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MARCUSDJACKSON on 30 January 2013
Soleron said:
People who are excited for the Ouya: What games are you excited for? Or is it just the general concept?

it's the general thought of being able to create your own games.



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Screamapillar on 30 January 2013
Miguel_Zorro said:
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Quality over quantity, anyone? Ouya will be dead on arrival. We've seen this before. N-Gage? Gizmondo? WonderSwan? NeoGeo? Philips CDi? Jaguar?

C'mon. Don't insult your own intelligence and pretend like Ouya has a chance at being successful. The Big 3 have a complete monopoly on console games, and there's no sensible reason for any publisher to put anything more than token support on such a historically-impossible market to break into.

You're talking about horsepower.  "Best" doesn't necessarily equate only to graphical sophistication.  For instance, what use does a high-spec machine like the Vita have if there is so little software support?  High-spec devices are merely expensive paper-weights without solid software support to back it up.  Software sells hardware, not the other way around.

When speaking of the "best machine" on the market, it is more typical to be describing the amount of high-quality software available for the system that all other consoles pale in comparison to.  Graphical superiority has never helped a system become a market leader.  In fact, most of the time, lower-spec machines with more attractive software attract the most market share.

Were you  around when the Neo Geo was out?  I remember the console.  We were excited for it.  It had good games.  Itespecially had great fighting games.  Fighting games at the time were as popular as shooters are today.

I really wanted one but we were too young to afford it.  The Sega Genesis, the console that "won" that generation is one of my favourite consoles of all time.  I loved the Super Nintendo too.  I'm saying if SNK's Neo Geo had been competitive on price, it would have done very well.  When we went to arcades, we were playing SNK games.  You can't say quality over quantity and say the Neo Geo was poor quality.  It simply wasn't true in any way.

I'm 25, so yes I was around when the Neo Geo was out, but like you I was too young to know at the time.  But I don't think it's right to say Genesis won the console generation during the Genesis/SNES era.  SNES outsold the Genesis by like 20 million units, so I don't know where you're getting the "Genesis won" thing from.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 31 January 2013
Miguel_Zorro said:

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Were you  around when the Neo Geo was out?  I remember the console.  We were excited for it.  It had good games.  Itespecially had great fighting games.  Fighting games at the time were as popular as shooters are today.

I really wanted one but we were too young to afford it.  The Sega Genesis, the console that "won" that generation is one of my favourite consoles of all time.  I loved the Super Nintendo too.  I'm saying if SNK's Neo Geo had been competitive on price, it would have done very well.  When we went to arcades, we were playing SNK games.  You can't say quality over quantity and say the Neo Geo was poor quality.  It simply wasn't true in any way.


I remember those times! I had the Intellivision and the ZX Spectrum, already old when Neo Geo was launched, and I loved them, but even more recent consoles couldn't reach arcade quality in those times, and so Neo Geo was the forbidden dream of most home gamers.
BTW, when I bought my first PC, in 1997, PCs still struggled to catch up with arcades, it took the first GPUs to make them become the top for graphics, while they already dominated for complex games needing more RAM and hard drive storage.



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Screamapillar on 31 January 2013
Miguel_Zorro said:
Screamapillar said:
Miguel_Zorro said:
Screamapillar said:
Miguel_Zorro said:
Screamapillar said:
Miguel_Zorro said:
Screamapillar said:
Quality over quantity, anyone? Ouya will be dead on arrival. We've seen this before. N-Gage? Gizmondo? WonderSwan? NeoGeo? Philips CDi? Jaguar?

C'mon. Don't insult your own intelligence and pretend like Ouya has a chance at being successful. The Big 3 have a complete monopoly on console games, and there's no sensible reason for any publisher to put anything more than token support on such a historically-impossible market to break into.

You're talking about horsepower.  "Best" doesn't necessarily equate only to graphical sophistication.  For instance, what use does a high-spec machine like the Vita have if there is so little software support?  High-spec devices are merely expensive paper-weights without solid software support to back it up.  Software sells hardware, not the other way around.

When speaking of the "best machine" on the market, it is more typical to be describing the amount of high-quality software available for the system that all other consoles pale in comparison to.  Graphical superiority has never helped a system become a market leader.  In fact, most of the time, lower-spec machines with more attractive software attract the most market share.

Were you  around when the Neo Geo was out?  I remember the console.  We were excited for it.  It had good games.  Itespecially had great fighting games.  Fighting games at the time were as popular as shooters are today.

