Thank you for being an ally during this time of misfortune.

I’m not sure if it’s a bizarre “ritual” per se... but any time I play any Spyro games (original or remaster), I always try to jump up a full flight of stairs using the jump+charge pouncing run. If I fail I sometimes go back down the stairs to try again.

Not gonna lie, I totally read video games and pornography. I guess that tells you something about me. :p

GTA Online’s success is an annoyance to single player gamers like me.

Control is excellent in all regards, but the art direction and sound design are just... *kisses fingers*

- I always jump around. Even if I just have to walk in a corridor for five seconds to deliver something to a different NPC, I jump over fences or chairs or double jump. Even if it costs stamina, even during dialogues, I jump.

Back when Rock Band and Guitar Hero were still a thing, if I was alone, I’m almost embarrassed to say, but I’d play in the birthday suit. Just seemed to allow to me to focus better. Nothing like rocking out with your bits out, I guess. 

I do little things like blow out candles or turn off lights if I can.  I flushed every single toilet in Prey. I don’t know why.

Thank God it still lets you buy on Steam, lest a barbarian horde of indignant “consumers” descend upon Rockstar to tell them that actually what they’re doing is actually monopolization and unfair, before starting a harassment campaign against their developers and PR spokespeople.

Or you could have just said “Oh, sorry, they sold out!” 

Or you could have just said “Oh, sorry, they sold out!” 

Hello condescending douche-bag writer,

Marketing departments, like most customer service centered companies generally don’t drop pant and crap on their customers at whim. This is so that they don’t actually have the exact opposite effect on sales than their employer intends.

Hello condescending douche-bag writer,

Marketing departments, like most customer service centered companies generally…

Well, that was unnecessarily aggressive.  Maybe you should account for the fact that the gold box page doesn’t list it as sold out, it just removes it from the list.

Well, that was unnecessarily aggressive.  Maybe you should account for the fact that the gold box page doesn’t list…

I think the most responsible decision is to ignore everything you’re thinking, and dump two hundred hours into Monster Hunter.

Might I suggest “Masters of Doom”? https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812972155/?coliid=I2VF47MBXM066W&colid=33B9SD6VTU5HL&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

I remember cheat codes!

The 1990s were a time of pioneering and breaking of frontiers for gaming, with the advent of cheap, at least somewhat powerful 3D graphics platforms like Playstation and whatnot. Home computing systems before then were incredibly limited; the NES for example had 1kB RAM and 1kB VRAM built-in (more could be added in…

I love it when developers share old war stories, especially ones from before the millennium changed. It’s so cool to see how creative people were, just to get the simplest of things to happen, let alone build games on those technical ideas.

I think they’re mainly hoping that, by sharing something cool with the world, that they’ll be criticized by strangers on the Internet for doing it wrong.

It’s called debugging. It’s very normal for any service to collect data from the user. How else are they supposed to improve the service? Just hope that all is well? These people are professionals and need the data to do their jobs. It’s a device designed to listen.

I hope they’re enjoying all that porn I watch at full volume