I lost my gaming appetite today. 😔
Don't know what game should i play for quick burst before i sleep. (Help me with one suggestion: 3DS or NDS)
My mind was not in the mood to draw nor to play.
Corona virus pandemic really made me very afraid and angry at the same time.
That pesky virus must DIE !
What the hell? I'm away from the site for a couple of hours, and all of a sudden I get an e-mail about a Direct Mini, that Nintendo literally ninja'd onto the worldwide web...
Tons of great announcements, though, so I'm good. Here's hoping the "I want a Nintendo Direct" whiners will now finally shut up...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@Zuljaras Erm... no? What game are you missing?
There will always be some title not mentioned or people wanting stuff that's realistically not going to be released/featured, but that's more on the people themselves, than on Nintendo. Some people will probably never be satisfied. But what I meant was certain people in general constantly demanding/expecting a Direct, and now we had one, so regardless of what was shown or not, they essentially got their wish, so they should now shut up, at least for a couple of months...
Personally, I thought it was filled with nice surprises and some cool games, so it was a good one for me.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX No. The games I really wanted are in the direct! But all of them are with huge downloads
We are talking 8gb cartridge with 40GB download for Borderlands. And worst of all Bioshock only has the opening acts of the games on the cart. The rest is download.
Wow, finally, spring weather in my parts. It was in the low 60s earlier with blasting sunshine. The clouds are just starting to roll in now for an early evening rain, but we got a huge walk in the park earlier. We made our second visit to a new spot we call Secret Stone Beach. It’s a hidden stone beach next to a trickling river. It’s pretty nice. We saw lots of cardinals and blue birds today too.
@NotTelevision - Those big citrus IPAs and radlers are perfect when spring hits, and they stay that way all summer. I can’t wait to sip one outside. I’ve been on a light beer kick since February, but the spring weather today has me thirsting for something citrusy with body. If you see Wilton Roots around the comments, give him a clink. He got me started on Brewdog beers. Cheers friend!
@ThanosReXXX - I have a theory about the mini Direct... just joking. I don’t. I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s crap.
@bimmy-lee Yeah for real. Enjoy your online party later.
@ThanosReXXX Yeah it was fine for an unannounced direct. There’s a lot of year left too and the world is in an extraordinarily circumstance right now.
I think this is the year Nintendo throws Metroid fans a bone (trilogy or 2D game), it just wasn’t today.
@ThanosReXXX - I was just messing around. I haven’t seen it yet, and really haven’t caught up on the main page about what was shown. I hope to sit down with it tonight and watch studiously while I drink a beer. That Sega timeline gets so weird from 2000 forward. I don’t understand diving into those giant, multiplayer arcade football and horse racing sims riiiiight when the arcade scene pretty much everywhere but Japan was folding because machines were getting too big and expensive for arcade owners.
@bimmy-lee Ah, okay. Guess my radar is a bit off since all this misery is going on, so I actually wasn't sure.
If I may give you a tip: skip the articles and watch the Direct first. There's too many spoilers in the articles, as per usual...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@NotTelevision It'll come whenever it's ready, so I'm never expecting any in-between Direct to feature such a big title. If it is going to be shown at all, then it'll probably be a teaser in the replacement-E3 Direct, that'll come in June.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Wow, I clearly ticked a lot of people off by having a negative opinion about Digital Foundry. lol I'm not even going to bother reading all the comments of people throwing a fit about my opinion in that thread. I stand by my opinion that DF goes over everything with a fine tooth comb looking for anything they can to criticize. And that's fine, but I don't have to like that attitude or what they do. It never ceases to impress me just how angry people get if you share an unpopular opinion sometimes. You'd think I'd be used to it by now.
@ThanosReXXX It it totally still cheaper but you do have to consider that the PCs can do more. When you factor in a non-gaming PC alongside a 500 dollar console, you're getting real close to that same price of just buying a gaming PC.
Unless you're willing to settle for a real dirt cheap piece of junk general use PC. I've used a few of those 200 dollar budget machines that start chugging if you open a second tab alongside YouTube...
@Grumblevolcano It would not surprise me if that was a big part of the deciding factor. Though I know they said something about using the game to train younger employees too.
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@Heavyarms55 Haha, yeah, I know those. We call them "office PCs" over here...
But yes, PCs can do more, but my point was the reverse: consoles don't HAVE to do more, they just need to play games and media. They don't need to simultaneously run three layers of software and a resource-heavy OS, only just the most basic of menus with a little bit of a user-friendly interface, but that's it.
And like I said, console chipsets are still highly optimized, even though they are closer to PCs than ever. They also need to be, seeing as their life cycle is generally considerably longer than the average PC before some parts are replaced to drag the PC back into the current era. Seeing as you obviously can't do that with a console, other configurations and benchmarks are integrated and set, to keep it competitive for years to come.
@ThanosReXXX Don't get me wrong - I'm not denouncing consoles - I have 4 plugged in under my TV right now! It's just that, as prices go up, and specialized features fade, I find myself wondering why I would go the console route/general use PC route as opposed to ditching both and getting the gaming PC.
Perhaps Nintendo has spoiled me but they always offer something that's quite different from a PC experience. But as consoles get closer and closer to PC and I just find myself questioning.
Of course there are still console exclusives that pull me to console.
I just want Sony and MS to do something beyond just delivering better graphics. I consider upgraded graphics an expected, given, improvement.
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@NintendoByNature - Yeah, were supposed to meet up in about 40 minutes. I’ll be able to test Zoom out on my own. My daughter had been doing classes on it for about a week, and it’s kind of frustrating. Maybe that’s because it’s a Zoom meeting with 20 five year old kids though!
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