Gaming really has gone to shit. I love the old stuff. It doesn't have to be that old, but I remember when you could own the game CDs. Even better were game demos in magazines September through December. Those were the best of gaming years. Then gen z complained demos weren't perfect and company's stopped releasing them
I miss the feel of the old PS1 CD cases. I miss the artwork and the manuals etc you would get, where it felt like the game devs actually liked you and wanted you to be happy.
And yeah man, don’t get me started on demo discs. I had a pile of those higher than my stack of actual games lol. I had the OG PlayStation one - the one that had Tekken, Rage racer, Porsche challenge and that walking T-Rex you could partially control.
Man do I miss those demo discs -- great music, fun times, awesome games.
Whenever there is a rare game that launches on the Switch/Switch 2 that isn't woke trash, I actually buy a physical copy (like Terminator 2D).
Was well worth the price and came with a full case, booklet, and some other trinkets. Felt like a proper game that would have released on the SNES back in the 1990s.
I remember when you just downloaded hacked warez games and didn't care if your computer got infected with a virus because all you did was use it to play video games and look up conspiracy theories anyways and had extra warez versions of windows to reinstall after a total disk format.
I love retro gaming, I just wish we got console/hardware replicas or something, since hardware rot is very real. Emulation works 9/10 times, but it really sucks when you get the 1/10...
The thing is, both Steam and Xbox haven't gone this far as I currently understand and this combines with more bad news with the whole 'log in 30 days to verify your downloaded games or be locked out of them' and ANOTHER of PlayStation's woke games flopping.
As I have said time and again, SONY pisses me off in that whoever runs their entertainment division are some of the dumbest motherfuckers around since when they COULD have market dominance, they fuck it up. As I don't even think the online safety bill in the UK will LAST another few years given how EVERYTHING associated with Starmer will be ripped out when he's forced to go.
Steam and Xbox haven't gone this far as I currently understand
Microslop has its own house of horrors going on. I can see Steam holding out since Gabe is famous for his "piracy is a service problem" quote. He knows full well that we'll just sail the seas again if he turns Steam into the shithole that Playstation and Xbox are becoming.
As I don't even think the online safety bill in the UK will LAST another few years given how EVERYTHING associated with Starmer will be ripped out when he's forced to go.
I won't pretend to know the ins and outs of the UK's politics but this sounds like the leftist rachet to me. Did the "Conservatives" even pretend to oppose this crap? If it's anything like the US the Conservatives' will (eventually) win despite their best efforts then proceed to do absolutely nothing to fix the damage Labour caused before being thrown out again for being useless retards so the cycle can repeat.
EVERY major mainstream party it set to lose upcoming elections with Reform likely to grab most of these council and mayoral seats only because Restore don't have the candidates to field yet.
Starmer is so hated, that the recent stabbing of Jews in London, when Lib dems, Conservative, Reform leaders went there, they were greeted warmly by the locals. Starmer? He was booed and heckled by EVERYONE.
It's 50/50 if a Reform government would remove the online safety act as it's extremely unpopular and ineffective that it seems something easy to remove to score points. If Restore gets in, it'll definitely get removed along with A LOT of other restrictions.
As has always been the case. Remember, Labour may be painted as the more progressive of the two, but the Conservatives were the ones to legalise gay marriage.
So, what I gather from this, Steam>Nintendo>Microsoft>Sony. Not to say Nintendo doesn't have its own problems right now, but compared to the other two...
Problems with modern consoles: Age verification blocks, confusing UI's, forced to download updates before playing a game, slow performance, game crashes.
Problems with the NES console: You had to blow on an old cartridge sometimes.
Pulls out the good ol SNES.
Gaming really has gone to shit. I love the old stuff. It doesn't have to be that old, but I remember when you could own the game CDs. Even better were game demos in magazines September through December. Those were the best of gaming years. Then gen z complained demos weren't perfect and company's stopped releasing them
I miss the feel of the old PS1 CD cases. I miss the artwork and the manuals etc you would get, where it felt like the game devs actually liked you and wanted you to be happy.
And yeah man, don’t get me started on demo discs. I had a pile of those higher than my stack of actual games lol. I had the OG PlayStation one - the one that had Tekken, Rage racer, Porsche challenge and that walking T-Rex you could partially control.
Good times
Man do I miss those demo discs -- great music, fun times, awesome games.
Whenever there is a rare game that launches on the Switch/Switch 2 that isn't woke trash, I actually buy a physical copy (like Terminator 2D).
