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The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

billyhoffman wrote: post #40
hahainternet wrote: post #2

This is exactly how I feel about my Ouya. It sits on the side of my TV stand completely unobtrusively, and if friends come over within 30 seconds we can be playing frantic, immersive games. Not desperately struggling to figure out how we get a second player online without a second xbox live account. It's a shame enough people didn't realise this from the start, but $150 is not a lot of outlay for what I got in return…

Yes. This. Ouya + XMBC is amazing. While modern $99 "video pucks" like AppleTV, Roku, or Amazon are good streaming clients for NetFlix, etc, they utterly suck at playing files from a local network. Ouya + XMBC is an incredibly option for this use case, now that Boxee is gone.

I've been having a lot of success with the Chromecast lately. The more I think about it, the less I want an intelligent TV or yet another device (which needs updates and config) and controller (which needs its batteries replaced and fished out of the couch cushions) attached to it. A dumb receiver like the Chromecast seems to be the superior solution. I have no shortage of smart devices, I don't need another. I just need an easy wireless way to get whats on my smart devices onto my dumb TV.

Hard to beat at $35, or $29 at Best Buy right now due to a sale. That's practically sales tax on the AppleTV plus the more or less required AppleCare.

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by Tloewald »

lhnz wrote: post #7

The problem with calling it the perfect "party gaming" console is that it completely doesn't work for that when "it took me almost an hour to update the firmware and configure the 4 controllers." I'm not saying that to hurt OUYA, I'm just saying that if they want to find this niche they should focus some effort on fixing that. Edit: I'm not implying that other consoles are better fitted to this. I'm implying that eng…

My PS3 is kept up-to-date and despite this my typical experience launching a game I haven't played in a while or installing a new game is 30m-2h of patching with comically uninformative progress bars.

I don't know if the XBox 360 would have the same problem if I bothered to hook it up to the internet. Frequently installing a new game requires a lengthy patch to the OS, but I don't get over-the-air updates so overall my XBox 360 experience is better.

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

#43

Post by billyhoffman »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #41
billyhoffman wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. This. Ouya + XMBC is amazing. While modern $99 "video pucks" like AppleTV, Roku, or Amazon are good streaming clients for NetFlix, etc, they utterly suck at playing files from a local network. Ouya + XMBC is an incredibly option for this use case, now that Boxee is gone.

I've been having a lot of success with the Chromecast lately. The more I think about it, the less I want an intelligent TV or yet another device (which needs updates and config) and controller (which needs its batteries replaced and fished out of the couch cushions) attached to it. A dumb receiver like the Chromecast seems to be the superior solution. I have no shortage of smart devices, I don't need another. I just…

I think that being able to "fling your screen" like Chromecast or Airplay is a future I'd like.

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by dpcan »

My take-away from this article was that if every OUYA shipped with a $10-$25 gift card or starting account balance, people would get into it a lot easier, and not box it up after a week.

Most consoles ship with full games. If the OUYA is only shipping with free trials, they aren't really competing.

Side-note, the home page of their website, what are they thinking? It looks like a stop sign. Or a "come back later". I literally went to their site earlier this year and thought it wasn't live yet, didn't bother going any further - until today. Shoot, it might as be one of those giant red circles with a line through it saying "go away!"

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by gonehome »

billyhoffman wrote: post #40
hahainternet wrote: post #2

This is exactly how I feel about my Ouya. It sits on the side of my TV stand completely unobtrusively, and if friends come over within 30 seconds we can be playing frantic, immersive games. Not desperately struggling to figure out how we get a second player online without a second xbox live account. It's a shame enough people didn't realise this from the start, but $150 is not a lot of outlay for what I got in return…

Yes. This. Ouya + XMBC is amazing. While modern $99 "video pucks" like AppleTV, Roku, or Amazon are good streaming clients for NetFlix, etc, they utterly suck at playing files from a local network. Ouya + XMBC is an incredibly option for this use case, now that Boxee is gone.

Roku paired with Plex works extremely well (thanks to Plex). Plex reminds me of VLC in how well it does exactly what I want it to do. I'm a fan.

https://plex.tv/

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by nnnnni »

arrrg wrote: post #23

Local multiplayer is also coming back on other platforms, by the way. For example, the recently released Sportsfriends (a collection of four local multiplayer games): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zh5EXf4rpo

I really hope so. That's what has largely killed commercial video games for me...

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by programminggeek »

The Ouya has some fun games and it's a cool little console. It's not even remotely perfect, but I'm glad it exists. Between Ouya, Kindle TV, and maybe someday Apple TV or other smart TV's, there's going to be a nice place to put fun little indie games in more places, which is good for developers.

Re: The shock of playing the Ouya, one year later

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Post by cwyers »

everyone wrote: post #19
cwyers wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, so it's apparently not meaningless, and not even confusing, as you were able to figure out its meaning right away.

No. Read this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_Gaming_industry The terms supposed meaning is about various aspects of game quality and also implying some kind of scale. But it is commonly used in a very vague way to denote "game with very large budget" or "game from huge publishing house" Things which have nothing to do with quality and are vague to the point of meaninglessness.

Look, if we're going to stop using terms just because they don't mean what they originally meant when first coined, we lose about three-quarters of the English language. That ship has sailed.
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