Games You've Bought: Super Turbo 2019 Edition

[MetalCaveman]

 

Got the base version, if I like it, I may get the DLCs on the next sale.  

[TheMightyEthan]

 

I was kicking myself for not having bought a Steam Link when they were $5, because my wife has been playing Ni No Kuni 2 a lot using in-home streaming and the way we were doing it was clunky and took a while to start every time*. Then I found a used one on eBay for $25 including shipping that looked good, so I bought it. I'm really happy with the condition, if it weren't for the places the stickers had torn the cardboard of the box a little bit I wouldn't even know it had ever been opened. It works so much more smoothly than streaming to another (old) PC too.

 

*We were using our HTPC as a client, which is getting on in years, so it takes a long time to boot first Windows and then launch Steam. Normally I just put it to sleep, so it doesn't take hardly any time to start up, but for some reason if it had gone to sleep and then been woken then Steam In Home Streaming wouldn't work right until I fully rebooted the machine, and waking it and then rebooting it took even longer than starting it from a cold boot, so I was just shutting it down every time.

[Mal]

I'm still hoping for a Steam Link V2 that supports a 10 gigabit network just for the extra bandwidth. Who knows, maybe 4K streaming on it wouldn't be out of the question (say from a 4K monitor to a 4K TV). In the meantime though, I'm still enjoying my Steam Link. I still use it frequently.

[MetalCaveman]

 

 

PS Store has their cyber Monday sale going on, think these will be the last games I buy in 2019... Maybe  

[TheMightyEthan]

@Mal 4k is doable even at 100 Mbps, though at slightly lower bits per pixel than what they max out at with the 1080p. Though it would still be a quality improvement, even at 3x the data (90 Mbps) for 4x the resolution.

 

@MetalCaveman I fucking love Gravity Rush, but I've already played the hell out of them. I'm kind of jealous of you.

[Mal]

15 minutes ago, MetalCaveman said:

 

 

PS Store has their cyber Monday sale going on, think these will be the last games I buy in 2019... Maybe  

Ugh... Ditto. I always wanted to play them but you brought it back to my attention.

@TheMightyEthan I had a feeling but never confirmed that it could. TIL. I think a 10GB network would just allow it to be uninterrupted, I think. When streaming videos with my Link, I already do get slowdowns/stuttering if network usage is already high (might not be an issue with your household though).

[toxicitizen]

44 minutes ago, Mal said:

I'm still hoping for a Steam Link V2

 

I really don't think that's happening, they discontinued it in favor of an app. Steam Controller has a better chance of getting a revision (and I believe they hinted at it in the past) but the way they just basically gave away the remaining stock makes me wonder if that hasn't been killed as well. I really hope not because I'd be super down to buy another one with a proper dpad and improved the build quality.

[TheMightyEthan]

@Mal Mine is on a wired network, so I don't really have interference. It also probably helps that the line from my gaming PC to my router to my secondary switch/AP is gigabit, so the 100 megabit line from the secondary switch to the Steam Link can only use up to 10% of the main line's bandwidth, leaving plenty of overhead for other stuff (and really it's 3% since Steam streaming is limited to 30 Mbps).

[MetalCaveman]

On 12/2/2019 at 5:40 PM, MetalCaveman said:

 

PS Store has their cyber Monday sale going on, think these will be the last games I buy in 2019... Maybe  

 

I lied  

 

 

For Switch.... I have no self-control.  Also, it was almost free thanks to the gold coins/points/whatever I had.  

[Baconrath]

(this game anime af)

 

And as my first foray into the EGS:

[Mister Jack]

This was actually a gift but we didn't do a Christmas thread and I don't feel like making one so I'm posting this here. I got a chance to play around with this for a few hours and I have to say that it might just be the best of all the mini consoles, and that includes Nintendo. The game selection is pretty solid with only one or two I'd consider duds. There are also a couple of games that were only released in Japan and a couple more that were never released at all, and I'm not talking about that shitty shovelware you find on the AT console. There are also more of them than you get on the NES or the SNES classic. It comes with two controllers that feel pretty nice and have a nice, long 10 foot cable on them. I wish they were the six button controllers, but you can get those separately at least. The menu lays all the games out in nice, organized rows of five, and with a push of the B button you can flip the boxes sideways so you have two rows of 20 and you just read the spines. Unlike the SNES and NES mini, where you have to get up and hit the reset button to bring up the system menu, all you have to do here is hold down the start button for a few seconds. If you are using a six button pad you just tap the mode button to bring up the menu. The reset button on the console still works though, and it even has a sliding headphone switch and a little cartridge flap. They don't do anything except add to the authenticity, but it's still cute. 

 

But that's not the best part. The best part is that there are multiple regions depending on your language. For example, if you set it to English and play Contra, you get the original US version of Contra Hard Corps that's hard as balls. If you set the language to Japanese, you get the Japanese version of the game that is much easier thanks to the life bar that they took out of the US version for some stupid reason. If you set your language to a PAL territory you get Probotector. That is cool as hell. It even changes the box art to match!

 

There's no hack for this console yet, but there's a group hard at work on it at this very moment and they've been making pretty good progress. Even with no hack though, this is still the best mini console out there as far as features and hardware go. About the only thing it lacks that the SNES Classic has is the rewind feature, but you can still use save states so it's not a big deal. I'm just glad to see someone besides Nintendo actually give a crap about putting out a quality product when it comes to these retro consoles. I'm having a blast with it.

 

Edit: There's a hack now! It's really impressive too. Not only can you add games to the console but it scrapes all the relevant sorting information like release date and number of players and even the box art from the internet, and that includes the spine art for when you want to use that particular UI. The only downside is that using this hack means the console takes a few extra seconds to load the main menu when you turn it on or reset, but that's to be expected when you're giving it more to sort through. 

Edited December 28, 2019 by Mister Jack