the fuck does a 21 year old need to "relive their childhood" for ahhhhh
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when you hit 21 in america, your childhood is closer to the building of the pyramids than it is to the present
Only in America though. 21 is different in different countries
Metric vs imperial 21
i honestly don't know many people who play "current" games anymore. i usually wait a few years before trying a new game myself because most of them are mid
The people I see mostly staying up to date with new releases are nintendo stuff? I really don't see people getting hype over arena shooter #69 and such.
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i wish we were still getting arena shooters 
It's all extraction shooters now
i still don't know what that means. when i play warframe i shoot things and then i go to the extraction point
Extraction shooters are a little bit like battle royales except you can leave any time you want at a few contested points on the map and the incentive for staying and risking people shooting at you is randomized loot which you use for meta progression and/or combat gear for future runs
sounds like definitely not my kind of thing but i guess i can see the appeal
It's basically that, but people can shoot you and steal your stuff
not my stuff! 
yea, the only people i do know that play current releases are nintendo fans so
I feel like it’s the opposite for the people I know. I know plenty of people with an old Switch who might play one or two games a year on or just break out Mario Kart when visitors come over, but it’s the people I know with a PS5 or a gaming PC who keep up with the new releases.
The price is the main issue for me. Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2 is like £60 for the standard edition and the campaign is maybe 10 hours if you really push it.
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Emulation is just so easy these days. You can get a portable device for not too much that will run a pretty big range of systems, or something like a Steam Deck (or similar Steam OS device) that runs pretty much everything, including switch games. There’s just not much of a reason to buy a traditional console anymore aside from maybe brand new exclusives.
On the other side, nobody can afford the new hardware or microtransactions to play AAA games
not too much, or a steam deck.
six to seven hundred bucks USD comrade. Be thankful such a cost is something you can be flippant about.
The steam deck is 6-700. The emulation handhelds they mentioned are usually iirc between about 80 and 150. I don't think the "not too much" was in reference to the steam deck.
You can buy a BattleXP G350 for about 35 USD and go ham on GBA, GBC, NES, SNES, and even PSX games. Emulation devices have pretty much every price point covered from incredibly cheap all the way up to 1000+ USD handheld computers.
Almost everyone I know has a smartphone capable of playing PSP games, and Spain isn't particularly rich. They sell decent controllers specific for smartphones for some 20€ off Ali, not too bad either imo
If you read the whole sentence as I originally typed it out, I clearly meant the devices were "not too much" and not the Steam Deck. You can get a portable retro device that runs quite a bit (up to maybe PSX and DS games) for roughly $50-$100, which is a lot less than a Steam Deck or any new console would be.
I still love my PS Vita and use it regularly. Also very easy to pirate games on it (some of the prices are absurd given the console was never even that popular to begin with.)
And here I was seriously considering buying a Switch 2 for the last several days. Fuck the modern game industry, embrace playing older games you never even knew existed
For what games? There's like 3 and none of them are groundbreaking or good. Its just Nintendo slop we have seen for 10 years but now with a higher price tag
"All 3" of these games are among the highest scored on Metacritic this year.
I just looked at the top 15 metacritic for switch 2 and only 2 games are exclusive to the switch 2. The donkey Kong game with a premise that barely gets expanded upon and looks boring after the first couple levels and Mario kart that we have had before but with an open world that barely contains anything. Stellar line up for a $500 console that barely improved upon anything from the first iteration nearly 9 years ago.
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This is why we need to buy a brick with shit specs that can be remotely shut off by the OEM at any time.
I never bothered with the Switch because I just lost faith in Nintendo, the Wii U was a flop and they keep getting greedier with time. I mean they tried to trademark summoning in battle for fuck’s sake.
People in the UK are naming their kids "Kyle" now?
Damn.
the West has fallen
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You got monster hunter, gran turismo, tekken, mgs, god of war, all the playstation 2 hits on the go.
I'm pretty confident that if someone told me all games are erased from existence except for one of your choosing that Monster Hunter Freedom Unite would survive.
my psp is rip 
Mine's slowly dying. Gunna' have to replace the screen at some point. But it's like $45+ and then I should change the case when I do that and that's another 40-ish so whatever. I just have the battery taped in at the moment and ignore the slightly foggy screen corner.
Gotta ask, wouldn't it make more sense to get one of them gaming handhelds and just use PPSSPP on it? Compatibility is pretty much perfect now right?
Even inexpensive entry level smartphones can run PSP games these days
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I replaced my screen but then the motherboard gave out within a year and I wasn't able to fix it. I had a one from mid 00s.
In a similar vein I'm planning on refurbishing my ds lite but all of my games are lost/stolen, does anyone know how hard it is to get pirated games on it? I looked at the second hand market for ds games and I won't pay that much
Incredibly easy. Ace3ds X is the flash cart of choice for the DS (works on a 3DS as well to play DS games) and is fairly cheap
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My psp's battery is dead and it needs a bigger sd card. Outside of that I need to find a way to better grip it, it get's uncomfortable fast on my big ass hands, tho it's probably best if I just emulate it on my swiech lol.
No drift on the joystick? They tend to get that in my experience
You mean the PSP or the Switch? I'm fortunate enough to never have gotten drift, but I had 2 joycons had buttons just stop working.
I meant PSP, mine got some drift and tekken combos became impossible lmao
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