Ravenfreak

Just the other day there have been rumors going around that Sony may be making a new portable console. With numerous PC companies making their own handhelds, it wouldn't surprise me if Sony wants to try their hand at the handheld market again. Though if they do so, hopefully they'll do something more with it unlike what they did with the Vita. I feel there was such missed potential with the Vita, Sony just didn't do anything really with it... I'm not sure how they can do things differently than other companies though...

It depends on which game I am in the mood to play. I've got a PS5 as well as a gaming rig and a gaming laptop too. So if my spouse wishes to use the rig, I can just use our laptop or PS5. I also own a Switch and a Xbox One S, I want to eventually upgrade to a Series X at some point. My current gaming rig is a Acer Nitro N50-64 with 32 gigs of ram installed, a 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400F with a GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card. I also own older consoles too, so if I feel like playing a retro game without recording footage I'll fire up one of my other consoles. Right now I've got my PS2 hooked up on my other tv, with my PS5 and Switch hooked up to my main tv. I'm not biased when it comes to gaming. 😛

I've never really been interested in Macbooks or Mac computers. My best friend growing up always favored Mac over PC, but she's recently made the switch to PC and doesn't bother with Apple products anymore. I think they're just too expensive, and honestly better suited for multimedia projects such as video editing and music producing. (Though honestly you can do pretty cool stuff on PC if you've got the tools to do so.) Plus most programs used to work on Sonic hacking is made with Windows and Linux in mind, not really Mac.

Pokemon games have definitely become much easier these past two generations. I'm not just saying that because I've been playing since I was a kid and know the type matchups by heart, the last two generations automatically gave the player experience share and you can't even turn that feature off. In the older games, you'd have to train every single Pokemon in your party by switching them out until you obtained the experience share item. (Or experience all in the first generation games.) Not only that, but the old version of the experience share was a held item, meaning only one Pokemon could get extra experience and not you're entire party like in newer games. I get that I'm not the targeted audience of the games, they've always been targeted towards children but I remember struggling with the Gen 1, 2 and 3 games as a child. (I was 19 when I first played Gen 4 and I turned 20 the year Gen 5 came out so I was already a young adult during these generation releases...) Cynthia is a pain in the rear to beat, she's literally the only trainer I've struggled with recently while playing the Gen 4 remakes. I haven't played really much of the other Nintendo franchises, so I don't have much to say about them...

I've been thinking about speed running either Generation 1 of Pokemon or maybe one of the Genesis Sonic titles. I probably will start with a glitchless run, especially since Sonic requires some pixel perfect skips to get zips to work. With Pokemon it's a lot more RNG manipulation and specifically following certain paths and catching specific Pokemon. I just don't really have too much time to practice speedrunning currently.

I wonder if E3 is going to eventually come back? Probably not, seeing how the last time the event was held was in 2021 and it was online only. E3 had it's purpose when it first came out, but I feel that it's just not as cool as it once was. I remember being a teenager and always wanting to go to E3, but I just don't feel that thrilled by the event anymore. I knew once the major companies backed out it was going to be canceled. You can't have a successful event if major companies like Nintendo aren't going to be there.

My main favorite thing about the Xbox line of consoles is the backwards compatibility function. Plus I love Game pass, and honestly I feel that PS+ isn't as good as Game Pass. I don't know if the Xbox line of consoles will be around next generation though, since Game Pass is available on PC now and it seems to have affected console sales. I do love that Microsoft allows it's users to use dev mode to add their own games and emulators to the system. (Though I think recently there was a legal issue with Nintendo on that and I'm not sure if emulators are still easily accessible on the Series X...)

I highly doubt the PS5 is going to be Sony's last console. They've always have higher sales than the Xbox, so if anything Microsoft may drop their consoles in the future. Sony does extremely well in Japan, in fact the PS5 outsold the Switch there which is huge! Nintendo consoles always come up on top mostly in Japan. The console market is huge, and yes many people prefer to game on their PCs these days but there are still die hard fans who stick to the Playstation brand over everything else.

I do own quite a few retro consoles, however I don't have a capture card to record footage on, so I mainly resort to using emulators for my Youtube channel. I have Retroarch installed on my computer along with a few other stand alone emulators mainly for debugging purposes whenever I work on my Sonic hacking projects. Retroarch is great since it emulates so many different platforms, want to play PS2 games? There's a core for that! Wish to play Atari 2600 games too? Retroarch is there, no need to download a bunch of different emulators! You can easily install new cores from Retroarch's interface too. Emulation is the future, things don't last forever so we need to preserve video games and emulation.

I try not to keep my laptop plugged in all the time. Though the one I main use now is going on three years old, and the battery life isn't that great. The battery stays good for a few hours at most if I'm not playing any games. I recently just got a new desktop and will probably end up gaming more on that then my laptop now.

Games are definitely a great way to distract you from traumatic events going on in your life. Honestly any time I would hear my parents argue when I was growing up, I'd go and play my Playstation to distract myself. Gaming is the best way of escaping from real life's struggles in my opinion. Though of course you might not want to play violent games if you're sensitive to violence and if that's what's been causing your trauma.

