My brother's came with all the games installed (on the SD card). Apparently some people upgrade the SD card and custom install a rom package called TinyBestSet or DoneSet. All the games are free but you can only play up to GBA/PS1.
Video Games and Gaming Technology (In A Positive Light)
- Thread starter Ember
- Start date
I finished Mass Effect today. I can't believe it's nearly 20 years old. They put a lot of attention and detail in their textures and models, except for the unfortunate crazy eyes and awkward as autism moments. Overall it was a sleek game and I enjoyed the story and lore, I can see why this game was a hit back in the day. I have ME2 and ME3 to play through now, but I'm going take a detour and not play them all back-to-back.
Recently got a Steam Deck mostly to play older games. It has sold out all over the USA and EU so I picked on up knowing that it'll probably be out in UK soon and I'll be forced to buy a more expensive model if I ever want one.
So far I have been playing old Gamecube games on it - Mario Strikers and Smash Bros Melee. Both games got accidental competitive scenes particularly Melee which goes strong to this day.
I am terrible at Melee but I'm intrigued to try to improve and learn some of the tech skill.
Mario Strikers is just incredibly fun and silly.
So far I have been playing old Gamecube games on it - Mario Strikers and Smash Bros Melee. Both games got accidental competitive scenes particularly Melee which goes strong to this day.
I am terrible at Melee but I'm intrigued to try to improve and learn some of the tech skill.
Mario Strikers is just incredibly fun and silly.
I finished Mass Effect 3 a few weeks ago and learned I wasn't playing the originals, I was playing the remastered versions, and when I saw a comparison video between the two I am glad I got to play the remastered instead of the originals. Beautiful games with excellent visuals and a pretty cool science fiction story that is also quite probable. I then finished up some Resident Evil games that were long overdue, 5 and 6, and thought they were okay, only because I prefer the older style of Resident Evil that wasn't action oriented. I would have loved 5 and 6 if I got to play them as a teenager. I also finished Knights of the Old Republic recently. That game I had wanted to play since it came out, but when it came out my computer couldn't handle it, then by the time I got a computer to handle it, I started it, then didn't get very far before I forgot about it again. This time I played it through and... not a great game. Probably would have enjoyed it back in the day, but now that I have access to the good stuff made in the past decade and a half, it didn't age well. Not that the story or anything was poor, it was the gameplay, simply not fun and I discovered I don't care for games that have you tweak builds and weapons to maximize efficiency.
One thing I notice I don't have any time for is game replayability. When I was young the replayability of a game was a big deal since I only got one or two games a year. Now? I don't care for it. I'm not going to do a light-side run followed by a dark-side run. If a character sucks, I'm not going to use them (in Kotor there were plenty of worthless characters in your squad, like Mass Effect and FF7).
I still have Kotor 2, Star Wars Squadrons, Fallen Order, and Survivor to play, then I'll be out of the Star Wars gaming realm for a long time.
One thing I notice I don't have any time for is game replayability. When I was young the replayability of a game was a big deal since I only got one or two games a year. Now? I don't care for it. I'm not going to do a light-side run followed by a dark-side run. If a character sucks, I'm not going to use them (in Kotor there were plenty of worthless characters in your squad, like Mass Effect and FF7).
I still have Kotor 2, Star Wars Squadrons, Fallen Order, and Survivor to play, then I'll be out of the Star Wars gaming realm for a long time.
There has been a massive buzz building up for the open-world game Crimson Desert. Two million Steam wish-lists so far. It looks so incredible and ambitious in the PC footage that commenters were saying they would never pull it off on console. Well, PS4 Pro performance has been analysed by Digital foundry, and the devs have delivered on all fronts. This is going to be huge.
Make sure check the final section, A Tale of My Travels.
Make sure check the final section, A Tale of My Travels.
I've been grinding Melee online on Slippi as well as trying to teach myself some tech skill. I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that the amount of time needed to be good at this game is far too much but I'm still enjoying the humility of training and trying to make slow improvements.
Otherwise I've been building up my library of games on my steamdeck and started Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. So far very much enjoying it.
I sometimes think I should branch out to stuff like Breath of The Wild or GTA but I don't much have the patience for it. It's all possible on the deck but at the moment I'm having more fun going back nostalgically on games of my youth and trying out games I remember reading about but never plaed.
Otherwise I've been building up my library of games on my steamdeck and started Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze. So far very much enjoying it.
I sometimes think I should branch out to stuff like Breath of The Wild or GTA but I don't much have the patience for it. It's all possible on the deck but at the moment I'm having more fun going back nostalgically on games of my youth and trying out games I remember reading about but never plaed.
My gaming has tapered off quite a bit. I'm still not done with Star Wars Squadrons, which, in private, I refer to as Star Lesbians because the majority of characters are butch lesbians. I told a friend it made me feel like DEI is a form of hurting morale. Who but white guys are the majority of people playing this game? Now make the white guys have to listen to lesbians as their commanders and wing-mates. DEI enforcement in make-believe worlds like Star Wars instantly paints the woke-leftist worldview as the dominant and ever-abiding will of the universe. It immediately changes the feeling of a game. No doubt they wish this could happen in every aspect of our lives. Instead of a bunch of white people and a few hispanics at my job, they'd rather my everyday work life be filled with people from every society.
Soon to be done with Star Lesbians, which, as a game, is cool visually, and fighting in space where there's no up or down is interesting. However, I find needing to evade a lot (disorienting from a cockpit-only viewpoint), and the targeting system to be a little less than ideal, and the depth of controls getting confusing, to detract from my enjoyment. The game also gets stale more quickly than others I've played. I've read it was supposed to be primarily an online pvp experience, but how that died out and now it's only diehard/tryhard players who exploit game mechanics that still play and apparently would be quite annoying to play against. I know from past online pvp experience, it's only ever fun if you are playing against people who are on your level, and almost never enjoyable to get stomped game after game.
Soon to be done with Star Lesbians, which, as a game, is cool visually, and fighting in space where there's no up or down is interesting. However, I find needing to evade a lot (disorienting from a cockpit-only viewpoint), and the targeting system to be a little less than ideal, and the depth of controls getting confusing, to detract from my enjoyment. The game also gets stale more quickly than others I've played. I've read it was supposed to be primarily an online pvp experience, but how that died out and now it's only diehard/tryhard players who exploit game mechanics that still play and apparently would be quite annoying to play against. I know from past online pvp experience, it's only ever fun if you are playing against people who are on your level, and almost never enjoyable to get stomped game after game.