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hot damn, that's a good model

Maybe the battery is dead? That'd be the first thing I'd try
yeppp, I was watching one with a missing charge port (replacement part included) last night but underbid, so I jumped on this buy it now out of fomo

it was pretty cheap relative to the market right now, but still expensive for garbage lol

and yeah, battery is the first thing I'll check
 
NTSC White New 3DS, charge light works but doesn't turn on

I might not be able to fix it but I'll have fun trying!

hot damn, that's a good model

Maybe the battery is dead? That'd be the first thing I'd try
My New 3DS would charge and then essentially die within 20 seconds of being turned on. New battery fixed it. I think this is the best option to try first. If there is potential that the charging port isn’t working, you could also try to get one for eh charging docks and see if it works that way. I’m not sure how easy a standard new 3DS dock is to come by though (might use the OG, but not sure).
 
It’s heavily inspired by the Heroes of Might & Magic series, specifically the 3rd game in the series. Totally underrated hybrid of turn-based strategy, tactical combat, and some light RPG mechanics.

I had this game in the back of my head but did not know it was already in early access - how is it?
HOMM3 is still one of my favorite games of all time
 
I really didn’t think I was interested in Mario Strikers but the more I see, the more it seems like “anime chaos soccer with Mario dweebs” and like…

hmm

I think the cursed truth is that I really enjoy video game sports when they are just completely fucking silly
This opens up the door for a rant that has been percolating for years.

What the fuck happened to sports games?!

Growing up, everyone played them. Even super dorks like me! Without watching a single down of football, I picked up Madden NFL 2003 and loved every minute of it. The same for NBA 2K5 a few years later.

Playing those games got me into sports, but now that I actually enjoy sports I cannot stand these games. They are the most transparently predatory games on the market and it drives me up the wall. The Ultimate Team/Diamond Dynasty/Gacha Hell Hole modes are the pinnacle of exploitative game design. Play this game with really bad players on your team to earn less bad players. But, well, you don't get as much fake currency for losing those games, so you probably need a few good players. If you can't win with your bad team, just spend a few extra dollars! Get that first baseman with a batting average over .100! Treat yourself!

And the worst part is that these games are all designed to funnel you towards these modes. Don't want to play the slots? Well, joke is on you! Career/Franchise mode is an endless loop of busywork surrounding the core gameplay. You can't just live through a season or two with your favorite team anymore, no. You have to do homework. You need to know how to properly manage these teams, which free agents to sign, who to trade and when to trade them, etc etc. Well, if you are doing all of this busywork, you might as well just play Ultimate Team! At least then the only thing you have to monitor is your (depleted) checking account.

I hate it! Thank goodness for Mario Strikers, a game where you can actually play a sport without having to trudge through mountains of busywork.
 
I had this game in the back of my head but did not know it was already in early access - how is it?
HOMM3 is still one of my favorite games of all time
HOMM3 is amazing. Still more fun to play than a lot of modern games IMO. Hundreds and hundreds of hours of great content.
 
I hate having to continue to do things when having this chronic condition is like constantly running on empty. And then I forget what I'm supposed to be doing, even with list of things to get done.
 
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This opens up the door for a rant that has been percolating for years.

What the fuck happened to sports games?!

Growing up, everyone played them. Even super dorks like me! Without watching a single down of football, I picked up Madden NFL 2003 and loved every minute of it. The same for NBA 2K5 a few years later.

Playing those games got me into sports, but now that I actually enjoy sports I cannot stand these games. They are the most transparently predatory games on the market and it drives me up the wall. The Ultimate Team/Diamond Dynasty/Gacha Hell Hole modes are the pinnacle of exploitative game design. Play this game with really bad players on your team to earn less bad players. But, well, you don't get as much fake currency for losing those games, so you probably need a few good players. If you can't win with your bad team, just spend a few extra dollars! Get that first baseman with a batting average over .100! Treat yourself!

And the worst part is that these games are all designed to funnel you towards these modes. Don't want to play the slots? Well, joke is on you! Career/Franchise mode is an endless loop of busywork surrounding the core gameplay. You can't just live through a season or two with your favorite team anymore, no. You have to do homework. You need to know how to properly manage these teams, which free agents to sign, who to trade and when to trade them, etc etc. Well, if you are doing all of this busywork, you might as well just play Ultimate Team! At least then the only thing you have to monitor is your (depleted) checking account.

I hate it! Thank goodness for Mario Strikers, a game where you can actually play a sport without having to trudge through mountains of busywork.
Sim sports are fantastic. They reward knowledge of the game and nimble stick work. It's like bemoaning Arc System Works fighters or FROM action-adventure games for being too complex. Of course, having arcade-style games like Strikers is good, too, for people who don't want to master the deep mechanics of a sim sports game.

