Hades II! Can’t believe there’s already a sequel.

To be fair, so are the Oscars.  But the rest of your point stands.

The better way to buy Apple products is to stop buying them so often.  If you’re going to spend $1,000 or more on a product fine, but it better damn well last you for several years.

Like what stories are you talking about?  I remember a handful of bad games like Back to the Future where the bugs were truly game breaking, and they usually weren’t big titles.  Any game I actually bought was a working release.  Are you talking more from the Atari era where there were so many bad releases?

You don’t think there’s a big difference in the scope of bugs nowadays? Yeah, some games released with bugs back in the day, but at least in the Nintendo and SNES era I don’t remember the big titles having the magnitude of problems that so many AAA games have today.

I remember Chrono Trigger costing $80 on SNES, and that was 1995 dollars. That’s about $157.45 in today’s money.

Sorry, these awards simply don’t matter in any real regard. That might come off as ‘poor social graces’ to you, but how well people dress up for a tailored up marketing event is the last thing anyone in the industry should give a shit about.

Excuse me, you honestly think it’s a problem if people don’t take awards ceremonies of all things more seriously? This has got to be one of the most Karenesque reactions to something regarding video games.

Ooh, mine was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A with a cassette attachment.  It had the worst controller of all time.

I think the statement “It’s an awards ceremony.” doesn’t have as much gravity or respect with many people as you might think.  It’s just not something that people take so seriously anymore.

People are already melting down over the Switch’s relative lack of power and capabilities, and it already is incapable of playing many of the latest multiplatform titles. Meanwhile Nintendo could release a new Switch while still making sure that all of their exclusives were playable on the OG Switch.

We’re not just talking working a little bit of extra time here is the issue. If and when something unexpected comes up and you’re asked to work overtime for a few days, it’s not the end of the world.

Unfortunately it’s a problem with a lot of passion jobs, especially in entertainment. Books, movies, TV music, and now gaming all attract a ton of people because working with their favorite hobby is their dream job. And because of that people tend to undervalue how much they are worth and make way too many concessions…

You’re assuming that Valve won’t release a new iteration of the Steam Deck with better hardware in that time, though. If Nintendo would just release something with better hardware that also has complete backwards compatibility with the current Switch, then a lot of the criticisms of the Switch would go away.

It’s really not that weird an article to write, especially as I just said the two devices are very comparable. You bring up buying a $2000 PC, the Steam Deck is NOT a $2000 machine. It’s a portable system with better hardware and a much bigger library that only costs $200 than a Switch, like it or not that invites…

They’ve very comparable systems, not sure why people are so bothered to see them compared.  Is it because one has a lot more obvious advantages than another?

Man,you were really defensive here.

I’d think the point would be to play games portably on the go, one of the same reasons to own a Switch.

The Steam Deck is exactly like the Nomad in that it’s a portable way to play games from another platform but has no exclusive titles of its own.

There’s a lot to enjoy, but I disagree that the combat is anything worth praising. The ‘rhythm’ for the swordplay is the exact same rhythm over and over and over. Hit, wait half a sec, hit, wait half a sec, hit. Repeat. There’s very little to watch out for, nothing to challenge, and in the end not all that satifying.…