Not too rare, I don’t think. NecroDancer is one of many great 2D, pixelart games that people are enjoying on various platforms. There are some people who will never be interested, but plenty of us remember the greatness of these types of games and still enjoy this style no matter what year it is.

Holy shit. You’re right.

This is wonderful introspection here, and I wish I saw more of it in conversations like these.

No one is allowed to enjoy this game who doesn’t immediately know what “Hamsterdance” is.

“What ya SELLin’?”

Did you read the article? It’s clearly not just a photo op.

I know this is the obvious statement to make, but I can’t help myself:

Did they seriously learn NOTHING from Destiny?

The games are not succeeding, and the people making the decisions aren’t being held accountable for it. They make bank and cut other people’s jobs instead. Not apples and oranges.

Sounds fake but okay.

You should not play Do Feed the Monkeys.

Disclaimer: I have not played Odyssey yet, so I don’t know the specifics of your complaints. But... nothing in this article surprises me except that it surprised you. I learned some time ago to that modern RPGs play best when you do side quests alongside the main quest, not save them all for the end. This isn’t…

I replayed Perfect Dark in its entirety, and despite some dated control issues (not unlike what’s mentioned in the above article), I thought it was still loads of fun. The whole “corporate espionage oh wait government conspiracy oh wait alien invasion” plot helps with that.

Most adults aren’t paying attention to the Disney Infinity toys if they even go near them, and if they don’t play video games, they’re ignoring ads for them altogether. I wouldn’t expect any of my friends who aren’t gamers to know any of these.

Jeopardy doesn’t cover pop culture often, and its contestants routinely suck at it. I once saw them do just as poorly on a category about popular movie directors on the *college* edition. But they know all kinds of things about history, geography, science, etc. that I couldn’t even guess at, so to each their own.

If only. They denied it outright at first; this quote essentially admits that they were being disingenuous. I sincerely hope this is the beginning of a better Riot, but as much as I hate to be cynical, it’s hard to believe that this is motivated by anything other than bad press.

I played on two separate Free Play weekends. Both times I really enjoyed it, and at the end of both weekends, I felt like I didn’t need to play anymore. As fun as it is, it just doesn’t hold my attention.

So many people in this thread offering solutions that the author clearly discusses in the article. He’s well aware that this is a problem largely of his own making. At least read the article before posting.

It’s not, though. One would be tracking individuals and selling their data to people they don’t know, and the other is putting simple data points into a graph to get a general view of how something is working. Every website you’ve ever visited in the past 15 years has done the latter.

Analytics software is not spyware, and the concept that paying for a game means that you can assume no one is collecting aggregate data on how it’s used is a completely arbitrary expectation.

Also, 10 to 1 odds it’s explicitly mentioned in the T&Cs for all of these games.

I played Unity on Xbox One well after launch and had some fundamental issues with it. I didn’t totally hate it, but I definitely could have just skipped it. Black Flag had issues too, but it was worth dealing with them.

I haven’t played Rogue, but I will.