Kane99

Edutainment games are a genre of games for the purpose of Education. I remember playing a lot of these edutainment games growing one. I remember one time renting an NES game for the weekend, and it was this fire house math game. I wasn't very happy with that rental. Anyway, I don't remember that game being any fun, but are there any fun to play edutainment games that you remember playing? Maybe ones you remember playing in school or at your grandparents house or something. I remember playing that incredible machine game in school. We weren't allowed to play it whenever, but when we were allowed, I played a ton of it. Other than that, I don't remember a lot of the games I played in school.

I agree that they've kinda run out of ideas at this point. But, I disagree that they fit into the subject of this topic. They made remakes, and from what I saw & heard, they worked and played quite well. Honestly I'd say the RE remakes are some of the best remakes we've received so far. Fans seemed very happy with them so far. And let's face it, a new audience isn't going to take a chance on the older RE games, so the remakes were another way to tell these stories to a new generation of people. With a remaster, all that does is put a new coat of paint on it with some changes. I think they made the right choice in remaking the games instead to be more accessible to a larger audience.

Oh god I forget. I got Fallout 4 with the console, and I think I purchased a few digital games after. I also got a few games from trading sites back then, but it's been so long. I think I got my Xbone in 2015. I've since purchased a lot more games so couldn't tell ya exactly what else.

This is pretty cool. More gaming history is constantly being discovered these days. And according to an article from Rochester Institute of Technology, alumna Kirsten Feigel found a demo of Super Mario Bros. 3 on a floppy disk while going through a box of donations. What's even cooler, is that id Software was possibly involved in this demo. As they had made demos in the past to help bring Nintendo games to PC. But of course, Nintendo wasn't into that and rejected the idea of porting their games to PC. But, this is a fun find for sure. You can read more on this find at the link below. I wonder if they put this up for charity, how much you think they'd get? I wonder if the files still work. https://www.rit.edu/news/museum-studies-alumna-discovers-rare-super-mario-bros-3-video-game-demo

Well now that Bethesda is under Xbox's ownership, they have already decided that future games will not come to the PS5, so that means a future elder scrolls game won't be releasing on the PS4 or 5. Sucks, because I know Elder Scrolls is huge among all console owners, so seeing it on just the Xbox side is going to bug a lot of PS fans. I wish they would be able to play the new Elder Scrolls at least. But I don't see Microsoft budging there.

Maybe it's someone who you have never been able to get into games before. Or maybe it's a younger family member who is completely new to video games. I helped my nephew get into video games. He's only 10, and he has already played the likes of Half-Life 2, Portal 1 & 2, Call of Duty and a few others. Sure he probably shouldn't play most of these games, especially Call of Duty, but he's fairly mature for his age and knows right from wrong. Anyway, I have also gotten him into retro games and to try other games he would never have tried. Another person in my family I try to get gaming, is my dad. He used to play the demo for Gran Turismo when I was younger, but that was the only time he ever played a video game. I've always wanted to get him one of those gaming wheels and set him up with a fun racing game and see how he does. I wonder if he'd enjoy that.

Well as I have yet to get my hands on a series s/x or the PS5, I can't really say for sure. When I got the Xbox One, I think the most I paid for games was probably $60 each for a few games. I don't remember what digital games I got for my Xbox One back when I got it though. But I'd guess around $60-$100 spent on games in the first few months.

Okay, so this was just a weird coincidence, I just posted a topic about games made by food/beverage companies that have made their own games, link below, and all of a sudden I find this news article just a few minutes ago about a pro wrestler who has collected 2,706 copies of the Burger King Game, Sneak King. Sneak King is arguably the best of the three games released by Burger King, and I guess it's this guys favorite too. His excuse for the collection, is that maybe one day they will be worth a lot and he'd be rich, but it seems to be more for the laughs. I doubt anyone else owns that many copies. But yeah, that was weird lol. Is someone listening in on me or something? lol I wonder if it's because I searched for the Burger King games for my other topic. Either way, das weird. Source - https://sports.yahoo.com/wrestling-man-collects-2-706-184500698.html?src=rss Topic I recently started: Moderator Edit: I understand you posted the second topic because you came across that article (and a fun article, I must say), but there was no need to create a separate thread for this. Hence, that is why I removed the link to the first thread then merged the two together. Remember, every time you create a new thread, you bump another tread down, so I don't feel like I'm asking for much when I ask people to try to be economical when it comes to posting new threads.