I just got the idea of seeing a mix of mini-games based on numerous Stephen King movies. Say if a game was based around Pet Sematary, it'd be one where you have to hide from Gage or Ellie if you're wanting to make a game based on the remake. For IT, you could play as one of the kids and explore a sewage system to defeat Pennywise. There's many other Stephen King films that can be added to the mix as well.

Sonic 3 and Knuckles is one of the games I can continue to come back to and never get tired of it. Likewise with Generation 1 of Pokemon. It's funny since Gen 3 is my favorite, but I find myself going back to Gen 1 more often than the other generations for some reason. Legend of Legaia is another title I see myself coming back to constantly, I really wish this game would get a remake someday. 😞

For me it's definitely Mighty No. 9. I had hoped this would indeed be an amazing Mega Man successor, since at the time the game was announced Capcom had stopped making Mega Man titles. I backed the project and even made a community that was open to everyone, not just the backers of the project and it was created before the official forums were launched. The project was doing well until Keiji Inafune started getting ideas of making an animated series based on the game, and wasting money towards that goal rather than just focusing on the game...

I highly recommend getting a Everdrive for your SNES. You can play numerous ROM hacks and region locked games too, plus if you wish to develop your own rom hacks or games you'll have a way to test them on actual hardware! I wish the North American controller had the colored buttons like the PAL and Japanese controllers did. The console design looks cool, I like the NA design better.

I honestly prefer to own physical copies of games. There's just something nice about having a bunch of physical games on a shelf that you have access to whenever you feel like playing it. It's much faster to install newer games via disc rather than downloading the game, especially if you don't have the greatest internet connection or don't have any means of having a wired connection.

I think they would probably be intrigued into what we were doing. Like Kyng said above, if they were real they'd probably need leisure time just like us. They'd probably have way better technology than we do and probably have video games embedded in their brains. 😛

Retro Gamer is still in publication, though it's a UK based magazine. Also as it's name states, it mainly focuses on talking about retro games rather than modern ones. I wish I kept all my Nintendo Power magazines in good condition when I was a kid, most of them were falling apart prior to me throwing them away right before I moved out of my parent's house. Those would have probably been worth something if I took care of them...

I have a few streaming applications installed on my PS5 and Xbox One S. I currently no longer use them on my consoles since I have a Roku tv now. I just haven't gotten around to deleting the apps off my PS5 yet. :V Prior to getting my Roku TV for Christmas, I had a basic HDMI tv from 2014 so I didn't have any easy means to stream anything until I got my Xbox One S.

I don't think it's really fair to compare the two devices. One is basically a portable computer, that is capable of much more than the Switch. Plus the Steam Deck isn't even a year old yet and the Switch is seven years old so the tech is different.

Mine was the Nintendo 64. I had a Gameboy color prior to getting my N64 however, but it's a handheld. 😛 Technically before I got my n64 I had a NES clone console, it was the Super Joy III that my grandma got from a mall kiosk. It was basically a bootleg console that had tons of NES roms flashed onto a Epoxy Blob, but it's how I discovered one of my favorite Famicom games, Battle City. (Though it appeared as Tank M and Tank N 1990 in the game list. xD) I did think it was hilarious that the Dig Dug and Golf roms had text errors. (Dig Dug switch the letter R and S around, so whenever you got a game over it would read "Game Oves" and Golf switched the letters T and N around so whenever you'd get a Bunker it would say "Butker". xD)

Backwards compatibility is a huge deal to me. Perhaps it really shouldn't be since I own a lot of older consoles, but it's nice to be able to pop in an original Xbox game that's compatible on the Xbox One and be able to play it. That's one of the reasons why I went with a Xbox 360 in 2010 over the PS3. I was able to play many different original Xbox titles that I never got to play since I had a PS2 and Gamecube when I was growing up and never an original Xbox.

The 7th generation of consoles are pretty much retro at this point. Most of them turn 20 within the next two years... which that alone makes me feel old. We used to call the Genesis and Snes retro in the mid 00's when the 7th generation first started. At this point, the Genesis was 16 and the SNES was 14 when the Xbox 360 was released. Some would probably even argue that the Xbox One and PS4 are retro at this point since they're turning 10 this year.

Legend of Legaia, it's my favorite RPG on the PS1. Sadly I don't think it will ever get a re-release or a remake as the parent company Contrail went bankrupt so no one really owns the rights to the game anymore... I know there's a fan remaking the game, and I hope he will eventually finish the project. Right now the only legal way of playing the original game is via on a PS1 or PS2 and the game isn't cheap. It doesn't emulate properly on the PS3 unfortunately... I think there may be a work around but it involves a emulator. (Which then there's only a few that can emulate the game properly...)

The first Playstation game I ever played was Madden 98. My mom received a PS1 from her work since someone brought it with them on vacation. (She worked at a Super 8 Motel in the early 00's.) Since the owner never came back to retrieve it, she got to take it home and it came with a copy of Madden 98. I'm not a fan of sports games however, so shortly after I got a copy of Spyro the Dragon. I didn't have a memory card either, so I eventually got one. I remember first seeing Tomb Raider at a friends house when I was 6, but I didn't get to play it since my friend's mom thought I was too young to play. (I was six when the game came out...)