Only when I have nostalgia for the feel of the controller itself, or there’s no benefit from playing it through newer means...

Like, I’m with you on the 2600, because that horribly stiff-as-a-board joystick is a big part of the feel of those games, and they really don’t benefit that much from being uprezzed to 1080p…

The possibility of it is perceived as needing those safeguards. That doesn’t mean it’s the legitimate majority experiencing it. And to be fair, there is not a universal adoption of the teleportation model yet. The better games (Resident Evil, Windlands, etc) offer the option.

I personally think it’s actually more that…

Not sure I agree with your police work there, Dan... 

I used to hear stories all the time (in the early-mid 90s) of Polygonal gaming making people motion sick, especially in FPS... (Found footage movies used to be cited as causing it as well.)

Regardless though, I’m dying to see your data source for “the overwhelming…

Hah, yeah... That’s funny, cuz there’s no such thing as gaming on a Shield without a power cable, Tablet or not... The Shield Tablet will actually drain the battery even while plugged in, unless you get a Quick-charge plug.

I hear you though; I wasn’t seriously suggesting it as a better alternative, that’s just how I…

You could alternately just get a really long HDMI cable and move the Shield closer to you... That’s what I do with my Shield Tablet when it’s in console mode. 10' HDMI cable and it sits right next to my chair. Between that and the length of the DS4's cord it should cover just about any distance.

Heh, I’m not about to…

I just used it wired through an OTG adapter, but I could swear I’ve seen instructions on how to pair it too... Might need root though, I never investigated.

Wired worked fine for me, but I was playing on the Tablet. I could see that being a bigger issue with the TV...

Well, it’s obviously just a play on “The New Challengers” subtitle from SSf2, but implying, like, hey, can you believe it? We’ve got another version of this, and it’s the last version of this game we’re ever going to make...

I dunno, I guess I could see wanting more from it, but that’s the exact opposite of why this…

They’e already shown images of Evil Ryu and Violent Ken, and I would imagine Akuma will just be selectable rather than the crazy bullshit way you had to get him in original SSF2T.

I can’t really see them adding anyone else. At that point you’d just play Alpha 3. This is Sf2, and that’s exactly what I want from it.

USF2 is seriously the most exciting gaming news I’ve heard in years... 

I will crush these no good millennial online fighting game bastards under my boot... Their 200 hit combos will not be there to save them now! Maniacal laugh.

I’m old.

The DS4 doesn’t play nice with Android? I mean, I love my Shield Controller with a passion and all, but while I was waiting for it to arrive I exclusively used a DS4 with my Shield Tablet, and I had zero issues with it.

Played all manner of MAME fighting games spectacularly, which is a pretty solid benchmark for any…

I never suggested the “install” itself was any faster; I’m saying it’s (infinitely) faster to install from optical media than it is to download a game from PSN. I don’t think that’s debatable.

I am well aware that some games do let you play part of it while it is downloading (some do that with disk-installs too), but…

As long as your Ps4 is functioning, you can still play your disk-based copy (after install) regardless of network conditions or patches needed. The only thing it stops you from doing is playing online if you haven’t finished updating it yet...

I still buy on disk, and it has nothing to do with trade-in value or…

Not exactly... The sticking point for me is still download time versus disk-install.
Yes, most of the time you’ll need a patch, but I can still install a full retail game off a disk in an hour or less and play it while waiting. Downloading one takes all damn night thanks to PSNs insanely slow speeds.

Well, I never suggested the toys aren’t nice... I think they are some of the slickest figure designs/styles I’ve ever seen.

According to them though, the main problem was the deals they had to make on things like Guardians of the Galaxy where they were forced to make figures like Yondu and Ronan, despite knowing they…

Hah, I have that monstrosity myself, and I totally forgot I did until just now... It’s in a closet somewhere, still in its original box.

Has got to be the single most useless peripheral I ever bought, but damn if it doesn’t look cool.

Yeah, I’m not going to pretend to understand how the legality of that stuff works, but I have read very specific things about those deals that explained the troubles.. Like, to get the GotG in-game, they had to agree to make Yondu and Ronan, even though they knew those characters were going to populate landfills.

It’s…

Infinity is not based on comics, it’s based on movie/tv properties; those were the deals they stuck. What else Disney owns is irrelvent...

I’m having trouble finding it at the moment, but I read a detailed breakdown of what rights they had at one point, and it very clearly stated that they were only licensed to make…

You should read the article’s (here) on exactly why; the story is very interesting. Mostly bad licensing deals, and over-production of figures.

No argument that the figures are gorgeous. I haven’t turned the game on in many months, but I can’t seem to bring myself to put the toys away... They are just styled so damn…

There was very strict deals made on all the characters, including exactly who they were forced to make and where they were allowed to be used in-game. It’s really not as simple as just patching support for them into older sets... 

It’s why you can’t for example play through the Avengers playset with Spider-man. Deals…

The game sold fine, it was the warehouses of Yondu (and similar) figures that killed them... 

The more you read about what happened to Infinity, the more it sounds like it was mostly just the licensing deals on the IPs/characters that did them in. They were hamstrung so bad by those deals that it’s not surprising they…