Honestly I am okay with this. I think it's better to delay a game, than release it at a time where it's just not ready. I wish more game companies actually allowed more delays. Yeah they suck to happen, and it brings everyone down, but I would rather have a bunch of delays than have another Cyberpunk 2077 or GTA Remastered Trilogy on our hands. Delays are okay.

I'll admit, I've been playing a lot more of Fortnite as of late. I have a few work friends who are into it so I've jumped into the fray. With that, I noticed this game has a ton of character skins released. They are like the funko pop of video games. They license a ton of DC and Marvel characters. So you could see Batman running up against Venom if you wanted to. They license pretty much everything like funko does with their figures is what I am saying. With that being said, there are a lot of characters I like, and there are a lot that I'd like to see added to fortnite. Now, there is a chance that some characters I mention are already in game, because they always re-list characters for sale. And there are a lot of skins in Fortnite with new ones coming out often. My wants are: More Wrestling skins (I wouldn't mind me an Undertaker skin) - I know they have a male and female luchador skin, but that's all to my knowledge. Characters from What We Do in the Shadows - I'd love this honestly, doubt it would happen though Characters from Shaun of the Dead - yis please Darth Vader & other Star Wars characters - I always thought they had Star Wars characters in Fortnite, but I don't think they do. Daft Punk - Why not right? I don't see them in there after breaking up though What skins would you like to see?

Oh man, movie tie-in games were often awful and a waste of time. Most tie-in games were rushed to release so they could make the movie release date. They often came out the day or, or the week of the movie release. But these days it hasn't happened a whole lot. If anything, I think most movie tie-in games, are kids movies and cartoon films. Why do you think they stopped releasing games side by side movie releases? Could it have been the quality of these games? The fact that they were often failures? Or could it be that fan outcry would catch up with it too fast and it would hurt the movie premiere? I'm sure there's a lot of reasons as to why movie tie-ins don't happen as often anymore. I'm glad it's slowed down though. Back in the PS2 and earlier eras, they were so often. I think the 360/ps3 era is when they mostly slowed down.

Is there any realistic surgeon simulators out there? I don't count the current Surgeon Simulator series as realistic in anyway. I view that series more as a puzzle game anyway. I'm sure there are some games out there that offer a more realistic approach to surgery. If not, are there any games that focus on being a doctor in a sim style?

It's weird to say that there has been video games released by fast food joints, food companies, and even popular beverage brands. Pepsi has Pepsiman, 7-up has cool spot, McDonalds had a game called McKids or something, and so on. And remember those Burger King games that came out for the Xbox/Xbox 360 back in 2005-2006 or so? It's so weird that these companies have made or commissioned games to be made about their brand. Are there any other food brands, beverages, or fast food joints that had their own video games? Do you know of any? I feel like there's a lot more that I am forgetting, but the ones I mentioned above are the only ones I can remember off the top of my head. Are there any good games? I heard McKids was pretty good, same with Cool Spot and the Burger King games like Sneak King, and their kart racer has a somewhat cult fanbase. Also, i remember some cereal and other food products would give you interactive CDs and DVDs. Some that I think even had full length games. They weren't anything too impressive, but it was fun to get. Reminded me a lot like when I got CDs with gaming magazines.

True. 2K took off a year to focus on production, so maybe 2K22 will end up being a vast improvement over 2K20. But, who knows at this point. I'm hopeful AEW's game turns out to be the next best wrestling game, because I miss playing good wrestling games. I feel like the last good WWE one at least, was 2K12 maybe. And other than that, I think Retromania Wrestling is fun, but I want my simulation style wrestling more than the arcade wrestling games. Maybe I should just get into fire pro wrestling and see if I can get used to those controls lol.

Exactly, there's literally no worth to it. Unless maybe with games like Counter-Strike where you can buy/sell skins/weapons. etc. But most games don't have a system where you can resell your items, so they are technically useless. I mean more in regards to actual gambling games being released on consoles and PC. Not as a mechanic in an video game, but the whole idea of the game. So think of a slots game, but instead of being on mobile, it released on major hardware instead. And that is a good point. The ESRB rating would probably be adult rated for games that are just about gambling. I can see some publishers not selling games like that if that is the case too.

