, now I wish they remake all the older dragon quest or make new one as this game became my No.1 game I love on this era
Dragon quest 11 on switch I loved. I think it the most beautiful game I have played. I loved the way this looked so much. And I didn’t have a hard time getting into it so I don’t know how to advise you. I was hating the idea of leaving it when I got towards the end. I have a total of 270 hours in this game.
It kills me a little inside when I see someone grab their switch screen and leave fingerprints 😥 Highly recommend playing Nexomon Extinction especially if you are a pokemon fan.
DQ11 picks up as you progress through the story, but it tends to feel like an anime that's trying to get itself stretched out to a couple if seasons. There's lots of twists and turns and changes of pacing. But it does have its good moments
GTA series, Fallout series. Oblivion for me too. Lord of the rings online. Two Worlds 1 and 2. Maybe I will give Oblivion another try when my series X is in the house, because it´s already technically improved on my Xbox One X, but will be for sure much more fluid, and maybe because of auto HDR looking much better on the series X. But you should give Dragon Quest XI definately another try, it looks and plays incredible also on the switch. I am not completing so many games, but DQXI was one of them. And in handheld mode it looks quite fine. On TV, you should play the PS4 version.
DQ11 strikes me as a more niche game than people claim it is, and I was nervous buying it, since I was never a classic rpg fan. I think it's OK, and I play it here and there, but I can imagine people just not liking it because it's too simple compared to other modern JRPGs.
The thing with DQ11 is that it is a good RPG, but just not outstanding in any way. I'm about halfway through the game and I enjoy the gameplay and the graphics, but I find the story and most of the charcters a bit dull tbh. Since I don't have much time for gaming now, I have to be picky with what games I want to invest time in and I'm not sure if I will ever return to DQ11...
I was seriously in the exact same boat with Dragon Quest 11. I was in the exact same spot as you and wanted to quit. I watched Tim Rogers play it for a bit and then pushed through. The game gets exponentially better and I ended up loving it! Take a break if you need to but push through and you may love it!!
Dragonquest XI is absolutely a slow burn but worthwhile investment. I'd say the first 15 hours are just a lot of build up and you're still discovering new playable characters. The combat real picks up once you get all the characters and are able to try different strategies. The story also gets way more interesting. I struggled to get into it too in the beginning but once I hit that 15 to 20 hour mark I was hooked.
I just bought Dragon Quest XI and it is in my backlog. Normally you and I have similar tastes, but I am hoping I like it. I have been wanting another JRPG. I also bought Skyrim at the same time for the Switch. I am trying to branch out to new genres. Animal Crossing keeps diverting me.
Ircha!!! I would so like to be a part of your discord!! But... I want to recommend to you the Fable series on Xbox or PC. Start with the first installment! I really think you would love it!!! Keep up the awesome videos! 😎🤘🎮
For me its pokemon sword/shield, its good but i feel scammed becuase you cant catch all pokemon in it and to get my favorite alakazam you have to buy the expansion.
Fun fact: recore is probably the only sucessful product by Comcept (Mighty No. 9) before they were acquired by Level-5 to not go bankrupt (And we still have no news on Red Ash)
hmm, tough one on Dragon Quest 11... To me that game is one of the best RPGs released this gen. I am an old school RPG fan however so this game is straight up my alley. If you don't like it though that is just that, no need to force yourself into it. Dragon Quest is very traditional and if that's just not your cup of tea then that's that. On the graphics though... well on that one I can't do anything but tell you that if blurry graphics bother you on a game that's available on PS4/Xbox/PC as well, you're always gonna be better off on those (sans the portable aspect of it). The switch is portable sure, but you are always gonna have a tradeoff in the graphics department compared to other consoles and PC. No way around that I fear.
I can't wait to get a PC or even a PS4 so I can play Elder Scrolls. My favorite series by far. Being disabled/low income and a gamer is torture lol. Uncharted is another series I would love to play again. Oblivion was my first introduction to the Elder Scrolls and then Morrowind. When I played Skyrim I was blown away. Loved how beautiful the world is. It's a great escape from reality.
If you like Action RPGs, I would try Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines on the PC. It's a classic, if buggy, gem where you can play a vampire in a dark and gothic Los Angeles. You get so many styles of play to choose from due to the different Vampire clans and their unique powers. The story and characters are just fantastic. Just be sure to get the Unofficial Patch first.
Don't worry I'm in the same boat! I can't get into dragon quest 11 to save my life and I want to like the game so bad ughhhh and yes I know this is an older video :) love your videos keep it up
The last turn-based JRPG game I played was FFIX when I was a kid. Then DQ11 came out and I gave it a chance. Played the demo on the Switch, but it didn't hook me. Then I played the game on my PC and I have been addicted to this genre. I think the smooth 60 fps, sharp graphic, and the 'cute green grass' looking (as you always said) on PC made a difference for me. Still I haven't finished the game since the announcement of Xbox released later this December. I am excited to try to play the game again on Xbox game pass! Anyway, another great video. I am a fan.
