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- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 1 day ago:
I have a PC. I only pay for gamepass to play 360 games online. PC doesn’t help me play 360 exclusives online or games that are a risk to play online on PC due to RCE exploits like the 360 era CoDs
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 1 day ago:
Can they release an Xbox live subscription with no games? $120 a year for online is ridiculous
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I’m assuming that it’s referring to pokemon champions being very broken on release and speculated to be vibe coded due to nature of some of the bugs. But it’s not exclusive to switch 2 as far as I know. So maybe it’s just putting the cart before the horse and assuming Gen 10 will be slop as well. I haven’t played Pokemon since the 3DS (and the last games were so boring that I couldn’t even finish them anyway)
- Comment on Indie Pass, a Subscription Service for Indie Games, Launches on PC - IGN 1 week ago:
Unless indie devs are getting guarantees for revenue that aren’t tied to playtime numbers I don’t see how these indie devs aren’t just getting scammed and wouldn’t be better off by figuring out how much money they’d need to put into advertising to make the same amount of sales to make the same or more revenue than they would by putting them on a subscription
- Comment on Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death 2 weeks ago:
The graphics in non stylized art styles have aged (Lara Croft exhibit A) and I’d say controls have aged as well (tank controls in tomb raider and resident evil exhibits B and C)
But the gameplay was as good as it ever was. Crash Bandicoot, FFVII, Spyro, essential games of the generation. Despite my criticisms RE and Tomb Raider are as well. And these may be nostalgia talking but I think Chrono Cross, Tony Hawk Pro Skater and Metal Gear Solid and Syphon Filter belong on the list too.
I feel like complaining about early 3d era aging badly is like complaining about Its a Wonderful Life or Casablanca aging badly because they weren’t in color and they talk funny
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
With regard to number 2. Just because a company isn’t abusing their dominant market position today, doesn’t mean they won’t tomorrow when ownership changes.
It would be preferable that market competition forced valve to be pro consumer instead of just GabeN’s good will
- Comment on Is Starlink even good for online gaming? 3 weeks ago:
You are probably thinking of ping times on the old satellite internet services. Those were terrible , barely better than dialup. Starlink is LEO so ping is much better
- Comment on Anon wonders what went wrong 3 weeks ago:
“If you don’t use it, you lose it” was true?!??
- Comment on So hungover and so horny 3 weeks ago:
Did Violet 08 make a new account?
- Comment on New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games 3 weeks ago:
Because Xbox provides the only populated servers for the games I want to play. I’m not happy about it either
- Comment on New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games 3 weeks ago:
I just want Xbox live without having to pay 120 a year. I could care less for any games
- Comment on https://kotaku.com/marathon-content-farm-discord-reddit-posts-bungie-fake-2000682208 3 weeks ago:
It stole artwork. It took established IP and shoehorned it into the trending genre instead of its own genre. It doesn’t support Linux, it is a predatory microtransaction filled “live service” game
Plenty of non conspiratorial reasons to hate Marathon.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 5 weeks ago:
Gamers could collectively boycott NVidia cards and it would barely make a dent in their bottom line. It’s time for gamers to show nvidia that they are unequally important to us as we are to them
I haven’t bought a nvidia card in over a decade. Start buying APUs, handhelds, or just keep your current card and turn the graphics down or start playing your backlog. And for the love of god don’t pay for GeForce now.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 month ago:
You would think that I would do some basic fact checking…
I missed when Vince Z went from Respawn to Dice LA. I retract my claims of AI
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 month ago:
You would think IGN would have budget for basic fact checking but this article was probably written by AI
- Comment on World’s Biggest Gaming YouTube Creators (2025) 1 month ago:
Markiplier did not invent Let’s Plays lol. Let’s Plays were nearly dead by the time he created his channel. He just was the first person to make FNAF Let’s Plays popular (I would assume, I’ve never watched anyone on this list because I’m over the age of 30)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 1 month ago:
The PS5 Pro is way overpriced and the regular PS5 doesn’t really have many exclusives over PS4 so it’s not a big surprise they can’t move consoles
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 month ago:
I don’t have a single exclusive for PlayStation 5 that didn’t also come out on ps4. So idk, I’d probably say Astro Bot is PlayStation’s game
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 month ago:
Playstation: we have one game
FTFY
The generation has been hell
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 month ago:
Then they know their audience. Source: Nintendo customer
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 1 month ago:
Phil was probably the last thing keep Xbox from fully imploding. You could tell he was an actual gamer that cared about the Xbox as a games console and not whatever Frankenstein they are going to turn it into.
It’s sad but Xbox had a really good run. Xbox won’t exist beyond the next console generation, it may not even make it that far before it just becomes gamepass.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 month ago:
I thought the steam deck would have been priced higher than it was as well, so I thought that they’d probably surprise us with a $600 machine. $800 made sense for the specs (Now I expect it to be $1000)
Once GPU prices super inflated 6 or 7 years ago, I got out of PC gaming for new titles. I built a top spec machine for $1200 in 2012 (when I had disposable income and no kids), that barely gets you an entry level today. I guess PC gaming, for new titles at least, will forever be out of my budget.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 2 months ago:
I was gonna upgrade when the steam machine came out but with the likely price hike taking it to $800+ I think I’ll just keep playing 20 year old Call of Duty: United Offensive
- Comment on Which is it?. 2 months ago:
As long as it is roasted in salt and olive oil, the whole thing is good
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 2 months ago:
Maybe that’s they point, people want to play Morrowind but they don’t have a platform that can actually play it
- Comment on Xbox Hardware Sales Plunge 32% YoY as Services Keep Gaming Division Afloat 2 months ago:
I recently got an Xbox One S to play my 360 games via remote play but $10 a month for Xbox live is ridiculous
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 2 months ago:
I mean steam adds a convenient way to keep your games up to date instead of having to manually patch them. I also was on the anti-steam bandwagon for the longest time until I finally gave in and decided to buy Modern Warfare 2 in 2010. I ended up repurchasing the rest of the Call of Duty games because it was so convenient not needing the discs and not having to locate patches.
Steam is the one launcher I don’t get pissed about having to use because it has so many value add features.
Unlike epic/origin/uplay
- Comment on Good question tbh 2 months ago:
One of my favorite comments I ever read online was from someone who said they did this dance at the club and got thrown out
- Comment on Good question tbh 2 months ago:
