Yeah. While I opted for Series X’s over the Series S, the latter has always felt like a console that should have exceptionally broad appeal, partly (mostly?) because of GamePass.

A decent pc build still costs several orders of magnitude more. It's a ridiculous statement "now that the lambo is less expensive, I don't get why anyone buys Toyota". The graphics card alone costs as much as a console, double if it's a series s. 

Oh bullshit. The last dying breath of physical media on consoles notwithstanding, the vast majority of gamers give zero fucks. As the PC guys. If you’re one of the raving physical apologists who dedicate a room to thousands of games, enjoy, there’s a console for that. For everyone else, it’s not a loss.

“At times Arceus gives off the vibe of a Nintendo 64 game in HD.”

“ I’d consider buying steaks from him if they were good steaks.”

Guy has been innovating failure for years.

The only appreciable difference I can see is that these are far more blatant in their ego-stroking, and while steaks and water might have required some kind of infrastructure to produce an actual physical product, an NFT is a digital nothingburger, of which you can produce & sell amounts limited only by the suckers…

How is it different from “Trump Steaks” or “Trump Water” though? Those failed too, didn’t stop him from winning an election. It’s stupid, expensive, poor-quality, and long after the fad died. On brand for him.

In his statement he claims that these are limited edition cards featuring amazing art of his life and career. Then proceeds to have “art” of him as some quasi superman, a freakin astronaut, Rambo style paramilitary cowboy(?), etc.
AND releases them as NFT right when financial outlets report that the NFT market has lost…

I don’t know how you figure that. Elden Ring lets the player make choices that affect the outcome of the story. Horizon certainly doesn’t.

I would argue that if a game is "wait for a sale" than it probably doesn't belong on a best of list.

Ah, the ps5, a notoriously available console that’s easy to buy. 

Hogwarts Legacy takes place roughly a hundred years before the books, which might explain the seemingly blase attitude of the in-universe characters to child torture

Neither would I but I wouldn’t consider Horizon to be an RPG either. I’m curious as to what criteria the writer was using. Seems like side-missions + character progression = RPG? Grounded has both of those things so by that logic, it would also be an RPG.

Yeah, the comment about Switch sales slowing down as the Steam Deck heats up was a little silly. As mentioned, the Steam Deck is no longer held back by wait times or stock. I don’t know if the Deck will even have lifetime sales of what the Switch sold in just 2022.

Steam deck sold a million units in the last year, which to put that in context, the nintendo switch sold a million units in the last week. 

I can already see it, Steam Deck is great, but what we will really love is Steam Deck 2. It will get a couple of great quality of life upgrades, and we will all eagerly anticipate Steam Deck 3, but that will never come out.

Thanks for the detailed response, that all sounds pretty good.

The pixel remasters are basically like a smoothed-out, cohesive remake for the first 6 games that all of them graphically on-par with FFV/FFIV, except for VI, which still looks better than the others. The music has been remastered in a way that was almost universally well-received as sounding great while being…

De, they've been out for a year now. They're very, very good Remasters.