True, but I’d like to point that out that thus far in our past couple discussions your arguments are seemingly based on an ideal scenario that doesn’t yet exist and won’t at least in the short term.

This is not that confusing, dude. Seriously. For some people PCs are a complete non-factor. So that fact MS releases games on XBox GamePass for PC doesn’t elicit the same reaction as releasing on them on their primary console rival. 

Some people are just into consoles.  This part of it isn’t confusing. 

This is great. Relying on arbitrary exclusivity to sell hardware has always been dumb. People should buy hardware because the hardware itself provides benefits they find appealing, not because buying that hardware is the only way to play specific games.

Half the time I can’t get my Pals to stay in the ranch. The cows (moo something) in particular just wander around.  Which is particularly frustrating because the ranch is literally the only job they can do. 

Well that reason would be that they used the actual name. That is different than what is happening here. I don’t know if they did enough to qualify as parody, but it is more than just changing genres.

Yup, like the Metroid 2 remake AM2R. Nintendo shut that down, but it’s out in the wild and can be found pretty easily.

I think they have intentionally positioned the game where it can be argued to be a parody of Pokémon should they be challenged.

This article is presenting a false dichotomy. We are asked to think of our favorite characters and then the article proceeds to talk about NPCs in general and act like they are all like our favorite characters. But that is a bald faced lie.

Because media sites intentionally took a single sentence out of context to amp up the rage for clicks.  

LOL… wow! People really took that out of context. 🤦‍♂️

Have a TL:DR?

I forget that is an actual thing. But, yes, that is big in Japan apparently so that might be more accurate.

It’s cock fighting.

It’s an egregious misnomer.  I hate it too.

I feel like GenX would have been the prime audience for these shooters, but I guess you don’t get the nifty rhyme. 

I’m 40. I went through the NES Era where nearly every game was purposefully a bag of dicks to pad runtime, and I spent MANY weekends playing shit that was designed to piss me off. I beat Ninja Gaiden.

Or simply don’t require people to vote in every category or provide an opt-out option for every category. I know I felt under informed for several categories, including VR, but was required to vote in each category to officially complete the process.

@squidfucker

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