I did some similar comparisons back in the C64/Amiga days. When I bought a game, I taxed its value to me by comparing it with what I would call the “cinema index”.
I paid roughly 10DM back then for a movie and a snack, which would entertain me for roughly 1,5-2 hours. So I set my cinema index at 5DM/hour.
When a game…

sorry, but that is dumb. If you go out on the road expecting to get run over by some idiot then you shouldn’t go out at all. Being in constant fear of getting hit makes you an unsafe driver yourself.
And all of this “passive security” added to more modern vehicles has actually reduced the ability for people to avoid…

Explain that to the guys who fork over the money to fund development. They see what sells, and the “can we do something similar”-effect sets in. If you can do it similar enough, but cheaper, people hope that players will jump ship even if you are not first to the party.
That may work to a certain extent, but how many…

I grew tired of my Fiesta XR2i 16V after it evolved several flaws at the same time that for me were un-fixable at that time (and too costly to have fixed).
Later, I grew tired of my Audi A4 B5 because the car was just too “ok” - it did everything well, but without any charm or finesse or fun. So I sold it for a Volvo…

heh, cute as it is, that thing would get you into quite a lot of trouble in Germany. Items like this are banned over here, and the police do not find it amusing if you are carrying stuff like this.
In fact, most stuff that could be used for self defense is considered an illegal weapon here, because it can also be used…

The AZ1 is all I would care about in that picture. Just perfect, and it looks very nice in blue :)

Okay, let me be the first to say it:
This was the dumbest idea ever.
If you make a game that is played worldwide and send players on a treasure hunt, then make sure that everyone can participate.
If this had been given away at a local convention - so be it, a huge con can’t be held everywhere.
But like this, I feel…

For one I think that their response ist somewhat better than a normal “demonstration” or outright vandalism.
I just hope that they do the decent thing and clean up after them and don’t damage the park too much. Because otherwise stuff like this will put an end to the semi-toleration of cookouts in that area (they were…

Sitting in Germany here. Though we are quite envious towards the Swiss, they get a lot of nice deals on technical stuff over there. On the other hand, living costs there are extremely high, so...
But I’ve seen the Xbox One X being available as low as 350€ (brand new), and there was a trick to get it that cheap even…

Thankfully MS offered the Xbox One S users the option of running some older titles in 4K now, too.
The real performance upgrades are ofcourse limited to the X, but at least the X is really much, much beefier than the normal Xbox One.
I cannot justify the extra price tag for the PS4 Pro though, knowing that it costs the…

Ah, sorry, I didn’t look at the date of your post, it was just presented to me while browsing the comments to this article.
Yes, you are correct, back then the situation was different, I still stand by my statement though that the baseXbox One is not extremely less powerful than the base PS4, though it was stopped…

LAM = LandAirMech, akin to a Valkyrie from Macross. Can transform between Mech, fighter jet, and a hybrid form. There were 3 basic LAMs in the first edition of Battletech, two light Mechs and one medium (Stinger, Wasp and Phoenix Hawk) and they were featured in early literature as marvels of technology, but too…

Well, a new Xbox One S with controller and game retails here for around 160 € including taxes.
What kind of PC can I get for that?

you have to tell me what you mean by “loss of fidelity” on the XBOne though. With most console multiplatform games it is hardly noticeable, with most pc/xbox cross play games it is noticeable, but you need such a high-end pc to get an advantage that I’d rather sit back and play the game on the console.
And the point…

It is very competitive, even without the camera. The power of that phone and the features it packs are really top notch.
The whole package just... works like it should, I cannot find any better way to describe it.

A hot topic indeed. Let me tell you some stories what happened in Germany.
Here, we have all but abandoned our “traditional” school system in favor of something called “Gesamtschule”.
Our old system was split in four (five acturally):
Grundschule (years 1-4, mandatory for everybody.
afterwards you’d get a recommendation…

will do :)
And no, not the only attainable for me, but the only one that is reliable and dependable enough to drive it daily, while still retaining a nice amount of practicality.
And not being a Boxster, because... yes, it drives well and everything, but... somehow is just not for me ^^
Apart from that, my number two…

Says who?
Surely not the 170.000 people who have originally bought a 996 - more people than all models before them sold.

You are mistaking demand artificially created through scarcity by collectors and fans of certain rare models for quality. Because the higher-end models of older 911 are now out of (financial) touch…

I don’t see the problem?

Still can’t follow your point. As a matter of fact, I think the Porsche 997 cockpit is way worse looking - all those angles don’t make any sense to me, and the steering wheels look plain ugly, especially those with the round airbag. The center console just looks like an upright slab of concrete which hat the…