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Are videogames for children?

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AnsemSoD1 said:
They leapfrogged their competitors in sheer Jewishness.
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Switch 1's generation was handed to Nintendo on a silver platter, almost like how Sony was handed the market with PS1, except Nintendo is fumbling its position unlike Sony who only capitalized on it further with PS2.

This is Nintendo's PS3 moment. Depending on how badly it goes, arguably a Wii U 2 moment.
 
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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Switch 1's generation was handed to Nintendo on a silver platter, almost like how Sony was handed the market with PS1, except Nintendo is fumbling its position unlike Sony who only capitalized on it further with PS2.

This is Nintendo's PS3 moment. Depending on how badly it goes, arguably a Wii U 2 moment.
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I honestly want them to suffer so hard, that either they practically halve the price, or they are forced to port some of their games to PC.
 
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EmpGulcasa said:
I like how they saw that people didn't like paying $70 for games and decided to increase the price rather than decrease it. Sad thing is it'll probably work since Nintendo fanboys will pay for anything.
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The PS3 and the Nintendo 3DS say otherwise.
 
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I honestly want them to suffer so hard, that either they practically halve the price, or they are forced to port some of their games to PC.
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The latter would be devastating long-term because it'd be such a boon to Sony, a much greater cancer on gaming. Hopefully they just have regular sales like Valve, Sony, and Microsoft, that'd be a good middleground. Nintendo games never go on deep or early sales, either that needs to end or the prices need to drop.

They could rush a Switch 2 Lite to market to save face and bolster sales without dropping the main system's price too, I guess. They have options, but I bet they'll dig their feet in.

AnsemSoD1 said:
The PS3 and the Nintendo 3DS say otherwise.
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Wii U too. No way this bombs as hard as that but we're probably looking at 3DS situation, realistically.
 
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EmpGulcasa said:
I like how they saw that people didn't like paying $70 for games and decided to increase the price rather than decrease it. Sad thing is it'll probably work since Nintendo fanboys will pay for anything.
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Nintendo fans tend to be super nigger cattle so yes.
They're still under the delusion Mario 3D done the same time but now he's got a hat that turns him into a dog that does the same thing with barks. Really is worth 80 bucks.
 
Nick Obre said:
So the Switch 2 will be 450 USD, launches on June 5, and they announced a bunch of games, including a new Mario Kart and a new Fromsoft game called The Duskbloods
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Wasn't the original Switch $300? 450 seems like a lot of money when you compare it to Steam Deck and other handheld PC systems that have a larger library and are probably more powerful.
 
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EmpGulcasa said:
I like how they saw that people didn't like paying $70 for games and decided to increase the price rather than decrease it. Sad thing is it'll probably work since Nintendo fanboys will pay for anything.
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And also Soyny will fail to capitalize on that, by not making anti-Nintendo ads that say that "our games aren't $80, they're only $70," and then go on some tirade about how what you can do with the $10 saved.

And how long has it been since SEGA did their "Genesis Does What Nintendon't" ad campaign?
 
I could forgive the parties involved if the games were fresh-looking.

But finding out the new FromSoft game is ANOTHER battle royale has me unreasonably upset and annoyed beyond words. Mainly because I WAS curious and then I find out it's slop and I am very displeased with FromSoft hoping I don't notice it's slop.

Lost their balls, lost their brains, how do these clowns remember how to fucking breathe?!
 
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So I've been playing AC Shadows. I know. I'm about 50 hours in, and it feels like I'm about 60-70% done with the story and maybe 50% done with all the side content. It's very mediocre.

