Hell yea embrace the future

[Taiso]

I didn't.
And I don't give a shit about "experiencing" modern Resident Evil games. I watched playthroughs of 8 and 9 just as I watched Aliens last night.

So tell me what it is you get out of watching someone else play an interactive horror experience.

 

[terry.330]

So tell me what it is you get out of watching someone else play an interactive horror experience.

Eh, I’ve done it. Watched a play through of a game I’m interested in while drawing or working on something and would have probably bought but after watching just kind of felt like that was enough. I don’t need to spend 25 hours or whatever on playing the game myself. Especially if it‘s a sequel that’s very similar to the original. Or something that looks interesting but isn’t exactly my usual type of game.

Doesn’t mean I won’t ever play the game eventually but it can satiate my need to play it asap. Plus by the time I do finally get the game a couple years down the road I’m not going to remember much anyways so it’s not like watching a play through is going spoil my experience later.

That new Bond game is a good example. Watching a few hours of gameplay was enough.

 

[Takumaji]

I vibe with this quite a bit.

I think it's quite understandable to decide where your dollars are going to go. Definitely DON'T spend money on something you don't want to support (whatever the reason).

But I also think that as individuals, it's on us to understand that we are still overly fixated on these things to the point where it upsets many people, often causing undue grief in our lives. It';s the consumerism trap. So many people like to think they're so smart about this stuff when the smartest thing you can do is get out of the game with what you already have.

Read a book.

Take a walk.

Learn how to build something.

Work out.

There are thousands of hobbies one could replace video games with if the industry becomes so insufferable that you don't want to buy anything new anymore.

Life has SO MUCH MORE to offer us in our down time than electronic entertainment. Accept that maybe you outgrew games. Or they outgrew you. Play the ones you still have that you love. Don't take it so seriously. It's just entertainment.

It'll be okay.

Video games actually take up a quite small part of my daily activities. Apart from work which is the biggest time slice, most of the time available to myself is spent with making music, reading and cooking. Gaming takes place inbetween and here my preference for classic arcade-style games comes in handy coz I prefer spending a very intense and satisfying hour or mebbe just 30 mins with one or two games over sitting my arse flat for half a day with a modern RPG. I also don't play every day.

As I tried to get across, the discussion at hand about the end of physical media is an example of my problems with corporate decisions and alleged progress which often means giving control and options away without any return and mostly negative results in the long run. I've been having my fair share of fun with gaming since the late 70s and I've seen many a thing come and go, including network/digital distribution schemes, there really isn't anything new under the sun, things just get bigger and more complex. What started as a new and exciting free-running world of magic turned into a corporate game because vg development became crazy expensive.

That's all fine and dandy, there are millions of people who seem to enjoy current gaming and I don't wanna stand in their way. I know my place, which is not in front of a flatty the size of a ping pong table and a sub that whales can feel from 200 miles away. I'm not saying this out of spite, that's just not me. However, I don't think that keeping physical media as an option would limit companies in any way, or at least not in a bad way coz somewhat limited space forces dev'ers to use it as efficiently as possible. Necessity is the mother of invention, not decadently throwing more and more and MOREMORE on something until it can be arsed to function.

 

[Yoshi]

Bunch a pc gamers who will happily spend $1k on an old gpu for their word processor complaining about a $1k console with no physical media despite the fact they haven't bought physical media for their word processor in over a decade

Speaking of, let me know when you can fire up a game you bought digitally 20-years ago on your current console hardware.

edit: There has never been console or portable hardware backward compatibility for more than two generations. I'm fully expecting to be completely done with consoles as soon as Nintendo releases a non-Switch or changes architecture significantly for this reason.

 

[BeefJerky]

 

[Phyeir]

The dream is still thinking

 

[fake]

Guys how is MSL gonna handle all this downloading and deleting?

