Some of them tried to make video games, and that’s how they ended up with web3 and play-to-earn bullshit. Remember those? Barely? Yeah, same.

Your turn will come, gen AI. It’ll be a total shitshow because of the monster you’ve created, but it needs to happen anyway at this point.

Fun fact, the French version of this line translates to “I am a clothes moth wearing a sweater”. It’s kind of a classic too.

Depends. Are you a banana?

The power of vibe coding, everyone. Deploying shit with minimal effort at the cost of total incompetence.

I like the SNES-inspired ones. It’s always been one of my favorite controller designs, so the same with the extra sticks and buttons needed for modern games is perfect for me.

Not for everyone because some don’t like how you have to let them “float” between your hands (no grip handles) and sometimes just don’t get how to grip them at all (not from the bottom but diagonally).

But they’re light and compact, and they’ve got that nice grainy texture like the SNES controller.

Now I’m sure they did it to avoid the lawsuit, but I wish they still existed in Super Famicom/EU Super NES colours. The gray/purple one is a bit boring.

True, those don’t look too bad. The controller still looks a bit full, but I’ve seen worse.

I’ve seen some attempts at making clear casings for new stuff, it’s shit.

It worked in the 90s/early 00s because those controllers/handhelds were half empty space, a simple circuit board and a few bulky components.

Nowadays most of the time there would just be a big metal shield and a huge battery covering everything, and since it’s so packed inside it doesn’t really catch the light.

No idea, I know nothing about it except what’s in the article. Though coming from the UK, if that was part of a government campaign like I’ve heard since, that would not really surprise me.

Morrowind was a terrible action game, and a fantastic hand-crafted world to explore.

Oblivion felt like a huge step back to me. Sure it looked a lot better, it was technically bigger, it was entirely voiced over, and its physics… err… existed.

But it was so bland. Completely generic environments, copy-pasted dungeons and buildings everywhere, almost any encounter a leveled rando with no personality.

And then everything they did to make the game more modern only made it more boring. Voiced over? Sure, enjoy everyone having one sentence of dialogue. Looking for stuff? Nobody’s got time for that, just follow the magic compass.

I understand why they did those. But despite how janky Morrowind could be in some aspects, nobody can convince me Oblivion was the better game.

Depends, at some points you need enough to progress. I might have been a little too controlling of my cult’s population for my playthrough, because there were several times I struggled a bit to meet the requirement.

Haven’t bought the latest DLC yet. I might return to it.

Seems like they technically went a bit farther than mocking game footage (but barely). A 2001 demo of sort, that’s probably close to what they showed at E3 that year, was leaked in 2022.

It’s “playable”, in the sense there are quite a few maps you can explore and player physics and weapons are functional. But there is basically nothing to do, in particular no enemies at all.

Anyway, DNF has been a fun ride all these years, and the best part is you didn’t even have to play it. The pathetic attempt from gearbox to salvage it just gave a final punchline to the whole joke.

Bullshit, my 80’s computing thingy just went from 464 to 6128 (plus). You know, logical progression.

OK, that definitely counts.

Congratulations, would totally accept a shady surprise burger from you.

I’ve heard the reason for the name of XBox 360’s successor was that some marketing geniuses heard that most people called it “the three-sixty” for short, and thought “Great! Let’s call this the XBox One, and it will be referred to as The One! Like Neo!!”

And then, everyone collectively agreed on “XBone” 🦴

The tweet was slightly off then, Gamecube was just released at the end of 2001 and Wind Waker is 2003.

Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were 1999 and 2000 though.

I mean, if NES was retro in 2006, XBOX 360 can be retro in 2026.

though I have no idea what counts as classics on 360

Fake it till you… Scratch that, just fake it.

Not sure, but who needs a Voigt-Kampff test with replicants looking that bad?

This is not the base online subscription, which is the part giving you access to online servers.

The so-called “expansion pack” subscription costs much more, and is only for limited access to emulators and a couple DLC for Switch games (like Mario Kart and Animal Crossing). I don’t like my games being kept hostage to a sub. This fee is literally just that.

My VC games are still there and playable on my Wii, Wii U and 3DS. I bought them (sure, technically, a licence, like every video game ever released, even physical. But let’s see them revoke it).

Everything you point out is literally working against this subscription.

You can get digital games that are not tied to a subscription, and while the download server might be shut down at some point, if you still have it on your system, it still works. NSO emulators won’t, because they routinely check whether your subscription is still active, even though everything is downloaded and runs locally on your console.

The NSO expansion pack is not the sub required for online access. Base NSO is, so if one is paying for servers, it’s just that one. Expansion pack is an extra and is only getting you access to emulators for N64, NGC, GBA, Virtual Boy etc. “If they made it a separate sub for the classic games”? That’s exactly the case.

Even if it was just one bundle for both online and classic games… Why would that be okay? There is zero technical reason for classic games to be a subscription model. Being artificially tied to an unrelated one is not an excuse.