I’ve somehow managed to capture a bit of childhood wonder with videogames of all things again.
Way back when I was a kid, my uncle showed me Super Mario Sunshine on the Gamecube, and I was blown away by how good it looked. Clear water, beautiful scenery, bright colors. I was absolutely astonished. It felt like I was living in the future.
When I was a bit older and got my first gaming PC, I felt that same sense of wonder seeing Ironforge populated with so many people running around in their cool armor and epic mounts.
It’s been a hot minute since then, and I haven’t been wowed like that again until now, when I’ve slid my phone into a controller and steamlink’s a fully modded skyrim from my PC to it. I just spent a couple hours marvelling at how sick that is that I can do that, lying on the couch and experiencing real ass games.
Now granted, the switch and the psp / vita etc have all been around for a minute, but this is my doomscrolling machine, turned into a handheld console with as high end graphics and mods as I can handle on my PC. It blew my mind since I’ve been dismissing the phone gaming ecosystem as little more than microtransaction shovelware hell for the longest time. It’s just really neat!
I’ve somehow managed to capture a bit of childhood wonder with videogames of all things again.
Way back when I was a kid, my uncle showed me Super Mario Sunshine on the Gamecube, and I was blown away by how good it looked. Clear water, beautiful scenery, bright colors. I was absolutely astonished. It felt like I was living in the future.
When I was a bit older and got my first gaming PC, I felt that same sense of wonder seeing Ironforge populated with so many people running around in their cool armor and epic mounts.
It’s been a hot minute since then, and I haven’t been wowed like that again until now, when I’ve slid my phone into a controller and steamlink’s a fully modded skyrim from my PC to it. I just spent a couple hours marvelling at how sick that is that I can do that, lying on the couch and experiencing real ass games.
Now granted, the switch and the psp / vita etc have all been around for a minute, but this is my doomscrolling machine, turned into a handheld console with as high end graphics and mods as I can handle on my PC. It blew my mind since I’ve been dismissing the phone gaming ecosystem as little more than microtransaction shovelware hell for the longest time. It’s just really neat!