Nerf Now!! 2841 - 2850 (H)
Nerf Now!! 2841
Nerf Now!! 2842
The Last Nail
Let me open saying playing high-quality games at the comfort of my home beats having to move to the arcades and spend a small fortune to beat a game.
This said, there was a social aspect to arcade games which the faceless matchmaking of modern games lack. It was also a nice spot to meet with your friends and show off your skills, or in my case, lack of it.
On the technical side, some of the most complex machines with moving parts really can't be replicated at home.
Still, arcades were a product of it's time. I feel sad to see something I enjoyed slowly dies but today we have portable gaming devices and the internet. It would be nice if we could have both but I'm happy with it's replacement.
Nerf Now!! 2843
PS 5
People always bring graphix when comparing PC vs consoles but for me, this was the bonus. The meat was always elsewhere.
After consoles moved from cartridge to optic media PC got a huge lead on loading time and storage. I always got impressed how people endured PS1 loading times.
It also got online first and depending of the generation far, far better exclusives. Playing on the PC felt like being 1 generation ahead sometimes.
Now I feel the difference is fairly minimal. For me, PC is still cheaper and the better platform to play games with mouse and keyboard but outside that consoles are very close to what PC offers.
I won't make the switch (pun not intended) but if I had to play on the PS5 at least I won't feel like I'm having a subpar experience.
Nerf Now!! 2844
Never Trust a Carnie
A new Hearthstone looms and once more, I'm tempted to give it a try.
However, given I lost the 3 or 4 last expansions, the will to go back gets weaker and weaker, as it's with any habit.
However, there is a 2nd problem which is Hearthstone uses the 3 last expansions so if I'd go back I'd need to collect not only the newest cards but the best ones of the previous set.
Could I do it? Absolutely. Hearthstone is a bit expensive but it's nothing compared to Warhammer or Magic the Gathering.
My main gripe with Hearthstone is, the more money you pour into it, the less satisfaction you'll get from it. Nothing beats spending 50 bucks on packs to get that legendary you want just to find he is not as powerful as you expected him to be.
Still, the most recent expansions looked fun and they added some quality of lifes like duplicate prevention and progression.
Still, unless they rethink how much it cost to play I think I'll just pass and emote.
Nerf Now!! 2845
Nerf Now!! 2846
Nerf Now!! 2847
Avengers Disassembled
Marvel Avengers flopped, and I believe the main reason is the obvious one: The gameplay was not good enough to hold the playerbase. Few missions with few enemies on top of shallow combat can only hold you for so long.
However, a minor, but important factor is the characters. Instead of picking the popular movie version of the Avengers they picked some slightly alternative versions, probably to pay less licensing fees. However, people don't want Chinese rip-offs, they want the real deal.
And of course, there is Miss Marvel. Let me open saying I don't like Miss Marvel, mostly because I don't like any of the new Marvel shit but also I'm old and cranky and I like my classics. I also don't think she fits the Avengers, mostly because those are veterans champions who know their stuff and she is more like a teen hero doing teen antics.
She also represents the «new» Marvel which I really don't like. Or like even less than when I stopped reading. I mean, at this point they can do whatever they want but if they want me to buy their game it should try to appeal to me and if they don't they should hope their new public want to pay for it.
But story and characters are minor aspects. The meat-and-potatoes of this failure is gameplay, or lack of it. Perhaps they should spend less money on licensing and more in extra stages and enemies?
