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@CharlieGirl at the time of arcades they were the most polished experience you could get. We are not literally comparing an old arcade game to a modern mobile game. Just comparing the experience. And the experience of a mobile game is for the most part, subpar to that of your average AAA game.

@Grot arcades are not exactly the same thing, especially when you realize just how much money people are shelling out for a single mobile title that may or may not be dead at any given time. At least with arcades you are getting a more polished gaming experience, and then you could buy the machine if you really wanted to. With mobile titles people are shelling out hundreds to thousands over the life of the title for a mid at best gaming experience.

@Screen true, but at least they cost less.

Sucks that these service games aim to take your money and in The end you get nothing out of it once the service dies.

Turn based?!
slaps credit card on table
Im Gonna need that slap slap I want that

@JustMonika not for switch yet but try late shift. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was.

I clearly understand people can have different opinions but if your talking about greatest games ever I’m not voting wit my heart I’m making an informed decision l. I don’t care if re4 is more popular, the impact it had on gaming as a whole was not as large as sotn. hell, it’s not even the best Re game( even at the time it came out).this is all arguable of course, which is why I’d never rate it over sotn, even if I was biased against re4(which I’m not).

This brackets just seems like an American kids popularity contest and it’s trash bd I’m over it.

@Clarice just stop. It’s not really a defendable argument. There’s Clearly undertones with that type of wordplay which makes it very inappropriate.

@Rosona “while sotn is awesome..”
no you truly don’t understand how sotn is literally one of the best games of all time. There is literally a entire genre of games defined because of it (metrioidvania is a thing but usually when the phrase is used it means a sotn styled game specifically ). It’s always up there in gaming top lists so for it to lose to some like re4 is childish at best. I mean honestly, the entire bracket looks like it was picked by kids who started playing games in the mid 2000’s. Newer games generally beat out older ones so the age of the people voting and not actually gaming knowledge Is clear.

I just cannot listen to a dub for series like these. I guess it’s cool if dubs are your thing.

@meeto_1 Netflix isn’t to blame for that, the content and cable providers are. Once things like Netflix started popping up cable providers started snatching up content providers to create their own services and existing content providers basically started holding thier content hostage (Viacom, etc) to raise prices, which is why Netflix was forced into making thier own content to stay relevant.

At the end of the day the establishment (cable and content providers) will get thier money. The only way to give them the finger is the go back to pirating, which is basically what it’s coming down to.

@Clarice ghetto auto? Settle down.

First of all how did symphony of the night lose to re4…. Like this is a best of bracket for high schoolers.

Might finally pick up Scott pilgrim

These Chinese devs/publishers must be stopped… seriously

This is great. Don’t listen to the haters when you collectively make you’re voice heard sometimes they listen

Glad my import Japan deluxe edition isn’t affected. Ngl tho I did want the baby sonic keychain but the coin is cool too

@Heavyarms55 you cannot get banned for hardware spoofing, only spoofing using modified apps.

For example, using iTools on your pc will get you banned. Using iTools Bluetooth dongle and legitimately spoofing the gps location on your device will not, which is why as a fail safe they have up to a 2 hr cool down to prevent people from abusing it. I just spoof my local area (I live in the US New York area) so there’s little to no risk.

Get yourself an iPad connected to Ethernet, get yourself a dongle and spoof. Ever since the pandemic and working a 12 hr job from home and having 0 anything in a 6 block radius from me I have been basically unable to play the game outside of incense (and that’s gone now too). Once I started spoofing mixed with a local raiding discord I can now fully enjoy the game more than I have in the 5 years I’ve been playing on normally. I suggest most other people getting shafted by niantic do the same.

Tps2, tps1/2 remake, and underground 2. That’s it(Nintendo wise)

This is exactly why I cheat and spoof my gps these days. I work from home and I still barely get out, and on saturdays when I work I can’t do things like community days or spotlight hrs anymore since incense will go back to not working anymore while stationary. There’s no stops or gyms within a ten block radius of my house so I have to be going somewhere to even play the game normally.

The covid changes were better for the game as a whole.

Mania, sonic 2 and cd for me. Not sure what’s best

This is a good article. Personally for me I’m torn between harvest moon 64 and psx back to nature. I’m kinda of learning more towards 64 just for the artwork alone

@MysteryCupofJoe I could understand that if it was a retro title, but a full fledged 3d game with a bundle of retro titles extra is a bit too much to ask, especially when that’s something they could (and are) going to release separately. Plus most people have these games on some platform already, just gimmie the physical items(personally)

@SalvorHardin I think with the switch hardware and colors being fond in a lot of peoples memories it was a good idea. Colors was just tailor made for a switch release. There’s plenty of time to do SA or SA2(I’d rather SA1) but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re waiting for the right opportunity, especially with those being as core to the sonic franchise as the original 16 bit one are.

@MysteryCupofJoe these are not the same type of things so it’s weird you even make it a complaint. Sure, if your asking on its own why don’t you get extra games ok. but to say, instead of a physical pre order bonus just give me more games, is very weird.

