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EarMaster, do games w We have one at home
@EarMaster@lemmy.world avatar

I have an Ouya and an original Steam controller…

Natanael,

I sold my Ouya and have an original Steam controller still

MeekerThanBeaker, do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?

I haven’t seen Shadow Complex on here yet.

It’s an older title (2009) and even the remastered version is from 2016.

Still one of my favorite Metroidvania type games.

…steampowered.com/…/Shadow_Complex_Remastered/

whotookkarl, do games w We have one at home
Brunbrun6766,
@Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

Have a friend who swore by on live.

He also bought an Ouya.

He also subscribed to Stadia.

He also pre-ordered an Amico.

Obviously I don’t trust this friends judgment

whotookkarl,

Sounds like a counter recommendary (anti-recommendist?), whatever they recommend look for the opposite instead

bamboo,

I bought Cyberpunk on Stadia on release day, since I couldn’t play it anywhere else, and it was actually great for me. The technical issues I ran into were all because the game was buggy, not because the service was bad. The biggest issue was the self self-fulfilling prophecy that Google was going to kill it, and not worth subscribing to (which they eventually did kill because of low usage). I think that if Google had spun out Stadia as it’s own company, it may have succeeded.

dabaldeagul,
@dabaldeagul@feddit.nl avatar

Same here, Stadia was great the entire time it lasted. But I have good internet, so that helped. But yeah the killing factor of it ended up being google as you said. Very unfortunate.

Doomsider,

I was betting on Stadia being the future of gaming. Without having to mess with hardware or software it was an amazing product. Their service was great, but we all know how it turned out. At least they refunded me all my purchases.

dabaldeagul,
@dabaldeagul@feddit.nl avatar

Hah I actually made a profit on their shutting down. Or at least, on Cyberpunk 2077. Bought CP77 and got a free controller + Chromecast bundle, sold the Chromecast for 45 bucks and got Cyberpunk refunded in full. After buying it again on sale through Steam, I had a profit of 15€.

And I still have the controller! The Stadia controllers are awesome.

Credibly_Human,

Thats the thing about Google isn’t it.

Even non techie people don’t trust them to keep any new service going, so they have to force people to use their new services, which of course comes with a ton of bad will, and then when people inevitably don’t like this and don’t spend as google has envisioned, they shutter it, continuing the cycle of failing more and more and probably reinforcing internally the idea that the only way to make more money is through enshitification rather than innovation, because they can’t admit to themselves they’ve destroyed their brand image.

bridgeenjoyer,

Quadruple threat of grifts

Brunbrun6766,
@Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

I am sure there are more I’m not remembering

Cybersteel,
@Cybersteel@lemmy.world avatar

Ask this friend which stocks to buy then short sell it.

P1nkman, do games w We have one at home

I have an Ouya. It’s embarrassing, I feel shame for purchasing it, but I keep it as a reminder of how fucking dumb I can be.

nocturne,
@nocturne@slrpnk.net avatar

I remember when it was on kickstarter. I went back and forth about backing, I ended up pulling my pledge just before it was funded. So glad I did.

Bob_Robertson_IX,

I went all in on it… I fully drank that Koolaid and was an early backer, got an extra controller and really thought it was going to be amazing. But their whole launch was so bungled that by the time I actually got it I was so disillusioned with the whole company that I couldn’t enjoy it. It sucked to have bought into the kickstarter and financed the project, and then see the product on the shelves at Target while I was still waiting on mine to be delivered. I had mine for a couple of months before reselling it at a loss.

Several years later when Stadia was announced I felt that little familiar glimmer of hope pop up, but I didn’t let myself get too excited for it. I did eventually get a couple of Stadia controllers and really enjoyed that service (and I still use those controllers today).

P1nkman,

I went all in on it… I fully drank that Koolaid and was an early backer, got an extra controller and really thought it was going to be amazing.

