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As a PC gamer I would never condone such a statement about my console brethren (and sisters), but lol.
The new Super Mario Galaxy Movie is out today – as expected, it is a bare-bones story supported by a cavalcade of Nintendo cameos and bright action scenes. Dubbed “a bland screensaver of a movie” by the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, expect smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers.
Is it bad that smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers sounds about exactly what I'm equipped to handle right about now?
Like zoning out to some seriously tepid nostalgia-slop sounds good.
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That sounds like almost an exact description of the first Mario movie.
Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, its Nintendo specific.
~ Former Nintendo Game Enjoyer
I disagree on the smooth brained comment. Nintendo first party games (the reason to buy their consoles) are always top-notch.
The ones I’ve bought on Switch 2:
- Mario Kart World - wonderful game with excellent driving mechanics. Open world and lots of fun.
- DK Bananza - endearing game with a heartfelt story, great music, fun gameplay. Really enjoyed my time 100%ing this game.
- pokemon Legends Z-A: good game overall. Nothing groundbreaking but fun.
- Pokemon Pokopia - I’m absolutely obsessed. Heartfelt story, hits so many nostalgic beats, tackles a difficult subject of humans destroying the environment. What happens to our Pokes when we humans have to leave them behind? Amazing game with deep breadth, excellent quality of life that builds upon typical sandbox games, and the music is so nice. When I first heard the Pokémon healing melody adapted into one song, or when I reached a destroyed Palette Town and heard all the original Pokémon Red/Blue musical beats embedded in the overarching musical theme, I was so moved. Very touching game, too. One of the best Pokémon spin offs I’ve played, and this game is canon.
Still waiting on more first-party games that are on the horizon - the potential Ocarina of Time remake if the rumors are true, Pokémon Winds/Waves, and the new 3D Mario game.
Any other game I haven’t picked up because I would rather play it on PC.
The smooth brained entertainment comment was just referring to the Mario Galaxy movie.
“Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, it’s Nintendo specific.”
This looks to me like the person commenting suggests that Nintendo fans in general are smooth-brained.
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Man, I remember when the DS was the thinking person's console of choice. Oh the art you could draw on it and send to others. Oh the traces of goatee.
Good oppurtunity to work on your backlog.
But if I do that I'll never buy another game!
Hmm. You may be on to something there...
Working on my backlog is literally all of my gaming. Currently catching up on the old Assassin's Creed games. Well worth it.
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Or do as I do and buy random games for cheap. I'm on like hour 4 of Tim-Tim 2; The Almighty Gnome, that I got for like 50 cents.
Honestly a pretty good time.
Gaming is cheaper than ever. Just don’t buy new games. I haven’t bought a new AAA game in decades. There are thousands and thousands of games you can play for free or nearly free.
It’s like music. You can listen to lifetimes worth of music for free or nearly free. The only expensive thing is going to some fancy concert and giving a ton of money to Ticketmaster.
Well, you still need something to play it on. And since GPUs and RAM costs about a child and a half these days, I'd say it's quite expensive.
Sure, though you don’t need a state of the art PC to play 90% of the games ever made. These days I play a lot of my games on an old 3DS (hacked to the gills)!
I also have a huge steam library of games, many of which I bought for next to nothing in huge bundles during past sales. Many of them I still haven’t played! They would run fine on a 10 year old PC though.
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You can buy new AAA games. Be /patientgamers. Just wait a few weeks or months after release and they almost always go on sale when companies want to boost server numbers to make quarterly reports look good. I haven’t paid release price for any AAA game in years. And it should go without saying: Do not preorder!
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Gaming has been getting expensive long before the latest AI Fad started.
Yeah before it was crypto and NFTs.
growing up in a 3rd world country, it has always been, specially when considering the language barrier since games were not translated into my language back in the day
Cause Jensen needs to keep buying weird jackets. Only way to achieve that is by selling GPUs to AI ghouls.
Gaming is pretty cheap, playing the latest new releases or hardware or collecting a massive library has always been expensive
Games are too cheap to be honest. That’s why the whole industry sucks now.
I asked AI and my RAM charged my credit card
I feel a lot of first-world privilege out of having all my gaming hardware from before the AI boom started. Around the time sanity lost the election, I decided to get a new GPU because I was worried all economies would turn terrible, and I was basically right.
Businesses started acting like every product ever is a luxury product and people keep paying the higher prices.
The only way to get prices back down as to not buy them.and hope the little businesses survive long enough.
The only people with money to spend are the upper-middle class consumers. Incomes of 100K+. 60% of consumer spending across the USA comes from people in this bracket... and for people under 100K income, spending is going down. Only 18% of USA population makes this level of income...
Hence if you want to make money, you have to move your products up-market to appeal to people who have all the disposable income to spend. This trend is all over the economy. Travel, clothing, food, etc.
The days of appealing to the mass market of lower and middle class consumers, is over, because they are broke, so nobody gives an F about them.
Going forward it's about fewer sales, but higher margin sales.
The days of appealing to the mass market of lower and middle class consumers, is over
It's not over forever. We've had K-shaped recoveries in the past, which is why we have a name for it.
nobody is investing in the lower or middle classes. they are de-investing.
everyone is investing in the rich people. especially other rich people who are trying to grow their businesses.
That's right now. The economy changes, and that investment is a response to how it's changed. It will change back again. We've been here before.
The wealthy have become very easy to sell to. Disposable cash they dont think about and a tailored algorithm and wide variety of available designer drugs.
Do some ketamine, go on an amazon binge and book a holiday to Greece to see a band you barely like cause fuck it, world is burning and I want a good time.
Honestly we just need to move on and start doing our own things and try to get into a place of power to maybe shore up some of the wealth hoarding.
Open AI - “I don’t understand why everyone hates me”
I'm shocked that the guardian outright just called people idiots.
Is this since kind of April fools, it was posted on the 1st of April.
I thought they were a legit publication.
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