hey you know what DRM is supposed to stop?
pirates
hey guess who the only people not terribly inconvenienced by DRM are

The argument is not that they aren’t stealing the game (which honestly can vary depending on how exactly you define what makes someone a pirate;) it’s that down the line, they are the often the sole reason a game still exists in a playable state as well.

Context clues, bub.

It would be nice too if it does well enough to give Nintendo a reason to stop releasing the same game every few years. It’s great to have familiar core gameplay but like OW to OW2, there’s no reason there are three individual Splatoon games when everything different between them could have just been an expansion or…

This is honestly the MMO blue print idea for Pokeon that I had years ago and it seems like such a duh thing that I don’t get why it didn’t become the series itself outside of A. It’s Nintendo and B. Maybe there’s an argument that different stories need different time periods/protagonists.

You just...like you said,…

You’re kind of big-picturing it when I was trying to speak more specifically.
Yes, there a ton of general alternatives to playing a particular game that is only released with a EULA and is digital-only.
There is not an alternative if I want to play a specific game that only released in that manner. And no, “just don’t…

You have to remember though that YMMV. I sell stuff all the time on Mercari and eBay and have to be able to print labels whenever I want.
I have a really old Pantum laser printer and I just bought a cheap off brand cartridge for it and it works great.

“Got comfortable” and “Begrudgingly accepted the lack of alternatives” are two very different things.

I was expecting to find out someone was a Nazi or that the developer purposefully used AI, not that they accidentally left a placeholder in. It’s a bit disingenuous to call this “wild.”

Of course, it’s not a one-to-one but the basic structure is already there. I just think it’s weird, assuming it would just suck. But if that’s your opinion, you’re welcome to it.

I suck at PvP shooters but am pretty good single player and was really looking forward to the PvE mode. Now I have no reason to ever play this game.

Frankly it’s just absurd to just assume it would have sucked. Whatever else you want to say about OW, it’s clear that Blizzard knows how to make a mechanically competent…

Difference being Metroid Prime only colors doors; for stuff like spider ball tracks or boost areas or cracked walls, it tracks nothing.

Metroid Dread actually gives you a map accurate down to the block, and if you bomb a space and uncover that a specific item is needed to break that space, the map tracks it even if you…

While it’s incredibly half-assed compared to what it could be, Lego Fortnite is one of the few Lego games that actually lets you...build Legos.
Weird that it took this long.

The internet (and ensuing businesses) moved the social spaces inside, and indoor-based activities vastly outpaced outdoor-based ones in advancement. At the same time, we beat it into kids’ heads that no one can be trusted and everything is a threat; the flip side of this is Karens and cops think kids standing around…

The fact that the game continues to receive funding at all is proof of what the author is saying. I’m not being facetious too when I say even one person who thinks this is all right is “too many.”

Three thoughts come to me:

1. Looked at as a social experiment, Star Citizen is incredibly interesting and horribly depressing;

Consider someone like myself who works 45-50 hours a week as an adult with responsibilities and happens to be a huge RPG fan. I have time for maybe one or two big games a year and a smattering of smaller titles. I can absolutely understand the concept of buying a console for one game and how risky of a decision that…

Once upon a time SWTOR told a rich and complex story within the framework of a solid WOW-clone, where regardless of what side you were on or what race or class you chose, you could make good or evil choices that (for the most part) didn’t feel contrived, and actually made you feel like you were playing a character…

Took me about 4 years for my pro controller to have drift issues and I replaced it. I’ve used the Switch in docked mode maybe 10 times before the joycons became worthless.

I realize this is anecdotal but there you are.

Once upon a time, capitalism promised us that everyone would benefit from computers and improved technology.
That was, of course, a lie, as time has shown that the vast majority of us still with jobs work longer hours to be less productive at a lower relative pay rate than those earlier, hopeful days.
Now we’re trying…

It had a lot more character than the New SMB series and was thankfully not as insanely punishing anywhere as some of the extra stages in those games, but I 100% beat it quickly and didn’t really look back, and haven’t had an urge to play since. SMB3, SMW, and Yoshi’s Island I replay pretty regularly though; like, the…