I really can’t see anyone shelling out $80.00 for cardboard though.

I totally get what you mean, and I just turned thirty :P It’s a cool idea, a neat concept, and I can see how some people - kids particularly - would be all over this.

But it’s also a gimmick. The games might be fun, but they’re not likely to be “spend forty hours playing this” fun, it’s more likely they’ll be sort of…

What do you mean two spiritual successors? There’s only this one, the other game is dead in the water now that this has been announced :P

Well, the original creators of Theme Hospital just announced their own Hospital Sim, out this year, which looks way more charming than this (it looks like TH in 3D.)

So I guess this one is dead regardless :P

resellable games

Hasn’t this always been the status quo with The Sims?

It was also only available in America.

I have not looked at the stats in the last 2 years, but 2 years ago when VR made its debut, Nvidia released stats on their vid cards sold that were VR capable (9xx era and early 10xx era), that number was around the 1 million mark at the time.

And how can you be so sure the PC userbase is smaller than the console ones if you never release stuff at the same time for both? There’s clearly a huge market for PC games - most console games salivate by just thinking about the sales numbers of Civilization, XCOM, The Sims, Stardew Valley, Divinity: Original Sin 2,…

It is not JUST boys asking for the pics, girls also don’t seem to be doing it as much. A lot of posters are also leaving out that the young people sending the pictures - even if coerced into sending the pictures - may be aroused by the idea of a partner begging to see them etc. And teenagers, neurologically, are not…

I did the opposite. Sister used to expect me to send her a list of not-too-expensive stuff each year. A couple years back I told her to fuck off and figure it out herself, since I don’t go around asking people for lists - I just find stuff they’ll like on my own. Curiously the quality of the stuff she gives me has…

Wouldn’t be so sure. If there’s a political group that often goes up in arms about video games being damaging, that’s the GOP.

There used to be a hacked version a few years back that would give you donuts like crazy while working with the official EA servers - so you could just install the hack, get hundreds of thousands of donuts in minutes, then go back to the default app with all that stuff.

I’m not saying I used it, but then again I…

My take is she probably heard about it, but didn’t have any proof. Raising allegations against a man such as Weinstein without having proof or being a victim is a very nice way of getting yourself sued for slander and losing your job along the way.

That vibrating bed looks so fucking tacky I feel like starting a petition for Maxis to put it in TS4 and all future Sims installments. I mean, we made a scandal out of no hot tubs but let THIS MAGNIFICENT ITEM slip by for THREE CONSECUTIVE GENERATIONS?

This is absurd.

If anyone is looking to get The Long Dark for PC, it’s the current Humble Monthly and you can get it for $12 along with Dawn of War 3, Quantum Break, and a handful of surprise games.

That’s... not what permadeath entails. Permadeath implies death is permanent, and is a common feature of roguelikes - Binding of Isaac, FTL, Rogue Legacy, Enter the Gungeon, Dungeon of the Endless, Sword of the Stars: The Pit are games where permadeath exists. In all of them if you die, you have to start over. In some…

It only gets toxic in high-level competitive, so if you want in just give it a try. I’m not a really competitive player, so I’ve had a blast playing it in quick match. In over 100 hours I think I’ve only had a match or two I’ve deemed toxic, and usually reporting or muting people takes but two clicks.

Generally it’s…

And they got in trouble how?

Tell the whole story!

Curiously I’m extremely prone to motion sickness (I could never finish the first PREY, the waterbike parts on HL2 and Beyond Good and Evil forced me to spend hours in bed afterwards unable to move, and I can only play the latest Hitman game in spurts rarely longer than an hour) and DOOM is one of the few games that…