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I've never played it, but I am curious about it : I wonder why SEGA never ported Jet Set Radio Future on any other platform. It never left the original xBox.

It's a bit weird because SEGA is usually not against getting a few quick bucks from the old catalogue. The first Jet Set Radio, along with a couple other Dreamcast games, has a PC version, and it's at least playable, if not absolutely perfect.

That definition is not just loose, it's missing all of its screws completely at that point. Gambling is also assuming you're putting something of actual value at stake. Nobody would use gambling for a bit of randomness in a game with no stake.

Are you gambling with yourself in a game of solitaire? Or if you hope the Pac-Man ghost will go left instead of right at the end of the corridor? In isolation, obviously not. I'm assuming you're playing to have fun, and "losing time" or reaching a game over state earlier will not have a significant impact on anything.

However, if you'd bet $10 with someone that you'd win those games, yeah, it becomes gambling.

Aaaand that's why microtransactions blur the line so much and gacha/loot boxes should be considered gambling adjacent. Not just any incursion of randomness.

I think she already knows she's not being paid.

I thought back then the Avatar managed to destroy that logo.

Apparently he could not.

Given what we learned about the Neuralink monkeys, I think there's a major difference between Musk and Faro.

Musk's drones would devour dolphins by design, not because they learned it on their own and became out of control.

And then making it multiplayer.

I am pretty sure whoever came up with that idea has never played the game.

I've started reading Ernest Cline's Armada (he's the author of Ready Player One) to follow a "book club" podcast kind of things made by RiffTrax people (very late to the bandwagon, those episodes are a few years old). Obviously treated with a very "so bad it's good" and "how the hell did that book even happen" kind of tone.

One detail that had me smile a bit around the beginning : the (fictional) best videogame ever, a space combat simulation called Armada, is the unholy brainchild of a whole lot of people, including, you guessed it, Chris Roberts.

Yeah, good luck with that.

Bonus : that book is supposed to take place in 2018. They talk about Star Citizen like it's a thing of the past.

(Oh, about the other names thrown in there : Richard Garriot, Fromsoft's Miyazaki and... Shigeru Fucking Miyamoto, for a gritty military-style space shooter. Not sure if he was there for his experience directing Star Fox or for his 00's personal works, like Doshin the Giant, Pikmin or Wii Music. Who knows.)

Not convinced honestly, for both examples.

The most I've played TS3 was quite heavily modded. Sure a lot of the mods were to fix stuff that didn't work, because those games are a mess... But quite a bit added new stuff too. And of course custom content (which Sims modders tend to separate from "actual" mods with gameplay changes) has been thriving well before TS4.

As for Elder Scrolls, sure the mod offer got bigger with each new entry, but it was already quite big even for Morrowind. It was the first modding community I got involved with, at a time when "modding" wasn't even something I was familiar with. It was just that easy to encounter all that stuff already.

Toddlers were missing too at launch (sims went directly from baby to kid). That and pools at least got corrected in time with updates.

It also got rid of 3's full town simulation to have only very small neighbourhoods load at one time. Admittedly, this was a performance hog in 3 and created quite a few problems. But that also felt a lot more "alive". It's not like 4 is that much less broken than 3.

And then there is a huge problem with 4 compared to previous entries IMO. The game is boring. The new mood mechanic at least is an interesting evolution, but beyond that it always feels like nothing is happening if you don't provoke it in some way.

It's how it starts, then you become Doctor Octopus.

"Qu'est-ce qu'il nous font chier à chercher des accès à la culture les prolos? C'est déjà bien qu'on les paie assez pour survivre!"

I am not disagreeing that this is ridiculous, I was just saying that this stupidity is not what should convince people not to take some random paper for an absolute truth, just because it was published.

Even if you eliminate fraud, bullshit and even honest mistakes, that's just not how science works.