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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 4:46:01 GMT
I say hands down, the 90's.
I apologize, I realize how nerdy this thread is, but i'm just curious ok.
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Post by theshape25 on Apr 14, 2019 17:11:42 GMT
For me it was the 80s. I was getting into gaming just as the Atari 2600 was starting to come to an end. Then the NES launched and changed everything. Then a few years later Sega launched the Genesis and the era of 16 bit games began.
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Post by mslo79 on Apr 18, 2019 23:32:55 GMT
1990's ; in short... I was debating between the 1990's and 2000's. but I think OVERALL ill give the 1990's the edge due to a higher all around nostalgia for me as I was playing them with my cousin etc. but my pick is definitely between the 1990's or 2000's overall. after the 2000's things kind of took a hit if you ask me but then again I think once I hit around 30 years old (which was pretty much the end of the 2000's (might as well call it the current decade)) video games as a whole started to lose a good portion of their appeal for me (although I would say I more heavily played them from around the mid-2000's and before) as when I play them now it's typically going to be a replay of something I played in the past (i.e. from around 2010 or before). but I would say where the 2000's really shines for me is it contains my #1 single player video game experience to date... Mafia (2002) (on PC). even in terms of multiplayer shooters the 2000's contains my all-time #1 which is Counter-Strike which I played pretty heavily from 2000-2005 or so. but I guess it depends on how one see's Counter-Strike whether it's a 1990's or 2000's game depending on where you count as it's official release puts it into the 2000's decade even though it was available for people to play in the 1990's. but anyways, the 2000's also contains my favorite sim racing game series... Forza Motorsport. as for the 1990's... it contains my all time #1 fighting games, MK2/MK3/UMK3 (i.e. the 2D Mortal Kombat games) which was basically in the 1994-1996 time frame. MK1 was nice in a way but I pretty much missed that game even though I played it at some point but I don't really claim to have really gotten into that one in the old days when they where new-ish. etc etc, as I won't get into too much nostalgia for now. another little bonus for the 1990's is that it seen the transition from 2D-to-3D which was pretty much 1995-1997. NOTE: I still have my Diamond Monster 3D (3DFX Voodoo graphics chip (only 4MB)) graphics card for the PC for nostalgia sake as, to my knowledge, that general graphics chip (3DFX Voodoo) was the first good graphics card for the PC as I remember being WOW'ed by the graphics once I learned to get Quake running in OpenGL mode as that was clearly ahead of the consoles at the time (PS1/N64 etc) graphically. I can't see people backing the 1970's unless it's a major nostalgia thing for them as I think, given the options in the poll, the only real choices are 1980's/1990's/2000's. you might as well say the 1980's was pretty much the early days of quality video games with roughly NES on forward. I think after the 2000's things started to get too much rehashing of past stuff etc. theshape25 I remember the 'Atari 2600 Jr' (Wikipedia says 1986 for release date. so I probably had one a bit past that date or so) as I suspect we are of similar age as I am nearly 40. so while I know the NES was the 1980's, I never had a NES til early 1990's and it was only briefly (I had one around 1992 for maybe a year or something) as I was mostly using handheld stuff at the time like Gameboy etc. but I suspect it was due to costs as those systems were not cheap as, from memory, I want to say those were roughly $100 for the system and roughly $50 for new games back in the 1980's and early 1990's or so. I might have had something prior to the Atari 2600 Jr but that's about the only one I can remember fairly well as I would have probably been something like 8-10 years old back around the time I used the Atari 2600 Jr in the late 1980's (maybe a little into the 1990's). but with that said... I did own a good portion of systems over the years when they where new-ish, which is a large chunk of them, besides those higher priced/rich people only consoles like Neo Geo etc. but just to list some I had back-in-the-day to date... Atari 2600 Jr NES (but I never had this til about 1992-1993 as I only had it for a fairly short period of time before my mom sold it on me which sucked. but then again back in these days or so I was mainly using original Gameboy) Original Gameboy (I got this sometime in the early 1990's and I think I sold it around 1995 or so) Sega Nomad (this is basically a portable Sega Genesis which I did not keep for long as it was a battery hog and the screen scratched pretty easily etc) SNES (I think I had this fairly briefly) Genesis (I think I had this fairly briefly) Sega Saturn Sega Dreamcast (I still have this but it collects dust. side note: this plays burned games from CD-R without doing any modification to the console at all  ; I was surprised to learn that back in the day.) Sega Gamegear N64 (I had this from pretty much around release (late 1996) til about 2001) PS1 (this was more of a side thing as I was more into N64 than PS1 back in the late 1990's or so) PS2 XBox (these were great when I moded them (some chipped, TSOP, softmoded etc) ) XBox360 (after this I pretty much stopped with consoles) I generally been more of a XBox person than Playstation in general especially because back in those days XBox/XBox360 were quite nice once moded, especially the original XBox. so while I had a PS1/PS2 at one point I never hung onto them for all that long where as I still have a fair amount of moded XBox's and one moded XBox360 but they pretty much collect dust.
