StarTopic Nintendo General Discussion |ST 13 Oct 2022| Our First Famiversary!

[VolcanicDynamo]

I'm calling bullshit. Nobody actually likes playing NES games.

Mario 3 is so good that it doesn't feel like a NES game. Such a modern feeling game even now.

not sure how accurate an assumption it is but I attribute a lot of older fans' mii/wii resentment to stuff like this

Older fans are losers. Loved that as a kid.

 

[HockeyBird]

The music that plays when you see the title screen of your favorite game

 

[Lozjam]

Wow I didn't know that famiboards was a living fossil exhibit

 

[thoughthaver]

Wow I didn't know that famiboards was a living fossil exhibit

right, nursing home vibes up in here

 

[HockeyBird]

Wow I didn't know that famiboards was a living fossil exhibit

Based on real life Famiboards members

 

[VolcanicDynamo]

What if Super Mario World is one of my favorite games, but I originally fell in love with it because of the GBA port?

What if my two other favorites are Odyssey and 3D World + Bowser's Fury?

 

[Lozjam]

What if Super Mario World is one of my favorite games, but I originally fell in love with it because of the GBA port?

What if my two other favorites are Odyssey and 3D World + Bowser's Fury?

Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World is over 20 years old. Its actually older now, then the original was in 2001-2002.

 

[VolcanicDynamo]

Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World is over 20 years old. Its actually older now, then the original was in 2001-2002.

It's almost old enough to drink! But not until December.

 

[VolcanicDynamo]

See, I love all those GBA ports because, like, we got memes like this:

...but Zelda: A Link to the Past was Zelda 20 years ago...just on the Game Boy Advance, not the SNES. It infinitely amuses me, for some reason.

 

[chocolate_supra]

 

[SuperFakerBros]

What if Super Mario World is one of my favorite games, but I originally fell in love with it because of the GBA port?

What if my two other favorites are Odyssey and 3D World + Bowser's Fury?

Then you have good taste, sir

 

[BozPaggs]

...fuck

 

[merp]

The "original" va is also a blue lives matter terf so no real loss. Now if only capcom would pull their finger out and ditch Reuben

Damn, that I didn't know.

Good riddance, I say.

 

[Skittzo]

AI continues to produce oddities at my behest

 

[Mr_No_U]

"im not old! im not old!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into creamed corn

"im not old! im not old!!", i continue to insist as my doctor begins to recommend annual prostate cancer screening

 

[NabiscoFelt]

AI continues to produce oddities at my behest

This feels like it should be a Bayo 3 spoiler

 

[merp]

Do you have a specific budget in mind? Is portability and/or battery life a factor?

I would probably default to Lenovo Legion for a good gaming laptop - they tend to be among the best for performance and thermals - but if you care about portability maybe not so much. I've also heard they're not as good as value this year but I'm not 100% on that

I'll keep that in mind.

Lenovo Legion, the more I do research on it, seems to be the best best. I'll wait till Black Friday or the Holiday Sales for now, as I said before.

My original targets were these:

1.

Robot or human?

www.walmart.com

2.

ASUS TUF Dash 15 (2022) Gaming Laptop, 15.6" 144Hz FHD Display, Intel Core i7-12650H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD, Thunderbolt 4, Backlit KB, Windows 11 Home, Off Black, FX517ZE-ES73 - Newegg.com

Buy ASUS TUF Dash 15 (2022) Gaming Laptop, 15.6" 144Hz FHD Display, Intel Core i7-12650H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD, Thunderbolt 4, Backlit Keyboard, Windows 11 Home, Off Black, FX517ZE-ES73 with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

3.

MSI Crosshair 15 A11UDK-1099 Gaming Laptop Intel Core i7-11800H 2.30 GHz 15.6" Windows 11 Home 64-bit - Newegg.com

Buy MSI - 15.6" 144 Hz IPS - Intel Core i7 11th Gen 11800H (2.30GHz) - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU - 8 GB DDR4 - 512 GB NVMe SSD - Windows 11 Home 64-bit - Gaming Laptop (Crosshair 15 A11UDK-1099 ) with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

4.

New ASUS TUF Gaming 15.6 laptop/15.6 in Full HD LED display/Intel Core i7-10870H processor/16GB DDR4/512GB SSD/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti/RGB Backlit Keyboard/Windows 10 Home - Newegg.com

Buy New ASUS TUF Gaming 15.6 laptop/15.6 in Full HD LED display/Intel Core i7-10870H processor/16GB DDR4/512GB SSD/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti/RGB Backlit Keyboard/Windows 10 Home with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

5.

