long gone

hiiiiiiiiiii I left the fandom like 4 years ago and I can confirm that bronies are less relevant today than they were around the time I left

50 minutes ago, VG_Addict said:

No third party support, and long software droughts. Looks like another Wii U to me.

They

literally announced Fortnite, Dragon Ball FigherZ, Hollow Knight, Overcooked 2 and showcased Wolfenstein II, Crash N. Sane Trilogy and Octopath Traveler during the direct. Did you pay any attention?

2 hours ago, Kai-rouken said:

All I can say is reread the initial post I wrote. You were constantly making points that I would cover either later in the same post, or that I was directly implying. There is way too much stuff for me to list here as it was literally like 90% of the things you quoted lol. Two good examples off the top of my head are your/my assertion that Nintendo fans are satisfied with the Switch and that Nintendo doesn't care about the minority.

Anyway, I'll be back here later to cover your other post, and @ignore pls's too. Right now my brain is too cognitively impaired due to lack of adequate sleep lol.

The Switch wouldn't be selling as well as it is if people weren't satisfied with it.

4 hours ago, Kai-rouken said:

Within the confined space of the Nintendo Switch housing there is absolutely more than enough room to house a GTX 1050 ti, a cheap but capable CPU, an ample (larger) battery, and a more robust cooling system. I am not asking for the impossible here, folks. It's not like I want a GTX 1080 and an 8700K in this thing >.> And again, the MSRP is $140 which is more than low enough, especially considering Nintendo receives hefty manufacturer discounts as well as discounts for buying in bulk. Just because the 1050ti is a 45W component doesn't mean it is impossible to accommodate it with a higher capacity battery. The Switch has enough internal volume to house about the same battery as a Macbook 12, for example.

You're forgetting something very important here. Here's the Switch motherboard.

Tell me, where's the room for a GTX 1050 Ti, and the GDDR5 VRAM chips? There is none. Also, putting a big battery in such a tight space is a very bad idea; didn't the Galaxy Note 7 teach you anything? Reality disagrees with your fantasy.

4 hours ago, Kai-rouken said:

Anyway, back to my point. According to my research from a year ago, I have concluded your 45 minute assertion for gaming off battery is inaccurate. Unless you have a faulty system, that is. Please check my sources for yourself. The average battery life for playing modern AAA titles at max settings is around the 2 hour (aka 120 min) mark for the Kaby Lake refresh of the Aero 14:

With BatteryBoost (which limits performance and caps the frame rate at 30FPS) enabled, sure. Point is, the Switch still provides more battery life, and in a more comfortable form factor than trying to play a game on my laptop in my lap. Plus it puts less heat strain on my legs. Eugh.

9 minutes ago, VG_Addict said:

No, but power does matter. That's part of why people buy new consoles, because they're more powerful than previous consoles. 

People buy new consoles so they can get new games. Also, if power does matter, why is the Switch kicking the Xbox One X's ass in sales?

I'm a PC gamer and guess what? Specs don't always matter. Sure, it'd look better on paper. Like, let me use an example. I own a Gigabyte Aero 14 laptop. It has an i7-7700HQ, GTX 1060, 512GB SSD and 16GB DDR4 RAM. Very powerful machine. It can run Doom for a grand total of 45 minutes on battery before I need to charge it again. For comparison, the Switch can run Doom for 3 hours on battery before I need to plug it in. If I were on a long car trip, like... 4 hours, I'd prefer playing the game on my Switch, even though it's not as pretty as the PC version my laptop runs and runs at a quarter of the pixels of my laptop's screen. Why? Because I can play it for way longer.

This is why the Switch is the way it is. People want portability. 45 minutes of gameplay on battery before needing to plug it in is not portable. 3 hours of gameplay on battery before needing to plug it in is. It's that simple. Stop being so dense.

