They doxxed Felicia Day because she confessed to being afraid someone would dox her. That's the level of shitlord attaching themselves to that movement.

I like the use of greasy as a behavioral descriptor, well done

You have 2,503 comments according to your Disqus profile. Imagine if you'd spent all that time doing something socially meaningful.

Then who are you to lament the time other people spend doing something they enjoy because you deemed it not socially productive?

[long pause]
Leela: Fry, shut up a minute! Look at this!

Yeah, there is a kind of mind that rejects and distorts all forthcoming information to reinforce the belief in the conspiracy. You start with the belief and pick and choose evidence based on how it fits the belief.

I think MGS2's story is brilliant, but it gets way up its own ass in how it tells it. Makes the way the rooms are named in Arsenal Gear really damned appropriate.

I didn't see this as clickbaity at all, even though I don't think the premise entirely works. Just because the argument might be off-base doesn't mean it was disingenuously made.

The problem I see with the correlation drawn between backwards compatibility and risk-averse nostalgia mining is compatibility probably loses money they could be making from re-releasing old games via the digital marketplace. But I agree with the broader idea of both the industry and gamers themselves preferring what…

Yeah, I don't think anyone would stop buying games entirely, but having access to a larger library means you could afford to skip new games you're kind of interested in but don't need to play right this second. Or at least, that's the fear, I guess.

I don't think backward compatibility is part of the same phenomenon that revisits old IPs and remakes old classics instead of creating new ones. BC is about preserving gaming history and being able to play things we already own, rather than having to buy them again whenever the industry deems it appropriate to…

Emulation is a player-devised solution, not a publisher-sanctioned one. It's not always accurate, either — something that may not matter to casual fans looking to relive games they played decades ago, but matters to people who want to play these games as they performed on their original hardware (an absolute must for…

Sam & Max Hit the Road
CD still works and everything

It's kind of depressing when "limited backwards compatibility" is considered something worth proudly announcing. I have PC games I bought 20 years ago that I could go play right now.

Entirely apart from this discussion, I hope he does! I'm interested to see what they have cooked up, and how they're using the character if he's not player-controlled.

Great care is taken in Piecesof8's post to emphasize that they aren't condemning it and it isn't about choice being bad.

Why wouldn't they still choose Corvo if they were capitulating? What's going to resonate more with D1 players who are only interested in playing as male characters - the first game's protagonist, or some random dude?

DKC2 is an amazing game, it seems really bizarre to condemn it to this degree just based on a pet peeve for pre-rendered sprites. I agree with the characterization of later rare games (DK64 and the Banjo games did nothing for me), but that trend didn't start with DKC2, which I thought balanced its collectibles well…

The A.V. Club
I know every quote so of course I end up here

I think we're all the victors in this war of pedantry, sir.