Are you a collector?

[Are you a collector?]

I'm a bit of collector and a bit not. There should be a "in the middle" option. I have bought atari games, like bowling and basketball, just to have it. Played those a couple times, then I havn't touched them since. when it comes to games over 5$, I don't buy them if I don't wanna play them.

[3DS Hardware Talk]

Here's my experience with the battery life.

 

About 35 mintues of play on the way to work - second highest brightness level, using full 3D, full volume and much touch screen controls. Then about 35 mintes of play on the way home, same settings. I put in about 40-60 minutes in the evening playing a 3DS or regular DS game and otherwise the system is constantly in sleep mode and StreetPassing people.

 

Playing this routine requires me to charge the thing after the second day. If not, when I get to work on the 3rd day it will be flashing red but will still make it through sleep mode all day until I can charge it at night.

 

Of course, as I mentioned if you sit in one spot and do a multi-hour session then you will feel the battery is not lasting very long, but after a couple weeks of actual practical use, I am not finding the battery to be a huge issue at all. Charging it afer 2 days of use is not unreasonable to me.

If I were going to plunk my ass on the couch and play for 2 hours or more (which I hardly have time for), I'd plug it in in any case

 

This is exactly my thoughts on people complaining about battery life. I just don't think I would be playing a portable console on my couch for 3+ hours straight. The PSP has some low battery life, and I'm fine with that. I have to plug my iPod in every day, same with my phone, People need to learn that a portable system needs to be charged on a regular basis too.

[EA planning a subscription service?]

It'll just be another one of those things I don't buy, just like Playstation Plus.

 

 

exactly. I think little people will pay seperately to play EA games. I think this will be a flop, and there will be nobody online.

[EA planning a subscription service?]

And I thought paying for a subscription for xbox live was bad. now EA is gonna really mess up someone's wallet...

 

 

[So what's everybody playing right now...]

Ahh. The stench of rotting threads. At least there is plento to be contributed.

 

I'm playing Uncharted 2. Its extremely fun.

[Steam?]

I use steam all the time. It works pretty good. I bought a few games like Half Life 2 and stuff from it and I like it.

[The Ugly Stick!]

Cant. He's my cousin's step brother and i dont see him very often, maybe around christmas or thanksgiving (we go to his house then). Maybe I could get a pic later this year, but this thread would probably long gone by then.

 

Trust me, it is horrifying. I couldn't believe the level of yellowing that thing has the first time I saw it.

[The Ugly Stick!]

My friend has a snes thats beyond piss green. Its disgusting. Its more yellowed than that, but not as dirty.

[Collecting loose carts]

Not only space for me, but price.

[Was every classic game really the "best game ever!" when it came out?]

How would you like an RPG monster that only attacks, blocks, attacks, blocks etc for the whole battle?

 

See Dragon Warrior. I like that game.

 

Anyway this thread has turned into a "your opinoin vs mine" thread. Typical.

[Pokemon Black\White]

you know, its not that short, in comparison to beating the original gold in under 20 hours, I've played this game over 24 hours and am at the elite four.

[Atari 2600jr Unicorn]

Is this supposed to be rare or something? What is the Unicorn?

[HES Donkey Kong]

Dude, donkey kong looks like a frankenstein-robot.

[Crystal Castles doesn't fit?]

LOL, thats a relief. I was seeing an Angry Video Game Nerd moment with you stomping a cart into your Atari or something. Did you figure out what was up with that system? Or was it just that system and that game together that created the problem?

 

 

In the intellivision avgn episode, he says trying to put the cart in the system "is like trying to stick your dick in a cheerio"

 

I have a Dig-Dug thats pretty difficult to get in and out of my L6er

[Dragon's Lair PSP Or DS?]

If you have an Ipod Touch or iPhone, there is a pretty good version for that.

[Wishful thinking?]

But seriously, if someone thinks this forum has a problem with fan boys, they haven't visited many video game sites.

Most folks here own multiple systems and a lot own every system. I think it has something to do with most of us being over 30 and having jobs as opposed to other sites having members who are like 13 and having to rely on your parents to make major purchases. I say most because sure there is a small few that haven't grown out of it, but it's certainly a minority on this site and almost seems barely worth bringing up.

 

 

I think its because of insecurity in teens nowdays. make yours look like shit so mine's better.

[Wishful thinking?]

This is why i liked arcades. They were neutral. Insert a coin and play. You cared for the game, not the system or the company.

 

Pac Man > Space Invaders

 

 

Galaga > Everything else.

[Pokemon Black\White]

I think there are more random battles than before, but I think that is because the places you walk through to get to the next city are smaller. trying to keep the same amount of battles, while cutting back on the exploration part of it.

[Finally, a use for picture in picture!]

I've used PiP for playing mario when my mom watched House before.

[What games haven't held up well over time?]

American Gladiators. When I was little, it was the only game that worked on my NES. Now that I've replaced the 72-pin connector, Its trash.

[Portal 2!]

I saw a commercial on tv today about it. This is gonna be a good game.

[Pokemon Black\White]

You know the one thing that really bothers me with this game? The sleep inducing attacks.

 

I use Hypnosis on an enemy and what does it do the instant I put it to sleep? Wake up. WTF why does sleep last shorter?! Its nice to have your pokemon wake up, but when I want to pound on an ememy, I want sleep to work.

[Little things that bug you]

Plenty of the above points annoy me as well, but I have another one to add, although this applies more to today's games: Texts printed in tiny little fonts, like dialogs or status updates at the bottom of the TV screen. It's like the programmers couldn't fathom that we'd be sitting some distance away from our TVs and that not all of us have 20-20 vision. I've seen this in some PC games as well.

 

This occurs with a lot of ps3 games. Eg Dead Space is very tiring to play on an scart tv due to this.

As if sony and publishers said: either buy a digital hd tv or screw you

 

 

I had this problem when I was playing on my 4:3 sdtv, but when I got my sdtv that does a 16:9 mode, it was better. especially in Battlefield 1943

[Hudson is no more]

I liked that game that they made for the wii that had something to do with tilting controllers to get a marble to a point on a floating thingy. I think it was Marble Mania. I liked thier games too.

[best looking 2600 game]

solaris

Yar's revenge: I love the neutral zone and the explosion

Keystone Kapers.