Buy One Get One Free Is Totally Getting Something For Nothing

Because it’s a bog-standard Bethesda game in a world that has largely moved on from 2011, with the added baggage of being clearly both rushed and lazily-made at the same time. Made infinitely worse by Todd Howard’s bombastic claims that Starfield was going to be a “paradigm shift” for video games when there’s…

I don’t consider Kickstarter to be outside funding since the team is operating the kickstarter directly and thus it’s the team who decides how the money is used. It’s not comparable to, say, getting an established company or publisher to give you funding and thus gets outsized say over the development process.

“plays like an independent game” was all I needed to see to understand that you’re so far off the mark that we’d need another map entirely to find you. You really can’t see that you just compared a mechanical criteria (a “vibe”) with a development criteria (funding)? Look, you made a bad comparison. It isn’t the end…

Because indie rock is a genre. Indie games are not. My definition of an indie game has always been “created, published, and maintained by the same single person or team of people that started the project, and did not receive outside funding, development, or marketing”.

I already have 52 Switches to do that!

Pfft, you grill yours? Lowborn.

Goddammit, now you’ve gone and ruined my summer plans to build a deck out of Steam Decks so I could have a barbeque of Steamed Decks while my family plays Switch on the Deck. Now what am I supposed to do?

Hey, they got my username right this time! XD

Maybe we’d be less likely to assume angry straight white men if angry straight white men didn’t keep acting like that?

The same place he graduated from by presenting his thesis on how Metacritic proves that Hogwarts Legacy is more deserving of a Game Awards nomination than any other nominee.

Yeah, you can see that most easily even in the US with Switch games. Digital is almost always full price, but I can get physical copies--even new--a couple months after release for often ten or twenty bucks less.

Yes, GOD yes. It takes me out of any game I play when I see another player wearing what is clearly not from that game.

Whooooooosh~

And I think being willing to pay that much for so little content is much worse than being willing to pay $70 for a prettier version of the same game, which I already think is stupid to begin with. Unless it's given for free to owners of the original (or discounted massively) I don't buy remasters unless it's been a…

Keywords being "in this instance". That is far, far from the norm and you know it.

A single good remaster among a cashgrab sea of remasters and remakes is your counterpoint...? I'm glad you like the game and all, but that is weak.

In fairness, you’re trying to compare a song or CD’s price, or the price of a movie ticket/DVD to a $70 game. When the changes are generally minor or graphical in nature, asking you to pay full price for it is a much bigger ask.

At least fifteen to twenty years, minimum. Rampant remasters are frankly stifling video game variety, IMO.

The same reason you did. To offer largely useless pedantry.