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Post by kerr9000 on Sept 2, 2022 23:12:31 GMT
Have you ever gotten a console and kind of just not felt it, you just were not as impressed as you hoped you would be either for a bit or permantly?
When I first got my Switch I basically didnt care that much for it and even started regretting buying it, then about a year went by and I got Hollow Knight and from then on I loved the machine and started buying all sorts for it and I still do love it.
The PS4 I got and never warmed to it very much, after 6 months I grabbed an Xbox One and loved that, I have only used the PS4 occasionally for games that are essentially not on anything else.
The PS3 Just didnt grab me that much either, It was pretty much the little big Planet machine..... and its not a bias against sony as I loved my original Playstation and my Vita from the very first day I got them.
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Post by Markopoloman on Sept 3, 2022 0:27:40 GMT
Yes! The Sega Master System.
I had my C64 but needed to get into this console malarky, so got a SMS at one of the London computer shows on the year it launched over here.
First thing I hated was the sound. I'd been used to Rob Hubbard but for these games I got some twee crap that instantly made me regret getting the damn machine.
The graphics were ok, but nothing special.
I sold it quite quickly.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2022 17:57:23 GMT
I didn't own a console as a youngster - always computers, but I did get hold of most of the major ones as a retro collector, and the one that perhaps did disappoint was the Atari 7800. Obviously I'd played on the Atari 2600 as a boy (my neighbour owned one), and although I had no knowledge of the Atari 8-bit machines as a youngster, it was one of the systems I really got into around the time RetroGamer magazine came along and I started to collect old machines. An Atari 7800 followed, and it was ... underwhelming.
That said, it's mainly because of the poor games library. Yes, the sound chip is weak, but other than that, the machine's technical specs are quite interesting, and don't pale in comparison to the NES.
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Post by learnedrobb on Sept 3, 2022 18:13:03 GMT
The PS2. I always felt that the GameCube was a more interesting system. The PS2 was, for me, everything "meh" about gaming at the time.
Even now, I own one, but it's probably the least used of all my retro systems.
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Post by kerr9000 on Sept 3, 2022 18:17:23 GMT
The PS2. I always felt that the GameCube was a more interesting system. The PS2 was, for me, everything "meh" about gaming at the time. Even now, I own one, but it's probably the least used of all my retro systems. Of that generation the PS2 was the one I got behind the least, sure there are games I really really like but the machine itself is not something that draws me in, it was fun to get one and get the adaptor to add a hardrive and stuff that made it a bit more likable. |
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Post by megamixer on Sept 3, 2022 19:20:52 GMT
Switch and PS4 for me too.
Switch I got with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and I played that a lot, despite already having hammered the Wii-U original. I think it was the novelty of having it portable. But after that, I didn't use it for ages. There were games I wanted to play on it, sure, but I just never felt the inspiration to go all in. Didn't help that I had owned a Wii-U throughout its lifespan so all those games they re-released on the Switch in DX or Complete form didn't interest me since I'd already been there, done that. Obviously it's a lot different now, and I've definitely bought a lot more Switch games this year alone, compared to all the time I've owned it. Ironically, I was blown away by how much was available when I shopped Amazon a few months back to use up a voucher.
PS4 was a similar story. Bought it because I felt I "needed" the upgrade for new games coming out but didn't actually have anything specific in mind to buy. Ended up picking up Until Dawn with the console, which was a fantastic game in fairness, but it took me a while to start buying any more games for it.
In both cases there was nothing about the hardware that I disliked, I just didn't already have a list of games that I badly wanted to play at the time of acquiring them.
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Post by megamixer on Sept 3, 2022 19:26:00 GMT
The PS2. I always felt that the GameCube was a more interesting system. The PS2 was, for me, everything "meh" about gaming at the time. Even now, I own one, but it's probably the least used of all my retro systems. Of that generation the PS2 was the one I got behind the least, sure there are games I really really like but the machine itself is not something that draws me in, it was fun to get one and get the adaptor to add a hardrive and stuff that made it a bit more likable. The strange thing about that gen for me was the PS2 ended up my favourite platform of all-time, and there is such a breadth of games available (especially once you get involved with import games that we didn't receive) that I consider it the home of most of my favourite games.
