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The whole purpose of the boss battle is honestly to make sure that you spent enough time learning skills, and gathering levels, or items that would let you defeat them. I see them as the doors into a new area that is even more challenging, and without the game knowing you can make it over there, it would be an area that you probably wouldn't normally make it through on your own.

Finally got an email response from the people at Virtusphere and we all were way off on the pricing. According to them, it's $35,000 for the 280lb limit version and it's $28,000 for the weight limit of 190lbs. So yeah, pretty pricey, too pricey for me, because that can literally buy you a cheap home haha. Wow that's crazy.

Cost, timelines, or the fact that very few people would notice the change and it instead lets them spend more time adding features elsewhere (bigger map, more detailed city, etc.).

They definitely don’t need to make it exclusive. Microsoft wants game pass subscribers. Think about how many people play basically only cod and maybe some sports games. A single copy of cod pays for nearly a year of regular game pass and then you add in all the ea sports games that are a part of ultimate plus they would need Xbox live gold, it would basically pay for itself for a lot of people

I feel like the ninja from the zool series deserves a shoot out, obviously a mascot that has been forgotten over the years but since i had the mega drive version of the first gam as a kid, it's a mascot i sort of have found memories off. It also served as the unofficial mascot for Chupa Chups for a while.

I coulden't believe it either that lego dimensions is still going for over 100$ on the secondary market but after looking at sold listings on ebay brand new ones are like 150-200$ (just the ps4/xbox one platforms seem to be worth money as the other platforms it was released on like 360/ps3 are like little over 30 bucks for a brand new set on amazon) makes me wonder wheter i should sell the one i bought on clearance for xbox one a couple of years ago, because pretty sure i'll never get around playing it anyway. Crazy how the market changes for certain items, during their lifecycle stores coulden't get rid of these things and after a put them on clearance after a while, now these lego sets are suddenly worth almost double the price then what they were originally selling for. Offcourse lego is a timeless toy that is probably going to be relevant for pretty much ever, maybe lego collectors are skooping up these sets instead of videogame collectors. Don't know much about lego myself but i suspect quite a few of these lego figurines are exclusive to the lego dimensions video game. It's strange that only the ps4 and xbox one platforms are worth money and the ps3/360/wii u are not because one would think those platforms had a much lower print run then the ps4/xbox one versions.

Personally, I don't enjoy the yelling at all for any reason whatsoever. I can't understand why you'd be yelling when you're well aware it's a content that you meant for others to watch. The excessive loudness makes me disorganised and disorientated when watching such channels.

Seriously, I would have given it a go but looking at what they are asking for it, that's a killer for me or even most people because that's too much. No matter how good it supposedly is, asking for that amount would make it all easier for most gamers to stick to it.

Some people do liked Vault Boy videogame mascot but not me. Even though with its happy go looking appearance and design, something about its connection with apocalyptic nuclear war never vibed well with me.

The trailer you shared is not of Layers of Fear 2, in fact it's an unreal engine remake of the first two games in a bundle. I thought for a second it was a brand new game called Layers of Fears, which I think sounds dumb for a sequel, but it's a bundle so it makes more sense. I really dug the atmosphere the first game had, but in all honesty I ended up hating the first game. I've said it before here, but it was due to early access problems corrupting my save file twice. So having to play a third time was a chore at times for me. Plus you couldn't die and that kinda bugged me too. Made it feel less scary due to it.

I think alot of people don't understand how solid the fighting system is. You can one shot many of the otherwise unkillable bad guys with the hidden blade being used as a counter in direct combat, but the timing is pretty tight. You can obviously disarm people if you fight with just your fists and counter (again, with tight timing). You can throw sand in peoples faces, use those little smoke grenades to stun people for easy kills, and you can also grab people putting Ezio behind them while holding his blade to their neck for another 1 shot kill if done right. The fighting system isn't necessarily worse off than Odyssey, but it's pretty obvious that Odyssey's parkour/climbing is superior by 100 fold. Having access to thousands of different weapons and a leveling system doesn't make the combat in Odyssey necessarily better than ACII's.