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Post by theshape25 on Apr 19, 2019 16:40:32 GMT
1990's ; in short... I was debating between the 1990's and 2000's. but I think OVERALL ill give the 1990's the edge due to a higher all around nostalgia for me as I was playing them with my cousin etc. but my pick is definitely between the 1990's or 2000's overall. after the 2000's things kind of took a hit if you ask me but then again I think once I hit around 30 years old (which was pretty much the end of the 2000's (might as well call it the current decade)) video games as a whole started to lose a good portion of their appeal for me (although I would say I more heavily played them from around the mid-2000's and before) as when I play them now it's typically going to be a replay of something I played in the past (i.e. from around 2010 or before). but I would say where the 2000's really shines for me is it contains my #1 single player video game experience to date... Mafia (2002) (on PC). even in terms of multiplayer shooters the 2000's contains my all-time #1 which is Counter-Strike which I played pretty heavily from 2000-2005 or so. but I guess it depends on how one see's Counter-Strike whether it's a 1990's or 2000's game depending on where you count as it's official release puts it into the 2000's decade even though it was available for people to play in the 1990's. but anyways, the 2000's also contains my favorite sim racing game series... Forza Motorsport. as for the 1990's... it contains my all time #1 fighting games, MK2/MK3/UMK3 (i.e. the 2D Mortal Kombat games) which was basically in the 1994-1996 time frame. MK1 was nice in a way but I pretty much missed that game even though I played it at some point but I don't really claim to have really gotten into that one in the old days when they where new-ish. etc etc, as I won't get into too much nostalgia for now. another little bonus for the 1990's is that it seen the transition from 2D-to-3D which was pretty much 1995-1997. NOTE: I still have my Diamond Monster 3D (3DFX Voodoo graphics chip (only 4MB)) graphics card for the PC for nostalgia sake as, to my knowledge, that general graphics chip (3DFX Voodoo) was the first good graphics card for the PC as I remember being WOW'ed by the graphics once I learned to get Quake running in OpenGL mode as that was clearly ahead of the consoles at the time (PS1/N64 etc) graphically. I can't see people backing the 1970's unless it's a major nostalgia thing for them as I think, given the options in the poll, the only real choices are 1980's/1990's/2000's. you might as well say the 1980's was pretty much the early days of quality video games with roughly NES on forward. I think after the 2000's things started to get too much rehashing of past stuff etc. theshape25 I remember the 'Atari 2600 Jr' (Wikipedia says 1986 for release date. so I probably had one a bit past that date or so) as I suspect we are of similar age as I am nearly 40. so while I know the NES was the 1980's, I never had a NES til early 1990's and it was only briefly (I had one around 1992 for maybe a year or something) as I was mostly using handheld stuff at the time like Gameboy etc. but I suspect it was due to costs as those systems were not cheap as, from memory, I want to say those were roughly $100 for the system and roughly $50 for new games back in the 1980's and early 1990's or so. I might have had something prior to the Atari 2600 Jr but that's about the only one I can remember fairly well as I would have probably been something like 8-10 years old back around the time I used the Atari 2600 Jr in the late 1980's (maybe a little into the 1990's). but with that said... I did own a good portion of systems over the years when they where new-ish, which is a large chunk of them, besides those higher priced/rich people only consoles like Neo Geo etc. but just to list some I had back-in-the-day to date... Atari 2600 Jr NES (but I never had this til about 1992-1993 as I only had it for a fairly short period of time