OT: Video Game Talk (oh, also the Week before the All-Star Break Pre-Game Talk "archive")

[henchman21]

Who the f*** had a Nintendo DS?

Only about a 150m people.

 

[RockLobster]

The review bombing stuff is so weird, but yeah… won’t be able to trust public reviews at launch and any slight bug will be ‘gamebreaking.’

I just wanna go to space jail and break out. Is that too much to ask?

 

[UncleRisto]

Only about a 150m people.

Oh. Were any Japanese?

 

[henchman21]

Not wrong.

Oh. Were any Japanese?

I doubt it. Not like handheld gaming is big there.

 

[sethro109]

Who the f*** had a Nintendo DS?

I had a DS, DSi, DSi XL, 3DS, 3DS XL, New 3DS and a New 3DS XL....

Yeah I had/have a problem. Damn game freak and their stupid addictive Pocket Monsters.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I had a DS, DSi, DSi XL, 3DS, 3DS XL, New 3DS and a New 3DS XL....

Yeah I had/have a problem. Damn game freak and their stupid addictive Pocket Monsters.

I went from an Atari 2600 to a Commodore64 to an IBM 486 machine and on and on...I just ordered an i7 137000K last night. It'll play Minecraft, but not NHL24.

The wife just told me she ordered NHL24 on her PS5 for me to play, so at least I will have that! My wife has collected all of the playstations over the years. We still have our game library for the PSOne along with the memory cards for save spots that went along with the first two generations of playstations.

 

[Avs_19]

The DS with the R4 was the way to go. Everyone had it back then.

 

[S E P H]

I am actually playing SoulSilver atm on my DS. I bought the game like five years ago and it was sitting around gathering dust. Might as well play it.

Console loyalist have always confused me. I get trying to justify your purchase of a $500 dollar investment into a piece of plastic, but to take it to the extent of review bombing and trolling other people is just plain weird. The PS crazies also seem to be the most ravenous. The replies on any Xbox post on Twitter is always fallowed by a dozen or so guys trolling.

I guess the majority of console loyalists are high schoolers because I had some of that tribalism philosophy back in the day with Nintendo and Xbox versus Sony.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I am actually playing SoulSilver atm on my DS. I bought the game like five years ago and it was sitting around gathering dust. Might as well play it.


I guess the majority of console loyalists are high schoolers because I had some of that tribalism philosophy back in the day with Nintendo and Xbox versus Sony.

I never really got the console wars. The wife and I have had all of the PS's and did own the original XBox. But I moved to PC gaming strictly around 07 while she's preferred console for one thing mostly...platform games. Those were mostly made for PS, which is why she stuck with them over Xbox. Xbox was historically known for being better at FPS. Or at least that's how we viewed the systems. Neither is really bad but each seems to have had different sorts of games made for them in the past. I'm not sure if that is still the case these days though. Especially since platformers like Jax and Daxter, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank are all becoming exceedingly rare.

 

[henchman21]

The newish gameplay trailer for the RoboCop game. At a glance I don't think the game looks amazing, but I recall feeling the same Terminator Salvation (also from Teyon). That also got bad reviews from across the critic world... but it was an awesome Terminator game. Story and atmosphere were perfect. Graphics were meh and some jank to the gameplay in areas, but it was great as an old school, atmospheric shooter. I expect the same from RoboCop Rouge City.

 

[sethro109]

BG3 was such a big hit that it's actually getting Xbox to roll back it's policy on series x and s parody. I'm surprised that it's happening. I guess in some ways it's good for series X releases and devs. However, series S owners are getting shafted here. That was the whole point of the series S. I wouldn't be surprised if some owners try to start a class action lawsuit for refunds.

 

[henchman21]

BG3 was such a big hit that it's actually getting Xbox to roll back it's policy on series x and s parody. I'm surprised that it's happening. I guess in some ways it's good for series X releases and devs. However, series S owners are getting shafted here. That was the whole point of the series S. I wouldn't be surprised if some owners try to start a class action lawsuit for refunds.

I think it was the straw that broke the back more than a singular reason. This has been coming for a while mostly due to the ram limitations more than anything.

I'm sure people will sue (they sue over lesser things), but odds of it gaining actual traction are low. Advertising has a ton of leeway and lawyers write extensive user agreements to shield companies.

