I bought Minecraft for switch to play with my son. What a shit experience it was.
First off, it took like an hour of trial and error to even get the two of us playing in split screen. Then I realized that to render split screen the game had reduced the draw distance to like 1/4th of what it was on PC years ago. We dealt with it until we actually had a good area built up and the frame rate dropped to like 10fps. Then my wife accidentally let Minecraft update and it bricked split screen until I completely turned off the switches WiFi.
Recently purchased Java for PC, spent another hour getting couch co-op going on that and it’s a completely different experience.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 6 days ago
To be fair, most of your complaint is about the hardware of a low-power device not being able to handle rendering double the game and then compensating accordingly.
Which is an expected outcome.
fishy@lemmy.today 6 days ago
The game is advertised and sold as having split screen co-op. Having to mess with console settings to get it to work and the resulting experience being shit isn’t excusable. Of course I didn’t expect a full PC equivalent but I expected it to have a minimum of polish and optimization.
If they couldn’t make the game do split screen decently, they shouldn’t put that as a feature. If the game can’t be run decently in single player, they shouldn’t have sold it at all.