For the most part yeah. But I also use it for chatting with work buddies and running events. They are more text based game bots, but I count them as gaming bots. I know you can get trivia, and the pokemon game I mentioned allows people to catch pokemon as they show up in the server, and then you can also do battles and such. I'm just curious about other discord bots that have game like features. Of course we can't play actual games, but anything text based should work.

I'm kinda in the same boat about GTA IV. The games before it, were campy fun, and it was clear they didn't take it super serious, but GTA IV and V on the other hand, started to get too realistic/serious. Gone is the campiness of past games. On top of that, the series didn't really innovate all that much to be honest. It was a lazy effort, that's for sure. But I think if they do happen to remaster GTA IV, which is looking more and more like a possibility with recent rumors of RDR1 possibly getting one (they better not break that one) as well. They can't afford to mess up next time. Yes and no. I believe the studio is under Rockstar and Take-Two's umbrella. The studio is called Grove Street Games, they worked on the mobile ports of GTA games in the past, and also seem to do other mobile ports for Rockstar and other studios. I was hoping they wouldn't use the mobile versions and port those. It's just lazy work, simple as that. And I feel like they will do the same with GTA IV. But this time around, they don't have a mobile game to go back off of, unless they first make a mobile version of GTA IV. Oh you mean GTA IV. I thought you were referring to the remastered trilogy. 😄 There's still a lot of fixes that game needs unfortunately. But in regards to GTA IV, it should be fairly easy to remaster it, at least I hope so.

Oh man, I forgot about that trailer for Gears of War. I wasn't even a fan of the game, but that trailer was hype as ever. Especially with the depressing music overlayed with the game. And then I remember seeing tv-spots of a shortened trailer. Loved seeing that trailer. And I think they re-used the song in future teasers and trailers, but not 100% sure. Still though, thanks for reminding me of it.

Are there any games you guys play during the holidays? Maybe it's become a holiday tradition to play certain games with your family on the holidays, or maybe it's a game that released during the holiday season and you always see, to come back to it. I've thought of having tournaments when family come up for the holidays, to start a new tradition. Haven't done it yet, and maybe will sometime in the future. Had to put it off due to covid these past couple years now. Anyway, what games do you have going on during the holidays? Any that you only play during the holidays?

The NES for me. My parents and sister had a NES when I was growing up, and many of the first games I played were Super Mario Brothers 1 and 3, TMNT, Gyromite and more. Oh Rad Racer is another that comes to mind. I sucked at as a kid, but my sister was a pro at rad racer when I was growing up. That would actually be my first console ever as well.

It's not much of an upgrade to be honest. All the OLED screen offers is a bigger screen that looks nicer. I don't think it provides a better image quality or anything else. I'm still waiting for them to release a 4K switch. I'm starting to think that's not going to end up happening.

Wasn't the last official release back in 2014 with Tropical Freeze? I know that was re-released for the Switch in 2018, but I don't think we've since had a new Donkey Kong Country game on the switch. Maybe it's time we get a new Donkey Kong Country game. What would you hope to see in a new game?

I mean, think about it, with the architecture of the new xbox consoles they should be able to support VR headsets like the Oculus, Vive and others. And I could have sworn that Microsoft was teaming up with Oculus going forward for their virtual reality needs. What ever happened to that? I just think it'd be easy considering the consoles are pretty much built like a PC anyway.

Has anyone here ever achieved first place on a speedrun leaderboard? I was going to make another topic in regards to this, but figured I'd post this question here instead. I myself have never made 1st in a speedrun, but I have never tried to do one either. I don't know if I'd even try, my patience just wouldn't be in it. Same with speedruns that require you to break the game to finish it faster. I don't have the patience for learning all of this tricks. I think https://www.speedrun.com/ is where you can track your scores and be put on the leaderboards.

I know right? It'd be so cool to see PS home back on the PS4 and 5 as well. But I doubt Sony would bother with doing that. It was, it felt like a real hub the brief times I messed with it. I think it would do well if it was brought back honestly. I think people would like a hub world like that again.