Sega being Sega…they haven’t really learned much, haven’t they? Makes me kind of wish sometimes that they’re truly knocked out of the video game industry.

Why are they delisting Kiwami 1 and 2? They’re remakes of the Y1 and Y2. I didn’t know that one.

That happens to me when I decide to change jobs.

“Don’t need this shitty knowledge anymore”

It’s pretty sad that some of the best, least acclaimed anyways, storytelling was buried into those shows. While everyone else at the time were trying to find them in big-budgeted movie versions and some of the books that got released that ended up being wiped into the ‘Legends’ category by Disney.

That’s sounding like Spider-Man: Brand New Day. It technically is just yet another reboot, but a “soft reboot”. Reboot is a reboot nonetheless.

Tim’s strategy seems to be “Whatever Valve drops, we take because we feel Valve is missing out on something BIG! It’ll make US look great!”

And while the sad truth of the matter could very well be a maybe, depending on how the pure-epic userbase are over there towards it, it still pales to everything Steam has been built to be.

Oh are they finally running out of that oil money they’re known for?

If so, good, stop throwing your damn weight around and contaminate whatever you touch.

When I want to quit your game, I mean it.

I do not want to be prompted several times as attempts to keep me in the game when I just want to leave.

That’s why monopolizing is bad for IPs.

Nothing is more apparent with the child and the toys analogy more than what Disney has been doing with Marvel.

I’ve approached Star Wars like, there are pieces of it I really do enjoy and love. Like lightsabers, they’re fucking awesome. Some of the gadgetry, the tech and stuff is fucking awesome.

Everything else like about the whole Force thing, Sith/Jedi philosophies and everything in between, that’s neither here or there for me.

That’s the same approach I’m having with lots of other big, overinflated pop-culture things. I’m here for the appetizers, but not the entire meal.

Wait, who owns WhatsApp again?

checks

Oh.

Roblox’s problem is that it is lead by the wrong people.

I noticed a fair bit of anime adaptations borrow that mechanic, that being one of them.

Berserk: Band of the Hawk is another.

How about Chromebooks in general just die?

Except people are going to still buy those games, still complain for something to be done and when the potential resolution is there, they’ll go “I DON’T WANT IT!” and just cycle through.

Fuck sakes, some people…

I have two.

1. The Culture

I do not claim to be a ‘gamer’. I prefer to be best described as someone who plays games, but not nearly as often as one branded a ‘gamer’ would play games by. But I’ve been partly turned off from video games because of the culture surrounding them. The streamers who play games, the RGB droolers, the tech-junkies, the whales, the hype-train types, the multi-hour essay level of delivering an opinion on a game .etc

Not to mention, all of the gamer-branded merchandise from chairs to even drinks. It just turns me off and I do not ever associate with that crowd and it’s a damn shame there is so much gullibility with the culture that it is difficult to avoid.

2. Game-Padding

Side-quest after side-quest does a game not make. That kind of thing is what you’d find in an MMO that needs to find things for you to do. Not in a more constrained container of a game that has a fixed story, a fixed completion rate and everything. All it tells me is that the developers did not think of or have had any faith in what they were making.

I wanted to love Monster Hunter World, but jesus, I could not skip anything on it.

Sorry Valve, but you are delusional here. This is going to bite you in the ass like Artifact did.

I don’t see the angle of the argument where people are saying that Valve is just going to eat the loss per sale of this machine. My question is - why bother? Because they’re going to just bank on the goodwill built up with the Steam userbase and rely on them to buy games to make up the losses, which by the way the prices on even Steam’s holiday sales have been quite underwhelming these past few years. So I don’t get why they would bank on that when it is again underwhelming.

The freaking device is 40% fan, lol.