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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.

infinitevalence, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?
@infinitevalence@discuss.online avatar
Bazz,
tigeruppercut,

There was someone in reddit awhile back that started a community review site because there were so many bad games to sort through. I’ve found some good ones through there

minireview.io

AlexanderESmith, do games w Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game!
@AlexanderESmith@kbin.social avatar

I feel like someone in this thread should be calling someone else a tankie, even if only for the meme of it.

HappycamperNZ,

Shutup tankie

(You’re welcome)

AlexanderESmith,
@AlexanderESmith@kbin.social avatar

Aaahhhh, there we go

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

The only good games on phone are now emulators and a few Foss games

Always has been.

bang

sleepybisexual,

Nah, angry birds used to be good and supercell stuff was OK before it went down the shitter

DJDarren,

I was ok with the Angry Birds franchise right up until the shitty kart racing game they pumped out. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more wretched collection of bare-faced advertising and micro transactions as that fucking piece of shit.

The game was crammed full of new pop songs, and when one would play the game would display a link to buy it from iTunes. I couldn’t let my kid play it, it was just too egregious.

Haven’t touched any of those games since. Which is a shame, because I really enjoyed the original.

Moonrise2473, (edited )

That kart game was genius programming, give you a few initial levels where it let you think that you’re driving the kart, that you’re winning because of your skills, then start the real routine of “autopilot simulator programmed to lose until you activate the paid power ups”

Edit: and I can’t believe that more than ten years passed from the release of that “game”, I remember I was playing it on my BlackBerry Z10, i can see why many itt are saying “always has been shitty” - just a year before they weren’t shitty. Gameloft released games like “9mm” and “batman the dark knight” that for just one dollar were console like experiences. And beach buggy racing, and riptide.

bufalo1973, do gaming w What is your favourite game console?
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

To me, Atari Lynx and Sega Dreamcast.

sleepybisexual,

Never played lynx, always found Atari stuff kinda bad, that or the 2600 is a pos.

Any lynx recommendations?

bufalo1973,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

The VCS is an old console, not a POS. When it was new it was state-of-the-art. About the Lynx, the catalog is not long. You can get all the games (76 in total and the max size is 2 MB) and try some. I’d say California Games, Klax, Batman Returns, Toki, just to name a few.

sleepybisexual,

Yea, good point.

I’ll get into lynx

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

I think the switch did pretty well actually and I get why they made the decisions they made. As much as I love my steam deck, the thing takes up like twice as much space as my switch, for example. There is definitely room for improvement though.

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

I feel a lot of nostalgia towards my ds lite, even though I don’t play with it very much these days.

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

I think it’s because most people play mobile games as a way to pass time, rather than to do something actually engaging. So, people don’t typically want to buy mobile games upfront, meaning devs gotta monetize in some other way, like p2w microtransactions.

card797, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?

They always sucked.

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

I don’t know man, I had my fair share of fun with a pair of Nyan Cat games, the original Plants Vs Zombies, Nimble Quest (I just got this again on Android and cracked the heck out of it with Lucky patcher, and still suck lol), Tiny Wings, Angry Birds and I could be missing some others.

Hathaway,

Infinity blade

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

Oh yeah, I fired up my old iPhone 6s to play the Infinity Blade II, no regrets!

Wahots,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

Galaxy On Fire 2 was great, but Elite Dangerous on PC later kicked the absolute crap out of it.

teawrecks,

These were originally the exception, but all eventually followed the rule.

kd45,

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  • Omniraptor,

    I’m fairly sure those were paid tho

    kd45,

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  • Omniraptor,

    I mean the high quality paid games are still around, and I’m reasonably sure new ones are still being made. They’re not a lost art, just not as popular as free games

    Riven,
    @Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    They’re making the same argument people make about music. There’s plenty of good music out there of all genres. Radio just doesn’t play it and you have to go out of your way to find what you like.

    Omniraptor,

    That’s just the wages of living in a huge postmodernist society that produces a vast amount of media. We no longer have centralized institutions (or rather they’re losing relative importance) so you have to go looking through the depths of either recommendation algorithms or topical forums

    Riven,
    @Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I find that to be a good thing. The less centralized institutions that can control what we do the better. I say that while social media is the biggest it’s ever been.

    Kolanaki, do games w Half Life 3
    !deleted6508 avatar

    HL3 is cool but it will never be better than Polybius, IMO.

    NegativeLookBehind, do games w Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game!
    @NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

    Very cool. Can you drive and fight with them as well?

    saltnotsugar,

    Yup! You can make custom camos, custom decals, place crew members (in beta version), and fight in custom battles or missions. Some communities even have fun competitions.

    NegativeLookBehind,
    @NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

    fuck yes

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

    I’d give anything to design my own tanks for Hell Let Loose and then crew it with my buddies.

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