Oh, because the so-called “pro-life” brigade clutches their pearls at the suggestion of such an activity - so it’s prohibited, even for genuinely useful research.

If imdb is to be believed, between acting and directing, the man stays pretty busy. 

It’ll be a real treat if they just decide to walk away from the project like they did with FF XV’s planned DLC.

The good ol’ cut-and-run... I mean “directional change”. 

You mean the fraction-of-a-second clips of *what might possibly be* gameplay footage interspersed with almost-exclusively cutscenes wasn’t enough?

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Absolutely, it looks like a somewhat cleaner version of the same sort of optical flow techniques that have been in use for many years now.

I mean, it is a genuinely great game that I love playing - but it certainly doesn’t have the name recognition of either of its 2 competitors in that time frame. As much as all of us might like to think that sales are driven solely (or even mostly) by the quality of a game, I think we all know that’s not the case. 

At 5% ownership, the odds of them being able to strongarm the company into some shady bullshit are pretty low. Now, 40%? Well that’s a different story.

Why, did they garner free marketing and publicity for a year on one storefront, only to pull their game for more paid-off pastures just before launch?

You might not be interested in privacy. Many folks are. Epic’s problems also go far beyond “oh no, they know I like cats” - they’ve had a couple of data breaches, leading to hacked accounts and fraudulent charges. It’s clear from the rest of your statement you have no interest in having a conversation in good faith.…

Yes, Steam built those features over time - that’s really quite besides the point. If I were to bring a car to market today with no radio, no A/C, no power steering or brakes, etc. - how do you think I’d fare against the competition? It wouldn’t matter much that I was just a new guy in the biz (which Epic isn’t,…

He’s paying less, *if* he’s in America. In other countries, the Epic Store is more expensive, or even unavailable.

Epic’s store leaks user data like a sieve, lacks very nearly every feature Steam has (most notably, ratings, reviews and cloud-based save options), and is 40% owned by Tencent - the company that’s *so very friendly* with the Chinese government that it’s in charge of building China’s draconian “social credit” system.…

Amen, nothing kills my interest in a game the way that inventory management and crafting do. I want to explore and fight and all that crap, why do I need to play stockboy or fiddle with arts and crafts?

Is there even anyone with a screen under 100" who thinks that 4K isn’t detailed enough?

Stolen code would be a legal issue only for the developer. Or do you really think everybody must decompile and review the code of every program we run in order to be able to endorse it without fear of repercussion?

Legal action for what? Reporting that something exists? They reported on something related to gaming - on a gaming website. Pull your face out of Nintendo’s ass - they don’t love you back. Emulation case law has established that emulators are legal (presuming the lack of any stolen code) - no matter how much Nintendo…

One solid way to prevent emulation would be to use hardware powerful enough that current PCs wouldn’t be able to emulate the system in realtime. If Nintendo stopped cheaping out on its internal components, that’d be one sure way to slow emulators down. Look at the state of PS3 and PS4 emulation to see what I mean.…

Oh man, the vomit would be spraying out of that thing like a nasty lawn sprinkler.

It's worth noting that the only way the Beatles could hear themselves at those shows was through their amps and the house sound system. There were no on-stage monitor wedges (and certainly no in-ear monitors). On top of that, from '64 or so on, their shows were basically marked by nonstop screaming of the crowd. They…