Aside from the weight, I don’t know why but I felt my setup was more shaky this way… That’s why the telescopic controller is still my way to go when I want to properly play on mobile.

I just leave them on and play my own way, what I got I got, what I didn’t I don’t bother… The same way I do with modern archivements.

You are living the dream.

That would be so sweet, but I am also limited to my two bays NAS 😅

I should have known better that the hoard being that lives inside of me would need more storage down the road.

How is the Hentai section with Netflix lol.

I am more of a Debrid guy (Real Debrid) even if I have no need to pay for a VPN here in Mexico I still prefer to use RD, if I had unlimited HDDs I’d hoard everything of course.

Nice, I didn’t know about this game, I am gonna check it out.

For the curious, I found a nice mod project about Asphalt 8 called Asphalt 8 Retry it basically is an offline mod of the game with updated tracks, graphics and cards, I have been having a blast with it, definitely the ads killed the momentum for me with this one.

For real, I don’t consider myself a car lover/enthusiast, but it is a genre that has really grown on me, more like arcade racing, I think Burnout Legends and Domination for the PSP propelled this feeling lol.

Now I play Asphalt 8 regularly on my Android phone whenever I get the chance… But I really need a better alternative because I hate ads (and not seeking for emulation).

For me a banger is the Toy Story 2 game, and I am not even joking lol.

if you can get past the DS touchscreen BS.

I always cry internally when somebody doesn’t like the DS and 3DS gimmicks :(

Thanks to you guys we all will only have Steam Deck clones as handhelds from now on! /s

To be honest I think most of the people that don’t like the touch gimmicks are emulating… But I have heard people with stock hardware complaining too :/

Which is the other exception?

I played it for the 1st time, no nostalgia googles and I didn’t really enjoy the back tracking that much (even using the quick travel spots), the way to get the powers (you kinda need to remember where the monsters are) and discovering the secret rooms felt like a chore to me.

The only Castlevania games that I have played to completion have been Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin of ruin for DS, and regarding the genre, additionally to that, it would be Metroid Zero Mission, Guacamelee! And I think those are the ones I can remember… And I didn’t feel that way with them.

I did enjoy the OST and the graphics a lot though.

More accessible? Please explain.

As in easier?

Manufacturers have wildly oversold you on how much speed you need to run a game.

For real, I only talk by experience and with old hardware, but my hacked Switch V1 runs everything, even its OS purely from the SD and I feel it runs just the same as with stock storage.

A friend of mine thinks it is gonna flop (tbh nobody knows), only because of that prior flop, he refuses to acknowledge that they might have learned of their mistakes, and hardly acknowledge that the Steam Deck is a success, only because it is a different market (he truly doesn’t believe in Steam hardware).

I for one am excited as I don’t have any PC gaming at the moment (or Steam Deck lol), I have been a console (and mostly handheld) gamer since the old days, and this bet on Steam makes sense for me in this day and age.

and from what I’ve seen of Valve’s quality control you probably wouldn’t want to risk that.

Wait, what? Care to expand on that?

I didn’t even want to engage with a non official purchase of the Steam Deck yet for what has been already established here, and reading this kills the excitement even further 😅

NGL the cube thingy looks so damn attractive to me, especially as I don’t own any form of PC gaming…

Now please Steam, officially sell to Mexico god damn it!

The dream is that these “niche” hardware starts to gain momentum and these dumb anti cheat kernel start to disappear… Like I said, a dream.

Yeah, tablet hype died ages ago, but I think it is handy to have at least one (not the best or more expensive model for sure) at home because it can be handy from time to time.

I had an Internet outage at my gf’s place and I could download a lot of shit from my Plex Server to the iPad, something that would have been more annoying to do in the TV or the Mac (or even the phone as I pretty much never use it to watch media).

Also it is quite good as a comic/manga reader (and decent as a book reader).

That is how I see it, I know a lot of people might use it in a more productive way, but for me it is just the backup device that is handy to have (and use in travels too).

This becomes even worse when you also want to play old gems that missed because you weren’t even born, or because you had kid taste in your early gaming days, but there are worse things to complain at.

My first two video games that I had were Gran Turismo and Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22, so at my 6 years old or so I already had negative time of hundreds of nice jRPG gems LMAO.

No, but I find fund in adding them to my backlog list anyway.

Not sure if they are my favorite but these are the 3 first that came into my mind, in this order:

1. Uncharted 2
2. Xenoblade Chronicles
3. Kingdom Hearts

I am pretty sure there are another good ones out there that I can’t remember right now (like Time Hollow).

