People keep saying we won’t see Mario vs. Donkey Kong because it’s getting a remake, but Link’s Awakening DX is on there even though we got a remake of that. Truthfully I’d rather see Donkey Kong 94 on NSO though.

Joel became a surrogate dad to Ellie in the game, and apparently a surrogate dad to many of the gamers playing too.

I was late to the party, but it was definitely Elden Ring for me. Aside from that:

I should also mention that the Auto-9 upgrade motherboards feel like what Spider-Man and it’s sequels aim to do with the science puzzles, but fully nailed. They make sense, have multiple solutions, and challenge you to find the ideal solution by heartily rewarding you. They also encourage exploration because you could…

Robocop is ridiculously good. I would love NG+ and also a mode where I can just drop into any of the combat missions, or even just a wave survival mode. I loved writing parking tickets and collecting get well card signatures as Robo, but I think the novelty has worn off on it by the time I finished the game.

- Super C

Sony has significant control over physical distribution of software as well. You cannot simply decide to publish a physical game for PS without paying Sony. And they can deny you for any reason.

Imagine if Microsoft or Apple said tomorrow that going forward, you can only purchase Windows or MacOS software from their official storefront. If you want to sell your software on their storefront, they take a 30% cut. Also for any physical software sales you have to purchase a license from them. Additionally, if as…

Theoretically you can jailbreak your iPhone and install third-party apps. Apple doesn’t like it, or make it easy to do, but they also aren’t like “we’ll kick you off of iCloud if you do.”

Test audience reactions are literally one metric.

They’re thinking of Quantum Break. Different Remedy game with live-action TV episodes between each section of the game. Your choices in the game would (sort of) affect what happened in the TV episodes.

now, sure, we can hypothesize about who was in that audience, and its entirely possible they got a group of duds, but overall these sample sizes are helpful metrics.

There’s nothing about either system that prevents traditional games from just running on either of them. Is the PlayStation an unconventional design just because they added dual analog sticks before anyone else?

The WiiU and the DS need you to either make substantial changes to your game to get them to run, OR you need…

The Wii itself was just an upgraded GameCube. The controllers had all the same buttons as a GameCube controller plus the motion control.

It’s not that we liked things better when they were crappier, it’s that most old games were designed to look better on a CRT.

Weirdest bug I’ve gotten so far was that for a while crimes would disappear into thin air as soon as I arrived at them. Rebooted my PS5, went back to an earlier save, kept happening until I progressed the story a fair bit forward.

100%. Most modern clocks with roman numerals still use ‘IIII’ because it visually balances out ‘VIII’ better than ‘IV’. It’s a deliberate choice, and most people just don’t notice it.

And let’s face it, some people just want to stomp around as Robocop and blast bad guys.

TIL you can get motion sickness from watching terrible AI upscales.

I mean, I wouldn’t go that far. I think probably kids and young teens are using these things a lot. For me the phone controller thing, and the Switch as well, is more of a long flight with hours to kill in the airport too kinda deal and less of a day-to-day carrying thing.