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The shortest answer. The companies that make consoles lose money on the console themselves and make money on software and peripherals.

Bad sequels to great games are depressing, a company gets a hit and then decides to strike the iron while it's hot or make creative decisions that alienate the original fanbase to reach a wider audience. Dungeon Keeper When comparing Dungeon Keeper to Dungeon Keeper 2, the sequel is in many technical aspects an improvement. Better visuals, more modes, much improved UI and design choices that made it better balanced. However, I still consider the original superior mostly for one reason, atmosphere. The original was dark with really twisted sense of humour whereas the sequel was much more slapstick and cartoonish, probably the results of wanting to market to a wider audience. Just compare the intro videos for each game and you'll get some idea of what I mean. DK DK 2 Devil May Cry Of course this game has more than one follow up some of which actually make big improvements. For now I'm gonna focus on the jump from the original Devil May Cry to Devil May Cry 2 which was probably the biggest step down I've ever experienced. They transformed one of the slickest and most perfectly controlled hack and slash games ever into a ugly, cumbersome, clichéd and totally incompetent mess. I swear the assets were gathered from the recycle bins of Capcom staff working on other franchise's. Take a look at this and tell me what other popular Capcom franchise thing this clearly originally made for:

This is a pessimistic view, I know, but I don't think games can teach people to be more tolerant in most cases and video games shouldn't try. That's not because I have a problem with such messages in games, that could not be further from the truth, It's because I sadly just don't believe that people who really need taught are that receptive to the lesson. If someone is receptive to learning to be more tolerant and less prejudiced, then odds are they will already be fairly tolerant and non-prejudiced to begin with. When I played Hellblade and Tell me Why, I was happy to learn more about people who struggle with mental illness and trans people respectively, but they didn't really make me more tolerant of them because I'm a not prejudiced person to being with. The people who need those lessons far more tend to be not only prejudiced, but also ignorant, arrogant and entitled. They would look at game with a positive message with regard to minorities or marginalised groups like they only include such messages to preach to them, aggravate them and otherwise annoy them. These people too so self-centred to see the real point to such things. They'll accuse such games of "pandering" , "including groups to make quota's for inclusion of X-group" or even claiming that inclusion itself is prejudiced in some twisted way. The truth is simply they don't like being reminded of thier own prejudices by seen them reflected in a video game, a medium of entertainment that obviously should only exists for thier own, selfish ass. If that is you reading this, you need to read this next part very carefully. These companies do not employ inclusivity, that being inclusivity of non-whites, people with varied religious beliefs, the LGBTQ+ community, woman who actually who actually look like real woman and not your wet dreams or any other form of inclusivity for your benefit. They don't give a damb about you. The ones they are thinking of when they make these decisions are the people in those groups. And yes, as well as thier bottom line and thier PR image, and even if I'm wrong and that's all they're thinking about, that still doesn't mean they give squirt of piss for what you think. They don't care what it means to you, but try and step outside of the box you live in where only what you think matters for one moment and think what it means to someone who lives there life in a marginalised group like that. Someone who has grown up in a world that's tried constantly to convince them that who they are or they way the live is in some way wrong. A world that insists they are less of person or worth less because of how and/or where they were born and to what parents, something that nobody has any control over. Just try to imagine what it would mean to someone like that who see's somebody who reflects them, is like them, that understands them being portrayed in something as mass marketed and that connects the one there to enjoy the offered experience as directly as a video game does. Well, here's an example of what it can mean to someone. For a bit of background, this woman was already out of the closet at the time she recoded this, but grew up in a deeply Christian family, pretty much a cult, that didn't, and as far as I know has never fully accept her. This is her blind reaction to seeing that moment in The Last of Us Left Behind DLC. @The Blackangel, I think this clip will be okay for you as the important part (around 3-4 minutes from the point it will start playing) only includes runners and maybe one clicker toward the end and is quite pixelated, but maybe have someone check it for you. That is an example of somebody on the LGBTQ+ spectrum seeing homosexuality being included in a mainstream game, but the point also applies to race, gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs or whatever. The point being they don't do it for you. It's not there to aggravate you, annoy you, or even teach you anything. It's there for the people out thier who have been made to feel uncomfortable in thier own skin by the world around them. So stop being selfish, try to open your mind to receive what lesson you may learn from the experience and generally just grow the fuck up.

To be honest.... I'd totaly have one of those!!!!!

Unlike a movie or TV that is simply observing a character and the decisions and dilemmas they experience, a video game puts you right into the situation and in control. Sometimes you have control of the character's morality and choices (Mass Effect, Life is Strange) and sometimes you don't (The Last of Us, Spec' Ops The Line) and it's often the later that provokes a bigger reaction because even though the player controls the character, they don't get the chance to decide what kind of person they are. That's why I think video games can generate controversy's over simply the story direction or nature of the characters that you just do see in movies and TV, or at least not as often or more extreme. I think the vast majority of these complaints are bullshit because they mostly come from hypocrites who claim to be voice speaking for "creative freedom", but pick and choose when to acknowledge a developer's right to that creative freedom only when it suits them. It's creative freedom when the developer in question decides to have Sargent-Straight-White-Man-Penis as the protagonist, but it's suddenly "political" if a developer want's to have anyone that deviates from that. It's ridiculous.

I think the red interior would be a little more of a challenge.