Are you a human?

www.newegg.com

^ These are the gaming laptops I was recommended.

 

[Raccoon]

AI continues to produce oddities at my behest

okay, even I have to admit that this one is dank

 

[chocolate_supra]

...fuck

 

[jirou]

chasing that ribbit king dragon...

 

[merp]

Wow I didn't know that famiboards was a living fossil exhibit

Luke Skywalker dug up an old fossil like me from Tatooine.

 

[MisterSpo]

Finished Splatoon 3's campaign. Yes very good well done EPD.

 

[merp]

AI continues to produce oddities at my behest

The Three-eyed Raven from A Song of Ice and Fire turned into The Three-eyed Hamster.

 

[merp]

I'm currently caught up on Andor.

What does everyone think of Tales of the Jedi?

I'm on episode 2 for that series, currently.

 

[Skittzo]

When is Pitch Perfect 4 happening for gods sake

 

[merp]

Okay, I just finished episode 2 of Tales of the Jedi.

So far, I like Count Dooku and Qui-Gon Jinn.

 

[SirArthur]

As a fan of the series/game I was looking forward for the released and reading the article something stood out, its 70$. I had to confirm it and yup on the eshop its 69.99$ lol. The majority of card games are under 40$ with a few exceptions but this is a lot. Might get a sale later, but I haven't seen much games from the publisher, Bushiroad, so I cant say.

https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/cardfight-vanguard-dear-days-switch/

 

[Brofield]

The music that plays when you see the title screen of your favorite game

...why did I expect a piano ballad cover of The Killers to come out of her mouth when I clicked play?

 

[HockeyBird]

...why did I expect a piano ballad cover of The Killers to come out of her mouth when I clicked play?

I have no clue. I don't know how you can confuse the two. She doesn't look a thing like Jesus.

 

[HockeyBird]

I hate that the first party software and future hardware OTs are pinned to the top. I clicked on the software OT thinking it was this thread and I was confused about why people were talking about videogames.

 

[BozPaggs]

Oh please don't bring up The Killers, I'm still scarred from last time

 

[Hoagmaster]

Where's the lie tho

 

[Skittzo]

Bayo 3 is preloaded and ready to go tomorrow. Or wherever I get to play it. Maybe in a few weeks. Who knows.

 

[hologram]

I'll keep that in mind.

Lenovo Legion, the more I do research on it, seems to be the best best. I'll wait till Black Friday or the Holiday Sales for now, as I said before.

My original targets were these:

1.

Robot or human?

www.walmart.com

2.

ASUS TUF Dash 15 (2022) Gaming Laptop, 15.6" 144Hz FHD Display, Intel Core i7-12650H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD, Thunderbolt 4, Backlit KB, Windows 11 Home, Off Black, FX517ZE-ES73 - Newegg.com

Buy ASUS TUF Dash 15 (2022) Gaming Laptop, 15.6" 144Hz FHD Display, Intel Core i7-12650H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD, Thunderbolt 4, Backlit Keyboard, Windows 11 Home, Off Black, FX517ZE-ES73 with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

3.

MSI Crosshair 15 A11UDK-1099 Gaming Laptop Intel Core i7-11800H 2.30 GHz 15.6" Windows 11 Home 64-bit - Newegg.com

Buy MSI - 15.6" 144 Hz IPS - Intel Core i7 11th Gen 11800H (2.30GHz) - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU - 8 GB DDR4 - 512 GB NVMe SSD - Windows 11 Home 64-bit - Gaming Laptop (Crosshair 15 A11UDK-1099 ) with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

4.

New ASUS TUF Gaming 15.6 laptop/15.6 in Full HD LED display/Intel Core i7-10870H processor/16GB DDR4/512GB SSD/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti/RGB Backlit Keyboard/Windows 10 Home - Newegg.com

Buy New ASUS TUF Gaming 15.6 laptop/15.6 in Full HD LED display/Intel Core i7-10870H processor/16GB DDR4/512GB SSD/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti/RGB Backlit Keyboard/Windows 10 Home with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

5.

Are you a human?

www.newegg.com

^ These are the gaming laptops I was recommended.

The Legion (i.e. the first link) is an incredible deal and will give you excellent performance. It is very far ahead of the others.

