everything mentioned in here is very clearly a video game, if there's a grey area it's in VNs
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
In other news, it's over a year since the Smart Dollhouse aspect of Fortnite brought in its first billion.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
lol My daughter is now, with no prompting but hilarious timing, playing Mario Kart for the first time in months.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
my daughters play games, goal-oriented (splatoon, mario odyssey) and non-goal-oriented (stardew valley), all the time. guess they're just cooler than your daughters.
― na (NA), Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
Totally possible!
Speaking of amazing timing, I literally just got an email from Nintendo saying "We wanted to let you know that the components you sent to Nintendo for repair have been received." So it took a week or so after sending in my controller to get a confirmation that they got my controller!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
ditto. i gave up yesterday and ordered a cheap controller.
― na (NA), Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
I don't know any boys their age or younger who play with dolls or dollhouses
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Still haven't broken down and got the Pro controller yet, but it feels inevitable
― Nhex, Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
xps I was gonna say Fortnite is massive and ultimately a wacky dollhouse with shooting players barely care about
― Nhex, Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
pro controller is really good other than the dpad being too sensitive for fighting games/puzzle games that need precision
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
All kids play with dolls & dollhouses, it's just that the dolls marketed to boys are called "action figures."
IMO games are all "Interesting Situation generators" and predefined goals and competition are just means to create the Interesting Situation, and by no means the only ones games can use.
I have come to terms with the fact that the Pro Controller dpad sucks, and I'm thinking about getting one of those 8bitdo ones. They look pretty good.
― Auld Drink of Misery (zchyrs), Thursday, 22 August 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
I'm hoping that after my controller is repaired it'll play better. I use the pro exclusively when I play on the TV, joycons in portable mode, but the drift issue was a PIA.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
i get the point, but Fortnite is def a shooter first and the crafty bits are not rly dollhouse-y c'mon
― circa1916, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Another example, I never played Minecraft, but my older kid sometimes did. But only building. (There's more to the game, right?) She still sometimes builds with friends online.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
there's more to the game in the sense that the original game is a survival game but i think most people get tired of that and just play in free build mode
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
The bits where you pay money / complete challenges to get new clothes / skins / handbags / moves are pretty f'ing dollhousey, IMO.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
the point is anyone who plays any video game of any kind is a fucking dork
― na (NA), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
otm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
i mean in most games you complete challenges (or nowadays pay money) to unlock skins, clothes, and stuff?
xxp
also lol NA otm
― circa1916, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
lol yeah, if anything I suspect my girls are If anything too cool for me. I'm the dork for sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
I've got video game madness again I don't want to stop thinking about video games
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 22 August 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
I’ve got dollhouse madness
― Evan, Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
I ordered a second console so I can play again. And (theoretically) my kid and I will get to use local two-player on our own screens. Really looking forward to it.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 25 August 2019 02:41 (four years ago) link
My nephew was over this weekend and introduced me to Splatoon. Rules!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 August 2019 03:31 (four years ago) link
make sure you get the new revision that just came out with the much longer battery life, if you can
― ciderpress, Sunday, 25 August 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
Oh I did, memorized the different model numbers to be sure
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 25 August 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
hmm astral chain getting really positive reviews
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 August 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
Have any reviewers called it "off the chain?" I need to know so I can either shame or congratulate them, I'm conflicted
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Monday, 26 August 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
OK, fwiw just got a tracking number that my Joy-con is on its way back, so that's a pretty fast turnaround.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 August 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
every reviewer has called it that, by sheer coincidence
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 August 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
xp to Josh, I imagine that there must be a good rpg (with more story than zelda) that your daughters would eat up
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Monday, 26 August 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
or adventure game. My little sister eventually got into games like Monkey Island, Paper Mario, and Chrono Trigger
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Monday, 26 August 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
switch should have a paper mario game, hopefully that's in the pipe
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 August 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
Blz
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 26 August 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
I think they're just not that interested, tbh. Sometimes these things skip generations, and they have plenty of other distractions. I just hope my younger one (not that young anymore) is still interested in Animal Crossing by the time it finally releases for the Switch.
Curiously (or not) they do seem to enjoy watching me play games. Of course, I (and obviously countless others) enjoy watching others play games online, so that's not unusual. Another random data point is that when I was playing Mario Kart with my nephew this weekend, he was really into watching the instant replays at the end, whereas I never gave a poop about that.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 August 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
― Nhex, Monday, 26 August 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
I got it on preorder lol, really looking foward to it
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 26 August 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
yeah i'm gonna pick it up next week if i finish judgment this weekend
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 August 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
I haven't played Super Mario Odyssey yet but the Dr. Mario app loads a close-up picture of the new Mario and his eyes are kinda creepy. They didn’t need the hyper-realistic lines in the iris. A blue gradient is good enough.
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
Transferring my user data to the new Switch: painless Re-establishing my kid’s ability to play her favorite games on the old Switch now that mine is the “primary:” hard brexit
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 29 August 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
The lack of qualified negotiators is going to lead to food and medicine shortages at my house. Some industries are already looking for alternative locations
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 29 August 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
Really mistook which Switch to ditch in this sitch
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 29 August 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
yeah that stuff is very arcane
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 August 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
Completely corrupted her Minecraft save. Had to blow it all away to get it working again; if she had anything important on local that wasn’t in the Microsoft cloud, I may not survive tomorrow
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 29 August 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
I feel like I’ve been working on an old car for the past two hours
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 29 August 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
you may have hit the point where your best move is to buy your child’s love back by rebuying all the games.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 29 August 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
Oh that happened too. Spending another hundo on things I thought we already owned was the easy part
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 29 August 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
untitled goose game out sept. 20
― na (NA), Friday, 30 August 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
honk
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 30 August 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
yessssss
― nxd, Friday, 30 August 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link