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main stream medias are finally catching on i see
As a PC gamer I would never condone such a statement about my console brethren (and sisters), but lol.
The new Super Mario Galaxy Movie is out today – as expected, it is a bare-bones story supported by a cavalcade of Nintendo cameos and bright action scenes. Dubbed “a bland screensaver of a movie” by the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, expect smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers.
Is it bad that smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers sounds about exactly what I’m equipped to handle right about now?
Like zoning out to some seriously tepid nostalgia-slop sounds good.
Last time I checked Mario Bros was supposed to be happy and fun and simple not an art house intellectual experience.
I wonder if a lot of the reviews are just the bitterness that it’s going to be a 1.5B movie and that ‘real cinema’ movies do pitifully at the box office these days, very rarely to they even make $100mil
Fun being key here, not just a slideshow of colored images.
i mean a lot of those ‘real cinema’ movies do pitifully at the box office because they’re fucking creepy glimpses into fucking creepy writers’, directors’, and editors’ minds
I do very much enjoy playing super mario galaxy on my steam deck. It’s pickup and play when I have a quick 5 - 15 mins of free time. The cheerful colours and sounds can be an enjoyable escape. A nice change from some of the death and destruction in many more “serious” pc games
That sounds like almost an exact description of the first Mario movie.
Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, its Nintendo specific.
~ Former Nintendo Game Enjoyer
I disagree on the smooth brained comment. Nintendo first party games (the reason to buy their consoles) are always top-notch.
The ones I’ve bought on Switch 2:
- Mario Kart World - wonderful game with excellent driving mechanics. Open world and lots of fun.
- DK Bananza - endearing game with a heartfelt story, great music, fun gameplay. Really enjoyed my time 100%ing this game.
- pokemon Legends Z-A: good game overall. Nothing groundbreaking but fun.
- Pokemon Pokopia - I’m absolutely obsessed. Heartfelt story, hits so many nostalgic beats, tackles a difficult subject of humans destroying the environment. What happens to our Pokes when we humans have to leave them behind? Amazing game with deep breadth, excellent quality of life that builds upon typical sandbox games, and the music is so nice. When I first heard the Pokémon healing melody adapted into one song, or when I reached a destroyed Palette Town and heard all the original Pokémon Red/Blue musical beats embedded in the overarching musical theme, I was so moved. Very touching game, too. One of the best Pokémon spin offs I’ve played, and this game is canon.
Still waiting on more first-party games that are on the horizon - the potential Ocarina of Time remake if the rumors are true, Pokémon Winds/Waves, and the new 3D Mario game.
Any other game I haven’t picked up because I would rather play it on PC.
The smooth brained entertainment comment was just referring to the Mario Galaxy movie.
“Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, it’s Nintendo specific.”
This looks to me like the person commenting suggests that Nintendo fans in general are smooth-brained.
Oops, I missed that and thought it was replying to the comment above it.
Man, I remember when the DS was the thinking person’s console of choice. Oh the art you could draw on it and send to others. Oh the traces of goatee.
Good oppurtunity to work on your backlog.
But if I do that I’ll never buy another game!
Hmm. You may be on to something there…
Or do as I do and buy random games for cheap. I’m on like hour 4 of Tim-Tim 2; The Almighty Gnome, that I got for like 50 cents.
Honestly a pretty good time.
Well, no shit.
I honestly expect better from the Guardian.
At least they’re discussing the problem.
Gaming is cheaper than ever. Just don’t buy new games. I haven’t bought a new AAA game in decades. There are thousands and thousands of games you can play for free or nearly free.
It’s like music. You can listen to lifetimes worth of music for free or nearly free. The only expensive thing is going to some fancy concert and giving a ton of money to Ticketmaster.
Well, you still need something to play it on. And since GPUs and RAM costs about a child and a half these days, I’d say it’s quite expensive.
Sure, though you don’t need a state of the art PC to play 90% of the games ever made. These days I play a lot of my games on an old 3DS (hacked to the gills)!
I also have a huge steam library of games, many of which I bought for next to nothing in huge bundles during past sales. Many of them I still haven’t played! They would run fine on a 10 year old PC though.
You do have a point there, yes. My backlog of games I want to play is … Long …
The AAA game industry wants to leverage FOMO to keep you engaged, keep you buying the newest game, forgetting about your backlog.
If they had their way, older games would no longer be playable, just to force people to keep buying new games.
Not if you use geforce now, that’s easy cheaper than buying a new pc
Short term it’s cheaper, but to an enthusiast the lag, and the lack of ownership really rankles.
I’ve never had an issue with the lag.
The games are owned outside of gfn.
I’ve never lost access to any game yet.
That’s cool, where do you buy your games?
Even streaming from my desktop to TV downstairs using ethernet is noticeable to me! It’s alright for some games but not great for fast stuff.
Steam, green gaming man, epic, etc. multi player stuff maybe, I don’t think I’ve tried that but for single payer, I’ve seen no obvious lag unless maybe use WiFi instead of ethernet.
What cat is your ethernet cable?
The latency added by a Cat 6 cable itself is imperceptible, typically adding only about 0.5 microseconds (0.0005 ms) over a full 100-metre run. For comparison, electricity travels through the cable at roughly 200 million metres per second, meaning it would take a cable over 100 miles long just to add 1 millisecond of “ping”.
So cat6 which a lot of people use some new imperceptible. Maybe there’s an issue else where on your network
It could well be the rendering step on my PC. Maybe the router is a bit old too. I can’t remember whether cat 5 or 6 but as you say it’s unlikely to be the cable in isolation. It was playing Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
Gross!
