I used to feel the same about the console market, the competition, etc. But like six or seven years ago I decided to just put some money into my PC instead, getting things closer to modern standards, and I didn’t even miss the console. I skipped this generation entirely instead of getting a PS5 and so far the only…

They know and they haven’t been thrilled about the X-Box and PC parity. Anything that makes it so people have less reason to get an X-Box is, to them, the worst move possible. Never mind Microsofts stranglehold on that market too, it’s not The Brand. But that’d not quite as serious a transgression as putting games on…

Not exactly a huge revelation or anything, I’m borderline stating the obvious, but man, Blizzard really just isn’t the company it used to be. I shouldn’t be shocked, I guess. When I think of “good Blizzard” I think as late as Wings of Liberty before the wheels started coming off and that’s what, thirteen years ago?…

I usually find comments like this tend to look more like the loser. There’s something a little extra pathetic about stanning so hard for a multi-million, maybe billion, dollar company that doesn’t know who you are or care about you beyond the money they want out of your pocket. At least the person your type of…

A fair complaint, I guess, but I’m not sure how much room there’d be to change it without her becoming a deutragonist much like Claire and Jill in past games, at which point the plot would need changing from an outright search and rescue mission. Maybe some effort to try and show her thoughts revolving a little less…

It’s not lost on me that a lot of the attempts to handwave away concerns are the same arguments that were made for why it was okay for NFT’s to basically steal art to sell by people who did not make said art. Pretty much the same people moved on to this grift after the NFT one failed, I guess. Both seem to love them…

“Ignore it and it’ll go away.” Thanks Mom. That advice worked so well on bullying too.

So, I’ll be blunt about it for those who still don’t get it, people don’t want to deal with other launchers because users have no reason to care. Steam is the top because it’s convenient, and convenience generally trumps all. If they have any product, it’s user experience, and every other launcher has been a pile…

Yup. They were such dweebs about it actual lawyers started dunking on them. They harassed one particular lawyer enough he spent time actively debunking everything in the case in his spare time for fun in a massive twitter thread people dubbed the Threadnought. I didn’t keep up with the saga past the first year, partly…

You’re not missing anything, there’s no substance and frankly the guy is enough of a nothing at this point he’s not worth the time or effort. He’s never recovered from the debate with Zizek anyway.

Metroidvania has certainly been overdone, but I look at it as it having happened because the genre just wasn’t being serviced at all for a while there. Nintendo treated Metroid like the plague for about a decade and then Konami decided they weren’t in the market for video games anymore, so there was a big hole there…

I’m fine with pixel art staying. Honestly, it’s been pixel games that have held up the best, visually, of the games industries relatively brief lifespan. But more indie devs could stand to do more outside of it, I absolutely agree.

Yeah, this has been my take on all of it. I’m not going to cry myself to sleep at night over it but it does suck that the guy behind a lot of really top shelf video game soundtracks turned out to be a douchelord. Always a shame whenever it turns out talent came attached to a garbage person.

I used to be of that mindset, but with more and more games releasing broken to the point of day one patches it doesn’t feel like there’s much point. What you’ve got on the disc is what got pushed to gold status, whether it was in good shape or not.

I’m very pro-physical media, but even I had to kind of give up on it. The games just download right to the system from disc, so no matter what you’re spending half an hour to an hour before you can play now, the physical copy then needs to be in the console despite being downloaded to even boot and games are updated…

I played 4 again last year and yeah, it needs this refresh in my opinion. It really feels the seventeen years old it is. Feels clunky as hell and certainly not a looker. Still fun, but needs some major adjustment and I can’t say I’d recommend it to anyone who didn’t play it at the time.

Judging by all the stories of the contentious relationship between Japanese game companies and their American branches (not just Nintendo, but console manufacturer era Sega and Squeenix), I’m willing to cut him a little slack. He could probably have done a little more but I’ve always had the impression Japan calls the…

Onion article. “The worst person you know just made a great point.”

Yeah, Advance 3 is probably the best of the bunch, overall. The partner mechanic was inspired, too. One of Dimps better ideas and I wish it had appeared in other games.

Huh. I always felt the opposite. The level design always struck me as such that you got better the more you played it and the more you mastered where everything is the faster you went. It was the first time I ever remember as a kid wanting to get better to get through levels faster. With the Advance and Rush games…