Ircha, stick with DQ11. Further in the game you will get a chance to play as each character independently and learn more about them. I found those segments really great and then the lead up towards the end of the game was fantastic.
I wish I could have gotten into Oblivion and Skyrim. I just can't stand them! They are so boring to me. But I totally get what people like in it. But to me it feels cold.
I have been playing Oblivion again lately and still love it after 14 years since first played it. Game I just can't get into is Outer Worlds keep trying but then keep restarting for some reason.
Oblivion is one game I come back to over and over to try and get into. It’s great, I know it’s great and I can have moments of fun with it, but it’s also a deep, deep dive compared to the fun little puddle that was Skyrim. Eventually the depth of it just pushes me out and I go find something a little more mindless
As I talked about in my review of Fairy Tail over on SwitchWatch it really IS a huge disservice/disadvantage to newcomers that the FIRST Fairy Tail game we get in the west starts in the middle of the story and hardly explains anything up to that point, because I, like yourself, knew nothing of the characters or events that lead up to this point. That said I had my brother beside me for a bulk of the 50 hour journey who explained everything to me as it happened, and so, when I was caught up, it made it easier for me to connect with the story and the characters. Personally, all things considered, I really liked the game, wouldn't have pumped 70 hours into it completing EVERYTHING if I didn't. I did also, if you look through the comment section, get a lot of flag for not mentioning how "horrible" the framerate was, but apart from a few places I honest to god didn't notice, because I am blessed with the ability to NOT notice framerates unless they dip to single digits.
@@turanx0 Everyone does. Everyone but me that is, cuz I don’t give a damn. Whenever news outlets bring up the framerate or complain that it isn’t 60, I sit there thinking that doesn’t make it unplayable ya twat.
Old school JRPG maybe cause a strange sensation of slowly pace and boring. But give it a chance! One more time, Ircha! DQ11 game has a great storytelling.
I think dqxi much like other DQ games have this feeling of being a collection of small stories while you play. It's more about the journey than the destination. That being said it does raise the stakes further in, but if you don't enjoy the formula, it can be tough to get into. So I guess my advice is to play in smaller sessions. Don't try to marathon it.
There's games i want, but simply can't justify the price tag. Physical i mean. Such as River City Girls, Ys VIII collectors edition... i MIGHT cave and cough up 80-100 for Stranger Things 3 The Game collectors edition because frankly the cover art, the clamshell, the soundtrack and that game are all BOSS. A game i tried to like, really, realllllly hard. Final Fantasy VII Remake... i mean you don't even grind, you just move forward the entire time, it's so divorced from its source material i can't even... That one was pretty crushing to me, since FFVII is one of my favorite games growing up. It was the perfect mix of discovering JRPG's just as i was hitting high school. Perfect mix of nostalgia and awesome. Played the remake i waited oh idk... 15 years for? Didn't even finish it yet lol. I fired it up a few times, spun the camera and turned it right back off "maybe later" 😒
I really appreciate your thoughts. I have always wanted to get into Final Fantasy games. I always figure I am missing something. Dragon Quest Heroes was more fun for me than the jrpgs. I have a feeling that it might be because I'm missing something as well.
Motion blur is one of the main reasons I can't get into console games as much as I want to because I am so sensitive to it. My eyes got so tired after less than an hour with the Ratchet and Clank remake. It's really a shame.
Took me until eric being in my team or the girl. And finding some puff puff girls that made me laugh. I didn't like finding out the end isn't the full end
I agree with you on dragon quest 11. I was hooked on dragon quest 8 back on the ps2 from beginning to end and played it three times to completion, but I just can't get into dragon quest 11. I agree there just isn't anything to hook you in the first 20 plus hours of play.
Since you have gamepass, check out wasteland 3 on pc (wait for the patch next week that reduces load times). Its a phenomenal RPG. It may be intimidating at first since you get to build your characters however you like. But the key is to make each party member specialize so that the entire party has most of everything covered in terms of skills. If you get into this game, you'll be thinking about it when you are not playing it!
I don't know if you heard about it but Nintendo released the "Animal Crossing New Horizons Island Transfer Software" back in November last year. So probably right after you released this video. 😉 It's available free of charge from the eshop.
I got the platinum trophy for Dragon Quest 11 and put in around 140 hrs. I was sad to be done with the game and still think to myself when completing some other single player games, man I could go for a Dragon Quest 11 (experience) again. Unfortunately the game slowly ramps up and where you are is still before it got really compelling for me, both in terms of gameplay and story. As long as you don't dislike the game, I'd say its fair to slowly chip away. I was motivated in the early game to see the new locations and cute monster designs, but didn't really get invested until a couple areas after where you are.
