Dragon Ball Fighter Z on Switch is amazing.

Well, someone had to say it. What's with this thing going under the radar?

I pity people who are tethered to their TV's at home. Feels so archaic, barbaric.

Picking up my copy next payday (which in the same day as the next FOB concert here).

Played the hell out of FighterZ on PS4 last year and I saw the framerates on Switch version isn't stable. It only seems to drop to 50fps at most during actual gameplay. It drops lower during the big, cinematic attacks, but that doesn't affect playability at all. A 60fps locked is preferred, but it's not a complete disaster or something and so with that, Switch owners should be just fine. I just hope you all like the game itself. FighterZ story for the most parts, I like it better then Super's anime series and the character interaction is what sold me.

A) It's been out for a while

B) The default Switch controls are extremely poor for fighting-games

C) Paid online that offers inferior service compared to competitors, namely PS4.

Generally need a Switch specific fight-stick or one that supports multiple consoles. If you are taking on someone on a fight-stick with a Switch controls, you have basically 0 chance in the majority of fighting games,

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Fighting games especially suffer from smurfing, a percentage the folk who do buy it won't be new players, but experienced players looking for easy wins under the guise of "practice". Instantly putting off new players from playing online.

For awhile? You mean, January 26? That's only a few months. Although perhaps to gamers that may as well be ten years old with their attention span and greedy needs.

Cool. I have this game already for the Xbox One and love it. I am considering on double dipping and getting the Switch version as well.

This was a pretty poor attempt at an insult for a genuinely fact based and thought out answer to the query.

Ironically it just made you come across as juvenile.

Is it fun enough to play this game on my own?

I wasn't insulting anyone. But it's pretty ridiculous to consider a port from January to be "a while."

Especially since most switch ports have to wait a year or longer, although they're closing the gap.

Fighting games SUCK on the switch, at least with the joy cons. Let me be stuck with the ds4 and a nice big tv rather then a tiny screen and a horrible "d" pad.

In fighting game terms? Na not really. If someone is playing every day and sticking to a particularly character they have a pretty hefty head start. It is possible to catch up with youtube guides and what not (as I did with SFV), but it will generally be a painful experience of getting beat down over and over barely any wins. You need to be invested and put up with tremendous amounts of bullshit.

Aside from "legit" fighters at about your level, or slightly above, it will be proliferated with smurf accounts, which is a major problem, to this day largely goes ignored. Gives the illusion of a much, much higher skill ceiling when in reality they are fighting someone they should not be fighting in the first place. It's just some cum-stain ruining the game so they can feel king of the hill.

I do speak from a complete noob level. I barely play online and I just like to mash buttons and watch things on screen look cool. I do suppose all the SURIUS gaming fighting enthusiasts are already playing the game. But there are plenty of noobs like me just to enjoy the cool visuals and stylistic flourish.

I dunno if anyone has figured this out but the switch d pad is actually really good. You don't need those lines in between the buttons. I pull off all the moves just fine like if it was a regular D pad. This is a mental thing, I think, with gamers.

So, get a fighting game centric pad then? I got the closest thing I got to a fighting game stick with this and it works wonderfully with Street Fighter. I'd have thought hardcore fighting gamers (y'know the EVO/SRK is god kind) would've gotten used to that.

Yeah, strange complaint considering all normal controllers are considered garbage by the ELITE FIGHTING GAMUREZ!

But for the rest of us, it's fine, who cares.

Some "pros" do use control pads. But even by standard control pads the Switch controller is bad for tradtional fighting games. The thumb stick is too small, and the buttons acting as a D-Pad are plain bad.

If you're playing online, then yea, it's definitely an issue, first thing I done with SFIIHD was get a third party controller.

I suck so bad at fighting games. Playing online would be masochistic for me. I don't think I'd ever win a single match.

4 fight-sticks ,custom modded and designed.

Incredibly hardcore, incredibly so. Woe.

@uninspiredcup said:

@nintendoboy16 said:

@uninspiredcup said:

@Bread_or_Decide said:

Well, someone had to say it. What's with this thing going under the radar?

A) It's been out for a while

B) The default Switch controls are extremely poor for fighting-games

C) Paid online that offers inferior service compared to competitors, namely PS4.

Generally need a Switch specific fight-stick or one that supports multiple consoles. If you are taking on someone on a fight-stick with a Switch controls, you have basically 0 chance in the majority of fighting games,

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Fighting games especially suffer from smurfing, a percentage the folk who do buy it won't be new players, but experienced players looking for easy wins under the guise of "practice". Instantly putting off new players from playing online.

