Don’t forget weapon balancing early in ME1. Having weapons only differ based on three variables really limited the RPG element in that regard. The fact that Soldier was the only class with proficiency for all four weapons didn’t help balance, and the comical inaccuracy you have with sniper rifles in particular early…

Ichi.io is not the Epic Games Store though, so how does the former say anything about the latter?

It’s not inconsistent though, at least as far as ichi.io is concerned. The Epic Games Store and ichi.io are two separate platforms that happen to be owned by the same company.

As far as I can tell, even EA hasn’t bothered to implement one for Origin. Gotta buy everything one at a time unless it comes bundled.

The tiny feet seem like a huge liability for things as tall and top heavy as they are.

I’d figure most people would be exposed to it first since it was the theatrical cut and the most readily available for quite a while. Would be weird if you couldn’t count yourself as a fan because you saw that version first.

Twitch isn’t just for streaming gaming though. The service began life as Justin.tv, with a single channel that wasn’t about gaming. They later spun Twitch off as their gaming label, but later merged Justin.tv into Twitch. So Twitch has all the broad topics for streaming Justin.tv used to feature ever since. That…

From what I’ve read they’re using console ports for the Namco titles, which are generally inferior to their arcade originals. Most of the stuff on there are available in various collections using those arcade versions. The Switch got a pretty small version, but there’s two collections on Steam and a couple Playstation…

There’s no shortage of iconic video game songs but 8 and 16-bit era Capcom really stands out as having some excellent tracks.

Seems pretty transparent to me. They pick a charity by default each month, which is where your donations go if you don’t change anything. But you’re free to change who you’re donating to with a searchable list of charities in five different countries.

They’ve just as much a right to exist as any other third party key retailer. And they still donate more than most retailers even at 15%. That’s to my knowledge still on top of discounts and the like that they offer, which invariably means cutting into their margins.

“men shouldn’t be creepy” bullshit

Your argument is the same nonsense that people lob at those making a living doing streaming in any capacity though. There’s a market for it, it’s not harming anyone, and you don’t have to view it if you don’t want.

I imagine the change points to the possibility that what they’ve got is not a sustainable business model. I appreciate being able to donate, but how do you maintain a business where your users can opt out of providing you much of a cut at all of the transactions you handle?

Playstation used to be that way, but they’ve ended the regional distinction with the PS5 apparently. All systems use X to confirm/do and O to cancel by default now.

There’s a common thread among a lot of the games available here, in that they’re frequently from older video game companies that stopped existing as a proper game developer/publisher at some point. They’re generally held by some sort of rights holder that maintains the game company as a collection of IP.

The longterm problem I think is the games they’re able to license are generally the same sort that end up on any number of other devices in roughly the same collections. They’re not bad, necessarily, but they’re also not the standouts people think of usually with emulation. No Nintendo, obviously, no Sega, no Square…

You could probably make it different enough to get by. 8-bit sprites are hugely open to interpretation, as anyone who’s looked at the different box art for Japanese and Western games has seen.

Divorce it from being a commodity and you can still buy and sell stuff with it.

Switch cartridges come in fixed sizes, like 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 16GB, 32GB. 32 is the current largest, but only a handful of games take advantage of it, because it’s also the most expensive.