Well at least we got this in 2023:

I feel like Wingspan is a game that I should love, on paper. In practice I haven’t really enjoyed it. I need to try it with fewer than 5 players and see if that helps.

Sure, that’s a position you can take. But you’re completely ignoring my point, 0f course, as those who argue in bad faith are wont to do. If nobody pays for human-created art anymore, human-created art will mostly cease to be produced. And AI-created art will then also stagnate. Maybe that’s an acceptable outcome for…

The ethically dubious thing about AI art specifically is that it’s trained on images that are stolen from artists without their knowledge or permission. It’s like money laundering, but for art. In fact you’re right, it’s not ethically dubious, it’s uneqivocally immoral, and should be illegal.

There’s no definitive proof that TotK is in trouble, but the Nintendo guarantee of quality isn’t as bulletproof as it once was, not since they released the jankiest Pokémon games ever.

I wonder if this will be an instance of a bug that only affects hackers or the like, or whether it’s just a case of GameFreak dropping the ball hard. Neither would surprise me at this point.

Didn’t that version still have some dialog removed?

I frequent BoardGameGeek plenty, but I find their ratings as useless as IMDB’s.

Not everybody that defends this $70 price is a capitalist shill though. Probably not even most of them.

I was going to say, “Depends on your definition of ‘soon’”, but actually it might not. I’m guessing there will be two or three more Nintendo-published Switch games that cost $70 before they release their next console. Maybe four.

This is a paradigm you’ve constructed though. The way I think of it is that the true price of Breath of the Wild is $80, but you can get the vast majority of it for $60. And I mean, what a deal! You saved 25%. Even without the DLC, Breath of the Wild is easily worth $80 to me.

I think there will still be paid DLC in addition to the $70 price, and personally I’m fine with that. Breath of the Wild with its DLC was $80. I got way more than $80 of fun out of the game, and will probably get yet more out of it down the road.

I guess it somehow hadn’t hit me until just now how much Nintendo seem to prioritize hardware sales over, say, software sales. And sure you need the hardware first, but with a massive install base like the Switch has, software should be very profitable. I would have guessed that the margins for software were far…

There’s a hot air balloon, a tractor…

“I couldn’t be bothered to watch more than a couple of the support conversations, and also there wasn’t much real character development.”

“Crackdown” is a noun. “Netflix could crack down harder on US customers”

Whoa, Genshin Impact has only been out for two years? With the amount you talk about it, I honestly thought it was 4 or 5 years old at this point.

I don’t know how much they’re going to be able to explain when their game has you playing as a cute little astronaut, doesn’t have voice chat and only lets players communicate via a menu of pre-written lines.

I bounced off of FFTA, and I don’t think it was just because of the kiddy aesthetic. It’s also just mechanically different in a lot of ways that some folks don’t enjoy. Also after going back to it a few weeks ago, I’m not a fan of the interface.

Wow, Final Fantasy II (actually IV) is also on Game Boy for $29.99! They really did their research there. Presumably they’re conflating it with Final Fantasy Legends II, which is actually a SaGa game.