Was mostly talking about PC games.

It’s the same argument video games went through over a decade ago—and which we have collectively just shrugged and moved on from—when people found out the DLC they were buying was already on the disc they bought.

Right? Considering that Skyrim was successfully ported/released on virtually every platform of the last decade, you’d think that would count as “mass market audience”.

Honestly, the “and some of them aren’t really foreseeable” thing just came across as annoying. Ten hours later, something completely random & invariably bad happens, and you get told “see! Your actions have consequences!” But if they’re totally unforseeable, then the only lesson you can take away is “don’t do…

3/547 certainly doesn’t seem like much of a “tradition.”

Yeah, I got the Spyro remaster trilogy when it came out, and was reminded of just how short the average console game was back in the day (if, of course, you were good enough that you didn’t need to repeat levels over & over to finish them)

But without getting rid of their state legislature gerrymandered majorities, and control of the school boards, no meaningful/modern science/health education would be allowed to be taught there in the first place. “Parents rights” to keep their kids indoctrinated & ignorant, wheeeee.

Hey, now. It’s obviously the “freedom” of religious zealots to inflict their beliefs on everyone around them.  /headdesk

and how I can make the Bahamas and Family Islands, a region I care so deeply about, whole again.

Good to know. 

Of course, “different back” doesn’t mean a lot in a world where 98% of players are using opaque-back card sleeves.

That much multi-classing never leads to a good build.

While I certainly enjoy crafting in open-world RPGs like Skyrim or Fallout, or in (duh) survival/crafting games... yeah, I agree that it doesn’t need to be shoved into every damn game. If you want to space out upgrades, just let people collect (one, maybe two) currency and buy stuff from vendors; or reward them for…

Originally released in 2020 in a notoriously bug-ridden and barely-playable state...

Edgerunners anime gave it a boost.  Bunch of new people bought it, players spiked.  It’s been 50k+ on weekends and evenings.

In most games NPCs speak to you using your name not gender,

Who cares how someone else enjoys a single player game?

Hey now, it’d be “outside the jurisdiction of the federal govt”, so that makes it small/local/self-rule, and therefore inherently awesome.  /s

This.  Yes, a Xenogears remaster wouldn’t suck.  But a Xenosaga remaster would be good too.  (still have my discs, but my PS2 isn’t doing well.)

Whereas I buy very few new games a year, and keep going back to old games to replay them (helps that many of them are openworld/sandbox/RPG/etc type games that you can play differently. So I want to “own” (ha!) my games, and have no need for a vast library of options to download next week.  (still have a shelf of PS2…