Are you me? I was backer 4 🤦‍♂️

wizardbeard,

It sucked to have bought into the kickstarter and financed the project, and then see the product on the shelves at Target while I was still waiting on mine to be delivered.

Shit, I didn’t realize it got that bad. I’m honestly surprised I didn’t hear more rage about that online at the time.

marzhall,

Oh dang, it was my media PC until 2017, when the switch took over its role, IIRC. Definitely got my money’s worth out of it even if there were no games lmao

mesamunefire,
@mesamunefire@piefed.social avatar

Yeah I had one too. Ultimate reminder to never pre-order.

CaptDust, (edited )

Ouya wasn’t all bad though! Some great games came out of it. Towerfall and Bombsquad are still favorite party games in my house. No Brakes Valet and Hidden in Plain Sight also still get played occasionally.

P1nkman,

Fair. I did use it for emulating NES and SNES, but the controller connection was horrible, so I found it easier to use the Raspberry Pi.

Now it’s in my shelf along with my other consoles: C64, PS1-4 (5 is in the living room), PSP, DS and gaming stuff and collectibles. People usually ask about it, lol.

CaptDust,

The controller was absolute garbage! The analog sticks would get snagged where the battery covers split. Batteries on the front for who knows why.

Lol mine’s living in the closet now and thankfully all those games have released for the PC Gabecube. I’ll keep the hardware as a fun experiment in history though.

foxymulder,
@foxymulder@lemmy.ml avatar

my controllers pinched my hands constantly where the metal meets the plastic shell

towerfall on ouya was pretty frikkin teriffic as the killer app though

Malix,
@Malix@sopuli.xyz avatar

heh, I have Superbook for the exact same purpose! (for the uninitated: it was a “laptop” which used your phone/tablet/etc as the tech, it was basically just a 1080p screen and keyboard for a phone).

Mine took 3-4 factory resets and firmware flashes to get working, and then the damn thing gave up the ghost the same night and hasn’t worked since… not that it has any real use anyway. Good buy /s

Album,
@Album@lemmy.ca avatar

This is my biggest regret purchase lmao. Which is good. But yeah I basically never used it. Very unlike me because I would rather eat my bad decision. But it’s was so laggy I turned it off and waited for updates that never came. Took me years to finally throw it away.

_Nico198X_,
@_Nico198X_@europe.pub avatar

you dared to dream, and i applaud you for that.

Dindonmasker,
@Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works avatar

The name if pretty whimsical tho wich seems like a big plus.

Tahl_eN,

I loved mine! Did exactly what I bought it for, emulation on my TV and playing media from my server. Replaced it with a Shield eventually, but don’t regret backing it on Kickstarter.

drcobaltjedi,

I wanted to buy one when I saw it in target years ago for dumb reasons, now I want to biy one to tinker with.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

it’s a little ARM box running Android, right?

P1nkman,

Yup. Controller was shit.

elvith,

I didn’t get mine to have less than about a second latency LOL

Krudler,

Hey now. Its ok we all make booboos. I bought a Game Gear.

Credibly_Human,

The thing is, there is nothing super wrong with the idea, it just didn’t pan out.

We can see from the existence of nintendo consoles, that graphics don’t mean the world.

slazer2au, do games w We have one at home

Reminds me of the OG Xbox controller.

tiberius,
@tiberius@lemmy.ca avatar

Using the white and black buttons on the Duke without moving your entire hand nets you an achievement.

aeronmelon,

Everyone forgets how big that sucker really is.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/51c951ee-42e8-437a-ae91-a8b24175f878.jpeg

And how it was a blatant copy of the Dreamcast controller.

atomicbocks,

Because the Xbox was built in secret while Microsoft and Sega collaborated on the Dreamcast. It’s actually somewhat compatible with Dreamcast games but MS never wanted to allow that feature.

Also the Duke is the only comfortable controller I have ever used.

SCmSTR,

If you really digest everything Microsoft does, it’s all stealing or acquiring and making worse.

altkey,

The logo circle is so big and vulgar it looks like a fake gucci bag. It’s great they got rid of that.

