We already know it went to shit, I’m sure everyone here and on Reddit already moved over to another launcher or stuck to the last good release for the time being. I think that’s enough Nova Launcher news.

I don’t even see what it’s appeal is, it looks like any other launcher. Why do y’all care so much?

These two cases aren’t the same though. Doom built a whole new genre by building on Wolf 3D’s foundation, it just didn’t have a name at the time. Very few 90s fps games actually play like Doom, or even try to. They all got their own thing going.

GTA clones definitely wanted to be like GTA, I can tell by just looking at them. I didn’t play any GTA inspired games besides Retro City Rampage so I don’t know which titles in particular deserve to be seen as knockoffs but they were out there.

I think what killed the traditional console are the hardware progression and the decline of physical games. In 90s consoles had very different specs that gave them specialty. When you bought one it deteremined what kind of game library you would have access to, not just a few exclusives. And playing them was super convenient, you popped in your cartridge or disk and you were good to go.

Neither of those things exist today. While the console form factor still has value, there is no justification for the closed ecosystems around them in my opinion.

In my opinion, no. For me it’s not about time, 360 for the most part plays just like any other present day console. Only difference is that development and marketing budgets went out of control (a trend that was already underway during later seventh generation), and the relentless stream of CoD, Halo and GTA clones stopped (THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT).

I don’t agree with that definition of “oversaturated”. Yes, hero shooters demand way too much time investment from the player but at the end of the day there are seven of them at most.

And that leads to a problem I forgot to mention in the main post: Even if a hero shooter starts out as a good game, it can still be ruined down the line. Combine that with a lack of alternatives and you are effectively stuck with the game you have picked years ago. You don’t like what Overwatch turned into? Too bad, take it or leave it.

Also the insane commitment demand isn’t fundemental to the genre, it’s a consequence of the blockbuster approach developers insist upon taking with this type of game.

I think it mainly comes down to price and marketing. There is way more to comics than big two and superheroes in general. But they are only known to the comic enthusiasts, they very rarely manage to reach mainstream pop culture.

Manga is great at making itself known, either through anime or some other means. Most American comics don’t have the means for that and European comics probably don’t care very much.

Isn’t getapps depricated anyway? It’s one of the first things I’ve removed from my phone.

Does anyone want this?

I hope their Android store offers a good experience and succeeds since Play Store just sucks. But Valve pretty much made Linux gaming, if you saw what it looked like before they got involved you would understand. And they are the only big video game company that still does some good stuff in addition to the bad stuff.

Epic burned 95% of their good will among gamers, if not all of it. They allowed play 2 earn and other crypto shit just to be contrarians, delisted and ended support for old Unreal games and are pretty much just The Fortnite Studio at this point, which itself is seen as an amalgamation of everything wrong with gaming by some, they struck exclusivity for highly anticipated games so that people have to buy it from them, stories of crunch and Tim defending and supporting every new technology gold rush including Grok producing fucking CSAM.

It’s not hard to see why people have so much animosity towards them.

Did it run better?

Nope, we will run some unix-like exclusively through the cli on the cheapest possible single board computer if it comes down to it.

This is a broader problem with electronics as a whole. Past a certain point better processors didn’t result in better computers, devs just wrote worse code. So modern computers don’t feel that much faster in some cases.

You see they are a multibillion dollar corporation, so them doing it is good actually, it encourages iNnOvAtIoN.

Yeah, I remember that. They also treat their players like absolute shit in general. But at least Rockstar makes games people enjoy and provides shareholder value. Ubisoft sucks so much they are actively harmful to everyone involved.

Some of those picks are questionable (like Ball x Pit, Kirby Air Riders, Deadlock and maybe The Drifter too), but there is some stuff in there I don’t recognize.

Ubisoft is actually the worst possible video game corporation.

They almost never make a game that’s worthy of anyone’s time, their business practices are scummy, they kill off their games and tell people to get used to not owning them, treat their workers like shit and their stock price is in the gutter so not even the wallstreet ghouls benefit from how awful they are.

It’s incredible.

Also they repack everything. I only learned about and played a game called The Weird Dream because there is a fitgirl repack of it. When I looked it up on Steam it had fifty or so reviews.

Windows and Linux are both free and MacOS coames pre-installed in custom made hardware, so I don’t know who would pirate an OS anymore. I’m with you on security software though.

The article reports that Xbox didn’t have any deals, at all. Playstation is reported to be cheaper than it’s pre-hike price.

They don’t seem nearly as good as people claim though. I can’t comment on their quality with certainty because I didn’t play any of them besides Crash Bandicoot but at least their newer games seem very unimpressive to me.