I do wonder if this is what it will ultimately come to for at least the bigger properties, especially if they get streaming working really well and get that app on every smart TV and streaming box out there. If you can tell people that they get this game and tons of others with a Game Pass subscription, or they can…

He’s not entirely wrong. At this point Nintendo is as much a philosophy about how to make games as it is a video game developer. Also, Nintendo has a very forward-looking strategy that sees them building a significant store of liquid cash on hand which other publishers would likely use to fund growth or payouts for…

Nintendo didn’t buy Rare for a reason. I don’t know that it’s really Microsoft’s fault it didn’t turn itself around.

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Putting out a demo??? Such a good idea, especially a progress carrying demo!

I’ve been really curious since the first teases, but not 100% sold, the demo will let me make up my mind once and for all.

Yeah the games industry need companies like Nintendo and Sega (back when they still made consoles), as they are nutty enough to try something radically new and innovate. Sony and Microsoft only really seem to be interested in the iterative approach of just more processing power.

This is the correct take. I occasionally pop in for a random mission. 

Gamepass pretty much one of the best contributions to last-gen, I’m on PC and the fact I can play a few games with my nephew(while I wait for a 3080 so I can do a build for him) was/is a dealbreaker. Plus a lot of their games are top notch.

The flying is Anthem is superb and the combat controls are great. They just forgot to build the rest of the game! If Bioware takes those mechanics and makes a proper single player game out of it I would be down.

There’s no reason they can’t be good, though! Rayman Legends and DKC Tropical Freeze show games have no excuse to still make bad water levels. Just finally ditch the SMB1 jump-to-swim controls for something more fluid, don’t lower the speed quite as far or at least add bursts of speed in between (Sonic Mania does that…

Like Black Flag, basically. It was nice on 7th gen but the PS4 Launch version was kickass when it dropped. 

What aggravates me the most is that the vision, capabilities, skills, and imaginations of dozens of people helped create one of the most ambitious games of all times, yet all of that is buried underneath one of the clearest examples of how disgusting capitalism is overall.

Speed Racer is one of those movies I seriously regret not going to IMAX to watch. It’s a manga/anime come to life in some of the most ridiculous and spectator ways that it could have been done and for a while there I made anyone who wanted to watch something at my spot watch it. 

My perspective was changed when I was listening to a podcast that had a musician as a guest. They asked him if he had any guilty pleasure songs. His response was that he doesn’t believe in guilty pleasures and that we should like what we like no matter what people think.

I remember drunkenly buying an album calling the band a “guilty pleasure”. And the clerk said, “Don’t feel bad about liking something.” For some reason that stuck with me. Obviously, there are caveats like, if you like kicking puppies or something, but yeah.

Keep the console itself as-is because people who play in handheld mode don’t seem to give a shit if it looks sub-par, but sell a dock that has a strong GPU in it that can upgrade the graphics when on a TV.

As much as I am enjoying Valhalla right now, I wish they would dump the sci-fi bit about “going back in time to relive memories through DNA” or whatever nonsense because I dislike how they have their foot half in the door with “historical” but also have fantastical. I can see they want you to use “grounded” abilities…

I like it when they make it hurt.

Podcasting would probably be doable. The thing with streaming is, you can’t just start streaming and expect that to go somewhere on its own. You need to have a presence and content somewhere else too: Instagram, Youtube, whatever.

I started streaming for a while last year. I was doing it 2-3 days a week, but I couldn’t…