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@ᏰᎯᎠᎻᎬᎯᏒᎿ  
Not sure if we will in terms of AAA games. It’s kinda why I’ve been pretty much exclusively been playing indie titles

Nerds…..
 
Will we ever go back to video games that don’t go online?
 
All this leveling up and achievements, I’ve gone into fuck-everything mode.

Just got the dark ops challenge to reach round 20 with starting loadout in Cold War Zombies. I thought it had to be done starting room too, so I just did it on Firebase Z (with help from Quick Revive V).
 
I didn’t plan to do it, so I came in with an M60 with 100 round mag. An extremely slow movement, slow reload weapon which did bugger-all later on and scraped by with QR and equipment drops. Least I got it now.

@Officer Hotpants  
Fair.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Yeah but cheat devices aren’t particularly difficult to obtain, either.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
I remember things like this on the GTS but with Pidgey, Rattata, Wurmple, Zigzagoon, Wingull, Pikipek, and Yungoos caught in Masterball in X and Y, ORAS and Sun and Moon respectively. I also remember the Sun and Moon and Ultra Sun and Moon. having a bunch of Pikipek’s being nicknamed Johnny in the GTS as well.

@Barhandar  
Master Ball. Murkrows aren’t particularly difficult to catch.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
How is that cursed?

@Officer Hotpants  
Now that I’m reminded of it, there are some pretty cursed things on it though.  

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Oh. Yeah, I remember hearing something about them shutting down a bunch of stuff a few years ago.

@Officer Hotpants  
Global Trade System. Lets you trade Pokemon over the internet rather than a local network. Used to be a part of Nintendo’s free online service before they shut it down in 2014.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Recreate the what after the what shut down?

I think it’s amazing people managed to recreate the GTS after Nintendo WFC shut down. It’s incredibly useful.

@Absol95  
I keep side-glancing at my PS Vita, thinking to do the same. I love my modded PSPs to death. But with the Vita still store-active, I’d rather not risk my account until I have a chance to back up all of my purchases, and I really don’t have the storage space to cover that.

I’m thinking of someday hacking the PS Vita (2000 model) that I got for my birthday this year.

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is coming to PC at long last and I think I might cry a little. I have missed that game so much. Played the shit out of it back in the day. It was like Champions of Norrath, but with replay value.
 
EDIT: Well, Champions II. Never played the first one; it might have been better.

@IvanSatoru  
Works with pretty much all games. The result of “trying to appeal to a wider audience” and “expand into a prospective new field”. a.k.a. basic-ass greed resulting in making games for money, instead of making games for games with money-making only being there so you can continue making games.
 
@Anonymous #0A6B  
Yes, but “apple zombies” moniker hasn’t been created out of nowhere. Reasonable people have been avoiding Apple for a decade now, due to what you’ve described, being extremely overpriced, and alternatives to its stuff being made. Even for designers, last good Apple thing was macbook pro (and they can stick macos on a regular PC, hur hur).

@IvanSatoru  
Either that or they dumb the sequel super hard to the point that no one but a few reviewers and people who didn’t play the previous entry will pick it up.
 
@Anonymous #0A6B  
If you’re still buying iphones at this point, you deserve it.

@Officer Hotpants  
I mean, that’s not unheard of in the software world. Every few years Apple puts out a new version of iOS that cripples everything but the very newest phones they’ve introduced, to force people to “upgrade.” The performance penalties on last year’s phone are merely accidental and not the least bit intentional, they assure us, and will be fixed in the next version. HINT: it’s never fixed in the next version.

A common complaint I hear about fps games is that some mechanics that make a game unique and challenging either get watered down if not removed altogether and weapons get endlessly and constantly nerfed or have their unique mechanics ruined, all supposedly to make it easier for retards/avoid dealing with “cheating”. This results in veterans leaving. I actually did experience both situations.

@Barhandar  
Retroactive planned obsolescence. AKA “Ah shit. They’re still playing the old one. Someone break that fossil so we can shepherd them over to the new one with poorer performance on better hardware, less flexibility and all the popular factions from the old one locked behind day-one DLC.”
 
Which is usually followed by “oh no. Why is everyone review bombing our awesome new game? All their non-bug-related complaints are fixed with the DLC!” Or am I thinking of Paradox? Bah. Doesn’t matter. Same fucking thing at this point.

@Barhandar  
or not realizing that shogun 2 still has success 9 years later because the multiplayer and the game itself had actual effort put into it, and the gameplay actually requires tactical thinking and strategy
 
i mean total warhammer is fun and all but “bury the enemy in rats” its an actual strategy
 
they could capitalize so much on its success despite being an old game kind of like how microsoft did with age of empires as a whole
 
hell, even coh1 thats over 10 years old has the servers still up, plus a “legacy version” and “new steam version” when coh2 exists and its the main one still being updated on
 
even fucking natural selection 2 its still recieving updates and balance patches

@Officer Hotpants  
And are already sabotaging it. If you feel the need to put down a decade old game so that your new one gets sold, your new game is either shit, or you personally believe it to be shit.

@TeamBlueplant  
Either that or they’re planning on releasing a new Shogun soon.

@Barhandar  
There was one studio that said something to the effect of “We don’t know why people liked our last game”. Can’t remember which one, though.