Ah now is the perfect time to remind me why I have never bought a Nintendo Console after Wii.

A long time ago on a cold November night I camped out to get a Nintendo WII on launch - 2nd in line I waited for 2 days with friends and I purchased Twilight Princess and the extended warranty.

Fast forward about 1.9 years and the DVD drive breaks. (Oh no problem - I have a 2 year warranty I thought to myself.) Calling Nintendo resulted in Tech support from what I presumed sounded like a 17 year old girl who insisted that I repeat powering on and off and pressing the A button on my controller instead of listening to my diagnostic or notation of problems. But alas, powering on and off the device did not avail.

She told me I should go to the brick and mortar shop where I bought it and have the warranty replace it. I said that I had bought a lot of games on the Wii Shop -- well over $200 in games NES, SNES, N64 (you name it I bought it) and I needed to have them transfer my account to the new console.

She told me that I wouldn't be able to move any of my purchases to the new console, I forgot the exact BS she excuse she gave me.

So I decided to wait and keep my DLC until the warranty was on the last day and I decided fsck it. I Go in to replace the unit so I could play DVD games again and the store informs me that their warranty center HQ is closed which is located somewhere far away or something I presume and that they can't make good of the warranty I purchased.

So in recollection I bought a Nintendo and an expensive warranty (60-100$?) and they both fsck'ed me over. Twilight Princess wasn't even "brilliant" it was "good", but not "A Link to the Past" good, or "Ocarina of Time" good.

This is why I don't buy Nintendo Games, DLC, etc... and only buy games on Linux that I know will work quite probably for the rest of my life.

I fully support emulation, go ahead and buy the discs, create .iso backups or whatever and play via Disc or ISO.

Not to mention the Anti Aliasing on Nintendo Wii was extremely terrible - rendering at 1080p or 4k requires better AA and resolution to not make the game look like they're stuck in a Time Warp.

You can use the Wii Controllers via Bluetooth and a Wireless Sensor Bar (5$ Ebay?) on Linux PC if you like too.

Nintendo can go jump in a volcano and never come back, and take those damn Miibos or whatever the hell they're called - those crooks are worse than Micro Pay becuase now you have to buy a 60$ game + 20 x $10 toys just to play - $260 to play the new Super Smash Bros, and wait there's more, 60$ for the game, and what 200-300$ for the Console and + $50 per extra controller, and don't forget that each controller will require some $20 accessory, wheel, nunchuck or some other crap.

With Steam & Linux it's simple - games cost between $5-60, a Steam Controller is like $50, a GPU is $150-300 for a decent one.

So FSCK Nintendo, or dd if=/dev/zero of=/Nintendo.

The endless cycle of consuming controllers, accessories, game discs, bookshelf to hold the game cases, game consoles is a nightmare. Console Gen 2 doesn't play Console Gen 1 games, Console Gen 3 require's SD Cards, Console Gen 4 require's RFIQ Potatoes, Console Gen 5 is BluRay but can't play Console Gen 2's DVD. Console Gen 6 requires that you repurchase games in the form of DLC at a premium price because it wont play the DVD/Cartridge you already own.

All these jerks want to extract as much cash as possible while fscking everyone and everything they can.



Meanwhile gaming on Linux be like:

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Could also batch email users 7 days before closing each week asking if details are the same.

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I wonder how many readers use Pantheon Shell by ElementaryOS.

Not currently a option.

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Maybe just hair plugs

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: rambo1462Why no 32-bit? It seems now that no new Linux games have a 32-bit port, like rocket league for example.

Here's a good example: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics see how many people tell us they use 32bit.

Those 2 people are going to be disappointed.

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Oh right-this is that Mario party game I was wanting before wiping out my wish list.

I just dunno if the juice be worth the squeeze.

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Quoting: noinformationhereI was really glad to see that I could use the Civ V bundle to complete my copy without having to re-buy anything. Nice touch, so I now have the last of the DLC.

For anyone who remotely likes 1st person shooters, Bioshock Infinite was a masterpiece. While VP did the linux port, it ran very smoothly on my humble rig (GTX 750 non-Ti). Whatever they are doing for their ports is working well, at least for me with an older Nvidia card...

Civ V without DLC is totally polish less. With DLC it feels complete.

I second BioShock Infinite as a masterpiece. I thought for years it wouldn't be my thing until I got it and realized how awesome it is.

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Hailing from California, things seem back to normal - now I can obsessively check GOL along with pacman -Syu all day long as is my custom XD.

Africans culture is fascinating, it's nice to be united under a common cause with friends and people all over our one world :)

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I had read on Phoronix the game started with T.

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WTB WTP

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