Pros:
  • It looks great for the most part. Some character faces are off and some of the weather effects look janky, but otherwise it's a nice looking game world.
  • Combat is fine. Very reliant on dodging and parrying if you're into that, though the game does give each character 3-4 weapons to choose from and you can only have 2 equipped at a time, which has lead me to basically only using 2 for each character and specializing in those.
  • This is just my brand of autism, but the base building has it's moments. It's got just enough little annoyances to keep it from being truly great, but I've sunk more time than I want to admit into making the HQ look nice despite not needing to at all.
  • Naoe is fine as a character, though they keep trying to make Yasuke the voice of reason by making her say/do stupid things.
  • Yasuke, while he should never have been a main character and if you can make yourself understand this game is absolutely not try to be historically accurate, is inoffensive for the most part. He's a stereotypical good guy with very few faults but it doesn't get especially egregious.
Cons:
  • The game railroads you into following roads everywhere by making the world around them either completely empty, nearly impossible to see due to how much foliage there is, or just making it impassable. Compare this to Odyssey and Valhalla where you could, and were often encouraged to, go off the beaten path. This wouldn't be such a big deal if they hadn't also gotten rid of the auto-following of the roads that you could do in the previous games. I have no idea what they were thinking with this omission, and all it does is annoy me when I have to follow the same winding roads over and over with nothing on them between POIs.
  • The music is inoffensive at best, retarded at worst. During regular gameplay you barely notice it and it's typical Japanese sneaky/combat stuff, but during cutscenes that are supposed to be exciting or important they slip in Japanese buttrock and hip-hop and every time it's happened it has taken me out of the game and made me question why why why. You also get little stingers whenever your character levels up. Naoe's is fine and suits the setting, Yasuke's could literally be taken from the background of a Drake song.
  • The story is really disjointed and the villains are dull. It does the same thing the last games did where you're tracking an organization down member by member, with each region having a big boss and some little dudes to work your way through and a smaller problem to solve that ties into the larger narrative, but the majority of them barely have anything to do with the main plot this time. At least half, maybe more, of the main guys you're hunting that you kill literally say "I have no idea about the macguffin, I was just doing my own thing" when you finally beat them, making it feel pointless.
  • The game LOVES Yasuke. Famous historical characters talk about how he's the greatest samurai, Nobunaga treats him like his best friend, historically loyal wives of famous people are romance options for him, nobody comments on the fact that he's black and a foot taller than anyone else in the world after the first cutscene he's in. In fact, his race hasn't been mentioned once in a negative or positive light since he was introduced for the first time. It makes zero sense given the setting.
  • I'm almost sure that the overarching villain is gonna end up being one of the two white guys who "owned" Yasuke at the beginning of the game. Lazy writing.
When the game first came out I told myself I'd play Naoe as much as possible since she actually fit gameplay and story wise, and I stuck with that for a while - that changed after clearing the 10th castle as Naoe, painstakingly stealthing through it over 30 minutes. It got tedious, so I tried doing one as Yasuke.. and it took me like 5 minutes, because he can burst in and kill everyone head on with zero danger. He has so much damage and self healing he's never at risk. So I've been using Naoe for most of the game but whenever there's a bunch of combat coming up I swap to Yasuke and trivialize it.

So far it's a 5 or 6/10 for me. That's all.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
And also Soyny will fail to capitalize on that, by not making anti-Nintendo ads that say that "our games aren't $80, they're only $70," and then go on some tirade about how what you can do with the $10 saved.

And how long has it been since SEGA did their "Genesis Does What Nintendon't" ad campaign?
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They did take the piss out of Microsoft with the "How to lend games in PlayStation" video (it was over a fucking decade ago jesus christ).

At the time they weren't in financial free-fall trying to grab anything that can bring them a whiff of revenue, so yeah they'll probably use it to match the price now rather than mock it.
But mockery is not out of their nature.
 
GloryToArztotska said:
"I ONLY WANTED TO BE LOVED." -R-110
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R-110 was quite an enjoyable sidekick.

I honestly wasn't expecting to laugh as much as I did when playing through Future Perfect. I mean, 2 did have moments of humor, but FP was just one hilarious moment after another, and without coming off as forced either, which is no small feat.

It's one reason why I like FP more than 2.
 
Also added quick-melee and quick-grenade to the game. It'd be easy to chalk it up as trying to ape Halo and CoD, but honestly I think it's only fitting for TS' fast arcade-y gameplay.

Also all three had great soundtracks. Graeme Norgate was peak.
 
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It's one of the few times I've actually enjoyed disco.


Also, it may be have one of the best uses of time-travel I've seen in any piece of fiction as well.


Dang, the more I discuss FP, the more I grow to love it.
 
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