Many RPGs allow you to shoot a bow, or throw a dart, hand axe, rock, and other stuff to initiate combat.

Red Dead Redemption lets you ride horses. So did Ultima, as someone pointed out.

Good games are good games regardless of when they’re made

Yes. Let me pause cut scenes. I like to pee then come back and watch them

Same. I played the first one and it was ok.

I dunno I find these games are always the same and there’s no point in playing every release.

Years ago I told myself I’d play every 3rd COD game because of this, but haven’t played one since the 360.

You can also buy second hand games and even borrow some free at the library

Yeah I just wanna see pictures of my friends’ pets, kids and art. Not posts trying to bait me in to arguing about whether or not She-Hulk should be twerking (She should btw) or if rice is woke. 🙄

They arbitrarily decided which of my friends’ updates to show me, then started showing me more ads and “promoted content” (read: culture war incitement) than what’s going on with my friends. Lame.

Joust?

Gotta write an article for every interview question these days to maximize clicks.

Were they first? I can remember the battle.net launcher way before I ever heard of Steam.

Oh good I still haven’t upgraded from the last generation. I may just skip this one at this point, the only games I feel like I’m missing out on are the new Spider-Man and the unreleased GTA VI

It’s time for a new console generation already?

Ah the enshittification begins.

You must be younger than me. I grew up in the 90s and the Sega/Nintendo rivalry was intense.

I think it was the SNES/Genesis era when “who has the better graphics” started to matter.

At the time, I was actually of the opinion that the N64 was a step down from the SNES. Sure the graphics were 3D, but they looked like shit even then. Nintendo really fucked up by sticking with cartridges that generation.

I’m with ya. When it’s gaming time, I just want it to work. I don’t want to be fiddling with settings constantly.

That being said, I do prefer RPGs and RTSs much more with a keyboard and mouse, so I’ll usually play those on my computer, but that’s not such a problem any more with keyboard and mouse being supported by consoles.

Nah, it was Coleco/Atari - Coleco lost

Then Nintendo/Atari - Atari lost

Then Sega/Nintendo

Then Sega/Nintendo/Sony - Sega lost

Then Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft - Nintendo lost, but pivoted to play a different game.

Then you can throw things in there like 3DO and Jaguar Turbo FX, but they didn’t do so got to be considered contenders in the “war”

Also, it’s not like the songs that didn’t make the charts were bad, they just didn’t hit the charts.

Back then I believe only singles were eligible for the charts, not the rest of the album.

Rocket League is super fun

Probably by taking down the companies doing it rather than the people using them. Just set up an account and ask around for where to buy some likes.

“I put 100 hours in to chapter 2 after I beat this game. It’s terrible.”

🙄