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General and Gaming => Modern Video Games => Topic started by: disgaeniac on September 29, 2014, 03:39:36 pm
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I know that some of you VGC-ers here have been playing games & collecting them for just as long as I have (even longer, in some cases).
Remember when a gaming console was just that...a console that simply played your games for you?
Anyway, change + progress + new & better/faster/smaller tech (*can* be -but- IMO, isn't always) a 'good' thing that can enhance the capabilities of our consoles/systems; making them much more diversified, convenient, & capabie machines.
Hell, I remember playing CD's & DVD's on my older PS2's, and being glad that I was able to do so.
My PS3 is still my primary Blu-Ray player and (one of my PS3's) eliminates my need to keep a PS1 and/or a PS2 connected.
I also enjoy being able to check/respond to my e-mail, coming to sites like this one (and G*FAQs & trophy + walk-through sites when I need them), and - I'll admit it...I've even liked & used the PSN Friends feature more than I would have ever expected to.
Being able to have broken games fixed/patched, cloud-saving (via PS+), having annoying updates downloaded while I'm sleeping, and more options for those consumers who'd prefer to purchase digital versions of games rather than the physical versions (even though, I still don't "get" that & it seems almost...sacriligeous to me) all = win ;D
BUT, what I'm really wondering about more here is...which features and/or capabilities of modern gaming do you find non-essential? Stupid? Things that you just don't give a shit about, know that you'll never use, and - maybe things that just don't make any sense to you at all and that you can't even understand why *Anybody* would ever use them and/or why anyone would even find them important enough or significant enough to even care about, one way or the other?
A quick example for me would be earlier access to a game; being able to play it a day, a week, or even a month before everyone else.
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I was thinking of R.O.B. for the NES, there were only two games made for it. I guess you could say that that was a never used console feature. Since here in the USA it was more of a gimmick to make retailers think of the NES as a toy rather then a game system. I know its not a modern system but its one of two I can think of. The other is the Street Pass thing on the 3DS. its cool, but do we really need it?
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To me, web browsers on a console are pointless. Too hard to read on the TV, pages don't fit properly, and unless you buy a keyboard way too clunky to navigate.
Street Pass is a good one. I didn't even pull it up until after I had had my 3DS for more than a year, and then it was just to see what the heck it was.
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I know that there are a few things, but I can't think of them off the top of my head... I'll think about it a little!
Street Pass is a good one. I didn't even pull it up until after I had had my 3DS for more than a year, and then it was just to see what the heck it was.
Streetpass is really neat, but you need to live in a very populated area. I've experienced it in 3 different areas: small city where I never got any streetpass except from friends at school, a big city where I get a few streetpass tags at the biggest mall in the city, and a very big city where I get my 10 streepass tags daily. And after all that, I have to say: it's a really cool feature, but it can't be enjoyed by everyone because of population limitations :(
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Internet browsers, twitter/facebook, youtube, blu ray players, that all-in-one entertainment idea.
It's a game system. Just let it play games.
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As for the CD thing: The original XBox made the CD-function awesome. Back in the early 2000s, it was able to burn your CDs to the hard drive, which then allowed you to have a personal jukebox in your room. And some games like Tony Hawk's Underground even allowed you to add those songs to the games soundtrack.
I know, nowadays everyone is all like: "But, Windows Media Player and MP3 players." Yeah, but back then MP3 players were still very expensive, and CD-burners were starting to become common on PCs but still were a bit pricey themselves.
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Backward compatibility according to Sony and MS.
Rather ironic that now they think there is a big enough market to open up a subscription service for it.
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I loved being able to have my own music on my Xbox lol It was pretty cool.
I would also throw my hat in for any of the social stuff that gets added, mostly with like Facebook and Twitter stuff. Streaming capabilities are fine and cool, Mario Kart 8 video sharing is nice, but things that are just telling your friends on facebook that you unlocked achievements or what you are playing now or any other useless thing like that I find annoying.
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Nintendo's Miiverse. Apparently it was worth bringing it to the 3DS after it was already on the WiiU. ??? I've never used it aside from one time to see what it was. Seems pretty pointless for me. :-\
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I'll agree with the social media stuff, but I stream video on my systems all the time and love it. Seems pointless to have to switch to yet another box to do that when the consoles can do it so easily. Especially on the PS4, since I can tap a button & switch out to watch something on Netflix or Hulu or whatever, then when I'm done jump right back into my game where I left it. Awesome. :)
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Xbox Live/ PSN
Who needs friends when I have all these Gamesssssssss
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I don't really care for watching tv, netflix, or other tv/streaming apps with my console because most of the time I use them just to play games( especially with those xbox one ads making a big deals about the nfl tv app). I also didn't really care about swapnote and pictochat on the 3ds and ds too much since I didn't have many people who wanted to swap pics back and forth.