That’s crazy cause I got my island transferred over a few days ago. I didn’t have to lie and say I lost or broke the old switch. I did it through the Nintendo chat online
Its okay Ircha, don't force yourself. I had the same feeling with Persona. I never got hooked. Too much reading for me. Doesn't mean if a game is well-accepted, you'll automatically like it.
Same.
I love your dedication to this channel. Years of uploading and never once has it seemed like you've gotten tired of it, Never stop. We may be a small fanbase compared to others but i think i can say we are the most loyal. GAME ON, GIRL!!!!
Aw thaaaank you so much !!
Honestly as soon as you get all your party members in Dragon Quest 11 everything just gets better, the stories from town to town, the character development, the combat, everything just gets better if you stick with it!
I know right this game hit me hard in the feels, I cried so much like a baby and my husband who already beat the game first and accompanyingme while I play mine has to console me after the event nearly the end with Serena & Veronica I never cry on game as I know it’s just a game, but dragon quest story felt so real for me and this game is my 1st Dragon Quest game, now I wish they remake all the older dragon quest or make new one as this game became my No.1 game I love on this era
how far into it? I just don't care about the main character or the early companion that breaks you out of prison. I really only liked the childhood friend ...then she gets left behind in the first town :(
Oblivion was a game I was excited to get at launch, but struggled to get into. Restarted the game 3 times between launch and 2011, and quit after a couple of hours each time. Finally on the 4th restart in 2012 I got a little further in, got obsessed with the game, and became one of my absolute favorite games, glad I never gave up completely. I love Oblivion!
Eventually in Oblivion you can jump so high right over the city walls. Lmao
I just found your channel and have been binging your reviews all week! Now I have a list of games you recommended that I want to get. Thanks for your great reviews and personality - a new subscriber ☺️
Me too! If you have similar gaming tastes as Ircha, I think you can trust her reviews. I’m like 90% the same as her. I picked up Elder Scrolls Skyrim for the first time three days ago and haven’t been able to play anything else since. It’s just as awesome as she says it is.
Same here! Just discovered the channel and now I'm hooked 😎
Omg thank you so much!!!
@@ViolinChick5 Thank you so much! Hope you enjoy Skyrim
@@MegaMillionsMike Thank you
I remember working as a cook at a seafood restaurant back in 2003 to 2005 and we all played video games mostly ps2 games and when someone finished a game we would bring it to work on display for fellow workers to borrow. Good ol days.😢
I'm going to start Oblivion in the next couple of weeks myself, can't wait!
How you liking it? That's my favorite game of all time
My current obsession is Hades and Genshin Impact. It doesn't run that great on my phone but I saw your video about it and had to try. Did not regret it.
Honestly, i can't get into many games that aren't rpgs.
Same man! I just got baulders gate 3 and its hard to get back into my dragon quest games and my dungeon crawlers.
I hate rpgs
Me too. RPGs are where it's at
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Classic Tomb Raider.
Mmm I seriously underestimated Fire Emblem. Fire Emblem Echoes was my first and oh boy, the characters, the voices, the story, the tactics, the music. Addicted to the series.
Three Houses is super good too
Just started playing 3 houses, always been a big fan of fire emblem.
can relate to this. i have hundreds of hours in three houses alone
When I started playing DQ XI, I quit after about 15 hours. I wasn't into combat, and I usually like turn based JRPGs.
Few months passed, I finished FF VII Remake which has more action like combat and loved it, but at the end it started to tire me. When I finished it, I felt need for a more relaxing JRPG experience, especially in combat. So i started playing Dragon Quest XI for the second time, from the beginning. And it clicked! At start it is pretty basic but story is actually really good and so are the characters. In the later part of the game, game is really sad. Also, the lore is actually incredibly deep.
I finished the game in about 90 hours. And then I saw there is more main story after the ending and game credits. So there is a "true ending". And the whole part after Act 2 is soooo good. 40 more hours, I got 130 hours in Dragon Quest XI and it became my JRPG of the generation. (Beside Final Fantasy XIV Online). Played it on PS4 Pro. Switch version visually is unfortunately a big visual downgrade, no matter the QOL stuff.
The guilds in Oblivion are so much more fleshed out than Skyrim.
100% facts
Yeah a lot of Oblivion is a lot more fleshed out than Skyrim
I recommend playing, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of gold steel, jrpg from falcom, forth installment is coming now at October
You don't need Nintendo to transfer your island. it's actually very easy to do it yourself. simply login on your cousins switch with your account. backup the island with Tom nook. then on your new switch startup the game and hold select before the game logo shows and it'll walk you through the island recovery. that's all you need to do. hope it helps.