Was well worth the price and came with a full case, booklet, and some other trinkets. Felt like a proper game that would have released on the SNES back in the 1990s.
I remember when you just downloaded hacked warez games and didn't care if your computer got infected with a virus because all you did was use it to play video games and look up conspiracy theories anyways and had extra warez versions of windows to reinstall after a total disk format.
I love retro gaming, I just wish we got console/hardware replicas or something, since hardware rot is very real. Emulation works 9/10 times, but it really sucks when you get the 1/10...
The thing is, both Steam and Xbox haven't gone this far as I currently understand and this combines with more bad news with the whole 'log in 30 days to verify your downloaded games or be locked out of them' and ANOTHER of PlayStation's woke games flopping.
As I have said time and again, SONY pisses me off in that whoever runs their entertainment division are some of the dumbest motherfuckers around since when they COULD have market dominance, they fuck it up. As I don't even think the online safety bill in the UK will LAST another few years given how EVERYTHING associated with Starmer will be ripped out when he's forced to go.
Microslop has its own house of horrors going on. I can see Steam holding out since Gabe is famous for his "piracy is a service problem" quote. He knows full well that we'll just sail the seas again if he turns Steam into the shithole that Playstation and Xbox are becoming.
I won't pretend to know the ins and outs of the UK's politics but this sounds like the leftist rachet to me. Did the "Conservatives" even pretend to oppose this crap? If it's anything like the US the Conservatives' will (eventually) win despite their best efforts then proceed to do absolutely nothing to fix the damage Labour caused before being thrown out again for being useless retards so the cycle can repeat.
If Restore gets enough seats and the prime minister position, then maybe.
If Reform, Labour, etc. get in, then no, they will not do anything meaningful.
Restore might be the last hope for the british
EVERY major mainstream party it set to lose upcoming elections with Reform likely to grab most of these council and mayoral seats only because Restore don't have the candidates to field yet.
Starmer is so hated, that the recent stabbing of Jews in London, when Lib dems, Conservative, Reform leaders went there, they were greeted warmly by the locals. Starmer? He was booed and heckled by EVERYONE.
It's 50/50 if a Reform government would remove the online safety act as it's extremely unpopular and ineffective that it seems something easy to remove to score points. If Restore gets in, it'll definitely get removed along with A LOT of other restrictions.
The conservatives (uniparty) were the ones to put it in place and Labour enabled it.
As has always been the case. Remember, Labour may be painted as the more progressive of the two, but the Conservatives were the ones to legalise gay marriage.
Bold of Sony to assume we actually even WANT a PS5 anymore
Yea who would want that crap
oh you know
the giant homosexual gamer segment
who are all going to buy millions of units to play gay ass gta6
The giant woke propaganda brainwash gender police.
Real 1984 shit happening in real time
Tbf 1984 did happen in the UK so...
... and this idiot is complaining about it, yet he's probably lining up to pay his taxes. Literally financing his own destruction.
So did V for Vendetta.
Yeah, the comic is better though.
Even better, 1984 with white genocide.
So, what I gather from this, Steam>Nintendo>Microsoft>Sony. Not to say Nintendo doesn't have its own problems right now, but compared to the other two...
Steam is the only platform that doesn't treat customers like shit. No point even mentioning the others. None of them deserve your money.
Steam yet again winning by... doing nothing.
https://c.tenor.com/xnqfzGa-NhIAAAAd/tenor.gif
Exactly. Everybody likes to bitch about Nintendo (and rightly so) but Sony and Microsoft are both worse by an order of magnitude.
Perhaps a face scan will also automatically determine gender. The resulting hysterics could be amusing.
Sony is a pos
And have been since they removed OtherOS from the PS3 after people bought it for that very reason.
Requiring biometrics is very trans-phobic. Tsk tsk Sony.
Problems with modern consoles: Age verification blocks, confusing UI's, forced to download updates before playing a game, slow performance, game crashes.
Problems with the NES console: You had to blow on an old cartridge sometimes.
To be fair, if it got really bad you have to un bend the connection pin. And that took finding a dental pick.
"Biometrics! crap!" -Raiden MGS2
It means you just stop using their platform
Find alternatives.
Try warez. Try roms. There's a whole community built upon evading these k!kes.
Are there many jewish people in Japan? 👀
They have some sumo wrestler e. Honda slap you 100 times imperial japs left
Proxy?
Goodbye, Playstation! You've lost the console wars!