You are allowed to play games while at work? I'd never think of pulling out a portable and gaming while at work even if I had down time.
You are allowed to play games while at work? I'd never think of pulling out a portable and gaming while at work even if I had down time.Unless you ride the train for two hours every day and have down time at work on top of that.
What handheld with a color screen and/or backlight had even a fraction of the success of Game Boy back in the day? Game Gear? With their 6 AA batteries that lasted maybe 3 hours? Rehashed SNES? I think that was the point. Handheld has always been behind console. Putting a SNES quality game into a handheld was appealing to millions of people. I can play LTTP on the go? Take my money!I am having a REALLY hard time seeing the value in a Switch. I have not bought a Wii U and I have no portables except my trustee Game Boy DMG-01 either. After seeing the Switch and having skipped the Wii U being underwhelmed, I have to say, I feel the same way still. Just, meh. Which is saying something since I have bought, and still have and play working originals of every single console Nintendo has put out up to the Wii. NES, SNES, N64, GameCube (well this one is currently at my brother's house, but I am in process of trying to get it back, I play the games on the Wii though), and of course, Wii.
Ive never cared for the handheld offerings from Nintendo but for the first one, always boggling at why they do what they do. Game Boy, fine, first one out of the gate, black and white, good battery life overall for the time, games are solid. Game Boy Color! Alright, a color scr... oh, it's color... but no backlight? COME ON! Skipped that one. Alright! Game Boy Advance! YES! Oh, its basically a rehashed SNES... and wtf... STILL no backlight? Nintendo what are you doing? Skipped that one too. Every other handheld since I've not cared for, for one reason or another. Now this, essentially releasing both a handheld and a home console at the same time.
I love Nintendo, don't get me wrong, but I'm just not sure how I feel about any of this yet. Maybe it's the right move, maybe it's just me, since most of those handhelds above did pretty well despite my misgivings about them. But I'm just not impressed. Yet. Games could change that. I withhold final judgment. But I'll admit, I'm not optimistic.
Down time is down time. It's no different than reading a book, listening to music, or killing time on the Internet. Edit: And it sure is better than letting my brain cells slowly burn out by watching the daytime TV my coworkers like to leave on.You are allowed to play games while at work? I'd never think of pulling out a portable and gaming while at work even if I had down time.
Down time is down time. It's no different than reading a book, listening to music, or killing time on the Internet. Edit: And it sure is better than letting my brain cells slowly burn out by watching the daytime TV my coworkers like to leave on.
Yeah, defintely depends on the culture. If there's a break room you can probably get away with it without a second look. If I'm just sitting at my desk between calls, at least on my phone I can say I was reading my email. I can always "go out to lunch", but really just sit in my car if I wanted to carry a game to work.I suppose it depends on the type of work and company. I'd be fired for that but can get away with web browsing. Still wasting time but no one knows. If they walked into my office and I was holding a portable game unit though I'd be busted! lol
He seriously missed out on some unique experiences. WarioWare Twisted for GBA and countless DS games.What handheld with a color screen and/or backlight had even a fraction of the success of Game Boy back in the day? Game Gear? With their 6 AAA batteries that lasted maybe 3 hours? Rehashed SNES? I think that was the point. Handheld has always been behind console. Putting a SNES quality game into a handheld was appealing to millions of people. I can play LTTP on the go? Take my money!
In other news turns out the Joycon issues are a manufacturing problem and Nintendo admitted it and are replacing faulty ones:
https://www.engadget.com/amp/2017/03/22/nintendo-switch-joy-con-disconnect-variation/
I need to get on that my blue set has a terrible left Joycon. I never use it because one you get a pro controller the grip might as well be a damn Madcatz controller, but I will want it working well before ARMs comes out.
Apple's Siri remote is $80. Apple didn't even ask me for a credit card when they shipped a replacement just after the Apple TV 4th gen launch in late 2015. It had all the stuff for returning the original. My original remote wouldn't click consistently on the right side.I do kind of think Nintendo could handle this better for customers and are doing serious damage control. Hope mine isn't that way when it arrives.
I do kind of think Nintendo could handle this better for customers and are doing serious damage control. Hope mine isn't that way when it arrives.
Apparently they are doing overnight shipping for some people. But yeah it's a pain no matter what which is why I hate I have to do it.
Snipperclips won't use the Pro Controller period.
To test if yours has a problem just play some Zelda with the grip. It's an obvious problem then- you start running in one direction and can't stop if you have the issue.
What handheld with a color screen and/or backlight had even a fraction of the success of Game Boy back in the day? Game Gear? With their 6 AA batteries that lasted maybe 3 hours? Rehashed SNES? I think that was the point. Handheld has always been behind console. Putting a SNES quality game into a handheld was appealing to millions of people. I can play LTTP on the go? Take my money!
Edit: AA, not AAA
My apologies that I sounded like I was attacking all your opinions. To be honest, I only chose a couple of them to address. I could have went on and on.I admitted they did well despite my misgivings. These were things I, me, myself, didn't care for. Not you or anyone else. Why you felt you had to contradict my opinions as if I was dead wrong I don't know but nothing you say will change my mind. Those are my opinions of the Nintendo handhelds, I never thought they were worth buying so I didn't, I liked their consoles a lot better.
I'm glad you liked the handhelds, that is fantastic, a lot of people did. But I am SO SORRY (not sorry) that I don't feel the same way you do. =)
I likely won't get a Switch either the way it is looking right now. Again that could change, but so far, very underwhelming.
...and we are back to square one. As others have said before, if you don't want Zelda it's not worth getting now. There are no other really great exclusives. It's that simple. It's not that difficult a concept to understand. The games lineup sucks right now. It should be better this time next year but you'll have to decide if the releases are worth buying the switch to have.
I wish they had a proper beta not these weird one hour times. Unfortunately I won't be able to get in on any of them as the game looks fun.So I have played two of the Splatoon 2 Testfire sessions so far and holy crap that game is fun. I like the emphasis on painting over killing, and once I found out how to tweak the motion controls the controls were very smooth for me. Also the frame rate was rock solid, it never dropped for a second. Definitely going to preorder it now.