As someone who isn’t necessarily big on the notion streamlining is “objectively” good game design… That more or less began to be disposed of the minute we had the technology, minus a few now-niche genres that rely on it. It was gradual, but mass market games as early as Zork in 1981, had save schemes.

Literally any suggestion of a type of guy who isn’t a basic bro will be followed by a suggestion that they’re performative within days if not hours

I believe the only reason adult games aren’t as popular in Western countries as they are in Japan (and I think elsewhere in Asia?) is because there’s a stereotype that they’re low quality, which came about because of the ESRB (not sure about other countries’ rating systems) basically making it so there was no money in it in a pre-digital download world.

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Canada got the message. Why don’t you?

Like, you see the news coming out of the UK right? It’s not as bad as Trump but it’s still awful.

Berlin could get nuked and Lemmy users would call it a distraction from Gaza

At this point I think the women using it got psyopped

I hate it when Europeans bitch and moan about how much American news they get. I’d be a hypocrite to whine about the one piece of news I get from the most populous country in the world, which is actually kinda similar to something Trump would do.

Ironically the fact that Star Trek is the one of the only specific media franchises that can maintain an active community on Lemmy explains it.

You know, European leftists integrate themselves into football culture

I know the differences in how European and American sporting is organized factor in here, but seriously I don’t think “everything you like is bad actually” is a winning position

For some reason Millennials decided that engaging them back was bad because it legitimatized them or something.

I like SMW better myself (actually not a single franchise entry on that list is my favorite in the series) but it doesn’t have the kind of unanimous praise SMB3 does.

I’m going to take this as “games that I never see anyone question their quality.” (I don’t even like all these games myself)

• Sonic 3 & Knuckles

• Kirby Planet Robobot

• Doom 2016

• Street Fighter III: Third Strike

• Pac-Man

• Balatro

• Steins;Gate

• The House in Fata Morgana

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

• Gran Turismo 4

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

• Mega Man X

• Mega Man X4

• Super Mario Bros. 3

• Hollow Knight

• Bloodborne

• Elden Ring

• Balder’s Gate 3

The “Us” in “Us Magazine” isn’t all caps

Apple didn’t invent the word “app,” but I do think they pushed it because it was adjacent to the company’s name.

Who has ever called a batch file an app

It’s looking like they will, but then the results will be fudged.

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The 32X was one of the things that killed Sega. Making add-ons or expansions for existing consoles has proven to be a failed business model.

Stating this unilaterally overlooks the PC Engine CD, which has more games than the base PC Engine.