zeppelin03

On 6/30/2020 at 1:48 PM, captmorgandrinker said:

Silent HIll is.   DoctorNick and I are both northeast OH and I'm not sure where zeppelin is from.

Northeast Ohio as well.  We have a lot of Ohio people.

Welcome to the forum.

I like them.  I've had a few boxes get sticky from dust in storage. Protectors address that.  Only issue I've ever encountered is the tab roughing up a box edge when closing. This is user error and repeated open/closing. Probably a nonissue for most. 

16 minutes ago, ZeldaFreak said:

Still nothing? Man, it really sucks this isn't getting any traction, this would be super fun if a few more people could participate.

Hopefully some more people jump in. We don't want to claim all the keys.

Final Fantasy X is one of my favorite games and GTA Vice City is up there too.  I also remember enjoying a lot of SOCOM II online.  One night I was playing and got surprised when a terrorist starting shooting me.  Somehow I clenched my calves hard enough to give myself two charley horses.  I remember laying on the ground for a minute after getting killed.  I haven't gamed competitively since.

51 minutes ago, Mr. CIB said:

PS2 running in 480i looks horrible on a OSSC because of the way it deinterlaces. It's one of the systems that actually look better on a XRGB Mini. The new OSSC Pro is suppose to address this but who knows how far that is off.

I'm curious what the Pro will end up costing.  Aside from the PS2 and Saturn all my consoles are HDMI modded.  At this rate I would just buy a retrotink if that handled 480i better.  I could end up with cash on hand afterwards too.

1 minute ago, CodysGameRoom said:

So there we have it. You don't need to be offended after all @fcgamer . 

Yup. I will add with multiple family members being diagnosed with COVID and me watching my 1 year old nephew while my sister has a baby I'm not taking chances.  The establishments that handle it appropriately get my business. The ones that don't aren't seeing me.  It's as simple as that. 

2 hours ago, CodysGameRoom said:

@fcgamer You don't know his personal experiences. If he went to the Asian market and they were all wearing masks, and he's speaking directly about that experience, then he isn't stereotyping. Why not @ him and ask instead of calling him out about it in another thread?

@zeppelin03 , FCGamer wants to know why you are unfairly stereotyping Asian people. Care to rebut? 

Sure.  The market has had 100% of all patrons and staff I've seen there wearing masks.   The traffic is light compared to the big chains as well.  It's rereshing compared to the chain grocery stores.  Plus the produce and spices are cheap. I got a whole makeral today for a couple dollars. It great.

Not sure how identifying the type of grocery equated to calling out Asians apparently.  They seem to service a fairly diverse clientel.  I've muted this thread a while back and would appreciate being left out of the discussion.

5 minutes ago, noiseredux said:

That's not a bad point. In my mind, nostalgia moves in waves of 20 years. Like, in the 90's you had stuff like Dazed & Confused, Detroit Rock City, That 70's Show, and so on. And as we approached the 2000's, you got into The Wedding Singer and GTA Vice City and stuff like that. So yeah, we're probably now ready for 2000's nostalgia right now.

I'm not into Lego stuff myself, so this is more just general talk.

Exactly.  Nintendo had great 8bit output but let's celebrate all of its history.  A Peach's Castle from SM64, Luigi's Mansion..mansion.  There's a lot they can pull from.  I would like to see the switch online expand beyond the 8/16bit too.  Tons of us grew up on N64 and GameCube. Hell they haven't even given us Gameboy.

Nintendo is always secretive about stuff so for all we know they could have an e3 direct in the works that gives us all this.

I started listing more last night and it's feeling good to clear out some clutter.  Yesterday I hooked up the PS2 to the OSSC and 480i content looks really bad.  If emultaor testing goes will that's another round of stuff leaving. It is currently the SOTN/FF X machine and I wouldn't mind a bit more free space.

I hope Lego and Nintendo start doing some newer stuff. Nintendo keeps pushing the nes for their nostalgia and it's starting to feel lazy.  Popping old roms onto stuff isn't impressing me anymore.  Where's my Mario Party Minigame Island Lego set!?

This set is neat though. Just not for me.

Neither of my wife's grandparents thought it was a hoax when they had it.  We are lucky the both bounced back.  One was in the hospital for a couple weeks and on a respirator for a month or two.

Should we do anything with the forum post that is created after a sale?  I have sold an item and the updated the classified but am not sure if I should be requesting thread locks etc.

10 minutes ago, phart010 said:

I think that once the franchises are established, they start getting franchised out.. I think Nintendo will start doing less game development and instead just start managing license agreements with developers. The developers will make the games, with limited directional guidance from Nintendo and Nintendo will collect royalties for the use of their intellectual properties.

Nintendo has already realized that their real value is in their diverse set of franchises/characters, not necessarily the video games themselves. They are expanding their business to include Super Nintendo World and movies (Pokémon, Super Mario).

We’ve already got a ton of games using Nintendo characters that were not developed by Nintendo.. What I’m hoping for is them opening up to Indie developers using their ip’s (we already have Cadence of Hyrule).. then we can probably finally get some legitimacy and polish on all these Nintendo fan games that people have been making.

I would love to see Nintendo expand the use of other devs.  Is there any reason an indie team couldn't make a 2D Metroid or Pilotwings?  If Nintendo isn't willing to make these games let someone else do it for them and sell them at a budget friendly price.