As is. I would never mod it. I already have the loan to buy one with the color scheme I always wanted. You can see her Here.

It's actually a very big knowledge that Shagger shared with the lot of us. I found it very useful personally and so with other people I passed it on it. I practically learnt about defragmentation by him.

It’s a puzzle game. Why is there a god and devil there? If you need a story to explain why you have to fix the puzzle, it could be natural disasters and all different ones too for each world. Hard pass

How about the Junior Johnson Chevrolet Monte Carlo Aerocoupe?

Yeah, that is what my point is. I am not that blind supporter of unnecessary microtransactions inserted in many AAA games, but we can't even deny that every developer of company is running After money. To keep their share price growing, they need to score better profits each passing quarter.

Most games have some sort of villain and I can't think of a villain that stands out that is more evil than others. To say evil has layers kind of loosens what evil is. One murder is no less evil than 100 murders. But the multi-murderer is more dangerous. So evil can have layers of danger. Torture is more evil than murder and more amounts of it and the longer it lasts would make it more evil. Is one tortured person worse than 10 quickly murdered? Or even one tortured compared to three murdered? Or one tortured compared to 2 killed in front of family members? Or one tortured compared to one hacked to pieces in front of family? I don't have an evil meter for that. What about the game Destroy All Humans where an alien goes on a human genocide. But the alien is so cute and fun, how can it be evil? What about demons or devils that torture victims for eternity? Are they evil if the souls have done evil? They would be evil if they stole innocent souls. Is torturing 100 souls for eternity a greater evil than torturing a million people back on Earth? What if a God wiped out planet Earth, but by doing so saved the universe from the parasitic humans? Would that be evil? What if a researcher made a zombie virus to wipe out humanity because they thought it would save all other life on Earth including the planet itself. Would they be evil even though they can't predict what a God can see? But what if the God only predicted too, does status make them immune to evil? If you have some games in mind, all evil deeds have to be compared. That's kind of a tough question.

The only thing that I can very well say about video games helping me out with is learning how to drive IRL. I mastered how to drive by playing Need for Speed and Gran Turismo.

That is true but modern gamepads are quite sophisticated and not exactly cheap to make. Gone are the days when a third party can throw something together and sell it for half the price.

There is actually a very good possibility of this happening with some people with their career but I'd like to add that one's choose profession determines if gaming would help or not.

I actually tend to disagree with this study or research because there are still a very good number of people who aren't into video games playing and they are very happy with their lives.

Yeah - That's actually how I believe that it is with most people but there is always going to be one that impacts more than the others.

Yeah - I do know about Darrell Waltrip's Mountain Dew Buick. It's a classic and very rare these days.

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Seriously - for my smartphone, the brightest is set to almost negative because I really hate how it affects my eyes 👀.

Loot or treasures that glow in some way. It helps to find it so I don't mind, but looks out of place in a realistic environment. Sometimes though it just looks magical and I except it as part of the environment since the beauty also looks magical. Another thing is torches or bonfires that are always lit. I can't even keep a campfire lit without constantly adding wood. But again I don't mind because it looks cool.

In short, yes, it's really annoying, but it gets worse if the AI does not react in a natural way. Bethesda, for instance have been deeply bad at this. AI that flees or "yields" in Bethesda games have been a thing for quite some time, but what they really do is run so far, hide for a moment then come at you again, so there's no point to it, you have to finish them off even if they are "surrendering". This issue is in Skyrim as well, but for some reason there are spells and a destruction magic perk that will actually make enemies flee. Why would anyone want to use them?

That video is blocked here, but I found one, and I'm already into it. It's second only to BattleBots for me.

The farmhouse scene from The Last of Us always gets to me. The moment when Ellie pushes Joel saying "Everyone that I have cared for has either died or left me. Everyone... Fucking except for you!" is so poignant and powerful. It does so much for Ellie's character showing her strength and vulnerability at the same time.

It's something like this:

Honestly, I've always wanted to try surfing but we just don't have big enough waves for that. I love watersports so I wouldn't mind learning to surf at all.

I've seen them all and I think the first 2 seasons of Kobra Kai. I loved the first two movies, the remake and Kobra Kai. Karate Kid 3 and The Next Karate Kid with Hillary Swank (yep, ya'll completely that exists didn't you) were just uncreative re-hashes of the original. I think you should give Kobra Kai another chance, it's more than just a sequel or a reboot. It's actually a very clever and well written spin on the idea. The original movies presented Kobra Kai/Johhny as the villains and Miyagi Dojo/Daniel as the heros in a typical black and white kind of way. This series allows both sides to have flaws and credibility, it throws back to the original but it's given a thoroughly modern presentation. Even though Johnny often still be a dick you do sympathize with him and Daniel, although still the morally wholesome character he always was can also be a passive aggressive asshole. I would very strongly recommended to any fan of original movies.

Dolphins and elephants are some of the most intelligent animals you'll ever encounter. Dolphins and Killer Whales have a societal structure similar to humans and they also have the capacity to feel empathy.

IP stands for "Intellectual Property". It's something that can owned with all the relevant rights that isn't a tangible, physical thing, such as a character, a name, an idea or creative concept. For example, Lara Croft and Tomb Raider are intellectual properties. They're not a physical entity like a car, but somebody owns them and using them without permission is a crime in exactly the same way as if somebody took your car without permission.

Amazon needs to pay its taxes. I wouldn't buy anything from them till they do.