Hanbei is that dude. Flat out. Love his nihilism, love his dark humor. He’s an incredibly fleshed out character just from his mannerisms alone, and he’s a training/tutorial figure that not only do I want to hang out with, but find useful.

Please, let someone else make Half-Life, Portal, and Left 4 Dead games. I beg you. Just collect some royalties. You’ll end up buying or hiring the people in the third party company anyways and then make them design hats.

They say Dora can skin a man in 30 seconds flat. 

Given the limits of child actors in Hollywood (e.g., like...4 hours a day? Less?), I can see the need to age the character.

Isn’t Dora suppose to be like 8 in the show? This seems a bit too like they are trying to be “realistic”. I bet Boots and Swiper only talk in a hallucination brought on by eating some fermented fruit or some such silliness.

If Dora doesn’t murder someone, then what’s the point?

yell at all the clouds.

Welcome to the club. I’m fond of the phrase “get off my lawn.”

I’m with you, bud. Most of the newer titles are unappealing to me, anyway. As the years went on by, my lack of interest in games has become more and more apparent to me.

“yell at the clouds” nice pun

The day this kind of thing takes over actual consoles is the day I stop caring about new games. I’m over 40 now. My first game experiences were with pong on a B&W TV set. And I pretty much got, and later bought, almost every system that got out since. I never was the one to be against techology. Hell, I usually…

Never been a better time to jump into retrogaming! Except for around ten years ago before everyone jumped into retrogaming. I'm so behind on the new, excepting Switch, because I've been so into the old.

I realize that there is a certain amount of facetiousness in your post, but you might be surprised at how often this came up in conversation this past week between “old” gamers like myself (those of us who grew up in arcades and with cartridge-based consoles that weren’t on-line).

Yup. I’ve been jonesing to play back through Bioshock Infinite lately. And Ori and the Blind Forest. And Fallout 4. And New Vegas. And the first Metro game. And the original Mass Effect trilogy. And the Souls series. And the Doom reboot. And Inside. And all the Final Fantasy ports I’ve bought for PC but haven’t…

One major concern is putting money into hardware that isn’t mine to do with as I want, including choosing when to upgrade and being able to sell or trade or keep old hardware. (Of course same for games.) I’m essentially helping pay for Google’s hardware that they can use for whatever they want during downtime and no…

This.  We can create an old persons club where we don’t see each other at all because we’re playing single player games alone, as the universe intended.  Glad to be a part of this movement. 

Corporations want this.  Or at least they think they do, which is the same thing when you have billions of dollars.

I feel like they could have spent a day doing market research to realize that nobody wants this. Especially not from Google with their unreliable history.

As far as I’m concerned, there are three big problems here:

1.) Connection speed. This kind of service will be awesome for folks with reliable, high-speed connections without constrictive data caps.

There aren’t as many of those folks in the US as Google seems to believe there are.

2.) The concept of “ownership.” Yes,…

I look forward to when a game gets “Netflixed out” of the Stadia library.