That's flat out not true for quite a number of people, and WB took a lot of heat for basically abandoning the issues rather than fixing them.
@Instantstupor
What's the difference between buying a game used, getting it from a friend, and pirating it as far as publishers are concerned? Trick question, there isn't one. And no, you can't say limited supply, video games are a multi billion dollar industry, supply is *litterally* never a problem. "Fair" has nothing to do with it. Not to mention things like buying games in pursuit of "fairness" can actually do harm instead of just deny a ...
Maybe, just maybe, don't put words in my mouth? Cus these mechanics don't belong in *any* games outside casinos. Period.
Also, You point to me the place in my post where I said "children". Go ahead, I'll wait.
Gambling isn't a moral choice. The government *absolutely* belongs in regulating overtly predatory busniess practices, just like the regulate regular gambling, and prevent companies from lying about what their product doe...
That's not how that works.
1: They're deliberately playing on gambling addictions that exsist and creating the conditions for them in succeptable people where they don't exsist. That needs to stop, yesterday.
2: No. The make them because regardless of how many people don't buy the game or don't buy the microtransactions, they know they can get *enough* people hooked on the things to garuntee a profit, even if it's a less extreme ...
There's no particular reason they can't. A game about attempting to survive the wrath of a captor long enough to send out a signal and get yourself freed could be very compelling. I don't know why you're being hostile about that idea.
That doesn't address any point, so I'm not sure why you mention it.
No, I'm saying Twilight itself, in how it's written, deliberately plays on womens insecurities. It has nothing to do with ...
Evidently you haven't played or enjoyed horror games where the point is that you're weak and struggling just to survive. That would actually be a really good setup for a damsel in distress story that wasn't super generic.
Also, you claim not to be making a like for like comparison, and then immediately make one. Women are not largely in control of the video game industry and are not largely creating these fantasies as games. That's before getting into that ...
I actually agree that gaming (along with every other artistic medium) has room for all of the things listed and the context any trope is used in matters.
However, you are damaging your own argument by making bad comparisons and saying comically stupid nonsense at the same time. See, almost never does one actually *play* the damsel in distress. It's not a fantasy being fufilled, sexual or otherwise. As was pointed out, it's almost exclusively a man rescues helpless w...
Everything brings pre-exsisting, real life ideologies into it. You don't have to bring it. It's already there. And people can't not bring their own perspective. That's like, by definition something they have to do, and it impacts how they see games, wether they are aware of it or not.
Racism and sexism are also, not what was being talked about iirc. Slavery is. And yeah, you're using mind magic to enslave sentient beings, and yeah, that's pretty tro...
I enjoy things way more when I think criticially about them, what their apparent goals are and what they have to say. The only kind of fun isn't a the mindless, thoughtless kind.
I enjoy Persona 3/4/5 *more* knowing that a primary lesson of their core mechanics is that helping people with their problems, even if you seem to have nothing to gain by doing so, does actually benefit you. I like KOTOR 2 more when Kreia critisizes my actions and asks pointed questions about ...
Mid range PCs are 100% capable of Native 4k, it's just that people with mid range PCs tend to not see the 30FPS limit and variuos lowered settings as worth the resolution.
Also, just saying, there are videos of Forza 7 running at 57-60 FPS at 4k/ultra on an RX480, right now. Check youtube.
Emulators aren't illegal. Pirating games is illegal. There is a difference.
So yes, at least in the US, you can legally emulate it. What you can't legallly do is download a copy of the game off the internet.
Worthy of note though, even the most sue happy of the video game companies tend to go after the sites hosting them, not the people. Why? A pirate might buy the game just to show support, or might already own it. A pirate you sue will never buy...
BS. CD Projekt didn't do it. They gave away DLC for free. Warframe doesn't rely on lootboxes, and that's a free game relying *entirely* on microtransactions to survive.
That's a corperate talking point, not the truth. Notice how it's only the very richest companies with the very highest profits who are pleading poverty? W fucking B can affod to make LOTR games without microtransactions and stay profitable. They've *already* done it. They just want t...
There is no stastical link between video games and violence.
@Opinionated
There *is* a historical precident and well understood phychological mechanisms for people getting hooked on gambling. Fundamentally different things.
You don't get to tell people what is an is not a "killing issue" or otherwise a valid experience or why it is that way. I play games on systems *well* below the PS4 in raw power. That also run at 60 FPS because the developer knew the limitations of the hardware and didn't push graphics/resolution too high to maintain it.
Style *IS* substance. What a game looks like is a big part of the game. The Last of Us fundamentally does not work if it's not on a ...
I repeat, knowing they aren't going to do it doesn't mean it doesn't "need" to happen.
Unless you consider popularity to be the only thing that matters, that still doesn't change that Fallout needs to be saved. Knowing Bethesda isn't going to do it isn't really relevant to that.
Just because it's successful, doesn't mean it isn't in need of being rescued. It's gone from a deep and complex, if clunky, RPG, to a shallow, repetitive shooter with basically none of what made Fallout good.
@Skull521
Games also consistently sell millions of units, something most games, even most AAA games, couldn't dream of in previous generations.
Further, that's a false choice. Because, see, EA and Ubi and the like want ALL of those things, and consistently push them while also pleading poverty and hiding billions of dollars in like Denmark or something. Don't buy the corperate bullshit.
Yes, yes they would. It's not about piracy, and it never was. It's about control. Hence the ink cartrage DRM that is intended to stop you buying off brand cartraiges, and the same for fancy coffee pots and juice presses and apples lawsuit to attempt to claim that jailbreaking their stuff so you can have non-apple approved apps is illegal (that they lost btw.) It's about dictating when and how you are allowed to play your games, it's about telemetry so they can sell your inform...