Age 32 here, and am absolutely loving my Switch. Really loving the nostalgic factor, as well as the progress Nintendo has made with the classic titles. I find myself, having a toddler, enjoying the experience, as I tend to recall the wonderment at that age with videogames. I don't know if it's just me, but the older I get, the more geeky and goofy I've let myself become. I don't care about maintaining as my own age in every aspect of my life; I do enough of that as is. Nintendo is a way to lighten up, be kooky, nutty, whimsical, all of the above. Life is too short to continually try to maintain a perpetual appearance of some social norm. Being mature doesn't just entail being businesslike and solemn 24/7... It also constitutes being comfortable and able to still have an attachment to what made growing up so wondrous.
I remember playing a lot of shareware games like: Syberia, Heretic, Doom, Descent, Wolfenstein, etc... Haha, as a bonus, in school is was The Oregon Trail; at a friend's house it was sneaking into his dad's room and playing Leisure Suit Larry; I remember having to get answers to "adult" questions in order to access it; in a time with no google, that wasn't easy.
I definitely thought this was a wonderfully done game, in portraying the perspective of someone that is mentally ill, while still combining other tried and true elements. I thought it was different take, in relation to other games' set and settings. I really appreciate Ninja Theory for extending out to provide something different. Based on what I heard, during the development of the game, that they had to water down a lot of the game, hence only being $30. I really hope they take what worked so well with this one, and come back stronger with their next rendition.
Zotac AMP Extreme cards always sit close to, if not a the top of benchmark tables but they are huge 3 slot monsters. My Zotac 980Ti AMP Extreme had 33% overclock out the box and still had some headroom for more.
I've been using the Zotac AMP Extreme editions the past 2 gens (980ti and now 1080ti); they benchmark like a champ. I was just waiting for the 1080ti variant to be released before making the splash from the 980ti, which in itself is still killing games. I'm just a sucker for the best of the best (excluding Titan X). The 1080ti was just such a huge leap in performance to not get.
I normally get EVGA cards as well. This was the my first card from Zotac as well, due to the numerous positive reviews I've seen and I must say I have been very impressed with the performance and cooling functionalities from it. Needless to say it has exceeded my expectations. It looks great as well. I have been able to max whatever game I throw at it in 3440x1440 resolution on the ASUS ROG Swift 34 inch ultra-wide. The 4790 will run like a champ alongside the 1080. I plan on making my next GPU purchase from Zotac, whenever the 1080ti comes out.
We've had so many games that are too easy for so long now, that when we get a series like DS that isn't afraid of being a challenge, people will rage on it since their current game skills aren't quite enough right away. Just practice, dude. A good memory is good to have as well, as you benefit from remembering places. There's quite a bit of backtracking in the DS series. If you get to a place or enemy that seem to be too hard for you, it's probably too hard for you and you need to come back when you're stronger. Look up some guides on where it's best to go first if you're lost. Keep at it, and you'll probably eventually love it like the rest of the people who kept at it.
This exactly! I wish more games were like the Souls series and to agree with the above poster's sentiments about the "90's feel" and the glitch exploitation; I love that description. This game demands your full attention, declarative memory, and patience. I love the eerie feel of having to deduce what the hell is going on in this bleak world. I love the loot and crafting systems in this game as well. It doesn't try to go overboard with loot quantity and quality, but the variability of finding that gem in the game (could be right at the beginning of the game) that isn't gaudy in base stats, looks, etc... but the proper research has served to know that that specific hidden gym scales very well, great movement patterns for a particular build and with the right amount of infusing/upgrades, yielding it godly. I don't know if its my age (30) showing or games becoming worse, but I get bored with games way too easy, far reaching to innovate (which isn't particularly a bad thing), and watered down to cater to a generation that expects a reward after every turn. This game is healthy, loosely, in that it challenges and exercises my thinking. I miss these types of games so much.
Yea, I have a 30 mbps bandwidth and I can't even stream videos from xbox's exclusive videos without getting buffering constantly, but most of the apps work just fine (espn3, netflix).
Agreed!! I guess we will see at Blizzcon for more of the skinny on it, they've got plenty of time to ruminate over the possibilities. It just felt like I wasn't playing the game for the right reasons with the AH in full effect. The core of the game was eliminated with a huge concentration on Diablo wall-street-ism. I have way too many games and games of interest to tend to then worry about tedious non-rewarding elements, and not able to play the game because of a small chance of not finding any gear to actually play with myself for my character was just horrible. I tried numerous to pick up the game time after time, but just didn't have the heart to whip around the AH in order to progress in the game.
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