I have a soft spot for Nintendo and Mario games on the console. The Wii is fun and I get to play together with my offspring on it but I probably get more use out of the DS and Pokemon pick a version. If we ever break down and get a proper big screen tv for house I will have to investigate a WiiU vs making dedicated steam box.
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Fair enough. I do own a 3DS (dunno if handhelds count as consoles), specifically because I really like 2D Zelda games. My excuse is that I fly a lot, so I need something to do that doesnāt involve abject boredom or sheer terror.
I was largely disappointed by the Wii (believe it or not, I actually camped out overnight to buy the thing), but playing games on a friendās Wii U was pretty fun. Not fun enough to buy one, though I wouldnāt say ānoā if it magically appeared in my living room.
I canāt imagine playing Mirrorās Edge on anything other than the PC. Thereās so much falling off of things and into thingsā¦
Anyway, New Vegas was good enough to buy twice, so I own it on the PC as well. There are some types of games I prefer using a controller for (platformers or fighting games, for example), but most work better with a keyboard and mouse.
I get that, and I feel like Steam (or a similar platform) is the future. Iām honestly starting to doubt the point of buying a gaming console as well, but I think I will still get a PS4 (eventually, when the price drops) and then see how I feel next-gen. With a console, I can play any game without having to worry if my computer can run it. Listening to my friend talking about how he just updated his machine and what it all cost sounded horrifying to meā¦ I know you donāt have to have the newest games (I rarely play AAA titles, and buy everything used or on sale), but when my computer (which is a little over year old, and just fine) canāt even run a 3 or 4 year old game, it seems silly.
Iām probably the fool here, I donāt know. But again, Steam is really starting to change things for me. In an ideal world, there would be no platform.exclusives and every reasonable computer could run the newest games. Then that would be all I need.
Hand-held consoles are something Iāll stick to, however. Nintendo DS has so many amazing games (that cost nothing to me with R4). I guess a phone could do the same thing (and would be more convenient), but until all the same games are gonna be made available for phones as well, Iāll be playing with my trusted NDS.
For the sake of my well being, it would be better if someone could stop me from getting Rebirth. Iām half-hoping it wonāt be on sale for a while.
Yeah, Iāve also noticed how Linux gaming (and developersā attitude towards Linux) has improved. Half of my Steam library runs on Linux - and not just small indie games, even Borderlands 2.
Iāve only played it on an ithing. I didnāt see what the big deal was. Didnāt realize the full game was first person and not a side-scrolling infinite runner for years.
I have to say that playing with you is quite a welcome change to my usual obsessively completionist/collector playing style. I always check every little place, pick up everything (even if just so I can sell them) and take a shitload of time making decisions (which guns to use and how to use up my points, in this game). Iāve always known Iām like that, but I havenāt noticed just how much time I can take making a single decision when playing alone. In the first Borderlands, when my inventory was full, I used to go sell everything I could and then go back for every gun/item that was left behind, even if it took several trips. Yes, I know itās crazy.
Itās kind of like therapy for me. Itās just a crappy pistol thatās worth 36$, your inventory is full, just let it go, let it goā¦
Since you already know the game, youāre just breezing through it (when do you have time to use the skill points and badass tokens, anyway?) while Iām somewhere behind you still learning the ropes or making decisions. So, thanks for being patient. 
I promise Iāll get better once I get used to the game. Iāll also have to start using my action skill efficiently now that I finally get how itās really done; sneak up on enemies and smash them with a gun (one that preferably does extra melee damage). Melee isnāt my usual style, but maybe itāll be fun. Though I still think Deathrap is cooler.
On my first playthrough I got so into just playing once I leveled up like 3 times before remembering to spend skill points. Badasstokens I still forget to check and go oh āhey lookā at, though those are small bonuses that while they do add up donāt make an big immediate difference. And indeed Deathtrap is a pretty cool.
Well, it seems like there are fewer and fewer games exclusive to consoles, so essentially youāre paying extra (usually more than the cost of a decent graphics card) for a piece of hardware dedicated to running the same games on worse settings.
There are certain advantages. For example, youāre practically guaranteed to be able to run a console game, since the hardware is always the same. The controls are occasionally better. Theāre convenient local multiplayer. There are still some console-exclusive games. And of course, a console costs way less than a PC.
Unfortunately, apart from the price, all of these advantages are slowly going away. Itās almost like console manufacturers are trying to imitate PCs instead of doing their own thing. Itās actually why I still respect Nintendo, despite all of its blunders. At least itās still trying to do something different.
I donāt get enough use out of mine. I only play when Iām on a long trip away from home, and thatās unfortunate because it has a really good library of JRPGs.
