Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

[rusty_shackleford]

Playing older games really makes you wonder how devs were so ******* ******** about forcing inverted controls

every game still has invert controls options for people with developmental disorders

I don't get why customizing controls wasn't (and maybe still isn't?) a standard for console games. There's no way it could be that hard to program.

Depends on the era it's from, a lot of PC games didn't even allow input customization well into the 00s

[Oyster Sauce]

I hate final bosses. Knowing there's nothing past them kills my motivation if it's taking me multiple attempts. I've dropped many a game at these ****.

[DemoGraph]

I hate final bosses. Knowing there's nothing past them kills my motivation if it's taking me multiple attempts. I've dropped many a game at these ****.

Sandbox bro.

[Oyster Sauce]

I hate final bosses. Knowing there's nothing past them kills my motivation if it's taking me multiple attempts. I've dropped many a game at these ****.

Sandbox bro.

I'm not sure what you mean

[Rand]

She looks like she's at least 45-50.
If she had kids when she sould have, aged 18-25, then her children should now have children, making her, literally, a granny.

[mynameismortis]

[Maledict]

Is Dragon's Dogma 1 worth playing? I played it 3 years ago for 2 hrs but never touched it again. It just never really clicked for me, so my question is should I give it one more try?

I have 5 hours in it. I couldn't really get into it either. I hope to return some day.

[Roguey]

I hate final bosses. Knowing there's nothing past them kills my motivation if it's taking me multiple attempts. I've dropped many a game at these ****.

The hardest boss should be the second-to-last with the final boss being a victory lap.

Parodius understands this.
Parodius Final Boss and Ending

[Trickster]

Bro is chopped.

[Oyster Sauce]

....What is the "Anime Voice"?

Breaking Bad except dubbed over by the average anime dub voice actors

[Maledict]

Bertram Tung emailed me. He wants to speak to me. He has an offer to make.

[rusty_shackleford]

need to start hitting people that demand "owning physical media" with hammers
no, you do not "own" your $700 ebay copy of a game any more than I own the same exact game on my SSD that I pirated from vimm's lair

rare exception made if you actually got some cool feelies or manuals out of it, but you probably didn't!

[Oyster Sauce]

need to start hitting people that demand "owning physical media" with hammers
no, you do not "own" your $700 ebay copy of a game any more than I own the same exact game on my SSD that I pirated from vimm's lair

rare exception made if you actually got some cool feelies or manuals out of it, but you probably didn't!

I think it's probably better if you want to introduce young kids to viddy games

[rusty_shackleford]

need to start hitting people that demand "owning physical media" with hammers
no, you do not "own" your $700 ebay copy of a game any more than I own the same exact game on my SSD that I pirated from vimm's lair

rare exception made if you actually got some cool feelies or manuals out of it, but you probably didn't!

I think it's probably better if you want to introduce young kids to viddy games

Your kid should know how to pirate by 6, 7 tops

[Val the Moofia Boss]

You do not want to give your kids any machine with unrestricted internet access. A console is great because you can give it to your kid and walk away and not worry about that.

[Oyster Sauce]

need to start hitting people that demand "owning physical media" with hammers
no, you do not "own" your $700 ebay copy of a game any more than I own the same exact game on my SSD that I pirated from vimm's lair

rare exception made if you actually got some cool feelies or manuals out of it, but you probably didn't!

I think it's probably better if you want to introduce young kids to viddy games

Your kid should know how to pirate by 6, 7 tops

Would you spoonfeed your kids which DOWNLOAD button is the real one?

[rusty_shackleford]

You do not want to give your kids any machine with unrestricted internet access. A console is great because you can give it to your kid and walk away and not worry about that.

If they can't figure it out then they're the milkman's kid not mine

[Trickster]

need to start hitting people that demand "owning physical media" with hammers
no, you do not "own" your $700 ebay copy of a game any more than I own the same exact game on my SSD that I pirated from vimm's lair

rare exception made if you actually got some cool feelies or manuals out of it, but you probably didn't!

