Welp, not that I’d be able to afford the Series X to begin with, that showcase sure wasn’t very convincing.

Hope it doesn’t leak Zelda’s old Tweets, too.

As long as the project only hosts the source code, it’s fine. The source is fully reversed engineered code, and not Nintendo’s, but what the source compiles into could resemble the original binary, which is protected.

A few weeks ago I started looking back at my last-gen catalog. I’ve been getting tired of recent games that have been gradually turning into services that demand more time from me. FOMO, and all that.

God of War: Ghost of Sparta from the HD collection, and maybe a bit of Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts that I got in the mail the other day. It’s an awful Banjo Kazooie game, but I think on its own, with all the vehicle mechanics, it’s at least a decent enough game.

You can count on Ubisoft to get a head start on trying to upsell multiple editions and season passes before showing the first second of gameplay.

I can appreciate MS in trying, and at least still supports their last gen stuff, as opposed to the folks over in the blue corner. Though PS+ still has them beat yet again, allegedly getting Dying Light and Dark Souls Remastered for May.

(This is clearly sponsored content, but I’ll play along.)

(This is clearly sponsored content, but I’ll play along.)

Maybe Zone of the Enders 2 out of the HD collection. Jesus, I had no idea how short the first one was gonna be. Start to finish, was done with that game in a single morning. But now gonna try finishing God of War 2 and get to the Origins Collection or Ascension.

And it only took a year to catch up, for some reason.

True, they’re in the business of games, but physical media ownership should be much more straightforward than digital, where I don’t think GameFly has to answer to anyone when distributing used games.

Gamefly is a mail rental service for used physical media. That’s an entirely different industry.

And that’s where that difference is probably the main point of contention. You own the license to the game, and for PS4 Remote play or Steam Link, you also own the hardware. Or a friend does, who gave you permission to have access to it for a set period of time.

Shit, I didn’t finish my thought. “I think it boils down to how their model is setup.”

That’s a good point, I didn’t think about how Now is functionally similar to a cafe. Though I’m sure if there was a net cafe that operated on a scale like GeForce Now, rather than around a dozen local machines to use at a time, publishers would go after them as well.

Based on what I’ve read about the topic, that’s probably the reason these games are getting pulled. Publishers’ reasonings are vague, but it’s pointing to a licensing thing, which Nvidia seems to be trying to trying to sidestep, evidenced by the fact that they’ve put up games on their paid platform without permission.

I’ve been ordering a slew of PS3 discs of either games that were never rereleased or remastered on next-gen or PC platforms, or some of the forgotten games that never even got a PSN release. This weekend I’m probably gonna take a crack at the Zone of the Enders HD collection.

I would recommend just watching a playthrough on YouTube.

I did really enjoy FFXII, though it did start to feel a bit grindy at times, especially when you want to grind for good enough gear to take on some of the optional eidolons. The fast forward function in Zodiac is a great feature for it that remastered JRPGs should take advantage of more often.

That’s not a great analogy. It’s like playing a JRPG, but every now and then instead of attacking, you throw an egg on the ground. You can still make it enjoyable, but things take longer than they need to. There are a multitude of things I can still do, like hunt for DIY recipes in balloons, collect things, build…