General Videogame Thread

01cravend said:
Thing that puts me off of Nintendo is the lack of variation in their games, it's all cartoonish and child friendly, do they even have a single game(exclusive) with an 18 certificate? aha.
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Nintendo have struggled since the 90s, only thing keeping it going is the Pokemon franchise! If that would have ended when the creator had planned it to (in 2000) then Nintendo would be on its arse! In fact Nintendo's revenue from sales has more than halved in the last 5 years!
 
I do like some of their games but yet again their hardware is a generation behind the rest and it's holding back things. On Zelda the Switch can't even sustain 30fps at 900p ffs!
 
Super mario aside on a gameboy or snes, Nintendo has done nothing imo and i refuse to be suckered in by the hype over the new Zelda game or the switch console that in 12 months time I will wager no one will be talking about.
 
80s Shorts said:
This is what is stopping me from buying the switch at the moment. Goldeneye, Mario64 and Orcana of Time were brilliant on the N64 but little else from memory. Having said that if a game gives me the same enjoyment that I had from Goldeneye at that time then when the price comes down I will probably buy a switch.
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Fuck loads of great games on the N64. Zelda Majora's Mask was arguably better than Ocarina, Perfect Dark arguably better than Goldeneye. Mario Kart was phenomenal, Banjo Kazooie for me personally was better than Mario64.

Then you had Wave Race, WWF No Mercy, Star Fox, F Zero, Jet Force Gemini, Space Station Silicon Valley, Conkers Bad Fur Day, 1080 Snowboarding, Snowboard Kids, Turok 1 and 2 and probably even more. All cracking games.

Still remains my favourite console.

Edit - nearly forgot the weird classic Body Harvest. Such a mad game that, brilliant though.
 
twosips said:
Fuck loads of great games on the N64. Zelda Majora's Mask was arguably better than Ocarina, Perfect Dark arguably better than Goldeneye. Mario Kart was phenomenal, Banjo Kazooie for me personally was better than Mario64.

Then you had Wave Race, WWF No Mercy, Star Fox, F Zero, Jet Force Gemini, Space Station Silicon Valley, Conkers Bad Fur Day, 1080 Snowboarding, Snowboard Kids, Turok 1 and 2 and probably even more. All cracking games.

Still remains my favourite console.

Edit - nearly forgot the weird classic Body Harvest. Such a mad game that, brilliant though.
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I'll give you Turok and Mario Cart but the rest listed were average imo.
 
twosips said:
Fuck loads of great games on the N64. Zelda Majora's Mask was arguably better than Ocarina, Perfect Dark arguably better than Goldeneye. Mario Kart was phenomenal, Banjo Kazooie for me personally was better than Mario64.

Then you had Wave Race, WWF No Mercy, Star Fox, F Zero, Jet Force Gemini, Space Station Silicon Valley, Conkers Bad Fur Day, 1080 Snowboarding, Snowboard Kids, Turok 1 and 2 and probably even more. All cracking games.

Still remains my favourite console.

Edit - nearly forgot the weird classic Body Harvest. Such a mad game that, brilliant though.
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Body Harvest was weird!

My personal all time favourite was Sega Saturn. That had some really odd games and a few of them are worth a pop. I own the first disc of a three-part RPG game, which is worth around £70-£80 nowadays....only the first part of the game was released in the West and in English, the other two parts were in Japanese only.
 
80s Shorts said:
I'll give you Turok and Mario Cart but the rest listed were average imo.
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All I know is that teenage me had ridiculous amounts of fun on them all. I'll give you some of them but not comprising on Banjo Kazooie and Perfect Dark. Genuinely classics.
 
Nebuchadnezzar said:
Body Harvest was weird!

My personal all time favourite was Sega Saturn. That had some really odd games and a few of them are worth a pop. I own the first disc of a three-part RPG game, which is worth around £70-£80 nowadays....only the first part of the game was released in the West and in English, the other two parts were in Japanese only.
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Wasn't the SEGA Saturn the decline of SEGA consoles? I know the dreamcast came after it, but even before the release SEGA were in trouble.
 
Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot said:
Wasn't the SEGA Saturn the decline of SEGA consoles? I know the dreamcast came after it, but even before the release SEGA were in trouble.
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I was reading about Sega the other week and their decline apparently started during the Mega Drive era. Sales just weren't as high as hoped, and the add ons Mega CD and 32X really fucked their finances.
 
quiet_riot said:
I was reading about Sega the other week and their decline apparently started during the Mega Drive era. Sales just weren't as high as hoped, and the add ons Mega CD and 32X really fucked their finances.
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Yeah I remember the amount of tedious add ons they started to do for a number of their consoles!

I loved the mega drive, in fact I've still got mine and it still works now!

Even now SEGA are hit and miss, Alien Isolation was class, but they've bought out Football Manager now and apparently FM2017 is fucking dog turd!
 
Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot said:
Nintendo have struggled since the 90s, only thing keeping it going is the Pokemon franchise! If that would have ended when the creator had planned it to (in 2000) then Nintendo would be on its arse! In fact Nintendo's revenue from sales has more than halved in the last 5 years!
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In the past 8 years they've done 92 billion dollars in revenues.

I'm not sure that really qualifies as struggling mate!

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quiet_riot said:
I was reading about Sega the other week and their decline apparently started during the Mega Drive era. Sales just weren't as high as hoped, and the add ons Mega CD and 32X really fucked their finances.
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It's weird how that happened really there wasn't a single person with a Saturn I knew who didn't love it, same with the Dreamcast(which was stocked with unique gems) both of those seemed to come out at the wrong time though IMO. With the prices of the hardware and the games you need to be aware people aren't going to switch(or be allowed to by their parents) soon after forking out for a different console and also the hardware didn't seem to shift in price, they didn't seem good at bringing the manufacturing costs down as others did from what I remember.
 
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willipp said:
What was the 2009 spike? Is that the wii coming out?
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Yeah I'm pretty sure it was a big factor as pretty much everyone went out and got one, then forgot about them 5 months later.

I feel Nintendo's hardware is close to death. Seems inevitable really! Heard some bad things about the switch also, process power weak, controls too small for adult hands and the accessories are a fortune (think something like £75 for a controller)
 
Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot said:
Yeah I'm pretty sure it was a big factor as pretty much everyone went out and got one, then forgot about them 5 months later.

I feel Nintendo's hardware is close to death. Seems inevitable really! Heard some bad things about the switch also, process power weak, controls too small for adult hands and the accessories are a fortune (think something like £75 for a controller)
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That's exactly what happened with our wii. Used for a month or two then sat next to the tv for 2 years gathering dust and due to such poor choice and quality of games available never got used.
 
They know they aren't competing with Playstation and Xbox for a premium sit on the sofa play AAA games console. They're offering something different, it'll be a second console for the heads and something that appeals to the casual market. There are going to be a tonne of great games ported that aren't feasible on Android tabs but now you can take with you on the bus or whatever.

Personally I think it's a bit cheeky. The chip is basically the same as an Nvidia Sheild, which was being sold for just over a hundred. The margins on this thing are going to be beserk.

I'd still like one tho. The package as a whole is pretty cool.
 


Lots of problems being reported. Shite design choices resulting in scratched screens, dead pixels, flimsy build quality, some just plain not working.
 
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