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I don't really care for watching tv, netflix, or other tv/streaming apps with my console because most of the time I use them just to play games( especially with those xbox one ads making a big deals about the nfl tv app). I also didn't really care about swapnote and pictochat on the 3ds and ds too much since I didn't have many people who wanted to swap pics back and forth.
I remember when The Ds first came out Pictochat was the shit in my bus. Everyone in my bus would bring their DS and go into Pictochat and draw and chat and shit... I in the otherhand... didn't own a DS back then :'(
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I don't really care for watching tv, netflix, or other tv/streaming apps with my console because most of the time I use them just to play games( especially with those xbox one ads making a big deals about the nfl tv app). I also didn't really care about swapnote and pictochat on the 3ds and ds too much since I didn't have many people who wanted to swap pics back and forth.
I remember when The Ds first came out Pictochat was the shit in my bus. Everyone in my bus would bring their DS and go into Pictochat and draw and chat and shit... I in the otherhand... didn't own a DS back then :'(
Same here, I didn't get my first ds until mid 2009, but by that point everyone who had used it moved on to other systems. I just wish that it could have had a game or something out of those elements but it just stayed the way it was. :/
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I know that there are a few things, but I can't think of them off the top of my head... I'll think about it a little!
Street Pass is a good one. I didn't even pull it up until after I had had my 3DS for more than a year, and then it was just to see what the heck it was.
Streetpass is really neat, but you need to live in a very populated area. I've experienced it in 3 different areas: small city where I never got any streetpass except from friends at school, a big city where I get a few streetpass tags at the biggest mall in the city, and a very big city where I get my 10 streepass tags daily. And after all that, I have to say: it's a really cool feature, but it can't be enjoyed by everyone because of population limitations :(
Yeah streetpass is pretty lame in small towns. I only have one streetpass tag and it was from my sister's 3DS ha.
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I'll give ya the internet browser point, Greg -but- since I've switched my consoles' connections to "wired" (by adding...wtf did you say those things that you turned me onto were called?), + upgrading my internet speed + having that sweet & wireless Logitech keyboard hooked up to my PS3...it's really not thaaat bad.
2 additions:
cameras (for the sake of using it as an actual camera) on handhelds and
PS Home (nuff said).
btw - feel free to also talk about the best/your favorite & most used features here too!
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I cant believe people use their consoles for actually gaming. I mean ... wtf? We can talk to people on VGCollect with our consoles, why in the hell would you ever stop to actually turn on a game?
In all seriousness, the function I find the most annoying (its not actually the function itself though) is the Street pass. I recently played through FF III on my 3DS. It was on my backlog but never made it out till years after the game was out. But because of the street pass stuff on there, I was unable to get all the stuff I wanted cause 1) no one in my area uses it and 2)even if they did, they werent playing FFIII. So a lot of the really cool items are unavailable to people who dont use it. There is NO reason something like that should be required. It totally locks out part of the game to people 6 months after the game is released and thats just plain up bullshit.
One of the options I actually use the most is the DVD/Blu ray players. I already have a handful of consoles plugged in different rooms so the fact that I dont have to add another player to those rooms makes it much easier on me. My PS3 is my only blu ray as well.
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I don't really care for watching tv, netflix, or other tv/streaming apps with my console because most of the time I use them just to play games( especially with those xbox one ads making a big deals about the nfl tv app). I also didn't really care about swapnote and pictochat on the 3ds and ds too much since I didn't have many people who wanted to swap pics back and forth.
I remember when The Ds first came out Pictochat was the shit in my bus. Everyone in my bus would bring their DS and go into Pictochat and draw and chat and shit... I in the otherhand... didn't own a DS back then :'(
Oh man, I never got any use out of pictochat except doodle by myself. I had ONE friend who had a DS back then. :-\
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I cant believe people use their consoles for actually gaming. I mean ... wtf? We can talk to people on VGCollect with our consoles, why in the hell would you ever stop to actually turn on a game?
In all seriousness, the function I find the most annoying (its not actually the function itself though) is the Street pass. I recently played through FF III on my 3DS. It was on my backlog but never made it out till years after the game was out. But because of the street pass stuff on there, I was unable to get all the stuff I wanted cause 1) no one in my area uses it and 2)even if they did, they werent playing FFIII. So a lot of the really cool items are unavailable to people who dont use it. There is NO reason something like that should be required. It totally locks out part of the game to people 6 months after the game is released and thats just plain up bullshit.
One of the options I actually use the most is the DVD/Blu ray players. I already have a handful of consoles plugged in different rooms so the fact that I dont have to add another player to those rooms makes it much easier on me. My PS3 is my only blu ray as well.
I hate Street Pass for the opposite reason. To many kiddies want to message me or play games with me to the point of annoyance. I just want to play my games!
