Oh, I bet. And I bet we won’t find a single objectionable comment that you’ve made towards another person.

If we went back a decade and combed through everything you’ve ever said, what would we find? Stones and glass houses and all that.

Regardless that he’s one of the better voices of game criticism online, or that his podcast Co-Optional is worthwhile listening every single week, he’s a father, a husband, and only 31 years old. All of this is really unfair, and sad.

Well it’s a good thing to know that you can cling on to things said over a decade ago.

I don’t think changing the style would have helped any in this current climate. We’ve already had games like Witcher 3 and pretty much any big Japanese release held under scrutiny through the North American morality lens, despite each of them being heavily drawn in their own cultures image. Had Prison Architect gone…

No, it means there was one console - one - out of a few generations, that didn’t have that, and that was only because you didn’t connect you console to the internet for the full use of it. That doesn’t mean millions didn’t, as the original Halo online communities prove.

OK, so you didn’t connect your Xbox to the internet, doesn’t change the fact that it did have that setup - plus it leaves all the other consoles I just mentioned.

Ah, yes, the good old “I don’t care what you say, I know I’m right” tactic. Good show.

Almost all PC games require updates before you play them. I know my steam library constantly is doing some updating or another on the games, and have on a number of occasions had to wait for a new update to be installed before playing. It doesn’t bother me, it’s part of the process.

It’s not desensitization, it’s accepting facts, and not demanding everything right now. Having to wait for your console to set up? Oh noes! How is this a problem again? I quoted Louis CK earlier to another guy here, but it just seems more and more true: everything is amazing, and nobody is happy.

These are the same excuses they made when Steam arrived, and look how things are now!

And since they’ve been fighting against second hand sales for years now, you’d think they’d want to curb it now completely by offering a product they control for a better price, as to entice people to never buy second hand again.

Nope. Both the PS3 and Xbox 360 took quite a while to set up the very first time, not to mention the original Xbox with it’s online capabilities. The Dreamcast, in particular, was a real hassle to get going if you wanted to use every part of it.

There is always going to be people who are going to complain about the design of whatever tech gadget it is. That does not make the design bad by default. Some people are just never going to be pleased with certain things.

I’d give anything to have a Star Wars film where a rebel, in his last moments before his ship explodes, fills the auditorium with the yell: “fuck you Vader!”

Because digital doesn’t have the value of a physical copy, simple as that. A physical copy can be returned, traded in, or resold. A digital cannot. It’s true there is a convenience, but as Steam, GoG and Greenmangaming have shown - digital games can, and really should be, always cheaper than the physical versions.

The less we give credulity to people like Tauriq Moosa, the better. He’s totally within his right to say what he likes, but his arguments about Witcher 3 have, for me, painted him as someone who isn’t in games for games, but rather to push one or another agenda when it feels convenient for him. That same kind of…

Boy, someone didn’t get socialized well as a child.

That seems like such a weird logic, considering how often publishers then complain about the entire second hand market. You’d think they’d do anything in their power to kill that market first, even if it means lowering prices to entice people into digital to start with.

A brand new computer doesn’t work out of the box, unless you’re incredibly happy with bloatware, no firewalls, no drivers, etc. Everything today, everything, needs a bit of setting up simply because it also gives you more freedom to personalize stuff.