I don’t play them but I am always happy when something happens and it pisses off Nintendo and Nintendo Fanboys/Fangirls.

I used to love Nintendo, but this isnt Iwata’s Nintendo anymore. Now they only care about money, which isnt a shock considering the CEO has a history in financial, but its still disappointing nonetheless.

The Forza franchise is split into two distinct subgenres (kinda like how Gran Turismo used to have two disks: Sim and Arcade):

Forza Motorsport is the realistic simulator. Tire temperatures affecting grip levels of simulation.

Forza Horizon is the arcade racer. It uses Motorsport as a basis for its basic driving physics, but values are tuned or ignored to maximize the arcade factor of driving.

Horizons driving model kinda feels like Need for Speed, games by Criterion, but less mobile oriented. Its also a little similar to Test Drive Unlimited 2, but the grip is a little lowered to make drifting easier in Forza Horizon.

Its not like Mario Kart, Blur, Split Second, or Asphault. You could maybe try a demo to see if you like it, but you will probably have fun with it.

I feel exactly the opposite.

There are plenty of turn-based RPGs and JRPGs that I fell asleep playing that I probably wouldn’t have if I didn’t have to mostly stare at a static screen and menus most of the game. And dont even get me started on random battles.

Turn-based RPGs have repetitive combat loops to me. Same intro, same enemy lineup, same strategy, same music, same victory jingle. Over and over and over. It least in an action oriented game, I can choose where my character is, how I engage with combat, what terrain features I use, etc.

This is why I like Strategic Turn Based games like Fire Emblem and XCOM way more than standard turn based games.

Elden Ring was more RPG-like by avoiding respawning enemies? What RPG are you talking about? Most RPGs respawn enemies right in front of your face, while you are still in their spawn area.

True, but developers from id Software helped Bethesda specifically for Starfield’s gunplay, which is actually fun this time around compared to Fallout 4.

I heard spinning is a good trick. The pilot should try it.

It starts with the gooner games, then always moves to other non-gooner games. History repeats itself.

But you still play as Snake. Sure, Venom Snake, not Solid Snake. But Raiden isnt Snake, hes just Raiden.

Perhaps Raiden is the reason that the MGSV protagonist is called Venom Snake and not something else.

There were a few MGS games that released between MGS2 and MGSV, and all of them IIRC had Snake as the protagonist.

Just to add some context here:

This rug pull was practically universally disliked by almost everyone that played MGS2 when it released. People that played MGS2 and liked that this happened are like, a super turbo minority of the people that played the game at the time. Only in recent years have people said they liked it.

The negative reception was so strong that Hideo Kojima himself in interviews would go on to say that the rug pull of Raiden was his biggest mistake with MGS2, and that he would never do something like that again.

Recommending NFSU2 is a recipe for disaster. You are starting at peak, its always going to be downhill from there.

Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, its Nintendo specific.

~ Former Nintendo Game Enjoyer

Businesses started acting like every product ever is a luxury product and people keep paying the higher prices.

The only way to get prices back down as to not buy them.and hope the little businesses survive long enough.

I will never forgive Disney for what they did to Dark Forces.

It doesn’t because the game ends up selling poorly almost always.

The shareholders THINK it pleases them in the short term, but they almost always end up displeased.

People here really love pouring cold water on this, don’t they?

Starfield wasn’t my favorite, and I was disappointed with quite a few things about the game, but I still enjoy it. At least it isnt permanently tethered to a server that Bethesda can shut off at any moment. Its good to see them.not completely giving up on Starfield, but I do wish they had listened more to feedback and given the game a true 2.0 update that improves it more.

Not exactly the words I would have chosen to say that, but I understand the sentiment.

The only reason I might be okay with this is if this was a way for the platform to try and guarantee that the game actually releases and isn’t just vaporware. I doubt this is the actual reason for it, but that’s the only understandable reason, IMO.

Good. Hope all of Nintendo’s software patents get rejected. Gameplay elements have been ruled to be not protectable. Only things like trade-dressing.

Cloud RAM. Just download more RAM.

It is amazing to me that these prices keep going up and the companies making them are not going out of business. You and I both know that not enough people are buying these for them to survive if they aren’t at profit margins over 100%.

Being unable to emulate PS2/GameCube/Switch in this day and age at $150 USD is a deal breaker. I understand not doing Original Xbox, but the other three are very well developed on Android and Linux. There isn’t a reason that shouldn’t be possible other than “profit margins are too small if we make that possible at $150 USD.”

I mean, the little R36S can run up to N64/PS1/Dreamcast for $30 USD. The next generation up does not warrant a $120 USD price increase.