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Ooo I dig those manuals. Not in the market for more stuff for a bit though.
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I feel like the market is so big at this point you don't need some crazy market share to make money. Nintendo churns out fantastic first party titles. While I've owned 3/4 Sony systems and 2/3 MS systems I'm not as aware of their first party support.
While I think many or most of us enjoy multiplayer gaming, many of us aren't concerned with KDR rankings anymore, making many of the highest selling titles not really a requirement. The age spread at this point seems far more balanced across the years. I know even the Wii U provides me with enough titles and the addition of practically any other system provides with me with a bit more balance. As it stands I think there's enough room for what is out there for a while. If steam manages to take root with it's awesome indy support and flexible console range things might get a bit crowded, forcing someone's hand but I'm not sure even that can do it.
Maybe it's informative that other forms of media providers like music studios, book publishers, movie studios, etc all manage to have a much more crowded market and maintain variety.
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This weekend we played a lot of Epic Mickey: The Power of 2. I picked it up with Captain Toad and Duck Tales a while back for pretty cheap off Amazon sales. For what it is it's pretty fun so far. It's really slow going coop with an almost 4 year old. In fact, a few times I've held both controllers . You can turn off the second player to do the more technical team work yourself, though. I'm not very familiar with Disney's history but even without it I appreciate the style of the characters and levels. There is some pretty rough framerate and a few other rough gameplay edges but overall it's pretty fun. Definitely worth the 10 bucks or less it was.
Also been playing through Luigi's Mansion on the GCN for the first time. I've had my 'cube since launch but never ended up buying or playing it. Really enjoy this game. So far it's significantly easier than the 3DS version but quite a lot of fun nonetheless.
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With video games, nostalgia will make me pick something up and play it but it won't make me play it for a long or again after that thin veneer over my memory wears off.
With music or other art forms that are much more passive I might enjoy it more based on associated experiences though.
Simple example: Skies of Arcadia (DC). Loved it and feel very fondly for it but the encounter rate is sooooo high I'd never slog through that or rate it well at this point.
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Maybe it's obvious but I found out I can move my saves over from the Wii SNES emulator to the SD2SNES and they are detected. I was happy since I didn't really feel like redoing the first 5 hours of Chrono Trigger.
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Obviously any level of access to the wrong person is unacceptable but I'd speculate part of the reason it wasn't made to be a big deal of is that it's not that uncommon. I had what appeared to be a similar issue at a bank website a few years ago. I never saw a report about that. I logged in one day and panicked when I saw my balance and a ton of debits I didn't know about. Then realized I didn't recognize the account number and scrolled up top to the name. Someone else (alphabetically similar, maybe related to the result, eh?). I'm pretty sure many of the more complex sites I access on any given day load largely from cache then update, making them all a fiddly bit away from being an open door or at least a window.
Steam's is slightly more surprising to me in that I figured the client itself cached a whole lot as it's basically their own browser but with the sales changes I'm guessing they did a lot of extra content distribution and caching on top of whatever Christmas attacks went on. I used to wonder if the sales were already on my machine in some encrypted blob like the pre-release content. I guess that's not true.
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Getting the my X-Arcade dual stick setup and kiosk to put it all on a few years back stands out. I love arcades growing up but I was a bit too young while they still existed. Not the greatest hardware but it's still a blast and my wife likes a number of the game she played on a tv plugin unit growing up.
Rocking my daughter to sleep last night to Chrono Trigger on my new SD2SNES is up there as well.
My best memories are less because I got something I didn't have before and more from what I can share with other people.
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GameFAQs is the only videogame forum. League of Legends the only community. Hell on earth.
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I find the gamepad perfectly comfortable. I'm on the small side of average male. My son has trouble but there's only so much to do there. Battery life can be a pain if I forget to charge it. The pro controller is great on a charge though.
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I basically handed my son the Gamepad and he took care of the unlocks in Mario Maker. I wish there was just a setting. It was helpful for him to have his hand held (he's just about 4) and I didn't really mind it. It's a lot like having abilities and items slowly dolled out in a more traditional game but it did feel awfully forced and not necessary for many players.
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I ended up with an SD2SNES for Christmas. Quite happy with it ruling my SNES. More than worth the investment.
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Valve reported a caching issue.
That reddit link also says caching issue. Embarrassing, yes. Hacked? No.
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Yeah, everyone gives Daytona a lot of crap, but I still think it's very playable. Then again, I didn't know what framerate even was as a kid, so I think I was able to enjoy it more for what it was.
I think anyone that loved Goldeneye on N64 immediately gives up the frame rate argument against any game.
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Really, even if the Saturn was a home run the 32x and Sega CD really damaged it. Just too much hardware too fast.
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I have 0 memory of the Sega Saturn even launching. I just recall it being on store shelves and then nowhere a bit later.
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There's no doubt in my mind that <insert kids here> will try to DOS any major service they can to get attention. I would even abstract that a little to 'Kids will do whatever is popular to get attention'. I didn't notice any service interruptions on XBL, though, for what it's worth. Friends with PSN report similarly (I was curious earlier).
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My handhelds. I'm not about to go rooting around with cables and what not in an emergency situation.
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If someone could make an infographic mapping how the dozen or so bullet points I was able to glean out of all this translated to the insane amount of posts that would be super convenient.
Wading in there was sorta like 'Oh, that's going on, I hope no one saw me here (back away nervously)....'
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I picked up some last minute things at Gamestop while my kids played at the park and they were running ads for this one still. As if you could buy it...
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I've seen a number of developers that have no concept of security. I would guess their environment doubled as a museum of trendy worms and other malware.
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My affinity for the Wii U is my only cause for regret. Not 100+ bones regret though. I'm on a similar path as you regarding this console.
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I took the money I ended up not spending and bought Some GCN games I missed owning. Rogue Leader and Luigi's Mansion and then maybe some GBA game to finish the 60 USD allotment.
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I've run:
snes9x
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epsxe
pcsx2
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From my understanding of the 7/8/10 line I'd be surprised if the move from 8 to 10 broke much.
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So I was on my phone, I think it was the Japanese import version and I just didn't notice
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Your Favorite Mario Party?
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I only played 1 and 10 I think. I like the games in 10 much more but I had many more good memories of 1. I have shared 10 with my son though so it's almost a wash there.
For myself I prefer 10.