before my mom sold it on me which sucked. but then again back in these days or so I was mainly using original Gameboy) Original Gameboy (I got this sometime in the early 1990's and I think I sold it around 1995 or so) Sega Nomad (this is basically a portable Sega Genesis which I did not keep for long as it was a battery hog and the screen scratched pretty easily etc) SNES (I think I had this fairly briefly) Genesis (I think I had this fairly briefly) Sega Saturn Sega Dreamcast (I still have this but it collects dust. side note: this plays burned games from CD-R without doing any modification to the console at all ; I was surprised to learn that back in the day.) Sega Gamegear N64 (I had this from pretty much around release (late 1996) til about 2001) PS1 (this was more of a side thing as I was more into N64 than PS1 back in the late 1990's or so) PS2 XBox (these were great when I moded them (some chipped, TSOP, softmoded etc) ) XBox360 (after this I pretty much stopped with consoles) I generally been more of a XBox person than Playstation in general especially because back in those days XBox/XBox360 were quite nice once moded, especially the original XBox. so while I had a PS1/PS2 at one point I never hung onto them for all that long where as I still have a fair amount of moded XBox's and one moded XBox360 but they pretty much collect dust. I don't remember the 2600jr, but by 1986, I was into the NES having got mine in late 1985 early 1986. I still game today having went from the NES to the Genesis/Snes in the early 90s, then the PS1 around 1997 to the PS2, the PS3, and now the PS4. For me the holy grail came in the 80s with the NES, but that is mostly nostalgia talking. I do remember those NEO GEO systems. I used to get gaming magazines back in the early 90s and they had places where you could order the console and games. From what I remember the games were north of $100. I could he wrong though. |
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Post by mslo79 on Apr 19, 2019 21:35:19 GMT
theshape25Yeah, I am not surprised as I was a bit behind the current systems until probably around the mid-1990's or so I was generally getting stuff when it was new-ish vs prior to that I was generally a bit behind which I suspect was mostly due to $ as those systems were not exactly cheap and $50 or so back then was more than $50 or so games today. Yeah, I am sure some of it is nostalgia but at the same time that system still has some solid games I am sure. I am sure there are some ill still like to this day. also, the NES seems to be credited for saving video games in general. but I do remember when my mom sold that NES I was definitely not happy. but not too long after that (call it roughly 1994-1995) I started getting into current systems from there on forward, pretty much. p.s. but when it comes to NES... I think Mike Tyson's Punch-Out is probably my favorite on that system or close to it. I like Tetris to but I mainly played Tetris on original Gameboy. Yeah, I had some video game magazines from those days to and I am pretty sure I still have some of those magazines around the house even though I dumped a good portion of them within the last several years. but your basically right that the games on that system were sky high in $ (I am pretty sure your $100-ish claim is pretty close off the top of my head) which is why almost no one had them besides rich people (plus, they never really seemed to get most of the good games which I am sure did not help them either) as even the standard mainstream systems were already pushing it cost wise. so the cost alone for systems like Neo-Geo and the games were out of the range of most people for sure. hell, I remember back in 1996 that I think it was Mortal Kombat Trilogy on N64 was about $70 (if I recall correctly) at some stores, which was a bit more than usual at the time. p.s. another handheld system I remember in video game magazines etc, but never had due $, was TurboExpress. side note: that system is shown in Enemy of the State (1998).
