OUYA - hey does anyone remember the N-gage, whatever happened to that thing

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codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants posted:

The OUYA will crash, too. But it won't interfere with anything else that I'm doing. That's the point.

Didn't you spend like $200 on this thing altogether though?? Do you think that's a better idea than buying an Xbox or, as someone (everyone) has mentioned, managing your computer in a less ridiculous fashion? Seriously, I feel absurd with any more than four tabs open, you compute like an insane person.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2013 23:36

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 18:16

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

What happens when you start running your UH,YA? like a maniac and it starts getting screwed up? Do you just buy the UH,YA?-2 for another hundred and be like, 'what, what's up, now I have two'? Because you seem to have insane solutions to problems with solutions like, 'don't do that'.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2013 00:32

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Dewgy posted:

I think the logic of "I need a $200 console to help simplify my workflow" is similar to "please ban me I can't stop using SA". You wouldn't have to spend the money if you just changed your terrible habits a little.

Hey, be fair. His OH,UH was only a solid hundo, the extra is from the two other controllers he got. (lol)

# ¿ Mar 4, 2013 01:07

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

I think regular use of the term The Big Three like console manufacturers are bloated 1800's era robber barons smoking cigars in mutton chops and stove top hats is what I hate most about people who are into the Ouya.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2013 03:54

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants, you should really not be busting out phrases like, 'you loving idiot', like, ever.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2013 14:02

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants posted:

I know this doesn't change anything, but I do want to clarify that I don't really mean "arguing", just discussion. I just used "arguing" because that's the word the other poster used.

Three extras, but right.

Enjoy all those four-player games, man.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2013 02:26

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Psychedelic Eyeball posted:

I'm going to save gaming. OUYA.

And now, to save us from generic army guys, here is THIS ... generic army guy.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2013 03:46

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

I'm going to interpret OuyaPants' relative silence as a sign that the SCREWYOUDAD is losing support like crazy. Nice speech, Julie :waycool:

I mean, not even SXSW is hosting it. Guess you can't huckster your way through technical questions like, 'what games will you launch with'.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2013 18:19

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Oh yeah, XboxPants is definitely the kind of guy that I trust to find information and report it to me accurately. Where is the Ouya office, again??

# ¿ Mar 12, 2013 18:36

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

TheGreatGildersneeze posted:

Sweet jesus, that keynote speech. I'm only a few minutes in and it's already top shelf comedy. I think my favorite bit is how Josh shames the crowd for not backing the KUSHBRAH, then just lets it rip with actual questions that make Uhrman look dumb as gently caress.

Man, my left nut for journalists who would grill politicians even half as hard as this, particularly when they were expecting yet another kid-gloves backslapping session, as I'm assuming Uhrman was.

Pretty sure he wasn't even trying to grill her hard, she's just not used to answering real questions.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2013 03:33

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

TTBF posted:

If I recall correctly the OUYA only has an HDMI out so you're screwed with an OUYA too.

Edit: Yep, only has HDMI out.

Renier Wolfcastle would like to talk with you.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2013 15:07

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Wendigo you need to clarify what is up with your Ouya because right now I am confused as gently caress. :psyduck:

# ¿ Mar 16, 2013 20:52

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Hav posted:

So, to flip the conversation around slightly, who's considering picking one of these up as a piece of video game history?

I kinda am.

I thought about it, but at this point I can't even morally get one for ironic purposes. I would do nothing with it, anyway.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2013 21:58

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Dex posted:

Are these things in the wild yet or what

There's that one guy in this thread who appears to have been lying about having one? Besides that, they are not out yet, no.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2013 00:08

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

01011001 posted:

That and selling like hotcakes.

...wait, why is he making fun of the Wii hardware's outdatedness while trumpeting the loving OUYA, of all things?

