Bigred's Video Game Thread

[Jack Sawyer]

That's not an answer. And I detect some pouty-ness in your tone here.

I have to leave you in your blissful ignorance. Enjoy your game.

I get it. I'd be wishy-washy too if I were you. You've just spent days ranting at me about how the evil, conniving video game cabal has been pulling dastardly shenanigans to manipulate people's behavior. And now you learn that all this time, it's actually YOU who has been played.

I'm not alone. But the old adage goes something like this: "A fool and his money ... "

This "crime" that you allege occurred, has no victims. Literally zero people were impacted in any significant way. So when you rant about it, or when some limey ass hole makes a youtube video about it.....what are you really accomplishing? There are no victims to defend. There is no injustice to correct. There is no need for a remedy. All you're doing, is promoting the game!!

You can find, for instance, a whole community on Reddit full of unaffected players. You and I are the only truly unaffected players, BananaStand

BTW....what exactly is meant by the term "AAA games"

Is there actually an independent body that rates games using different quantities of the letter A?

Cuz I kinda get the feeling that the term refers to any game that's good enough to have a large following and community of players. And it seems that those large communities have taken on some delusional belief that the artificial worlds that they play in, are something akin to public utilities. Like there should be strict government oppression dictating who can access what, how they access it, and at what price.

I keep hearing "You can't do this in AAA games!!"

Why not?

Which explains why I shouldn't even discuss with you, as you have no idea what you are talking about and couldn't care to even do a modicum of research before claiming that you do

Why? You've never heard of popularity being a motivation to purchase?

There is a difference between popularity and notoriety. By your metrics, SWBF2 2017 is also a very popular game.

Like, let's say you're REALLY into accordion music. One day you're walking down the street and you 10,000 people waiting in line outside of an arena. You ask what's going on and someone tells you that the crowd is heading into a concert for some hot new polka band.

Wouldn't you at least consider checking out their album?

Does the album cheat you out of songs as written on its cover?

What's confusing to you about this?

Your mental gymnastics confuse even yourself, you are just unaware of it. And that's OK