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Post by theshape25 on Apr 20, 2019 1:29:16 GMT
theshape25Yeah, I am not surprised as I was a bit behind the current systems until probably around the mid-1990's or so I was generally getting stuff when it was new-ish vs prior to that I was generally a bit behind which I suspect was mostly due to $ as those systems were not exactly cheap and $50 or so back then was more than $50 or so games today. Yeah, I am sure some of it is nostalgia but at the same time that system still has some solid games I am sure. I am sure there are some ill still like to this day. also, the NES seems to be credited for saving video games in general. but I do remember when my mom sold that NES I was definitely not happy. but not too long after that (call it roughly 1994-1995) I started getting into current systems from there on forward, pretty much. p.s. but when it comes to NES... I think Mike Tyson's Punch-Out is probably my favorite on that system or close to it. I like Tetris to but I mainly played Tetris on original Gameboy. Yeah, I had some video game magazines from those days to and I am pretty sure I still have some of those magazines around the house even though I dumped a good portion of them within the last several years. but your basically right that the games on that system were sky high in $ (I am pretty sure your $100-ish claim is pretty close off the top of my head) which is why almost no one had them besides rich people (plus, they never really seemed to get most of the good games which I am sure did not help them either) as even the standard mainstream systems were already pushing it cost wise. so the cost alone for systems like Neo-Geo and the games were out of the range of most people for sure. hell, I remember back in 1996 that I think it was Mortal Kombat Trilogy on N64 was about $70 (if I recall correctly) at some stores, which was a bit more than usual at the time. p.s. another handheld system I remember in video game magazines etc, but never had due $, was TurboExpress. side note: that system is shown in Enemy of the State (1998). I remember my parents paying around $150 for my NES in 1985 or 1986, and it was just the basic system (no robot or gun included). At my age I had no concept on what was expensive then, but looking back that was a nice chunk of change. Oh yeah, there were plenty of solid games. You mentioned Mike Tyson's Punch Out. I loved, Metroid, Legend of Zelda, the first two Super Mario games, the Techmo Bowl games, and Baseball Stars. I'm sure I'm leaving out a bunch. I still have some of those magazines too. I need to dig some out and check them out. It would be a nice trip down memory lane. I don't remember that Mortal Kombat game, but I do remember Final Fantasy for the Genesis was priced at around $75, which was crazy money in 1990. I don't remember the Turbo Express. I'm guessing that was a hand held version of the Turbo Grafix 16? That system was a bit of an enigma for me. None of my friends had it, and I don't recall ever seeing it in a store. It was all NES/Genesis/SNES. |
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Post by mslo79 on Apr 20, 2019 5:54:47 GMT
theshape25Yeah, I believe it's tied to that general company as taking a quick look online both are tied to NEC. hell, just looking up that TurboExpress a moment ago it shows introductory price was $250 in 1990, which is a boatload back then. so I think that price alone pretty much doomed it and not to mention, like you mentioned in my quote of you below, that it was basically all NES/Genesis/SNES in the old days (pre-3D era). Yeah, basically. those were the only real major players back in those days which was pretty much the only major consoles prior to the 3D era basically as then it pretty much shifted to Saturn/PS1/N64 etc. although Saturn never really took off, even though it was released before PS1/N64, as it was pretty much just PS1/N64 as the major players of the early 3D consoles. my cousin first got a Saturn and then eventually I got a hold of one and then we eventually moved to N64 as I never messed with Playstation 1 much back in the day as I was nearly all N64 in the PS1 vs N64 days. but funny thing is... Mortal Kombat 3 (and the like) was what I liked playing alot in those days (1994-1996 or a bit after) and looking back on it now, we should have went with PS1 as it's the better of the two for that game. but since I played other games to I don't really regret getting the N64 over a PS1 back in those days. but I guess it depends on what one plays. plus, many have nostalgia for GoldenEye on N64 which was basically the last console shooter I really enjoyed from a multiplayer standpoint as after that I got too used to a PC's mouse+keyboard to where I could not go back as aiming was just too difficult using the analog stick to aim vs a mouse etc. I know Sega has that '32x' add-on to the Genesis etc, which was supposedly 32bit (SNES/Genesis was 16bit), but that never really seemed to go anywhere. even that Sega CD thing I remember hearing about in video game magazines but I never knew anyone who had it. pretty much both flops. but then again... after the Genesis, Sega was never a major player again and pretty much released mostly flops... Saturn and then Dreamcast which did not seem to last all that long as by that time it was pretty much all Playstation/N64 and after that generation it was all PS2/XBox, which is pretty much 2000-2001 on forward, and it's still like that today.
