As disgusting as I find artificial scarcity (one of the reasons this is much worse than console exclusivity, which can actually make sense), one of the big things that really jump out to me about this is the nature of the market here itself. This isn’t so much a competition for consumers, as for publishers. Prices…

Huh. I think Double XP actually has a point for once.

It depends on whether we’re talking games that you’re kind of expected to replay. E.G. Borderlands, Diablo, MMOs, etc. If so, obviously those. If not... I’ve replayed Xenogears repeatedly, Suikoden II, Star Ocean 2, and SMRPG a few times. Ditto with Ocarina of Time.

I’d been trying to figure out what the last thing they released I cared about was, and I think this was it. Yeah though, pity about the IP, we’ve waited on a new Suikoden for a long, long time (even with the recent spiritual successor in development). They’re honestly almost like patent trolls.

This is one of the weeks where one of the previous comics of the week is enormously better than the latest one (on Penny Arcade specifically).

I was under the impression indications were he wasn’t going to be changing them in the short term - admittedly this is from vague recollection though.

Have the tarriffs raised the prices yet? Because if so, those people apparently did get a better deal anyways!

Cheers, appreciate the clarification. Gorgeous style by the way, very clean.

I think only the top three are Hades characters. The bottom one is Ciri I’m pretty sure (the symbol is Aard, the intro text mentions Witcher 3 too, and the character design seems to be her). I’m still drawing blanks on the other two though.

I recognize the top three and the bottom one, but who are the other two?

Torn between Warframe and Blade & Soul. I’m definitely more fond of the longer, more significant jumps. Warframe probably comes out on top though honestly, for the more technical jump tactics.

Cheers, thanks mate. I played back at/before launch, and the passwords presumably still in my password manager. Should be fine.

I hear you on the anxiety issue. Even after having played MMOs for around two decades now, I still have this problem. Unfortunately, while it’s less bad than real life, there’s still a very real and physical reaction to such things.

It’s a bizarre and concerning situation certainly, but also not one that much is likely to result from. As disturbing as what’s happening is (Americans assaulting the capital in opposition to democracy), it’s more disturbing for what it says about the nation, rather than actually accomplishing much anything. The…

Not quite what I meant, but I did back it and am looking forward to it.

New Suikoden?

I wouldn’t mind working my way through some of my backlog. I tend to get a good start occasionally, then fall off the wagon. Got probably just over 50 games still, like I have for some time really. That of course ignores games I don’t intend to play but got in bundles and the like.

The previous Penny Arcade this week was funnier. Admittedly, I’m easily amused by comments on the mess that is the human condition, but still... lot of sympathy there.

Helps that I’m waiting to build a new PC anyways, yeah though I figure I can get a substantial discount by the time 3080s are consistently in stock.

Honestly, I’ve gotten bigger gifts before, but probably the best was Ocarina of Time. I did not particularly like the earlier Zelda games (not outright dislike or anything, but I preferred Star Tropics to Zelda back then), and my parents apparently had no idea what to buy me at the time, but they got told this was…