The best part is that Dobson made an ongoing comic about how much more awesome the Wii is than other systems, so I can't follow what he actually believes, here.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2013 00:39

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

TXT BOOTY7 2 47474 posted:

yeah this, it was kinda funny when the names sounded/looked like OUYA but OWMYNUTSACK is just not clever

Good thing you guys are replacing the comedy with whining, that is way more fun to read.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2013 17:03

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

Wait, Visorman is real and not just a joke? I've been skimming the thread most of the time and because of the cover I thought it was fake.

I like to think it's some other forums' elaborate, fake parody game, and they are all secretly laughing at everyone. :unsmith:

# ¿ Mar 28, 2013 02:21

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

They ship tomorrow though, right? I feel like people won't start receiving them until Monday or Tuesday.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2013 03:10

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Dan Didio posted:

Never apologize. Own it.

I never thought I'd say this in my lifetime but Dan Didio is right.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2013 12:29

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Gnack posted:

Can we continue talking about the Ouya and its many failures or is this now a thread about XboxPants?

It always was, don't you see?

# ¿ Apr 8, 2013 04:37

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Inspector_71 posted:

Of course, as I type that I'm probably going to buy a PS3 just for a single series of games. (Metal Gear Solid for those wondering.)

I'm right there behind you, man. Then when I'm do e with those I'm going to play Journey. This will cost more than an Ouya and I will regret nothing. Man, video game systems that aren't Ouya loving rule.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2013 21:08

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Psychedelic Eyeball posted:

I'm just quoting this post so that you won't be able to edit it out when you'll be ashamed of it in a week.

Do you even understand why people in this thread are even bashing the OUYA in the first place or you're just another one of the rabid backers who absolutely refuse to see this box as a complete waste of money? We're not bashing the console because it costs $99, we're bashing it because everything surrounding the console is shady as hell, you pay money to play games that Kongregate and Newgrounds would even laugh at, the team behind the console seem to be disorganized as all hell and right now, only 5 people got their consoles that they gladly supported for the Kickstarter, as they promised that people would get their consoles around March.

Half of April is over and 5 people got their consoles.

Do you even see what's wrong here?

You could have just admitted that you didn't read his post, man.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2013 23:41

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

What I don't get about Visorman is that the game is in first person and all the enemies are 'generic soldiers', so not only is Visorman's actual visor never visible, but the visuals are all generic fps poo poo. And you can map the controls to twin stick if you want. So how is Visorman shaking anything up, at all?

# ¿ Apr 17, 2013 04:58

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants posted:

To make up for that weird nonsense, have some OUYA porn: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/repo...cc_id=VUI-OUYA1

So apparently OUYA is made by Pegatron. I don't think you can say OUYAs are getting build by some rinky-dink lovely operation anymore.

It would probably be better if it was designed by a company that could get the product out at its scheduled time.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2013 14:57

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants posted:

Is this one of those deals where they're required to employ the lowest bidder?

You are supposed to be a loving journalist. Every single drat time you tout something as being an awesome coup for BRO-YEAH, five seconds more research indicates that it is either not that great or not even a special thing at all. Reconsider that job.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2013 16:34

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Alex WS posted:

Dude, what the hell's your problem? He pointed out that they're a big corporation used by many serious hardware producers. What part of that makes you enter nerd rage mode?

Basically his ' :smug:

Oh ho, guess OUYA isn't small time after all' garbage about a company that seems to be widely used solely because it's the cheapest. And it seems to barely be producing a drat thing. It's not a legitimizing claim. Sorry if I hurt your feelings though, guy I wasn't addressing.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2013 16:47

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants posted:

Have you perhaps considered that there's a difference between publishing an article about a topic, and making a forum post about it and then asking other people whether or not what I said is accurate? To me it seems like a meaningful difference.

Yes, I have considered that, because you use it a lot, and I don't buy it. You present your stuff like you've finally got something that'll shut everyone up and then you're like, 'oh poo poo guess I was wrong' when you get picked apart, constantly. Even if you're a fake journalist reporting on a device that no one owns, you should do a little research before smugly plopping information down on the table like it's a royal flush. You're presenting yourself as an authority (to someone, somewhere), so have some pride in what you allege to do.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2013 16:57

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants posted:

The only "authority" I present myself as is "hey, these games look cool".

