Oh shit. I probably would have thought that site didn’t work and I would have given up immediately if I hadn’t read that comment.

I think I both love and hate that.

Gacha and lootboxes (similar in concept) tend to be the worst of predatory microtransactions because they exploit gambling addictions.

“Classic” microtansactions, like freaking Oblivion horse armor, skins, etc, are bad, but you buy them once and you know exactly what you’re getting.

With gacha and lootboxes you buy a lottery ticket hoping to get something good. They use rush-inducing casino-style tricks to get you hooked. They obfuscate your real odds and how much you’re spending as much as they can.

Nintendo games do that a lot. Most Mario games (some of them in Charles Martinet’s voice), StarFox, Metroid (with occasional thumbs-up/waving at player), F-Zero…

Not forgetting the most important conclusion : we know with absolute certainty that some dinosaurs taste like chicken.

I’m thinking of becoming a guy who mentions there are still some dinosaurs left all around the world when someone says they miss dinosaurs.

I am against all game design patents in general. You shouldn’t be able to file a patent on game mechanics, like no movie director could have filed a patent on, say, the idea of sequence shot.

Game content (art, characters, etc) is already protected by copyright. Patents have absolutely no business in this.

And basically every game in the series too. Even the two Retro Studios ones.

Also Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair and Rayman Origins/Legend. Don’t tell me those are not Donkey Kong Country, they know exactly what they did.

You’d be lacking shortcuts obviously, and very rarely (mostly when you ask for it) you might be prompted to input a name for something, but almost everything else has mouse controls.

Now that I think about it, there are two keys that might be a bit inconvenient not to have, spacebar for emergency pauses (there’s a screen button but it’s harder to hit in a bind) and shift that let you queue an order instead of replacing the current one.

My random suggestions right now for stuff I like and is played with mouse would be:

• Rimworld. Almost any top-down PC management or (not too fast paced) strategy game should work, but, I really like the crazy random shit that happens to the characters you’re slowly getting to know in Rimworld.

• Almost any of the Zachtronics games, if you like to torture your brain. Open-ended sort-of-engineering puzzles.The bigs ones like Spacechem, Opus Magnum and Shenzhen IO in particular, last call BBS for a bit more variety inside one game. Not Infinifactory, since while it doesn’t have any kind of fast paced action it still requires navigating in 3D so mouse only wouldn’t work.

I’d heard the reason for the Xbox One was that some marketing genius noticed people were calling Xbox 360 “the 360”, and thought they would call that one… well, the One.

And then everyone laughed and went ex-bone instead.

Humans are bad at probability, and that’s mostly why they gamble too.

Every wheel draw is supposed to be independent (it’s not totally so because computer “random” is really a pseudo-random algorithm, but close enough). So every time you draw, the odds are 1:4. Previous draws don’t matter.

On an infinitely large number of draws, you’d see a 1/4 success rate. This doesn’t mean you can’t fail a dozen times in a row (the probability of that is (3/4)^12, about 3%… It happens).

It felt so weird going into the anime completely blind.

Okay, he’s German. Uh, and he’s in the army. And it’s WW2.

…Are we going to address the elephant in the room?

Nope, he’s just the new bro, here we’re all bound by the power of muscles and cool poses.

BG3? Not sure I am seeing the influence here.

If anything Firaxis’s take on XCOM has made turn based tactics somewhat mainstream again, and Ubisoft has already tried to surf on this trend once with Mario+Rabbids.

Early millennial, saw that movie a dozen times growing up. Some TV broadcasts, and an overused, quite damaged home-recorded VHS.

To keep up with the worst reasons for which people can hunt fossils, on top of selling them in auctions for rich assholes, now you’ll be able to grind them into a powder and sell them as medicinal remedies.

I like how it thinks it is likely from a videogame, but somehow, it’s absolutely certain it has the character’s name.

And then a bunch of facts about famous videogame character Lemmy Kilmister.

That paper lantern monster design feels familiar. I’m wondering if I’ve seen that asset somewhere else…

8 (DX but really my favorite parts of it were already on Wii U). 8’s tracks are incredible (not the booster packs one, those are a mixed bag and none really reach base game/Wii U dlc level).

Wii comes very close though. It’s the first to have good item balance IMO, it gets rid of the left-right bullshit to drift, and circuits are quite fun too. And some bikes are a blast, though to the point of being overpowered.

I just think of 8 as “we took everything good in Wii and made it a bit better”.

Guy didn’t get the memo and only signed for Valhalla expecting booze and hot Valkyries.

I don’t know, that little guy looks like it has guts. Maybe it earned its place in Elysium.