When the worst person you know made a good point.

I like lootboxes, if they’re done the way Heroes of the Storm does them.

You can’t buy them with real money, you can only get by playing the game, they can contain any random item from the game’s cash shop, and if you want to just buy the item outright instead of hoping it drops in a loot box…

https://youtu.be/BvK6KsLkPUs

Aren’t the kids mostly playing Fortnite and not Counter Strike? Doesn’t Fortnite outright advertise to children, have FOMO practices design to keep people addicted and spending money, and promote gun violence.

Well we need to see Valve in court over this how dare they make, host, and promote Fortnite!

Wait… Valve doesn’t make, promote or host Fortnite…

Curious

No they aren’t, but they directly used audio from it.

There’s a difference between WoW having a character named Harrison Jones who’s largely a parody of Indiana Jones who’s quests are archaeology based and kinda silly. It’s another thing entirely if they used repurposed clips from Raiders of the Lost Ark for his voicelines.

The irony is, if Adult Swim didn’t try to insist on their having 100% creative control over Charlie The Unicorn when it was pitched to Adult Swim, Charlie would BE in Multiversus.

I really hope the editor who okayed this was fired. It was probably some young well intentioned guy who was just a big fan of Charlie The Unicorn and thought it’d be neat to see them in the game, but had no understanding of how copyright works. I don’t blame him, he was probably new and naive, but there should have been a supervisor or someone in legal to stop and ask “Wait, do we own that?”

No…

They’re the ones who preserve and update old games. I can’t… I can’t

It’s clearly market manipulation.

I had a run where I legitimately had to stop and compare the point values a Two Pair Vs. One Pair Vs. Straight Flush

And ONE PAIR wound up being the one with the highest point value…

I was still 600 dollars short of winning against the Boss Blind, ending my run

I wonder what they rated Pavlov VR, ya know the FPS game in VR that forces you to handle guns the way they would in real life and is popular with ex-military because of their transferrable skills?

I recently played it. If anything I think it has a subtle anti-gambling message.

The more hands you play, the more you realize you can’t actually win without “cheating”

Play it like poker? Congrats, you’re fucked, you literally cannot win against the blind.

Stack the deck in your favor with creative use of Joker cards and a few dozen extra aces? The game becomes trivial

If the game teaches you anything it’s that if you play by the rules, the house will ALWAYS win.

Unironically this. It proves something I have believed for a long time, that there are no bad ideas, only bad executions.

You could have a Sonic game about how Robotnik’s penis is cursed by the Master Emerald to sing and dance when he exposes himself in public, and if done right it could be the greatest storyline in not just a Sonic game, but in all media forever.

Skibidi Toilet is about a transhumanist war between people who have become Cameras and people who have become toilets thanks to a biological contamination. The toilets are so silly and innocous that they were able to doom the world to an apocalypse by being “Invaders coming in peace.” with only the resistance who became camera heads after seeing the danger the toilets really posed. That they weren’t just silly singing toilet people who wanted a good time, but that they were actively hostile with goals of destroying everything.

It’s legitimately a good story and one told without any real dialogue.

There were rumors Microsoft were going to revive it, which lead to people playing the game, which lead to it getting balance patches again… but no new content drops sadly

That’s basically why the ESRB was created, it was “Self-Regulate, or we’re just going to ban 80% of games on the market as a scapegoat for Columbine!”

I haven’t seen Loot Boxes in a game in awhile, I kinda prefer those to FOMO…

I think the perfect system is you earn Loot Boxes by playing that can contain anything, but you can buy the specific things you want at any time, the boxes themselves are unlocked through gameplay.

Heroes of the Storm did this, and god I miss that game.

I wish DBD did it

They say: “Sonic Dream Team is an Apple Arcade Exclusive, maybe we’ll do a port one day if our contract allows”

I hear: “Sonic Dream Team is in devleopment hell and may never be released”

Steam: If a game is not in our records

GOG: Or ours

Both: Then it doesn’t exist

Pretty much, I mean I’ve seen amazing things the mainstream will never touch or know about… ultimately they made no money and the creators of them are either bitter or dead.

And I’ve seen absolute shit become a global phenomenon

Luck is sadly a necessary survival skill

Oh and there’s Alone In The Dark which just defies any explanation I have because it had one good game that aged horribly, and people are still trying and failing to reboot it.

This, I mean… Epic tried and had a storefront so terrible they had to bribe developers into making their games exclusive. Something that never fucking worked for any game that wasn’t Kingdom Hearts; Only resulting in the games bombing because they released on a constantly malfunctioning storefront that constantly got bad publicity.

And Origin was literally ran by EA, so… yeah…

GOG is the only real competitor Steam has, and most people’s opinion of it is “This is nerd shit”, which is a take even I agree with because the only games it really has are older than dirt, meaning I’m the only one who gives a shit about them.

The problem is everyone who tries to do what Steam does does it incompetently so it’s not viable.

GOG Galaxy is the closest I’ve seen to a viable competitor though and I respect the work they put into making older games run on newer hardware.

I’d probably have a PS5 and complaing about how Sony has me by the booba

To be fair when Steam first dropped, the idea of digital distribution was hopelessly naive and everything similar to it (like GameTap) was shut down pretty quickly.

Everything that tries to be “like Steam” also fails hard.

So there was a time when I was laughing at Steam with the rest of them.

I’d have done it just to conclude the story, but then agian, I like stories…

That’s a cool as fuck mount…

And it’s not worth what I could spend to get one AAA game and two decent quality Indie Games

At this point that’s the video game equivalent of “We only opened our movie in like 3 towns for two weekends despite not being an indie studio, and somehow that didn’t sell gangbusters, guess the movie is crap.”

Or they’re morons who are only familiar with the Games As Service model and completely forgot that’s not the only type of game they sell.

Don’t sequels actually cause new audiences to show up, who then go back and play the first game?

Didn’t even know this existed, sounded like another case of “We made a game and didn’t do any marketing for it, made absolutely no effort to let anyone know this even existed. I guess this means this genre and IP are worthless.”

I imagine when you treat VIRTUAL REALITY BEING REAL NOW as a fad, develop like two or three games for it, then never do anything with it again… yeah I imagine the market would decline…

Looks up from Shadow Generations Yeah the censorship of the Sonic portion sucks, but that’s not what I’m here for, that’s what I was here for in 2010. Shadow 2 bahbee!

Well that’s awfully antisemitic of Twitch /s

Stop sending people to the fucking Call of Duty mines

I know that’s Activision, but… every company has their version of the “COD Mines”

So you admit that emulation is the best way to preserve old forms of interactive media?

Instructions unclear, looking up Wii Fit Trainer on e621

This is satire right?

I need to get those Resident Evil remasters, the REMASTERS NOT The remaKES from dese guys.

I’m so fucking glad he bought the site to protect free speech…

I mean morally good, if Disney didn’t suck total dogshit now, I’d call Nintendo the Disney of Gaming

Nintendo n…

Wait they did a good thing? huh, that’s… new

Someone add the stylized female version of Engineer feeding him grapes

Once again we see how DRM only punishes paying customers