Too bad this comment is buried way down in all the other comments. She may never realize a solution is right here lol.
Just subscribed to you after viewing your Dragons Dogma video.. It was such a solid review and you made me laugh so hard a couple times! (the title music) lol I downloaded it through the eshop sale and I'm so excited to start playing! 😄
Haha 😂 👍 and thank you! I hope you enjoy it a bunch 😁👍
For a game I've been struggling to get into: I've only started gaming at all recently, so when the Mario 3D All Stars came out, I was really excited to try out these games that everyone said were amazing. Don't get me wrong, they're good - but they're also REALLY tailor made for the original platforms - especially Galaxy! I LOVE the actual planets/worlds/whatever, but all the annoying stuff between each one with moving about the stars, or the 'special' levels with motion controls: it's really annoying, because I have so much fun, but in about five minute doses and then it's back to grinding through the boring stuff to reach the next world. I'll definitely finish it at some point, but I'm not binge-playing like I do with games that I really get into.
The sound track in Oblivion is so good 😊😊😊
"Only fans... *smiles*... just kidding.."
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After all these years, Classic Tomb Raider 2 is still my most favorite game that I replay. Good feels.
Dragon Quest 11 is one of the best RPGs I’ve played. I just loved it so much 👌🏻
I never even heard of Oblivion as i was in a travel, partying, study - games break at the time so im definitely going to buy it right now thank you :)
Also I duno if this is helpful at all but i got my animal crossing transfered to my switch lite i was actually shocked i thought they would refuse. I just emailed them said my switch won't connect to wifi anymore and the next day they emailed back and it was done. Now it wasn't all true but it is true that it wouldn't recieve wifi unless the signal is very strong so never works from my bedroom but it's not fair that they are refusing such a simple service to people so whatever
Glad to see someone talking about Recore. I loved that game. Very underrated.
Can't believe you can't get into Dragon Quest XI. Best game on the Switch imo. I played it mostly handheld and the graphics are amazing. It looks just like a PS4 game and not blurry at all so idk what going on with your game. I took hundreds of screenshots because it looks so amazing. I guess it's just not for you because if you don't get sucked in from the beginning you're not going to like it. I love that when you think the game is over it's just getting started and then when you beat the game you find out there's even more to do lol it's the game that keeps on giving. Also it has the awesome 2d mode.
Love DQ11. Id say to just focus on the story because thats where it gets exciting :)
I know right this game hit me hard in the feels, I cried so much like a baby and my husband who already beat the game first and accompanyingme while I play mine has to console me after the event nearly the end with Serena & Veronica I never cry on game as I know it’s just a game, but dragon quest story felt so real for me and this game is my 1st Dragon Quest game, now I wish they remake all the older dragon quest or make new one as this game became my No.1 game I love on this era
You look really good in blue, it suits you, and Oblivion was the game that brought me into the world of Elder Scrolls, love it!
There were so many games that I started and never bothered to finish. I would love to see Oblivion and Morrowind ported to Switch! Those two I'd definitely finish LOL
Breath of the Wild for me. I just can't do it.
Same here I’m really bad at solving puzzles.
I still have yet to play BOTW. Ocarina is a classic, but for me Twilight Princess was the best Zelda game.
Same, i love the game so much but i’m soooo bad at it so i gave up😭😭
The dungeons were terrible in BOTW and the lack of rousing MUSIC ? Wtf ? What a wasted opportunity ?!
