This would be awesome if there were great movies being released every week. But for the most part, I'm happy waiting for most movies to wind up on Netflix or Amazon.
Wasn't the PS3/XB360/Wii supposed to be the last generation of console before streaming? I think especially with the Japanese market that as long as you can't economically stream a game over cell towers, we're still going to have the ability to purchase physical games.
Yeah, it was pretty painful waiting for Fiber. The deadline kept getting pushed. Eventually they did it and its awesome. I just wish all of KC could get it.
Here's the thing that baffles me though. WHY DO THEY KEEP ADVERTISING IT!? Seriously. I see ads on facebook and on billboards begging for people to sign up for Google Fiber when they can't.
I frequent the local drive-in all the time. First, if you're staying in your car, you're doing it wrong. I typically picnic right outside my car. Second, there are many reasons to want to go to a drive-in.
1.) You can freely bring in your own food. 2.) Kids are typically free. 3.) You can bring kids without worrying about them ruining the movie for everyone else. 4.) Two current movies for just $10 per person? Count me in!
That being said there are obvious disadvantages such as:
1.) Inevitably the guy parked two cars down will decide to smoke. 2.) Bugs 3.) Awful bathrooms 4.) Potential for rain 5.) Average screen quality 6.) Below average sound quality (Hint! Bring your own speaker!) 7.) Always late at night
So basically this is a lengthy way of saying, if you have kids or are low on cash and you want to see a current movie, go to the drive-in.
There are practical uses to VR that will take it mainstream. Today, I use VR to help me figure out directions to new routes by virtually driving those routes. It helps me to know what lane to be in, etc...
I agree that the sample size is too small. But anecdotal, I think there is some merit to this. While I'm not sure the number is 82%, I know that my children cannot complete common slogans that are second nature to us kids growing up in the dark ages.
My Surface Pro 3 dynamically figures out the time left. It will show me how much time I have left if I continue to use the computer in the same way. Light work naturally will show more time left than playing a video game.
I really enjoy VR, but I think these "large screen feel" applications of VR is kinda silly. Because of the screen door effect and the fact that each eye gets half the resolution, the large screen pictures look low-rezed. I think it might be something that's fun once the resolution gets much higher.
Maybe you can help me a bit. With Mario, the gameplay element is jumping. When you jump on different objects or enemy types they react differently. Jumping on a Koopa is different than jumping on a Goomba and so on. These reactions are arranged into an amazing and creative game. With Splatoon, the gameplay element is team based ink coverage. Each weapon has a different take on such a task. Different modes provide additional twists on this idea of covering the world with ink. It is this varied, yet easy to understand concepts by what I mean by gameplay first.
Bloodborne, and I know I'm judging a game by its title, sounds like something where you get weapons and kill things. Sometimes there are things that are harder to kill. But the concept is the same. Get weapon, kill things, move. Get weapon, kill things. move. Just like Space Invaders. Kill thing and move isn't something that interest me. Perhaps you can help me understand how Bloodborne should be in my library. I just don't see me bringing it home and saying, "Hey kids! Let's sit around the PS4 and play Bloodborne!" or "Guys, want to come over to my house after work?" "To play Smash!?" "No to 'Bloodborne' it up!" Please convince me on what I'm missing.
You get what I'm saying? I'm sure Bloodborne and games like it are challenging and entertaining to a certain group of gamers, but not for me. So if I don't get excited about the next "mash 'x' and kill things" games, don't worry. I'll still support the PS4 by buying games like 'Dragon Quest Builders'.
If we ignore the awesome remakes and amazing multiplatform indie games, the Wii U had: Splatoon, Pikmin 3, Nintendoland, Wonderful 101, Smash Bros., Toad's Treasure Tracker, Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Maker, and Mario Kart 8. These are all high quality games that are fun to play. Many of the games above are probably quality games, but not anything I'd want to play personally. I'll probably pick up Little Big Planet 3, Tearaway, Dragon Quest Builders, Ni No Kuni 2, and Valkyria Chronicles 4 for the PS4. Perhaps even the Kingdom Hearts games if I have time.
I'm more of a game play first kinda gamer than a "watch a 'movie' about killing things that requires mashing the 'x' button a whole lot" kinda gamer. But there's nothing wrong if someone likes that sorta thing.
So what you're saying is that the PS4 is a powerful console without games? ie games == space in your analogy?
I don't think that's entirely true or fair. There are some really fun games that I'm thinking of picking up such as Dragon Quest Builders. Also I'm going to try out PSVR as I hear they have some asynchronous games similar to Nintendo Land.
