I stumbled onto this fan made Sonic game (I think it was made in Dreams) a few weeks ago, and it seems to be getting Sonic more than Sega does.

This is very plausible. I worked at a company that got up to $400 a share in 2018, but took tumble after tumble and now sits at $13 a share (I stopped working there years ago, back when it was still in the mid 200s). But I watched as the leadership made some of the most asinine decisions I’d ever seen otherwise…

I remember feeling the same way, especially when you put him up against Michael Emerson as the Joker, which I thought was an inspired choice, though the somewhat stiff facial animation sort of let down the subtly in his performance. 

Games like Valhalla make me wish there were like story select mods or something. The same way you can find people out there giving you watch guides to long-running TV series: You can skip most of season 1, and three episodes in season 4, etc.

Same! I have played every Assassin’s Creed game, and I realized today I was 23 (!!!) and did not have kids when the first one came out. I played it on a freaking 1080i CRT!

Maybe! lol.

What a time to be an adult with a job, kids, and lots of responsibilities, where I can afford to get the games I want, but scarcely have the time to play them (insert crying emoji).

This “NEVER STOP GROWING” mandate of late stage capitalism means you can’t have a lane and just be very good at that one thing when you’re a company of this size. You’ve got to go absolutely bonkers and grow at all costs, especially when investors like Tencent own 40% of your company. They’re expecting huge returns on…

I agree, especially when you see how the Steam Deck kicked off mobile PC gaming, and how Apple’s new phones can run Resident Evil Village natively. It won’t be long until all these mobile devices can stream and download the game pass catalog (rather than just do one or the other), similar to how Netflix can be put on…

Yeah that goes for Nintendo too. If both of them put games on PC, that would be amazing. If you don’t care about the best graphics, you could probably get by with just a Steam Deck for literally all your gaming needs. But exclusives exist, so we gotta buy the other systems...and I do really wanna play Spider-Man 2. 

I was hoping they’d refresh the system before Spider-Man 2, but it doesn’t look like it.

This is incredible. They clearly had these players for a very limited time and I bet once one of them was irredeemably bad, they just said “Screw it, get the first take from all of them, we don’t have the time or budget for this.”

What keeps me from cycling subscriptions monthly is my kids. They like to watch certain shows on repeat, so I stay subscribed to a handful. Game Pass has been amazing for a family though, I have a series X and S, and they can both play all the games from Game Pass with only one subscription, which is pretty sweet…

Yeah this is my read. Being a AAA publisher means you’ve got to keep cranking out hits in order to support all your overhead, or you’ve got enough money coming from other ventures to support the occasional whiff (it looks like that’s what they’re doing with Dark Horse, Limited Run Games, and the anime deal). Just…

Yeah this is kind of how I feel now. I want to be able to play these giant games, and I probably would have been thrilled to see my $60 (now $70) go this far when I was in high school and college and couldn’t afford many new games, but I just don’t have the time anymore, because I’m not sure it’s even for me.

As someone else said, ungrouping works, but so does quickly right clicking (if you are playing with a mouse). It stops everyone in their tracks immediately.

This is overpriced. You could get them all in one DLC pack in Injustice 2, and they looked way better anyway. Almost like their 1990 movie versions.

I’m not in a hurry to finish it, I think some of it is just FOMO, knowing that if I spend the next 8 months on this game, I won’t have time for other things. I never feel this pressure with books, and I will often drop shows if they don’t hook me, so I do think it’s part of growing up when I did—the days when you…

I’m sorry my take bored you. I’m a middle aged man with kids, a demanding jobs, and other hobbies and responsibilities that take up my time. Hearing that a game takes a bazillion hours to complete kind of bums me out, but I also grew up in an era when everyone actually finished every game because they weren’t that…

Oh snap, we’re getting another Trine? That’s great! I’m looking forward to a bunch of these. I wish there was an option for 15 to 20 hour versions of Baldur’s Gate and Starfield. The “This will take you 300 hours” thing is a deterrent for me. Just like there are one-shot D&D campaigns, I wish I could get a one-shot…