A long time ago, there was a big difference between PC and console gaming. The former often came with headaches. You’d fight with drivers, struggle with crashes, and grow ever more frustrated dealing with CD piracy checks and endless patches and updates. Meanwhile, consoles offered the exact opposite experience—just slam in a cartridge, and go!
That beautiful feature fell away when consoles joined the Internet. Suddenly there were servers to sign in to and updates to download and a whole bunch of hoops to jump through before you even got to play a game. Now, those early generations of Internet-connected consoles are becoming retro, and that’s introduced a whole new set of problems now the infrastructure is dying or dead. Boot up and play? You must be joking!
Just slam in a cartridge and go? 1. I never had a system that accepted cartridges that had an internet connection, it was all disc based systems. 2. More like slam in a CD and sit and watch the wheel go around and around for 5 minutes for it eventually to say “Failed to Connect to Server”
The Wii servers were horrid. PS2/3 wasn’t too bad though with games like SOCOM 2 and Delta Force: Black Hawk Down.
That being said, I now own an Xbox Series S, because it was cheap. I wish I never bought that shit. I’m heading back into retro and offline gaming.
Did you read TFA or just react out-of-context to the intro paragraph?
I read it. That line set me off though.
I didn’t even remotely get the assumption it was implying cartridge-based consoles connected to the internet. The next sentence is even “That beautiful feature fell away when consoles joined the Internet”
Should I just delete the comment, or will you accept my apology for my comment that’s not to your liking? Jesus Christ.
Either delete or edit so you don’t waste anyone else’s time reading it.
For future reference, a “My bad, I misunderstood.” goes a lot further than being a dick to others because of your own mistake.
You moderate the Atheism community. LOL
I hear Reddit is looking for users.
You make reddit seem sufferable.
The paragraph you quoted refers to the era before consoles connected to the Internet (fifth-gen, except Gamecube and GBA which are sixth-gen). These consoles were split in the use of cartridges (Jaguar, Game Boys, NGP, N64) or CDs (PS, 3DO, Saturn, GameCube).
That’s why I was confused by that line.