@rallydefault Hm. Interesting. Win10 users used to have major issues running Starcraft 2. Maybe they fixed that in an update or something. It was a known issue for quite a while.
My family loves having these Amazon Alexa devices around to turn on lights and whatnot for them, but I just find the whole thing to be creepy. My phone is already tracking my every step as is. I don't need Amazon eavesdropping on me constantly just so I don't have to flip a switch on the wall.
Sort of like with Facebook, I don't think people realize how much of themselves they're revealing to the world. How they're making themselves a public commodity, to be traded and sold by giant corporations.
With that said, I'm also not paranoid enough to use linux, always connect to the internet via VPNs, abandon smartdevices, etc. There's no stuffing this genie back in its bottle, so we just have to learn to co-exist with the corporatist surveillance state as much as possible without offering all of our freedoms and secrets on a pretty little dish.
@gcunit
2TB? Whewwww. Idk. I’d pay a lot. That’s the holy grail of Switch storage right there.
I’d probably swing $400 for one, but only one. Not that I’d like paying that much, but then the generation will long be over before the price would come down to a more reasonable level. Once price hit $200 I’d probably buy 3 more (another for Switch Lite, another for duplicate physical only game Switch, and one for my future “will one day hack” v1 Switch).
I paid $330 for the 1TB, which was a really good price imo given the $430 MSRP it’s currently selling for.
But since a 2TB is the largest they can get since most readers are only made for “up to 2TB” I would definitely be eager to obtain them asap.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
@BruceCM
I didn’t. Only D3 and D4 on Vita. I didn’t even know there was more than that on the system.
But I do have D1 on Switch now (haven’t played it though, and D4 will likely have to get backlogged as well, it’s just too crazy right now, but I wanted the collector edition while it was still available).
@Toy_Link
Dang, it’s moving up! I figured it wouldn’t make it to top 5, but I was clearly wrong. And glad of it. It’s right behind Luigi’s Mansion 3, which is only behind that garbage 9 cent game that suddenly made price go back to $5 (and ppl will now buy it thinking oh! It’s #2, must be good!) and the goose meme (don’t think that game will ever leave the #1 spot, but that’s fine).
Point being, it’s really only just Luigi’s Mansion 3 it’s behind. Of the other two one was a 9 cent scam and the other was viral meme, which is not representative of the norm, and thus is an outlier.
@Ralizah
Ah! We sound pretty similar! I'm also not paranoid enough for the VPNs and stuff. Like I said, I still want to live a relatively normal modern life, but I will try to resist the big data collection as much as I practically can.
Yea, SC II runs fine for me. I do everything through the Battle Net app these days (I think it may be required now, I don't know?), and the app keeps everything nice and auto-updated and running smoothly 99% of the time. I've had my current PC build for maybe 2-3 years now, and I haven't run into any compatibility issues with games.
This build is running an AMD Ryzen processor, and it's nice to have all those cores, but I'm going back to Intel for my next build, for sure. General system stability has been a little less stellar than on my past Intel systems.
@BruceCM
No, I never played it. I heard about it, but that’s about it. But I heard it was a pretty decent dungeon crawler, and Mary Skelter 2 is being reported as an improvement (plus it includes the first, with changes, which is awesome).
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
@JaxonH@Toy_Link It's 5th on the UK eshop. It's a similar top 5:
1. Untitled Goose Game
2. Minecraft
3. 911 Operator (a heavily discounted game, 89p at the moment)
4. Luigi's Mansion 3
5. Witcher 3
The Witcher 3 is going up in my estimation by the day.
There are very few games that truly grip me. I play a lot of games, and the vast majority end up in backlog after failing to dig in and keep me glued. Which is fine because not every game is going to have that effect on you. But it really does seem much more rare than it should be. Either I’m an extremely picky person, which I don’t think is the case because I play just about every type of game there is, and I’m a firm believer in “every genre can appeal to every gamer- it just takes playing the right game”... or, true masterpieces (for me) are far and few between.
Almost all the big games on other consoles fail to grab me. Even though there’s nothing objectively wrong with them. Most Far Cry games are like that, for example. Solid games. I always enjoy them... until I lose interest and don’t. Spider-Man... same thing. Marvel Ultimate Alliance... same thing. Even Batman Arkham Games... same thing (superhero games just don’t seem to keep me interested beyond a few hours). They all feel like they’re following a blueprint. A recipe. It all seems so formulaic. And I enjoy all of them it’s just that none of them keep me glued, and without the benefit of Switch to play anywhere, they really don’t stand a chance if they can’t grab me right away (though even in the case of many Switch games they still fail to grab me).
