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Inb4 "but this is a Nintendo-related site".

@NEStalgia Ha, The Return of Sanic...

@Northwind Good comment. It also immediately made me think about all those idiots that put too much stock into rumors and are then subsequently feeling all kinds of emotions, ranging from simply being disappointed to being downright furious when said (rumored) game isn't shown, when it was never officially confirmed or proven in the first place...

@NEStalgia Nah, I'm NEVER with the wrong group. I go with logic and with what's beneficial/good for all parties concerned, personal opinions of the deluded individual be damned...

As mentioned in my profile: I'm fighting the good fight...

EDIT:

On a side note: I do agree with some that it is basically an entire YEAR of nothing. Thanks to COVID-19, there's no OIympics, no Soccer championship, no other sports matches, no or few movie premieres or events and so on, and so on, so in the end, E3 was just another victim, and it isn't, as some people are also theorizing or even believing a matter of it already being on its last legs or something to that extent.

@NEStalgia This, EXACTLY this. Apparently only you, me and a small handful of others actually get what the point is.

I also see too many comments blurting out something like "meh, Nintendo didn't have to show anything anyways".

Erm... people, E3 isn't just about Nintendo, you know...

The world and society are definitely going down the train... erm, drain,
I tell you...

I most DEFINITELY missed E3, and VERY much so.

I also completely don't understand the people that don't. E3 is like Christmas for gamers: three days packed to the brim with just games and game-related information and showcases. Why the heck wouldn't you want to experience that?

Then again: what did I expect from an audience that's becoming more and more online-only/digital-only focused?

Speaking of focus: that's also something that E3 brings: one event to bring them all together, no indecisiveness on whether or not to host an online event, or us having to try and keep up with when what is going to be broadcasted, because when there's no E3 schedule or planning, they can just spread themselves thin across multiple months, because... well, actually just for the hell of it, or so it seems.

And another thing: far as Nintendo is concerned, I miss the REAL Treehouse sessions. This most recent streamed version of a Treehouse session was a VERY pale derivative of the actual thing. Those E3 Treehouse sessions may also not always be the most exciting, but they do always give me that "living room" feel, if you people know what I'm talking about. And that is also what I sorely missed.

In general, I didn't get the overall feeling of excitement that the three day roller coaster of focused E3 events and news always gave me, so far as I'm concerned, it had better come back in it's regular form next year. It probably does need some tweaking here and there, but it definitely isn't something I'd like to do without from now on.

Ridiculous that useless crap like this gets funded in mere hours/days, whereas great game ideas often fail to do so.

But hey, always wonderful to see even more useless pieces of plastic getting produced, I suppose...

@RPGamer Likewise.

@RPGamer Oh, don't get me wrong: not saying that you were doing that, just speaking in general.

Aside from that, I agree, although hate is a bit of a strong word. I thoroughly dislike them, but I'd sooner pity them than hate them, because I wouldn't be able to enjoy my life being so short-sighted, so I can imagine how hard it must be for them (or for the people forced to live with them), to live like that.

@RPGamer Well, any kind of fanboy, actually. I'm more of a multi-platform person, so I don't defend or attack any single console or group. It's pointless and petty. In general, my sentiment is that you should just play what you like, and enjoy whatever system(s) you own, long as you don't slam people that don't enjoy the same things as you do.

@k8sMum @Severian @shazbot @itslukec That's not the only mistake they made in this trailer.

Apparently, they also want you to "think your strategy" and "resolve your puzzles", which to me sounds like I have to solve my puzzles AGAIN after I've just done them already...

There's also some mistakes in the menu and inventory. For example: potion is called "sap"...

They had better hire someone to do spell checking and grammar, before they're actually going to release this game on consoles, otherwise it's even going to be of a far worse scope than the odd "all your base are belong to us"...

@NEStalgia "Forget the Switch Tax, the Playstation Tax is king now."

Haha, yeah. I am now instantly wondering how those crazy fanboys are going to justify that one, because "obviously", that's totally different from what's happening on the Nintendo Switch...

"As we all know, serious gamers need serious gaming kit to show how serious they are about gaming"

You can't use the term "serious gaming kit" and then show these decidedly for kids Nintendo designs...

All kidding aside, though: X-Rocker does make quality products, but I like mine in simple single or two-tone, usually black, as is my current chair, which is actually a comfy PC desk chair, which doubles as a gaming and nap-taking chair...

@Friendly You're welcome.

Would definitely love for this to happen. I friggin' hate Fifa, and I've always been a fan of the far more real football/soccer game that is ISS/Pro Evo, so far as I'm concerned, it can't come soon enough.

