I look forward to the future WiiUWiiU 🚨!

Maybe I am just an old nostalgic fart but I have games that I own that are over 30 years old that I still have access to and regularly play and that’s how I like it.

I personally don’t at all see any benefit to the consumer that subscription based gaming provides. Arguably you can access more games for less money, but if video streaming is anything to go by (increased prices, less content across more and more services, ads creeping back in etc), that value proposition won’t last long.

Yeah, I am sure it is! What is even more annoying is that I didn’t even receive an email from Microsoft that it was happening (not sure if that was just me). I am sure it is illegal (or at least a breach) but I can’t imagine how many likely costly hoops you would have to jump through to get them to honour the agreement.

I don’t know if it counts but Red Dead Redemption introduced me to Liar Dice! Now I freakin’ love Liar Dice!

I don’t think there are that many bots here because of [reason 1], [reason 2], and [reason 3].

And I for one am certainly not a “goes against OpenAI use policy".

I am an alpha user who didn’t realise I had to migrate my account until a couple of days after the cut off (I don’t really follow what’s going on in Minecraft these days) and am still peeved about it even though I haven’t played in years! Sorry I can’t help, but I can share in your frustrations!

I am a plastic digesting mega organism apparently!

Lots of good and relevant reading here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

Stardew Valley was ambitious and look how that turned out!

I always liked the term “classic shooter”.

excuse some people make to justify paying for it

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console users want to justify using a console

Well that escalated quickly.

I think this is where nothing can possi-bly go wrong.

If you did more drugs maybe you wouldn’t have lost your damn unicorn!

I am curious why it is considered such a terrible practice? A lot of people don’t want to spend time and effort renovating an old property (nor do they have the knowledge or experience to do it well) so there is a market for old but already “fixed up” houses and there are people that make a living doing just that.

Why not just use a QR code scanner that shows you the link before you browse to it?

We must move forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

Nah it won’t be like that - in future you will get to subscribe to multiple services Sony, Microsoft, Epic, Ubisoft, EA, etc to play the games you want!

Battletoads (NES) I have a few but I want to call out this as it gets memed for it’s difficulty - and it was difficult - but not “can’t pass level 3 speeder bikes” difficult!

The game looked great, had extremely tight controls and had an insane amount of level variety! Each of the 12 levels was unique, from platforming, rappelling, biking, surfing, flying, racing, swimming, and even weird ass wall clingers! And they all played well - It also had the most banging pause music ever haha!

Tangentially related: https://youtu.be/zfVLTKktt3A?si=MhpU9C-otZc6jzkt

(Not helpful, but hilarious!)

I am curious to see if your opinion changes as you get through it, as the more I explore the more I find unexpectedly unique and interesting areas (caves, wells, ruins, manors, towers, etc) with unique and well designed enemies and bosses at every turn. It may help a lot that I have never played a souls game so it all feels very new to me!