I guess that's the problem. Most of these are M rated one player games. I'm more of a colorful blue skies gameplay focused kinda gamer. So far, I've enjoyed the demos to Dragon Quest Builders and Tearaway. I'm looking forward to Ni No Kuni II and Valkyria Chronicles IV.
I subscribed to PlayStation Vue on and off last year. It's great because it's only $30/month and one only has to subscribe when there is something worth watching on Cable TV. It works really great over my Google Fiber connection.
I bought one last week and I'm pleasantly surprised. I'm still trying to find games to play for it as it doesn't seem to have the wealth of games I enjoy like the Wii U does, but next year looks like a really good year for PS4 gaming. I'm also excited to see what they do with VR. Hopefully the Scorpio comes out and blows us away with that too.
I would say then that you should look at the video game crash of the early 80s. Nintendo came along and rescued the game industry from obscurity. I think a similar story is unfolding. In the last generation, only 80 million home consoles have been sold between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo combined. In the previous generation, Nintendo sold 110 million consoles by themselves (with the 3rd party companies selling 80 million combined) and in the previous generation, Sony sold 120 million consoles by themselves. So to have only 80 million consoles sold by everybody sends a message that the entire industry is losing to things like cell phones. Unfortunately, cell phone games are a race to the bottom. They sell for next to nothing and the quality often reflect that. So that industry too will inevitably crash.
What Nintendo is doing to rescue the industry is creating a console that has the mobility of a tablet with the quality of a console. The message is that you can be mobile without compromising quality. For a Dad like me this is huge. I never have time to game on the big screen, but I have time to game right before bed.
Maybe someday I'll be as grown up as a middle schooler and play games with lots of swearing, blood, and violence which requires running around and pressing the A button. But today, I'm happy to play rich, complex "kiddie" games that have incredible depth to them. I look forward to buying this and hanging out with my fellow coworkers and rocking some smash bros in the break room.
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This would be awesome if there were great movies being released every week. But for the most part, I'm happy waiting for most movies to wind up on Netflix or Amazon.
I felt the same when 1G ram became a thing...
Wasn't the PS3/XB360/Wii supposed to be the last generation of console before streaming? I think especially with the Japanese market that as long as you can't economically stream a game over cell towers, we're still going to have the ability to purchase physical games.
Autoautomobiles will be a life changer for those with disabilities.
This would be funny if Nintendo was a garbage gaming company. But it turns out they are the pinnacle of game development.
Yeah, it was pretty painful waiting for Fiber. The deadline kept getting pushed. Eventually they did it and its awesome. I just wish all of KC could get it.
Here's the thing that baffles me though. WHY DO THEY KEEP ADVERTISING IT!? Seriously. I see ads on facebook and on billboards begging for people to sign up for Google Fiber when they can't.
Yup. You'd totally destroy those Sonic Mania players or Street Fighter players with their weak gamepads.
I know, right!? I mean what if Sonic Mania had cross play! Those keyboard/mouse players would massacre the Switch players.
I use a projector and it doesn't have "smart" features.
I frequent the local drive-in all the time. First, if you're staying in your car, you're doing it wrong. I typically picnic right outside my car. Second, there are many reasons to want to go to a drive-in.
1.) You can freely bring in your own food.
2.) Kids are typically free.
3.) You can bring kids without worrying about them ruining the movie for everyone else.
4.) Two current movies for just $10 per person? Count me in!
That being said there are obvious disadvantages such as:
1.) Inevitably the guy parked two cars down will decide to smoke.
2.) Bugs
3.) Awful bathrooms
4.) Potential for rain
5.) Average screen quality
6.) Below average sound quality (Hint! Bring your own speaker!)
7.) Always late at night
So basically this is a lengthy way of saying, if you have kids or are low on cash and you want to see a current movie, go to the drive-in.
There are practical uses to VR that will take it mainstream. Today, I use VR to help me figure out directions to new routes by virtually driving those routes. It helps me to know what lane to be in, etc...
I agree that the sample size is too small. But anecdotal, I think there is some merit to this. While I'm not sure the number is 82%, I know that my children cannot complete common slogans that are second nature to us kids growing up in the dark ages.
My Surface Pro 3 dynamically figures out the time left. It will show me how much time I have left if I continue to use the computer in the same way. Light work naturally will show more time left than playing a video game.
I really enjoy VR, but I think these "large screen feel" applications of VR is kinda silly. Because of the screen door effect and the fact that each eye gets half the resolution, the large screen pictures look low-rezed. I think it might be something that's fun once the resolution gets much higher.
