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Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by nvrGiveUp »

majewsky wrote: post #963
nvrGiveUp wrote: post #938

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Nintendo benefits from the Tesla/Apple/Jeep effect. Fanboys will be happy regardless. As time goes on BOTW is being realized as lackluster. Empty, bad graphics, same story, boring environment.

Counterpoint: BOTW single-handedly got me back on Nintendo systems. I was not a Nintendo fanboy before. I had a Wii back in the day, but it was mostly a gimmick, never substituted the PC as the "serious gaming platform" for me. BOTW is one of these rare games that was so attractive that I bought the entire console just to play it. I am aware of and recognize its flaws, but I have over 200 hours in this game, so obvio…

It sounds like you are bored.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by benhurmarcel »

cercatrova wrote: post #702
impish19 wrote: post #606

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Came here to say the exact same thing. I can't stop talking to everyone and their brother about it. It feels like a clear leap into the future. For the uninitiated, here are some highlights of what it enables you to do: - You can go to a friend's apartment with a Chromecast and just start playing games YOU own like CyberPunk & Assasins Creed within seconds on their TV (assuming they have a controller or you brought y…

You don't really own the games however, it relinquishes user control. If that's fine to you then sure, but I don't want to play games as a service, I just want to play them on my own hardware with minimal latency.

Most people gave that up a long time ago anyway, when they started buying all their games on Steam.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by benhurmarcel »

majewsky wrote: post #964
shepherdjerred wrote: post #763

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I just went down a rabbit hole of streaming for a couple of hours. I tried out Stadia, Moonlight, and GeForce Now. I want is a service that: * Lets me play my existing library of games (what I own on Steam, Origin, Battle.net) * Has League of Legends * Streams in 1440p 144fps I haven't found anything that does this.

> Streams in 1440p 144fps 144 fps is one frame every 7ms. Are there even any residential internet offers where you can get a ping that low to anything on the internet?

I'm on a cheap fiber plan in a European capital and consistently get a ping under 3ms to Google/Stadia. It's nothing uncommon.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by gremlinsinc »

throwaway743 wrote: post #329
arkitaip wrote: post #51

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The Mandalorian has restored the faith in the future of the franchise in millions of fans. Most of us thought Star Wars was over considering how mediocre the last six movies have been but along comes this well-written, fun adventure that manages to tie together the previous movies, animated series and books. Imagine a new trilogy made by Filoni and Favreau - they would absolutely kill it.

> Imagine a new trilogy made by Filoni and Favreau - they would absolutely kill it. This is all I've been thinking throughout the series. The writing is damn good, the character development is on point, it's not forceful (no pun intended) or disingenuous in trending social themes, cinematography is amazing, great casting, it's immersive in keeping to canon. It's something you can point to and say, "That's Star Wars".…

Disney through Fox now owns Firefly. I'd love to see Favreau reboot firefly. I think he could actually pull that off, or at least Something in that 'verse. Especially if he can get Whedon's blessing and some of the original cast members.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by gremlinsinc »

finerundying wrote: post #228

I have 2 answers. 1. Coronavirus The hype I have a Chinese girlfriend, and when the coronavirus was breaking out in China, she was freaking out, buying masks and so forth. She was really hyping it as a big deal! Needless to say, it's been a big deal. 2. Election fraud The hype Before the election, the President was massively hyping mail-in ballot fraud. It didn't happen For those living in the world at large there re…

So you're saying you're a MAGA denialist conspiracy theorist who's been debunked to the point, you can't buy into that crowd anymore and have 'seen the light'? Or are you trolling right-wing people w/ this comment, to show them how insane their logic/world view is?

I can't tell if this is sarcasm, hyperbole or what? lol

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by gremlinsinc »

input_sh wrote: post #321
canada_dry wrote: post #311

Game of Thrones^^ Friends raved about it, but I just am not into fantasy genre so ignored it for a few years. When I finally caved, after a few episodes I fell hook-line-and-sinker into what is an incredibly well crafted story about the human condition: greed, lust, loyalty, ambition, betrayal... you name it, it has it all. What it has in common with other amazing writing (e.g. Breaking Bad) is realistic (i.e. human)…

Just it of curiosity, did you finish GoT? It's so bad I never wanna rewatch it nor do I anticipate the books anymore. The end made me totally be over it and only sometimes complain about being pissed off at last few seasons and especially the last one, like I am now. Hell we've been stuck at home for almost the entire year and I've never seen or heard anyone saying something along the lines of "I'm gonna rewatch GoT"…

The ending didn't make me fully over it, I still want to see what Martin had planned, but I'm doubtful I'll enjoy it nearly as much as I would had I never seen the shit-stain which is GoT season 8.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by sethammons »

SkyPuncher wrote: post #129

Tenet. Just watched it last night and found it to be absolutely incredibly well done. Dialogue audio was weirdly quiet, but that was solved by cranking the center channel up relative to other channels.

Two more for you: predestination and primer. Predestination is a trip and primer folds in on itself in ways you won’t uncover until after multiple viewings (and even then, you may still be missing things!).

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by sethammons »

anderspitman wrote: post #429
remote_phone wrote: post #231

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Nah. I watched this a few nights ago, and was largely confused. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t anywhere close to “great”. Most people won’t like it because it gets more and more confusing, and at some point you’re like okay whatever and give up trying to understand. That’s the way it was for me. They were trying to shove too many complex ideas into too short of a timeframe and it didn’t work. It felt very self- indu…

That's part of the beauty of it. She tells him right at the beginning not to try and understand; just intuit. I didn't give up, frustrated, until almost the end of the movie. Loved my second viewing, and would watch again. And I almost never rewatch anything.

That was my favorite part of Looper: when asking how time travel works, Willis says something like, “we could sit around all morning drawing boxes and arrows on the backs of napkins and all it would do is give you a splitting headache – time travel just works, ok?” Just totally dismisses it, haha.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by woodrowbarlow »

carlio wrote: post #111
woodrowbarlow wrote: post #93

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coffee stain studios in general are phenomenal at delivering exactly what they promise. whether that's a balanced, fun factory automation sim or a game where goats lick stuff for no reason.

Factorio was made by Wube Software though? Or are you referring to Satisfactory?

oh; you're right. i'm more familiar with satisfactory than factorio, i thought they were by the same studio, whoops.
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