I don’t see what this has to do with Nintendo. A cloud version running poorly isn’t on the Switch hardware.

Very well, I’ll indulge you.

TLJ may have been surprising, and done some really cool new things, but it still didn’t really advance the plot and it still made some tragic mistakes with Luke’s arc.

Yes, they will at some point. All game stores will do this at some point. But that’s not what’s happening here, and it’s illogical to argue now about what could happen five or ten years from now. It’s a strawman.

But that’s what you’re missing: no individual owns or creates a Nintendo game. It’s not as if a bunch of artists and programmers came together independently to make a game and the big bad corporate bigwigs are raining on their parade. It’s the bigwigs who hired those artists and programmers and gave them the tools and…

What about it? That’s not being taken away here.

It really isn’t relevant to my argument if it’s a single artist who created something or a corporation who assembled a whole team of artists to create something. They put together creative talent and made something that wouldn’t exist in the world without their efforts. They own it.

I didn’t miss that; I’m talking about morals too. What kind of morals do you think empower you to steal something just because you can’t attain it otherwise? Unavailability does not convey ownership no matter how you try to twist it.

I think it’s more likely that Sony and Microsoft are just still seeing higher sales on their old stores than Nintendo is. I wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo isn’t getting more than a trickle at this point.

I can’t agree. A company making decisions with its property that you don’t agree with doesn’t morally justify stealing that property, especially when there are legal ways to play that game even if it’s not a method you prefer. And even if there weren’t, it still doesn’t justify it.

Playing a game the way you want to…

He doesn’t even say what he finds problematic or sucky about BioShock’s narrative, and to my knowledge there’s been no emergent conversation about this, nor can I think of much of a reason to revise our opinions on it.

Kotaku is fielding some reeeeeeally strange takes lately.

A movie would have to simply follow the game’s wider narrative beats, and they have aged very poorly/suck.

Ok but again, that’s not a problem with the idea, it’s a problem with the execution.

The video seems to be undergoing some kind of comment bot attack, all quoting the same Tolkien line in English or Russian. Weird.

Sure. So did The Hobbit, before I watched it. And that was made by all the same people.

The idea itself wasn’t stupid; the implementation of it was. What’s so stupid about a flat monthly fee for all you can eat movies? The stupid part was the debit card thing followed by the limitations that came later to try to staunch the bleeding.

Not if she gymnastics the dinosaurs in the face again.

True, but that was pre-pandemic when the theaters were cruising. Also, for all we know they may already have deals in place.

Yes I have, and this is absolutely up there. Or was in the first demo at least.