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I … graphics suck now. ok
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Post by theshape25 on Apr 20, 2019 19:43:17 GMT
theshape25Yeah, I believe it's tied to that general company as taking a quick look online both are tied to NEC. hell, just looking up that TurboExpress a moment ago it shows introductory price was $250 in 1990, which is a boatload back then. so I think that price alone pretty much doomed it and not to mention, like you mentioned in my quote of you below, that it was basically all NES/Genesis/SNES in the old days (pre-3D era). Yeah, basically. those were the only real major players back in those days which was pretty much the only major consoles prior to the 3D era basically as then it pretty much shifted to Saturn/PS1/N64 etc. although Saturn never really took off, even though it was released before PS1/N64, as it was pretty much just PS1/N64 as the major players of the early 3D consoles. my cousin first got a Saturn and then eventually I got a hold of one and then we eventually moved to N64 as I never messed with Playstation 1 much back in the day as I was nearly all N64 in the PS1 vs N64 days. but funny thing is... Mortal Kombat 3 (and the like) was what I liked playing alot in those days (1994-1996 or a bit after) and looking back on it now, we should have went with PS1 as it's the better of the two for that game. but since I played other games to I don't really regret getting the N64 over a PS1 back in those days. but I guess it depends on what one plays. plus, many have nostalgia for GoldenEye on N64 which was basically the last console shooter I really enjoyed from a multiplayer standpoint as after that I got too used to a PC's mouse+keyboard to where I could not go back as aiming was just too difficult using the analog stick to aim vs a mouse etc. I know Sega has that '32x' add-on to the Genesis etc, which was supposedly 32bit (SNES/Genesis was 16bit), but that never really seemed to go anywhere. even that Sega CD thing I remember hearing about in video game magazines but I never knew anyone who had it. pretty much both flops. but then again... after the Genesis, Sega was never a major player again and pretty much released mostly flops... Saturn and then Dreamcast which did not seem to last all that long as by that time it was pretty much all Playstation/N64 and after that generation it was all PS2/XBox, which is pretty much 2000-2001 on forward, and it's still like that today. It'a crazy looking back at how much some of this stuff was back then. Kinda makes the prices of games today look like a bargain. I had a friend that got the SegaCD for Christmas back in 1992. He only ever got the one game that came with it (Sewer Shark). I remember being blown away by the cut scenes. It was amazing back then to see actual people and speech in a video game, but the gameplay was horrid. It's a shame that Sega has fallen off the map console wise. I loved my Genesis, but when I moved on I skipped the Saturn and Dreamcast and went to the PS1. |
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Post by mslo79 on Apr 20, 2019 23:03:54 GMT
theshape25Yeah, basically as game prices stayed roughly the same but because of inflation, it makes today's somewhat of a bargain in a way. Yeah, like it was a demonstration thing more than anything else. sort of ahead of it's time in a way. Looking back on it... you made the wise choice as Saturn/Dreamcast seemed to be mostly failures, or at least they did not last all that long. but one reason I got a Saturn is for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 as back around the mid-1990's that was my bread-and-butter. plus, maybe a small amount of other games. I want to say I had the Saturn roughly in earlier 1996 or so as I am pretty sure it was before the N64 and I got that around release in late 1996. so I don't think I had the Saturn for too long. but when it came to the original XBox I never got that til 2004 (it came out in 2001) when my cousin had his which had a semi-dying DVD-ROM drive (he told me this before we made the trade). but I gave him my Gamecube (which I forgot to list in my initial post where I listed the consoles I had) for his XBox just so I could attempt to mod it (which I was pretty sure I could), which I did, and at that point it was EASILY worth the trade since I could now run games from the XBox's hard drive and I did not have to worry about the semi-dying DVD-ROM drive acting up and it was just a better overall system as