Uh... why not? It's not that weird of an idea. I put much more effort into ensuring the accuracy of a post I make to my website than I do to random forum posts. I doubt I'm the only one.

The arguments you guys are putting forth are pretty weak anyway. Even the cheapest manufacturer of iPads is still a quality manufacturer. Are you guys seriously saying "oh man, be careful not to buy the Pegatron iPads, those ones are really flimsy"? I don't care what kind of cheap prices Pegatron charges, if Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Toshiba, etc are using them for their flagship products, then they're a reliable company.

First of all, if I thought you were competent enough to perform a voodoo ritual I would think you just did something to destroy my back, because I have just thrown it out and it basically happened for no reason and I am in a lot of pain. < :mad:

>

But anyway, I see what you're saying and it just seems super-shady to me to be like, 'when I present information HERE I am a journalist, but amongst you bros I'm just a dude and I'm not going to try very hard to see if the point I'm trying to prove is valid or even means anything'. Like this factory thing. You were like, "guess it is legit bros, see this company? Apple uses it." Everyone uses it. It's the cheapest. Your information is just, you know, information. It doesn't prove anything particular about Ouya, especially because they seem to be doing a very bad job of actually producing any Ouyas at all. What was the figure? 2% of Ouyas are out?* Even if they are legit (which admittedly they seem to be), Ouya is apparently the least of their priorities, so who cares?

I can see you not presenting yourself as an authority, though. I forgot that you're a reviewer and there's another guy covering the "facts" stuff. You still won't have anything to review until maybe halfway through May. I guess right now you're basically Wolf Blitzer working for Official Ouya Magazine. You can at least take this time to come up with amusing names for your competitors. I'll help you get started: The Pii-U and the Lamestation Bore.

*you should probably know this off the top of your head btw

# ¿ Apr 20, 2013 17:49

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants posted:

Well, reviews aren't a big focus, either. I know they're popular, we'll do them, but I really am mainly gonna do stuff more like "hey this game is kinda neat, check it out" along the lines of something like an indiegames.com post. Honestly, the site overall isn't really the main focus; it exists largely to support the video content.

Um at this point it just kinda sounds like you're literally a low-rung paid shill. You should have just let me keep thinking you were a reviewer. :psyduck:

I will agree with you on one thing though: Escape Goat loving rules, gently caress the haters. :colbert:

# ¿ Apr 20, 2013 18:24

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Wendell posted:

What haters? This seems like saying, "Mario 3 rules, gently caress the haters," to me.

He brought up Escape Goat 2 before and people were like, 'lol Escape Goat, sounds like poo poo' and it really stuck with me. Buy it on XBLIG, kids.

EDIT: unpaid shilling there

codenameFANGIO fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Apr 20, 2013

# ¿ Apr 20, 2013 18:34

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

I wish I was some kind of Lex Luthor/Notch hybrid so I could intentionally fund lovely, amazing games like Visorman. I would fill the fuckin' Ouya with all the games it claims are on the way just because they would all fail and I could crush like a billion lovely developers dreams after handing them everything they would claim to need. Right now they'll just use their failure for martyrdom.'If only I had the time/budget/etc. I could have made it ...'. gently caress THAT. I want them to KNOW that it is their fault specifically, but they never will.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2013 23:05

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

peter gabriel posted:

Countdown the that insufferable Aweful Dreams and his uncle who works at Nintendo coming along to tell me how all this is fine, HEH

To be fair both XboxPants and Aweful Dreams seem to be cooling on Ouya, though I doubt they'll outright admit it.

Bionic posted:

Heh - I tell people the OUYA is fully-baked but needs time to be cooled before it's frosted, and people say I'm "defending" it? That says more about you than me :P

OH NO* THE VIRUS IS SPREADING

*OH YEAHHHHHHHHHHH

# ¿ Apr 21, 2013 00:16

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Joe Don Baker posted:

The Ball and Saturday Morning are both cool, but we’ve already seen them on other platforms. Polarity, though, is a brand new OUYA exclusive, and you won’t play it anywhere else. It’s a heavily stylized first person puzzler in the vein of games like Portal and Antichamber.

