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That concept immediately makes me think of the card game Fluxx.

Yeah, I added a few western names too (I’m a bit biased to Japanese devs, growing up on JRPGs and whatnot).

But there’s tons of people over here that get name recognition too, for sure.

It seems like the reason they claimed the Switch was the platform of the year was due to exclusives, so I suppose if that’s their only metric I guess the Switch wins out by a longshot.

Steam Deck, being a PC and all, has more “exclusives” than every single currently sold console combined by an enourmous margin.

But naturally by ‘exclusives’ they mean hugely funded “AAA” games from Nintendo or Sony or Micrsosoft.

Because in an industry dominated by yearly rehashed minimum viable products like CoD or AC or Battlefield or the plethora of lootbox infested live services meant to fuck your wallet for easy quick RoI for shareholders, Kojima spends time and resources creating new, novel ideas and taking the artistic medium (yes, games are art despite what capital G Gamers want to say) to new and exciting and interesting places.

This is why Hideo Kojima, Yoko Taro, Fumito Ueda, Hideaki Itsuno, Keiichiro Toyama, Eric Barone, Terry Cavanagh, David Szymanski (etc etc etc, I could go on) all get name recognition.

People always SAY they want games to expand and try new things/don’t want the same game every year, but then when someone actually tries, the games get panned as “gimmicky” or “niche” or “pretentious” “pixel graphics indie garbage” or some other flavor of the month phrase gamers use to instantly discredit something that doesn’t immediately and specifically cater to every single one of their preconceived demands on what a “game” is and/or should be.

Good riddance. E3 offered nothing over just watching trailers on YT except for the multiple hours of advertisements and marketing pushed throughout the convention.

anti competitive practices should be stamped out

This is why Epic shouldn’t give a win. They’re just trying to get competition out of the way so they can do all their own anti competitive practices.

While I am impressed that No Man’s Sky pulled a 180 in the end

It didn’t really. They added a lot of what they promised, but still not everything Sean Murray lied about at the beginning.

Video games aren’t in danger of becoming a monopoly,

Microsoft, a trillion dollar tech conglomerate, has just purchased multiple of the entire video game’s largest publishers. It is entirely in danger of becoming a monopoly

there are so many QOL improvements they can’t really be treated as the same game.

there’s a few, but it definitely doesn’t make it a superior version or anything. Honestly Bluepoint did what Bluepoint does best and fucked with the lightning and color palette too much and the PS5 remake of Demon’s Souls loses a lot of what made the original’s aesthetic so great.

The PS3 version of DS is better than the PS5 one.

That’s a great idea, why is no one talking about this?

Because why would you buy a digital PS5 and a blu ray drive when you can just buy the disc PS5 and not have to deal with an external blu ray drive?

The best Disney games have all been licensed games by Square Enix, BioWare, Capcom, etc.

That’s why they’re going to want to buy those studios.

800p, not 720p, but yes

It’s just a big screen strictly for remote play

They’re a public company. their shareholders are the customers they have to please. Not you.