Bigred's Video Game Thread

[BananaStand]

Actually my first console was an atari 2600 and saving your game was unheard of. Your game ended when you turned it off.

LOL, in 2017 if you paid $60 for a game that you could beat in under 90 minutes, there would be an uproar.

Maybe the government should pass laws mandating the number of quality gameplay hours per dollar a game publisher has to provide.

[Luco]

LOL, in 2017 if you paid $60 for a game that you could beat in under 90 minutes, there would be an uproar.

Maybe the government should pass laws mandating the number of quality gameplay hours per dollar a game publisher has to provide.

Ok now I'm confused.

Bananastand: You kids don't remember older consoles
Me: actually yes I do
Bananastand: Lol the government should regulate video game quality
Me: Ok now I'm confused.

[BananaStand]

Bananastand: Lol the government should regulate video game quality
Me: Ok now I'm confused.

Maybe I should have used hashtag-sarcasm on that last line. I definitely don't see any reason the gov't should be meddling in video games.

My only point was that the industry has been bilking gamers for a long time. It only seems to be a problem now because the whiners have a youtube channel they can use to promote their bitching and complaining.

My comment was somewhat hyperbolic, sorry for the confusion. My point is that once upon a time there was a lot of frustrating shit about video games that cost money. Alot of that went away as the market evolved. Sometimes it took a while for that stuff to go away. Sometimes it came back in various incarnations. And what's going on today seems absolutely no different.

We didn't need the government meddling then, so why the hell do we need it now?