Easy - they’re never punished for failure. If execs lost their jobs and didn’t get a cent for being fired due to incompetence, they’d be more cautious.

Golden parachutes mean that you have no serious incentive to do a good job.

What’s that got to do with the price of tea in China? Stop posting made-up nonsense.

Ahhh, okay. Yeah 3 grand would get you a beast. Or, you know, like a car or something.

I think people willing to pay that much are idiots that don’t deserve the money they have, though. Somehow I don’t think that’s a mom or dad wanting to get a Nintendo for their kids or whatever.

Not by much less. I’d say you’d need at least $800 to be sure to run most games at at least 1080p60. I’ve been playing with pcpp lately, using Belmont’s Curse as an upcoming game with fairly tame recommended specs (10th gen Intel and a 3060), and I couldn’t really come in under $800 after case, reliable PSU, etc were all factored in. Maybe if you went for specifically used/secondhand parts but I limited my choices to just new or manufacturer refurbished since used inventory will vary widely in availability and price from area to area.

Of course, the minimum requirements are like an 8th gen Intel and a 1650. So you can probably hit 1080p60 with a lot less than the recommended.

I’m curious how low we could go, requiring all parts be new or manufacturer refurbished. I tried for $500 but couldn’t get anywhere close.

Even as grim as things are getting there’s still a lot of people with far more money than they deserve.

Yup, or a bit younger. I’m 40, so I was 28 when gamergate kicked off this whole online misogynist grifter ecosystem (which fed into and became a component of what we’d call the alt-right a few years later.)

By that point I’d already had my first few bad breakups and rejections and had grown up, and had made some good platonic friendships with women, so I wasn’t vulnerable to it. But if it’d happened when I was like 23 or 24 and I hadn’t had those chances to grow and mature yet? It might’ve been a lot different.

It’s much easier to blame bad luck and personal failings on others. Growth and maturity takes work.

It’s really easy to say “go to therapy,” but that ignores the realities of accessing it.

It’s not cheap. There’s long waits involved. It’s very likely your first therapist or even first few therapists won’t be a good fit and you’ll need to shop around. Sometimes you get lucky and you find a good fit on the first try. And sometimes you find a hundred bucks in a gutter, too.

I view “get therapy” as a mid-term goal. It’s something that you should be working on but it’s not something that fixes things right now.

Open world games have gating, and not just being stuck on tutorial island for a while.

You’re off your rocker if you think Zelda hasn’t always been one of the examples of “open world game.” Most of em, anyway.

Nintendo has fuck you money and lots of teams. I doubt this was any kind of mutually exclusive thing.

OoT3D isn’t a reskin, it’s a remake. A lot of stuff changed under the hood, which is one reason most OoT speedruns stick to N64.

Don’t need TP remake. Dusk is already out and Courage Reborn is supposed to be arriving soonish.

Pass. Ship of Harkinian already exists and other than some of the QoL features like assigning d-pad to item shortcuts like ocarina, boots, etc (which Ship and the randomizer both offer), OoT is one of those retro games that really doesn’t need changes or, IMO, even significantly benefit from them. You can’t improve on perfection.

But if people want to spend $80 for a 30 year old game to justify buying the $650 console, more power to em.

I’d rather Nintendo just pull a Konami and bundle related old games in a prepackaged emulator and sell that instead.

I’ve only played 5 and it was the typical teen boy becomes a god and changes the world kinda thing. I wish JRPGs would escape that crap but I guess it’s part and parcel of the genre.

Yeah. No offense to Iga and his team but RotN is just outright ugly in many cases, even at launch, and 3D models don’t age nearly as well as 2D sprites. The aesthetics are good but the texture quality, lighting, etc… well, it’s a long way from being as beautiful and timeless as something like SotN.

Yeah, I hadn’t realized it’s been so long. But I sure won’t complain about an excuse to do another run. I still think it might be the high water mark for the MV genre, even above SotN.

Hopefully it’s harder (on the hard difficulty settings) than P5R is. Hard in P5R kinda hits the apex of its challenge with the 2nd dungeon’s boss and the Merciless mode actually makes the game really easy.

Wouldn’t mind if the protagonists were older too. Maybe college aged? I’m in my 40’s! It’s hard to take seriously the difficulties of teens that haven’t even had to deal with the misery of the adult world yet.

They’re pretty good in Dark Souls 2 and Bloodstained 😭

The whip feels really weak to me. Being limited to attacking in 4 directions while enemies can approach from 8 is really limiting and the upgrade to deal more damage on a tip-hit was depressingly minor. I think I should have just put the 2000 bones towards another base attack upgrade.

Skill issue, I’m sure, but the hammer seems to be by far the strongest and overall best weapon.

First fight of the game with the PC and that random assasin flailing at each other with daggers until someone gets lucky and the other guy falls on their weapon 😂

Matches my experience so far to a tee. Fantastic game.

It’s concerning that “talk to NPCs and actually read the shit the game tells you” even needs to be said. How damn stupid are people getting that this isn’t just normal operating behavior?

It makes me skeptical about the complaints about difficulty, too. It took me a few tries to get the hang of it but once I got comfortable with the controls, how burrowing works, etc it felt smooth and very well tuned. It’s nice that they added custom difficulty options but I wonder if people aren’t just too prone to giving up when challenged.