Buelldozer,

I really liked The Duke. It was one of the first controllers that actually fit well in my large adult size hands!

uninvitedguest,
davidgro,
ChicoSuave,

The smaller (now regular) 360 controller killed those black and white buttons.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I miss them. But I guess I’m in the minority on that one.

Whostosay,

It just moved them, and I’m glad they did

GraniteM,

The Dreamcast controller is ugly as sin but surprisingly comfortable to hold. It must have the widest delta between looks and ergonomics of any controller.

toomanypancakes, (edited ) do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?
@toomanypancakes@piefed.world avatar

A few other good ones that come to mind:

Axiom Verge

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Guacamelee

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Rabi-Ribi

A Robot Named Fight (it's basically if super metroid was a roguelike)

Touhou Luna Nights

Cave Story

Also, the Castlevania Advance Collection is three GBA metroidvanias, definitely worth getting if you wanna play/replay any of those.

unknown1234_5, do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?
@unknown1234_5@kbin.earth avatar

carrion is a reverse horror game where you play as the monster

CannedYeet, do games w We have one at home
Hackworth, do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?

Rogue Legacy 2, if it counts. Otherwise, Axiom Verge.

gibmiser,

Axiom verge had such a cool atmosphere. Never finished the 2nd one, not sure why it didn’t grab me.

eleijeep, do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?
Kolanaki, do games w We have one at home
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Ouya? More like Oi Vey!

edgemaster72,
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

Damn, beat me to it, except I was gonna say “Ouya? Try ‘Oh no!’”

davidgro,

I was going to go for “Ouya trying to fool with this post?”

ICCrawler, do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?

I have a list of Metroidvanias I’ve started but never completed. The only one that managed to hold my attention to completion that wasn’t an actual Metroid title was Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Which is a shame, because Ori and The Blind Forest is beautiful and Hollowknight is very cute, but neither could really hold my attention.

orenj, do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?
@orenj@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Void Stranger. The most powerful progression unlocking item is knowledge. The second most powerful is the

Tap for spoilerSword (Sorry Tan, Gor says hi)

Atropos, do games w We have one at home

I have an ultra rare OnLive streaming console. I will let it go at the low, low price of one Steam Machine if anyone wants to trade!

LiveLM,

Wonder if anyone ever managed to homebrew it to run something else

Atropos,

I wish. But sadly no, it is merely ewaste trash I will eventually pass on to a recycler.

whotookkarl,

Wow, replied before I saw this. 2 on live references in a single thread, feel like I just spotted a bigfoot or something

SparroHawc,

I have that and an ‘OnLive founding member’ T-shirt that I wear to tech events. Especially when I suspect there’s going to be something tone-deaf getting launched.

I got both for free.

Phelpssan, do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?
@Phelpssan@lemmy.world avatar

Played a lot of these in the last two years, with Ender Magnolia and Nine Sols being my favorites among them.

All-time I think I’d still go with Super Metroid, despite its age and having completed multiple playthroughs I still end up playing for hours anytime I boot it.

Honorable mentions for Rabi-Ribi (don’t let the cutesy anime artstyle fool you, this is a fantastic non-linear game with some of the best boss battles in the genre), the recent Momodora games and the Team Ladybug games (with Touhou Luna Nights being my favorite of the three).

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Some titles here I haven’t heard before, thanks, I’ll check them out!

The combat in Nine Sols was too difficult for my tastes. Played for an hour or two and made very little progress repeatedly dying to normal enemies.

Phelpssan,
@Phelpssan@lemmy.world avatar

FYI Nine Sols has a “Story Mode” that lets you tweak damage numbers (and AFAIK only locks you out of a single achievement). Knowing that exists was one of the reasons I decided to try the game despite my PTSD from Silksong.

I ended absolutely loving it even though it was crazy hard, and haven’t lowered the difficulty yet. Though right now I’m stuck at the last boss and that may finally force me to do so. 😀

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