Ninjabba

This is it folks, eShop is closed now. It was fun while it lasted. I'm not even sure how to re-download games at this point since it just shows an error when I try to open it. Hopefully this will change in the near future as was promised

I never understood why Unreal Tournament didn't get more mainstream. I had so much fun with UT3 but couldn't get my friends interested to join.. they were all stuck at CoD MW at the time and didn't care for the sci-fi setting.. now Epic pretty much gave up on UT in favor of Fortnite.. eternal shame. I really enjoy Bomberman but to be honest the latest entry on the Switch feels a little bit of a let down. The graphics are nothing to be excited about, I'd argue they're pretty bad for some maps as they mix brown/green tiles which are hard to distinguish. The worst part is that you need to grind for coins to unlock multiplayer maps to play locally together, why??? This is by far the worst decision in the game. The fun is there, but too little variety in the music and maps make it feel like a lazy implementation. I'd argue that Duke Nukem is a lost case.. the first 2 games were really fun platformers (here's an idea if someone ever reads this.. NukemVania) and of course everybody loves the 3D games that came afterwards. And then the IP got royally screwed over and became the joke of the industry and still is to this day afaik.

Oh wow some games from 40 to 4, now that's a deal! I'm also dealing with a full sd card. It was pretty much empty at the beginning of this thread

Great news! I actually started playing Unseen again yesterday, still haven't been able to finish it since I got it initially. What does story optimizations mean? Different branches?

According to this article it should be possible to redownload purchases. Though I wonder if it makes sense to get another 3DS in case you need to register your account/device.. not sure how that would work with that whole Network ID being different than the Nintendo ID or however its all called and fractured.. I like JRPG grinds myself but wasn't ready for the 80 hour main quest of this game. I think I'm 20 hours in and had to give it a break. I guess the loading times to battle have significantly improved over the PSX though, but it honestly could use some auto-battle functionality.

Odynexus on Argon: 416 Pinball on Argon: 644000

Did the same with the Korg music apps.. just saw it on 50% discount 😅 At least I already spent a good amount of time playing with it

Got a whole bunch of them today, lot's of titles on sale now!

My gut feeling tells me that there's no big consumer market for expensive hardware that needs to be strapped to the face to stare at small screens to create a nauseating feeling of immersion if used longer than 30 minutes. I can see it work in the entertainment business though. We have a VR Arcade in our city that allows you to run freely in a big space shooting zombies/aliens and its great! They map the digital space to match the building such that you don't run into a wall or pillar. The matches are 15 minutes each and after 2 sessions I feel mentally exhausted. I think they deliver the best VR experience one could wish for, but their setup is huge and the gameplay is rather limited to run and shoot in a local network. Any kind of delay feels like a huge impact on the brain so I can't see this ever work in an online environment, let alone the fact that you'll need one of those treadmills that allow you to run in arbitrary directions if you want to have this kind of experience at home.

I still fondly remember those glorious days that I walked into the local army surplus store and bought a stack of floppy disk games that I couldn't get anywhere else. This was around 1994. Toystores were only selling console games and PC stores were not really around yet. Got some real oddities from that store like Moraff's Dungeon and Ancients 1: Death Watch (ugh..), but luckily also Wolfenstein 3D and BioMenace

Thanks! Some cool suggestions that I haven't heard of before

Got a little better though still don't know what I'm doing 😅 So my final scores for this first round are Robotron: 74975 Microvaders: 25425

I surprised myself. Those last two waves are really difficult, had to make sure to take out a good amount before they settle, making sure there's a safe corner. Will the full game have a save feature? Rage quitting Robotron for now, I don't get how to play this game. Feels like a lot depends on the initial setup of the wave, there's barely any space to move around at the 4th wave. I'll try again tomorrow 😅

Playing it on Argon. Really fun puzzle game! I love the restart animation. One thing that comes to mind.. I haven't played the original, so I'm not sure if this is done, but are you thinking to animate the character? I think it has a great potential for a simple two frame looped walking animation

Thanks! Booting it right up!

Made it to the end of the beta! Moving on to Robotron

Congratulations guys! Well deserved!

The 2nd level is brutal 😅 but very addictive!

Tricky game but I'll give it a few more rounds! Edit: much better score while on the train

Played the original DOS version countless times, moved on to gzdoom/mods a long time ago. The Jaguar version is definitely not my favorite port, but its an important landmark in console gaming as it has served as a template for all the other ports, so gotta see what the fuzz is about and I enjoy to see how they worked around the limitations of the console. Gotta see that binary space partitioning running its full glory, right? I would also play this if I had it:

As a new owner of the Jaguar and recently Doom CIB, I do find it a great port. It has an interesting history to it as it was the only port of Doom that John Carmack directly worked on iirc and it has been a template for all the other ports. I personally don't miss the music much, though I do find the lack of the Cyberdemon a bit of an anticlimax. I've only played Doom on the PC before, and it definitely feels like Doom on Jaguar needs more careful planning when playing it, which is great because now I'm spending a ton of time with one of my favorite shooters of all time.

Finished BoxBoy on the 3DS! Immediately started BoxBoxBoy, haven't been this addicted to a puzzle game in a while

Went over the free to play downloads from the eShop, not sure what level of entertainment it can provide but got them nonetheless since its for free: Pokemon Rumble World Pokemon Shuffle Pokemon Picross Team Kirby Clash Deluxe And then there is RPG Maker Fes Player, quite an interesting project. Basically downloading user-created content, you can get up to 16 projects. I just had a quick look online and downloaded some "best of" projects according to some forum users/websites: - Moon Swept - Relic Hunters - Earth's Final Hour DX - Apartment 412 - A Dragon's Tale - Legends of Lunaria - Unnatural Selection - Meme Royale 4 (the only one I booted up so far and it gave me a chuckle, its quite ridiculous)

To be fair, my $3000 desktop will outperform pretty much anything PS4 and probably the PS5, but since its for work I will not pollute it with games and their silly requirements. And this is the one thing that makes me wonder why PC gamers are so quick to say consoles are crap. I can buy a cluster of PS4s including screens to match my one PC, so by those numbers the PS4 MUST be more fun to play with. I have no time to fix games to work at a proper fps/resolution, right now I even prefer the Switch over the PS4 because of how quick I can start playing a game. Now that I'm dealing with carpal tunnel I can honestly say I'm happy to hold a controller over mouse/keyboard any day. I stopped playing shooters and RTS games a long time ago so I guess I'm not missing out much in terms of accurate aiming and timing.

Will give it a shot again, I tend to get distracted though. Great games to start the competition with!