31 minutes ago, Kai-rouken said:

My point is that the consumers of Nintendo products should care about the consumers' collective interest. Why defend the mediocrity of a company? Whether you are satisfied with the Switch or not, there is no dispute that Nintendo COULD be giving the consumer so much better in terms of capable hardware. And yes, that goes for a portable system too. With the current tech we've got, Nintendo could have put a budget mobile GPU in the Switch like the 1050ti (which is a mere $140 MSRP component btw) and the Switch would literally be at least twice as powerful. 2x the power means more overhead for better graphics, higher framerates, and higher native resolution. Full scale ports of games like Red Dead Redemption 2, Final Fantasy 15, and Kingdom Hearts 3 would be possible on such a card. Nintendo chose not to do this. They chose to give the consumer very dated, and very cheap internal hardware. That is good for Nintendo since they can turn a greater profit. But it is giving the consumer a lesser product for literally no other reason than Nintendo being cheap. The GTX 1050ti is used in a huge variety of budget laptops. It is not a difficult component to cool. The thickness, size, and overall form factor of the Nintendo Switch more than accommodates such a GPU to be housed within its internal composition.

That's not how this works. The GTX 1050 Ti would consume way too much power for the Switch to have any reasonable amount of battery life. Why do you think it's in laptops, which typically have batteries in the tens of thousands of mAh range, rather than just the thousands of mAh range like a phone or, y'know, the Switch?

Because of that 75W TDP. The Switch, like other mobile devices, has a SoC (Tegra X1) with a TDP below 20W. Even then, it has a lowered CPU and GPU clock speed (1.9GHz > 1.02GHz CPU, 1GHz > 300 - 768MHz GPU) to reduce power consumption further. Point is, with something like the Nintendo Switch, power consumption matters, and the GTX 1050 Ti would consume way too much power. Sure, it'd be more powerful. But let's be realistic here, you are not putting a 1050 Ti into a handheld. TDP and power consumption are both way too high for one.

Are you just googling hardware and acting like ya an expert? Because you're arguing with a PC enthusiast and all I see is someone talking a lot of shit they don't understand.

22 minutes ago, Kai-rouken said:

Just look at the amazingly cartoony, yet still technologically groundbreaking Ps4 Ratchet & Clank Reboot, or Xbone Sea of Thieves for example.

why do you keep using bad games as examples lmao

25 minutes ago, Kai-rouken said:

The Switch being so successful is exactly what I take issue with here because it is leaving consumers like me with the short end of the stick. Since the Switch is a hybrid console, and also financially successful, this means Nintendo has NO REASON to want to release a proper technologically competitive console any time soon.

So this is about you and your own desires for a console, and not Nintendo's base. Could the Switch be more powerful? Yes. But is it successful without being as powerful as the base Xbox One? Yes. Would it be nice to have a Switch as powerful as a base Xbox One? Yes. But, is it necessary? No.

27 minutes ago, Kai-rouken said:

I'm talking in the CONSUMERS' collective interest, not the corporation.

Corporations do not care about the "consumer's collective interest". They only care about their own interests. Sorry.

13 minutes ago, Kai-rouken said:

You guys realize that the Wii U had plenty of Indie games too right? 

Nobody's denying this, but the Switch is the new "indie darling" because of discoverability on the eShop (sales are 20x higher than Steam!) and the ubiquity of ARM.

14 minutes ago, Kai-rouken said:

If ONLY Nintendo decided to market it exclusively as "an HD gaming handheld you can hook up to your tv; the successor to the 3ds line", then I wouldn't be so quick to hate. But the fact that they went for this "hybrid" bullshit pretty much means all my hopes for a PROPER competent Nintendo gaming console (which can compete hardware-wise with the CURRENT gen of consoles) is now thrown our the window...

So you want a hybrid console, but also don't want one. What?

