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Here another one from Max Dood.


As someone pretty much smack in between the two, that was really entertaining to listen to. Having said that, I think it might be a good thing to find a new descriptor for high end players, because “hardcore” has always sounded too much like something involving porn.
 
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As someone pretty much smack in between the two, that was really entertaining to listen to. Having said that, I think it might be a good thing to find a new descriptor for high end players, because “hardcore” has always sounded too much like something involving porn.
Either term works fine for me. Porn rarely comes up in my mind with I think the term hardcore. That said, at the time, it was a term that got thrown around too much with the whole casual vs. hardcore gamers debate back in the 7th generation. The term almost became esoteric in certain ways or just used as glorified buzzwords to buy games that are "M" Rated not "kiddie".
 

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The Gamecube is 20yo today, first released in Japan on September 14th, 2001
 
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It doesn’t matter how big or ambitious GTA6 is anymore. I can see why one of the Houser bros left.
The irony is that GTA is no longer the supposedly anti-establishment. The series lost that title years ago. They are the establishment. And they've really done nothing over the years to improve the games much or innovate. Other than scale.
 
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So this apparently happened today.
On steam?! That won't last long, the second nintendo gets a whiff of it they'll go apeshit.

I wonder how good the disc reader option will be, I got quite a few game for console that are in deep storage and I wouldn't mind just playing them on PC once in awhile.
 

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Guess this guy is now one of the few to actually have truly beaten Doom, cuz remember: "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero"
 

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The irie is that GTA is no longer the supposedly anti-establishment. The series lost that title years ago. They are the establishment. And they've really done nothing over the years to improve the games much or innovate. Other than scale.
I remember Dan Houser saying they don’t know how they would even make another GTA game given the country’s current socio/political climate, to where it actually felt fresh. I really don’t know either what they could possibly be doing, but it’s almost guaranteed to focus more on live service and less on an actual scripted narrative.


Anyways, the strand game “genre” that Kojima talked about creating looks good to actually be getting a new entry -

 
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I remember Dan Houser saying they don’t know how they would even make another GTA game given the country’s current socio/political climate, to where it actually felt fresh. I really don’t know either what they could possibly be doing, but it’s almost guaranteed to focus more on live service and less on an actual scripted narrative
That's a problem with a lot of franchises that go on for a long time and are about that subject. It's why I don't even bother with South Park anymore.
 

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That's a problem with a lot of franchises that go on for a long time and are about that subject. It's why I don't even bother with South Park anymore.
It’s crazy that show is still going. But then I think of The Simpsons and mind is fully blown.
 
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