Me too
you deserve more subs! love your content
Thank you 💕
Dragon quest 11 is amazing, the game has one of the best endgame ever
I know right this game hit me hard in the feels, I cried so much like a baby and my husband who already beat the game first and accompanyingme while I play mine has to console me after the event nearly the end with Serena & Veronica I never cry on game as I know it’s just a game, but dragon quest story felt so real for me and this game is my 1st Dragon Quest game, now I wish they remake all the older dragon quest or make new one as this game became my No.1 game I love on this era
Dragon Quest XI gets really fun later in the game, especially with the time travelling and experiencing the changes in the world, and doing part of the story all over again. :D -- My favorite "menu based" JRPG (w/o hub world) is perhaps Fairy Fencer F (and its sequel), it's really fun to play, with a turn-based battle system. But the best turn-based battle JRPG by far to me is Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel I (didn't like II as much, and don't know if I'll play III). -- And I'd like to thank you on behalf of my brother and myself for your Animal Crossing videos. We recently started playing it, and can't stop ever since! :D (My brother already spent over 400 hours in the game and he has created a beautiful island -- but he's retired, and has more time than I do! :D -- myself, I play it almost daily for a bit but I already have the museum and the good versions of Nook's shop, administration building and marketplace. ;) )
You CAN use the transfer service for AC, Nintendo is just stupid about it, but it’s super simple. If you can get a hold of the old switch one more time, have both switches ready. Log in on the old, update animal crossing to the newest save, enable backup, then exit. Keep your wifi on for a few minutes after, and then reopen the app to confirm your island has been backed up(when you start the game back up on the old switch on the bottom left you should see a date of the last backup file). Then log in on the new switch(assuming you hopefully don’t have a new island on it now, if you do, I think you will have to delete it first), and as soon as you see the black screen with the nintendo logo press the minus button! That should force the restore screen popups, it should tell you that there is a backup save file available. It might give you a warning(I forgot exactly what it says something as in the restore can’t be “reversed” if it overrides current data), but just click through and you will have your island back. Nintendo is trash for hiding all of these instructions from us. I had restored mine the day that it came out. I noticed the day after I did the process, the instructions I used from the website were actually changed so that if you didn’t answer “yes” to the switch being stolen OR damaged/repaired it would deny you access to the info. So just incase, my instructions were a bit confusing you can always go to the website(just remember to press yes to the conditions, it won’t record your response it’s just a drop down menu lol): en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/49983/~/how-to-back-up-and-restore-island-save-data-%28animal-crossing%3A-new-horizons%29#DT:t1-q1a2_t1-q1a2-q2a1
I recommend you get deeper in the story of Dragon Quest XI to get into it. Its an amazing game and you'll see why as you get further, also try DQ III on the Switch eShop and DQ V and VIII to get you into the series as those 4 are the best ones.
Oblivion is still one of my favorite games and one of the best rpgs ever, even with all the little bugs❤love it
About the blurryness on the Switch, yes, that does happen so much on third party port games. But I wonder why they don't fix that, take Witcher 3 for instance, it had a lot of it. But the devs updated it and allowed us to remove the AntiAliasing and thus the blurry. More companies should do that.
The coming Monster Hunter Arise is a perfect example of crisp clear graphics, a game intended for the Switch.
I know you didn't ask for a detailed explanation, but I'm still going to try to explain why companies generally don't do this.
The reason they don't is generally because blurry is the best they can do without spending ridiculous amounts of time and money optimizing the game for the switch. It's just a vastly inferior piece of hardware. When you port games, you typically don't want to rewrite the entire code from scratch (again, because of the cost and time it would take). It's easier to use a program to translate it from one programming language to another, then fix it up enough to be presentable. On PS4 and X-box there is usually enough leeway for it to run decently. On Switch they have to decide if they want performance or graphics and make compromises accordingly. PC is a mixed bag because there is a huge amount of variation in hardware as opposed to a console, though the benefit is typically massive processing power.
As for anti-aliasing itself, you are basically rendering the entire set of visuals twice and merging the two sets of images in real-time. Higher AA means more images, thus 4x AA means four images so you get less of a chance that things are choppy. As you can imagine, this is a very graphically intensive process that was not reasonably possible back in the day. You also need to overlay these images properly, or else they will look weird. Typically you use AA to fix blockiness and pixelation. Good AA will still leave reasonably sharp images, but poor quality will leave blurriness. So in your example (Witcher 3), I don't know the details, but I can venture a guess that they either realized the game was good enough without AA or they discovered a way to improve performance to get it to acceptable levels using the power that would normally be reserved for AA, or...they just plain optimized it.
Regardless, It's a tradeoff that works well when properly implemented and not so well when you are just trying to get the rest of your code to work. That is why games designed or redesigned specifically for the Switch (or any other platform) tend to do better than games that were ported. It makes sense from a business perspective as well because if you are porting a game, how many users only utilize that specific platform? If the number isn't high, the chances are that they may have played your game before and most people will not repurchase a game on another platform unless it is a masterpiece. So you don't want to spend a fortune making it perfect when an 80% solution is a fraction of the cost, even if you lose some buyers - so long as you can get it decent enough for the majority of your target audience (or at least enough people to make it profitable).
@@Kaidkb I personally wouldn't say vastly inferior. Just inferior. I mean the Switch maybe behind Xbox one, PS4 and PC but it is still more powerful than the PS3 for example. But your right in everything else. 👍
@@ZamWeazle I would say vastly inferior. It doesn't hold a candle to Xbox X or PS4
@@Jin_Jon Yes but vastly suggests that its several generations behind of the other 2 and they are 10 times more powerful, which they aren't. Vastly inferior is like comparing the Nes to the Wii. 😉
I finally started playing Dragons Dogma on Switch because of your videos. I'm really enjoying the game, thank you.
I've recently been getting into yakuza 0 and I must say it's really good, I also tried pikmin 3 for the switch my first time experiencing that series, it was fun, I also picked up the wonderful 101, the first ever platinum self published game, can't wait to try that , pure platinum baby!
