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Gucci wrote:After getting the Switch Lite and flipping back and forth between it and the Vita, I’ve learned to appreciate the Vita so much more. The Switch Lite specifically feels like a spiritual successor to the Vita. Almost feels like what Sony would have put out if given a second crack at the portable market. Adding second set of shoulder buttons, clickable sticks, bigger screen.

Technically you meant third crack, I guess.

Both have an exhaustive support of Japanesey titles too, even Neptunia V2 made its way to Switch.

DaydreamStarbeam wrote:Both have an exhaustive support of Japanese titles too, even Neptunia V2 made its way to Switch.

FTFY

I just discovered I am a total idiot for delaying original Doom gaming because I have no Windows machine and there is no Doom for MacOS. I thought of running a virtual machine Windows, and even got Codeweavers (WineHQ in a nice package) and tried installing Steam in it and Doom from within that and it moved in slow motion and crashed my computer.

all the while there was a GZDoom for MacOS.

I’m seeing some activity in the Doom thread. Outside of the two newer games, I own one other Doom game at the moment: Doom Advance. Maybe I should run through that. I played a few minutes awhile back and it’s actually pretty neat. Though I don’t know where that falls in the classic Doom hierarchy.

Edit: it’s not actually called Doom Advance. I mixed it up with another classic FPS that added Advance to the name. It’s actual ports of Doom and Doom II. My bad.

I was under the impression that any device can run Doom?

I think I saw Doom being run on a Calculator Watch and on a Refrigerator.

I want ID/Bethesda to bring back the Wolf3d and Doom RPGs for iOS. They never got updated to 64-bit, but by all accounts they were fantastic little games.

I have several iOS 32-bit era games that are saved on my PC that I would love to play again. I looked into an iOS emulator for PC a few years ago but I don’t remember what happened to it. Might have lost interest at the time.

There's this hurdle with a lot of games that makes it quite difficult. I find these few games that are amazing in concept, but the learning curve overwhelms me and I get way too intimidated and don't wanna play it anymore. How do you get over that hurdle? Is it just a lack of self-confidence on my part?

PretentiousHipster wrote:There's this hurdle with a lot of games that makes it quite difficult. I find these few games that are amazing in concept, but the learning curve overwhelms me and I get way too intimidated and don't wanna play it anymore. How do you get over that hurdle? Is it just a lack of self-confidence on my part?

I tell myself it's okay to suck at a game, I don't have to master it or fully understand it as long as I'm having fun.

If I'm not having fun I just accept not every game is going to be for me even if I think it's interesting or well made otherwise.

PretentiousHipster wrote:There's this hurdle with a lot of games that makes it quite difficult. I find these few games that are amazing in concept, but the learning curve overwhelms me and I get way too intimidated and don't wanna play it anymore. How do you get over that hurdle? Is it just a lack of self-confidence on my part?

I established a rule for myself a while back that if I started a game I would stick with it until I beat it and I wasn't allowed to start a different one until then. I don't hold to it 100%, but I have to be stuck for weeks before I let myself give up on a game.

I'll also let myself bail on a game if I decide early on that I hate it and never want to come back, or if I run into accessibility issues (I'm colorblind) that are going to be a significant factor in the game.

This has helped me beat a lot of games I started but gave up on as a kid, or ones I would likely give up as "too hard" if I could just switch to a different game whenever I wanted.