Honestly, the worst thing to me about super-gigantic open-world games? It’s that they’re single-use. You see this big giant England in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla? Welp, you’re never gonna see it in any other game. Elden Ring? Nope, it’s that and nothing else. Episodes from Liberty City, Gat Out of Hell, and Tears of…

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Bunch of hardcore gamer bros who have never paid any attention to the business/development side of things suddenly all thinking they’re Michael fucking Pachter has to be one of the worst developments through this whole fucking thing.

Uh... you’re ignoring Batista Thumbs Up’s point: 90% of a AAA Mission Impossible game’s value is going to be Tom Cruise. Not the world, not the characters. Tom Fucking Insane Scientologist Cruise.

Holy shit, the replies on this one. Thank you Killa K and Ac_slater for being the voices of reason here.

You wanna be a bootlicking corpo simp, you can fuck off. I may have initially replied to you, but holy fuck you’re a dumbass, Frag, and your "corporate consolidation is good, actually" idiocy is not something I’ll just let pass through.

Kotick leaving is the only real win here, honestly. Everything else is an AvP “whoever wins, we lose” scenario. And even that’s unlikely to stick for long. He likes having a giant income and the power to fuck others over, and is gonna either get himself hired at another publisher, or will make one himself.

I doubt Activision actually owns the Sekiro license, considering FromSoft published it themselves in their home country. And even if Acti did, then From could just go with a different name for a followup (like Demon’s Souls becoming Dark Souls).
Activision already killed the possibility of a followup to THPS1+2 when…

Though, to be fair on that point, most of those were on Wii, where the control system was a detriment to normal first-person shooters (Metroid Prime notwithstanding), and the last one was on the Wii U (Nintendo’s biggest marketing failure since the Virtual Boy).

No. Big giant companies buying big giant companies (even ones that barely even make one or two console games a year like Activision) is always bad for gamers.

After you get past the “Beware of the leopard” sign, there’s also a “Beware of Boris Johnson; he lives here now” sign. But then you pass that and it's actually Nigel Farage.

Well... that naming implies that Mike Godwin is a Nazi, which he isn’t. Maybe “Dudebra’s Law of Karens”?

Bitorrent? It’s illegal..

Except that “guns don’t kill people” arguments are used to prevent any restriction on guns. Limiting the terms of copyright protections (as I argue for) is explicitly a restriction on copyrights.

Copyright itself is not the failure. It’s the absurd length of copyright protection that is. “Life plus 50 years” as per the Berne Convention is FAR FAR too long. It should be limited to 20 years or life plus 10, whichever is shorter.

“Spider-Man but it plays like an Arkham game.”

Don’t forget Death Race by Exidy. Also, it’s amazing how Night Trap got shit because what they were claiming you could do was actually a consequence of failure.

I assume that person also says that TAS is cheating. And maybe speedruns that use glitches, or really anything beyond Twin Galaxies rules. Ick.

For the software mapping of the Elite 2, what are you using? (Pure curiosity, I have no clue what’s best out of any of it and don’t have an Elite anyway.)

Response to the first one: “Sure I paid $1300 for my computer, but I didn’t have to buy 100 remasters because all of those games still worked perfectly fine and the modders did a better job of upping the textures and models anyway.”