“I want worse games because it annoys the people who want good games”

I don’t think a ratings system is remotely beneficial for a creative industry. All it does is railroad design to fit into pre-determined boxes set by stupid bureaucrats.

And I assume you were the goody two shoes who never once played cards in school just for the fun of it?

How many more resources go into a modern release compared to in 1994? As I said, the markets are pretty difficult now and then,

That was literally never the standard for nearly all releases outside of special editions. And Idk why never patching the game is superior to just having all the jank left in because patching didn’t exist.

“simulated” gambling is specifically called out in a separate paragraph from things like loot boxes, hence my concern.

While I fully get wanting cheaper games, nobody wants to pay more money for something obviously, it does seem a tad myopic to expect games to always sit at the same sticker price even in the face of inflation. For reference, Mario 64, in 1996 sold new at ~$60, just like lots of games still do. And yeah, comparing the market then and now isn’t really apples to apples, but really not much else holds a price over such a long time. Maybe those 99¢ Arizona tea cans? I definitely wouldn’t mind $20 more per game if it meant games could get by on selling fewer copies and affording more room for less popular series or new ideas.

This item is only available online

I was just in target earlier today, and the sale signs were plastered all over the Xbox aisle, so definitely not online only.

Computer games containing simulated gambling, such as social casino games, will be legally restricted to adults only with a minimum classification of R18+.

Yeah, perhaps it’s just poor paraphrasing for a press release, but this seems like a massive overstep, even if you support government intervention for loot boxes. Like, does this mean Mario 64 ds is an r18 game in Australia now because of luigi’s casino? Does every game that uses a slot-machine style interface for a semi-random reward have to be r18? What about the ID lottery in pokemon or the happy lucky lottery in paper Mario ttyd? Are all these things really worth making games r18?

As much as the ESRB fucking sucks ass and can go burn, at least it isn’t a government agency and has to at least play nice enough with the industry and consumers in general.

It’s always going to be “it’s an amazing RPG if you like JRPGs”, which to someone making the game probably makes you feel less than

I mean that happens with basically every sub-genre. For instance, most people would treat kart racers separately from “pure” racing games. Not because they’re lesser, but because the appeal in the genre significantly differs. Sonic & all stars is just a fundamentally different game from forza horizon in the same way final fantasy is different from fallout. And as it stands, we have terms to refer to it. If we’re going to nitpick the details of the genre name, we might as well really take a deep look at how many kart racers actually race primarily in actual karts. Or how many rogue likes are actually like rogue.

Lmao valve is hardly a defacto monopoly unless you want to be so incredibly granular about what specific market they’re a monopoly in as to be entirely pointless.

The problem with configuring that stuff outside the game is it doesn’t distinguish between parts of the game

Yeah, I hadn’t even considered the idea of inverted keyboard mouse until someone else brought it up.

You’re the first person on earth I’ve ever heard of to invert the X axis, I can’t even think of a game that let’s you do that.

Think of it like moving the camera as a separate entity in the game world. You use the stick to move the camera, and the camera is always on the opposite side of the sphere as where you’re aiming

We certainly don’t want to split the Forza Motorsport community up

Which is why forza is two concurrent and somewhat clashing series of games in which the series without the most recent game is entirely ignored

Oh god, the idea of inverted camera on mouse is something that hadn’t even come to mind.

Yeah, playing older games is really a crap shoot as to whether or not it has the controls you’re used to since actual choice is relatively recent.

Microsoft really pushing for the Japanese market recently is definitely interesting. I have to wonder how successful it actually is, considering that xbox basically has fuck all household recognition outside the English world up until recent.

That said, it’s nice that xbox is getting Japanese games on it solely just for more consumer choice here where xbox is actually popular, though Playstation still beats it by a landslide in that department.

It’s a joke to say they have better hardware when they force everything to be compatible with the series s regardless.

Take a second, reread what I said. I was not saying “sold out” under that context. “most sold” would be the proper grouping of words, out referring to “out of the current consoles”