@Gremio108 Nintendo reportedly charged up to $35 for N64 cartridges to third parties. Most of that price was probably cartridge licensing and manufacturing. Those things were expensive.
They still are. Developers are avoiding the 32GB Switch cards as well. Opting for additional downloads over the price of the card.
@RogerRoger You’re a stronger man than I. Although, this year I’ve been better than in the past. I’ve only payed full price for Ghost of Tsushima and FF7R, and I’ve actually been playing Ghost of Tsushima straight away, albeit slowly.
What’s getting me now though are the sales. They are a backlog-expanding disease! Just added Doom 2016 for $6.
(Good to see you posting, btw. I was starting to worry if you were okay since I hadn’t seen you around for a few days and then with Kratos leaving unannounced I feared you may have somehow dropped off.)
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@jdv95 Yeah, KratosMD, that is. (Not the God of War protagonist. I’m pretty sure he’s still a Sony icon 😄)
There is some discussion in the Goodbye/Vacation thread but it was an unannounced departure and he apparently had his account deleted, which has the unexpected effect of deleting every thread that he had ever started. So it turned a few things in the forums for a whirl.
I think there was probably an issue with some comments from a troll on one of the articles getting him upset. I’m not sure the details. Some of the comments sections can get a little heated lately.
@JohnnyShoulder I spent most of my uni years working at Littlewoods/Index in the warehouse. Things I learnt:
1) You can carry boxes when drunk
2) Never package toy lightsabers in a manner that allows staff to still play with them
3) Don't give same staff the ability to send back to stockist claiming they were broken in delivery
4) Microwaves hurt when they fall on you.
@nessisonett That had to be very late in the GB's lifecycle as they were way more expensive. Also Super Metroid for £20? Steal.
Now I may be an idiot, but there's one thing I am not sir, and that sir, is an idiot
@RogerRoger No problem. Just glad to see you’re alright. I’ve been a bit ‘on again, off again’ recently just due to real life. I think COVID has things in a general state of perpetual instability for most of us. There’s no predicting one week to the next. I’ve strangely had days where I had more free time to game and then suddenly no free time. It’s hard to get in any sort of groove that way. And Ghost of Tsushima has suffered a bit because of it. I really like it so far, but I had to take a small break from it since I got busy with extraneous stuff.
I’m finding it tough to be in this reality of “welp, this is the new normal” as far the pandemic life style. I didn’t think it would affect me this much but after 5+ months of it, my brain is shredded.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Arugula My sentiments exactly on Persona 5. I can’t explain why, since it’s objectively a more sophisticated version of the P4G base, but I’m not sure why it hasn’t grabbed me as tightly as that did and I haven’t been able to finish it.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I got Conan Exiles and Conan on PS4 and PS3 today. Conan Exiles seems a little difficult to navigate but Conan on the PS3 is a great GoW clone.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@Arugula Love that little graphic they have now of the track with coloured dots for exactly where every driver is. Think I was mostly watching that on the final lap as Verstappen's purple dot got closer and closer. Another final lap overtake for Lando too (technically).
I didn't know where else to post this so thought I'd do it here. I don't know if anyone else is into Picross, particularly themed picross but Konami has a free (with ads, no in app purchases) picross game on the Google play app store (and I assume the iPhone equivalent).
It's called PixelPuzzle and has puzzles themed to their really old games (that I've never heard of) along with some bomberman, gradius, parodius and castlevania thrown in for good measure!
There seems to be no limit on the regular picross and four puzzle mid boss mega picross but the "boss" puzzles can only be played every 3 hours. These are just mega picross made up of quite a few smaller picross. All the puzzles are chosen at random and I think there is about 500 in total.
It's actually really good, I think it's the music that makes it awesome and I do love me a themed picross. I just wish Nintendo did more after their twilight Princess picross on 3ds!
Oh yeah and the ads are fairly unintrusive. There's a banner at the bottom of the screen and you have to close the occasional pop up for pes mobile but that's all. As usual the Google play account stuff can be skipped by pressing not now and clicking off the pop up when the app opens. Occasionally the app crashes too on my phone at least. But overall I do love the game!
Might post this on NL and PX too in order to spread the word!
@ralphdibny I do enjoy Picross, and have actually played Konami's PixelPuzzle before. For a completely free smartphone game, it's a fun time-waster for when I've got a few minutes to spare.
@crimsontadpoles Nice! I also used to play nonograms katana on the app store but the puzzles just got too big (and the boxes too small) for my fat fingers. Do you ever get the hanjie/super hanjie magazines from whsmiths? Some of those get really hard, like logic bendingly hard
@ralphdibny Yeah, I do have a Super Hanjie magazine somewhere. As the picross puzzles in there are huge (I think 50x60 is the biggest size in it), it naturally takes me a long time just to complete a single puzzle.
For puzzle magazines, I'm more into Beyond Sudoku at the moment, which is also at whsmiths. That's got a wide variety of numerical and logical puzzles, such as picross, kakuro, and even the occasional sudoku. The puzzles in there are very difficult though.
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