 

[sethro109]

I think it was the straw that broke the back more than a singular reason. This has been coming for a while mostly due to the ram limitations more than anything.

I'm sure people will sue (they sue over lesser things), but odds of it gaining actual traction are low. Advertising has a ton of leeway and lawyers write extensive user agreements to shield companies.

Back when the PS3 launched I bought one with the disk drive and was backwards compatible. It died on me and I had to send it in for a replacement. Sony covered everything and was fixed within a few weeks. So in hindsight I feel bad now, but years later I got a letter saying that I could join a class action lawsuit against them since it failed on me. So I did. It was a simple form to fill out and didn't ask for a SSN or bank account. It just wanted my name, Sony username and my PS3 model number. About a year and a half later I got a letter saying that "we" won the lawsuit and check for $23 bucks.

 

[henchman21]

Back when the PS3 launched I bought one with the disk drive and was backwards compatible. It died on me and I had to send it in for a replacement. Sony covered everything and was fixed within a few weeks. So in hindsight I feel bad now, but years later I got a letter saying that I could join a class action lawsuit against them since it failed on me. So I did. It was a simple form to fill out and didn't ask for a SSN or bank account. It just wanted my name, Sony username and my PS3 model number. About a year and a half later I got a letter saying that "we" won the lawsuit and check for $23 bucks.

And it was the lawyers who really won.

This is simply setting the path for some features missing on a less powerful system that people knew was less powerful from the beginning. I'm sure somebody will try... hell there is a 'consumer' group trying to block the Activision merger.

What I find kinda funny with this though, for all the screaming about XSS... the real limitation will be the next Switch. We already know it won't even approach XSS in power and is very likely to have even less RAM. Yet due to the massive success that the Switch has been, everybody is going to be trying to get their current gen games to work on it.

 

[sethro109]

And it was the lawyers who really won.

This is simply setting the path for some features missing on a less powerful system that people knew was less powerful from the beginning. I'm sure somebody will try... hell there is a 'consumer' group trying to block the Activision merger.

What I find kinda funny with this though, for all the screaming about XSS... the real limitation will be the next Switch. We already know it won't even approach XSS in power and is very likely to have even less RAM. Yet due to the massive success that the Switch has been, everybody is going to be trying to get their current gen games to work on it.

Yeah. I'm definitely worried about the switch 2. Activision is gonna a hell of a time getting the next few CODs working on that system. But they're already contractually obligated since Xbox had them signed that contract for their merger trial.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

I got a check for like $75 bucks over the lawsuit based on MSI Geforce GTX 970s being advertised as having 4GB of memory but only 3.5GB available for useage or some such nonsense. I don't even remember signing up for the class action lawsuit, just getting the check.

 

[UncleRisto]

I started a Be a Pro on NHL 23 for the first time and got drafted by the Red Wings.

 

[Soedy]

After I platinumed God of War Ragnarok (which was so so much better than the 2018 release) I started Horizon Forbidden West. Lot of fun so far even though I am only a few hours in. And a nice change from GoW Ragnarok.

 

[MacKaRant]

I started a Be a Pro on NHL 23 for the first time and got drafted by the Red Wings.

You should refuse to sign with them.

 

[UncleRisto]

You should refuse to sign with them.

It's okay, as long as I don't end up on a line with Rasmussen and Zadina like in one of the first preseason games. Zadina scored, though, and that's how you know it's a video game.

 

[henchman21]

So apparently I'm ineligible for Game Pass Ultimate code I got with a purchase. It is for a free month, but I think you have to be new to Game Pass Ultimate. If anybody here wants it, just DM me. Just in time for Starfield.

 

[UncleRisto]

Nate is so f***ing peeved about some macronutrient thing in that image.

He saw Josh Manson eating a bear claw four hours ago and he's still pissed about it.

 

[TruePowerSlave]

Who even cares if these three are the highest rated players. The ratings are a complete mess across the board every single time.

 

[UncleRisto]

Who even cares if these three are the highest rated players. The ratings are a complete mess across the board every single time.

Yeah. And also why is this a good thing to vote on when it's clear anyone who is still invested in this series is a 16-year-old in Toronto?

 

[TruePowerSlave]

Yeah. And also why is this a good thing to vote on when it's clear anyone who is still invested in this series is a 16-year-old in Toronto?

I would love to get an actually solid NHL game. There is not much hope though.

Too bad 2K NHL died, those were great.