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Hey all, I am new to the site and just wanted to say hello. This looks like a really fun community. Hope to see ya around the boards!

Yeah well nintendo can afford to keep their exclusives to their own platforms, not only that but let's face it Nintendo is 10 years behind in terms of technology so it's doubtfull most of their games even need to have the budget of any current gen "triple a" game and i'm sure with any nintendo published game even the more unknown titles are good to turn a decent profit. I'll admit i was kinda skeptical when i got a swicht at launch but now i'm more on board with nintendo then ever, imo the switch is the last traditional console as we once one knew consoles like no long installation time, you pop in a cart and you are good to go, offcourse i meanly use the switch for exclusives and indie games, eventough the switch is starting to show it's age by now it's still a damn fine machine with a huge amount of games you can't play anywhere else. My only wish would be that nintendo would just make a consolised version of the switch something. Always liked spencer, he is the face of xbox now and does it pretty well. While i don't read everithing he says, any human being is bound to say something stupid at some point, only if you and me do it, nobody is really going to care, well atleast i hope so. Also Let's not go into microsoft and them activision/blizzard because it's getting old and stale by now. I can't see it happening them making all these ip's exclusive to their own platform, just like i can see starfield coming to a playstation platform maybe a few years after it launched on microsoft platforms because you know where are they going to recoup the overall costs that it toke to make starfield because apperently starfield is already one of the most expensive games ever are gamepass and probably physical/digital sales going to be enough to recoup som of the costs, let alone the 7,5 billion dollars they paid to aquire zenimax. It's almost crazy to say but combine the aquisition of activision/blizzard and Zenimax together with that kind of money you could quite frankly solve a lot of problems in the world.

Stray dropped the other day and it's been making the rounds all over the web as of late. It seems people really are into it and it's getting decent reviews. With that being said, I kinda hope this brings a new trend where we see more games where we can control an animal. Yeah we have a decent amount of games with animal leads, but I feel like it's less and less these days. I'd love to see more games where you're a dog, a cat, a mouse even. I'll take just about anything where you're a small animal running around in a big world. Would you like to see more games like Stray come out?

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If the “metaverse” becomes this massive thing everyone is talking about, do you think some people will be left behind by the technology? For example, I am thinking about people who simply never overcome motion sickness.

It seems to me that everyone these days is using gmail. I personally still use hotmail for almost all my email needs. Sure our gaming channel had to have a gmail address with it, so we signed up for one. But I find gmail confusing as hell, and hotmail is a lot simpler to me. Also, I have used hotmail ever since it was first implemented by Microsoft back in the 90's. But I'm curious what people think on these two email servers.

So I was typing up a story earlier this year, and after a revise of it I managed to get to two chapters. I'm thinking of going back to it but wanted to hear some advice before I start again. So does anyone have wisdom on this or should I go somewhere else?

This means DRM style safeguards for your games. Honestly I don't see an issue with this when it comes to digital games. I also have no issue with it if it's to stop people from using fake game carts or stolen ones. I just hope this doesn't result in games becoming one time use. I don't think that would be the case. I think with this it makes sense for the Switch, because it's not like they are looking for people who sell their games. I think they genuinely want to stop people from illegally duplicating the game or finding ways of sharing it. You can read more on this news here: https://www.ign.com/articles/anti-piracy-software-denuvo-announced-for-switch

Have you ever been in an accident? Was it your ever your fault? Describe to us what happened.

This this game will be any fun? It looks like it'd be a lot of fun, but I hope it has co-op, because I think it'd be way more fun with a friend or two. But idk, I kinda dig the whole Ninja Gaiden style with the combat and gunplay as an added bonus. Check the recent trailer that dropped for it. I'm really enjoying the song.

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I've written 2 full length novels, several short stories, and a hell of a lot of unconventional poetry. That said, I can offer some advice. I assume you're writing fiction? The first sentence of every story is always the hardest. After that let the story write itself. Never force it. You have to have that itch to get back to writing it. But before you get too far you need to think about a few things. 1) Is it a narrative? 2) Are the characters relatable? 3) What kind of conflict will they be dealing with? 4) Is it told through eyes of a certain character? 5) Have you written a description of all the characters yet? 6) Do you know where you want to go with the story? Have you thought about the beginning, middle, and end separately so you know what you want to tell the reader? 7) Is it engaging enough to keep a person reading? 8.) Can you describe what your story is about to someone who asks? 9) Are you writing just as a hobby, or are you thinking about publishing? 10) Can YOU relate to your characters? For example in my first book, the main character was based off of me. We share a lot of the same attitude and view of the world. The only difference is that my character in that story is male, and I'm female. If you need more just ask and I'll help as much as I can. As a note to what @Withywarlock said, one of my books is currently on its 8th draft ans the other is on its 7th. More drafts will follow. Until it's perfect in my eyes, it will keep getting edits and rewrites. So don't get discouraged if you go to 7, 8, or 100 drafts. If you don't like it where it is, no one else will either.

Howdy, folks! Hello, my name is Robert, and I couldn't be happier to be joining the VGR team. The NBA 2K and NHL series are two of my favorite types of games.