Who here would buy MarioKart for their...
...phone if it were available?
That sounds like the worst version of Mario Kart ever. I cannot fathom a worse version of Mario Kart.
Maybe you can help me a bit. With Mario, the gameplay element is jumping. When you jump on different objects or enemy types they react differently. Jumping on a Koopa is different than jumping on a Goomba and so on. These reactions are arranged into an amazing and creative game. With Splatoon, the gameplay element is team based ink coverage. Each weapon has a different take on such a task. Different modes provide additional twists on this idea of covering the world with ink. It is this varied, yet easy to understand concepts by what I mean by gameplay first.
Bloodborne, and I know I'm judging a game by its title, sounds like something where you get weapons and kill things. Sometimes there are things that are harder to kill. But the concept is the same. Get weapon, kill things, move. Get weapon, kill things. move. Just like Space Invaders. Kill thing and move isn't something that interest me. Perhaps you can help me understand how Bloodborne should be in my library. I just don't see me bringing it home and saying, "Hey kids! Let's sit around the PS4 and play Bloodborne!" or "Guys, want to come over to my house after work?" "To play Smash!?" "No to 'Bloodborne' it up!" Please convince me on what I'm missing.
You get what I'm saying? I'm sure Bloodborne and games like it are challenging and entertaining to a certain group of gamers, but not for me. So if I don't get excited about the next "mash 'x' and kill things" games, don't worry. I'll still support the PS4 by buying games like 'Dragon Quest Builders'.
By games above, I meant the list you gave, not the Wii U list I gave. :D
If we ignore the awesome remakes and amazing multiplatform indie games, the Wii U had: Splatoon, Pikmin 3, Nintendoland, Wonderful 101, Smash Bros., Toad's Treasure Tracker, Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Maker, and Mario Kart 8. These are all high quality games that are fun to play. Many of the games above are probably quality games, but not anything I'd want to play personally. I'll probably pick up Little Big Planet 3, Tearaway, Dragon Quest Builders, Ni No Kuni 2, and Valkyria Chronicles 4 for the PS4. Perhaps even the Kingdom Hearts games if I have time.
I'm more of a game play first kinda gamer than a "watch a 'movie' about killing things that requires mashing the 'x' button a whole lot" kinda gamer. But there's nothing wrong if someone likes that sorta thing.
So what you're saying is that the PS4 is a powerful console without games? ie games == space in your analogy?
I don't think that's entirely true or fair. There are some really fun games that I'm thinking of picking up such as Dragon Quest Builders. Also I'm going to try out PSVR as I hear they have some asynchronous games similar to Nintendo Land.
I guess that's the problem. Most of these are M rated one player games. I'm more of a colorful blue skies gameplay focused kinda gamer. So far, I've enjoyed the demos to Dragon Quest Builders and Tearaway. I'm looking forward to Ni No Kuni II and Valkyria Chronicles IV.
I subscribed to PlayStation Vue on and off last year. It's great because it's only $30/month and one only has to subscribe when there is something worth watching on Cable TV. It works really great over my Google Fiber connection.
I bought one last week and I'm pleasantly surprised. I'm still trying to find games to play for it as it doesn't seem to have the wealth of games I enjoy like the Wii U does, but next year looks like a really good year for PS4 gaming. I'm also excited to see what they do with VR. Hopefully the Scorpio comes out and blows us away with that too.
You beat me to it! I had to go back and forth several times... "Yup! That's a dupe!"
I would say then that you should look at the video game crash of the early 80s. Nintendo came along and rescued the game industry from obscurity. I think a similar story is unfolding. In the last generation, only 80 million home consoles have been sold between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo combined. In the previous generation, Nintendo sold 110 million consoles by themselves (with the 3rd party companies selling 80 million combined) and in the previous generation, Sony sold 120 million consoles by themselves. So to have only 80 million consoles sold by everybody sends a message that the entire industry is losing to things like cell phones. Unfortunately, cell phone games are a race to the bottom. They sell for next to nothing and the quality often reflect that. So that industry too will inevitably crash.
What Nintendo is doing to rescue the industry is creating a console that has the mobility of a tablet with the quality of a console. The message is that you can be mobile without compromising quality. For a Dad like me this is huge. I never have time to game on the big screen, but I have time to game right before bed.
Maybe someday I'll be as grown up as a middle schooler and play games with lots of swearing, blood, and violence which requires running around and pressing the A button. But today, I'm happy to play rich, complex "kiddie" games that have incredible depth to them. I look forward to buying this and hanging out with my fellow coworkers and rocking some smash bros in the break room.