I study law, and the answer to your question is that there is an immeasurable amount of things that can be done. With our society in general, there are areas of which applicable laws (already on the books) can be applied, the legislative branch could get involved to create NEW laws, or other remedies that can happen as well. That's with everywhere in society, but with e-sports the situation is identical. There's RICO Act laws on the books (Organized Crime) in the United States that could potentially, and very likely, applicable to rigging tournaments that have a financial or seriously beneficial prize to the winner regardless of whether the prize money may be considered low by comparison to something like an $18 million dollar jackpot for first place. There's also conspiracy statutes, wire fraud, pre-meditated wire fraud, the FBI has an "illegal sports betting and gambling" division (not a task force) -- believe it or not that was not dissolved but EXPANDED from its original mission statements -- and the list goes on indefinitely because e-sports are in alot of countries potentially creating even stiffer penalties in other areas. On that same token, however, there could be no penalties AT ALL in certain countries, as they could be some of the most significant influencers in regards to an organized crime footprint in e-sports. With other countries not acting, then you have the US and Western countries that could create laws, or simply enforce laws already on the books. For the record, an FBI "task force" is temporary, but the expanded version of the "illegal sports betting and gambling" division is allegedly permanent. The people in the organization according to news reports had limited knowledge of what was happening and were (paraphrasing here): 'attending international and/or interpol conferences with experts to educate themselves with more information on the matter'. One thing that a person could probably do in this scenario outside of the above criminal stuff is just sue the team mates, possibly the coaches or the venue itself -- but that could get into contract law; however contract law can be trumped in alot of circumstances. Meaning you could have technically waived your rights to sue the venue, team management, coaches or team members in a situation where matches were determined to have been rigged. That would be a contract, but in many cases you can still sue as many scenarios would supersede the alleged "contract" -- which nobody ever reads anyway. If you can't sue, a victim could potentially look into whistleblower laws in the United States, or get a literary agent and/or book contract to expose the scam in a book with heavy promotions pushing the situation into the court of public opinion, which is basically where it already is but, unfortunately, with limited viewers.

You beat me to it! Its ambition (and $1.5k price tag) brought it low, especially when VR is still having teething troubles to this day. I believe AR will surpass VR soon after the latter is ready, and maybe something else will come along in that time, but in the meantime Google need to take the time to have their products walk before they run. They're apparently trying to do this with Glass 2, but there's plenty of room in the Google Graveyard. Who knows, if this fails they might eat some humble pie and make a VR headset, perhaps to spark some life back into Stadia's market share. Or maybe they're humbled enough to realise they can't beat the existing competition. They could however buy it out...

That's always the case no one would believe an idea is great until they see the results. Many big companies has lost a lot of its users due to this like blackberry losing to Android and a lot others I think has been mentioned in this thread.

Same as me, I started with handheld games long before I play with a console and controller and I was about 6 when I was gifted my first Gameboy. If any of my kids loves gaming as much as I would get them a console or maybe a Nintendo switch for a start since the games on the platform are usually kids friendly and then we could move on to other platforms as they grow older.

I'm not normally one of those people who accepts 'support' without elaboration as an answer to an action, but given Xbox's handling of Japanese games and userbase, I'd say any support can only be good. The only JRPGs on their systems that come to mind are Eternal Arms, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata and Lost Odyssey. And from what I understand Persona is one of those must play games, so good on them for agreeing to a port or remaster or whatever it is. I concur, but if I were in Satoru Iwata's place I'd do the same: people will continue paying for it. Gamers are often their own worst enemies by perpetuating issues they complain about. Quote the man himself from his book, Ask Iwata: "After a piece of hardware is released, the price is gradually reduced for five years until demand has run its course. But since the demand cycle never fails, why bother reducing the price this way? My personal take on the situation is that if you lower the price over time, the manufacturer is conditioning the customer to wait for a better deal, something I've always thought to be a strange approach. Of course, this doesn't mean that I'm against lowering prices entirely, but I've always wanted to avoid a situation where the first people to step up and support us feel punished for paying top dollar, grumbling, "I guess this is the price I pay for being first in line." Emphasis my own. Unlike PC game publishers and Steam as a platform, Nintendo have trained their customers that there's not going to be that better a deal or steep a discount. I suppose the problem PC faced was piracy (though piracy numbers have always been unhelpfully exaggerated), what with Gabe Newell wanting to offer a better safer service than illegal sites, and that likely meant selling games for a lot less. I don't like Nintendo's approach as a customer of theirs myself, but I appreciate at least where Iwata was coming from nonetheless. Always a pleasure, never a trial!

