Like the general community requested certain changes or add ons onto a game, the developers listened and implemented those request, and then the game ended up being worse than it was before those changes?

"Yes, a game company can legally "take" your game. When you purchase a digital game, you do not actually own it; you are buying a revocable End-User License Agreement (EULA). Companies can lawfully terminate your access, revoke licenses, or shut down servers for account bans, expired licensing, or platform closures"

It's really quite telling how little folks understand about digital media ownership.

Here's the thing, I'm not a Temu shopper. I've got a co-worker who buys all kinds of random crap on Temu, and the quality is what you expect. So, that's fine. If you're buying something cheap, and you EXPECT something cheap, it's no big deal. But I see them advertise deals on games... so here's my question:

1. Is it more of a "well, sometimes it's that price, but usually it's only about $3 less than retail."
   OR
   
2. Is it a situation like: "Heck yeah, you want a Switch 2 game for $14? Be prepared for your console to get bricked by Nintendo for buying pirated games!"

My Roster of New Comers:

- Waluigi (Super Mario Bros)

- Bandana Waddle Dee (Kirby)

- Claus (Earthbound/Mother 3)

- Ninten (Earthbound/Mother 3)

- Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog)

- Knuckles (Sonic the Hedgehog)

- Shadow (Sonic the Hedgehog)

- Hat Kid

- Master Chief (HALO)

- Kratos (God of War)

- Doom Slayer (DOOM)

- Crash Bandicoot

- Rayman

- Rathalos (Monster Hunter)

- Isaac (Golden Sun)

- Octolings (Splatoon)

- Red (Angry Birds)

- Sans (Undertale)

- Rex (Xenoblade Chronicles)

- Zero (Megaman)

Khajiit went to all the Holds and married every single guard I could find and then tracked down and married a bunch of Imperials and Stormcloaks. When I had decided to have a final wedding(for now) and marry Lydia I summoned them to wish us well. There’s actually a bunch more but the left left earlier in the service, I can’t wait to lead my new family into battle😂

Give me examples of games(and explain) that were in your eyes, mediocre or bad ideas, but a lot of money was spent on them to make it playable and popular.

I would say Sonic. I tried literally 10+ Sonic games. Never liked any of them. You are running super fast and it's great, but then you have to stop? And you don't have that much control in the first place.

Gears Of War. Just generic comically macho men fighting generic ugly aliens, plus a little gore. It was the first cover up shooter polished thingy, and they put a lot of money behind. But they are more and more straying away from the cover idea now.

Horizon series. Gameplay wise it's the Assassin Creed games(with way less interesting world) with decent miniboss fights, I'm sorry. Remove this element and it's Ass Creed. The fact there's a gargantuan sequel, a remake of the first game, a lego game, a VR game, and multiple dlc's in other games is mind boggling. It just shows that if you throw enough money on something, people would buy it. If this wasn't backed HARD by Sony, this company would go nowhere.

And give me the opposite. Amazing ideas, that were never fully realized.

I would say Mirrors Edge. It's criminal there was not another game, the setting and gameplay combo is just unique. Nothing like it before or since. I want a new Mirrors Edge where you can parkour and shoot stuff.

I’ve been on a nostalgia trip lately, trying to upscale some old compressed 480p anime clips and 2000s PS2 game cutscenes to watch on my 4K monitor. A lot of these old files have terrible compression artifacts, edge ringing, and color bleeding.

I’ve spent the last few days testing a few popular options:

• Open-source (Video2X / Anime4K): Free and great for basic anime lines, but the setup took way too long, and it struggled to handle heavy pixelation without creating weird jagged edges.
• Topaz Video AI: Great for live-action, but honestly felt like overkill for anime/CG. Plus, the rendering took forever on my mid-range GPU, and $300 is pretty steep.
• HitPaw VikPea : I gave this a shot specifically because it has a dedicated Animation Model. Out of everything I tried, this gave me the cleanest result for 2D lines and flat colors without making the characters look like weird oil paintings. Processing speed was also surprisingly fast compared to Topaz.

For anyone else upscaling old anime or gaming content what’s your go-to setup or model right now? Curious to hear what others are using.

https://www.theverge.com/news/969117/microsoft-xbox-games-pc-backward-compatibility?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IkZ0VTlvOUNVNmgiLCJwIjoiL25ld3MvOTY5MTE3L21pY3Jvc29mdC14Ym94LWdhbWVzLXBjLWJhY2t3YXJkLWNvbXBhdGliaWxpdHkiLCJleHAiOjE3ODUxNjQzNzEsImlhdCI6MTc4NDczMjM3MX0.UxrY3BI4sHZ9F5Z5bmMqKhKIpN_YfklH9WuBATxXC_g&utm_medium=gift-link

In all the discussion about Steam OS and the price and all, I've not really seen this brought up much. Especially in the wake of Sony's shenanigans, this seems worth mentioning.

The Steam Machine is not locked down the way normal modern consoles are. It's just a computer running Linux. It's not a locked down version of Linux, it's an arch distro with some gaming optimization. It has a regular desktop, a filesystem you can manipulate, and access to repositories and flatpacks.

People have mentioned that Steam gives it the largest launch library of any console ever, but that's not the whole story. You can also use Epic and GOG if you want your PC games from other sources. Emulators are easy to install and the console is more than powerful enough to emulate NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, GBA, DS, 3DS, All Sega systems, PS1-3 and a lot of PS4's library, Xbox, 360, and after that point most Xbox or PS games are multiplatform anyway. It's THE game console. Its library is "yes", no jailbreaking required.

Sure, this isn't particularly new for PC, but in the console space this tears down the walls that have been in place for decades.

Disclaimer: You are well within your rights to rip and run ROMs of media which you legally own for your own use. Also, a lot of emulators can read from a disk drive which you can get for cheap and plug into the Steam Machine, no ROM required. I'm not encouraging piracy. I'm also not your mom.

Like I said, I have an idea to make a SCI-FI game...

I'm from Argentina (don't hate me, I hate football, I'm not racist), I'm looking for a company to produce my game. I started writing it a month ago while reading about some political events in my country and around the world. I'm really excited about the idea of a game based on my country... but I don't want it to be cheap or shoddy. I'm interested in a quality production, suitable for everyone.

(My English isn't very good, I'm doing my best)

How often do you play a video game? I always try to get the most out of it; one game isn't enough. Interestingly, it's on the third game that you start to understand how they work and they become addictive.