This is why I'm always very careful with whom I allowed into my home after one of my expensive digital camera was stolen and no one who came to my house that day agreed to have seen anything. I would piss myself if anyone steal my Nintendo Switch.

This will solve nothing and only serve to screw paying customers in some way. As soon as it affects me I'll stop buying their software so they'll just lose my actual money plus the imaginary money they lost from the pirates. Thankfully this doesn't mean this is for sure going to be a thing. They're offering a supposed solution and it'd be up to companies to take it on. Hopefully it doesn't get anywhere.

Really like this AN ❤️ haven't searched it before, a bit off topic of counting but 333 and 323 are my favorites. https://youtu.be/nBXAMIH8IOY #234 is a good song even though I can only understand about half of it XD buttt the beats good and everyone can appreciate the accent 😄

I agree with the soundtrack, at least I hope that music's going to be in the game, even if I will turn it down so I can listen to a podcast in the background. Maybe have just enough on whilst listening to my podcast. I like it. Can't say much more than that until I see some more cohesive gameplay footage, but otherwise all the chunks cobbled together to make the trailer seemed fine.

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and today's kids are only getting this now. they don't know what it was like to just be a part of life. most of them only know what's in their phones.

i'd be ok if it respawned and wasn't gory in any way.

That's something I could see happening honestly. People being stuck in that VR world and needing it to feel good. But I think most people will go the VR route. It's just too expensive for most people. So I can see it being a small group of people. I prefer when people make conversation short when I'm out and about. I'm just not a people person, don't like conversing with most people lol. I also blame it on the pandemic and social distancing.

I'm with you on Goodfellas. Outstanding film. I would say: Independence Day, Twister, Mean Girls, Casino, Titanic, Unlawful Entry, Great Expectations, The Twilight Saga (gasp) but oh come on, everyone should experience it haha Urban Cowboy, The Day After, Unfaithful, Blair Witch, and Halloween 1, 2, 4, and 5. 🎃 :))

As a current sufferer of motion sickness (one elevator ride keeps me swaying for the rest of the day) 😣 I'm thinking I probably wouldn't do too well with it. But I do wonder if VR could become so popular in the future that people will become less and less in touch with reality, almost as a constant escape. The more and more that happens, the less people will feel like interacting with real people in the real world. In a way, becoming more socially withdrawn, unknowingly. In general, I've noticed people's interactions in stores, restaurants, gas stations, etc. seem a little short and distracted. People don't really "talk" all that much anymore, well, not as much as they used to. Just a slight observation..

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Welcome! Plenty of great content and people to go along with it ^.^

Hi all, hope you're having a nice weekend. 🙂

I agree with you on that I grew up without internet for a portion of my life and only had a land line at MOST , generally we spent time together outside as a family or you just learned to spend time alone being creative to entertain yourself. Now adays if you don't instantly agree with someone its almost 100% going to be an argument and that person would rather just find a group of people that agree with them instead of pushing their mental limits of what they "know". Can say dating these days is actually a really tricky thing since no one wants to admit their wrong anymore or be open to change. Its either they believe 100% what they think they know or they dont trust anyone because they know nothing xD and generally its the ones thinking they know everything that know nothing at all REEEE Still technology has helped alot and made life much more convenient but it took away all the substance from life at the same time. Most people don't even know the smell of a camp fire, the taste of a real home cooked meal or the sounds of nature. Not on a true deep level that happens on a regular basis ofc. I think a shift will come in the future where more people want to experience natural real life experiences orrrr if that doesnt happen we just fall deeper into the rabbit hole of technology and dont return on humanity is forced to XDDD

That's absolutely epic as well xDD ahhh I cant wait to be an old man gaming and just going "noobs I've been playing games for 65 yearsss back in my dayyy we had joysticks and cheetosssss" True and not counting they can borrow friends systems and phones with much easeeeee

you're talking about game reviewers. i'm talking about streamers who play these games every day in the hope of getting pd. to sit there and play video games all day so they don't have to work outside the home. they're well past the review stage. some can chill and play and have a good time and a great stream. others are big babies when the struggle gets to be too much. every time they chant i hate this game they are bringing down any reviews or possible sales with all that grumping if you wanna get technical about it. many times they start losing supporters/followers because of it.

Yeah its true xD , for me staying here its been difficult especially in the start... I remember trying to play world of warcraft when Vanilla re dropped and I had to run a VPN the entire time and it pretty much killed me trying to access it , but they did allow the Chinese version to be played with "less blood" however it was almost 100% identical.. I personally think a lot of it has to do with Chinese companies profiting off of it more than if they were buying directly from western countries. Like the version of LOL thats here is much more vulgar in terms of character images. Almost all are super sexual and targeting to young boys desire to see half naked sexy girls. Thankfully they do make decent games though and their really cheap to play IMO

It was just a little sarcastic jibe, don't breathe breathe to much into it. 😉 EDIT: Also fuck R. Kelly

Any specifics or am I missing a joke referencing this thread? 😛

China 🇨🇳 is the king of game banning. I don't think that there's any country out there that bans games the way China does. If every country out there bans games the way China does, we wouldn't have any games left to play.