Polarity is exactly the kind of game OUYA was built for. It’s a passion project by an experienced developer who has worked on big games before, but who never made a game of his own.

But something about OUYA made him want to take a chance, and now we’ve got a creative, cool new game that might never have even existed without it. OUYA could become a birthplace for tons of new and interesting games & developers.

Polarity’s only 12 levels long, so it’s quite a bit shorter than a game like Portal. It’s not the kind of game that’s gonna sell millions of copies. But it’s an interesting and imaginitive game that might give you a couple hours of fun, and for $4.99, maybe that’s alright. I’ll be playing this game soon, so keep looking back for more in-depth impressions.

That’s it for now, but there’s plenty more great OUYA games available right now, and we’ll have more to show you later this week. And just wait until you see the OUYA games that are coming up next on the horizon… see you soon!

Do you guys realize how desperate and shill-like all your stuff sounds?

Sorry XboxPants, I thought you were at least trying to be a journalist with dignity and self-respect, won't make that mistake again. :waycool:

# ¿ Apr 21, 2013 16:41

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

Waffleman_ posted:

Final Fantasy III looks okay, but not great. I'd still check it out, though.

-Ace Games Journalism

Review written by Tim Buckley

# ¿ Apr 21, 2013 18:32

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

SBJ posted:

All of these games are terrible.

The Ouya is terrible.

I just bought a 3DS XL guys with Luigi's Mansion 2. Bending over for the big three feels pretty good compared to bending over for ~MOBILE PHONE GAMES~

It's 2013 what in the ever-living gently caress

This is basically it. I'm not sure what I need to be saved from, because the systems I have now are pretty satisfying. If I want, I can even play the games from my childhood, because most of those systems cost like $30, tops.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2013 16:16

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

I'm waiting for isouyashipping.com to just display a big, red 'NO.'

# ¿ Apr 23, 2013 21:27

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants posted:

If we're going to take the stance that ouyashipping is statistically accurate, then no, it's not 38, it's 1186. And if ouyashipping has been skewed because people who have their system don't go around looking for websites where they can complain about not having their system, it could easily be a lot higher.

But it's nowhere near 10,000 and you are not getting your poo poo-brown Ouya in May.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2013 23:39

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants posted:

No, because even if they're only building out & sending out 10 systems a week, that's still a massively different situation than if they weren't sending out any. It's one thing if they're having a hard time ramping up production because (x), but it's a way worse situation if they've yet to prove they're even capable of building them at all.

Are you kidding me? Is this a real argument? Are you insane?? They're not going out in anywhere near the numbers they alleged they were. At this point there won't even be a retail launch. At this point you will be lucky if they manufacture and ship your ridiculous limited edition Uhrmen's Folly by the end of the summer. Insert the sound of a plane falling and crashing here.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2013 23:51

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

canyoneer posted:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ouya-Android-Console-Brand-New-In-Box-/261203614624
Guys.
Guys.
GUYS.

You can get an OOMPALOOMPA on ebay, 3 days left and bidding is at $117!

What's the over/under on what this will end up selling for to some idiot?

Oh look! It's WendigoJohnson's totally real Ouya!!

# ¿ Apr 24, 2013 17:36

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 18:16

codenameFANGIO: May 4, 2012; What are you even booing here?

XboxPants posted:

No thanks, I don't actually think I should hand editorial control over to SA forum contests. I might write an article like that anyway, but it's not going to be because someone dared me to. (that "by julie" photoshop I made was for an article I was considering writing criticizing Julie's "shipping updates" - I didn't end up writing it largely just because we haven't really started yet. I'm not really writing anything yet)

I almost wrote something worth reading for my website, but then I didn't because um reasons. Oh well, time to write a fluff piece about a game's alpha build.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2013 22:35

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