No I’m entirely familiar. And I’m not even remotely suggesting you should buy this, more questioning why even bother with pirating it when it’s so crap? As you said, there are better modded versions of the older ports if you really have to scratch that itch, or frankly the original versions on their original hardware…

I don’t really follow the logic with that though. If the game is a broken mess, and you don’t want to support the devs either, why the hell even bother torrenting it? Why waste the time and drive space? There’s so much else out there to play, and so much more you could waste your time on instead of a bad busted lazy…

Because it’s not an actual person, it’s effectively just a chat bot guessing at answers to respond to things based on conversation it’s seen. So it’s accidental, in that there was no actual intent or thought behind the statement, it’s just something that slipped through the cracks when trying to moderate how the bot…

I mean, given it’s an exclusive they have contracts. They can’t just undermine sales of the game by going “yeah ignore this, we’ll pump it out X Y Z other places later”. They likely aren’t allowed to per their deal with Sony, same way you can’t shit talk a game you’re making to downplay hype when deals like that are…

Imagine being one of those 3rd party developers they talked to, and doing so little research on who you were meeting/in discussions with that you actually think they’d go along with some predatory mobile market bullshit.

RIPBOZO

I honestly 100% forgot Insomniac had made VR titles like that, they weren’t advertised nearly as well. I was only thinking of Sunset Overdrive and Fuse as their non-PlayStation catalog, so you’re right. But at the same time they’ve had a long, close working relationship with Sony on all those other titles so it’s a…

When you have 30 entities, it’s not a big deal to go to 29 because one bought up another. When that’s gone on for years, and you’re down to lets say 5 entities, it’s an inherently bigger deal for one to buy up another and take that number down to 4; the same value exists across those 5 as existed across the 30, but…

They can afford to give you 95% of the sub, because they’re not looking to make their money there. You get one guess where they DO make their money from setting this up. And yes of course they’ll have nice, open collaboration…with the streamers who are streaming their gambling site to hook suggestible people into…

You’re limited to 4 of a card, because they saw MtG Arena and decided to copy everything about it.

If you’ve never seen it, look up G-PHORIA, the 2003 G4 video game awards show. It’s the most tone deaf idiotic and of-its-time version of this, and they just shamelessly hand nearly every award to GTA: Vice City. To the point they very clearly had to come up with some other award names to accommodate anything else…

CoD is Activision-Blizzard, not EA fyi.

Branding consists most heavily of colors and logo, so dev just needs to focus on that to not overlap trademark. Swap colors of stuff, like change your grey floor and walls to beige or something. Maybe make the store name something that isn’t 4-letters so they can’t bitch about that. Make sure you don’t use blue and…

The question isn’t whether or not this is considered parody, it is; there’s not even stolen trademarks to contend with, it’s just meant to look like a vague impression of IKEA for effect.

Not even that. Clueless executive gets forwarded article headline reading “indie horror game set in IKEA” and takes it at face value, sic’ing lawyers on them. Lawyers then look at handful of screenshots to identify anything that overlaps with IKEA brand to point out, as little as “you have signs” and “your floor is…

It’s not hard to grok? I’m not disagreeing? I said both times, yeah it’s weird that it isn’t on PC. It should be. Everything else is, so makes no sense it isn’t. But the game is easily available to play, even if it’s not your idealized way or form to play it, which was the point related to what the OP said.

Code: Veronica X, rereleased version for Dreamcast and PS2 which was the version given an HD remaster for PS3 and Xbox 360, so that’s how the version I saw playable on Xbox is listed. Thought it would be a pretty easy abbreviation to guess from context.

I mean…it’s playable on PS4, and subsequently on PS5. That’s pretty easy access, and it’s cheap too. Don’t know how it plays as I haven’t gotten to it.

I have no confidence in the Stories Untold guys to deliver. That thing was a mess; started neat, but devolved into random little gameplay bits strung together and topped of with the king of bad amateur writing tropes.

Atmospherically it was neat, changing to be a mom protag was good, but it was the start of the downward slope effectively. Especially in terms of using Pyramid Head for every fucking thing. It basically cribbed him and the laying figure creature out of SH2 where they had psychological intention behind their design and…