I’m not knocking Stop Skeletons for Fighting for their great coverage of the tech that I’ve frankly never heard of. Their videos have been super interesting and I hope to see more on weird stuff like this.

I imagine they didn’t let you use a mouse because it, again keeps the control on the controller.

There’s quite a few games that supported mouse and keyboard, but I’m sure that took away from accessory sales so they made it harder to do so. Red Faction 2 on PS2 could use a mouse and keyboard, few dreamcast games could. I believe some other shooters let you do so as well.

I get that it’s a complicated topic and it probably sounds like I’m banging on about how games should just have free stuff.

You realize that 99% of games don’t use a server to host matches right? They’re hosted on someone’s machine in the match. Match making is just about the only thing that servers are used for and those are typically owned by MS/Sony so that’s covered by the XBL/PSN.

No one sells DLC anymore because microtransactions & lootboxes make so much more money. That doesn’t mean it’s worth supporting such a thing, since it makes money off the back of either people with too much money, gambling problems or worse, children and it’s the most minimal effort BS.

Look at it this way:

I didn’t thank you, firstly. :)

I love being expected to pay for a server to change a txt doc on my machine so I can wear a different texture that’s already on the disc/download

You know I mean more than one F2P game.

I’m not sure I get where you’re coming from. The games aren’t exclusive to Valve because of any other reason than the publishers want them there. Valve isn’t doing anything to get them there other than 1-being popular and 2- having a lot of infrastructure that helps make some things easier.

I’ve seen the defense of the Epic Game Store. Even if someone wants to say “it’s good to see competition” my reply is, yeah, I’d love to see some. Because Epic isn’t providing any. They’re not using competitive tactics that benefit the consumer in anyway, or even the devs in most instances (just the already too big…

Wait, you don’t have a GBA SP on your desk ready to play a game at any time?

I do not, in anyway, support developer harassment. Indie devs getting a bigger cut AND payment ontop of the deal is a huge incentive for them, and I understand that AAA publishers love to store more money in their offshore accounts is not an aspect the devs under them benefit from.

“[he] has been in the industry long enough to remember when players weren’t complete ass-hats to developers and it was pretty neat.”

I’d just like to know if there’s a way to turn off the awful texture filtering you’d find in an SNES emulator for Grandia 1. It has that, what was it called, super eagle filter where it blobs pixels in an attempt to make it look like it’s drawn?

Some of their games, not all. I had a glance around for Metroid, can’t find any.

That’s a frustrating option given that you’ve gotta pay a hefty shipping fee for their stuff.

I’m bewildered by your opening, do you think that being insulting makes anyone want to reply to you? It also doesn’t help your case when you don’t seem to grasp just how aggressive Nintendo is vs other games companies.

I’m aware of Nintendo’s history with fans and their IPs, I’m sure they’d issue copyright claims to individual fanart pieces if their legal dept could figure out a way to make it affordable.