“Value is an amount agreed upon between consumers and the companies selling goods.”

sorry but that’s complete BS brainwashing by capitalism. Consumers “agree” to pay prices? lol yea right. That’s so laughable that people even believe that - did i “agree” to pay higher rent when my landlord illegally raised it? did i…

you do realize they’re literally only worth any money because the tech is so old people threw it out? that’s not a reason for things to be expensive. Especially not digital items with no physical value that are easy to reproduce and have been reproduced, voluntarily, for free, on the internet for almost 20 years. It…

We play video games so weird now....does every game company want people to only play their game every hour of every day? That’s not possible. Why does every online game have to be “the game” you play? It’s bizarre how this is so culturally true. There so often seems to be “the one” game you and your friends play for…

“ but there were few more affordable, legal ways to play Nintendo’s back catalog” that is definitely true, and that’s what allowed them to jack up the price to ridiculous costs. The games are VERY OLD and they’re just not worth that much money any more - people are rebuying them who’ve already paid full game price…

Good interview but goddamn the corporate speak makes my brain hurt.

Strongly disagree. VC was a total overpriced rip off. The emulator they use as part of the online service is MUCH better. Their huge mistake, a mistake that I honestly believe could have done something like double their sales, was not include nintendo online right off the bat, with NES, SNES, and N64 emulators built…

yea on the one hand i’m always kinda ehhhh about letting one character do EVERYTHING possible in a game. It was one of the thing I didn’t really like about Skyrim. I like the idea of “classes” in games because it creates more of a sense of relying on others for help. The melting of all classes together and giving…

definitely true. Even most of the missing white kids end up not getting reported cuz they’re poor, or immigrants, etc.

I’ve had the most fun just playing with a couple friends - exploring an area together is really fun and awesome, building cool forts, scavenging, etc. all the stuff one does in a survival game except in Fallout. It definitely feels empty, though that is true of all the survival games I’ve played. I actually think they…

Howwwww is Dead Cells not on there for best score? like....come on....the music in that game could literally be released as an album and sell a ton of copies. It’s an incredible score, one of the best I’ve heard in recent memory and I like game music A LOT.

that is exactly the purpose of doing stuff like this and it leads to good indie devs suffering because their games are lost in a sea of trash

the problem is these games are made by people looking to cash in on games and they flood the market with garbage and eclipse the actually worthwhile games made by smaller devs. I absolutely refuse to by any game that is so clearly a scam just to get money.

Great article, definitely learned a lot as well! Honestly, for all the talk people do about how great games look now...I still think they’re all buggy and weird as hell. I haven’t ever played an AAA game that wasn’t an awkward romp of accidentally running into trees/walls in a beautifully crafted forest/dungeon.

it’s incredibly hard to tell because the news is so dominated by whatever the popular commentary is at the time. It’s probably like shootings - if you think they’re not happening, they probably are, the news just isn’t reporting them because they’re busy reporting something else. What stories stick and which don’t are…

awwww :( good article! I was a bit older when the pokemon stuff came out so I didn’t get into it but I’ve wanted to try more recently. I might check this one out but maybe when it goes on sale cuz I’m already drowning in Switch games heh

I heard the Baldur’s gate version was really good but still haven’t played it. It’s funny how sometimes these cash grab reskins can actually be better than the original lol - have you played Pandemic Cthulhu? it’s AMAZING - best Cthulhu game I’ve played hands down (besides Mansions of Madness which is in a class of…

yea I have a house rule that if it’s haunt on the first roll it doesn’t count :)

....sooo roughly the same amount of time as the original, got it :)

You do know that the US took over like half of Mexico right? Also colonization doesn’t only refer to that period of time, it is ongoing and happens in a variety of ways (ie: the mexican-american war)

hah, could you imagine? That would be so ludicrous lol.