Not sure about ESRB, but for Europe, PEGI has revised their ratings since then.

3D Zeldas used to be rated 7, but nowadays they’re 12. Including remakes of old games. OoT and MM 3D had their rating raised.

Being 3D automatically bumps ratings up, even Mario Odyssey and 3D World got a 7 vs Wonder’s 3.

Honestly, at that point? I don’t care about getting them legally. And I am certainly not throwing money to the grey market either.

I am all for supporting people for their work, but since Take Two fired the studio last year, I can be sure my money will never impact anybody who actually worked on these games. Worse, it might be slightly beneficial to those who let them go.

I know most of the time when someone looks for a reason to resort to piracy it sounds like an excuse, but really, in a case like that I’d give zero fuck.

Oh I did that. Let me tell you, even for free… Only do that if you’re ready to lose days of your time trying to make the things work.

Sims 3 and 4 with full DLCs are basically unmaintainable. It’s not the repack’s fault, they’re just a complete mess.

Plus 4 is boring as hell, worst gameplay loop of the whole series.

Fuck, I missed that. I liked the original Olliolli, it was a cool game to have on a 3DS. World was in the back of my mind as “might get that one day” (but too many freaking games).

I still have the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection from the time they ended up giving it to everyone who’d claim it for a few days.

They haven’t removed it from the app… yet. Not taking any chances, I’m re-downloading it on my current PC right now.

Since most of Elder Scrolls nostalgia today is around Morrowind, it’s always interesting (and a bit funny) to find people (involved or not) who think the series started to derail with Morrowind.

I am not mocking them at all, I get it, Daggerfall and Morrowind are very different games with a different scale and focus. Daggerfall is also… quite overwhelming, and rather impersonal for 99% of its gameplay. I really don’t know what a “modern” Daggerfall would look like.

I think I’d be a bit pissed if I was an eagle. “What the fuck, you’ve dubbed over all of my lines in post-production? My voice not cool enough for you?”

Freedom, the kind that specifically cries like a red tailed hawk and not at all like an eagle.

First thing first, rename the country as American America of America.

The YouTube owner explains that normal non-skippable in-stream ads are limited to just 15 seconds in length.

This is bullshit. I don’t use an ad-blocker and often get a full minute of ad. And an extra minute if I happen to pause the stream for like 30 seconds and come back to it.

"Hey, err, Alexa…

_How fucking dare you."

“You don’t know it yet, but deep inside you’re already a cryptobro like us.”

Ah ah they wish.

accelerate global web3 game adoption

Stop doing that. Nobody cares about this except cryptobros that don’t even play games to begin with. It’s obvious when you see all the failed attempts at what their idea of a “game” is.

Saw that game on Vinesauce not too long ago. If that version was close to the final product, it doesn’t look very fun to play to be honest.

They made absurd unskippable flashy animations for powering up, which happen every time. Imagine if Mario needed mushrooms every 10 seconds, and that animation was about 3 times longer.

Also the beginning of the game has a tutorial guy literally appearing and interrupting the action at least a dozen times to tell you how to jump/fight and what the various items do. It looks very much like a simple platform beat’m up.

Some power up items can’t even be used at the time you find them/with the character you chose, but they still drop, and trying to pick those up by mistake also interrupts the game to tell you so. Every time.

… The original game already “demanded” BG&E2 would be made. It called for a sequel, because the plot was left unfinished.

That they added new hooks for a prequel on top of it is not really good news to me.

Since it’s Ubisoft, don’t stop there and get rid of top management, it’s the best way to improve creativity and reduce harassment.

I never went very far into SimEarth (I remember getting a bunch of maxis’s simstuff in the 90s, and not having the patience to really get into some of them back then).

However, I did play Spore during its prime. It’s very shallow, on all levels. Don’t expect any kind of simulation in there, especially not physics or even basic biology and evolution really.

Its whole gameplay loop : design a beast, eat or make friends, be a tribe, fight or make friends, design a town and vehicles, fight or make friends, design a spaceship, fight or make friends and try to reach the center of the galaxy because I don’t know.

You can manipulate planet atmospheres in the space phase, but there are no variations : you can basically make planets “suitable” for life, and all life in the game needs the exact same parameters. There is zero room for experimentation and everything is basically just as efficient as everything else.

Absolutely. I bought two kits (first VR, then variety) just to see what the deal was with them. It was a while after release, got them for a bit cheaper. I didn’t expect it to be that smart, to be honest. For a curious 10-12 year old or so, it’s fantastic.

Just the piano toy touches stuff like optics and IR, waveforms, frequency, and of course there’s the satisfaction of building that thing with all those moving parts.

I’ve seen so many people missing the point completely and calling it “expensive cardboard”. It’s like seeing one of these kits for kids letting them assemble a simple radio, with instructions and an introduction to electronics, and complaining that you could buy an actual radio for a quarter of the price.

Labo was not the success you’re making it to be. Anyway, the cardboard is only a small part of it.

Go see what the software is about, it’s very well done. You’ve got interactive cutout views of what the kit is doing, and explanations go into surprising details into the inner workings of infrared cameras, gyroscopes, generating sound, etc… while keeping it accessible to kids.

Also it includes a simple, visual programming language to do your own stuff.

Nintendo fans are so rabbid

No, that’s Ubisoft.