I quickly regretted buying the Gamecube which I only primarily got for 'Wave Race: Blue Storm' as I was a big fan of the original Wave Race on N64 (which I still like the N64 one to this day) but the Gamecube game never really captured the magic/feel of the first game as I never really played that one much unlike the first Wave Race which I played quite a bit. but with the XBox there are different ways to mod that thing... softmod/TSOP(flashes the motherboards BIOS)/Modchip. a couple of my original XBox's got a modchip in them but a while later I learned about the TSOP thing which solders a small thing on the board which gives one write access to the motherboards BIOS chip and once you flash that it functions just like you got a real modchip in it which is what I did with the rest of the original XBox's I got. but they pretty much collect dust nowadays even though I sure some kids/people would love to have those especially if they can't get access to the latest games due to costs. I got a Wii too. but only got one not long ago. so I am a bit late to the party ; but I knew those could be moded years ago but back when they were more popular I never cared all that much as there was not really much games I wanted to play so I could not justify the costs of that system so I never looked into moding them because of it and I was more into the XBox360 etc at the time in general. but since we got a Wii near dirt cheap not long ago, I moded it (all you need is a SD card the Wii can read to mod it (along with a external USB hard drive formatted to FAT32)), and now I got it loaded with games on a external 2.5" 250GB hard drive (I got one of those USB adapters on Amazon and connected it to a laptop hard drive which are those 2.5" hard drives). my sisters kid had a Wii for a while now and some of those games still cost decent $. but after I got a hold of a Wii for cheap, and figured out how to mod it etc, then I moded theirs so now he can get plenty of games easily now and run them from the hard drive. that will keep him busy for a while ; today's kids got it made when it comes to video games compared to our day were everything was a arm-and-a-leg where as now people can get access to plenty of free stuff that's decent etc but speaking of Nintendo... it seems after the N64, which I consider Nintendo's last major player in terms of a bit more serious gaming, Nintendo generally took a different path from the major players (i.e. Sony/Microsoft) as they seemed to target a difference audience etc. but I guess times change, as back in the day it was Nintendo vs Sega for quite a while, then Sony vs Nintendo(N64) for a little while, before switching to Sony vs Microsoft like it is today where Nintendo is sort of the outsider that seems to appeal less to the more serious/mainstream gamers, but still does it's thing. ill stop babbling now
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Post by theshape25 on Apr 21, 2019 1:07:42 GMT
theshape25Yeah, basically as game prices stayed roughly the same but because of inflation, it makes today's somewhat of a bargain in a way. Yeah, like it was a demonstration thing more than anything else. sort of ahead of it's time in a way. Looking back on it... you made the wise choice as Saturn/Dreamcast seemed to be mostly failures, or at least they did not last all that long. but one reason I got a Saturn is for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 as back around the mid-1990's that was my bread-and-butter. plus, maybe a small amount of other games. I want to say I had the Saturn roughly in earlier 1996 or so as I am pretty sure it was before the N64 and I got that around release in late 1996. so I don't think I had the Saturn for too long. but when it came to the original XBox I never got that til 2004 (it came out in 2001) when my cousin had his which had a semi-dying DVD-ROM drive (he told me this before we made the trade). but I gave him my Gamecube (which I forgot to list in my initial post where I listed the consoles I had) for his XBox just so I could attempt to mod it (which I was pretty sure I could), which I did, and at that point it was EASILY worth the trade since I could now run games from the XBox's hard drive and I did not have to worry about the semi-dying DVD-ROM drive acting up and it was just a better overall system as I quickly regretted buying the Gamecube which I only primarily got for 'Wave Race: Blue Storm' as I was a big fan of the original Wave Race on N64 (which I still like the N64 one to this day) but the