Kotaku can’t even be bothered to check their own past articles before posting something. Took me literally five seconds to find this. Thanks, Google!

Article Title: 23 Years Later, We’ve Discovered An Amazing GameCube Easter Egg

You see how this title is structed, right? Creates assumption that something BRAND NEW has been found, right? You mock yourself, but yet you also knew many people would click based on that title and waste their time.

You had to have known…

Did... did this “article” time travel from 2002?

That’s incredible because I’m sitting on almost 2k worth of parts, self built, and have issues all the time whether it be drivers, inflated system requirements with a gatekeeper on the launcher to make sure you CANT launch if you dont “meet” the requirements.

They haven’t outgrown shit. That’s why D4 looks worse than…

First of all, you okay, buddy? You’re awful wound up.

Secondly, in what possible way are they wrong? Are you seriously saying that it’s just as possible to go to a music store or video store and buy a DVD/CD/Blu Ray as it was 10 years ago? You seen a mall lately? Been to a Best Buy to peruse their “media section”?

That’s a fair point, though it’s not an issue inherent to digital distribution. It’s an issue with console makers wanting to eliminate competition and keep all their consumers in walled gardens. Given the recent antitrust ruling against Google, it’s conceivable that if consoles went all digital, they’d be forced to…

I mean, there is an alternative.... be OK NOT getting Ubisoft games. Until people just finally are OK with not having the latest Asassin’s Creed, Battlefield (EA), Diablo, etc then the companies will just continue doing these things. By buying their products you encourage their behavior.

much ado about nothing

I know nothing of what you speak. I built this rig 4 years ago for way less than 2k. It’s the 6th machine I’ve built since the mid-90s. Plays everything I buy, even the latest and greatest. Maybe not at max settings, but I long ago grew out of that infantile mindset. I will never pay for a top end card again because…

Long time PC gamer. not having any physical options sucks. Back in the day we got all kinds of neat goodies, sometimes free in the huge PC boxes before they slowly shrunk them down to nothing before getting rid of them altogether. Now we can’t even pay extra to get collectors editions of things 99% of the time. All…

So wait... rental stores let you keep your copy indefinitely?

Chug that copium harder. PC gaming is a joke of ever inflating hardware requirements because devs no longer even TRY to put any effort into fixing things like memory leaks and lack of optimization.

Good luck with your next $5k graphics card purchase in 5 years.

Indeed. And notice how those digital games still cost that $60/70, even though they don’t have that cost of producing a box or disc.

I’m tempted to do that myself. I’m interested in the new PoP and mildly interested in the new Avatar game, so spending $18 to finish PoP and put some good hours into Avatar seems like a good deal.

Its almost like we should just pirate everything Ubisoft (and every AAA publisher) ever makes.

And once you can’t own your games anymore, the march of enshitification will ensure that you’ll get worse and worse while simultaneously costing more and more. See: literally every industry.

“Got comfortable” and “Begrudgingly accepted the lack of alternatives” are two very different things.

Giving the reliability and transitory ‘status’ of ‘games as a service’ that publishers like Ubisoft has shown us, I believe I speak for every gamer when I say, “Fuck right off,” in response to Ubisoft’s newest asinine idea.

I *hate* Fromsoft games. Like, all of them, yes, even Elden Ring (which even from an art design / graphical standpoint I find massively overrated). Their design philosophy pisses me off, and the fan base is full of insufferable tryhards who are borderline cultish about it. But then, most of the appeal seemed to be (in…

That’s fair, if you think the person is talking about life in general. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve found I have less patience for hard games. If I’m lucky, I get a couple of hours of leisure time a night, and it sucks to realize I took that precious time and chose to use it being frustrated.