Submitted 1 month ago by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
As a PC gamer I would never condone such a statement about my console brethren (and sisters), but lol.
The new Super Mario Galaxy Movie is out today – as expected, it is a bare-bones story supported by a cavalcade of Nintendo cameos and bright action scenes. Dubbed “a bland screensaver of a movie” by the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, expect smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers.
Is it bad that smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers sounds about exactly what I’m equipped to handle right about now?
Like zoning out to some seriously tepid nostalgia-slop sounds good.
Last time I checked Mario Bros was supposed to be happy and fun and simple not an art house intellectual experience.
I wonder if a lot of the reviews are just the bitterness that it’s going to be a 1.5B movie and that ‘real cinema’ movies do pitifully at the box office these days, very rarely to they even make $100mil
I do very much enjoy playing super mario galaxy on my steam deck. It’s pickup and play when I have a quick 5 - 15 mins of free time. The cheerful colours and sounds can be an enjoyable escape. A nice change from some of the death and destruction in many more “serious” pc games
That sounds like almost an exact description of the first Mario movie.
Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, its Nintendo specific.
Man, I remember when the DS was the thinking person’s console of choice. Oh the art you could draw on it and send to others. Oh the traces of goatee.
Well no shit.
I honestly expect better from the Guardian.
At least they’re discussing the problem.
Good oppurtunity to work on your backlog.
But if I do that I’ll never buy another game!
Hmm. You may be on to something there…
Or do as I do and buy random games for cheap. I’m on like hour 4 of Tim-Tim 2; The Almighty Gnome, that I got for like 50 cents.
Honestly a pretty good time.
gaming started getting expensive when micro-transactions became a thing. AI is just the latest fad they can blame their price gouging on. because when the AI bubble pops, that PS5 ain’t going back down in price.
Gaming is cheaper than ever. Just don’t buy new games. I haven’t bought a new AAA game in decades. There are thousands and thousands of games you can play for free or nearly free.
It’s like music. You can listen to lifetimes worth of music for free or nearly free. The only expensive thing is going to some fancy concert and giving a ton of money to Ticketmaster.
Well, you still need something to play it on. And since GPUs and RAM costs about a child and a half these days, I’d say it’s quite expensive.
Sure, though you don’t need a state of the art PC to play 90% of the games ever made. These days I play a lot of my games on an old 3DS (hacked to the gills)!
I also have a huge steam library of games, many of which I bought for next to nothing in huge bundles during past sales. Many of them I still haven’t played!
Not if you use geforce now, that’s easy cheaper than buying a new pc
You can buy new AAA games. Be /patientgamers. Just wait a few weeks or months after release and they almost always go on sale when companies want to boost server numbers to make quarterly reports look good. I haven’t paid release price for any AAA game in years. And it should go without saying: Do not preorder!
Brother, this isnt 2004.
AAA games rarely go on sale anymore, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is like 7 years old, and still 50 bucks, and last sale it went down to 25. 25 for a 7 year old game is just brutal absurdity.
and I just use that as an example, its the same almost across the entire board.
The only saving grace in gaming right now is indie games. Which are typically affordable.
Yoshi’s Crafted World was the first, last and only preorder I’ve ever done.
Just don’t let the Nintendo ninjas know that they are free
a humble bundle subscription pays for itself a dozen times over, too.
I disagree about concerns being equivalent to AAA games but you have a good point otherwise
Gaming has been getting expensive long before the latest AI Fad started.
Yeah before it was crypto and NFTs.
growing up in a 3rd world country, it has always been, specially when considering the language barrier since games were not translated into my language back in the dat
Gaming is pretty cheap, playing the latest new releases or hardware has always been expensive
Games are too cheap to be honest. That’s why the whole industry sucks now.
Cause Jensen needs to keep buying weird jackets. Only way to achieve that is by selling GPUs to AI ghouls.
Posted on April fools. Is the joke that it’s such old news?
I asked AI and my RAM charged my credit card
I feel a lot of first-world privilege out of having all my gaming hardware from before the AI boom started. Around the time sanity lost the election, I decided to get a new GPU because I was worried all economies would turn terrible, and I was basically right.
Open AI - “I don’t understand why everyone hates me”
Businesses started acting like every product ever is a luxury product and people keep paying the higher prices.
The only way to get prices back down as to not buy them.and hope the little businesses survive long enough.
The only people with money to spend are the upper-middle class consumers.
Hence if you want to make money, you have to move your products up-market to appeal to people who have all the disposable income to spend. This trend is all over the economy. Travel, clothing, food, etc.
The days of appealing to the mass market of lower and middle class consumers, is over, because they are broke, so nobody gives an F about them.
The days of appealing to the mass market of lower and middle class consumers, is over
It’s not over forever. We’ve had K-shaped recoveries in the past, which is why we have a name for it.
The wealthy have become very easy to sell to. Disposable cash they dont think about and a tailored algorithm and wide variety of available designer drugs.
Do some ketamine, go on an amazon binge and book a holiday to Greece to see a band you barely like cause fuck it, world is burning and I want a good time.
Honestly we just need to move on and start doing our own things and try to get into a place of power to maybe shore up some of the wealth hoarding.
I’m shocked that the guardian outright just called people idiots.
Is this since kind of April fools, it was posted on the 1st of April.
I thought they were a legit publication.
nialv7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
main stream medias are finally catching on i see
leoj@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Is the Guardian mainstream? I thought it was often derided as being fringe or a tabloid in the UK (this also may of been an effort to misinform, as I typically find myself agreeing with their articles, or at the least the ones I am presented with)
Ethalis@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Yes, it’s a mainstream center-left newspaper in the UK, definitely not fringe or a tabloid