I'm fine with that, gives me time to catch up on my backlog lol.
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I'm fine with that, gives me time to catch up on my backlog lol.
Sigh... The Backlog. I'll see you in 2020, Bayek. Maybe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCzlRdnn6r8
Right now my backlog consists of
Horizon Zero Dawn
Final Fantasy XV
Assassin's Creed Origins
I'm going to drop everything as soon as God of War hits though ♥
I hear ya! And ditto on GOW.Quote:
Originally Posted by fernandito
I'm assuming we're just talking about a PS4 backlog because I still have a ton of games on the PS3 I need to play (yes, including Red Dead).Quote:
Originally Posted by fernandito
I'm currently playing Uncharted: Lost Legacy
Backlog consists of:
South Park: The Fractured But Hole
Final Fantasy XV
Song of the Deep
Until Dawn
Life is Strange
That's just games I own.
I still need to get my hands on Resident Evil 7, Nier Automata, Bloodborne, AC Origins and a bunch more I'm forgetting.
I will also drop everything for GoW though.
Does anyone have a Switch yet? I want one, but my backlog is bad enough.
I finished Lost Legacy. It was a lot of fun, but super short.
I don't own a Switch but one of my buddies brought his over for an afternoon and we played Mario Kart for like 8 hours straight...I wasn't sure how I felt about it at first, because the controllers are just SO LITTLE, but after a bit you get used to it and it's actually a *very* cool system. And oh my goodness, Breath of the Wild is just GORGEOUS on it.
That's what I'm hearing about BoW. That game does look amazing. My problem with Nintendo is they haven't branched out enough from their staple franchises (Zelda, Mario, etc.) and that's almost what tanked the company if you ask me. What I've heard is that it looks like the Switch is going to start releasing a lot more original games, many of which are 3rd party, but that's fine too considering many 3rd party companies stayed away from Nintendo once the Wii came out. There are a ton of RPGs that just look amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andi
As for the controller, I can tell you one thing, I won't be using those little things. My hands are way too big for that shit. I will be purchasing the Pro controller for sure.
Well, i don't know that Nintendo ever came close to tanking (I think the last time I looked they are worth something like 40 billion dollars). And personally speaking, i think their staple franchises drive their niche market which people love. Mario and Zelda are why we still own a Nintendo system (we have a Wii and a WiiU). Plus, kids play video games as well. If Nintendo wants to cater to that audience, then i think that's great. Age appropriate games are something that the world needs! I don't want my 7 year old nephew playing Grand Theft Auto.
And my hubby has ginormous hands and he was able to use the little controllers. That being said, he'd definitely get a pro controller as well.
Maybe not tanking, but there were worries that if the Switch failed, that would be their last home console. They would have shifted to mobile games. Kids certainly play video games, but they aren't the ones driving the Switch. It's people in their 20's and up. My 10 year old cousin didn't ask for a switch this year for Christmas. He asked for a cell phone. He has a 3DS. It's very dusty. Even before he got the cell phone for Christmas, he would use his grandmother's phone to play games. I have yet to see a kid playing a Switch in public, but I've seen quite a few people in their 20's and 30'sQuote:
Originally Posted by Andi
You can't just live off of the niche audience, hence why the Wii U was an enormous failure. If they are going to compete with Playstation and XBox, then they had to offer the same games in the same quality, which is what they have done with the Switch.
Also, I'm not saying they should get rid of Mario and Zelda. That's their bread and butter, but they also haven't come up with a new original franchise in quite some time (Splatoon is the only one I can think of). Where is their Uncharted, or Horizon or Last of Us?
In regards to kids playing GTA, that's on the parents. I still haven't seen a 7 year old drive to Walmart and buy a Grand Theft Auto game.
Maybe it has to do with where I live, but I haven't seen a single person playing a Nintendo Switch in public. I did work in the electronics dept at a store during the Switch release though and stayed late that night for the preorder sales and to hand out the extra units we had, and you are right, I'd say most folks there were 20/30 somethings buying for themselves. In fact, I was convinced we'd never sell all the Breath of the Wild special editions we had and they just flew out of the store. It was the same way with the NES classic release and the SNES release....just a bunch of adults reliving their childhood and finding out that we don't have the twitch reflexes that we used to have.
