@TheBigBlue It's crazy that at this point, I'm dreaming of Nintendo taking the safest and blandest option for their next console: a Switch 2, or Super Switch that's just... the same thing, but better. But I absolutely think they'll try to surprise us by taking a few risks, which is terrifying 😂.
Nintendo's gotta Nintendo, to our collective bafflement
Edit: to your point, yeah, I don't think Nintendo's in some kind of desperate need to move on to a new generation. Almost every game they sell, no matter how niche, sells a good million copies. The Switch being less powerful also means games don't need a triple A budget to stand out, so they can take more risks with their software. Basically, I hope they take their time, there's no rush (imo)
I'd expect that the eventual Switch successor would be a much more powerful platform simply because there's better hardware available. Nvidia GPUs have moved on four generations since the Tegra X1 so, if that partnership continues, we can expect a big improvement there even if they're not going for the bleeding edge. It's possible that they may team up with someone else, maybe AMD or Qualcomm, but their recent mobile offerings would also represent a similar opportunity to improve.
However, their most successful systems have all been highly innovative ones in other ways. You've got to look at the way that the GameBoy, DS, Wii and Switch weren't just more powerful versions of what went before - but brought entirely new ways to play games with them - to see what can happen when they nail it.
There's always a chance that they would miss the mark as they did with the Wii U or, worse still, the Virtual Boy. However, they'd always have the fallback option of a more conventional successor to the Switch if that happens.
I dunno GTA is a pretty weak one to pick as an example of the corruption of today's society since no one is looking at wholesome entertainment from it.
Unlike Mario which promotes living in sin as he's in a relationship with Peach BEFORE getting married to her or Kirby who promotes gluttony or Animal Crossing which spits on our Lord's commandment Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's House or Pokemon being a dog fighting simulator or Bayonetta's nudey witchcraft decadence or Zelda having a Swastika dungeon!!!
And let's not even get started with those messages you see in Splatoon. THE SQUIDS ARE TURNING THE KIDS GAY! And its all disguised as a wholesome shooter, disgusting. > : (
What else is there?
"Fire Emblem" What type of fire, the fires of hell?!
"Rhythm Heaven" Lies, this music will not save you!
"Paper Mario: The Origami King" Not in my American home!
Probably not an unpopular opinion overall, but seems like an unpopular opinion amongst PC gamers...
I don't like gaming with keyboard and mouse.
The only instances in which I'll use them are in cursor-based games (e.g. strategy games like Civilization) where there's really no decent alternative. Otherwise I find KB+M really takes me out of the experience. This includes FPSs and MMOs, where I'll still opt to use a gamepad even if the game has been optimised for KB+M.
The fact that I spent 40 hours a week at a keyboard and mouse (and desk), and have history of occupational back and wrist pain, is probably a huge factor. I think it's quite important to distance my leisure time from my work life in that way.
I'd think it makes a big difference what kind of keyboard and mouse you're using. If it's a mechanical switch keyboard and a 20,000 DPI mouse, and you're still not finding it good enough, then fair enough, those kinds of controls probably just aren't for you.
On the other hand, if you've only got a cheap office-style set or even worse, a laptop, you can probably do better. It's like the equivalent of playing a PS5 with a $9 knockoff controller versus the official one.
@Buizel Fair enough if it's just a personal preference.
There are objective downsides to playing a lot of KB+M games with a controller though. You just can't aim anywhere near as quickly and accurately with the right stick (even with gyro assist) as you can with a mouse and the lack of buttons on controllers leads to them being overloaded with functions that are just a single key on the keyboard. Pretty much any competitive multiplayer relies upon this.
Conversely, there are games designed around controllers where you've got analogue movement with sticks and triggers that's aren't going to exactly map to what you can do with a KB+M, so they're arguably better played that way. It's just nowhere near as pronounced, there are a whole lot less of them, and they're typically games that also come out on consoles anyway.
That said, I'd think that you've ideally got to have a handle on both options otherwise you're going to be missing out on entire swathes of PC gaming.
At least on the first play through, long intros in Zelda games are better than a short intro. They allow for characters to be more fleshed out and mean more to the player. Plus they allow for greater stories to be told.
People who use emulators of certain games these days seemingly do it for attention and to spite a company online, but obviously not everyone is like this. I understand wanting to do it simply because there are a lot of games that have never had ports to other, more modern consoles, like Fire Emblem Path Of Radiance. But the people who parade around online posting pictures of newer games like switch games on the likes of the steamdeck (steamdeck is most common for modern emulation). An example of this would be when Metroid Prime Remastered was announced at the Feb. 8th direct. I was scrolling social media for reactions, and I saw a post saying “thank you Nintendo for the free game!” And they had a picture of Metroid prime remastered on the steamdeck emulated. Now that is incredibly ignorant and selfish. The developers put years of work and love into this project to bring this game that so many love to a more modern console. And to turn around and do that? Unbelievable. Again, not everyone does this. There are people that create legal emulation for the public to use. But spiting companies, even corporations like Nintendo, after they put a lot of effort into a game, only for someone to emulate it for free, is obnoxious.
@TheBigBlue I could no care about that because with or without emulation companies do not lose much money I do not know of a SINGLE studio that closed down because of emulation.
The big corporations are the LAST thing to have pity on.
Also, I am pretty sure the devs do not care about that as well. Emulation is probably used daily in their work in order to be more efficient.
@blindsquarel Agree. I think Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword in particular have some of the most memorable openings, despite being fairly slow.