I just giveup and end it 🙂 I would not even cheat. just take a break and then come back to the puzzle. With a break it might be matter and you might ended up going Ohhhhhhh that's the answer

The Blu-ray disc association are the patent holders of licensing blu-ray so let it be clear that Sony isn't the sole patent holder of the blu-ray technology, was going to react to this yesterday but it probably slipped my mind and got sidetracked along the way. It's doubtfull that sony alone would even be able to provoke microsoft their license for putting their games on blu-ray discs, besides if it were to happen nothing a big sack of cash can't solve. No with Physical media sales in decline they aren't going to stop microsoft from putting their games on blu-ray and grab whatever money they can get.

You're very correct, and most importantly the happiness that comes through video game is beyond compare. The feeling I get from playing GT, MGP racing games, are totally pleasant, like I'm in seven heaven, only football can offer me more than that.

I think puzzles games help with cognitive ability. Games in general actually helps build your imagination which is an essential part of creativity as well.

Thanks for the insights @Shagger, I'm going to screenshot this and save this in an important folder for reference. 😁 Well, I guess you are right that it's a "correct" term in the dictionary sense, although the last sentence feels like by that logic you'd be picking a knowing fight with anyone bringing up "indie" terminology. 😅 but that wouldn't be too bad in the end. Also I like your avatar, of "avatar" aang and zuko, in the dragon dance scene of the 2 dragons... hehe. I'm still hyped, waiting for the Netflix version of avatar aang. 🤩

In all honesty, this hardly happens to me because before I get into playing any games, I must have known everything to expect from the game. If there are puzzles in the game, I'm going to know before getting it. So, the puzzle would never have me by surprise. But in a situation where even knowing the puzzles exist in the game and it proved too difficult for me to get across, I might give it a go for at least 2-3 days and if I can't beat it, then I'd seek for help online or from friends who played the game already.

You're very correct about video games helping out with one's mental health because a lot of people have supported the fact that it helped them deal with their depression at one point. @Kane99supported that assessment not long ago in one of the threads that it helped him deal with his depression.

Yeah videogames (and movies) pretty much taught me English at an early age , it also helped me to think outside of the box and come up with solutions that others wouldn't probably think about in the past. As @Justin11 and @Heatman above said it also helped me with my driving skills and reacting skills when driving. I'm also from believe that gaming can be benefitial for your mental health because it's supposed to make you happy

Everything depends on the kind of games that you play and what it offers you in terms of education. Take for instance, in most simulation games where you get to simulate real life events, it helps to groom you on such task. Also, I playing car racing and driver simulation games taught me how to drive in real life. It's where I learnt almost everything about car driving and parking.

Just as anyone who contributed in your post have to agree, that's where I stand too. I don't just play games when it wouldn't add some value to my life. I started playing racing games, because I love driving in real-life. I am not an expert rider, but the skills I get from playing those favourite racing games, have enabled me learn better driving skills and confidence in driving.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for the Switch is hands down the best Mario Kart game ever made and it's followed up by Mario Kart 7 (3DS). Online competitive play is hard though.

It won't happen, unless they lease the franchise out to another company. But if for some dumbass reason they DO lease it, all we're going to get is another Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. Complete shit that doesn't even resemble the game that it's supposed to be a sequel to. They were able to make RDR2, because people wanted to know what the relation between John was to Bill, Javier, and Dutch. People were confused as to how they knew each other so well. So a prequel was made to explain all the unanswered questions. But with Red Dead Revolver, they don't see it as a game in the same franchise anymore. It's considered a stand alone and not related to RDR in any way in their eyes. It's just another western game, that didn't do as well as they had hoped. Not to mention that the vast majority of their focus in geared towards the GTA franchise and GTA Online. GTA is their biggest cash cow, so Rockstar is devoting almost all of their time to it. The only thing they can even do at this point with the Red Dead Revolver/Redemption franchise is either a sequel playing as Jack, or another prequel where it was just Arthur, Dutch, and Hosea, which would then show and explain how the gang came to be. Rockstar doesn't really want it to be known that Revolver is in the same world as Redemption.

haha, a potato indeed... that is truly an old GPU anyway... 🥔🥔🥔 maybe it could run at minimum settings too. thanks, I'll see if the mobile game is any worth looking into. 😁