AI nonsense makes owning your own computer too expensive and your solution is to reward the same assholes by paying a subscription to use their hardware with bonus lag? Have you no shame?
It’s better than what I could afford.
It’s pretty astounding actually. I have zero lag and the graphic fidelity is exceptional.
I couldn’t afford a PC system even before the price rises. So this is the bestway to experience high quality gaming for the majority of people.
You can buy new AAA games. Be /patientgamers. Just wait a few weeks or months after release and they almost always go on sale when companies want to boost server numbers to make quarterly reports look good. I haven’t paid release price for any AAA game in years. And it should go without saying: Do not preorder!
Yoshi’s Crafted World was the first, last and only preorder I’ve ever done.
I’m so sorry.
Brother, this isnt 2004.
AAA games rarely go on sale anymore, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is like 7 years old, and still 50 bucks, and last sale it went down to 25. 25 for a 7 year old game is just brutal absurdity.
and I just use that as an example, its the same almost across the entire board.
The only saving grace in gaming right now is indie games. Which are typically affordable.
Literally BF6 is on sale right now for 40% off. It was 50% off on some locations on Black Friday. It was 30% off 4 months ago. It was released early October. That’s 4 sales in 7 months for a AAA game.
I’ve bought Stray, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA, Elite: Dangeorus, Borderlands series, and many others all on sale and even a couple games for free.
I can’t help it if your particular games don’t get discounted, but telling me AAA games rarely do is completely wrong.
Yeah, and you are conveniently skipping over the most relevant part.
Lowest price history for cyberpunk 2077 is 20 bucks. 20 bucks for a 5 year old game is ridiculously overpriced.
Grand Theft Auto never goes under 15 dollars, which is over priced for how old the game is.
I personally wouldnt consider borderlands AAA games, but congratulations, you found the one game that had an actual legitimate sale and age related price drop with Elite: Dangerous, with the base games lowest sale price recorded as 2 bucks. WIth it currently on sale for 5. for a 11 year old game. Which is what the prices should be for an old game, and what all the other games should be doing once they are out of their content window.
Also, you don’t have to be so goddamn dismissive and hostile. I gave an example of my argument. Did you expect me to spend 3 weeks researching so i could produce a scientific paper detailing every game that is over priced?
I wouldn’t consider the main Dragon Quest series to be AAA, let alone the spin-off builders game…
There was nothing hostile in what I said. Maybe you don’t like being proven wrog? I didn’t expect anything of you much less a hyperbolic research paper, but nonetheless you chose hyperbole and shuffled the goalposts instead of actually continuing the discussion. I never said when I bought the games, but convenient of you to arbitrarily decide how old a game is before it’s not worth it for you. Nonetheless they’re on sale by your own admission, so that blows your “rarely” out of the water while you ignore BF6 being repeatedly on sale. But I suppose you’ll make excuses about that too?
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Are you the thread nanny?
games are more expensive in general
Straight up nonsense. Complain all you want, but if the cost of games even approached parity with inflation they would be FAR more expensive than they are right now.
Just don’t let the Nintendo ninjas know that they are free
a humble bundle subscription pays for itself a dozen times over, too.
I disagree about concerns being equivalent to AAA games but you have a good point otherwise
Gaming has been getting expensive long before the latest AI Fad started.
Yeah before it was crypto and NFTs.
growing up in a 3rd world country, it has always been, specially when considering the language barrier since games were not translated into my language back in the day
Posted on April fools. Is the joke that it’s such old news?
I asked AI and my RAM charged my credit card
I feel a lot of first-world privilege out of having all my gaming hardware from before the AI boom started. Around the time sanity lost the election, I decided to get a new GPU because I was worried all economies would turn terrible, and I was basically right.
Gaming is pretty cheap, playing the latest new releases or hardware or collecting a massive library has always been expensive
Games are too cheap to be honest. That’s why the whole industry sucks now.
Businesses started acting like every product ever is a luxury product and people keep paying the higher prices.
The only way to get prices back down as to not buy them.and hope the little businesses survive long enough.
The only people with money to spend are the upper-middle class consumers. Incomes of 100K+. 60% of consumer spending across the USA comes from people in this bracket… and for people under 100K income, spending is going down. Only 18% of USA population makes this level of income…
Hence if you want to make money, you have to move your products up-market to appeal to people who have all the disposable income to spend. This trend is all over the economy. Travel, clothing, food, etc.
The days of appealing to the mass market of lower and middle class consumers, is over, because they are broke, so nobody gives an F about them.
Going forward it’s about fewer sales, but higher margin sales.
The days of appealing to the mass market of lower and middle class consumers, is over
It’s not over forever. We’ve had K-shaped recoveries in the past, which is why we have a name for it.
nobody is investing in the lower or middle classes. they are de-investing.
everyone is investing in the rich people. especially other rich people who are trying to grow their businesses.
That’s right now. The economy changes, and that investment is a response to how it’s changed. It will change back again. We’ve been here before.
The wealthy have become very easy to sell to. Disposable cash they dont think about and a tailored algorithm and wide variety of available designer drugs.
Do some ketamine, go on an amazon binge and book a holiday to Greece to see a band you barely like cause fuck it, world is burning and I want a good time.
Honestly we just need to move on and start doing our own things and try to get into a place of power to maybe shore up some of the wealth hoarding.
Open AI - “I don’t understand why everyone hates me”
I’m shocked that the guardian outright just called people idiots.
Is this since kind of April fools, it was posted on the 1st of April.
I thought they were a legit publication.
