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julianh, do gaming w Interactive Loading Screens - High Hell

They’re not interactive but Spec Ops: The Line’s loading screens stick out to be. They start out as pretty standard tips and lore info, but then starts giving you stuff like the definition of ptsd, a fun fact about increasing suicide rates in the military, or just telling you you’re not a good person. Occasionally the normal loading screen is entirely replaced with a ghostly image.

Kissaki,

That sounds like great game design. Using the loading screen as an extension of the game direction and concepts, adding to it.

authorinthedark, do gaming w Interactive Loading Screens - High Hell

the worst kind of interactive loading screen is one that is fun on a game that loads quickly.

This is of course a problem that should only be complained about and never fixed, please don’t make your game load slower just so that i have enough time to press buttons

Kissaki,

Maybe it should only finish loading after you beat the mini-game? 🤡

GrayBackgroundMusic, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?

Nowadays? I’ve never enjoyed mobile gaming. Every time I try, there’s been an absurd paywall or monetization. Once that strikes, I’m out.

sexy_peach, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld

Wow many people seem to own both a switch and a steamdeck. Do y’all just buy everything?

smeg,

The crazy one is when you see someone who owns both a PlayStation and an Xbox!

sleepybisexual,

Lmao

homicidalrobot, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld

It would have killed nintendo to add an ethernet port. As someone who bought the dongle, having a wired connection will NOT save you from nintendo online being the worst gaming networking service ever devised. No game benefits from it, least of all actual nintendo titles like splatoon or smash. It’s not even a problem of speed, it’s wholesale reliability issues, constant loss of connection errors. If an ethernet port was available included rather than needing to be a seperate purchase, more people would realize sooner just how truly awful the paid nintendo online service is.

I’m just still mad that I could play phantasy star online for ten hours uninterrupted on my gamecube, but now there’s not a single nintendo title that has stable online. Pokémon might let you get a raid or two before needing to reconnect. Splatoon might get a match or three before needing to reconnect completely. Smash won’t stay stable for even one full match. It’s a complete tragedy.

sleepybisexual,

Online sucks, its all p2p with network speed of my ancient laptop

TotalFat, do games w Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game!

Makes me think of an Ikv 65.

AFC1886VCC, do games w Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game!

PS: not an ad, just wanted to share this cool niche game that I discovered

realitista, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?

Because everything sucks now.

luciole, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld
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To be fair when it came out seven years ago it really shook up the portable gaming scene. Every portable console coming out since is an iteration on that design. The joycons can go to hell though. And those weird ass online plans.

sleepybisexual,

Yea, you have a point. But in terms of feel, my n3dsxl is a lot comfier

luciole,
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I really liked the original 2DS personally. The announcement left everyone incredulous as the device sounded and looked like a dumb downgrade. I mean, it was hard to tell if it was joke or not. In the end though it’s light, cheap, tough and surprisingly comfortable.

sleepybisexual,

The 2ds looks cool, I want more systems in the family

cordlesslamp,

Hey, is it too late to buy a couple of n3dsxl in 2024? Is it unusable now as all online services are shut down? Can you still find game cartridges to buy?

I just want something simple to play co-op game with the wife and kids on camping trip or on-the-go sometimes. Last month I dug out my old DSLite from the attic and it’s still boot. My candy-crush-4-life wife love the Mario kart and couldn’t stop playing LOL. But we can’t justify to buy 2-4 Switch.

Because fuck Nintendo and their predatory anti consumer business model.

sleepybisexual,

They can be a lil hard rlto find, but are well worth it. Get one, a 128gb microsd and you have a really good system

BruceTwarzen,

When it came out it was just slightly better than a phone

luciole,
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Cheaper than many phones as well.

frezik,

But without an app store full of shit that games the recommendation system.

Nintendo handhelds would have died a long time ago if smartphone vendors could have avoided that problem.

t3rmit3,

Isn’t the switch itself just an iteration on the GameGear, or close to ‘home’, the GBA?

It’s not the first chunky, horizontal handheld. The only thing that was new about it was the joycons, and they ditched those immediately for the Lite.

erwan,

The Game gear and GBA played games that were nothing like the home console games of their time.

This is what the Switch brought to the table. Breadth of the Wild was a great home console title, and you could play it handheld on the go.

t3rmit3, (edited )

I think that calling BOtW similar to other full-scale console games of 2017 like Sniper Elite 4, Middle Earth: Shadow of War, Nier Automata, Prey, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, RE7, or AssCreed Origins, is a biiiiiiig stretch.

It was a huge jump for Nintendo (it was basically putting GameCube-level games on a handheld), but it was still far behind other consoles. Witcher 3 (2015) even eventually released on the Switch in 2019, and it was massively graphically gimped compared to ahem real consoles.

GammaGames,

I think that discounting the 5th best selling game of the year (plus all the awards) because you like games on other platforms is a mistake.

Graphics aren’t everything!

t3rmit3, (edited )

I didn’t say it’s not good, I said it’s not equivalent to console releases of that year. Graphics isn’t everything, and I still enjoy playing Pax Imperia and Nox, but that doesn’t change that it was a handheld game, not a console game. Pokemon Red/Blue were also some of the best selling games the year they released, but that doesn’t make the Gameboy equivalent as a console to PSX or N64 either.

GammaGames,

What makes you think it’s a handheld game? It was originally designed for and did release on the Wii U, a console

Don_alForno,

BotW was originally developed for the WiiU, which it also released on. It is not a “handheld game”, and tbh I’d take it’s gameplay loop over Nier Automata or Shadow of War any day of the week.

Instigate,

The Switch design is an evolution of the Wii U controller, which itself was evolved from the the lower screen design of the DS, which itself was modelled on the old Vertical Multi Screen Game and Watches from the 1980s.

Have a look through all of Nintendo’s consoles and you’ll see the lines of inspiration drawn from generation to generation.

01011, do gaming w What is your favourite game console?

Dreamcast.

eestileib, do games w Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game!

Looks like a great opportunity for non credibility.

neidu2,

I’ve played it a lot, and I can confirm that it has loads of NCD potential

Faydaikin, do gaming w What is your favourite game console?
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

I gotta go with the NES. It’s the only console I ever owned, so…

When they released the mini-nes I snagged that little fucker up so fast.

Blackmist, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld

Well it’s the only handheld that hasn’t given me cramp after 20 minutes, so at least there’s that. DS and 3DS were limited to stylus games for me.

Moonrise2473, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld

Wait, the games in the cartridge need to be installed in the main memory as well? Effectively just a drm gimmick?

They can’t read the resources they need from the cart like in the past?

sleepybisexual,

From the tests I have done, the cart is a DRM gimmick

We need big carts with enhancement chips to return, digital only and DRM can get fucked

Blackmist,

I don’t think that’s the case at all. They run from the carts just fine.

Don_alForno, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld

Handheld mode is really not great for extended periods.

I got it for (business) trips, so I appreciate that I can easily connect it to a hotel room TV, or put it upright on a train or plane table.

One disconnected joycon in each hand IS pretty comfortable, since I can avoid the static “controller in front of you” arm pose.

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