The hardware alone is worth close to $200 (retail) if they’re using all Sanwa parts. $50 in sticks/tops, another $50 in buttons, then factor in the wiring, CPU, hdmi/wifi/etc... It’s really pretty reasonably priced to what it would cost you to build it yourself.

They’re claiming to be using all Sanwa parts, which are pretty much the gold standard in arcade hardware (depending on personal preference to some degree.) It would easily cost you around $150 just to buy the hardware at retail prices, so it’s not a bad deal at all if it’s really in the $250 range, especially once you…

I’m equally baffled by the people who can’t understand how insanely useful it can be... It honestly reminds me of how I felt about smartphones when I still had a flip. They seemed wholly unnecessary to me, and now (like everyone else,) I can’t fathom living without one. That’s exactly how I feel about Alexa now.

I…

Fair enough, I’m just happily surprised at the slight resurchange in the genre in the past year or so. We had a severe drought for a long time there that seems to be kind of over.

If you liked AOE, I strongly recommend Northgard. I bought that blind last night and ended up playing it till freaking 6 am. It doesn’t…

That’s not really so true anymore. It’s certainly slimmer pickens than in the heyday, but there’s quite a few TBS and RTS games coming out on PC these days, even some with pretty solid budgets and hitting consoles.

Just off the top of my head stuff I’ve played in the last 6 months: Northgard, Into the Breach, Civ 6,…

Hahah, didn’t know if you were serious, looked it up:

“two weeks after having his toe amputated from a poisonous spider bite, lying on a crack dealer’s couch clutching his last guitar for pawning – Al Jourgensen finally decided to get clean.”

- Yup, that sounds about right. 

Hah, oh, I’m not saying you’re wrong... He may well have said it at some point. The dude has threatened some from of retirement more times than I can count.

I’m just saying so far as I know officially, NIN itself has never been put away, he was just distracted making soundtracks with Atticus and the HtDA stuff. And I…

He’s taken breaks from writing new NIN material, and hiatuses from touring (sometimes implying it would be forever), but he has never retired “the band.”

Uh... Kind of hard for “them” not to be together. Until very recently when Ross was officially added, NIN has always been just one guy. (With a touring band.)

And I like Ministry and all, but Trent has more talent in his big toe than that entire band. IMHO, of course...

Thank you. I was about to scream into the internal grey void that any list without Flash Gordon on it is borderline offensive. Greatest soundtrack in the history of film. No other answer is acceptable.

Can’t say as I’ve actually tried it (because it takes two seconds to quit to the menu in a DS game anyway), but I have read people have tested using standby mode on Ps4 and it does not actually pause DS titles.

According to the posts I saw on the topic, people came back from suspended mode to either find themselves…

Oh, no kidding... Sounds like it really is just a Shield Tablet with an N slapped on it.

I won’t argue that it’s a bastion of perfect visibility, but the complaints are slightly overblown too... Having a backup camera in my model probably skews my perception of just how bad it actually is, but I don’t find it to have any worse (rear) blind spots than any older gen Camaros I’ve owned.

The only visibility…

Ah, I was wondering how they were handling the Tegra in a device actually meant to be portable...

I have a Shield Tablet (and absolutely love it), but it is clearly not meant to be used as an actual game console when it’s in portable/tablet mode. If you play any of the proprietary games for it (Doom 3, Halflife 2,…

Exactly. That low barrier to entry in both creation and viewing of content exploded the dev scene in a way nothing else ever has, especially when it came to game development.

The perfect example of how nothing that has popped up since is comparable is to look at Joe Cartoon. (Frog in a blender.) Did you know he still…

Wholly untrue. The original, unaltered trilogy was certainly made available “beyond VHS.” The single only format where you can buy the new versions of the OT and not the unaltered originals is on Blu-ray.

Betamax, VHS, Laser Disk, VCD, and DVD all offer it... Granted, some of those were limited runs or in smaller marke…

You can convert (some) Flash content to HTML/JS, but only within reason, and it is nowhere near as simple and clean a process as people like to pretend. As3 code can generally be converted to JS easily enough, but that doesn’t help you when it comes to graphics, especially if you were doing on-the-fly vector work, or…

So much this... I was a Flash Developer for close to twenty years and it was some of the most fun and rewarding development I’ve ever done. The scripting language is essentially JS with a massively expandable vector drawing API, so the possibilities were basically as far as your creativity allowed.

You could launch…

Well, we could back and forth all day on whether or not you need specific first-hand reports to be concerned (despite the fact that the company itself has a pretty solid history of outspoken, miserable employees), but it doesn’t even matter anyway.

It’s not like Heather said, “this happened, boycott this game”, she merely said when games are this massive in size, it makes her concerned for the people who were involved in making it. It’s a totally reasonable concern given the history of the industry.

It would be no different than saying, “I really want the new…