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Be sure to leave the /, otherwise, it won't work. The entire command line should look something like this:

@Bondi_Surfer Atari 2600 joysticks the best ones? Are you kidding me? THE best sticks for the Amiga were obviously the Competition Pro and the Suzo Arcade stick. There was nothing like them, certainly quality and control-wise.

Micro-switched joysticks ruled, back in the day, and probably even to this day, for certain game types.

@deadpixels It certainly would be.

Well, I most certainly did love the Amiga. In fact, I still do, and to this day, I'm still the proud owner of a dual boot A500, an A1200 with internal hard drive, and a CD32 with an SX32 module. Every now and then, I grab them out of the closet, and play a couple of the wonderful classic titles, from the literally thousands that these great systems had. Any and all multi-platform titles were nearly always better on the Amiga (bar the odd exception), both in graphics and in sound. Great systems, great games, and truly wonderful memories.

@deadpixels Why stop there? Why not a complete Team 17 Commodore Amiga Compendium/Collection? So many, many great classics...

@Kalmaro Yeah, if you feel like that, then it's probably the best thing to do, to get some useful insight on a game. Personally, I don't have such a negative view on professional reviewers. Sure, the fact that they ARE professional automatically means that they get paid to write, but I don't suspect them to simply be paid shills that write exactly whatever the publisher wants them to write.

Maybe slightly influenced by, so not entirely unbiased, but not a full-blown hand puppet of any kind of company, regardless of any perks they'll be offered. And at the end of the day, their job is what will still to some extent hold them back from becoming a raging fanboy or completely mindless review-bomber, so I'd still expect a professional review to be more well-thought out and written than something that joey25371 wrote...

But anyway, 'nuff said. We each have our own views on this, and I can respect that yours differ from mine, so I'll leave it at that.

@FrowningCoach Yeah, something like that would be a good solution as well. Probably not going to happen, though, seeing as they've only now implemented this bare bones solution, so if it takes them that long to implement something that simple, they'll probably not want to put in the effort to apply something that could be more effective, because that'll more than likely be too much work/time/energy, with minimal rewards in return for them.

@Kalmaro I saw a lot of people mention that game already, but seeing as I don't own any console from Sony, that one completely flew over my radar. Still, as I said, it's easier to control and/or sift through professional reviews, than through the myriad of user reviews, of which only a small part is actually useful.

On Breath of the Wild for example, I've seen the most ridiculous comments, even when people did not give it a zero, but they were still overly negative. Professional reviewers can of course also express their personal opinion, but any good reviewer should always be able to point out the good stuff as well, something that most negative user reviews don't do: they're just negative, and focusing on the bad stuff, or rather: perceived bad stuff, because at the end of the day, it's just a largely uninformed opinion of someone who isn't capable of writing a well-thought out and professional review.

@FrowningCoach True, journalism shouldn't be censored or controlled, but that's not what I meant. My idea was that since official game sites and/or journalists will be easily able to prove that they own a review copy of a game, and as such, will also have written an actual, contextual review (or preview) of it, their ratings can be taken far more seriously, 9 out of 10 times, whereas those useful user reviews you mentioned, are more like a handful, so maybe 2 or 3 out of 10 that are actually useful, so these are few and far between.

So, it would be about verified play time sessions, and actual, extensive experience with a game, instead of any kind of opinion largely or fully based upon nothing but a dislike or hate of a game, platform or publisher.

@FrowningCoach @Kalmaro Well, professional reviewers can be far more easily checked/controlled as opposed to the average Joe, who might either have a beef with a company, a console or a certain game, so to put rules and regulations on them to see to it that the scores will be fair is far easier to do than to try and control the insane masses that are just giving out 0's or 10's for the hell of it.

Like others have said, that 36 hour cool-down period isn't going to work, it'll just delay the inevitable.

So, instead of that, I have the perfect solution: simply remove any and all user scores, and just leave it up to the professionals. Metacritic is supposed to be an aggregate score site anyways, so an aggregate of all professional and actually serious reviews is all we need anyways.

This will protect games from both review-bombing and fanboy hype praising.

@Stocksy Completely agreed with your summing up and subsequent conclusion concerning all of the something somethings...

@DoktorTotenKopf All great shows in their own right. I watched them all, and I still own the entire Buffy series and the Firefly movie.

@DoktorTotenKopf Ah, I see. Well, at least that's a friend with good taste, then.

@DoktorTotenKopf Yeah, it's pretty good. Grabbed me from the very first episode, and I've been hooked all the way to the last episode.

Just out of curiosity: did you mean you watched them just now, or already some time ago?

@DoktorTotenKopf I assume by "access" you mean edit? I can access it just fine, so it seems public, unless of course the restriction is on an individual basis, which would make sense with a site-applied restriction.

Either way, again: welcome back, we'll chat some more later. Glad you liked the movie. I do have a series to recommend, now that I think about it, and it is one that contrary to many other shows actually had a good ending. It's called The Strain, and it's about vampires in a modern, more realistic setting than most other vampire related series.