Iām fairly sure itāll go on sale during the summer, so I think youāre doomed.
The iOS version doesnāt give you the full experience of falling into holes you couldnāt have foreseen without psychic powers. Itās the E.T. for the Atari 2600 of FPS parkour. Seriously, though, Mirrorās Edge is excellent and I donāt think Iāve played anything quite like it. When Oculus Rift was first announced, that was the game I thought would be really fun (or nauseating) to play in VR.
No one lives Forever.
I read that yesterday 
Iād have told them to publish and be damned.
My understanding is that games on consoles are adjusted for the lack of precision in the controls. I donāt have the greatest reflexes or sense of timing, but I didnāt find Mirrorās Edge on the Xbox excessively difficult.
Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas both allowed for either traditional FPS targeting and shooting, or, in a nod to the earlier turn-based Fallout games, you had the āVATSā system, in which you could pause combat, and use the āPipboyā to queue a series of attacks aimed specific parts of an enemyās body, and the game would carry out your actions for you. I found that, playing on the Xbox, I heavily relied on VATS, whereas on PC, I almost always did the aiming myself.
Yeah, I guess a lot of console shooters have some sort autoaim option. Maybe Mirrorās Edge has something similar for freerunning?
The trouble with VATS is that you canāt use it continuously unless you have a lot of Action Points (or you rely a lot on items). If you run out of AP while thereās a swarm (flock?) of Cazadores bearing down on you, then youāre pretty much dead.
On the PC, I would use manual aim for the first couple of shots (at far away enemies), and then Iād switch to VATS once they had closed the distance. On console, Iād still be wrestling with the controls when my characterās corpse would already ragdoll.
Anyone taken a look at http://crowfall.com/ yet? Looks interesting.
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Get all the toys, itās the only solution.
I am a dyed in the wool XB fan (had an original, had a 360, now have a One) but when XB got hacked and was down for weeks a couple years ago we started playing CoD on PS and now I have to say I definitely prefer almost everything about PS. The UI is more sensible and seemingly less buggy, the on-screen keyboard is much more effective than that of XB and, personally, I find the controller much more ergonomic. One gripe on the PS4 controller is that some batches of thumbsticks apparently have bad rubber and start peeling very quickly. Iāve seen two separate controllers do this so far, but it seems like it was mostly on the first-run machines.
The only thing I donāt prefer is that it doesnāt have Halo 
Sadly 343 have done a horrendous job on the Anniversary edition, which is littered with bugs and in unplayable on any matchmaking gametype but team slayer. It is nice to relive the old maps online again though.
What was the name of the map with the big windmill in the center. A covenant sword would spawn dead center in the windmill? Game type was you had to take a bomb in and arm or, or stop the other team from arming the bomb?
Which version?
Halo 2 was called āZanzibarā
Halo 3 was called āLast Resortā
Assault (i.e. bomb the base) on Zanzibar/Last Resort is one of THE best game types of all games, in all of history.
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That map and DE Dust in CS may be my favorite multiplayer game play levels ever! Werenāt they damn near identical between the 2 games? Also, Blood Gulch?
There was also one in Starcraft I really enjoyed, but thats a different thing.
No Brandon? (and how is Brandon?)
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I kinda hated what 343 did with Halo 4 as well. It took me over a year to bother finishing the campaign. Iām not much of a multiplayer player anymore (I vastly prefer LAN or splitscreen to online multiplayer Halo), but I would like to see the redone maps, and Iām quite eager to replay Halo 2ās campaign with Anniversary graphics, but thatās not enough to convince me to buy an Xbone, especially since my 360 is so relatively new still. I waited to buy a 360 until Halo 3 came out, and then bought the Halo 3 edition. I got plenty of miles out of that one (and only one RROD), and itās still ticking at a friendās house. When Halo 4 came out I bought a Halo 4 edition 360, which I still use. But man, was I profoundly disappointed in Halo 4 the game. The Prometheans are boring bullet-sponges, the Forerunner architecture is unnecessarily bewildering, and the writing is execrable. I missed the Bungie magic, and became excited for Destiny, until I played it past Level 24 and realized how much I hated about Destiny on a game-philosophy level.
Now I think the whole Bungie magic thing is just lost forever. I probably wonāt bother with Halo 5, and even though Iāve already paid for Destinyās House of Wolves DLC, I wonāt be bothering with it either. Lifeās too goddamned short.
Think we should re-categorize this from [ games ] to [ Offworld ]?
It seems I can edit it thusly, but wanted to see if there were good reasons not to.
