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Arena for the Competitive => Main Event Callouts => Topic started by: RageBeoulve on November 22, 2015, 03:39:02 PM

Title: Zegh, its time we settled this.
Post by: RageBeoulve on November 22, 2015, 03:39:02 PM
Super Nintendo, or blast processor sega?   :LOL:
Title: Re: Zegh, its time we settled this.
Post by: ZEGH8578 on November 22, 2015, 03:47:43 PM
Super Nintendo, man, hands down.

My game-obsessed friend keeps telling me of this "war" between x-box and playstation, and the other "war" between consoles and pc.

So lame... all his life on the play-machine, so while others debate Russia and Syria, he debates X-box and PS.

By the way, the correct answers are obviously:
Playstation > Xbox
PC > Playstation.

Only idiots can keep a "debate" going, concerning this :M
Title: Re: Zegh, its time we settled this.
Post by: RageBeoulve on November 22, 2015, 03:50:06 PM
I've always been a console man, and I've always gone Nintendo. I did have quite a few favs on playstation too, but I always seem to revert back to the old grey box for some real entertainment. They just don't make games like they did on NES anymore. There were some crap bombs on it, but the vast majority were really good games with quite a bit of thought behind them.
Title: Re: Zegh, its time we settled this.
Post by: ZEGH8578 on November 22, 2015, 03:52:16 PM
I got a SNES, functioning perfectly, 2 controllers, and a lil pile of games.
Don't have it plugged in here, cus I need adapters to make it fit... old ages stuff

I'm primarily a PC gamer tho, but due to old equipment/bad economy, I always lag behind.

Bought myself a PS4 now, when it comes to modern consoles - as I indicated clearly above - I trust only Playstation. Maybe it's nostalgia, old-fart mentality, but I wouldn't even consider any other machine.
Title: Re: Zegh, its time we settled this.
Post by: RageBeoulve on November 22, 2015, 03:56:04 PM
Xbox failed me quite a few times. I had a few good games on one once, but two of the console failed catastrophically and were unable to be repaired.

I really would rather lag behind in gaming. There are still sega/nes/PS games I haven't played and good ones at that. For one thing, I think many of the older generation games were better because when those were being made gaming companies were still exploring new concepts, new territory.

A lot of next gen stuff uses the same engines as other games, recycled ideas and concepts, etc. Its just not as engrossing or exiting anymore.
Title: Re: Zegh, its time we settled this.
Post by: ZEGH8578 on November 22, 2015, 04:10:02 PM
Yeah, Fallout 4+Skyrim (=Fallout 3/Oblivion) is a good example of this
I played the Mad Max game, and allready suspected that it was built on a pre-existing structure, and then got it confirmed well, I don't remember what games it was now, but a whole series of games, they basically just re-skinned into Mad Max.

Not only superficial re-skinning, but a lack of imagination.
FO4 is supposed to be a role-play game, but every quest culminates in shooting a bunch of raiders/robots/ghouls/mutants, even when I really suspect there is no way they can cram raiders in, because of the setting - they do!
There's a deep underground high-tech location of wonders and wonders, everyone's creepy and peaceful, like science-hippies - and I think finally, this location will prooobably yield non-rander-quests. Wrong! They need me to resurface, and kill some raiders.

That tells me that the quest-writing process took one single afternoon, with some coffee+schnapps, maybe half the time just goofing around the office... Only an example, but an example of a leading, best-selling - and most importantly - trend-setting developer.
Title: Re: Zegh, its time we settled this.
Post by: RageBeoulve on November 22, 2015, 04:11:36 PM
When will original content surface, eh?
Title: Re: Zegh, its time we settled this.
Post by: ZEGH8578 on November 22, 2015, 04:23:36 PM
It does from time to time, but it's often "indie"

Another problem here is - the expetiation for graphics is so high, content richness, you need huge teams - huge salaries - huge economy
And to maintain huge economy, you must cater to the masses
And to do that, you must streamline (make dumb)
Repeat cycle

So, good stuff - is indie stuff - is cheap stuff :/

One of my favorite indie games are Euro Truck, you drive long distance cargo truck through the EU, wipe rain off your windows, listen to radio or mp3s, and hum along the road
Another is Mount and Blade: Warband, where you are a person, in the continent of "Calradia", where several nations are at on and off war to rebuild a lost empire. You can start out any kind of social status, from noble, to thief, and you are free to pursue any ambition, from raiding around, to enlisting for a king, to seeking your own power. What I like the most is that the levelling curve is very exponential, you level fast in the beginning, then excrutiatingly slow, forcing you to specialize your skills very narrowly. You'll delegate other skills to party members. Equipment is very realistic, nothing magical, nothing jagged or exaggerated, just swords and bows and axes but many, many kinds, and extremely expensive! :V
This forces you to specialize early - plan your path early - and grind early and patiently.
You will typically ride with an entourage of 20-100 men, and if you dare to take on a kingdom on your own, as a rebel, you may have to face 3000 or so, sometimes in a single battle. In a well planned campaign, I wiped out 700 "nordic" warriors in a single battle, with a horde of 80 cavalry, with minimal losses for myself :M
Awesome game!

Also, South Park "Stick of Truth" was quite interesting, and fun to play (albeit a bit short), but has some amazingly gutsy stuff in it.