Maybe you already know about it, but in case you don't, or if you do but have never bothered to actually watch it, then I can heartily recommend it. There's 4 seasons in total, and it's a fully completed story line, so no loose ends left hanging. The original network it was on, was FX, but it is now viewable on Netflix.

@DoktorTotenKopf So you ARE him? I was already wondering who else I recommended that movie to. The plot thickens, though: the other user profile is still there as well...

@DoktorTotenKopf So, vampires and stuff, but no NoNoseNosferatu... I'm kind of at a loss here...

Can't wait to see the first YouTube modders turning this in to an ACTUALLY working console...

@DoktorTotenKopf So... does the word "Reader" mean anything in regards to your former name?

@DoktorTotenKopf Crazy question: what are your thoughts on pineapple on pizza?

@DoktorTotenKopf So... many... Mario... question mark... blocks...

@DoktorTotenKopf Ah, well. Personally, I never got any further than an official warning, so I can imagine being banned must really suck. The truth of what was the cause of it, will probably lie somewhere in the middle, it's almost never a one-way street, save for the odd exception.

Either way, hope you've cleared your head about that experience, and that you'll be able to hang around here for a bit longer.

A partial hint to the artist that was formerly you would still be nice, though...

@DoktorTotenKopf So, no lifting of any lids, then? Not even a little?
I honestly hate mysteries, no offense. And on a side note: I'd like to know who I'm talking to.

If you made a new account because you were banned or something,
I can understand the secrecy, but otherwise, not so much.

As for the movie recommendations: that's actually not something I do very often, to be honest. It just came about in the conversation with NoNoseNosferatu, so it was a natural flow in my exchange with him.

@rjejr He sometimes comes across as an automaton, or someone with a serious case of being emotionally detached. Perhaps he's autistic.

Or perhaps he simply IS an emotionless maniac. Wouldn't surprise me one bit. Either way, I'll definitely pop a bottle of bubbly if a truck runs him over one day, that's for sure.

@rjejr And the fact that he looks like an emotionless serial killer is certainly also not doing him any good in my book...

@rjejr Well, for me personally, it doesn't have anything to do with turning 50: I've already had that exact same sentiment ever since my early thirties. If anything, it has simply worsened, or far as I'm concerned, it has been refined, so I can express my feelings a bit more elaborate and with even more venom and vitriol.

Sure, there are good people everywhere, but I'm not so much talking about the people, but about those media themselves: the underlying mechanics are what I absolutely detest, hence my hate for people like Zuckerberg.

If I could actually snap people out of existence like my avatar, I definitely wouldn't hesitate to do so, not even for a micro-second. Without SOB's like him, the world would already be a little bit better.

@rjejr Ah, okay. No, nothing to do with life being better over here or not understanding it in the context of the comment, I've really never heard of it.

Must be my total aversion and, ahem... "canceling" of social media and it's deplorable culture and following, why I wasn't yet familiar with that term. And now that I know of it, I actually feel a little dumber instead of smarter. Social media does that to an extremely logical and empathic person like me.

Social media makes no sense, has no essential use, and is primarily used for the betterment of individual egos, so far as I'm concerned, it's dead yesterday, along with psychopathic b****rds like Darth Zuckerberg.

@rjejr I'm back, and fully sober. Comment made a bit more sense now, save for the cancel culture bit. No idea what that is. My musical taste is VERY broad, though, so it goes from classical to rock, from pop to fado, so chances are that I might like it...

@DoktorTotenKopf I'm honestly racking my brain right now, thinking about who else I recommended that movie to, and I'm coming up with nothing so far. Oh, well...

@DoktorTotenKopf Care to elaborate? You've caught me in an ever so slightly inebriated condition...

@rjejr That entire comment was almost like reading an entirely different language to me. Please elaborate. Computing error...
(probably also due to being slightly inebriated thanks to a healthy intake of Bacardi & Coke)

@DoktorTotenKopf You're very welcome, user formerly known as NoNoseNosferatu... ?

@HappyMaskedGuy If you actually end up doing so, be sure to let me know what you think of it. I wouldn't want to have given a bad recommendation...

@HappyMaskedGuy I can honestly say I've never done that.
I did do some peach palming once, in the back of a car, though...

@HappyMaskedGuy Truer words have never been spoken.
Now go and play Being A DIK, if you haven't done so already...

@rjejr Yeah... that definitely is a bit of an annoyance, isn't it? Sometimes, less is more, but the NLife comments section just won't allow it...

Even besides the "game" itself, the description is also laughably bad, so apparently, there's no quality control on that either...

@NEStalgia And rewinding them by sticking a pen or pencil in one of the spools...