I’d rather know how much the game actually costs, than having the imagery of ‘everything’s A-OK’ and keeping game prices artificially depressed for 10+ years.

We can’t have it both ways. We can’t demand bigger, prettier games and not expect costs to rise in tandem. It just doesn’t work like that.

I was 18 when the Dreamcast came out. It was the first import console I ever played (my dad’s friend let us borrow his), and the first console I bought with my own money.

Right - that’s kinda my point.

Well, once upon a time consoles did make sense. If you wanted a thing to play games, without any complications, and the guarantee that Game X would work on Box X, consoles were the way to go. Consoles were also affordable, and the types of games on consoles were more like expanded-upon arcade titles. Console gaming…

Only now, only with this, do I see Gamers saying, “screw this, I’m on PCs from now on” yet when I was saying this path was the end of consoles’ importance in games months ago, it was “fuck you and your PC Master Racer (tm) snobbery.”

or if you already have a PS4, start investing in PC gaming so once MS and Sony hit their full wannabe-smartphone-release-schedule strides, it won’t matter to you any longer.

Which ultimately means the cost will be put on the consumers. Some way, some how. It’s like taxes - you can levy all the cost increases you want on a company, it just gets passed on to the customer in some form.

These sentiments can’t co-exist:

Welcome to the bright, shiny future Gamers and tech fetishists ushered in for consoles.

I played Spore with my niece, and she really loved it! Specifically being able to make creatures and the swimming/eating part. Once on land, she still had fun but thought it was a little too complicated (she was 7 at the time), and once we hit tribes? Her and I both got bored with it.

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I was one of the five people on Earth who was on board from the moment of its e3 reveal. Now, it’s like everyone references WW as ‘the only good one’ with a ‘beautiful, timeless aesthetic’

You just can’t please Zelda fans these days.

She’s kinda great: a scientist, loves dumb puns, is adorably cute, enthusiastic, and that booty...!

Because art for the original NES shows he has a huge nose.

The only thing I can add is this.

This seems the most reasoned response I’ve seen from someone critical of Konami specifically.

but not all content is cut because of ‘executive meddling’ either.

No, but you see, More Story is always Good Story. Don’t you get it? The Gamers said so, so it must be true! And Konami’s worse than Hitler for not giving Gamers what they want, when they want, when finishing 51 would probably take several months and not make it in time for this release, which Gamers could then scream…