Gamecube game never really captured the magic/feel of the first game as I never really played that one much unlike the first Wave Race which I played quite a bit. but with the XBox there are different ways to mod that thing... softmod/TSOP(flashes the motherboards BIOS)/Modchip. a couple of my original XBox's got a modchip in them but a while later I learned about the TSOP thing which solders a small thing on the board which gives one write access to the motherboards BIOS chip and once you flash that it functions just like you got a real modchip in it which is what I did with the rest of the original XBox's I got. but they pretty much collect dust nowadays even though I sure some kids/people would love to have those especially if they can't get access to the latest games due to costs. I got a Wii too. but only got one not long ago. so I am a bit late to the party ; but I knew those could be moded years ago but back when they were more popular I never cared all that much as there was not really much games I wanted to play so I could not justify the costs of that system so I never looked into moding them because of it and I was more into the XBox360 etc at the time in general. but since we got a Wii near dirt cheap not long ago, I moded it (all you need is a SD card the Wii can read to mod it (along with a external USB hard drive formatted to FAT32)), and now I got it loaded with games on a external 2.5" 250GB hard drive (I got one of those USB adapters on Amazon and connected it to a laptop hard drive which are those 2.5" hard drives). my sisters kid had a Wii for a while now and some of those games still cost decent $. but after I got a hold of a Wii for cheap, and figured out how to mod it etc, then I moded theirs so now he can get plenty of games easily now and run them from the hard drive. that will keep him busy for a while ; today's kids got it made when it comes to video games compared to our day were everything was a arm-and-a-leg where as now people can get access to plenty of free stuff that's decent etc but speaking of Nintendo... it seems after the N64, which I consider Nintendo's last major player in terms of a bit more serious gaming, Nintendo generally took a different path from the major players (i.e. Sony/Microsoft) as they seemed to target a difference audience etc. but I guess times change, as back in the day it was Nintendo vs Sega for quite a while, then Sony vs Nintendo(N64) for a little while, before switching to Sony vs Microsoft like it is today where Nintendo is sort of the outsider that seems to appeal less to the more serious/mainstream gamers, but still does it's thing. ill stop babbling now Yeah, I'm glad I went the Playstation route. I was also looking at one of those Panasonic 3DO systems too. Those didn't stick around long. I agree with you about Nintendo. I bought my girlfriend a Wii when they were fairly new, and I felt they dropped the ball on a lot of things. No HDMI capability, no wifi capability, you had to buy an adapter to hardwire it to the net,and the controllers took batteries. It also seemed like they were geared more towards children where XBOX and PS cater to children on up to adult gamers. I was at the store recently and I was looking at their Switch system for shits and giggles. Not sure if I'd buy one or not. It does seem interesting, but if they haven't addressed the things I felt they dropped the ball on with the Wii I'd probably pass. |
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Post by mslo79 on Apr 21, 2019 1:47:52 GMT
theshape25 The cure for that... 'Panasonic Eneloop' (used to be Sanyo Eneloop until they were bought out) which are the gold standard of rechargeable NiMh batteries. buy those and you won't need to buy batteries again for that or other video game controllers that use AA batteries. I use those on my Wii and XBox360 etc. basically anything that has moderate-to-high drain on batteries will greatly benefit by using those as it will save quite a bit of $ as the more of a power hog a device is, the more those save $. my sister was complaining about burning through batteries with the Wii but I gave her one of my old chargers and some generic NiMh batteries I have laying around which, while not as good as the Eneloop's I got, will still save her solid $. she will just have to charge them more often since they don't have as high of a capacity as those standard Eneloop's as the higher capacity batteries ain't worth it as they don't last nearly as long (as in recharge cycles) as regular Eneloop's.
