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You won’t like hearing this, but video games must become more expensive. When I was little, my dad got me a PlayStation 2 for christmas, but without any games. My mum was very generous and took me out to pick two games for it. They were 60€ each. Nowadays you would call those full-price games. But now, 20 years later, a full-price game is still about 60€. If you correct that for inflation, it should really be 86€ now. And that’s not even covering the fact that games have massively increased in visual fidelity, which is much more expensive to produce. If you don’t want games to be littered with microtransactions or ads, then you have to accept that a regular video game must be at least 90€. (98 USD, 77 GBP, 149 AUD, 134 CAD) #Gaming #GameDev #GameDevelopment #Steam #Inflation #Economy #PlayStation
Can’t wait to buy the next installment of insert sports game here/call of duty for 100 USD base, 200 for the dlc, maybe even 300 for the ultimate deluxe extreme version.
Might be a hot take to some Skullgirls diehards, but if I’ve gotta ignore literally half the roster, I can’t see a point in buying in/can’t really call it good. Like, I’d sooner pick up some shonen arena battler that I don’t know the source material of before I picked up a hard 2d fighter where I needed to ignore that much of the roster.
Hey, you do you. imo it’s worth it because the good half are some of the most engaging characters in fighting games (and the others are mechanically interesting, just too pornbrained). But I would never blame anyone for being repulsed by the pornbrain part, it’s why I prefer games like 3rd Strike, which only have a tiny bit of pornbrain.
There’s also Them’s Fighting Herds, if you have an easier time with brony-ism, since it isn’t quite on the level of Skullgirls in anything buy net code, but is still both highly accessible and sophisticated.