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@Felthry aw no. that's a shame. I guess they were figuring that "eh, 2d's a dinosaur, let's get as much 3d hardware as we can into this thing!" whereas sega went "pff 3d is a gimmick let's focus on being hte best 2d hardware ever"

@Felthry oh heck that is stuff I didn't know. I had an inkling it had some major limitations but I thought that was mostly around the available space on the cartridge.

@InTheLandOfTheRisingSun Oh yeah the C-stick was from the GC wasn't it? Before it was C buttons instead, four of them. forgot about that.

@pup_hime I think one version of it did yeah, but it was two years later, and a direct sequel to 2097. it DID have local multiplayer tho which... fuck yes, i wish 2097 had that. :<

@InTheLandOfTheRisingSun god yes.
god. fucking. .. YES. shit. fuck. yes absolutely. But it would have to have the dualshock style sticks on it too. (realtalk the original PS1 non analogue pads were also garbage as hell holy balls they were so bad ARgghhghghg but they were at least usable, to a degree. Thank goodness for dualshocks, y'know.)

I actually feel pretty bad for the Sega Saturn. It was a nice looking console, the pads were good and its 2d hardware was like, best in the business at the time.... but 3d? Yyyyyyyyyiiikeeessss... Sega really scrimped on that.

Now, I know that actually the Saturn had just as much "lifespan" as the other consoles in that gen, so it wasn't that the Dreamcast came out "too fast", but it definitely felt that way, and I think that perception really hurt it, even if the Dreamcast really was great.

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and don't get me wrong I love cartridge systems I love how they feel and sound going in but dang those were pricy friggin things. My little brother had a PS1 at the time and... heck that had wipeout 2097 like how can n64 compete with that??

sure it had 64 bit but... honestly it didn't look much prettier than the 32bit PS1.

...at least it wasn't the saturn tho. poor thing :/

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the cart's weren't any cheaper for the consumer,... and again that damn controller holy fuck. I hated the N64 controller so much. There were loads of games on it I wanted to play like so damn many but... that controller was just... nope. couldn't do it. could not get my head or hands around that damn batarang.

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personal hot take the n64 was garbo even if it had some good games

just... that controller was horrid. I found it utterly unusable no matter what I did.
and cartridges were probably a cost saving measure in terms of development and construction and also part of ninty's ethos which I'm sure they still had at the time of using "obsolete" or "out-dated" components but in such a way as to compete with the more bleeding edge tech by just being reliable and good, but... eeeehhhhhhh.....

@DogMotif@snouts.online not putting joseph in "OH MY GOD tier" smdh

gamecube was...

good

i love those dinky li'l mini cds they're so cute

and the colour, and the design too. just... kinda a shame about the lack of a proper HD cable. good gamepads tho.

@julia@efdn.club as much as I'd love this they'd have to make him a Mii-Brawler costume because he'd be far too powerful

@sc for me I find the best thing is to watch BDG's video on understanding who all the characters in fire emblem games are. It's so helpful and genuinely has really improved my playing of the game*

(* in that I still don't play it but I had a very good giggle at the video)

@Ivafakename okay I got one tip but I haven't been able to replicate it myself yet. First you gotta do a backwards longjump and just when you collide with the sexuality confusion, do a half-a press, so you clip into an parallel dimension, where you're on the other side of this quandry, and that way you can skip a huge amount of the leadup and get to just being queer as fuck in your own time.

Sadly I suspect this only works with TAS runs.

@Zero_Democracy I love how the fact they only used the Mars and Venus symbols as the garbage background is a microcosm of how willfully ignorant they are of actual science and gender itself.

But then, they'd have to be to be doing this kind of bollocks anyway.

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