I really wanted one but we were too young to afford it.  The Sega Genesis, the console that "won" that generation is one of my favourite consoles of all time.  I loved the Super Nintendo too.  I'm saying if SNK's Neo Geo had been competitive on price, it would have done very well.  When we went to arcades, we were playing SNK games.  You can't say quality over quantity and say the Neo Geo was poor quality.  It simply wasn't true in any way.

I'm 25, so yes I was around when the Neo Geo was out, but like you I was too young to know at the time.  But I don't think it's right to say Genesis won the console generation during the Genesis/SNES era.  SNES outsold the Genesis by like 20 million units, so I don't know where you're getting the "Genesis won" thing from.

That's a discussion for another thread...

That's a cop-out if ever I've heard one.  There isn't a thread about Genesis vs SNES unless you make one, therefore this discussion ends prematurely because you are unable to offer any kind of rebuttle.



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Podings on 06 February 2013
KHlover said:
CDiablo said:
Podings said:
I participated in this event. We made this silly little thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwl397ojJaY

Whether or not we win anything, we will probably finish the game to some degree, and make it available on OUYA and other Android devices.

While browsing through the "games" in this contest, I was looking for any decent entries and yours(which I came upon randomly, not through your link) is far and above the best. Looks like a pretty fun 3d platformer with decent art style for only 10 days of work. Good luck with the final product.

Hell yeah. This could really become an interesting game. I like the idea behind it. Also, those graphics are really nice, they seem to be a mix between Spore and Crash Bandicoot for PS1?
Bajablo said:
Podings said:
I participated in this event. We made this silly little thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwl397ojJaY

Whether or not we win anything, we will probably finish the game to some degree, and make it available on OUYA and other Android devices.

Best entry i've seen yet :) and the baby dinosaurs were cute :D LIKE!


Thanks guys!

We ran into quite a few issues with the OUYA build, but luckily got them all sorted out within the buffer-deadline tomorrow. :D

If you wanna help us out, press the like button. :)

 

Just to stay on topic of cool looking game entries for the competition, check out the WordTrap Dungeon guys as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfZPn8_U8I&feature=player_embedded



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KhinRunite on 06 February 2013

I want an OUYA, but I will hold off purchase until they start offering games that has local multiplayer, and I must compare it with Steambox. So far all MP games I've known on android runs over a network, aside from that one multi-touch "curling" game.

It's only $99, +$49 if you want a 2nd controller. It's really cheap. Besides, there are games on the Android right now that deserve gamepads (I hate on screen D-pads). There's also an increasing number of HD games both 2D and 3D (Shadowgun comes to mind). I don't get why we should block the progress of Android gaming and confine it to mobile only.

Price and the size of the thing got my attention. I want something I can carry around and have instant multiplayer gaming over a friend's house or wherever. Lugging my gaming PC around is inconvenient and impractical. Buying consoles is expensive for casual gaming, plus they're still not as portable as I'd prefer.

I hope this thing doesn't flop. It may not be a wildfire success as android on mobile, but I hope it gets software support. Unless OUYA pump up games that trumps PC, it will never be my main gaming avenue, but it will fill a role in my social and gaming wants.



SwansVanTerif on 06 February 2013

Can I use my Steam account on this thing?



MARCUSDJACKSON on 06 February 2013
KhinRunite said:
I want an OUYA, but I will hold off purchase until they start offering games that has local multiplayer, and I must compare it with Steambox. So far all MP games I've known on android runs over a network, aside from that one multi-touch "curling" game.

It's only $99, +$49 if you want a 2nd controller. It's really cheap. Besides, there are games on the Android right now that deserve gamepads (I hate on screen D-pads). There's also an increasing number of HD games both 2D and 3D (Shadowgun comes to mind). I don't get why we should block the progress of Android gaming and confine it to mobile only.

Price and the size of the thing got my attention. I want something I can carry around and have instant multiplayer gaming over a friend's house or wherever. Lugging my gaming PC around is inconvenient and impractical. Buying consoles is expensive for casual gaming, plus they're still not as portable as I'd prefer.

I hope this thing doesn't flop. It may not be a wildfire success as android on mobile, but I hope it gets software support. Unless OUYA pump up games that trumps PC, it will never be my main gaming avenue, but it will fill a role in my social and gaming wants.

yea i'd hate to see it flop aswell, but i guess you have no interest in creating games for it.



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MARCUSDJACKSON on 07 February 2013
SwansVanTerif said:
Can I use my Steam account on this thing?

no clue, you never know though.



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