Dunno. Big cup? Small bladder? Anxiety? Placebo effect?

ATB wasn’t really meaningfully different from a turn based system, at least in it’s default wait setting. It wasn’t until FFX-2 that it was really “active”, and you could do stuff like combos or interrupt the enemy.

The street fighter example is misleading. The time window for moves might be small, but that is about timing *precision*, not reaction. The key to fighting games is not super-human reaction times, but predicting your enemy's moves before they make them

There are a few problems with report you linked. First of all, they didn’t meaningfully report connection speed, but defined “high speed” as anything with with better than dial-up. That might have been interesting data 20 years ago, but many consumers are stuck with DSL lines that are just *barely* better than…

One thing to keep in mind is that often the reason things aren’t economical to recycle is that it uses more energy and resources than you save than if you make it from new. Obviously that doesn’t capture the whole environmental picture, but because it uses resources the very act of recycling causes environmental…

Blast. I guess this affects the “Wii mode” on the WiiU too?

If you're putting your savings into a call option you're not investing - you're gambling. 

The decline of Square happened either a few years before or a few years after the merger, depending on your point of view.

Actually, they *are* full 3D environments, which is why they’re able to transition seamlessly from pre-rendered image to pre-rendered FMV cutscene. That also means, of course, that rendering them at a higher resolution would just be a setting in the renderer. My suspicion though is that would be too much work as…

Neither Gameboy advance or any of the DS’s were in shortage when they came out. Quite the opposite in fact, they were lying on the shelves like bricks until demand started to rise in their first year.

You haven’t given any logical explanation why people would necessarily become less ethical if they realized the universe was simulated.

A big advantage of the classic Raspberry Pi I’d that it does networking out of the box. This would make it easy for you to keep it synced with real time.

Developers have been rubbish at predicting the success of Nintendo consoles, as have the gaming press. It took ages for developers to come round on the DS. For the Wii they were basically in denial for the entire lifetime of the console.

“Limited lives” vs “infinite lives” kind of misses the point. Most all games punish failure with some kind of setback. There are two extremes: Unlimited quicksaves and reloads anywhere, where the setback is minimal. And on the other hand complete restarts to the beginning of the game, like in the NES days. The maximum…

That would have made things way too complicated. They’d need either a cartridge system or a network adapter and online store.

The problem with batteries in the 90s was that electronics only really worked well if you bought expensive alkaline batteries. With that system, every minute of gameplay was $$$.

I’m guessing you wouldn’t, currently, which is why the switch might seem interesting.

I guess this the switch is as direct a response we could expect to tablet/mobile gaming. I think it would be great if they had some tablet-quality functionality. Nintendo could never compete with smartphone manufacturers, but tablets, which are mostly about browsing, watching movies and gaming, I can see them gaining…

You might, but until the release you will probably buy and play other games. Meanwhile the developer is burning through money.

If you use language like traffic regulations do (or any other reasonable person for that matter), “more than two cars length” means that two cars is an acceptable minimum.