For DQ11, what helped get me invested was I watched the Dragon Quest movie "Your Story" on Netflix. It reminded me of playing the original DQ games and Final Fantasy games and Chrono Trigger and getting lost in their worlds. DQ11 does have a slow start but it gets good.
I loved Dq11 it gets better after a while, the beginning is a bit of a grind, hope you get into it.
It's one of my faforite games! 😁
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I know right this game hit me hard in the feels, I cried so much like a baby and my husband who already beat the game first and accompanyingme while I play mine has to console me after the event nearly the end with Serena & Veronica I never cry on game as I know it’s just a game, but dragon quest story felt so real for me and this game is my 1st Dragon Quest game, now I wish they remake all the older dragon quest or make new one as this game became my No.1 game I love on this era
@@elle_na619 worst part for me was if you wanna talk to ur grandpa again l could not handle that losing my own grandpa a year before :(
Always happy to catch an Ircha video because your right I never know what ill get!
Dragon quest 11 on switch I loved. I think it the most beautiful game I have played. I loved the way this looked so much. And I didn’t have a hard time getting into it so I don’t know how to advise you. I was hating the idea of leaving it when I got towards the end. I have a total of 270 hours in this game.
The game is amazing i am so glad you enjoyed it i put 100 hours into it by the end and it was worth it :D
I Love it too, played it first on ps4 but the music was terrible then changed to the Switch Version and totally got addicted :)
@@lonlon7522 The Switch version has different music?
"It has the longest name i have ever seen"
Me: *laughs in Mario & Sonic at the olympic games london 2012*
Try: Inazuma Eleven GO: Chrono Stones: Thunderflash
I must agree on the recore game is really good & engaging 😎 great video.
You can still get your island back just install transfer tool from eshop in both switches and all done
It kills me a little inside when I see someone grab their switch screen and leave fingerprints 😥
Highly recommend playing Nexomon Extinction especially if you are a pokemon fan.
Most people have screen protectors. Fingerprints wipe right off.
It's a touch screen. They're meant to be touched.
DQ11 picks up as you progress through the story, but it tends to feel like an anime that's trying to get itself stretched out to a couple if seasons. There's lots of twists and turns and changes of pacing. But it does have its good moments
I’ve been praying for Oblivion to come to Switch. It’s my favorite game of all time and if Skyrim deserves a port so does Oblivion 😌
GTA series, Fallout series. Oblivion for me too. Lord of the rings online. Two Worlds 1 and 2. Maybe I will give Oblivion another try when my series X is in the house, because it´s already technically improved on my Xbox One X, but will be for sure much more fluid, and maybe because of auto HDR looking much better on the series X. But you should give Dragon Quest XI definately another try, it looks and plays incredible also on the switch. I am not completing so many games, but DQXI was one of them. And in handheld mode it looks quite fine. On TV, you should play the PS4 version.
Ircha what did you think of the witcher 3 port on the Nintendo switch
I'd like to suggest a little game called "A knight's quest" on switch
Even as a fan of the anime for "is it wrong" I couldn't stick with it. Just too simplistic, so don't blame you for ditching that one too.
DQ11 strikes me as a more niche game than people claim it is, and I was nervous buying it, since I was never a classic rpg fan. I think it's OK, and I play it here and there, but I can imagine people just not liking it because it's too simple compared to other modern JRPGs.
The thing with DQ11 is that it is a good RPG, but just not outstanding in any way. I'm about halfway through the game and I enjoy the gameplay and the graphics, but I find the story and most of the charcters a bit dull tbh. Since I don't have much time for gaming now, I have to be picky with what games I want to invest time in and I'm not sure if I will ever return to DQ11...
It does start very slow but it will getting deep through the end, honestly it has one of the best ending ever you could have in the games
im playing child of light on the pc :) i know you will like it. i love rpg and fantasy style. the animation and art is beautiful :)
I was seriously in the exact same boat with Dragon Quest 11. I was in the exact same spot as you and wanted to quit. I watched Tim Rogers play it for a bit and then pushed through. The game gets exponentially better and I ended up loving it! Take a break if you need to but push through and you may love it!!
Dragonquest XI is absolutely a slow burn but worthwhile investment. I'd say the first 15 hours are just a lot of build up and you're still discovering new playable characters. The combat real picks up once you get all the characters and are able to try different strategies. The story also gets way more interesting. I struggled to get into it too in the beginning but once I hit that 15 to 20 hour mark I was hooked.
I just bought Dragon Quest XI and it is in my backlog. Normally you and I have similar tastes, but I am hoping I like it. I have been wanting another JRPG. I also bought Skyrim at the same time for the Switch. I am trying to branch out to new genres. Animal Crossing keeps diverting me.
