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#81

General Discussion / Re: What gaming related trends...

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 30, 2025, 12:50:51 PM

I think for me... games that took a ton of time fell off the map.  IE games that took a long time to complete, grind through for whatever reason, and those where it takes a ton of time to master.   I know some people have the ability to just to play games and games and more games, it's just not like that for me these days.

I accepted that I suck at video games and I had to swap between the easiest and second easiest difficulties. Campaign was relatively enjoyable after that.

LOL @mastermario  - this is one game that I have that's still sealed.  It's that bad?  Sniper elite 5 is pretty hard on medium difficulty if you're trying to 100% it.  I cannot imagine how hard authentic is.   Compared to Sniper Elite 4, they really upped the difficulty... but will still platinum SE5.

used to buy games that were critic darlings (Heavy Rain and Hades for example) when they were on sale because surely if so many people love it, I will love it (obviously that is not true at all lol).

@Mai Valentine I hear you on this.  I stopped doing this as well... plus stopped buying games that are just going to sit.  I think we counted 20 unopened Nintendo Switch games... and that was AFTER I got the Switch 2 and opened many of the unopened games thinking "oh... I'll get to this."  Nope.  But at least they are installed LOL.   I have also stopped buying "I think I want to play this" titles as well... IE many of the Nintendo titles.  I broke this rule in the last half of 2025 though... 

#82

General Discussion / Re: Post Your Recent Physical ...

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 30, 2025, 12:15:24 PM

Also @Grindspine  --> How do you like the Psych series so far?   That is a hilarious series.

#83

General Discussion / A Minecraft Movie

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 30, 2025, 10:26:34 AM

Yet another video game movie... the "A Minecraft Movie" was another entry into the video game made movie trend.  We watched this the other day on Prime and it was a pretty decent movie.  It's not mind blowing... and it has Jack Black's typical antics. The interaction between Jack Black and Jason Momoa is pretty hilarious at times.  I theorize this is called "A Minecraft Movie" because it is a story line that could be in MineCraft ... however, there are "boss" type characters that do not exist in the game.

Has anyone checked out this movie?  What are your thoughts?  I would say it's worth a view at the minimum... it also has a decent message of relying on each other across generations and value / worth being in each generation - at least that's what it seems like.

Post it up!

#84

Retro Gaming and Hardware / Re: Has anyone Broke out their...

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 30, 2025, 08:49:19 AM

...How many units of Turbo Graphx actually exist in the U.S?

That is a great question.  Upon googling... there seems to be a lot of conflicting information.   One source says 2.6 million units between the Express, Turbo Grafx 16, Turbo CD and Turbo Duo -  basically all variants.  Others state 300k Turbo Grafx 16's sold in the US but 750k were produced... if I read that right.

@retro junkie -- do you have more accurate numbers and history on this?

#85

Retro Gaming and Hardware / Re: Has anyone Broke out their...

Last post by Grindspine - December 29, 2025, 09:54:45 PM

...How many units of Turbo Graphx actually exist in the U.S?

#86

Retro Gaming and Hardware / Re: Has anyone Broke out their...

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 29, 2025, 06:21:40 PM

@BLUEVOODU this past week I was playing Air Zonk, Blazing Lazers, and Coryoon: Child of Dragon. All Shmups.

NICE!   Air Zonk and Blazing Lazers.... GREAT games!  It's been a long time since I have played those.  How far did you make it on Blazing Lazers?  I am not aware of Coryoon: Child of Dragon.  It looks like a cute em up like @targetrasp mentioned LOL.  How is the game?

#87

Retro Gaming and Hardware / Re: N64: KarugaKids Review

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 29, 2025, 05:59:15 PM

@retro junkie bumping up an very old topic that does not have a reply.  This is another well done review!

I ... somehow remember this title, but everything else about the game slips my mind.  Have you played/revisited this game since you last reviewed it? 

KarugaKids has an interesting art aspect to it.  Ie pre-cursor to some Wario Ware and maybe a Scribblenauts aspect (in a way).

#88

General Discussion / Re: Post Your Recent Physical ...

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 29, 2025, 04:51:30 PM

4K UHD discs come with specific DRM and not all discs use the same one. PowerDVD, which was one of the biggest playback software for movies on PC stopped supporting 4K UHD discs somewhat recently. It was able to decrypt the DRM.

That's insane.  We used to use PowerDVD and it was a generally distributed software with our old Dell laptops... so we had the software for the DVD drives (etc) on the laptops and other computers.  That really sucks they stopped supporting 4K UHD disks.  I wonder why they did that... probably cost saving and popularity of product at this point.

Thank you for the advice of MakeMKV... This is just a weird and crazy time in history for certain things.   This is definitely a big change.  We've been watching it happen since the old forums... just sucks to see it happening more now.  I know it doesn't impact others the same and preferences are different.

#89

General Discussion / Re: Post Your Recent Physical ...

Last post by CreepinDeth - December 29, 2025, 02:49:12 PM

I haven't done a lot of searching on this.  Doesn't that mean that the internal Blu-Ray player has the capability to read those type of discs... you just have to have the 4K codecs on your computer at that point?   

Unfortunately, it's not a codec issue, it's a DRM issue. If I'm remembering correctly, most discs use the usual h.265 codec. Which is no problem at all to play on a computer. 4K UHD discs come with specific DRM and not all discs use the same one. PowerDVD, which was one of the biggest playback software for movies on PC stopped supporting 4K UHD discs somewhat recently. It was able to decrypt the DRM.

This is why I'm ripping my discs for digital playback as soon as I can. The media is dying very fast.

EDIT: Seems like you should still be able to if you install MakeMKV but I don't know if all blu-ray players are compatible.

#90

General Discussion / Re: Lo-fi 16-bit video game Ch...

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 29, 2025, 09:04:22 AM

LOL - I liked this one.  Smooth and peaceful.  The Goomba is awesome.  How long is Mario going to adjust that star??  and Link hold up the wall playing his Ocarina?