Zelda BotW grabbed me. I was hooked like a freshwater fish. Xenoblade X grabbed me, as did Xenoblade 2. Fire Emblem grabbed me. Persona 5 grabbed me (unfortunately lost interest, likely due to console only restriction as I tried Vita remote play which was so terribly low res and laggy I haven’t touched it since), Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate grabbed me, Monster Hunter World grabbed me. Dragon Quest grabbed me. Mario Odyssey and DKC Tropical Freeze grabbed me (in a different way though- I was addicted to the time trials in the rush of pushing the boundaries of my skill limits, and with Mario it was a different feeling, not the super in depth sucked in the world kind of addiction). But it seems most of the games that grab me now are story driven games (and being on Switch helps a lot, since I tend to lose interest quicker when I’m limited in where and when I can play), and I used to not be that way.
When I got back into gaming with the 3DS and Wii U, I loved platformers. But now, they just don’t keep me glued like they used to. DKC and Ori might be the only 2D platformers that truly grabbed me this gen. And with each passing year, they interest me less and less. Yooka is glorious, but it hasn’t managed to keep me playing ( part of that might be so much competition with other games though). And I had already played both DKC/Ori and had nostalgia for them. I feel like the more simple games just aren’t keeping me interested like they used to. More and more I feel like I’m gravitating towards games with a good story (not at the expense of gameplay though). I worry about Luigi’s Mansion 3 and Pokémon Sword. I worry they’re not going to grab me like I know they would have just a few years ago (for the record Pokémon has never looked this good, and Let’s Go finally got me into Pokémon a bit, but it failed to grab me and I think that just kind of goes to my whole point here). Which is crazy to me because Luigi’s Mansion 3 looks insanely good.
I hear Outer Worlds is great, so at least there’s that to look forward to when it comes to Switch. And Divinity Original Sin 2 is in the bullpen waiting, alongside DQXIS and Skyrim. But man... they need to bring more story driven, huge sprawling RPGs to Switch. I may play Cyberpunk when it drops. But on the other hand I would really like to wait and see if it comes to Switch a year or so afterward. They can say it’s unlikely but that’s what they all say before announcement. And Witcher 3 is doing great. I hope SMTV and Breath of the Wild 2 drops in 2020. And Metroid Prime 4 (unlikely for that one, but still). And Bayonetta 3 (which is not a sprawling story driven game but I love Bayonetta). That, alongside Outer Worlds and P5 Scramble would be enough.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Anyone here ordered Disgaea 4 preorder on Nisa EU shop? Did they ship them already? I didn’t get any ‘shipment on the way’ email and the game is supposed to be released tomorrow. From what i remember they used to ship preorders 3-4 days before release.
Finally finished Link's Awakening. Died about 140 times on Hero mode. It's a special little game, I can easily see why it's such a big part of many peoples' childhood
@PikPi I was obsessed with it when it came out on gameboy. Then again when I got my gameboy color and links awakening dx game in duty free area of airport. I cant remember how much I saved but I remember being happy about it. Love that game so much!
I still haven't played a link to the past. Can you believe that? Never had a snes (NES, then n64...) and haven't gotten around to playing it ever. Its sitting on my switch waiting. I'm sure I'll enjoy it once I finally load it up.
I 100%ed creature in the well and moved on to the flame in the flood. As it was only £5 or so in the sale. Seems alright. I'm sticking with it for now :]
It's the sort of game that just fits as I wait for Luigi's mansion. Gamexplains review was a bit lackluster If the combat really is mindlessly easy and repetitive that's gonna be a big blemish imo :/
@PikPi
I just finished my no death hero mode run. It's honestly the toughest for the first dungeon or two. After that point you get access to Tracy and you start to accumulate more hearts. Doing the color dungeon as soon as possible helps, too (I guess you can do it as soon as you can get to the graveyard?)
It is just such an excellent game. It is pretty small, so I can kinda/sorta get gripes over the price. I have about 20 hours in it so far, and that's a normal run and hero mode run. I haven't gotten all the hearts, collectibles, shells, in either save file, though. That could easily be another half dozen hours, especially if I don't use any guides.
Just a lovingly crafted game with solid gameplay. One of those games that I can just boot up, run around and swing the sword for awhile without actually accomplishing anything but still enjoy my time. I know everyone is psyched for BotW 2, but I really hope Nintendo finds time/small dev team to give us another original 2D Zelda in the future.
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