New Episodes

These are some new episodes of the Jokatech Podcast, and the ongoing series- "The Beast"
Please enjoy

What happened to Nintendo's Identity???

 For years I and many others grew up in an era where Nintendo always brought integrity to the game as a company. Regardless of how kiddy or imbalanced its libraries were at times, we always counted on them, as a company, to provide an old-school approach to games, without the bells and whistles that convoluted everything.

 However, over time, they have slowly acquiesced to the public and the majority. Now, starting this month, the online service has begun, requiring gamers to pay a fee in order to play any of the online content in any of their games. The issue with this, is that today, online and single player are for some ridiculous reason, fused together in most games. For instance, 2K sports decided that the cinematic single player campaign in NBA 2K18 needed to be married to the online server. So you have to connect to the server and the internet, in order to play your character's customized campaign. What the heck does my career have to do with interaction with players around the world. That was totally stupid and unnecessary. So what that means, is that once the pay services dropped. My career is locked, cinematics and all, until I pay for a monthly subscription. And many games are making the majority of their modes online, and the offline modes are scant, and often integrated into some need to access the server.

  It is a stain on their name that Nintendo has bought into this idiotic philosophy. I am sincerely thinking over how much I will continue to support them. I play games, at this point, when I can, and to work on my solo game, going online at my leisure. What the gaming industry is telling gamers like myself, is that we don't belong. Either we get on the grid and force paying subscriptions we hardly use and constant downloads and updates that are often unnoticeable or damaging to the game, or we just don't play games.

New Playlists on SoundCloud

  In the near future, I'm going to be condensing some album material on Soundcloud. This will be extended mixes of the records opposed to individual tracks. This is partially due to space limitation on the site. Hopefully, this won't affect how much content is available on the site. However, the idea is to draw traffic to my Spotify page, where more of my catalog is available. Please stay tuned for updates in the near future. Thank you.