This is interesting because it ties into what I’ve been saying since a good while about this F2P trend. The main reason why the F2P aspects are often seen as “bad parts” (and they are), is because it’s about willingly making an aspect of the game sucks and then ask people to pay real money to “fix it”. At its heart,…

True, but to an extent. When you said “rule exists to serve people”, that works, but as long as people aren’t stupid. And truth is, there are a lot of stupid people out there. For instance, if people mostly don’t stop at an intersection, it may be because the intersection is badly designed, or it may be that…

A roundabout is something that ultimately relies on the intelligence of drivers to work. Which is a gamble. They’ve built one about a decade ago near where I live, and since then, I always consider this a lot more dangerous than the previous stop sign because people don’t know sh!t about how this work. Like someone…

Because the industry doesn’t treat games as art to be preserved but products to sell

Where I live, you usually have to study and get a degree in journalism to be hired by any major and serious news outlet as reporter.

On the news this morning where I live was a bit about a local “celebrity” running a health-related business being found guilty by the court of “illegal practice of medicine” for having mislead viewers in some videos they produced over them being qualified to give medical advice. Which goes with what you’re saying. If…

It’s still on Steam and on Switch at least, and probably other platforms as well. I already have it on Switch but if I didn’t have it I’d pay the $10 or so to get it. Even compared to "free to play", this is a better deal. And it's still tons of fun.

But I love Puzzle Quest, so I will stick with Puzzle Quest 3 for a bit

That Secret of the Ooze movie ended my interest for any possible movie franchise this was set up to turn into. The first one was awesome partly because while the cartoon was an inspiration for it, it never forgot that it’s not a cartoon, and felt like a proper movie. That second movie felt like they literally wanted…

Man, I remember playing this game to death back in the days.... I think TrackMania Nations United was the best in the series. I tried following editions, but they weren’t as fun IMO. This game has that “oh, f*ck it, just one more race” hook that make you realize suddenly that it’s 3:30 am and you’ll need to get up at…

I get your point too, but I think it depends on how someone look at money, income, value, etc... For instance, I much prefer thinking in terms of “buying power” when talking about things costing more or less than they used to. Simply because money, in the abstract, is just numbers. Money only mean something when we…

I still prefer to play a lot of these 20 year old games than most games that are out today. Damn, I miss SSX tricky, which was the best in the franchise. The last one on 360/PS3 wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t as good.

The thing with inflation is that most people salaries aren’t adjusted to match. And inflation, if I’m not mistaken, is not exactly the same thing as the “cost of living”, as there are a lot of things it doesn’t take into account when it is calculated.

Compared to most (if not all) of the modern civilized world, Healthcare in the U.S. (well, what passes as healthcare) is fucking shit, actually.

Bingo.

I get it from a technical curiosity standpoint. And I can get how these are interesting when taken like that. I too am interested in technical details and how a team was able to do something on less powerful hardware and things like that. But maybe I’m just burned out of often seeing these type of videos being used in…

I always find these comparisons weird. I mean, the Switch has been built with a chip that was meant to be energy efficient to be usable in a portable manner. OF COURSE it’s never going to match the power in those new shiny consoles, and even the old PS4 and XB1 are more powerful. The Switch innards aren’t even in same…

I understand why some people would want a remake, but the remake they’re wanting will never happen. Could a remake happen? Sure. But not the one they wanted. For exactly the reasons you mentioned.

So many “hey let’s see if people like this” kinda games, and the industry has been piggy backing off of that ingenuity ever since.

Completely agree with what you said, but note that good 4K TVs also have a thing called HDR that, IMO, makes a bigger difference than a simple up in resolution that most don’t notice because they’re sitting at a normal viewing distance (vs the size of TV of course).