Are PC prices keeping steady? This new BS trend of raising price for old hardware is nothing but a bad joke, and I have always been a console (and mostly, handheld) gamer, that’s why I ask.

That is why we shouldn’t trust marketing.

lol, it seems about the same as my Galaxy S20 gets… Fuck Exynos 🤣

FIFA 20? lol.

I didn’t know about this game, but honestly it is so good that others experience the same as I, of course I don’t think that I am the only one in the world that Chrono Trigger is not for him (not even sure about this myself), but definitely is so scarce to read comments of people struggling with the title compared with praises for it gets!

after being living in the map marker era for so long.

Jeez, this is totally it!

Thanks for putting it in simpler words for me 😅

Definitely gonna check in taking notes.

1. Jump Ultimate Stars, this is the dream game for any Otaku, the fact that we can still play it in 2025 thanks to custom servers is a blessing.

2. God Of War 2018, I was having a bad streak gaming related due to personal and work life, but when this game was released I got it immediately, something that I rarely do (patient gamer gang), anyway, this game kept me awake late nights, I know this is not something that one should brag about, but I was enjoying it completely thus the nights felt that happened too quickly.

3. Toy Story 2, this game will never age for me, I honestly don’t know if it should deserve this spot, but if there is a game that I have replayed the most in my life, this would be it, the platform mechanics and graphics are top notch for me (and hey, PS1 graphics are making a comeback, so no shame at all with that style).

Maybe another game deserves that last spot, but those 3 games were the 1st ones that came to my mind.

Honorable mentions:

Mario Kart DS

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Trilogy

Hotel Dusk & The Last Window (can you guess my favorite console by this point?)

Pokémon Soul Silver

TWEWY

Time Hollow

All the other God of War games (even Ascension)

Batman Arkham saga (even Origins)

The Witcher 3

Xenoblade

And a bunch others that would make this list absurdly big, which is not the main point of this post.

1. Chrono Trigger is at the way top. The greatest game of all time hasn’t been bested in 30 years. Telling the best narrative I’ve heard in my life, and packing it into 20 short hours, with timeless art and amazing music, and into FOUR GODDAMN MEGABYTES, this is one many try to beat, and none have succeeded. Not even Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

I would lose the count of how many times I have read praises (well deserved) for Chrono Trigger, and it only makes me feel bad with myself because I left it unfinished (I am close to the 1st ending… I think) because I was lost all the damn time and needed a guide to move forward, something that I really don’t enjoy, and I didn’t have too many gaps while playing it to be fair.

I enjoy RPGs and jRPGs, even when they are not my favorite genres, but I don’t like to feel lost all the time.

Now, it should be obvious that I didn’t play this game back in its day, my last game session was about a year ago in my DSi XL (arguably the best way to experience it) so I have 0 nostalgia googles about it, although I am a Toriyama fan and I loved the art style, graphics and music, it is only the pace and the narrative that didn’t caught me completely…

I know I shouldn’t force myself to finish it as gaming is a hobby after all, but damn, I really want to complete it, at least one playthrough lol (I don’t like to leave stuff unfinished).

If anyone has tips to not feel lost all the damn time (aside of not stop playing for a brief time) I am all ears.

Probably he is a Nintendo hater /j (but not entirely, it happens).

Maybe the Deck 2 could though.

This comes from a person that hasn’t been able to get one officially as Valve doesn’t sell it in Mexico officially… But hey, our USA neighbors get it at a fair price!

Maybe Nintendo doesn’t have fair prices here either, but at least I can grab it in a local store any time.

Ah, here we are again at the stage of hating the company that makes the games but loving the games it makes…

Just curious, any other companies that ring that bell?

After finishing Nier Automata in my Switch (quite an awesome port tbh, I cheated a bit as I overclocked my unit to make it run smoother) and Breath of The Wild I am focusing on smaller games, which are:

• Monument Valley (Android)
• Retro City Rampage (PS Vita)
• Pokémon Omega Ruby (almost finished, 3DS).

Compared against a Switch 1, yes, it is a crazy deal, but I’d personally wait for a more powerful handheld, or a successor at least in 2025 (almost 2026) that truly competes against more recent PC handhelds, including the Switch 2.

Jump Ultimate Stars.

The fatal flaw is that it is old and you need to do a lot of extra steps to play online in 2025, but aside from that, the game has a very steep learning curve so even the greatest otaku can struggle to get into it, competitively specially, if there is a room for that word in 2025 😅

Didn’t Yoko Taro said something similar regarding Nier?