So, get a fighting game centric pad then? I got the closest thing I got to a fighting game stick with this and it works wonderfully with Street Fighter. I'd have thought hardcore fighting gamers (y'know the EVO/SRK is god kind) would've gotten used to that.

4 fight-sticks ,custom modded and designed.

Incredibly hardcore, incredibly so. Woe.

That is elite shiz.

For me, it is. I play Fighting games for a living, I always enjoy playing them on my own and I rarely play anyone else. FighterZ campaign is a lot of fun for the interaction with other Z Fighters like Goku having a normal talk with Frieza is what's really entertaining. You won't see that in the Anime because Frieza doesn't do that and he's more evil in the Anime.

Well, e good thing about DBZF is that it had easy inputs compared to other games, with simple H/Q circle universal across characters. Focus more on strategy than "I can't input this properly".

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Personally just not a fan of that style of fighting game where it's long, extended periods of swapping combos and constantly going on the offensive. Not very good at them either. SF/KOF more my jazz.

The Switch D-Pad on the pro-controller is not good for competitive fighting games. Its digital and not analog... therefore you drop a lot of inputs. The new HORI joy-cons with the D-Pad are not digital and would preform better... but are handheld mode only (I think).

Anyone who is this serious about being competitive would get an arcade stick. I personally could care less, I play with the pro controller and joy cons.

No doubt... just wanted to pitch in my 2cents about the native pad. I thought i was great too, till I picked up a fighter.

And you can be competitive on PAD too, just not that PAD. I use a HORI pad for SF and I do alright.

@Bread_or_Decide: No, the joy cons have one of the worst dpads ever, I think I'd rather use the 360s dpad for fighting games. I'm still amazed that Nintendo screwed up this bad with the d pad.

I haven't had any problems using them in fighters or platformers.

@Bread_or_Decide: Well you're a Nintendo fanboy so...

Or a reasonable human being. I'm that too. Not a single indie platformer has given me trouble. That includes the end is nigh, a game where precision counts. Also just 100%-ed rayman legends, using the joycon directional buttons, and no problems with precision or response.

@Bread_or_Decide: Look I have a switch, well in reality my son has a switch so I know how scrappy the joy cons are. They're bad enough used as a normal co,trolled, twice as bad split up as two. I'm not saying they make games unplayable, but they sure as he'll make them less fun. And no you're not reasonable, at least not from what I've seen.

Not reasonable? Am I some ranting raving lunatic or something? I'm speaking from my experience gaming for well over 20 years in my life having played every console, held every controller, and i'm a platformer addict. I think I would notice if the joycon d pads were no good.

My vote for hands down worst d pad goes to the 360.

Although this xbox controller sorta fixed the problem.

@Bread_or_Decide: Just gotta jump in and agree here. Worst d-pad ever award goes to 360 controller. It doesn't even almost work.

Haven't had any problems with the joycons, personally. Haven't tried a fighting game with them yet though.

Might get it sometime, wait for a sale I think.

It's terrible after playing it for so long on the PC. I also find it annoying that it lags so much, especially after having to pay for Switch online...

Also it seems like nobody from the UK plays it. I always have to set the location to "everywhere" to even find a match.

The game on Switch has a MUCH lower player base then the PS4 version for sure, but I can't help, but feel like this version of the game feels way more refined then the Beta.

I think the Switch version will be a great version to lab while the PS4 version will be the one for you to play with people.

With that said I can see myself playing FighterZ more on Switch then I have been on PS4.

Cool I think I'll pick this up.

You all act like most of us aren't playing this with a Pro controller.

When you "most of us", you're talking about 12 people on a mostly inactive forum.

General Joe is another matter entirely. Especially as Dragonball can attract people who typically have no interest in the genre to begin with.

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This game might be slightly less of an issue though as it was designed for newcomers with easier universal inputs. compared to something like The SF30th collection or SFIIHD.

Okay so why try to debate a pro fighting game fan like unispired? That's like when a casual play Angry Bird and think it's the best thing in the world.

Also, yes you're a noob. Play the game with an actual controler like ps4 or Xbox. Or please get a PAD.

lol i'm not a pro, about average at best.

Here's a guy with no working arms or legs playing with a his mouth/chin, who would destroy everyone here. Just in case anything is under the impression a stick is an automatic win.

https://twitter.com/HiFightTH/status/1024080560958799872

Its like the hipsters that say "Smash Bros SUCKS without a Gamecube controller!" f*cking joke!

Heard d-pad players are crippled on the switch. And pro controller is like using a 360 d-pad.