This deal includes 3 studios, not just Crystal Dynamics.

I mean, throwing you into a monster hunt zone with zero guidance is also EXACTLY what the experience of playing Monster Hunter is, though. 

I think this is way too much of a zero-sum argument. You are working on the assumption (from your first comment) that demos are ineffectual at actually widening a market for a game - that the only people who will play a demo are already planning to buy it.

Last I read on it, the reason you are more likely to get sick in the rain is the same as in winter... and the answer to neither is “cold.”

In High Costs, add wedding cakes.

Yeah, this was my experience, too. I haven’t used one since pre-pandemic, but I was so much more willing to go see something on a subscription. Before, it was always a cost-benefit analysis of this ONE film, so I only went to see the big blockbusters I wanted to see in theater.

I’m largely okay with mobile ecosystems evolving in ways which might make past games unplayable, as long as devs have the option of updating them. I respect that devs may choose not to, or may lack the resources to keep up with it (or the cost-benefit ratio isn’t there), but I’m ultimately okay with it as long as…

Same. And it’s not like the game suffers for being structured, platformer levels...

In the US, I think these started appearing in the mid-2000s? You may have seen really basic animations before then, but yeah.

Yeah, I like remasters for just bringing the games to new systems and making them prettier on more modern screens, since the resolution is an issue.

I’ve actually always found cheese awkward with ham. Ham, being fatty, sweet, and salty, doesn’t need cheese - it needs bite. Mustard, peppers, maybe a nice balsamic?

Putting cheese on a tomato sandwich—or a BLT for that matter—would be a big crime. (Summer tomatoes should not be forced to hide their light under the bushel of cheese.)

The ways in which ReyLo was fine: as a way in which young women were exploring their own sexual interests.

But you need to consider the context in which it is happening.

I like animations when finding a thing is an event. When it’s something worth being individually excited for. That can be the case in plenty of RPGs, but it’s not how most open-world games are currently handled, going more for volume in their approach to crafting systems.

Development of these kinds of disabilities can be really brutal for families and individuals who gain them. It’s such a massive shakeup to the way you can engage with the world and each other. Acquiring any disability can be really hard, but one which has such outsized impacts on our social functions is really, really…

I think the problem is that we just don’t engage in nuance anymore. We don’t let things be complicated, or appreciate that they are.

It’s contextual.

Good for them!

Yeah, but one isn’t to the exclusion of the other. Sony is wagering that their subscription players will still buy their first party titles, and that people who buy their first party titles will also want to subscribe.