SNES RPGs were often $70-$75 (e.g. FF6, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire 2, etc.). Console games at $60 is a relative bargain considering that from 1995 to 2010, inflation has risen 46% from then. Put another way, those cartridges were equivalent to $110(!) in today's money.

Movie tickets are the same price regardless of how long the film is and how much the production cost is. Movie rentals are priced equally as well. Music CDs for full albums released by major record companies are almost all the same price. Most digital music downloads are all the same price within the same online…

I honestly don't see why that should affect whether you want to play the game. Regardless of whether you're travelling back in time or not, you — the game player — are still doing all the things that are happening on screen, whether or not its a character from the present or a character from the past... And all the…

What do you mean "Where's ____?" when most of the games you listed WERE on there at some point but exchanged for others. Watch the videos (or recaps of previous seasons) and you'll see exactly where they were and why they were taken off.

If on screen numbers is what you're talking about then this is easily solved by simply having options to hide the numbers. I vaguely remember some RPGs that let you hide the dice rolls and number calculations. They were all handled behind the scenes.

I suspect that the worst that can happen if someone gets a hold of your Steam account is that you can't play the games that you paid money for... and I suspect that alone is quite bad enough for many gamers (particularly ones with thousands of dollars of games in their accounts).

I'm not quite sure why some people are taking this intentionally-lightly-humorous video and turning into some soapbox forum about the state of sound and music in modern gaming. He's intentionally using sounds and processing effects that are very contrary to the spirit of the game. That's the point of it — to take such…

I don't know if I was just stupid or if this should be obvious, but I was stuck for a long time because I was trying to login using the MyCrysis account I setup. Turns out you use your Gamespy account to login. Doing that, I immediately was able to get in. I don't know if you can ALSO use your MyCrysis account, but…

Having a dedicated sound card is really something you file under the "if you care" folder. If you don't really care too much about your audio sounding "great" then an onboard soundcard is perfectly fine, so long as it has the basic features you want (e.g. proper outputs, 5.1, etc.). However, if you DO care about great…

~50 rounds in and I conclude that I possess an uncanny ability to think like a computer

I know Handsome Al was being (semi-)facetious, but I built my current PC 5 years ago for $1000 and the only part of it I've upgraded is my video card, which I upgraded 2.5 years ago. I still run every game on the market now (including all the heavy-hitters) on at LEAST "high" settings at 1920x1200. Have faith, your PC…

@Slagathorian: Save the trees and kill the children.: I was discussing this with a friend the other day. It's hard for me to fathom why you'd keep a redesign that the users so actively and loudly dislike. I'm well aware of "vocal minority" and all that, but it's extremely hard to find anyone AT ALL that likes the…

@spatoola: Yeah, I'm aware of that. Liberals are also responsible for individually placing every photon of light coming from space to make it LOOK like stars are billions of light-years from Earth. But come on now, stars billions of years old? WTFLOL!

Since we're talking about planets, the only "us" that can be used is the planet Earth itself, which is approximately 4.5 billion years old. So compared to "us", 7 million vs. 4540 million years old is very young indeed. If the Earth were a human (with lifetime about 75 years), this would be equivalent to a 42 day old…

It's great that you take the time to read the article but the fact of the matter is — and this has been proven over and over throughout the course of humanity — people are incredibly lazy. Just check out any studies or statistics on how people surf the web. People as a whole do not click. Things that require you to…

It's great that you take the time to read the article but the fact of the matter is — and this has been proven over and over throughout the course of humanity — people are incredibly lazy. Just check out any studies or statistics on how people surf the web. People as a whole do not click. Things that require you to…

To think, 2pac's commercial output (while alive) only spanned FIVE YEARS (1991-1996), during which he released 4 main albums and was probably in the studio nonstop the rest of the time (enough to have 5000 albums worth of posthumous material). Although I didn't like the direction he started turning towards when he…

For many players, its simplicity or non-simplicity has a great effect on how much people enjoy the game.

I'm pretty sure that is the problem with EVERY open-world or sandbox game... "Open-World Paralysis", as I refer to it. A large number of my friends suffer from the same issue. Sometimes you have to just tell yourself, "Alright, I'm just gonna run through the main missions to get the juice out of the story and if I'm…

@coffinmouth: There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with preferring a tightly-constructed, more-bang-for-your-gaming-hour experience. If I wanted to watch an action movie, I'd be much happier if the movie was a tightly paced 2 hour movie, rather than have the same amount of action spread over 15 hours. Furthermore, me…