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Are videogames for children?


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Let me sidetrack a bit: I have a few games that I could 100% if I sit down and play through them, but those collectibles can be tedious to search for, even with a guide.
 
Atari had the bright idea to re-announce out a new Handheld for release on the same year as the Switch 2
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For reference this is the same Atari that brought us these beauties :
 
That looks like the most un-ergonomic thing I've seen since mad catz controllers.
God Mad Catz is awful. Years ago I had a R.A.T 3 Titanfall collectors edition mouse from them and it was biggest piece of dog shit I've ever used. Just look at this thing:s-l1600.webp

I pulled that picture from this Ebay listing and curiously people are trying to sell these things for a ton of money. There's no way people are actually buying this... right?
 
God Mad Catz is awful. Years ago I had a R.A.T 3 Titanfall collectors edition mouse from them and it was biggest piece of dog shit I've ever used.
Dang, I had one of those too. Not a titanfall edition but oh god the rat 7 or 9? The wireless one. I got it when I built my first PC and it sure looked slick on the box but I don't think I kept it longer than six months.
 
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God Mad Catz is awful. Years ago I had a R.A.T 3 Titanfall collectors edition mouse from them and it was biggest piece of dog shit I've ever used. Just look at this thing:s-l1600.webp
Mad Catz controllers didn't even look like the real thing let alone function like one. I mean what is this? Why is the B button in the wrong place? Why is the D-pad so close to the stick? Why do the handles look like novelty condoms?

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Atari had the bright idea to re-announce out a new Handheld for release on the same year as the Switch 2
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For reference this is the same Atari that brought us these beauties :
Dumb name, no dual analog sticks indicating it won't play anything remotely modern, and it's overpriced ($150).

Why can't anybody else enter this market in earnest anymore? It'd be more expensive but much more lucrative.
 
Atari had the bright idea to re-announce out a new Handheld for release on the same year as the Switch 2
AFAIK modern Atari is the same company as what Infogrames was prior to 2003. Just for reference, some 20 years ago they had the Atari Flashback 2 based on actual 2600 hardware.

With retro stuff becoming popular again I'm wondering why they waste time and money on this shit and not something like a Jaguar mini-console. Sure, it might show that the Jaguar was ass and do terrible in the marketplace, but at least it will be a better console than that. And play better games.
 
Atari had the bright idea to re-announce out a new Handheld for release on the same year as the Switch 2
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For reference this is the same Atari that brought us these beauties :
So apparently the Switch 2 was delayed so that it could compete with this, yet Shitendo still left off the paddle control so it's going to get stuck with inferior versions of Breakout etc.
 
Finished my 2nd run of The Division and still really enjoyed it, though the difficulty spike towards the end made my glad it was over when it was. Moving on to the Avatar Ubislop game next. Big maps with lists of stuff to check off usually tickle my autism, let's see if that's still the case when I don't care even a little about the setting.
 
Demo for Kaze Emanuar's Return to Yoshi's Island ( most known for the entire engine being rewritten and optimized constantly. ) has finally released another demo after 5+ years of development(iirc). Hopefully we will finally get the full game this year.
Edit: the project may not work on your emulator due to inaccurate emulation, here's what he said if you are having issues with emulation.
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Sat here in/uninstalling and un/hiding games on Steam for fucking weeks now, unable to decide on anything, and if I do, it's a 12 hour indie. "But at least I'm not playing WoW!" I tell myself, knowing it'd be a better use of my time. I grift this concept of "Either I buckle into WoW again or I randomly hope to get into some random game that'll come out of thin air". It's not so much WoW I'm against but the danger of always having an mmo to fall back on, rather than go "Nah, I'll try this random game cause why not", which won't happen if the alternative is grinding some shit in WoW. :(

I think there's a good chance Switch 2 is gonna have a stacked launch window.
Every new Nintendo console should have a new iteration of each of their IPs, or at least most of them. Instead you'll get a zelda or two, a mario kart, a handheld tier mario, a donkey kong, a kirby, and then maybe a samus remake/demake of an old project. Their games aren't big and demanding enough that they can't put out twice as many, or at least keep supporting their console past the second year where they simply draw back and rely on indies instead.
 