Also, most sim games do have stand-alone seasons or stand-alone playoffs modes, so I'm not sure where you get that you can't live through a season or two with your favorite team. Even career modes/franchise modes are highly customizable, so you can have the computer handle the "busywork" that is actually really fun for those of us who like the simulation parts of running a front office in these games.

I get it that sim sports might be not for you, but some of your claims are not really up to scrutiny. I'll give you the FUT-style stuff being ridiculously predatory, sure, but you don't ever have to engage with any of that shit if you don't want to.
 
I'm waiting for my Yeah! count to hit a certain amount so I can drop a meme...
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HOMM3 is amazing. Still more fun to play than a lot of modern games IMO. Hundreds and hundreds of hours of great content.

Yeah I still play it every year.. timeless.

The series lost after #3 though, never fell in love with any games after that :<
 
I didn’t realize just how much the DLC adds to the main game in Three Houses. I’m glad I started a fresh file for this.
 
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Sim sports are fantastic. They reward knowledge of the game and nimble stick work. It's like bemoaning Arc System Works fighters or FROM action-adventure games for being too complex. Of course, having arcade-style games like Strikers is good, too, for people who don't want to master the deep mechanics of a sim sports game.

Also, most sim games do have stand-alone seasons or stand-alone playoffs modes, so I'm not sure where you get that you can't live through a season or two with your favorite team. Even career modes/franchise modes are highly customizable, so you can have the computer handle the "busywork" that is actually really fun for those of us who like the simulation parts of running a front office in these games.

I get it that sim sports might be not for you, but some of your claims are not really up to scrutiny. I'll give you the FUT-style stuff being ridiculously predatory, sure, but you don't ever have to engage with any of that shit if you don't want to.
I played FIFA last night and it certainly does not have that option! I wish it did. The core gameplay is fun enough, but they mire it in all kinds of nonsense that you cannot skip. It's an option that used to exist that no longer does for reasons that I cannot fathom.

(also, a "season" or "playoff" mode is not what I am looking for; I want the ability to see a team through multiple seasons without having to manage a bunch of nonsense I want no part of)

If I'm wrong, please show me! In my experience, of the games I care about, Madden still allows you to play with most of the off-field action simulated. The last NBA I played did not, and I haven't touched NHL for years. MLB The Show has all of the mini-games in RTTS that can't be skipped, unless you want your player to be bad forever.

I'm fine with the core gameplay if it isn't a chore to get to it. I mean, I may be wrong, but it seems like every sports game I start up now has to drown itself in monotony before you even "play ball".
 
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I played FIFA last night and it certainly does not have that option! I wish it did. The core gameplay is fun enough, but they mire it in all kinds of nonsense that you cannot skip.

If I'm wrong, please show me! In my experience, of the games I care about, Madden still allows you to play with most of the off-field action simulated. The last NBA I played did not, and I haven't touched NHL for years. MLB The Show has all of the mini-games in RTTS that can't be skipped, unless you want your player to be bad forever.

I'm fine with the core gameplay if it isn't a chore to get to it. I mean, I may be wrong, but it seems like every sports game I start up now has to drown itself in monotony before you even "play ball".
You can set things like training and youth development to the COM in FIFA. I think you can do it with transfers, too, but I've never actually tried to even sim transfers.

MLB The Show offers a March-to-October single season option and allows you to let the COM scout, sign FAs, make trades, etc., in Franchise Mode. NBA allows you to go through at the start of Franchise Mode and literally set to human control or COM control all the aspects of running the actual franchise, and it has for years.

These games all offer exhibition modes that are pick-up-and-play as well if you don't want to do all that extra stuff.

And again, it's not monotony to a large amount of sim players, who want to sim everything, including the act of managing a team itself! I'm sorry that you're not entertained, but you are in a minority of sim sports players. It's somewhat similar to me complaining about having to manage my party when I just want to fight some monsters in a JRPG...except that sports sims actually give you the option to manage or not manage that stuff and JRPGs don't.

I would definitely just suggest that you stick to arcade sports games, though! I enjoy arcade sports games as well, and they offer that pick-up-and-play approach that you're going for. However, most sim players are serious about the games actually simulating everything about the sport. ;)

Some of us are so sick that sometimes, we don't want to actually play the game; we just want to do the "busywork." Shout out to my fellow Football Manager and OOTP Baseball players here. Um, if there are any of you at a Nintendo-focused website.
 