Spoiler: Full explanation

For a gaming laptop, the most important element is the GPU. Since these all have NVIDIA GPUs, the "tier list" is actually pretty easy:

Best: 3080 Ti, followed closely by 3080
Great: 3070 Ti, followed closely by 3070
Still decently good, but may need to lower resolution: 3060
Getting pretty low: 3050 Ti/ 3050

The 1660 Ti is a fair bit older, but I would probably put it between the 3050 Ti and 3060.

It's a little more complicated for laptops, unfortunately, because different laptop manufacturers will use different power limits for their GPUs, which will affect performance, and thermal constraints will also have an impact. But these are all full-size laptops, so I would expect at least decent thermal performance on each.

The Legion has by far the best GPU and is pretty close to the maximum power limit. The Legion series are also know to have good thermal design and performance.

What about CPU? Less important, but still important to an extent. The way to interpret a CPU name is as follows:
1. The first digit or two will be the generation. For AMD, the 6th generation is the most recent, and for Intel it's 12th.
2. The subsequent numbers typically represent the relative power of the CPU. So, the AMD 5900 will be more powerful than the 5800.
3. There's also a kinda subname - Ryzen 3, 5, 7, or 9 for AMD, and i3, i5, i7, or i9 for Intel. Again, bigger number typically means higher performance. But you can already tell that by point 2, so this is more about branding to be honest.

It can be a little tricky to directly compare Intel and AMD, especially across different generations, but I would estimate that the Legion (with its AMD 5800H) has the best CPU, followed by the Asus TUF Dash (with its Intel 12650H), and then the others. Another point for the Legion.

Otherwise, there's memory and storage. All of these have 16GB RAM except the first MSI one (which has 8GB and I would not recommend). At least one is DDR5, but DDR4 is just fine (I doubt you'd notice the difference). And they all have a 512GB SSD. You may want to add more storage and/or memory in the future. You can definitely do so on the Legion.

There's other stuff to consider, but that's the main gist. For me, the biggest factor I haven't mentioned so far would be the display. Once again, the Legion wins - it's the only one which is QHD rather than FHD, it has a very good refresh rate, and it gets plenty bright.

TLDR; out of that list, get the Legion and don't look back lol

If you're planning to wait for holiday sales anyway, I'd be happy to keep an eye out for any deals. This list gave me a pretty good idea of what you're after.

 

[lemonfresh]

Here we go

 

[Skittzo]

Here we go

Is it already Keighley vastly overhyping mediocre reveals season??

 

[HockeyBird]

Here we go

 

[ermitron2]

Here we go

OH BOI, here we go, who is the next hollywod star that is going to present their trailer in Geoff event???

 

[Barely Able]

* Hidden text: cannot be quoted. *

 

[Raccoon]

(VOLUME WARNING)

 

[Serif]

I'm a fool holding out hope for a Tears of the Kingdom teaser at TGA.

 

[Barely Able]

Is it already Keighley vastly overhyping mediocre reveals season??

It’s like Christmas items going on sale or music starting on the radio. Constantly creeps earlier and earlier each year.

 

[Barely Able]

I'm a fool holding out hope for a Tears of the Kingdom teaser at TGA.

Yes. It’s obviously going to be Metroid Prime Remake

 

[Joe]

Yes. It’s obviously going to be Metroid Prime Remake

This will be the year, for sure.

 

[Skittzo]

Just got a Wawa ad on this page, stupid me didn't get a screenshot before I went back to the home page.

 

[VolcanicDynamo]

It’s like Christmas items going on sale or music starting on the radio. Constantly creeps earlier and earlier each year.

So my parents watch a lot of Hallmark movies, right? The Christmas movies started last Friday. That's over two months before Christmas. That's madness right there.

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

We were told that Nintendo would be brining back GameCube games. Yet there's no way for me to play this:




on this

don't mean to startle anyone but I'm beginning to think that Nintendo might not actually exist

 

[bayonetta]

 

[Barely Able]

So my parents watch a lot of Hallmark movies, right? The Christmas movies started last Friday. That's over two months before Christmas. That's madness right there.

It was usually after Halloween but I guess just under 2 months wasn’t enough for their studio output

 

[VolcanicDynamo]

It was usually after Halloween but I guess just under 2 months wasn’t enough for their studio output

Last year, it was exactly two months. Now? Not even that. Nothing is sacred. Not even Halloween.