@NEStalgia I didn't sell anybody a console, I originally replied to him because he said that Xbox didn't have good not "mature" games. Then he said the genres that he likes and I mentioned a few games for anyone into innocent stuff. That's it. It was about making some games visible and destroy a cliché. Mentioning you as a RPG expert was supposed to be a compliment.
@ThanosReXXX True. There's a lot of dude-bro stuff in the marketing, though both X1 and PS4 is filled primarily with dude-bro stuff. At least the "bigger" games. Still, although I prefer X1 to PS4 by a game quantity of 4:1 these days, purely from a general audience RPG perspective (which is what I was summoned for ), I have a harder time recommending the platform when I think Nintendo, and to a lesser degree, Sony may have a little more catering toward those tastes. When I try to think of games in the RPG for T or below category for X1 has that you can't also get on Switch, I end up with a smaller list than when I do the same exercise for PS4. Obviously if we open it up to other genres that might be a different equation. I'm just going from the RPG angle. And of course if we're including things like Spyro etc that are on both PS4 and X1 but not Switch, it opens it up much more as well. Most of my top picks (FF, WoFF, Earthlock, etc, are also on Switch so there's nothing to gain by getting an X1 or PS4 for those if you already have the best platform, Switch )
Darksiders....the plot is kind of a mess at this point, so I wouldn't be too concerned about which order to play them. Technically all 3 stories so far are all happening simultaneously, so you're seeing 1/3 perspectives of events during the same period of time and learning about what's going on overall from any of the 3. If you play War first you learn about the broken seal, War's accusation and the invasion of earth. If you play Death first, you learn about the broken seal, War's accusation, and the invasion of earth. If you play Fury first you learn about the broken seal, War's accusation, and the invasion of Earth. It's like Kingdom Hearts....it's not supposed to make sense, you just take it for what it is
@ThanosReXXX Fortunately (usually) X1 is my all digital platform so as long as it's digitally available (and it is) I'm good! OTOH, Deus Ex: HR: Director's Cut and Castlevania LoS1 are among the pile you can play physically but not digitally. (Heck if it were a physical platform I wouldn't be able to open my front door with all the boxes stacked up, at this point...Switch already has me walled in. )
@PolarExperience Well, that's exactly what I already told him: that you might be interested, but we more or less needed to show you what games are available for it, that you may or may not know about yet.
I think that between me and @BlueOcean, we've already come up with a quite interesting short list for you to check and see if those might possibly qualify.
'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.'
@PolarExperience I thought as much FWIW, it's a great system, it's my favorite next to Switch (and in some areas, my favorite), and it definitely does have a ton of great games in various genres, including ones you're interested in. But I didn't think you were terribly interested in one for now, and Switch more and more is overlapping with games on here you'd like anyway, which is great!
@DarthNocturnal Assignments, though, doesn't the responding SOS player have to have beaten it first though? So if you're trying to coop with an individual instead of randoms, one of you has to play everything in the game solo before any of it can be done together.....so one of you has to play everything twice. That's not co-op, The Game Awards be darned.
@NEStalgia No, I'm not "doing my Xbox thing", I was genuinely trying to help and inform someone to complete the partial picture that he had, much like what @BlueOcean was also trying to do, to eradicate some preconceived notions about the platform.
'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.'
What Xbox thing I do? I've been playing Xenoblade Chronicles X more than anything else lately. Read the comments again because you are off. He said that there are no good no-mature games on Xbox so I listed three exclusives in the last 13 months that are not mature. Then he mentioned the genres that the likes (I was not the one who asked) and I just posted a few examples for each genre that are not mature, something that I consider a normal thing to do. He suggested to be interested in an Xbox console and I advised to wait and check the rumoured new models. You call me salesman for that. What should I call you then for doing what you do? Troll? Hater?
You and that other weirdo are the only ones bashing Xbox on the only Xbox thread that exists while I just like to stay positive on Xbox topics and if somebody says that all exclusive games are mature I just prove them wrong. It's a NORMAL thing to do on the "official" Xbox thread, as if I go to the PS4 or Switch threads and say that they don't have mature or teen games what would you expect to happen? Would you tell them that they are doing "their Nintendo thing" or "their Sony thing" or you only do that to the Xbox minority that dwells in Nintendo Life?
@BlueOcean Nono, Thanos is doing the XBox thing, not you.
Though ironically I come to read this post after I literally just posted in the Playstation thread that the build quality of PS2 through current excluding PS3 phat feel "like they're made of recycled milk bottles and a hobby electronics kit. "
@BlueOcean Whoa there, sport. He said that I was doing my Xbox thing, not you.
No need to fly off the handle, nothing insulting has been said, well, at least not intended to take seriously, so I'm afraid you're reading him wrong, because he was just kidding, so no need for name calling.
(don't even know who is supposed to be "the other weirdo", because I haven't seen anyone acting like that)
And I supported you as well, so no harm was intended, alright? No offense, man, but you could really do with lightening up a bit, and not taking everything that's written so literally.
I thought we were already long past the whole misunderstanding each other part...
@BlueOcean Nono, Thanos is doing the XBox thing, not you.