Three new members against two old members... The battle line have been drawn. Who's going to come out on top? Congratulations to the winner in advance. Voted ✅!!

I am also nominating @Empire Of Sight and proceeding to create the voting thread. Good luck to all.

True, and Embracer group seems to be serious about working on a lot of these old ips. Tomb Raider was mentioned in their press release. I they mentioned a few others. But I think that also gets them Hitman. I hope they continue to make that series or add to it.

It's pretty clear we are going to get less and less exclusives with the way gaming has been going the past few years and the state it is in now. You also should consider in the fact that costs of videogames keep going up and up and most games take years to develop, riddle in the fact that a lot of games struggle to even turn a profit you can already guess developers are going to choose either go for an exclusivity deal wheter or not timed let's leave that in between or just try and put their games on as many platforms as possible. Speaking about time it takes to develop a game as you can already start to see that yearly franchises are struggling big time these days, either to innovate something new or in some cases devs even fail to develop a working product at launch (wwe 2k on switch for example) just because of a way too tight schedule. Also i don't really mind sony going to pc with their exclusives, sony fanboys aren't really happy with it i get that. But sony is a company and money has to be made above all and if it helps them to make a profit on their games, why not. Maybe we will get a second days gone that way because that is imo the best new ip sony brought to the table on the ps4.

it's still hard to watch stuff like that. i don't like having to kill the animals in video games. too soft hearted i guess. lol

I just hope this doesn’t have a negative impact on creativity of games. Most of my favourite games of all times are platform exclusives as they often aren’t beholden to mass appeal restrictions and vicious monetization.

I have one word for this - NOPE!

i work in healthcare and i'm here to tell you covid is still very much alive and well. i have some friends that do 24 hr gaming streams. one is coming up on his 12 month sober anniversary and wants to do a 24 hr stream next month. if i'm off i'm gonna try to hang out. i told him if he needed an extra mod for the day i'd be down for it. i mod for another guy on twitch. he hardly gets any viewers bless his heart. he's a pretty cool guy. i've been with him from the beginning on twitch. i met him on facebook. he made me a mod even though i had no clue what to do. i ended up googling the info so i could at least do the basics for now. i just don't see how these people can do this full time and make enough to live on. i would feel weird streaming and expecting people to pay to watch me play video games all day.

I would've thought the same over a decade ago. I hated A Hero's Tail, but I came to love it because its technically competent, has a good sense of humour, knows its design philosophy and executes it well. It's not the Spyro game we're used to which made for a jarring experience ("so when do I get into a portal to a new level? What do you mean portals exist only for Sgt. Byrd? HE does the Speedways?!"), but it's still a good game at its core. As for Attack of the Rhynocs (or Spyro: Adventure as it's called here, not to be confused with Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure), I didn't particularly like it but I can't say I hated it. I do however dislike Spyro: Season of Ice, the sequel to Season of Flame, because it was another isometric game that didn't do much to improve on the formula. Amazingly I still liked Spyro: Fusion on GBA. Well, liked it slightly more than Season of Ice, in as much as I like flushing my own head down the toilet once more than I would twice. Nobody can blame you for picking those games. My least favourite entries have to be the Legend of Spyro trilogy which rebooted the series. I'm not a fan of that PS2 platform game combat that everyone raved about, and the story was just too much. Its only real feat was hiring as many celebrities for voices as they did, and in terms of celebrity voices Tom Kenny (Spyro's voice in 2, 3, and Enter the Dragonfly) and Jess Harnell (voice actor of Crash Bandicoot, and main antagonist Red in A Hero's Tail) were the best the series have ever had, and only really needed.

I just realized too, this is coming out on Gamepass as well, so this is going to be a day one download if I still have gamepass when it drops. Looks like the release is December 13th, so not too long to go I suppose. I hope Justin Roiland keeps making wacky and weird games like this. The other game I forgot was called Trover SAVES the UNiVERSE, you can see the trailer for that one below.

I think COVID-19 decrease made it that way. Lots of people who stayed indoors have gone back to their respective working place, and wouldn't have that chance again to steam all the time. You can imagine when you're totally exhausted, what you'll imagine that time is sleeping in order to rest your body.

Thanks for the nice words justin much appreciated. I'll give my vote towards a rather new face as @runswithspatulas deserves to get my nomination hopefully this nomantion will be a motivation to continue posting here.

The Godfather Pulp Fiction Saving Private Ryan Life is Beautiful The Gladiator No Country for Old Men Goodfellas I can go on and on but yeah thats a few

Honestly, I'm not too thrilled about this metaverse thing. I'd learn how to use it but I'm definitely not going to be on it all the time. I can see homeless people and others who can't afford it being left behind.

It's a good chair. We have the same one, just in blue instead of red. You're going to enjoy it a lot. Ours has a retractable foot rest though, and if I'm seeing the pictures right, yours doesn't seem to have one.

Those that can't afford it...