Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[Ack]

The 2600 didn't get that name until much later, but we all use it. PSX, no matter who first came up with it, is a damn terrible abbreviation aand no longer ought to be used when there's a better, clearer alternative.

Does anyone casually saying "psx" actually mean the DVR? That's a fairly obscure piece of hardware and I'd think anybody actually referring to that would specify that they mean the DVR.

I do.

[Violent By Design]

Making the focus of the next Mario game NOT be about strictly platforming?

What game was this? Certainly not Mario Sunshine. And most Mario games are not platformers by the way.

Is this sarcasm, a knock at how many non-platformer spinoffs there are now, or just an assertion that 3D platformers (at least in the formula that Mario 64 popularized) aren't true platformers?

A knock on the spin offs.

So even if Mario Sunshine was not a platformer (it is, 100%), I still wouldn't necessarily be impressed. I'd be more impressed if it didn't have to rely on brand name.


I really don't get how it is risky to take a character people already love, and put them in a new IP. That is not risk to me. Risk is making a new game, and making new characters and hoping the game sells on its gameplay.

[Stark]

People saying "anyways" instead of "anyway", is more annoying than "PSX" instead of "PlayStation"

I blame media and native speakers. I've heard the word being used in plural on so many occasions that it's become an ingraned part of my vocabulary. I did try to check once which one is correct, and I was informed that "anyways" is "OK in USA and Canada". Not sure if that's true or not, but anyways sounds more natural to me. Again, I blame the media influence.
Why would anyone use "PlayStation" when you can use "PS1"? PS1->PS2->PS3, logical and efficient. PlayStation=11 letters. PS1=3 letters, just as many as in "PSX".

I'm just teasing ya bud. PSX was what it was known as before the PlayStation was released and it stuck for some people, myself included. It would be like people using Dolphin to refer to the Gamecube, which they kinda do with the emulator.

[o.pwuaioc]

Anyways I agree that people shouldn't use the term "PSX" (nor oXbox).

100% agreed.

Anyways I agree that people shouldn't use the term "PSX" (nor oXbox).

At least if I say "I was playing my oXbox earlier" nobody will ask "Do you mean the 360?"

How many times do you say this to people and they get genuinely confused?

[AppleQueso]

Anyways I agree that people shouldn't use the term "PSX" (nor oXbox).

100% agreed.

Anyways I agree that people shouldn't use the term "PSX" (nor oXbox).

At least if I say "I was playing my oXbox earlier" nobody will ask "Do you mean the 360?"

How many times do you say this to people and they get genuinely confused?

You'd be surprised. Is it really any different than saying "PS1?"

[o.pwuaioc]

How many times do you say this to people and they get genuinely confused?

You'd be surprised. Is it really any different than saying "PS1?"

I'm surprised you're talking to people about retro gaming who aren't retro gamers. Do they get confused when you say you're playing your Saturn? Do they think of the car??

Also, oXbox is anathema to me because of confusion with this:



As well as "Xbox and 360" just naturally differentiate themselves. Likewise, there's the "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo" and "Nintendo 64", or "Game Boy" and "Game Boy Color" and "Game Boy Advance", but no one says "original Game Boy", and I rarely here "original Nintendo" these days, though that's an odd case because the NES doesn't have a proper name differentiated from its company.

[Menegrothx]

You'd be surprised. Is it really any different than saying "PS1?"

There's a console called PlayStation 2 that's commonly refered to as "PS2". There's a console called PlayStation 3 that's commonly refered to as "PS3". If some one has a hard time figuring out what "PS1" might possibly mean, I don't know what to say.

[AppleQueso]

Geez people. You've really never met anyone who's taken "Xbox" to mean "Xbox 360"?

[o.pwuaioc]

Geez people. You've really never met anyone who's taken "Xbox" to mean "Xbox 360"?

I have, I just don't talk to them regularly about playing an Xbox.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Geez people. You've really never met anyone who's taken "Xbox" to mean "Xbox 360"?

Every person I've ever known!

Seems like most people don't know about the original Xbox.