Though ironically I come to read this post after I literally just posted in the Playstation thread that the build quality of PS2 through current excluding PS3 phat feel "like they're made of recycled milk bottles and a hobby electronics kit. "
Oops, then I misread something there. I though you were talking to PolarExperience about ThanosReXXX and me and I had a flashback where I didn't really know you and you looked like a troll but now that I know you it's obvious that you are not and actually enjoy your posts and even appreciate you as a person, you are good-humoured and wise but not pedant, although sometimes you use 10x more lines than me to say exactly the same thing (remember arcade sticks). Sorry for getting too serious there, friends?
I am not a huge Switch fan but I am a huge Wii U and SNES Classic fan and I have a PS4 even though I play it the least, same as you. The PS Classic is certainly a piece of rubbish according to Digital Foundry. When I bought the PS4 on launch I thought that the store would include all the PS and PS2 classics that were available on the store and that was the main reason why I bought one because I was Nintendo-only until this generation.
@BlueOcean No worries, man. Glad we got that one straightened out. For a minute there, I had the "oh no, here we go again feeling", but luckily, that isn't the case.
Everybody happy, @DarthNocturnal included, whom I was just about to ask "who died and made you moderator?"
All completely in jest, obviously...
@DarthNocturnal@ThanosReXXX No need to worry, I was not angry at all. It was just a reflection. Is the Switch thread chill or is that supposed to be sarcastic? Because sarcasm can't be assumed in decontextualized short texts and I haven't checked that thread lately. So yeah, I wonder what thread is stirred up. This one?
@BlueOcean I've no idea. I'm never in it, since I haven't got a Switch (yet).
Funny you should mention wondering about sarcasm, though, because the reason I responded to you in my previous comment, is because you seemed to be angry in your post to NEStalgia. Goes to show you how we still always perceive/interpret other people's messages in our own way, regardless of the original intent of the one who actually wrote it...
@NEStalgia always tries to pre-empt any negativity and/or anger by slapping a whole crate of smileys in his posts, but apparently, that also doesn't seem to work with everybody...
@DarthNocturnal Yeah, I'm really not sure how it won "best co-op" when it's probably the worst implemented co-op I've seen in a modern game. Which is a shame it could be amazing, and I know they did it that way to prevent carrying, but it's just so broken when you try to play co-op with someone and the method of doing that is to both play the mission separately, just so you can re-play the exact same mission together. It's more or less a single player game at that point. Which is just freaky for Monster Hunter.
@BlueOcean No worries, water under the bridge and all that
Yeah, that PS Classic is.....amazingly awful. I get that they didn't want to cut into current titles like Crash and Spyro remasters, but the fact that XBox and Switch have more of the PS1's most famous games than the PS Classic does is painful to watch. The best thing it has on it is FFVII....which is also coming to Switch and XBox.
Switch thread is a Nintendo fan thread, so it's inherently full of vitriolic Nintendo hating and knight in shining armor Nintendefense. It's good most of the time....but certain people can stir it up to Slig era levels of fun.
@ThanosReXXX And thanks for the assist, just in case!
@NEStalgia You don't have to worry about me, like Banjo I have a good heart.
Yeah and some of them have interesting names, SwitchForce? I don't even know what to reply because I don't know if they are for real. It's obvious that some of them have never played an Xbox or PS game. And the haters, well, some surreal comments to be read too. I should have a look.
Don't you think that PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro also have that cheap-looking plastic? I think that the launch model looks best.
@BlueOcean It's like losing an ugly contest....."The Eraser" isn't terribly pretty, but the gloss & matte does look a little better than the others. PS2, PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim, PS4 launch to a lesser degree, PS4 Slim, and PS4 Pro all have that horrible horrible plastic. It actually doesn't look as bad as when you touch it and feel just how bad it is. Somehow on PS sites that plastic gets praised somehow for not showing fingerprints. Well, of course it doesn't, it looks like ABS scraps that were rough sanded and unfinished.
It's a shame, the Pro actually looks pretty from a distance with the silver logo on the side. I have it and the X standing vertically side by side, and across the room the Pro looks decent, and the light bar looks kind of cool, but busy with the 3 layer design. But up close the inconsistent color and rough finish of the plastic really do make it comparatively cheap.
The winner of the ugly contest definitely goes to the PS3 ultra slim or whatever they called it. That thing is the worst designed console that screams "We don't want you buying PS3s anymore. Please, just don't."
I'm hoping with the X1 XS or whatever that's going for absolute cost reduction it doesn't stoop anywhere near that low
@NEStalgia Ha! That would be SO like them...
Luckily, any softmod won't be officially supported, so no proprietary first party add-ons needed...
I do wonder what amount of memory is in there. There's currently 20 games on there, but much like with the NES and SNES Classic, that doesn't necessarily mean that all of it's storage space is used, so would potentially be interesting to see what hackers could accomplish with that.
Then again; it's not just the so-so titles they put on there that ruin the device. Many also comment on the sub-par emulation and lack of screen filters, so it's pretty bare threads, compared to Nintendo's efforts so far. But perhaps that can all be remedied by hopefully being able to install a better emulator or core, such as the RetroArch core on the Nintendo Minis.
@BlueOcean Ah... that guy. Yeah, he has a rather outspoken view, and his belief in his own opinion as the right one might also stem from him having a YouTube channel and his very own audience already.
Actually, come to think of it, several of these loudmouths do, so I might be on to something there...
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