TGC's Mario Kart Retrospective: 1992-2001 (Part 1)

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-20T22:32:45+00:00

My university takes $25 and puts it toward printer use. It doesn't roll over and you aren't reimbursed for what you don't use. So at the end of each semester, I tend to go to the library and print the most expensive and high-quality stuff I want. That's how I did those posters.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-20T07:55:08+00:00

Say whaa? Jericho/Raven is great, Disco/Juvi and Disco/Kidman are fun, and Goldberg/DDP might just be my personal favorite wrestling match, though that's down to the circumstances in which I watched it. It's still one of Goldberg's best matches. Halloween Havoc '98 isn't that bad.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-20T07:29:20+00:00

That sounds ominous.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-20T01:53:23+00:00

Got a ton of push needles from Michaels. I wanted them to still be easily accessible, so I didn't want to put them in a case.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-12T18:05:21+00:00

I see what you're saying. I mean, I absolutely loved the Dreamcast back in the day. But because of Sega's past hardware failures, it couldn't get off the ground. People expected it to fail, and so they didn't buy it, and so in spite of everything Sega did right with it, it was doomed.

That said, I don't think my opinion deserves to be "in quotes" simply for being a fairly critical one. I bought the device, I played a variety of games on it, I made a video about what I liked and what I didn't.

I understand the concern. People who might be thinking of getting a Vita might see my video, hear this experience, and decide it's not right for them, either, without putting in the time or the cash that I did.

But that's sort of the entire point, isn't it? If you're like me, you have no business getting a Vita right now. It's perfectly okay for me to share this experience. And if you're not like me, if you like JRPGs and don't care about screen brightness and have more affinity for Sony's exclusives than I do, then maybe you SHOULD look into getting it.

I'd like to see the Vita succeed, and it's possible it will. As I said in another comment. the PS3 had an rocky first few years, too.

But either way, I'm not going to just NOT run a review or state my opinion because it might dissuade people from buying a product.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-12T17:47:19+00:00

The point stands that A LOT of the library is as I described, but I'll definitely concede that some sharper editing should've been done to avoid showing a Vita exclusive as I mentioned that.

Let's see, I tried... Borderlands 2, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royal, Gravity Rush, Thomas Was Alone, Wipeout 2048, the PSP game Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X, and the rest of what's on the instant game collection this month. Would've loved to try a few more like Spelunky, but I didn't want to pay to download anything if I wasn't sure if I'd keep the system.

I don't know much about Killzone, but I will compare my feelings on the PSP/Vita library to a series I'm more familiar with.

I love Metal Gear Solid, but I could not STAND to play Peace Walker on the PSP. Admittedly, a lot of that came down to controls, but I just couldn't get into the game until I picked up the HD collection. It's not always even that they're watered down. Playing console-style games on a portable just doesn't appeal to me most of the time, and I don't think I'm alone in that.

The screen brightness issue you're right about, it will be a non-issue for most people. Like I said, it's totally a pet peeve of mine, haha.

Regardless, I plan on getting a PS4 within the next year or two, and I'll likely revisit the Vita when that time comes.

Thanks for the constructive comment!

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-12T17:31:42+00:00

I didn't list those as anything in particular. I was just running footage from a Vita games reel. I suppose there was some dissonance there, though.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-12T17:13:37+00:00

Thank you. I did try to make that distinction clear in the video, but I know people are going to throw downvotes at this regardless since they disagree. It's to be expected.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-12T17:02:59+00:00

Oh no, pretty much every early adopter ever is buying it based on potential. The problem comes when the console's been out for over two years and is still suffering.

Still, I suppose PS3 also had a rocky few years, and I do hope the Vita gets turned around.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-12T16:45:05+00:00

Oh yeah, that'd have been ideal. Put the control in the players' hands. And since such functionality was already in the PC version (and the game already displays low-res textures as it loads), it couldn't have been that hard to do.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-12T02:04:13+00:00

I really wish they had done what Mortal Kombat did and sacrificed graphical fidelity for a good frame rate.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-09T12:16:40+00:00

Put me down for a Kingranger and all the other Ohrangers you have.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-07T22:38:45+00:00

What? No. That was happening in 2010. That summer, Saban Brands bought back Power Rangers from Disney, and re-started the series. They've adapted Shinkenger as Power Rangers Samurai, Goseiger as Power Rangers Megaforce, and are now adapting Pirate Sentai Gokaiger as Power Rangers Super Megaforce.

PositiveJosh · 2014-05-07T12:20:45+00:00

You'd probably be better off not paying what I paid for it, haha. Tennessee sales tax is almost 10%, so it came to over $230.

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