My Love-Hate Relationship with the Consoles

[ZyroXZ2]

SvennoJ said:

ZyroXZ2 said:

Conversely, modern controllers last quite awhile (well maybe not the Dualsense which averages 6-7 hours) in which you're highly unlikely to have it "die" on you in one sitting unless you do the oh-so-healthy marathon gaming thing.  The second part, yea: if your internet sucks, then you really are going to have an extra layer of troubles.  But again, that's all tradeoffs: we like to pretend everything old worked perfectly, but anyone with time spent literally knows otherwise.  N64 controllers drifted like crazy because those analog sticks became loose like kite in the wind if you played a few nights of Mario Party or Smash lmfao

As for the rest mode, here's the funny thing: I ALWAYS turn my consoles OFF.  I never use suspend, quick resume, rest mode, sleep, none of that, not even on the Switch.  The irony is because, well, it's a waste of electricity to me.  Newer consoles boot up so quick that I can simply turn the console on, and by the time I've finished turning on the TV, sound system, and switched the input to the correct console, it's already at the log in screen.  This has the added benefit of me never having to deal with those types of issues.  At the same time: you need to set your PS5 to remain connected to the internet while in rest mode.  There's a literal setting for that lol

Yeah I always turn it off as well, but sometimes we get distracted / interrupted, not sure where we are in relation to the last checkpoint (Hate that "all your progress since last checkpoint will be lost" with zero clue how long or where that last checkpoint is) and it puts itself in rest mode after an hour of not using it. Therefore I have all energy consuming things turned off in rest mode (thus no internet). But since quick resume often doesn't work, I guess I need to turn stay connected on and waste energy. If games could just save where you are...

As for the N64, I didn't use that that much so never experienced any issues with the system. Controllers lasted forever since wired! My original PS2 controllers still work fine, no drift either. But indeed, further back, loading from tape was a pita. Some games I had to load 2 or 3 times before it stuck.

Well... here's the thing that's often not talked about: other than online multiplayer games (duh, right?), Xbox's Series quick resume works EXACTLY as you describe and PERSISTS BEYOND POWER OFF.

Case in point: when I was playing Ni no Kuni off Game Pass, the save points are a little more, erhm, "classic".  There's no auto-save, so you have to make it to a save point.  I decided to risk trying quick resume because I knew but never tested that it creates a save state rather than just "suspending" the game.  Lo and behold, it works: I simply home screen, and power OFF my Xbox.  This includes the fact that I also turn OFF the power strip that powers all my consoles because I don't want them drawing "ghost" energy (all of my non-essential electronics are actually TOTALLY disconnected until use; example here is my Keurig.  I literally unplug my Keurig and only plug it to make a cup of coffee!).

Welp, I flip the power strip back on, turn my Xbox back on, select Ni no Kuni, and BOOM, it's exactly where I left it.  This apparently works for up to five games at once.  This is a feature NO OTHER PLATFORM HAS AT ALL, but you know, hating Xbox is still the easier thing to do because they remain in third place in terms of market share lol

So yea, what you want actually exists, but it's only on a single platform: Xbox Series X|S hahaha