so I prefer controllers that take AA sized batteries because then I can use those and they are better than any rechargeable battery pack you can find and probably cost the same if not a fair amount cheaper.
p.s. initial cost of the Eneloop's will be a little high due to the batteries and charger cost but it pays off down the road etc. I use a MaHa C9000 charger for mine, which is pretty much the best NiMh charger, but it's roughly $50-60. but one can get by using Eneloop's with a more basic charger for probably around $20 or so. side note: I use one AAA Eneloop in my Olight I3E flashlight (which is not much bigger than one AA sized battery but it quite bright for it's small size) as runtime is clearly better on that vs standard AAA (alkaline) as it last longer on a single charge and remains it's peak brightness for longer to. Yeah, pretty much. there are exceptions but the system as a whole what you said pretty much sums it up. or another way to look at the Wii... it seems to attract more casual gamers to.
p.s. I have been playing Scarface on it as, for whatever reason, I missed that game when it was released years ago but I was playing it a while ago and kind of slacked off a bit as I need to get back into it to finish it. but putting graphics etc aside... I like the Wii controllers setup for playing a basic single player shooter more than a typical consoles analog stick as, once I somewhat get used to it, it's easier to shoot stuff on screen than using a analog stick although not as good as the usual mouse+keyboard combo which i think is optimal for shooter games as with a consoles analog stick i am simply not good enough to enjoy a typical shooter unlike the PC where I am more than good enough to play/enjoy it.
I guess it looks like one of those things that would be decent to play around with but given the cost I have no real desire to get one.
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Post by hi224 on May 2, 2019 18:17:40 GMT
2010s.
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Post by mstreepsucks on May 3, 2019 0:50:18 GMT
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 9, 2019 2:07:18 GMT
r u still sure? Are you happy with that?
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Post by hi224 on Jul 9, 2019 18:49:04 GMT
r u still sure? Are you happy with that? Huh. |
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 10, 2019 0:00:43 GMT
r u still sure? Are you happy with that? Huh. 2010s.?
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Post by mrellaguru on Jul 10, 2019 0:10:08 GMT
The mid 80s through the mid 90s.
Actually the present day is good because there's access to many previous generation games via emulation as well as the new stuff. But I hate DRM and the trend toward all digital is bad for consumers and game preservation.
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Post by MooseNugget on Jul 17, 2019 18:31:11 GMT
The '00s were way better than the '90s. While the early to mid '90s gave us some of the most polished 2D games ever made there was a lot of experimenting with 3D titles. Of course that's not saying the '00s were perfect too. The Wii of course had motion controls and had a lot of terrible shovelware on it.
I actually have such high esteem for those great 2D games I'd rather own a Super Nintendo, Genesis and a Neo Geo over consoles from the other generations. But how the split works a lot of the baggage from the mid to late '90s brings to consoles down.
The '80s had some great games. And companies created formulas for game genres that were started back then and stick to them. But those games didn't have the polish of those early '90s games.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 18, 2019 3:22:55 GMT
In my own preference or whatever, I'll say the 90's were the best because of the N64 mostly.
There hasn't been so much of a leap forward in gaming before or since, I think. Imo.
Because it took it from 2d to 3d, well ya. You know?
I mean
they can go from a ps2 to a ps3 to a ps4 and whatever. But between those is there really an advancement that is better / more significant than the N64?
Sorry, just my own, Opinion sorry. NOt sure if it made sense.
And then also from the 90's you have the best star wars game tie fighter, and from the doom games, you have the best doom game ever Doom 2.
Then of course from Zelda , you have two of the best Zelda games ever on the N64. Well, almost the best of course the first Zelda game is the best.
And then you have the second best Metroid game , super Metroid. With the first one being the best though.
And also Shenmue, one of the best games ever. Was made in 1999. So technically it's a 90's game. Which broke new ground. And all of the games I've mentioned broke new ground. And I didn't even mention Star Fox.
What i'm saying is , what decade broke new ground more than the 90's?
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; I was surprised to learn that back in the day.)
