Penny Arcade - Comic - The Way Of Sorrows
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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Way Of Sorrows
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I sentence the offender to one week of usage of the Mad Catz controller as penance.
It's a shame though, because MS makes the best controllers. The 360 controller set a new gold standard for ergonomics, usability, comfort, etc. And they have been improving on it in slight ways since then. I think Sony's Dual Sense is good. And it's more than adequate to compete. But MS has them beat.
thy blades
Thine box be heavy to rest your faith.
thine box
Praise be to The Game Pass, for it will spread the X throughout the galaxy.
the pass
I think PS4 and XBOne were a stronger overall generation.
I agree. In fact, I will go one step further and claim that the Xbox 360/PS3/Nintendo Wii was the last great console generation.
I don't see how it's a bad thing that you don't have to buy three consoles and a PC to play everything, or that you aren't compelled to upgrade to the newest console ASAP if you are already with diminished graphical fidelity. It may seem like it creates redundancy, but are you looking at TVs for exclusive shows or movies? Are exclusive apps a primary driver to buy a phone? It's not quite that simple of a 1:1 comparison, but console exclusives being diminished only seems like a good thing to me. Yet people are complaining they aren't required to drop $500 on a new piece of hardware.
Yeah, I haven't owned an xbox since the 360, but I've been using Xbox controllers for my PC forever.
I also never bought an xbox but have several xbox controllers. They're really good pads that work great with windows. It'd also be a shame if they got out completely, because their adaptive controller is one of the gold standard controllers for the disabled.
In many ways with the disappointing performance of their triple AAA games and hardware last year, it makes a lot of sense Microsoft are wanting to recoup their increasing development costs.
I've never owned an xbox, just played a lot on one with friends who did. Have an xbox controller for my PC since I can just plug it in and it works and the ergonomics aren't bad either. So hopefully they don't pull out of the hardware market entirely.
Absolutely!
You've got your match-3 games with super shitty monetization. Then, there's the hoard of microtransaction-laden city builders. And of course, you have all those run-and-shoot games where you power up by not failing at kindergarten level math, which are only advertised as such and are actually just one of the first two genres. Oh, right, let's not forget all the anime waifu gacha games.
Monument Valley, Sword & Sworcery EP, Canabalt, and Vampire Survivors are the only "actually good" mobile games I've ever played, but I'm sure there are others. There must be, right?
Slice and Dice, Luck Be A Landlord, Mini Metro
Some of my favorites are Mage Gauntlet, Slay the Spire, PvZ Heroes (except it’s freemium), Flappy golf, you must build a boat, and the New Star sports games
PSN:Furlion
Playing Octopath Traveler's mobile gacha game now and while it's definitely got a million currencies and plenty of stuff to buy, with characters hidden in lootboxes, it's a charming timewaster with good music and art that throws it's million currencies at you for free (or for ad watches) constantly.
But the biggest takeaway I have from playing a game with ads now is how bizarre the space as a whole is. 75% of the ads are for Evony, a name I remember seeing browser ads for 20 years ago. And of course Evony ads are showing nineteen completely different game types, meaning none of them can possibly be real game footage and I have no idea what you would actually see when booting up the app. Are they selling microtransactions in Evony? Does anyone who clicks an ad for Evony based on these fake games and installs the app even stick around long enough to buy anything? Someone is spending time and money to make these fake gameplay videos, in addition to weird live action ads and fake streamer endorsements...And even the ads that aren't Evony are just ads for other mobile games...never any other type of product or service. Meaning each of these games are paying each other to advertise, so players will migrate to the other game and...watch ads for the game they came over from? It's such a strange ecosystem that is putting so much money into making these games and making the ads and I have no idea where the profit actually comes from unless these fake games are actually also just installing spyware or something.
Las time i've heard of Evony it was exactly what it was doing (which make me surprised to learn it is still a thing, and is casually throwing adds around).
As for where the profit comes from...they only need one. out of the hundreds of people migrating from one game to another without spending money, there is always one or two once in a while who have too much free time and money to spend/crippling gambling addiction (and in some case, low enough quality standards) to spend lot of money in there.