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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 AH4oFVbPT4f8 »

baby wrote: post #60
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…

This is a huge problem with new consoles I find. I don't remember having to update my N64 every time I wanted to play it. But my PS3? Every time I want to play I have to spend like 30 minutes in downloading and installing an update. Every single time. I don't play that often but still do play from times to times and I haven't had a clean launch for years.

The playstation 3 has a feature that will update the games over night, do you utilize this feature?

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

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Post by ripb »

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.

>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

I bought a Chromecast for $40 and the Plex iPad app for $5 and can now sit at the tv, controlled by the iPad, and stream content from my HDD flawlessly.

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

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Post by joshdance »

ebbv wrote: post #8

> I have terrible memories of coming to a gamer’s place to spend the afternoon playing Fifa, Street Fighter 4, etc… in all these AAA titles, the guy who owns the game basically beats your ass so hard that all the fun is gone. This is not a failure of those games, this is a failure of the person who owns the game to not be a dickhead. Street Fighter 4, for example, has handicapping. You can tilt the game wildly in the…

Disagree. There are certain games that you have to be 'good' at for it to be fun. My friends can't play Fifa. No matter how easy I am on them, or what team I pick, they just run around and shoot the ball every time. But they LOVE Hidden In Plain Sight. We have played it for hours.

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

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Post by yurymik »

AH4oFVbPT4f8 wrote: post #91
baby wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a huge problem with new consoles I find. I don't remember having to update my N64 every time I wanted to play it. But my PS3? Every time I want to play I have to spend like 30 minutes in downloading and installing an update. Every single time. I don't play that often but still do play from times to times and I haven't had a clean launch for years.

The playstation 3 has a feature that will update the games over night, do you utilize this feature?

That only works with a paid PS+ subscription.

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

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Post by sgtpepper »

brador wrote: post #35
dpeck wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nitpicky, but generally the scale with something like that is AAA -> AA -> A

It's supposed to be A each for: 1. Graphics & Sound 2. Controls 3. Gameplay So the game would get a magazine review rating of A,A,A (top in each). Hence, AAA. Remember, it was coined at a time when those three factors were significant to a gaming experience. Not so much now, but still relevant enough.

I'm pretty sure the terminology actually comes from Major League Baseball farm teams: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_League_Baseball#Current_s...

I can't recall a gaming magazine that used a grading scale as described.

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

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Post by Florin_Andrei »

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…

> 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.

So, it's the new Wii?

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

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Post by paulannesley »

orky56 wrote: post #89
baby wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a huge problem with new consoles I find. I don't remember having to update my N64 every time I wanted to play it. But my PS3? Every time I want to play I have to spend like 30 minutes in downloading and installing an update. Every single time. I don't play that often but still do play from times to times and I haven't had a clean launch for years.

AppleTV is pretty similar. My parents use it only when I come home about once a month. At that time, there's an update that needs to get installed. Now my parents have the impression that the AppleTV just takes that long to boot up every time. Hard to change people impressions after they've noticed a pattern.

I seem to remember Apple TV updates are optional, and can be deferred until later.

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

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Post by YokoZar »

yurymik wrote: post #95
AH4oFVbPT4f8 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The playstation 3 has a feature that will update the games over night, do you utilize this feature?

That only works with a paid PS+ subscription.

A subscription you're particularly unlikely to get if you only use the thing every couple of weeks.

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

damon_c wrote: post #51
dpcan wrote: post #44

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…

"the home page of their website, what are they thinking?" You're right... this should be put in the 'bad ideas' portfolio for web design instructors to use in future lessons. Even after you know that it is not a "come back later", it still feels wrong and awkward having to ignore your natural instincts to leave, as you look past the big red circles and explore the site!

You mean the http://ouya.tv website?

Didn't think it was quite that bad - a red tinted smiley face.

What I did see $99 - made me assume that it was only available in USA. Turns out you can get it in UK/CA. UK price is ~$170.

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