“All right, this game features 1000+ explorable worlds, entire novels worth of dialogue, a 30-40 hour quest with likely dozens more hours of side quests, but...gasp, oh no, it costs ten whole dollars more than what a standard game has cost since 2005?” (when in order to actually keep up with the 37% inflation in the…

My biggest gripe with Bethesda games in general is that they design the world first, then build stories around it (not my words, but theirs), which is why they always feel lackluster from the narrative side.

the context of what i was responding to was quoted in my post - i posted on what i thought about the nature of streaming as a form of ‘content creation,’ you decided this was a declaration of allegiance for a megacorp vs the little guy is an assumption on your part. you can disagree me with my perspective but i’m not…

I mean, it was banned very shortly after being front-page Google news...

lol, they actually think they matter:

I mean maybe, just MAYBE, if your content is contingent on playing nice with someone else’s intellectual property — especially a notoriously litigious company like Nintendo — it would be a good idea not to do something they’re known for getting pissy about?

As usual you don’t understand things. You specifically ignored what I wrote because you don’t like to think. I’ll repeat: Nintendo is the leader in console share, software sales, and profit.

Also, the argument that consolidation inevitably results in reduced quality isn’t supported by any facts in the gaming industry.

The key difference here is that gamepass inherently incentivizes a large number of low quality (likely free to play / multiplayer / mtx ridden) games. I totally agree that publishers, especially medium size ones like Bethesda, acquiring talented but struggling indie studios like Arkane is a generally good thing. But…

Fair response. However, the particular subscription model of gaming that Microsoft is pursuing(day one release), will inevitably result in reduced quality for games. Similiar to Netflix, where whilst it is true that there exists tons of content, however they lack the quality of big budget blockbusters. And it is…

What is this word salad supposed to mean?

It’s funny to see these comments right after an article on how Super Mario Galaxy 2 is better than 1 (and with virtually everyone in the comments agreeing). That game was of course also originally just supposed to be DLC.

It’s why twitter *had* verified marks. Now scammers buy bluechecks.

Is GamePass a comparable service to PS Plus Essential?

I was of the thought that PS Plus Essential is comparable to basic Xbox Live, which is a far cry from GamePass.

Probably just misspelled “remakester”

Hi, just a friendly reminder that Bobby Kotick is a piece of shit and the world would be better off if literally the entire fleet of Greyhound busses ran over him (and the rest of Activision-Blizzard executive leadership, for that matter).

Tanzel is right, the disagreement you’re having is over a fundamental misunderstanding of what “Consumer Choice” is. Consumer choice is not: “The thing I want is available everywhere, and I get to pick which place to spend my money,” which is how it’s almost always used in the gaming community. Consumer Choice is…

“Honestly their track record as of late...”

I think that’s what it is. So many of the pro-merger people insist that this particular merger will not result in a monopoly. But it’s like they take the meaning of monopoly so freaking literally, they don’t realize that 1) an oligopoly is not really any better for consumers (see: Internet providers) and 2) if you sit…

Oh I think it’s bleaker than that, I don’t think they want monopolies. I think they’re just too naive to realise that’s the ultimate outcome.