14 minutes ago, Kai-rouken said:

I am honestly very jealous of gamers who cherish Sony and Microsoft intellectual properties. Horizon Zero Dawn, Uncharted 4, Detroit: Become Human, Forza Horizon 3, Quantum Break... <-- THAT is how I wish all my precious Nintendo franchises looked. Imagine a Legend of Zelda game with the gameplay of Breath of the Wild but the graphical quality of Horizon Zero Dawn. Or a Mario game with the lush vibrant detailed environments of Uncharted 4. I'm not saying the games need to have the same art style as those games or the same world design, but the actual polygon count, environmental complexity, level of detail, texture resolution, ambient occlusion, etc, etc. Mario Odyssey and BotW look like super fun games, but WHY must they look like they came out over a decade ago? These games would look at home on an Xbox 360... It's 2018 people! like wtf!?

"Graphics aren't everything" <--- Yeah, I know! That's why I'm so upset here. If I only cared about graphics, I could just go and play all those games I mentioned and be satisfied. The problem is that I like Nintendo games above all else, (most) Sony/ Microsoft games just don't do it for me from a gameplay perspective. Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, Mother, F-Zero, Mario Kart, Pikmin, Fire Emblem, Kirby, DKC, Metroid, Yoshi's Island <-- these are the type of games I enjoy. But it seems as a long time Nintendo fan who greatly values excellent gameplay AND superb graphics, I am just not allowed to "have my cake and eat it too" >.< Literally every other modern Nintendo gamer I have met is completely dismissive to the Wii, Wii U, Switch, and 3ds' lackluster graphics.

"I'm not saying I care about graphics, but I care about graphics." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Honestly I'd rather have the unique Mario art style that'll look great 20 years from now instead of the generic "OMG THIS LOOKS AMAZING! (for about 3 years)" action game art style that Uncharted 4 had. Cartoony graphics 👏 age 👏 better 👏 than realistic graphics. There's a reason why The Wind Waker (2003) looks better today than Halo 2 (2004) and that is EXACTLY why.

18 minutes ago, Kai-rouken said:

It is obscenely frustrating to say the least, but judging by past experience, I imagine this post will also fall upon deaf ears, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Actually, it'll fall on people willing to tell you why you're wrong 

28 minutes ago, VG_Addict said:

Skyrim is a last-gen game. 

Wolfenstein II and Doom are not.

4 minutes ago, VG_Addict said:

Having a bunch of indie games that nobody besides hipsters care about doesn't mean the Switch has better 3rd party support than the Wii U.

Indie games not appealing to you personally doesn't translate to some impossibly dumb thing to say like "the Wii U had better third party support than the Switch".

Good job, OP, you got me to log into this cursed site again.

21 hours ago, StormBlaze said:

I think its because Nintendo drive more to their gimicks than good timeless games now. The only exceptions being Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey. 

Go on. Explain these gimmicks.

21 hours ago, StormBlaze said:

I am really not a fan of the whole remaster/remake/reboot thing that game devs have been doing. I find Nintendo doing it almost wrong.... the WiiU wasnt that long ago and already we have remakes on the switch? Im just not feeling anything towards their console games in general. (Like I said earlier, Zelda and Mario are great games, but thats only 2 games in total).

I like how literally everybody who brings this up willfully ignore that Sony is "guilty" of the same "problem" with the PS4. In the first two years of the PS4's life, it got:
 

• Planetside 2 (PC port)
• Loadout (PC port)
• Last of Us Remastered (PS3 port)
• Final Fantasy VII (PC port of a PS1 game)
• Final Fantasy X (PS3 remaster of a PS2 game)
• Final Fantasy Type-0 (PSP port)
• Resident Evil (PC port of a GameCube game that was a remake of a PS1 game)
• DmC: Devil May Cry (PS3 port)
• Grand Theft Auto V (PS3 port)
• Devil May Cry 4 (PS3 port)
• Dark Souls 2 (PS3 port)
• Metro Redux (ports of PS3 games)
• Tomb Raider Definitive Edition (PS3 game)
• Dishonored Definitive Edition (PS3 game)
• Deadpool (PS3 port)

And that's just a small selection of the ports and remasters the PS4 received. It was called the "Portstation 4" for a reason. Although, it's almost like people don't like bringing that up because it invalidates that entire argument 

Also, OP, you bring up that the Switch is "gimmicky" but you never elaborate on them and then go on about the 3DS and Wii U, then you go on about other platforms and bring up that you feel the PS4 has "better" exclusives, which is entirely subjective rather than the objective fact you present it as. But, please, explain these gimmicks without digressing again.

