We can lay blame to racism, misogyny, or plain crazy people, but the fact of the matter is our government can’t fix it due to partisan and scapegoating politics. Heck in 2011 or 2012 NRA successfully lobbied to have research into CDCs study of gun violence halted. So for politicians to go and blame video games, music, movies/media without even funding the research to prove that a correlation exists is bit hollow. Until certain politicians grow a pair and look into better gun control policies...
It is political. The people we (myself included) that have voted him refuse to look at any direct issues, which are gun control and mental health, for which conservatives (for obvious political funding reasons) refuse to address. At this point it’s just ridiculous.
I love how these conservative politicians who look to blame anything else media related instead their inability to apply stricter gun law and or look to fund better mental healthcare. The only people the video game scapegoat applies to are the baby boomers. They’re soon going to need another scapegoat.
The Frostbite engine has been fairly buggy and not exactly suited for optimization this gen. So I’m not sure it’s that scalable especially in comparison to the unreal 4 engine. I’d love to have other sports games on the Switch, particularly a NHL game, and I’d really like if any licensed sports game wasn’t made by EA.
What’s still really impressive to me, to this day, is the battery life on the game boy. Road trips across the vastness of NC, FL, and Texas and that portable machine kept on chugging.
I will be the first to admit I would love an achievement like system in Nintendo games... particularly the old games. But over the years I’ve noticed that while achievement/trophy hunting might boost a games replay ability, I’ve found myself caring less about that and just enjoying a good game all over again. Enjoying Horizon, Spider-Man, or god-help me Skyrim again isn’t about an achievement as I now will lovingly go back to Zelda BotW, Mario, or Octopath knowing I won’t gain points/trophie...
You don’t need online to have achievements/trophies in video games.
It will up and to a point. As developers start to fully take advantage of the next gen consoles, Switch sales will drop as 3rd party titles can’t be ported. Who knows what Nintendo will do next, hopefully they stick with the Switch format as I do think it’s something both economically viable for them to produce for, but also keeps them in a mobile-ish environment they’ve dominated for so long.
So long as there is market for dedicated handheld gaming consoles, I’m fairly certain Nintendo will try and take a piece of it (if not all of it).
The machine has been a god sent. I can now tackle the indie games and some lesser 3rd party story games my wife wouldn’t watch me play. So now we can both watch TV together at night while I’m able to enjoy the stardews, hollow knights, doom, or nba 2k.
I don’t know if they have the technical and economical resources to pull it off honestly without having to partner with another large electronics manufacturer. VR costs are expensive, if done right. What I mean by that is no labdo, google cardboard setup, but a sole VR stand-alone headset, with head tracking-room presence setup. With the Switch as a primary console, I just don’t see how Nintendo could produce a secondary VR console and be able to properly support it. Plus VR needs at least...
Nintendo has been looking at VR since the early 90s and then tried it out with the failed Virtual boy. I have no doubt they have plenty of ideas of what to do with VR but are hindered by their lack of technology resources to produce a state of the art VR headset. But obviously have a lot to prove if they ever able/capable to produce a mainstream VR option.
Of the ones I’ve managed to play all the way through:
1. Zelda II (my first Zelda game, will always hold that special place in my gamer heart.
2. Zelda Link to the Past
3. Zelda OoT
4. Zelda Links Awakening
5. Zelda Wind Waker
6. Zelda BotW
7. Zelda original
8. Twilight Princess (might end up higher, just finished it)
I just hope higher fps and more complexity. Honestly I’m good where graphics are at now, not to say I’d turn down better graphics, but considering I like pixelated games as much as like a photo realistic, it’s definitely not a priority to me.
Diminishing rate returns, not knowing what the games are, plus the potential (high) console pricing puts an early damper on early next gen excitement. But I think the next E3 will get the hype train going for both next gen consoles.
Friday the 13th for NES... having Jason sneak up on you from behind in one of those cabins freaked me out as a kid. But then it wasn’t until the original Silent Hill that I understood gaming horror... that game was nuts the first time playing it
Sweet! can’t wait to make levels for my kids to try out.
I don’t know many people, to this day, that want to choose one or the other in terms of consoles. Sure kids typically only get one choice growing up, but I wanted a Genesis while enjoying a SNES. I wanted a N64 while enjoying a PS1. Being a gamer, I wanted to play and enjoy all the great games. While I’m sure owning just a PS5 would be fine, having a Switch, and/or whatever the next Xbox, along with a PS5 is perfect, because like most people, choices and variety particularly in gaming, is h...
Lol sure sure. Profitability, record sales, and growing support... all signs of a failing a Nintendo.
Didn’t you guys just do a recent gun control measure? I thought I read that somewhere.