 

[SonGohan]

I've been on the digital-only train for awhile. I'd like to say it started with XBLA and then moved forward when they started releasing the normal titles in the store, but it really started with the modded xbox (at least in a console format). It's so much easier to manage and play. This news does not affect me at all and I, personally, don't give a shit.

However, that said, I totally understand the people that are up in arms about it. I understand the importance for some to own physical media. It's the ultimate control - I get it. I liked collecting games at one point because it was a nostalgic nod to my childhood while being an event, of sorts. The collecting was as exciting as the playing, sometimes more exciting. It was even a status symbol of sorts. Until it wasn't (at least for me).

There will always be piracy.

 

[Tw3ek]

A lack of options is bad for the consumer, which is the reason I'm against it. You already see how they turned so much computer software into a subscription based model and its an overall worse experience because of it.

That said, it's even funnier when the whole thing is being championed by someone who still purchases/collects a different physical media that's been obsoleted multiple times over since the 1980's. The ultimate irony is that they'll come for what you enjoy one day too, but hey, embrace the future right?

 

[Phyeir]

 

[wataru330]

Sony removing movies people paid full price for is bullshit. Games will be next.

I’ve realized for a long time we are just ‘renting’ these ddl things, and that would be fine if we paid old video store prices ($2.99 AAA new release, .¢99 everything else).

But to have your shit ganked on a company’s whim, seems jank.

Oh-and France for the win? Hella funny this, with all the piracy outta that joint.

French presidential candidate pushes to “Save Physical Video Games” following PlayStation plan as games are “cultural assets” that should be protected

Following PlayStation's announcement to scrap physical games, French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon pushes to save them.

frvr.com

 

[wataru330]

There is dignity in every job.

The rectification of names.

 

[Dr. Jigglin]

Imagine being over 40 on a never ending digital crusade against a bunch of internet people on an antiquated communication platform who prefer one kind of computer over a slightly different child friendly computer whilst being on a computer but not that kind of computer.

And we're the crazy ones

 

[kernow]

Imagine being over 40 on a never ending digital crusade against a bunch of internet people on an antiquated communication platform who prefer one kind of computer over a slightly different child friendly computer whilst being on a computer but not that kind of computer.

And we're the crazy ones

*Typed on my gaming machine*

 

[Moob Butter]

gaymen machine

 

[StevenK]

I've been on the digital-only train for awhile. I'd like to say it started with XBLA and then moved forward when they started releasing the normal titles in the store, but it really started with the modded xbox (at least in a console format). It's so much easier to manage and play. This news does not affect me at all and I, personally, don't give a shit.

However, that said, I totally understand the people that are up in arms about it. I understand the importance for some to own physical media. It's the ultimate control - I get it. I liked collecting games at one point because it was a nostalgic nod to my childhood while being an event, of sorts. The collecting was as exciting as the playing, sometimes more exciting. It was even a status symbol of sorts. Until it wasn't (at least for me).

There will always be piracy.

This is dangerously close to a reasonable opinion and has no place here

 

[fake]

Hey maybe in 25 years there will be a PS6 everdrive. It’s an SSD you plug in and it has all the games on it. Problem solved.

 

[Dr. Jigglin]

Hey maybe in 25 years there will be a PS6 everdrive. It’s an SSD you plug in and it has all the games on it. Problem solved.

Kern will be there in the corner adding his two pence, "err who uses physical digital storage media err can't you afford quantum mind upload"

 

[LoneSage]

Kern will be there in the corner

Many, many times I have read a kernow post and imagined this meme. Here, today, I finally made one.

 

[kernow]

 

[Moob Butter]

 

[BeefJerky]

 

[Jon]

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Asking what time it is and, is the year 1999 is pretty par for the course every time you turn on a Dreamcast.

Jon

 

[BeefJerky]

Asking what time it is and, is the year 1999 is pretty par for the course every time you turn on a Dreamcast.

Jon

That's why it's so funny.

 

[Dr Shroom]

i wish it was 1999