On Wii U they brought $40 games to console.  Now it's seems they are back to will it sell at $60? No? Don't make it.  Give me a good 2D Mario I can finish in a couple hours for $30. There has to be an audience for this stuff.

26 minutes ago, noiseredux said:

fascinating - thanks for the info.

BAH! haha.

https://www.retrorgb.com/gameboyplayer.html

More reading if you are interested in it. There are a few comparison shots throughout too.

Sold by the way.

14 minutes ago, noiseredux said:

I didn't know there was a way to boot the GB Player hardware using Action Replay. Super interesting.

If your action replay kit has the memory card adapter you put Swiss and gbi on it's micro SD card. It works really well.  You can zoom and pan the image, change resolution, use different filters.  With minimal effort you get a clearer picture than stock. I sold my player disc real quick after switching.

You can even get a raphnet adapter to use super Nintendo controllers. I used a wireless 8bitdo for a while and that was great.  Like a super gameboy advance when it was all done.

1 minute ago, Sumez said:

the original one has a ton of replay value IMO. I see myself playing it many times in the future.

I greatly prefer Symphony of the Night to classic Castlevania.  Circle of the Moon was a one or two playthrough game for me.  For those that like the classics these games have a ton of replay value.

I never really looked into that.  I didn't realize Nintendo didn't make all the games until after the N64. I always just saw their name on the box and when you turned on the console.  Rare, Neversoft, etc didn't mean anything to me.  After that I started to notice but it took until the last few years to really follow developers/publishers.  Now it's just for the ones to ignore (Ubisoft/EA).

41 minutes ago, RegularGuyGamer said:

I think modern gaming is doing exceptionally well. Instead of pumping out new games, the modern family model is to release a game early in the console life cycle and plan for 3-6 years of support. 

That model benefits everyone. People who love the games can play daily and grind for in game currency to unlock new content while casuals are forced to pay up for play with old stuff, but still get to play with everyone else. 

Personally, I think it is a superior gaming model to the previous generations when it comes to big name games.

Look at Pokemon for example where the modern model is completely lost. The dlc didn't fix the current world but only added a couple hours of fetch quests. 

The devs have a chance to go take an entire generation to please fans and rework the original design if it missed the mark. Sea of Thieves did a great job of that. Even R6S kept gaining steam as it continued to polish and balance gameplay.

Devs who don't follow this model will be exposed and will need to adapt for face the consequences. 

I would have loved for them to rework the base game of Sword/Shield.  The wilds seemed like a tacked on afterthought.  I went in hoping for a Xenoblade feel to roaming the region and got a safari zone.  Apparently the way the DLC handles it is better but I have yet to play it.

I hope Nintendo starts doing this but I have a feeling they are too proud to ever go back and alter a game like that after release.

17 minutes ago, Andy_Bogomil said:

Yeah, good point there for sure. This is why we are seeing places like Gamestop selling more and more merch, especially as games become digital.

Still though, we are seeing games last longer and longer. GTA V will most definitely be released on PS5 in my opinion which is insane to think about. If you look back from 1990-2000 you go from NES to PS2 where now we have a single game spanning three console generations. The gap will likely continue to widen between major releases of games.

I think indy games are really going to continue to shine moving forward. I'm sure it's an extremely competitive market which would result in the creation of some very original and polished games. Even if a lot are clones or inspired by previous franchises I think we're in a good place as gamers here.

 

I think you are right about the indie space continuing to grow.  GTA will be three generations and probably Skyrim too at this rate.  GTA 3 and Vice City were a year apart. Now it will be 10+ for a sequel. Same for Elder Scrolls.  If Red Dead Redemption 2 can stop an entire company from working on a second title at the same time something might be wrong with how games are being built. 

12 minutes ago, ChickenTendas said:

What I'm more worried about is how sustainable the "crunch" business model is. Naughty Dog keeps going through employees so fast I don't think it's sustainable. Sony Santa Monica does the same thing. How was Nintendo able to put out BoTW with no crunch time, yet ND relies on the strategy for pretty much everything they put out?

Nintendo seems to be good about telling you about a game when it's far along. The new Paper Mario is a good example. We know BOTW2 is happening but they have set no expectations for release.  I wonder if other companies either waited to announce a game or didn't bother setting release windows would it help.

I think the current model will be difficult to sustain.  I really love games like Elder Scrolls, BOTW, and Red Dead Redemption 2 but not every game needs to be that big.  Tomb Raider has struck a nice balance with a shorter story and linear levels.  I would like to see a return to this going forward.  Give me an interesting narrative and setting to progress through.  Most AAA became these sprawling worlds and its really just dull at this point.  There are a number of publishers (Ubisoft, EA) that I can automatically skip anymore because I know it will be the same old open world. 

I'm a bit of a graphics snob and would rather take a good looking 10 hour game then a lesser 40 hour open world.  Things like Kena Bridge of Spirits have a great art style that I hope would be maintained throughout the whole game.  Making it too big would likely take away from that.

Recently I saw an article where the former head of Sony said the current model cannot continue.  Either games need to go up in price or they need to drop to 20 or so hours.  I agree.  Developer crunch, expectations, and costs just don't seem to line up. 

Went for a walk this afternoon.  Wore my mask through the building but kept if off outside since we can exercise without.  We did a good job crossing streets often to avoid people.  I was really disappointed to see a number of people walk into a grocery store without masks.  Not surprised though.

I may increase my Asian Market trips since they all mask up.