Personally speaking, I’ve called off the Playstation and Xbox console series for this very reason. I really don’t appreciate all the limitations (real and artificial) of these console platforms, so that’s potentially sales that won’t be going to either company.

As much as I appreciate PAX, it really doesn’t even hold a candle to early 00's E3 (though, that may not be a fair comparison). I was on the fringes too... I literally snuck in (yes, I paid the fees). But, man, what a good time those were. Just beyond overstimulating, with every booth practically throwing merch at…

You’re acting like a Red-Fanged Funnel Spider.

And why are you telling me all this?

The same person who hurt you. But I was able to suss out their location tonight. Meet you tonight at the usual spot. Bring a plastic tarp and zip ties.

Street Fighter is the product, so skins are features. The more apt point of comparison would be a coat that costs $200 more for two pockets.

I will cop to being a bit of a cantankerous douche >.>

Which is why I was razzing them. The Kotaku eds generally milk the obvious talking points over the first few days, and then start scraping the barrel towards the end. I guess we’re doing it in reverse, this time :p 

Video Games and attire are different things. To claim otherwise would be excessively reductionist. 

Because it’s reasonable to want a suite of new skins. Plus, as a general rule, when people buy something, they prefer to own every option available to them.

I’m with OP on the idea of not indulging in SF6's stupid little economy. I get that everyone likes cosmetics, but a new Marisa skin isn’t going to stop me from getting my teeth punched in, so I’m more than happy to keep my wallet in my pocket and keep grinding.

Dude, the GTA6 trailer is five days away. If your (see: Kotaku’s) six daily GTA plugs are already down to “look at these three birds”, you’re in really bad shape.

More than anything, I’m grouping BG&E in with “Adventure Games”. Games that generally offer a world to explore, rudimentary combat system, rudimentary npcs and social hubs, dungeons to excavate, extra side activities (those police chases were a lot of fun!), power ups, and some kind of grand quest.

Hey, whatever makes your pants tight.

I dunno... with Ubisoft’s track record, I’d say a Kain follow-up is about as likely as a BG&E2 release....

Which is why I pointed out the GoG version, specifically. But it sounds like you’ve got your bases covered. Cheers!

Nowadays it isnt too hard to play BG&E but when the HD version was a thing my OG PC version (which I bought near release) wasnt really working all that great anymore on PCs.

For what it’s worth, the GoG version of BG&E (side-note: HD is just BG&E running at PC performance) already does these things. There’s some mild finagling for proper gamepad support, but it’s just a case of “download files and drop them here”.

Well hope in one hand and... you know how the rest goes. BG&E2 doesn’t exist, and probably never will, so whatever kind of game it was supposed to be, or whatever kind of game you hoped it’d be is irrelevant.

Zelda was just an easy example. A good one, because it’s recent, and it’s fresh in people’s memory. Try not to get hung up on it.