Omg Dragon Quest is my favorite game!
Ircha!!! I would so like to be a part of your discord!! But... I want to recommend to you the Fable series on Xbox or PC. Start with the first installment! I really think you would love it!!! Keep up the awesome videos! 😎🤘🎮
I love dragon quest it's the best game ever
For me its pokemon sword/shield, its good but i feel scammed becuase you cant catch all pokemon in it and to get my favorite alakazam you have to buy the expansion.
Try Nexomon Extinction
Fun fact: recore is probably the only sucessful product by Comcept (Mighty No. 9) before they were acquired by Level-5 to not go bankrupt (And we still have no news on Red Ash)
A norwegian enjoying skyrim is like an italian enjoying Moto GP and RIDE 🤺🏔🏔⛰⛰🏔🏔🏔🏔
Dq 11 is super slow at the beginning when u get past a certain bit it gets really good I was the same 😂
hmm, tough one on Dragon Quest 11... To me that game is one of the best RPGs released this gen. I am an old school RPG fan however so this game is straight up my alley. If you don't like it though that is just that, no need to force yourself into it. Dragon Quest is very traditional and if that's just not your cup of tea then that's that. On the graphics though... well on that one I can't do anything but tell you that if blurry graphics bother you on a game that's available on PS4/Xbox/PC as well, you're always gonna be better off on those (sans the portable aspect of it). The switch is portable sure, but you are always gonna have a tradeoff in the graphics department compared to other consoles and PC. No way around that I fear.
I love how geniune Ircha does reviews and opinions. 😊
I can't wait to get a PC or even a PS4 so I can play Elder Scrolls. My favorite series by far. Being disabled/low income and a gamer is torture lol. Uncharted is another series I would love to play again.
Oblivion was my first introduction to the Elder Scrolls and then Morrowind. When I played Skyrim I was blown away. Loved how beautiful the world is. It's a great escape from reality.
If you like Action RPGs, I would try Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines on the PC. It's a classic, if buggy, gem where you can play a vampire in a dark and gothic Los Angeles. You get so many styles of play to choose from due to the different Vampire clans and their unique powers. The story and characters are just fantastic.
Just be sure to get the Unofficial Patch first.
I hope you've bought Hades already.. One of the best roguelikes ever!
Don't worry I'm in the same boat! I can't get into dragon quest 11 to save my life and I want to like the game so bad ughhhh and yes I know this is an older video :) love your videos keep it up
The last turn-based JRPG game I played was FFIX when I was a kid. Then DQ11 came out and I gave it a chance. Played the demo on the Switch, but it didn't hook me. Then I played the game on my PC and I have been addicted to this genre. I think the smooth 60 fps, sharp graphic, and the 'cute green grass' looking (as you always said) on PC made a difference for me. Still I haven't finished the game since the announcement of Xbox released later this December. I am excited to try to play the game again on Xbox game pass! Anyway, another great video. I am a fan.
Ircha, stick with DQ11. Further in the game you will get a chance to play as each character independently and learn more about them. I found those segments really great and then the lead up towards the end of the game was fantastic.
I wish I could have gotten into Oblivion and Skyrim. I just can't stand them! They are so boring to me. But I totally get what people like in it. But to me it feels cold.
Play Final Fantasy 7 remake you'll like it better. Great characters, gameplay, and soundtrack.
Who did that excellent photoshopped picture of Tiric with the cauliflowers?
Hey baby. asl?
I've tried to get into breath of the wild so many times and as soon as I get the hang glider and to get off the plateau...I lose interest...everytime
You probably just trash and lack creativity. That’s the reason people generally don’t like botw.
Recore is criminally underrated and that sucks I got it at launch on xbox one and loved it
Enjoyed your video. Maybe one day you’ll get your AC island back. I had fun with DQ11, very old school JRPG. Be safe kid, keep on gaming. 🤘
Has anyone told you that you look like Ciri from the Witcher
I have been playing Oblivion again lately and still love it after 14 years since first played it. Game I just can't get into is Outer Worlds keep trying but then keep restarting for some reason.
I also dropped out of Outer Worlds halfway in..
Oblivion is one game I come back to over and over to try and get into. It’s great, I know it’s great and I can have moments of fun with it, but it’s also a deep, deep dive compared to the fun little puddle that was Skyrim. Eventually the depth of it just pushes me out and I go find something a little more mindless
Oblivion is a mood! 😎
Ircha, have you played any digimon games? I played a few years ago, and recently got Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth for switch. I'm loving it.
