NFS Underground 2. I will pay full price on preorder to EA.

Thats 3 promises broken at once.

Theres something enormously satisfying about asking the question “And are you willing to give me that in writing?”

Then watching them squirm as something in their brain goes full Ackbar “ITS A TRAP!”

Because Nintendo games on Nintendo handhelds almost never go wrong and you know what parents love? Their kids shit always just working. You dont have to check the system specs, you buy the game at the store and it WORKS. You wrap the game under a tree at Xmas, you can tell grandma “Nintendo Switch” and while she might pick something shit, its going to work.

Lemmings love to act like they are enlightened for figuring out the Steam deck is better… its not for you. Its for 5 to 10 year olds.

Surprisingly easy a lot of the time, mostly because nobody seems all that enthusiastic about enforcing the copyright.

Yes it was. It was so frigging good.

They do damn near 10/10 work when they give a fuck, Thats probably the worst part.

Siege was damn near perfect as a tactical competitive shooter for the first few years. The Division was great, Just Cause was enormous fun and so on.

The problem is they hit a winner, and then milk it and milk it and milk it until we hate it or them.

Or buy up some classic IPs and do some quality games with them.

Give me a new Carmageddon.

In fairness to the guy, IMO a lot of their lesser known stuff is lesser known for a reason. Its filler, its not bad its just not very good. And compared to their best work, its a turd in a punchbowl.

But to compare yourself to “The Beatles” of your industry is very close to the height of arrogance. I mean, I loved the Borderlands games, Gearbox might be selling out shows but they arent filling arenas.

Yeah, that sounds like some pretty fair demands.

I played it on a fairly ninja pc so I cant comment on if it was absolutely fixed on consoles.

A lot of people will still parrot the launch criticisms at you and refuse to acknowledge that they pretty well fixed it. The devs overpromised and underdelivered, even now its not quite what they promised. But if they had dropped what the game is now on release it would be pretty universally regarded as one of the best games of all time.

I still maintain that I wouldnt be sad if the ringleaders of these operations started turning up in ditches.

If tactical turn based is your jam Ive been having a lot of fun with “Showgunners” its a running man cyberpunk themed tactical.

Its pretty good.

Please please dont suck.

I cant wait to jump on Amazon and order my net launcher.

You’re right. Everythings fucked, why try at all lets just roll over and take it.

You need to think on a Macro scale with stuff like this. The fact is that this voice got loud enough to get a response, and thats how the ball gets rolling.

Most politicians wouldnt consider the videogamers and tech crowd to be a great demographic to chase, but if theres one politician who needs an identity… one who thinks “I can be the “Pro-consumer rights” member. Videogames just being shut off, rights to books and movies you “bought” just being revoked…yeah thats a cause thats hard to argue against. Makes me look like a champion of the people. Especially young people.”

It got a “Yes, we heard you.” It doesnt mean you stop.

Yeah, Ill just tell the whole suburb that they dont get any services from the city anymore. Not a problem champ.

Theres a newish neighbourhood near me with a high percentage of reasonably cashed up retired people… nice houses with 2 car garages on small blocks. Every other house has a caravan or a boat and they almost all park them on the street.

Some of the streets have been effectively reduced to one lane in both directions, sure its legal but its a giant pain in the balls to get around.

Nope, Australia.

But thats a company policy. My point is that if you dont like the policy, dont take the code for a free playtest of the game.