Uh, some of us actually own quite a lot of Playstation 1 games, and CDs are not hard to rip. I dumped a large number of RPGs on there as soon as it became relatively easy to set up.

The answer is no, they’re not going to survive it culturally, because they’ve already been rotted away the last few years under threat of what is now actually happening. The latest World of Warcraft expansion, Battle for Azeroth, released on a specific time table, and did so in horrendous shape. It is a picture of…

This is becoming an increasingly worrying trend, especially after Nintendo showed that they have no trouble sunsetting a digital storefront only two generations old with the closing of the Wii eShop. I really feel like it should be a certification requirement for the entirety of the base game, functioning well enough…

I was going to say, if a 5% XP boost “breaks” the game, Bethesda has way bigger problems they need to address (and based on videos and comments about the game, they absolutely do).

No, he is not; as I wrote above, he is a normal person who split himself before the start of KH1.

**SPOILERS FOR KH1/KH2 and a bit from Birth by Sleep**

Everglow’s Kingdom Hearts Timeline video series is as comprehensive as it could possibly be, but is currently at 90 videos (and just reached the start of Kingdom Hearts 2 in terms of where in the timeline it is). So you may want to watch parts of it to cover some of the more confusing pieces of the series like the…

To be clear, if you really want to understand what’s going on in the mobile chunk of the story, English players don’t actually have complete access to it, because a portion of the story from Kingdom Hearts chi (the original cellphone title) has not yet been re-introduced in the current mobile title, and they appear to…

Because that wouldn’t rake them in cash. Note that they also increased the price of the digital ticket another $10 this year up to $50. FIFTY DOLLARS for a video on demand stream that frequently has problems, plus a few digital items in their games, which were also pretty lackluster this year. I am exceedingly glad I…

I think you’re right about this. I think they’re still trying to figure out the infinite-income model that can be applied to Diablo on the PC/consoles that they can get away with. The cynic in me wonders if this mobile game is to test the waters and see how much they can get away with (based on some Reddit comments…

They changed their recipe a few years back and are now significantly worse than they used to be IMO. And it’s not me imagining things, I asked on their Facebook page and their PR person admitted a number of the components changed, although they obviously tried to spin it as positive. I’m guessing they managed to save…

I called the system of loot boxes bullshit.  Lack of reading comprehension seems to be a deficiency on your side, not my own.

Gambling is not regulated exclusively because of the fact that money is potentially gained in the process, it’s regulated because it has the capacity to utterly destroy people’s lives and finances because of the way it affects them psychologically into spending money repeatedly. If loot boxes have the exact same…

Yes well, in this case it’s paid treatment for a problem Nintendo themselves implemented (not being allowed to back up your save data from the system in the first place).  So the fact that even their paid implementation for cloud saving is also poor is doubly egregious.

Well, thanks to the influx of indie titles on Switch that I hadn’t already bought on Steam, I actually do have quite a lot of unactivated games sitting in my pile, and I own pretty much all the games I wanted from Wii U and 3DS, so I don’t expect there to be anything there that I’d want.  The whole reason I didn’t…

Activating the games is what I meant.  Mentally I still think about it like the old 3DS codes.  Hopefully those give the currency you can use for this and not some worthless side currency that only gives discounts on digital games, because I only buy digital as a last resort.

This is pretty much the only reason I might subscribe at the moment.  I have a ton of codes I’ve never put in, so if those get me enough coins, I’ll sub for a year.

I like AI’s videos because not only do they somehow have eye tracking working really well, but at times she’s just incredibly petty and flips out like the average gamer would when frustrated.  Her channel is more “real” in my opinion than some of the others.  And yes, I get that she’s still playing to a particular…

You’re definitely not wrong about the writing devolving to the level of the average comic book for a while, and at this point I’d say it’s devolved to the level of badly written ones. Also, I wasn’t a fan of Starcraft 2's writing either. They did a couple retcons and then turned to some bad comic tropes as it went on,…

I did start with Drustvar, which is why the later zones felt so utterly mediocre. Drustvar looked like it got all the polish time and had far fewer completely unconnected questing hubs just sitting out in the world hoping you’d find them and be willing to do grunt work for no story reason. Even the couple in Drustvar…