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Not counting PC since that is easy mode, I would probably say the Wii for me personally. I have had: n64, gc, gameboy (pocket, color, and advance), DS, and ps2 besides the Wii. But I think I put more hours on the Wii than any of those. Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Zelda Twilight Princess, smash bros, and mario kart wii. Very solid catalogue. Plus it had the virtual console and was what allowed me to play some old classics like Super Metroid and Donkey Kong Country 2. I never had a snes growing up so that was pretty huge to me. I even cut my teeth on some FPS games like call of duty, world at war and conduit lol.

The Wii might be cheating a bit too since a lot of my fondness for it does come from its backwards compatibility with the Gamecube, and gamecube games were still very relavent during that time. Metroid Prime 1 and 2, part of the Trilogy of course. Smash bros melee. I even had the Zelda collectors edition disc which had GC ports of zelda OOT and MM.

So yeah Wii was definitely kind of cheating since in some ways in my nostalgia I mix it up with basically every Nintendo system that came before it heh. But even on its own it had a solid lineup IMO.

Probably the only good mobile games are ports of console/pc games. There are some surprising ports, like the KOTOR games, medieval 2 total war, and lots of square enix's older catalogue. Fortnite, genshin impact, and pubg are probably the biggest games on mobile right now. But yeah nothing really worth going out of your way for, or even bother with at all, if you already have a gaming pc or steam deck.

Maayybee the only real usecase is if you are going backpacking and want to bring some games into the backcountry with you without lugging a steam deck along lol. Digital board games like Root and Wingspan would work well there and have pass around modes if you are with friends. Just remember to bring a battery bank with you, or a portable solar cell.

Yeah, it is basically impossible for me to use the stock switch for anything more than an hour handheld with my hands cramping up. I ended up having to get some rubber grips with a palm bumpout in order for it to be remotely comfortable.

The steam deck is a huge upgrade in that regard. Significantly more comfortable to hold. Plus, the steam deck is capable of emulating pretty much anything on the switch full speed :). On top of all of that is barely even costs more lol.

Out of the 2D metroids, I think Super Metroid still takes the cake. Dread and 2r are still pretty good but there is a reason why super metroid game design gets taught in college game design courses. One of the best games of all time probably, still trades blows even with good modern metroidvanias. I played it for the first on in the Wii back when I was in high school so this isn't even nostalgia talking, I even played it after the Prime games.

For the 3d ones, both Prime and Prime 2 are classics imo. Just the sheer immersion is something you don't find too often in video games. Prime 2 gets a lot of flak for the ammo system and dark world constant damage, but I think those were useful improvements to balance the game since Prime 1 is quite an easy game. They do add a decent amount of friction to traversing the world and makes the dark world feel actually dangerous to be in. Prime 3 was a bit more forgettable but still not a bad game.

Can't believe I saw no mention of adblockers in this thread yet. On android you can get firefox set up with ublock origin and also other add ons, including dark reader and sponsorblock. Firefox on ios doesn't have that functionality.

Adblocker that I can control is way too big of a functionality. I can never go over to ios.

PayPal is always an option. If it isn't an option then nope the fuck out.

Often mentioned here that strikes a chord with me is the ability to install Firefox and load it with ad blocker, sponsorblock, and dark reader addons. Get your youtube ad free easy this way.

If somebody is old enough to work at a Target and get yelled at by Karens they automatically deserve the right to vote in my book.

Actually sounds like a pretty standard case of feature creep, the bane of all large scale software. A vicious cycle of trying to do too much, failing, and then needing more people to maintain all of the crappy code. All the while they can't make any actual forward progress on things that do matter.

Not sure why they had to blow up like that. At its core Reddit should have been relatively simple to create and maintain.

Holy shit does that thing have functionality. Elden Ring split screen with only one copy? Deep Rock Galactic split screen? Dark Souls 1 and 3? Sign me the fuck up!

Wingspan is a very solid port of the board game.

Since Wingspan is on there, why not put tabletop simulator on there too? It has got pretty much the same set of features in regards to multiplayer.

On that note, both of these games also have a "pass controller around" feature as well.

Diablo 1 is a very different game than what comes next. It much more more slow paced and methodical. It has a tenseness to it thanks to the danger and how slow your character moves.

Diablo 2 basically defined the modern isometric action RPG genre. Many fans claim it is still the best entry in the genre and the game is good enough to back that up. It's got a good balance of speed, action, build customization, and the campaign is fun to play through. You can play it either casually or min max a build. The only major criticism I have is that physical based builds tend to lack compared to magic/elemental builds until you learn your runewords and get decent gear (or twink your character out with gear from another character). Diablo 2 also got a really good looking remake recently.

I can't speak for Diablo 3 or 4 too much. My experience with Diablo 3 was playing it on couch co-op with friends a few times. It was alright as a mindless beat em up but it didn't really have any of that classic diablo 2 magic.

Diablo 4 I will probably wait for a deep sale to get. It is an online only game which means that it can be killed or made significantly worse like what Blizzard did with Overwatch. Unlike a single player game, with a game like this you can't roll back your client version to a version you like if the devs screw the game up. Plus all of the reviews I have seen so far say it doesn't really have anything over D2. Graphics wise D2 looks about just as good thanks to its recent remake, plus it's not way too zoomed in like D4 is camera wise.

My overall suggestion - Get D2R on sale for like 13 bucks or something. If you like it then maybe get Diablo 4 later on when its the same price or less.