no they aren’t. you can transfer them if you call them. it’s time consuming, it’s inconvenient, and it doesn’t provide all the benefits account-tied purchases do. it’s an inferior product that doesn’t give me the features I want from an online account, features other companies have made into a standard.

Plenty of older games let you run out of ammo. The same year Deus Ex came out. It was an FPS/RPG and resources were very rare. American McGee’s Alice wasn’t survival horror either and you’d be screwed if you didn’t manage your ammo/health. I also remember Thief 2 requiring a not wasting your items.

that game was awful. infinitely responding enemies is a terrible design choice is most every genre of game, but survival horror has got to be one of the worst genres they could have done that to. I didn’t mind conserving resources. that was pretty standard back then, especially in survival horror. everything was…

Yeah, that’s another story. Though I’m sure part of what killed it was how MS and Apple cornered the market with most their ideas. Xerox did try to market their ideas. They sold the Xerox Star. It wasn’t very successful. That probably helped kill PARC. Their brilliant ideas weren’t enough in the end. The damage was…

isn’t that kind of the norm now?

This makes me worry purchases are tied to devices, not to your account. It’s weird save data is the only type of data they show being able to be used on multiple devices. The account system would still be too antiquated if you can’t access your games on all your applicable devices. Without that it’s not worth the…

you’ve been able to for a while... it’s probably better quality than waiting for the inevitable, official freemium mobile Mario game to just load up an emulator, anyway.

I don’t know. This has me a little worried. I might be wrong, but this pic gives the impression that you may not be able to play games you own on all applicable devices you own. It looks like we can transfer save data, but what about game data? Part of what makes the Nintendo’s current system so bad is you’re games…

famicom had some neat, yet strange, addons.

Microsoft and Apple aren’t quite the big shots they’ve been made to be. Xerox is the big shot that revolutionized the PC. They invented the GUI which used a mouse to interact with icons on a “desktop.” Gates and Jobs took a tour of Xerox and saw what they were doing with their computers. They stole a lot of it when…

a lot of things people consider advanced have existed for decades, if not centuries.

oh that’s kind of disappointing. I just read it had a bunch of levels bundled with it. I just expected them to be of higher quality since it was Nintendo and the level editor was so simpler. plus Nintendo practically invented the modern platformer, it shouldn’t measure to another game. however, you could do so much…

Oh they’re not that bad. I’ve seen very few games as long and as frequent as the load times were in Half Life 2 back when it came out. You had to wait for Steam to do its thing too, which was so much slower there, before you could even start the game (to wait again at that first loading screen). I also used to play…

my issue is similar. I hate the people who will talk about how graphics don’t matter and how much they love gameplay. you know, the people who will get all high and mighty saying things like“gameplay > graphics” while in the same breath they’ll name off a list of shallow games with pretty pixel art. they’re still…

oh that’s cool. I didn’t think about it, but that actually makes sense. Microsoft moving everything to run Windows 10. last I checked the Xbox is getting it next month. porting is already easier this gen since the PS4 and Xbox One use basically the same architecture as the PC. Win10 will make it so much easier. that’s…

I have a hunch they won’t port the controller app to PC, but given how useful the 360 controller was in making PC gaming more accessible, I’m sure they’ll make drivers for it (I wouldn’t buy it till they do though). Xinput standardized the disparate layouts of PC controllers. Gone are the days of weird button…

I agree it’s too much... but only if you only intend to use it on the Xbox One. If you’re a PC gamer (or game on both), the controller might be worth it. All that configureability goes much further there. Plus, it being a Microsoft product will mean wide compatibility while being of good relatively good quality. Plus…

Yeah, I agree for the most part.

I think my face might break this thing. I’ve been told I always look like I’m frowning or that I don’t show enough emotion in my gestures/face.

yeah, as others have pointed out, many things are made from sand. glass is one, but silicon is another example... ever wondered why Silicon Valley was out near the desert? there’s surprisingly a lot you can do with sand.