They do these things because it’s shown that people love physical pre order bonus’s and collections. To be totally honest I’m buying this new colors specifically for that extra collectible and I’m sure a lot of others are too. If it were just a digital bonus sonic game I wouldn’t care.

P.s. I wish they’d bring the sonic hats back from the original colors pre order

@MysteryCupofJoe this is a publisher decision. And believe it or not people love this type of collectible merchandise. Especially when it come to sega and especially in Japan. Nintendo does this kind of stuff all the time and people love it.

Already ordered form the sega jp shop

@ChakraStomps for one duo isn’t a gaming phone or a console, it just happens to play games and Microsoft spent the time to add those features just as a bonus. As far as the price the build quality of the duo is better than the black shark 3 and 4 ( so you do get what you pay for) but on top of that it has two screens and other unique functionality, and is the very first one so I would expect the price to be where it’s at.

But I’d rather not talk about what devices are than the duo for gaming that’s besides the point. That’s nit the intention of the article and a pointless discussion here tbh.

@Heavyarms55 lol it’s 2 phones stuck together that’s why. It just happens to do other things.

@B4L0R_CLUB it doesn’t matter what the device is or how much it is people will always complain about the price. It’s not even about accessibility at that point. Just people de railing the conversation about something we all know is going to be expensive, as in this case, a dual screen cutting edge PHONE. I could see if it were a strictly gaming console but it’s a phone, like no duh it’s gonna be expensive, but the point is, Microsoft made custom game pass configuration and button layouts for 50 games on their dual screen device. Let’s talk about those things…

@The_New_Butler yes “style” as in “distinctive appearance “ which is accurate. Screen on top, touch screen at bottom, even distinct OG DS bezel around the top screen. Other than no physical buttons your comment was more about mechanical workings. You really were overthinking it. It wasn’t that deep sir.

@yosher all I’m saying is please stop complaining about price when it just a feature article. It just promotes better conversation. You can scroll past this and ignore it if you want to as well it goes both ways.

@The_New_Butler I don’t think you do, if so you wouldn’t have made that comment in the first place but ok bro.

@yosher I’m not just singling you out, it’s everyone. Every time there’s an article about a cool peice of tech or a feature there’s always a bunch of people whining about price, ruining the conversation. We couldn’t even talk about Mario legos without multiple users derailing it with complaints about price. I’m just saying, please stop.

@Mountain_Man
It’s not a game console so if you’re a getting a duo it’s not just so you can play games. No one buys a cutting edge phone just to play games, but it’s nice to have as an added feature which is why Microsoft went the extra effort to add it. Comparing prices of two different devices, that are designed to do different things is not worth

@yosher you can comment however you’d like but like I said it’s a tech article about a cool feature, it’s not a hardware review, it’s just a totally useless comment to talk about price. It’s a PHONE we all know cutting edge phones are over 1k these days.

@Mountain_Man you’re comparing a phone to a game console…. Two totally separate things

@Ghost_of_Hasashi I don’t think she was saying she wanted it specifically for gamepass, the duo itself is an amazing device. It’s bleeding edge and does a lot of basic thing mediocrely but it does things other phones and devices can’t. It’s definitely going to be more than a niche in the future

@nhSnork
Game pass games can be downloaded on android it’s not just streaming.

@The_New_Butler the subject clearly states “ds vibes”
You understand what a vibe is right? It also stated that it turns the duo into a “ds style” device.
Style and vibes sir. No one said it was a ds, just ‘ds like’.

And they are right, that huge border around the game really gave me ds bezel flashbacks

@Yosher can we please for a second stop mentioning price on clear tech articles. It’s two iPad minis stuck together with phone connectivity that’s bleeding edge, we know it’s expensive, we know you won’t buy it, we don’t care. It just muddies the conversation.

People just have to stop buying them form scalpers plain and simple. I know it’s sucks but just stop creating demand and they’ll stop.

@liveswired the flack they get is well deserved. EA is one of the worst third party companies and in general they have more cons than pros.

Lol they are lying 😭. If sales slump they will integrate that studio so fast. I hate ea so much. We’ve seen what they can do to studios.

I was able to get one after 4 hours in queue the first time around but honestly it’s trash. It doesn’t reward being early just gives you any random spot, so people who came in late were able to check out faster than a lot of people who were waiting since the moment they went up.
Hopefully they have enough for everybody to keep the scalpers losing.

Saw this the other day. Looks like humble is turning more into a generic storefront everyday. Like honestly who buys games with them? I only came for the bundles and to donate and that’s all I care about, but they keep going in the opposite direction every year.

They don’t even notify me of bundles anymore, just game deals....like bro I don’t care.

@RupeeClock it was a rhetorical question

Who approved this article 🤣

@GrailUK wait until all the free months run out and games start leaving the service. Then everyone is spending 30 dollars a month for a service that’s giving you limited time run gaming(third party of course)

I think the utility of the switch helps e shop sales. I’ll buy games twice sometimes just to play on the go.

why do people act like just because sonic is segas biggest franchise that’s it’s somehow the only franchise it taps. It’s not.

I’d have 4 switches if Nintendo just had a single sign on and easy save transfer.