I'm collecting stuff on my external hard drive. The only downside is that everything there is very poorly sorted, and you have to put in some effort to find something (My personal problem. Has absolutely nothing to do with the principle itself of collecting everything this way). On the bright side, I already have pre-patched releases there, including those with mods, versions of my favorite games, mods, emulators, patches, etc. A whole lot of everything.

[mattig]

need to start hitting people that demand "owning physical media" with hammers
no, you do not "own" your $700 ebay copy of a game any more than I own the same exact game on my SSD that I pirated from vimm's lair

rare exception made if you actually got some cool feelies or manuals out of it, but you probably didn't!

Oh I disagree. Both are forms of ownership.

Though physical media is where the true connoisseurs are, digtial goods are for more normie peasants. ;-P

[Roguey]

I will never buy another physical PC game again, and even now looking at my collection, I feel "I don't want to go forth with the effort of installing this."

[mattig]

lol, the effort. It takes so much work to put a disc in a drive.

[Vaako]

lol, the effort. It takes so much work to put a disc in a drive.

You could run into issues depending on the OS and if it is a 32bit game.

[mattig]

*laughs in linux* ;-P

[Roguey]

lol, the effort. It takes so much work to put a disc in a drive.

I miss having internal drive bays. Now I'd have to connect the external drive via usb and hope it works then wait during that long install process (sometimes requiring multiple discs for particularly old games that needed multiple cds) - in 2025 when I tried to install my copy of Oblivion that I bought in 2017, it didn't work. I ended up rebuying it on Steam at a deep discount.

Then there's the aggravation of disc check DRM, though I suppose there are nocd cracks for that, hope there's no malware attached.

[mattig]

lol, the effort. It takes so much work to put a disc in a drive.

I miss having internal drive bays. Now I'd have to connect the external drive via usb and hope it works then wait during that long install process (sometimes requiring multiple discs for particularly old games that needed multiple cds) - in 2025 when I tried to install my copy of Oblivion that I bought in 2017, it didn't work. I ended up rebuying it on Steam at a deep discount.

Then there's the aggravation of disc check DRM, though I suppose there are nocd cracks for that, hope there's no malware attached.

I actually just built a new machine with an internal drive bay. Specifically because I have a few old games you just can't get anywhere.

[sheet]

lol, the effort. It takes so much work to put a disc in a drive.

I miss having internal drive bays. Now I'd have to connect the external drive via usb and hope it works then wait during that long install process (sometimes requiring multiple discs for particularly old games that needed multiple cds) - in 2025 when I tried to install my copy of Oblivion that I bought in 2017, it didn't work. I ended up rebuying it on Steam at a deep discount.

Then there's the aggravation of disc check DRM, though I suppose there are nocd cracks for that, hope there's no malware attached.

I actually just built a new machine with an internal drive bay. Specifically because I have a few old games you just can't get anywhere.

This plus I ponied up for a Blu-Ray drive to watch some region 2 Blu-Rays I got shipped on Amazon. (plus there's ways to watch any region without tying down your drive to any one region)

[mynameismortis]

Who is Jason Schreier and why do leftist gamers like him so much?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Who is Jason Schreier and why do leftist gamers like him so much?

Games journalist from Kotaku and SomethingAwful poster (now a ResetEra poster) who managed to get employed by Bloomberg news as their games industry insider. Lots of Western AAA game devs email him about what is happening inside their companies behind the scenes. He gets exclusive interviews, etc. He interviewed a lot of Blizzard employees and wrote and published a revisionist history book about Blizzard.

[Rand]

need to start hitting people that demand "owning physical media" with hammers
no, you do not "own" your $700 ebay copy of a game any more than I own the same exact game on my SSD that I pirated from vimm's lair

Are you missing the point on purpose?
Yes, it could be worded better, but you know what "ownership" actually applies as and to here.
A version that cannot be revoked or invalidated for use or messed with to change in any way not accepted by the user.

[Rand]

Who is Jason Schreier and why do leftist gamers like him so much?

Games journalist from Kotaku and SomethingAwful poster (now a ResetEra poster) who managed to get employed by Bloomberg news as their games industry insider. Lots of Western AAA game devs email him about what is happening inside their companies behind the scenes. He gets exclusive interviews, etc. He interviewed a lot of Blizzard employees and wrote and published a revisionist history book about Blizzard.