People who use emulators of certain games these days seemingly do it for attention and to spite a company online, but obviously not everyone is like this. I understand wanting to do it simply because there are a lot of games that have never had ports to other, more modern consoles, like Fire Emblem Path Of Radiance. But the people who parade around online posting pictures of newer games like switch games on the likes of the steamdeck (steamdeck is most common for modern emulation).
I think some companies have really earned spite, but otherwise I actually agree with this. I understand its supposed to be "ironic" but the people doing that "its morally correct" thing about emulating games is humiliating. Yes, its good that games are widely available, regardless of current "legal" availability in gaming estores. But you actually playing it is the most morally neutral thing in the world.
also based on the initial backlash to NSO Expansion Pass, half these people don't even emulate games. Spiteful doesn't work if you're just lying (see also: boycotts).
@TheBigBlue Sounds to me like your beef is more with pirates who are obnoxiously public about their activities.
Some people, especially the ones that hate Nintendo, like to hype up Switch emulation, but the reality is a large number of emulated Switch games feature visual glitches, run worse than on the actual console, crash frequently, etc. It's hardly a matter of people just downloading free games and getting experiences similar to Switch owners without paying a dime. I mean, sometimes it is, but usually it's not the case.
That said, I'm a huge proponent of emulation for older titles. There are so many older games that would've been lost to time without the work of fans to preserve and share those titles, giving them a new lease on life for modern audiences. People who do this might be operating in a legal/moral grey area, but you can't convince me allowing gigantic swaths of older games to never be seen again is preferable to keeping them alive via underground distribution channels.
I'm happy to pay for older games I've illegally downloaded and emulated over the years. It's why I have a huge VC collection, subscribe to NSO Expansion Pack, bought several PS1 Classics, etc. But I'm not going to just miss out on classic games I want to experience because these publishers don't think there's enough profit to be had in providing legal avenues for obtaining them.
@TheBigBlue The other side of this is the industry steals from the emulation community. There was a game on Switch that shipped with a 3rd party emulator that they stripped the credits out of for the original creator. Nintendo allegedly sold a prated copy of it's own game. Others, like Konami, have done the same thing. Downloading illegal copies of ROMs and then selling them. This is evidenced by headers and in some cases readme files from the dumps weren't even removed.
Sure, you can't steal your own IP, but you also can't take a high ground about it while also making use of it.
I'm not justifying pirating games, but it's hardly like the companies are free from any wrong doing.
Emulation itself has done exponentially more for game preservation than the industry itself ever will. personally, I have used emulation for many years. I've been able to play games I never would have been able to otherwise, and different versions of games I wouldn't have been able to otherwise. That being said, I also support the industry doing this. I have multiple copies of the Mega Man collections across different consoles, the Castlevania collections and so forth. The latest being the TMNT collection. I had been emulating those for years, I honestly never thought we'd ever see it. But we finally got it and I bought it. These are excellent and I fully support the industry doing this.
@TheBigBlue The other side of this is the industry steals from the emulation community. There was a game on Switch that shipped with a 3rd party emulator that they stripped the credits out of for the original creator. Nintendo allegedly sold a prated copy of it's own game. Others, like Konami, have done the same thing. Downloading illegal copies of ROMs and then selling them. This is evidenced by headers and in some cases readme files from the dumps weren't even removed.
Sure, you can't steal your own IP, but you also can't take a high ground about it while also making use of it.
I'm not justifying pirating games, but it's hardly like the companies are free from any wrong doing.
Emulation itself has done exponentially more for game preservation than the industry itself ever will. personally, I have used emulation for many years. I've been able to play games I never would have been able to otherwise, and different versions of games I wouldn't have been able to otherwise. That being said, I also support the industry doing this. I have multiple copies of the Mega Man collections across different consoles, the Castlevania collections and so forth. The latest being the TMNT collection. I had been emulating those for years, I honestly never thought we'd ever see it. But we finally got it and I bought it. These are excellent and I fully support the industry doing this.
One can't "steal" one's own property (which includes the absolute right to make new copies of every Nintendo game, in Nintendo's case). Considering that companies made all of the games people want to "preserve", I'd say they did more for game preservation than the emulation community ever will (as there would otherwise be no games to preserve in the first place). You may have bought proper copies of the games in question, but not everyone does and those that pirate the games instead of buying them do cost Nintendo money. Think about whether Metroid Prime would be more or less profitable if there was no piracy, and whether it would be more or less profitable if everyone interested in the game downloaded it from a ROM site. It's obviously not a victimless crime. If it was, the gaming companies would launch their own free ROM sites.
@TheBigBlue I could no care about that because with or without emulation companies do not lose much money I do not know of a SINGLE studio that closed down because of emulation.
The big corporations are the LAST thing to have pity on.
Also, I am pretty sure the devs do not care about that as well. Emulation is probably used daily in their work in order to be more efficient.
There's nothing wrong with stealing a video game or two from Walmart because the company is worth almost $400 billion. A single video game is a drop in the bucket, so just smash and grab to your heart's content. Same logic. Never mind that these evil faceless corporations employ real people and provide real goods and services, and that they scale back or stop doing business in Portland, San Francisco, and other cities with pro-crime policies (hurting people that need them the most, and plunging their communities even further into the gutter). Fireworks don't suddenly go off when Nintendo scales back its retro-gaming services, hires fewer people, charges higher prices, or makes fewer games because of theft.
It is piracy (using emulators to play games you don't own a legal copy of, and distributing the ROMs on the internet), not emulation (running a program on a system it wasn't originally designed to run on) that people have a problem with.
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