the thing is, we basically know why diablo is the more successful model. it’s just, not really a great thing that it is

people focus on the negatives because the negatives are dominant. optimizing the addiction people feel for your game in an attempt to hook them for hundreds of hours is a bad thing, not a good thing. it is certainly not ‘pro-consumer’ in my opinion

i definitely think one thing working against mario 64 is that they directly refined many elements of it over the years, whereas they were never able, and arguably never really tried, to surpass smb3/smw.

this is kind of one thing i was thinking with this. i suspect for many people it’s like driving a car with stick shift for the first time, where i imagine it would be very difficult to go back to that after having experienced all the refinements that have happened since then.

the one crime of this list is super mario sunshine over yoshi’s island (and smb2 us version). 

lately i think there are a lot of people who consider mario 64 to have aged poorly. i disagree with them vehemently, but i was honestly expecting it to be listed lower as a result

yeah vr-specific arcades sound corny to me. but arcades (through black magic or something) making some sort of general comeback, with vr being one part of that, sounds cool to me.

vr seems like one of those things that would be so awesome in like an arcade or something, but as some kind of ‘main option’ i personally dont feel the appeal

this is so real

youre making me want to replay it!!

no it isn’t. the problem is as described: many games are only reasonably accessible through weird, illegal means.

yeah shadow dragon for DS was sooo bad. it’s one of those games where i actually did enjoy it, but the lack of quality was palpable, like fast food. and FE3 already exists and is very playable imo, making it even sadder that they dropped the ball like that.

i feel like having sacred stones above blazing blade is a very reasonable opinion for sure. personally i would be one of the people who has blazing blade as my favorite, but also i haven’t played anything past path of radiance and the DS version of shadow dragon. given that very limited perspective, one of the things…

*sees second item in the list*

it’s understandable that people want to ‘give second chances’ but if ‘giving second chances’ means ‘famous influential streamer ultimately gets to continue being famous influential streamer because his PR skills are really good’ then it’s really unfortunate.

what you are saying: ‘it’s not an extinction-level event’

what you’re describing with books, films, etc, is the whole reason people are concerned about this with games. we want to make sure we do a good job of preserving the past. situations like this are an obstacle to that

they certainly will still care to converse with real people. but nonetheless i could see a situation where people get addicted to talking with fake people. we probably should be considering the potential negative effects on society of that happening

it sounds like you are kind of saying

i am not putting words in your mouth. i asked you a question and you answered it in the affirmative: you literally just now said that using violence to achieve social gains is morally inexcusable, and, insanely, you include fights against slavery within that. again, we are galaxies away from eachother on this. the…