I do tend to really like these kinda shows. Exposes me to games I wouldn't have otherwise known about. Plus opinions, different view points are interesting.
I don't know about too young. I mean there WAS a Super Nintendo in the house. I guess I only really played the N64 and PSX games as a kid so maybe? I know OF the SNES, that makes me important right?
I'm fairly sure we only ever had like 5 games or something for each system, so that MAY be why; granted I have more now so maybe there's no excuse. And not just the emulator on my phone (Technology is awesome), I kept all the physical games when my siblings decided they didn't want them anymore, in addition to others I've gotten myself. Though the SNES wasn't a thing that I got.
Man, I'm like some sort of Rambleman today; Fear my endless edits as I make my sentences slightly more coherent!
Edit: It's totally an N64 game. DERP! In that case, I have no idea how I've never heard of it.
Pfff, if you didn't spend your childhood blowing in NES cartridges who are you even? Play some obscure puzzle game like Solomon's Key, be really super terrible at it and play California Games instead that you rented for like the 14th time because it is seriously the second most badass game ever when the neighbors come over and everyone plays surfing and you jump the shark like a fuckin' PRO. You get the shark EVERY TIME.
Did I not just previously talk about California Games as being the second best game ever? California Games is a corny old collection of little sports-ish games where a group of people trade off a controller and compete in the series of minigames. It's like a forgotten ancestor to party games and mini-game collections we all know today.
If you don't have a sufficient group of people to gather together and play, then games may seem like shovelware, but some of them have their place.
I never said shovelware couldn't be good, it just means they're developing more for quantity of titles than quality.
A fair number of them are quite fun, especially if they're party games.
To be fair it looks like they had a few shovelware titles in the NES era too. But they also had the "More quality" titles (Yes it's an awful term for it, I can't think of a better one) along side them.
Just looked at the list of games Rare has done. I was wrong. I've played Battletoads on an emulator before. But that's it. Never got a chance to play a Donkey Kong, banjo/kazooie, or conker game.
To be fair, Rare have been kind of shitty since the Microsoft acquisition. Though this seems to be more as a result of their best staff leaving around the time of the acquisition than the acquisition itself.
The last decade or so for Rare has been mainly subpar remakes of their N64 games or subpar sequels. Viva Piñata got me excited because it was genuinely pretty bitching, but that spark seems to have petered out.
I don't doubt that Kinect Sport is a perfectly good game, but really, to see the studio that created Goldeneye now making glorified tech demos for a gimmick-y motion controller is a bit upsetting for my inner child.
Then again, Goldeneye was kind of a fluke because the majority of the people who worked on it had never made a video game before, and the multiplayer was tacked on at the last minute without telling the higher-ups about it first.
Holy crap I have internet at home again. For the record, a Friday night is apparently a bad time to install a new router. My internet didn't like it and asked for login credentials. Mind you this info was used once over 10 years ago and was set by the internet company when they installed the DSL in the first place, so I didn't have that on hand anywhere and nobody was available at the ISP to help out with that one until Monday (that's today).
Would have been a minor inconvenience if not for all the internet-based homework I had to do.
What the hell kind of router stores internet login information? The DSL modem is a completely separate device and even that doesn't store login info. That's all managed at the ISP level. They redirect all my internet traffic to their login page when they decide they want it. In this case the IP address that I had unchanged for 10 years suddenly got changed like 3 or 4 times in a few minutes and that didn't fly too well so I was asked for the login info again.
Some of your coworkers don't seem to have bios. tsk.
Also, there are router/modem combos to be had around here, but they aren't really the norm to my knowledge. It makes a fair bit of sense to combine them, but keeping them separate has advantages. At least as long as people tend to operate from a variety of different types of internet such as DSL, Cable, or even stuff like WiMAX.
Some people are lazy about writing, what can I say?
And yeah, here it's just ADSL or cable in the home, and both are catered for by the ISPs. You also have 3G dongles and shit, but those don't really count.
Finals? Ugh. I wish. More like a midterm project I don't want to do. Finals are fun because they are just tests I can take and be done and not have to do more homework for the next week.
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I was wondering why you praised me that much and then just trashed on me at the end. :P
I do tend to really like these kinda shows. Exposes me to games I wouldn't have otherwise known about. Plus opinions, different view points are interesting.
I suppose it's about time for me to start being on the butt end of the 'you're old' jokes... dang. Totally had it coming.
I'm fairly sure we only ever had like 5 games or something for each system, so that MAY be why; granted I have more now so maybe there's no excuse. And not just the emulator on my phone (Technology is awesome), I kept all the physical games when my siblings decided they didn't want them anymore, in addition to others I've gotten myself. Though the SNES wasn't a thing that I got.
Man, I'm like some sort of Rambleman today; Fear my endless edits as I make my sentences slightly more coherent!
Edit: It's totally an N64 game. DERP! In that case, I have no idea how I've never heard of it.
EDIT: Man, Rare made everything for NES, didn't they?
(Also, Rare is still around. They were just purchased by Microsoft back in 2002 and now make shovelware for the kinect.)
If you don't have a sufficient group of people to gather together and play, then games may seem like shovelware, but some of them have their place.
A fair number of them are quite fun, especially if they're party games.
To be fair it looks like they had a few shovelware titles in the NES era too. But they also had the "More quality" titles (Yes it's an awful term for it, I can't think of a better one) along side them.
The last decade or so for Rare has been mainly subpar remakes of their N64 games or subpar sequels. Viva Piñata got me excited because it was genuinely pretty bitching, but that spark seems to have petered out.
I don't doubt that Kinect Sport is a perfectly good game, but really, to see the studio that created Goldeneye now making glorified tech demos for a gimmick-y motion controller is a bit upsetting for my inner child.
Would have been a minor inconvenience if not for all the internet-based homework I had to do.
Also, guys: horror
Also, there are router/modem combos to be had around here, but they aren't really the norm to my knowledge. It makes a fair bit of sense to combine them, but keeping them separate has advantages. At least as long as people tend to operate from a variety of different types of internet such as DSL, Cable, or even stuff like WiMAX.
And yeah, here it's just ADSL or cable in the home, and both are catered for by the ISPs. You also have 3G dongles and shit, but those don't really count.