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I didn’t join that group, but I agreed with it.
Never did get it. Played a lot of Blops 1 tho.
Ended up with blops 2 as well, but I was confused on how installed servers worked, so I was kinda misled. Would’ve skipped if I understood. But that was my last cod.
Still think the original’s expansion and 2 were the best in the series, but since they didn’t really release equally on console until 4, all the kiddies remember 4 as the first game. As in, they lean more into the identity as “MW1”, rather than CoD4. And since after that they dropped the numbers in the main titles, opting to just start a bunch of spin offs and numbering their story installations.
I think blops 7 is like cod 17, but I could be forgetting some.
Anyway, I still think lobbies are far, FAR inferior to dedicated servers and private community servers. Always will be. Fight me.
Yeah. I’m fine with gaming being a much smaller industry if we can keep people with toddler level IQs out of it. Much rather have quality over quantity.
I don’t even care if graphics get better, tbh. Games should be good, not necessarily fancy. Fancy doesn’t hurt, as long as making it fancy doesn’t cut into the quality of the project.
Keep the writing and gameplay top notch, develop new hardware to meet certain needs, and that’s it.
VR is an interesting frontier (haven’t experienced it personally), but for most games pushing the graphics is only done to stand out on the shelf.
But new paradigms aren’t necessary most of the time.
First, I wasn’t saying it would be market conditions doing it. Honestly I’d love to see all the companies eat the shit they’ve already stepped in.
Preferably it would be people wising up and realizing that they are factually bad compared to PCs. Demand would (in this good timeline) drop to zero overnight and kill them off immediately.
Not sure why you’re so sure that cloud would be the next winner either. Until network speeds get above the speed of light, as long as real time games exist, cloud gaming will never be very popular. It’ll be at best the “gaming you have at home” meme.
The delay will always be too much for any serious game where real time input and reactions are core components.
So I don’t see cloud gaming ever getting huge.
And even in your version, if PCs do take a hit (they already are with the RAMpocalypse), it’s still a smaller hit than being defunct.
But overall the main point is no technology should ever be locked down to one company. If your hardware only plays games allowed by one company, then you’ve got yourself a piece of shit. Period.
Maybe it was unclear, but by “console” I was implying a locked down device stuck with only using software licensed (or whatever the applicable legal term is) to a specific company’s hardware.
And given that a steam deck (love mine btw) isn’t locked down in any way beyond having native access to a specific vendor’s store, doesn’t apply (neither does steam machine).
Any locked down technology at all is kinda suspect, tbh. Capitalism is fucking horrendous.
Honestly I hope the ENTIRE console industry completely dies off. Hopefully Nintendo bites it first, but they’re all fucking shitty as hell (for SO many reasons) and I hope they all go extinct by the time Trump does.
There, I said it, I’m not sorry, and I will die on this hill. I don’t even think there’s any reasonable counter point beyond it being a simple entry point with easy to plug in pre-configured boxes.
So fight me. Consoles suck, and they should go extinct.
Right, but again, you have choices in almost every piece of hardware.
Consoles lock you down a lot harder in this respect. You either but their hardware and possibly software, or you miss out on the whole thing.
And a lot of people, like a sibling of mine is just getting to the point of maturity where you figure out the brand you like is the bad guy and you don’t want to give them money anymore, but you sorely miss the product itself.
Given how hard they’re locked in, it’s really hard for them to jump to a new platform. Not quite as bad as switching from Android to or from iPhone, but not super far off.
Personally I jumped out completely before I got invested in a digital console store, so I didn’t have that problem. But the point is that they gotta completely start a new collection and paradigm.
Whereas if you one day have a huge problem with let’s say, Steam, you can just opt to never buy from them again without losing access to your library, no matter what hardware you’re running it on.
You can choose to never buy an Acer monitor, CoolerMaster PSU, or (insert other random examples) while still having a computer.
I mean it’s impossible to really find “good” companies, but you can at least pick your lines in the sand with a lot more granularity than just consoles.
It’s not perfect, but is still better than the big 3.
Plus no matter where you land with your choices, you will still have the same library.
I played mostly Rocket League (again, 10 consecutive wins for time played lol).
But my computer was down done Christmas Eve last year and just got out working again on Halloween. So most of my games this year were solely on the Deck. So the Deck gets an MVP award for being there when I needed it.
That said, the only game I own that doesn’t really work on the Deck is Helldivers 2.
I cannot drop down and play literally anything in 30fps. I already have to deal with the 60Hz screen on the Deck, I cannot use anything less (that hasn’t been literally designed for it- anything that can run at a higher fps should be. 60 is the absolute rock bottom I will tolerate.
Anyway, I also played a lot of Balatro, Slay the Spire, and REPO. Getting it working satisfactorily would have been impossible on some handhelds, but the grip buttons made it just enough to have access to all inventory slots, sprinting and tumbling. Had to use voice activation without an easy way to use push to talk, but that didn’t really bother me.
Tried PEAK, but it doesn’t really grab me personally. I still wanna try it on PC tho now that I have it running again, to give it a fair shake. I feel really off balance trying controllers with games meant to be kb/m. Repo felt awkward but playable. And I liked the choir game design enough anyway. But playing Peak while being awkward didn’t feel as rewarding. But I wanna give it a go with kb/m.
I played some Hades as well. Still haven’t beaten it yet (I’ve only gotten to the Hades fight twice). That game I actually like better on the Deck or on controller better. Which is kinda what I expected, but it definitely belongs on a controller.
I played through It Takes Two, which was beautiful. Haven’t finished Split Fiction yet because my brother keeps being unavailable. I try to tell him to “come be a lesbian with me”. Haven’t quite finished it yet, but there’s no way those 2 don’t hook up, right?
Didn’t play a lot of anything else, haven’t gotten back to work after my last couple years of surgeries so my budget was basically zero.(Supplemented by Steam gifties from real ones) Soon to change this coming year I hope, but given my disability, the depression of being stuck for medical reasons back in a house I had escaped from, the general everything, being poor, and not even having access to my main platform to game on at all, I think I did ok.
If you’ll pardon me I gotta go grind some more Rocket League.
I want sitting in the concept entirely, I just hate those games so much that I want those players pushed out so they die off.
No game should make your OS choice for you. I’m an ideal world it wouldn’t matter, but getting off windows is way, waaaaaay more important than playing a specific game. (Or it should be, if you have any idea how bad m$ really is.)