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I'll give ya the internet browser point, Greg -but- since I've switched my consoles' connections to "wired" (by adding...wtf did you say those things that you turned me onto were called?), + upgrading my internet speed + having that sweet & wireless Logitech keyboard hooked up to my PS3...it's really not thaaat bad.
2 additions:
cameras (for the sake of using it as an actual camera) on handhelds and
PS Home (nuff said).
btw - feel free to also talk about the best/your favorite & most used features here too!
Speaking of PS Home, what does it even do? I wanted to try it once, but the loading took forever so I just shut it down and never tried again :o
Cameras are indeed useless as real cameras. Take the one on the 3DS, for example; it adds a cool feature for some games, but I've also seen people in conventions use their 3DS to take cosplay pictures, and every time I wonder WHY. The quality is terrible for anything else than detecting stuff in a game. :-\
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I'll give ya the internet browser point, Greg -but- since I've switched my consoles' connections to "wired" (by adding...wtf did you say those things that you turned me onto were called?), + upgrading my internet speed + having that sweet & wireless Logitech keyboard hooked up to my PS3...it's really not thaaat bad.
2 additions:
cameras (for the sake of using it as an actual camera) on handhelds and
PS Home (nuff said).
btw - feel free to also talk about the best/your favorite & most used features here too!
Speaking of PS Home, what does it even do? I wanted to try it once, but the loading took forever so I just shut it down and never tried again :o
Cameras are indeed useless as real cameras. Take the one on the 3DS, for example; it adds a cool feature for some games, but I've also seen people in conventions use their 3DS to take cosplay pictures, and every time I wonder WHY. The quality is terrible for anything else than detecting stuff in a game. :-\
The 3ds camera is pretty bad, because it has 3 camera sensors, 2 outside, and 1 facing the user and they all use 0.3 megapixels with one-point focus and digital zoom, but they put more time into the 3d functionality of the camera instead of making it better. Most of the pictures I've taken with my 3ds seem to always come out blurry, even if the object I'm taking a picture of is like a foot away.
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KARYANN -
I can't tell you much more about PS Home than you already know - It sounds like I only spent a few more minutes with it than you did (as in, I didn't even stick around long enough to finish the character creation/customization).
iirc, it was supposed to be all about creating your own avatar + home, customizing your clothes, hair, etc and then customizing + decorating your place...all so you could then venture out into your virtual world, with your virtual avatar to meet & socialize w/ other like-minded virtual avatars with their own virtual houses & accessories; so you could all then...wrf?!
Hell if I know ::)
I suppose that they'd all get together to try to convince & re-assure each other that it made sense, and that it was normal & okay to spend countless hours (and money(?); I wouldn't know, but I'd be shocked if Sony *Didn't* have "premium" items that cost real money - and, I'd be just as shocked if there weren't people who'd spend real money for fancier & higher quality pretend clothing + housing) using their expensive *GAMING* consoles to create & dress up pretend people & houses to spend even more time talking to even more pretend people & visiting more pretend homes...instead of, you know - popping a game into it & playing it :o
If you want more specifics about it...try asking SOERA, I think that he'd be our resident expert and, I'm guessing that he spent a lot of time there :P
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I don't use almost any non-gaming feature. TVii for the Wii U, for instance. Don't care. My girlfriend uses my Kinect on her X360 for watching Netflix, but still resorts to the controller half the time. I never use the camera on the 3DS, and I have never used the chat features on the Wii U. The PS3 has so much crap buried in that terrible menu system that I've never used, and any pages after the first two on the Xbox 360 are never used by me.
Essentially, outside of Netflix and Hulu, I never use these things for anything other than gaming.
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using their expensive *GAMING* consoles to create & dress up pretend people & houses to spend even more time talking to even more pretend people & visiting more pretend homes...instead of, you know - popping a game into it & playing it :o
They could just buy Animal Crossing and enjoy tons more stuff while doing that ;D
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using their expensive *GAMING* consoles to create & dress up pretend people & houses to spend even more time talking to even more pretend people & visiting more pretend homes...instead of, you know - popping a game into it & playing it :o
They could just buy Animal Crossing and enjoy tons more stuff while doing that ;D
I never tried an Animal Crossing game...are they fun?
How many are there, what systems are they on, and which one(s) the best?
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using their expensive *GAMING* consoles to create & dress up pretend people & houses to spend even more time talking to even more pretend people & visiting more pretend homes...instead of, you know - popping a game into it & playing it :o
They could just buy Animal Crossing and enjoy tons more stuff while doing that ;D
I never tried an Animal Crossing game...are they fun?
How many are there, what systems are they on, and which one(s) the best?