Oblivion needs to come to Nintendo Switch. ❤️
As I talked about in my review of Fairy Tail over on SwitchWatch it really IS a huge disservice/disadvantage to newcomers that the FIRST Fairy Tail game we get in the west starts in the middle of the story and hardly explains anything up to that point, because I, like yourself, knew nothing of the characters or events that lead up to this point. That said I had my brother beside me for a bulk of the 50 hour journey who explained everything to me as it happened, and so, when I was caught up, it made it easier for me to connect with the story and the characters.
Personally, all things considered, I really liked the game, wouldn't have pumped 70 hours into it completing EVERYTHING if I didn't.
I did also, if you look through the comment section, get a lot of flag for not mentioning how "horrible" the framerate was, but apart from a few places I honest to god didn't notice, because I am blessed with the ability to NOT notice framerates unless they dip to single digits.
Flack*
You’re not blessed by not seeing framerate dips, you’re blind and likely need glasses.
@@turanx0 Maybe so, but I can still play games of any framerate without bitching like the rest of you :P
@@PikaLink91 Who said I was bitching about framerate dips?
@@turanx0 Everyone does. Everyone but me that is, cuz I don’t give a damn. Whenever news outlets bring up the framerate or complain that it isn’t 60, I sit there thinking that doesn’t make it unplayable ya twat.
Ive had the same issue with DQ 11. Its a great game. But it takes awhile to get moving. Ive gone back to it numerous times and i just cant.
Same 😂 👍
Old school JRPG maybe cause a strange sensation of slowly pace and boring. But give it a chance! One more time, Ircha! DQ11 game has a great storytelling.
I recommend The Outer Wilds. My favorite of all time.
I think dqxi much like other DQ games have this feeling of being a collection of small stories while you play. It's more about the journey than the destination. That being said it does raise the stakes further in, but if you don't enjoy the formula, it can be tough to get into. So I guess my advice is to play in smaller sessions. Don't try to marathon it.
Thanks I will 👍
There's games i want, but simply can't justify the price tag. Physical i mean. Such as River City Girls, Ys VIII collectors edition... i MIGHT cave and cough up 80-100 for Stranger Things 3 The Game collectors edition because frankly the cover art, the clamshell, the soundtrack and that game are all BOSS.
A game i tried to like, really, realllllly hard. Final Fantasy VII Remake... i mean you don't even grind, you just move forward the entire time, it's so divorced from its source material i can't even... That one was pretty crushing to me, since FFVII is one of my favorite games growing up. It was the perfect mix of discovering JRPG's just as i was hitting high school. Perfect mix of nostalgia and awesome.
Played the remake i waited oh idk... 15 years for? Didn't even finish it yet lol. I fired it up a few times, spun the camera and turned it right back off "maybe later" 😒
I really appreciate your thoughts. I have always wanted to get into Final Fantasy games. I always figure I am missing something. Dragon Quest Heroes was more fun for me than the jrpgs. I have a feeling that it might be because I'm missing something as well.
Morrowind and Skyrim are just tiny maps in Elder Scrolls Online.If you haven't tried it in Xbox you might also like it.
The witcher 3? I am new to your feed so just came to this video. I never played it on switch (had a ps4 before and I was hooked) how is it on switch?
Motion blur is one of the main reasons I can't get into console games as much as I want to because I am so sensitive to it. My eyes got so tired after less than an hour with the Ratchet and Clank remake. It's really a shame.
Took me until eric being in my team or the girl. And finding some puff puff girls that made me laugh. I didn't like finding out the end isn't the full end
I agree with you on dragon quest 11. I was hooked on dragon quest 8 back on the ps2 from beginning to end and played it three times to completion, but I just can't get into dragon quest 11. I agree there just isn't anything to hook you in the first 20 plus hours of play.
Since you have gamepass, check out wasteland 3 on pc (wait for the patch next week that reduces load times). Its a phenomenal RPG. It may be intimidating at first since you get to build your characters however you like. But the key is to make each party member specialize so that the entire party has most of everything covered in terms of skills. If you get into this game, you'll be thinking about it when you are not playing it!
I don't know if you heard about it but Nintendo released the "Animal Crossing New Horizons Island Transfer Software" back in November last year. So probably right after you released this video. 😉
It's available free of charge from the eshop.
I got the platinum trophy for Dragon Quest 11 and put in around 140 hrs. I was sad to be done with the game and still think to myself when completing some other single player games, man I could go for a Dragon Quest 11 (experience) again. Unfortunately the game slowly ramps up and where you are is still before it got really compelling for me, both in terms of gameplay and story. As long as you don't dislike the game, I'd say its fair to slowly chip away. I was motivated in the early game to see the new locations and cute monster designs, but didn't really get invested until a couple areas after where you are.
Glad you're getting more into pc. It's like a super powerful console with limitless backwards compatibility.
That’s crazy cause I got my island transferred over a few days ago. I didn’t have to lie and say I lost or broke the old switch. I did it through the Nintendo chat online