Every new Nintendo console should have a new iteration of each of their IPs, or at least most of them. Instead you'll get a zelda or two, a mario kart, a handheld tier mario, a donkey kong, a kirby, and then maybe a samus remake/demake of an old project. Their games aren't big and demanding enough that they can't put out twice as many, or at least keep supporting their console past the second year where they simply draw back and rely on indies instead.
I agree, you can only count on Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon to certainly be there. Actually, Zelda barely counts either because Wii U didn't get its own exclusive Zelda. Ain't no way they can't get someone to make a new fucking 2D Donkey Kong more than once a decade. How long's it been since a Wario game aside from Warioware has come out? I don't get it, it ain't like there's so many games on their systems coming out that they just can't fit it into their jam-packed schedule.
 
I agree, you can only count on Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon to certainly be there. Actually, Zelda barely counts either because Wii U didn't get its own exclusive Zelda. Ain't no way they can't get someone to make a new fucking 2D Donkey Kong more than once a decade. How long's it been since a Wario game aside from Warioware has come out? I don't get it, it ain't like there's so many games on their systems coming out that they just can't fit it into their jam-packed schedule.
Nintendo loyalists buy several consoles if they've got different stickers on them. Nintendo can reveal a console and people will preorder it, not knowing anything about the games it'll have. Shit, are any of the games in the reveal new? I genuinely can't tell. Is the kart a new iteration? Imagine a new console trying to enter the market with sub-60 fps, sub 1080p, monthly paid online usage, partial cloud storage, and no longer getting first-party games after 18 months. It's actually nuts. And iirc Metroid Dread was a discarded 3DS project that they brought back up and finished.

People are out here hoping for ubisoft and blizzard to fail solely based on their disrespecting of fans, whereas Nintendo could sell literal logs of shit and people would buy it. Not even Supreme can hope of this level of brand loyalty with their Supreme Brick.
 
Anyone got any thoughts on "Squirrel with a Gun"?

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I've taken a look at it myself; it's basically just a game where you play as a squirrel with the ability to attack secret agents, steal their guns, and shoot them. Fairly basic open world, plot's fairly nonsensical, something about a secret agency creating golden acorns for... whatever reason, and the squirrel deciding to steal them. You can also collect outfits and skins for your squirrel, though they don't really offer any bonuses. It's a game based on LOLRORANDOM humor, essentially.

I'm torn on it myself; I played it a little bit, wasn't all that impressed but I am willing to give it another shot. General consensus I've seen with reviews is that, while the game isn't high art or the next Half Life, it's still a goofy little "fun" game designed more as a sandbox for screwing around in than anything. That said, there's been a roadmap drop:

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Little bit... hesitant... on the future of the game, especially since there's a faggot update for this coming June.

That said, what do you guys think? Worth getting the game again, or no?
 
Anyone got any thoughts on "Squirrel with a Gun"?

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I've taken a look at it myself; it's basically just a game where you play as a squirrel with the ability to attack secret agents, steal their guns, and shoot them. Fairly basic open world, plot's fairly nonsensical, something about a secret agency creating golden acorns for... whatever reason, and the squirrel deciding to steal them. You can also collect outfits and skins for your squirrel, though they don't really offer any bonuses. It's a game based on LOLRORANDOM humor, essentially.

I'm torn on it myself; I played it a little bit, wasn't all that impressed but I am willing to give it another shot. General consensus I've seen with reviews is that, while the game isn't high art or the next Half Life, it's still a goofy little "fun" game designed more as a sandbox for screwing around in than anything. That said, there's been a roadmap drop:

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Little bit... hesitant... on the future of the game, especially since there's a faggot update for this coming June.

That said, what do you guys think? Worth getting the game again, or no?
This sort of game loses its appeal quickly, and the fact that they have a whole update slated for alphabet people is enough to turn me off entirely. It's one thing to just have a rainbow flag cosmetic in a game, but this? Not a good sign.
 
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