I’m 22. I grew up playing my PS1 on with an upscaler on the 55 inch Vizio in the front room. I like the PS1 art style quite a bit and think that a good upscale and maybe a filter is all you need to make things look how I want.

Idk, I think it would make a difference in the Microsoft v Sony sales. Nintendo doing the N64 and NES eShop have been massively successful. Xbox doesn’t really have any killer apps, they’ve really just had Sony beaten on software features the past two generations. Sony implementing the software features that Nintendo and Microsoft offer would make a decent difference.

Plus, imagine how well a “play your childhood discs on your xplaytendo switchtion” would work in an ad campaign. Getting people to pull out their childhood game collection would make for a great viral campaign for gamers as well.

Idk, the thing about the internet that I don’t think older people have realized is that it creates an even larger freeze in culture than ever before. If you started gaming in the 90s, you likely heard about older games via word of mouth and got your games at a physical store. There were no minor celebrities that would turn a cult classic into an actual classic. Nowadays? Old media is fully capable of wiping out new media in the right circumstances. Songs like “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac and some Pink Floyd (if I remember correctly) have taken #1 Billboard spots in the past 2-3 years. LSD Dream Emulator went from a game nobody played to a PlayStation classic because of some YouTube videos. We’re in an age where there is an extremely high demand for old media and no way to access most of it without piracy. There is a TON of money to be made by charging money for emulation and moving things to new consoles.

Mark my words, Skyrim will come out on the next generation Xbox, because Bethesda understands that accessibility is good enough to charge for.

PS1 emulation is a breeze, but with current hardware in the PS5, I think a PS2 emulator on the platform wouldn’t be too insane. But yeah, PS3 emulation? Not happening.

I think you’re wrong on the disc not working thing though. The original Xbox was only half supported for a long time.

I wonder if they contacted GameHut about it.

I loved my Logitech G602 back in the day if you can find them. Good grip, 6 side macros and DPI macros. Also wireless.

I think it’s targeting people who get their lets plays on actually (shitty) streaming services.

Thank you for that tidbit! My Grandpa worked over in China and would always bring movies back over. Got Ice Age 2 months early! I always wondered why the Chinese movies looked so much choppier, a different format makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, I’d imagine that you guys could have bought 20 pirate DVDs for the price of like 1 legit one. Plus, could be wrong, but my Grandpa said the pirated movies were usually the US releases so they were the uncensored versions of the movie. A better product for a better price, there’s no reason to buy the originals.

Are we finally going to see the death of 2b2t? Thought it’d be around forever

Chinese piracy is …odd. But generally speaking, yes they love to pirate shit. Most disc movies over there are counterfeits, not official. So most home media purchases are pirated.

People are able to get past the firewall pretty easily, the same information needed for P2P is needed to get past the great firewall. So if you’re able to get past the firewall, you’re probably able to download games without being caught. Separate from the great fire wall, Android is by far the most used operating system in Asia as a continent. There is a constant flow of apps like 4Shared and Zedge that provide access to pirated content with pretty much no barriers and they succeed quite well in China.

Piracy over there is pretty much a norm, whether you’re knowingly pirating or not. Linus Tech Tip’s Chinese channel is ran by Chinese pirates that the company hired eventually. But the Chinese front for that channel is literally just some random guys that started downloading the videos, translating them and posting them for the ad revenue. Sure the viewers may not have known it was pirated, but the viewers were still technically pirating 🤷‍♀️

I use swipe typing, so yes.

Yeah the PC version is what I played, it just does not control right. It looks fine enough, but there was no playing

Gothic is one of the only series that I fully believe needs the remakes. Without some fixes put in from moddb, the games border on unplayable now because they’ve just aged REALLY poorly. Glad they have a list of shit they’re fixing though

Morbius 2 is going to recontextualize what “Morbin” is fr

Fuck iLok. Shit made me regret buying plugins, should have stuck with piracy.

Yep, in my highschool/college depression days, making YouTube videos on music production helped me keep my head up.

Evie launcher. It’s dead now, but I love it

Well that’s the great thing about kids forgetting the fun they had, there’s nothing stopping you guys from playing the same games over and over again with her. She’ll remember everything as she gets older though. Loved playing Halo co-op with my Dad when I was a kid, it was so fucking cool.

Mass Effect as a series had so many heartbreaking moments. I’ll never forget the horror of finishing 2 without doing enough loyalty quests and seeing that final mission play out. For me, it was Legion and Tali that got me. I always sided with the quarians over the geth, but Legion’s death was always just so hard

Art is just so cathartic for some reason. I think it’s just easier for us to think about another fictional person’s emotions than our own.

This is probably my favorite answer so far. One thing I love about Nintendo is that it’s made for kids, they can’t do THAT much to shock you. They can only tell what I’d call human stories, stories that anybody on the globe will be able to understand. N64 Zelda is fairly simple as far as writing goes, but it does the simplicity extremely well. It reminds me of Greek tragedies more than anything else, where the tragedy, the main situations can be understood even without dialogue.

Yeah the teenage drama was what took me out of it. I don’t need super good puzzles, The Walking Dead season 1 had the most ass puzzles I’ve ever played but it’s still one of the greatest stories I’ve ever played. Even with the objectively shitty gameplay of TWD, I got so fucking invested in those characters. I felt Clementine’s pain during the ending of season 1 and 2, that was close to being my pick. Thank you for the recommendation!