8 minutes ago, DayShadow said:

I think as a whole gaming laptops are just a terrible waste of money. Extremely over priced and no longevity. I personally would get a good $600 - 700 laptop for on the go if you like to do some light gaming along with browsing the web and watching videos and then take the extra money and build a fantastic gaming desktop. Desktop gaming is a far more enjoyable experience and easier to maintain not to mention economical. 

Why not go for $800 for the laptop? You can get a laptop with decent build quality, a low-end IPS panel and a GTX 1050 or 1050 Ti for that money now. But yes, building a desktop is always better, especially if you spend a lot of time at home, by your desk or TV.

Hi there. I'm not back, just thought I'd poke my head in for a bit, chat for a bit, then vanish again.

Some things have changed since my last post here!

• EVGA ACX GTX 760 > Asus Strix GTX 1070
• ARRRRRRGEEEEBEEEEEEEEEEEE
• I picked up a Lenovo ThinkPad T420 on eBay shortly after my departure, to help me make it through college. It has since been replaced with a Gigabyte Aero 14.
• I got an R7 240. Sue me. Don't worry, it's in an old PC that wouldn't be bottlenecked by it much.

oh yeah, this is completely irrelevant, but I'm a furry now.

5 hours ago, K.Rool Addict said:

Yo, I need some assistance: https://mlpforums.com/topic/166243-razer-vs-alienware/

^Needs to be a laptop one of those three: Razer Blade 2017 refresh UHD, Alienware 15 r3 2016, or Razer Blade Pro 2017

I'd honestly suggest none of those. If you're gonna get a gaming laptop, you'd want something more dependable than Alienware or Razer. MSI, Asus or Gigabyte would fit that bill better. I'd recommend the Gigabyte Aero 14 or 15 personally, but I may be biased since I picked one up recently ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Be good, everyone. Twilight would want that, anyway.

BTW, im curious, what exactly IS the advantage of a keyboard and mouse over a controller? Because K&M seem stiff to me. No analog stick for movement is one example.

More buttons to work with and a mouse is much more precise than an analog stick.

his close friends here have said that he has left the forum.

He has indeed left the forum.

On a scale of 1 - 10, what is your favorite color of the alphabet?

I have too many to name from Chrono Trigger.

Thanks for the advice. And I have looked into building, but I'm getting a PC for college, not specifically for gaming. I just plan on playing some games on it. For the reason I am buying, I don't want to bother learning to build. Even if it is not that hard.

Well, the CPU is decent, but the GPU is garbage for anything other than light web browsing or photo editing. Also, most pre-builts (especially cheaper ones) come with terrible power supplies that either aren't very efficient or are just overall terrible, so there's a strike against pre-builts. Also, I'm a college student and I built my PC. Granted, I don't live on-campus, but plenty of college students build their own PC. Not just me.

If you change your mind, please. Let me know. I'll try to put together a parts list in your price range.

No. The GT 610 is garbage for gaming. Here's a better bui-

Also, Please don't tell me to build my own PC because I'm not interested in that. 

In Massachusetts, we get four seasons: Not Winter, Road Construction, Almost Winter and Winter. Right now it's Almost Winter, so temperatures fall, it gets a bit wetter and the trees start changing colors. It's basically like what Sapphire Lightning said.

I have a shiny Goodra.

Everyone I know that loves Goodra hates me for it.

3. Duplicate question detected. Entering duplicate question answering mode.    *processing*   Maybe.

I thought my Monty Python reference there would be more obvious :c

1. What is your name?

2. What is your quest?

3. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen Swellow?

:3

Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal.

Yes.