PC gaming shows that most of this hand wringing over digital release console games really is just pearl clutching. The worst thing that will happen is that eventually everyone will move over to PC, killing the console market entirely, or consoles will become their own Steam-type stores.

You don’t own a game, full stop, digital or otherwise. You have a license, and that's it. 

Even graded on a nostalgia curve it only managed an 84. That is mediocre.

According to every review I’ve seen, it’s a mediocre game. That’s separate from it having no cultural impact.

McDonald’s has way more cultural relevance than In-n-Out. Does that make it a better burger?

Some entertainment lasts and becomes culture.

Nope, didn’t say anything approaching that. You have established that people have bought and played the game. You have not established that anyone cares about the game after they’re done with it. It’s disposable entertainment.

Again, none of your data supports your claim that people care about it today. You’re just making assumptions based on secondary data.

People cared, for a month. Then it left the collective subconscious.

Imagine if you devoted 1/10th of the energy you expended defending a billionaire on anything else. Like, for example, the people she brazenly wishes to disenfranchise.

I don’t remember anyone saying no one cared, but I would expect some to say that w/ the internet being what it is. OTOH I do remember a few posters pointing out that the anti-Rowling crowd was risking boosting the game via Streisand Effect and also creating a thing for culture warriors to turn into a rallying point.

Man I am getting old. the last tomb raider I played was the 2013 one which I really enjoyed 

This is more of a broad statement than a comment on GAME’s prices specifically (mainly as I haven’t even seen a GAME in ages), but the big savings on second hand games are in older titles. As in, wait a year or two and the price is halved or quartered. It makes console gaming a really cheap hobby if you're patient.

“Printers have never worked. Well, never when anyone’s ever needed them to. They work when you first set them up, and they print that text page to get your hopes up, but when you have to have that boarding pass printed out and the flight’s leaving in 43 minutes, it won’t even light up. This is because, as previously…

Some people paid extra to get to play it a few days early!

I think his point was that if a studio actually hired VAs to do every single line for every single iteration until the final one was determined, that level of volume would run into the millions.

Gonna get the mailroom guy to record 12,000 lines? Because it wasn’t just those 8 lines, they surely started with every single line recorded by text to speech and then replaced by the final audio as it was recorded.

I remember loving the original PS2 RE2, in particular the ending knocked it out of the park. The ending in the remake? Complete fizzile. Really left a bad taste.

I did enjoy the RE2 remake very much, but in my opinion, the Dead Space remake is the best survival horror game I’ve ever played. 

honestly this. While I’m ok with them offering the option, there’s no way in hell I’ll choose a red console over a black one.