I personally really enjoy Animal Crossing, but I've found it's the kind of thing people either love or hate. You have to make your own goals and you can do what you want (mostly) whenever you feel like it. The games never really end, so can you just stop playing whenever you decide you're finished with them. I find they're a great way to relax.
These are the Animal Crossing games we've gotten.
Animal Crossing (GameCube) -This is actually an upgraded port of the N64 original, which was exclusive to Japan.
Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo DS) -Enjoyable, but feels pretty outdated now. It's kinda hard to go back to after AC: New Leaf
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) -In my opinion, this one's the best of the series. I'd recommend it.
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I personally really enjoy Animal Crossing, but I've found it's the kind of thing people either love or hate. You have to make your own goals and you can do what you want (mostly) whenever you feel like it. The games never really end, so can you just stop playing whenever you decide you're finished with them. I find they're a great way to relax.
These are the Animal Crossing games we've gotten.
Animal Crossing (GameCube) -This is actually an upgraded port of the N64 original, which was exclusive to Japan.
Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo DS) -Enjoyable, but feels pretty outdated now. It's kinda hard to go back to after AC: New Leaf
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) -In my opinion, this one's the best of the series. I'd recommend it.
I second everything in this post! And if you ever want to try the series, go straight to New Leaf :) Not that the rest is bad, but for someone who never played it, it's the best way to know if you'll like it or not.
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Features not used- Pretty much anything on the system that doesn't play the actual game.
I use to get excited with a free demo disc that came with pre-orders, now you can download any trial version of any game and I never do....strange.
The DVD player never synced up properly with audio/video on my PS2 without tweaking settings, so I stopped using that.
Best feature- Blu-ray player on PS3
I used this more than I played games on the system, until I got a stand alone that surpassed it. There just weren't any players at the time, for the price, that had a faster access or disc load time.
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I'll agree with the stupidity of PS Home. I used it, what...twice? I tried out the bowling game and hated hated HATED it. What a joke.
I got a LOT of use out of the PS3's Folding@Home function. I was quite upset when they ended support of it.
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I know that there are a few things, but I can't think of them off the top of my head... I'll think about it a little!
Street Pass is a good one. I didn't even pull it up until after I had had my 3DS for more than a year, and then it was just to see what the heck it was.
Streetpass is really neat, but you need to live in a very populated area. I've experienced it in 3 different areas: small city where I never got any streetpass except from friends at school, a big city where I get a few streetpass tags at the biggest mall in the city, and a very big city where I get my 10 streepass tags daily. And after all that, I have to say: it's a really cool feature, but it can't be enjoyed by everyone because of population limitations :(
Yeah streetpass is pretty lame in small towns. I only have one streetpass tag and it was from my sister's 3DS ha.
Just go to a day one release of a popular 3DS game like Smash or Pokemon.
You'll get a bunch.
using their expensive *GAMING* consoles to create & dress up pretend people & houses to spend even more time talking to even more pretend people & visiting more pretend homes...instead of, you know - popping a game into it & playing it :o
They could just buy Animal Crossing and enjoy tons more stuff while doing that ;D
I never tried an Animal Crossing game...are they fun?
How many are there, what systems are they on, and which one(s) the best?
I personally really enjoy Animal Crossing, but I've found it's the kind of thing people either love or hate. You have to make your own goals and you can do what you want (mostly) whenever you feel like it. The games never really end, so can you just stop playing whenever you decide you're finished with them. I find they're a great way to relax.
These are the Animal Crossing games we've gotten.
Animal Crossing (GameCube) -This is actually an upgraded port of the N64 original, which was exclusive to Japan.
Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo DS) -Enjoyable, but feels pretty outdated now. It's kinda hard to go back to after AC: New Leaf
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) -In my opinion, this one's the best of the series. I'd recommend it.
RIP in peace Nintendo WFC ;-;7
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Pretty much anything to do with social media apps, streaming stuff like Remote Play, web browsers, goofy avatars and virtual apartments, advertising for things like Doritos and Mt. Dew, stereoscopic photo galleries, stuff like Streetpass, paid DLC clothes for your stupid avatar cluttering up the living shit out of every corner of the store, initiatives like SmartGlass... the list goes on.
I like that consoles have media center functionality, but beyond that, most non-gaming stuff is just extraneous garbage.
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Pretty much anything to do with social media apps, streaming stuff like Remote Play, web browsers, goofy avatars and virtual apartments, advertising for things like Doritos and Mt. Dew, stereoscopic photo galleries, stuff like Streetpass, paid DLC clothes for your stupid avatar cluttering up the living shit out of every corner of the store, initiatives like SmartGlass... the list goes on.
I like that consoles have media center functionality, but beyond that, most non-gaming stuff is just extraneous garbage.
100% this!
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Yeah, I pretty much only use my consoles for gaming, and that's it. Except for my Wii which has turned into my YouTube box.