Agreed, so hard. 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.

Katamari Damacy is still very, very fun to this very day. We went from top down to true 3d with MGS. The over-the-shoulder 3rd person view in RE4. For sony gamers it was…

The frustrating reality of this 4k obsession is also that almost no one actually sets up their living rooms in ways that even matters for the distinction between 1080p and 4k.

Focusing on 4K is a colossal waste. Focus on framerates, more complex simulations, higher player counts, ANYTHING but fucking 4K. Breath of the Wild looks just fine on my 4K set thanks to decent upscaling, and I would be perfectly contented if the next Switch remained a 1080p system.

That echoes my own concerns about Epic. Competition is generally good, as it promotes innovation and the consumer will typically see some benefit from the company trying to win them over. But like your Netflix example, they aren’t really bringing anything new to the table.

My problem has always been Epic pushing for exclusivity for exclusivity’s sake even if something has been sold/pre-sold on other retailers. Add in the total half-assing of their storefront/launcher while also starting a hypocritical conflict with Apple/Google while simultaneously trying to weaponize their fans for…

The best part of this is when you consider this conversation happened because a search engine got popular.

I mean, I think developers are going to put their game up on anything that’s willing to pay them for it on terms they find favorable. The only real question is whether Google’s willing to stick it out to develop a game-streaming subscription service.

For anyone that wants to know the difference, there was a lawsuit filed against Nintendo regarding Pokemon cards as gambling back in 1999. The lawsuit was dismissed by the judge.

The long and the short of it that makes a difference vs lootboxes is

1. Your ability to resell the product
2. You purchased something that has…

Yeesh that school shooter take. A fair amount of school shootings are perpetrated by kids/teens, his answer is just... Shoot them first?

I agree, but at the same time, I would like to have all my stuff in one place. The way I see it, if I don’t need to play a game right this second, I’m willing to wait and see what happens. My backlog is impossibly large as it is, so I can wait for either a huge price drop or for it to come to Steam. And then I can…

“Essentially every business resells their products,” said Jordan. “Tesco, for example, buys milk from farmers for 26p or so per litre and sells it on for upwards of 70p per litre. No one ever seems to complain to the extent as they are currently doing towards ourselves.”

It’s a bit more complicated than that. Fanboyism is definitely part of it for a lot of people, but there are some legitimate reasons to prefer a specific storefront. Features like Steam’s controller APIs, concerns of spreading your credit card info around, multiple download managers for people with limited internet,…

not being able to watch your Lord of the Rings 4k is some first world stuff.

That whole “selling used games as new” thing annoys the hell out of me. If I take a new game out of the store, rip the cellophane off, slap a sticker on it and try to bring it back in for a refund, they’d laugh in my face.

Continues? You can’t really ever buy in to any Google product early because it’s such a gamble of when they’re just gonna get bored with it and shut it down.  This is exactly why I never got on board with Stadia in the first place. Now its the studios, but how long until they just shudder the whole thing? It can’t be…

I still pretty regularly play Yars Revenge on emulators...I love that game. As a kid I got so good at it I got it to the “basically unplayable” speed where it would do the pinwheel the second you started and both it and the missile could move faster then you could.

When I was a kid I actually really liked ET.  It was one of the few Atari games where you had to do something other then shoot bad guys for the high score.  I liked that it wasn’t just like an arcade game.  It wasn’t until years later when the internet really became a thing that I learned it’s considered one of the…

Microsoft at least offered to release everything on PC and their own console. That’s miles better than Sony’s exclusives. Sony has gotten slightly better with their streaming service (which really isn’t what I want for a PC version but it’s better than nothing).

“So the Series X and S launch went relatively well, our top tier console edges out the competition in terms of power, our acquisitions have ensured that we’ll have a ton of high-demand exclusives this generation, and Game Pass is the talk of the industry. Now, how can we absolutely ruin this opportunity?”

*looks up from her switch*