I am a staunch proponent of Ice Hockey for NES

also @Derachi I bought a replacement KTR-003 battery too, thanks for the suggestion buddy

Ice Hockey will always have a place in my heart. When I was eight, I had my appendix taken out so I was in the hospital for a few days. They had an NES so I played that game non-stop. I was kicking everyone's butts by the end of the week.
 
yeppp, I was watching one with a missing charge port (replacement part included) last night but underbid, so I jumped on this buy it now out of fomo

it was pretty cheap relative to the market right now, but still expensive for garbage lol

and yeah, battery is the first thing I'll check
I’ve always wondered why raccoons hoarded garbage. Today I’ve learned that’s it’s actually to fix it and therefore do something good for the planet. Really the most fascinating animals in the world.
 
Ice Hockey will always have a place in my heart. When I was eight, I had my appendix taken out so I was in the hospital for a few days. They had an NES so I played that game non-stop. I was kicking everyone's butts by the end of the week.
oh wow, that's a nice story. I don't have any sentimental reason to love it, I just think it's superb
 
I'm not sure how many Canadians are here, specifically Ontarian's, but its nice listening to a debate that isn't as crude as an American debate.

Though, I already know Ford's going to come back in anyway 😔
 
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I had this game in the back of my head but did not know it was already in early access - how is it?
HOMM3 is still one of my favorite games of all time
No idea yet! Most impressions I’ve read are really good. Sounds like there’s some balance issues in the campaign but there’s some smart design tweaks that I think make it very clear this team knows what stuff was kinda broken in the 1-3 design and are trying to fix them while also adding new features.

In some ways, on paper, it sounds a lot like a “what if NWC kept iterating on HoMM 3 instead of the total rewrite that was 4” (and I say that as someone who liked what 4 tried to do). Also, they don’t have 3DO pushing them to get the game out the door as fast as possible because Trip Hawkins sucked.
 
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You can set things like training and youth development to the COM in FIFA. I think you can do it with transfers, too, but I've never actually tried to even sim transfers.

MLB The Show offers a March-to-October single season option and allows you to let the COM scout, sign FAs, make trades, etc., in Franchise Mode. NBA allows you to go through at the start of Franchise Mode and literally set to human control or COM control all the aspects of running the actual franchise, and it has for years.

These games all offer exhibition modes that are pick-up-and-play as well if you don't want to do all that extra stuff.

And again, it's not monotony to a large amount of sim players, who want to sim everything, including the act of managing a team itself! I'm sorry that you're not entertained, but you are in a minority of sim sports players. It's somewhat similar to me complaining about having to manage my party when I just want to fight some monsters in a JRPG...except that sports sims actually give you the option to manage or not manage that stuff and JRPGs don't.

I would definitely just suggest that you stick to arcade sports games, though! I enjoy arcade sports games as well, and they offer that pick-up-and-play approach that you're going for. However, most sim players are serious about the games actually simulating everything about the sport. ;)

Some of us are so sick that sometimes, we don't want to actually play the game; we just want to do the "busywork." Shout out to my fellow Football Manager and OOTP Baseball players here. Um, if there are any of you at a Nintendo-focused website.
I will look again, but I don’t think you’re right about FIFA. If so, it is buried.

I understand sim fans like it, but they used to make these games much more approachable for the everyday player while also appeasing sim fans.
 
I started playing Dead Space again after years and it's definitely one of the best horror games.. nah one of the best games ever made.
From the overall presentation, which is top-notch, to the visceral gameplay, everything is perfect so far. I don't think I have a single comment to make, the game is mastered from start to finish.
Third-person survival horror really peaked with Dead Space/Dead Space 2.
 
I’m arguing that certain franchises weren’t on good standing during the PS2 era which is why they either went dormant or started to migrate to portables in the PS2 and PS3 era.

Maybe I’m cherry picking here a bit or putting more emphasis on certain legacy franchises than theyre actually owed. But the PS2 was the last stop for a number of things that had been largely in existence and staples of Japanese companies for nearly 2 decades at that point.

It’s just a sad era in my mind when I think about it. Especially when you think about how the PS1 was a continuation of the NES/SNES.
The PS2 also started a whole bunch of great franchises. Monster Hunter, Devil May Cry, Kingdom Hearts, Katamari, Yakuza…
Other stuff really took off like Shin Megami Tensei and Persona, Dragon Quest finally came to Europe etc.

Just because idk, Mega Man(?) went to shit that gen doesn’t mean the console was to blame.
 