But I actually got a Gamecube first purely so I could play Pokemon Colisseum as that had not long released, and some of my friends at the time were raving about it and discussing it (and I was a huge Pokemon fan at the time). The GC ended up as my primary system until support suddenly fell off the cliff in 2005/6, and it was only then that I picked up a used PS2 and set about collecting all the stuff I'd missed and been wanting to play such as the GTAs, Tekken, Soulcalibur, JRPGs etc.
In reality I would have loved to have had access to both systems but I couldn't afford to until one of them (the PS2 in my case) eventually became a far cheaper second-hand pick-up.
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Post by Special Turbo on Sept 4, 2022 2:53:39 GMT
That's how I felt about PlayStation on release day. Wasn't impressed. Didn't think the games were that good. 3DO graphics were just as good and 3DO had way more good games. Ended up selling my PSX a year later when N64 came out.
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Post by Antiriad2097 on Sept 4, 2022 7:49:25 GMT
That's how I felt about PlayStation on release day. Wasn't impressed. Didn't think the games were that good. 3DO graphics were just as good and 3DO had way more good games. Ended up selling my PSX a year later when N64 came out.  |
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Post by sephiroth81 on Sept 4, 2022 10:40:01 GMT
That's how I felt about PlayStation on release day. Wasn't impressed. Didn't think the games were that good. 3DO graphics were just as good and 3DO had way more good games. Ended up selling my PSX a year later when N64 came out. Excuse me, but provocative and deliberate trolling is not tolerated on this forum  I did play the Need for Speed on both PS1 and 3D0....as well as the Doom ports, so leave it out! |
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Post by kerr9000 on Sept 4, 2022 11:16:08 GMT
3D0 Is something I have never owned, I have played bits and bobs on one in a game shop I used to go in and it seemed ok....
The whole 3DO, CDI type console thing just seemed to pass me by...
I own a CDI now and I have about 4 games but I have never played on it, I dont have a joypad for it and every time I look at the price of one theres something far more intresting I could spend the cash on.
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Post by englishinvader on Sept 4, 2022 11:49:10 GMT
Original Nintendo Wii. Loved and still love the GameCube but everything about the Wii seemed to put me off; everything from the optical drive that grabs the disc out of your hand to the Wiimotes and the corny Mii icons. I did buy one when you could get them for about £20 and a bunch of games but I haven't taken to it and have no great inclination to try again in the foreseeable future.
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Post by sephiroth81 on Sept 4, 2022 12:16:19 GMT
I can see plenty of blasphemy in this thread already, and we're not even into the second page.
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Post by icemann on Sept 4, 2022 15:29:30 GMT
TBH the Nintendo Switch has been that for me. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great console and handheld hybrid, which that alone makes it a thing of wonder. What it sucks in though is killer app exclusives. For me the only must haves on it are:
* Links Awakening
* Metroid Dread
* Super Mario Odyssey
Beyond that, nothing else has really jumped out at me. Considering how expensive the Switch was and still is to purchase, I expected more. Yes I know there is an absolute sea of non-exclusives, but you can get those on any other platform which = zero appeal to me. Having grown up in the great console war of Sega vs Nintendo where exclusives were what was the determining factor, it's instilled that kinda thing in me, that that is what I want in the consoles I get.
And it seems to not just be me either, as I know a lot of people who bought the Switch on release but nowadays never play it. Compare that to say, the Playstation 1-3, or the Super Nintendo, which I never put down. Was constantly on them. That's what I wanted.
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Post by halcyondaze00 on Sept 4, 2022 19:45:53 GMT
Bought the dreadful 3DO for full price when it was first released  remains my worst ever gaming purchase, an appalling machine. The shitty Jaguar almost as bad but at least it cost virtually nothing, and can add the one trick pony of the Wii to the list, i was given that machine so didn't cost anything but absolute rubbish nonetheless. The only way i would warm to those three machines is if they were thrown on a bonfire 🔥 |
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remains my worst ever gaming purchase, an appalling machine. The shitty Jaguar almost as bad but at least it cost virtually nothing, and can add the one trick pony of the Wii to the list, i was given that machine so didn't cost anything but absolute rubbish nonetheless.
Its just some interesting potential opportunities for AI and automation to help and free humans in the future, rather than enslave us. We need General Zod to implement it.