That being said, I see kids every single day with 3DS and the DS handheld gaming systems. Perhaps your 10 year old cousin isn't into that kind of gaming, I'd say a lot of kids just like the whole novelty of a cell phone, but there are plenty who don't go anywhere without their DS. My little nephews are like that. For a long time my stepson was like that, but now that he's a senior in high school and has discovered the joys of having a girlfriend, so he doesn't game at all. Pffft, weirdo.
And you're right, they should branch out a bit, and with the Switch they will be able to support some of the AAA games which is good for them, but I'm not sure anyone buys a Switch thinking to themselves, "I can totally play the new insert-big-AAA-title-here on this!" I mean, most people into that kind of gaming already have an Xbone or PS4 already, with all the hawt online features, where all their friends play. So, while it's good to expand their market to more adult gamers, they would still probably have to be a specific kind of game, like Splatoon, with a kind of innocent quality to them that would be family friendly and would hit a wider target audience. At least that's the way it is in my head...some kind of weird balancing act for them.
And yes, I realize it's the parents fault. My nephews have very strict rules on what they can play, although more often then not, they'd rather play whichever Zelda game is laying around. I'm just saying, it's nice that Nintendo caters to their gaming as well, and not just, "We'll put an M on the box and so be it if parents don't bother to read it."
I've been receiving free rental codes from RedBox every so often so I've been playing Shadow of the Colossus in spurts LOL. It's a beautiful game with some nice music. Not sure that I'm really a fan of it but it's something I can't seem to stop playing when I have it. Can't resist getting to that next Colossi. I'll probably end up finishing it via free rental codes unless I happen upon a cheap copy. Not worth $40 to me personally.
Every area is different I suppose, but besides my personal experience with my cousin, I video tape dance recitals on the weekends in the summer. I was shocked last summer how many kids in the audience were playing games on a cell phone as opposed to a DS. I would say it was easily 70/30 for cell phones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andi
I will take special note this summer as well.
I ordered FF!2 over a week ago I was really hoping it would be in the mail today, but it wasn't, so a minimum two more days of waiting. I've just want to play the damn game!
So last night I finished Life is Strange: Before the Storm, the prequel to Life is Strange, that soul-crushing experience of a game that left me in an emotional coma for over a week. This one wasn't that but I still wallowed in tears as the ending montage played and the final credits rolled. Amazing game, as usual. Awesome writing, and Chloe Price is such a great character, I love her so much. There are no sci-fi elements in this game (there are a few small weird elements) so this plays just as straight drama. As tragic and sad as it ultimately was I loved it, in parts even more than the original, which I will always consider the best game ever made.
P.S.: Slight spoilers, but what other game would have youSpoiler:
Originally Posted by Brian861
I can also make the case that playing video games is more productive. It's one of those weird societal things I thought would have gone away by now.
Originally Posted by Still ServantI make this point all the time to people and they never have a retort. It's so true. People will say to me, "How can you play that game for 3 hours straight?" I say, "How can you watch TV for 3 hours straight?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian861
I can also make the case that playing video games is more productive. It's one of those weird societal things I thought would have gone away by now.
Originally Posted by Brian861
I think you either 'get it' or you don't and that's why I typically avoid speaking to people who are super into television shows about that kind of stuff. I'm in the 'would rather be playing a video game' camp about 80% of the time (there are some shows that I enjoy and follow, but they are pretty few and far between...mostly because television can be so *mindless* that it's hard to find something decent to watch) and it's hard to explain to someone who is big on TV that you don't watch it much.
But....I'm a bit ashamed to say, but I'm still gonna say it. I FINALLY played through Knights of the Old Republic for the first time ever (I played Star Wars The Old Republic the MMO but not the KotoR RPG) and oh my gawd. It's absolutely FANTASTIC.
https://scontent.fybz2-1.fna.fbcdn.n...4d&oe=5B4B9FD1
The seller was cool though and let me keep it, and I finally got this in this afternoon
https://scontent.fybz2-1.fna.fbcdn.n...68&oe=5B317887
That ending, oh man that ending lol... still trying to decipher how I feel about it.
Originally Posted by Mattrick