MRI went well, probably won’t know the results till my next doctor visit in a few weeks unless it’s something really bad and they call me really quickly. Hopefully it’s not something like that, that’s not what we want it to be for sure

I will resume my adventure in the forgotten lands tomorrow
 
Yay, my N64 controller shipped. Now will it come before Kirby 64 drops is the question

Also curious to see what the challenge for it is
 
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I will look again, but I don’t think you’re right about FIFA. If so, it is buried.

I understand sim fans like it, but they used to make these games much more approachable for the everyday player while also appeasing sim fans.
I am definitely right about FIFA because I play it and I sim training and youth development. It's hard to miss if you are in manager franchise mode.

Anyway, these games don't need to be more approachable. There are many arcade style or light sim options on top of the customization in these games themselves. I think it's nice that if you don't like 2K, you can play Playgrounds or if you don't like PGA, you can play Mario Golf, if you don't like The Show, you can play Super Mega Baseball, etc.

Sim sports is in a weird place where it is seen as both casual, but also way too complex and hard-core at the same time. Not by you, necessarily! But yeah, other than the EXTREMELY VALID issues with FUT and other MTX modes, I feel like the complaints about sim sports as a genre are often a bit unfair. Maybe I'm just sensitive as it is maybe my favorite game genre.
 
I am definitely right about FIFA because I play it and I sim training and youth development. It's hard to miss if you are in manager franchise mode.

Anyway, these games don't need to be more approachable. There are many arcade style or light sim options on top of the customization in these games themselves. I think it's nice that if you don't like 2K, you can play Playgrounds or if you don't like PGA, you can play Mario Golf, if you don't like The Show, you can play Super Mega Baseball, etc.

Sim sports is in a weird place where it is seen as both casual, but also way too complex and hard-core at the same time. Not by you, necessarily! But yeah, other than the EXTREMELY VALID issues with FUT and other MTX modes, I feel like the complaints about sim sports as a genre are often a bit unfair. Maybe I'm just sensitive as it is maybe my favorite game genre.
Maybe slide me a screenshot of FIFA. The menus are inscrutable to a new player.
 
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Ok If Nintendo decided To Make An MMO Based On One Of Their Franchises

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Zelda. You play as Picori making nice things happen for people who can’t see you in Hyrule. No one can see you. It is extremely cozy.
 
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I am definitely right about FIFA because I play it and I sim training and youth development. It's hard to miss if you are in manager franchise mode.

Anyway, these games don't need to be more approachable. There are many arcade style or light sim options on top of the customization in these games themselves. I think it's nice that if you don't like 2K, you can play Playgrounds or if you don't like PGA, you can play Mario Golf, if you don't like The Show, you can play Super Mega Baseball, etc.

Sim sports is in a weird place where it is seen as both casual, but also way too complex and hard-core at the same time. Not by you, necessarily! But yeah, other than the EXTREMELY VALID issues with FUT and other MTX modes, I feel like the complaints about sim sports as a genre are often a bit unfair. Maybe I'm just sensitive as it is maybe my favorite game genre.
I should clarify: My main issue is that there is no middle ground (or at least there doesn't seem to be). It is either all arcade, or all simulation. It used to feel like simulation sports games offered that middle ground by allowing players to automate nearly everything they did not interface with. I used to play NBA 2K11 every day after my college classes, and I had it so automated that literally the only thing I had to do was advance the calendar and play the games. I didn't even call timeouts or make substitutions. That is the level of mindlessness that I'm looking for.

Arcade games don't scratch that itch for me because I still want to see a franchise through a handful of years of progress. I want authentic rosters to start that slowly evolve over time at the behest of my computerized overlords. I don't want to just play exhibition games, and I don't just want one season. I want an interactive version of the regular viewing experience. I realize this is a niche demand, but it used to be one that had a home in the simulation sports genre. There are still some accommodations to my preferences, as you mentioned above, but not as much as there used to be.

Anyways, sorry if I came off as hostile. I made that post while at work, and then I made another reply after my son got sick and I had to put him down. Not really an excuse; I'm glad you like the games, I just wish I still did like I did in my youth.
 
Can you catch the same stomach bug you had like 2 days after you first got it? I thought immune systems were supposed to be good at that kinda thing.
Not really, but maybe you never really recovered. Or could be a bunch of other things the actual medical providers here could tell you about. I just know the micro stuff.
 
I started playing Dead Space again after years and it's definitely one of the best horror games.. nah one of the best games ever made.
From the overall presentation, which is top-notch, to the visceral gameplay, everything is perfect so far. I don't think I have a single comment to make, the game is mastered from start to finish.
Third-person survival horror really peaked with Dead Space/Dead Space 2.
2 is my fav. I played 1 in black and white cause the color cable was damaged :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:. Scariest gameplay ever.
 
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