The tweet was slightly off then, Gamecube was just released at the end of 2001 and Wind Waker is 2003.

Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were 1999 and 2000 though.

I mean, if NES was retro in 2006, XBOX 360 can be retro in 2026.

though I have no idea what counts as classics on 360

Fake it till you… Scratch that, just fake it.

Not sure, but who needs a Voigt-Kampff test with replicants looking that bad?

This is not the base online subscription, which is the part giving you access to online servers.

The so-called “expansion pack” subscription costs much more, and is only for limited access to emulators and a couple DLC for Switch games (like Mario Kart and Animal Crossing). I don’t like my games being kept hostage to a sub. This fee is literally just that.

My VC games are still there and playable on my Wii, Wii U and 3DS. I bought them (sure, technically, a licence, like every video game ever released, even physical. But let’s see them revoke it).

Everything you point out is literally working against this subscription.

You can get digital games that are not tied to a subscription, and while the download server might be shut down at some point, if you still have it on your system, it still works. NSO emulators won’t, because they routinely check whether your subscription is still active, even though everything is downloaded and runs locally on your console.

The NSO expansion pack is not the sub required for online access. Base NSO is, so if one is paying for servers, it’s just that one. Expansion pack is an extra and is only getting you access to emulators for N64, NGC, GBA, Virtual Boy etc. “If they made it a separate sub for the classic games”? That’s exactly the case.

Even if it was just one bundle for both online and classic games… Why would that be okay? There is zero technical reason for classic games to be a subscription model. Being artificially tied to an unrelated one is not an excuse.

There is literally no reason for it to be a sub compared to a one-time payment. Except of course in the sense that having customers pay for subs, forget about them and keep paying for nothing at all is the holy grail of content distribution nowadays.

Virtual console, though maybe a bit expensive for what it was, used to let you keep your games.

Yeah, looks like it doesn’t exist anymore.

It did fulfill its purpose though, it was actualized when Wolverine came back.

On principle, not paying a freaking subscription for the right to access old games, previously unreleased or not. We used to be able to keep our games.

They’re possessed by the power of Music.

Necrodancer : REANIMATE!!

And unlike Wolverine, please stay dead when you get there.

Note, as far as I can tell from thos announcement, this does not cover all French public officials. There are 3 groups of them, state, local and health. This is specifically about state administration.

Local administrations could follow national recommendations, but it would ultimately be in the hands of locally elected representatives.

That “guy” was not yet censored everywhere when I looked at their history. Every post was the same ad for yet another crypto con.

I was wondering a bit about this too, what about usual obsession with dangerous blue haired feminazi. Though maybe that’s more of a US thing.

Maybe it’s because of that too :

The origins of the character are ironic, to say they least. An early iteration of Amelia began life in a counter-extremism video game

If you are unfamiliar with Amelia, the chances are you will soon encounter one viral meme or another inspired by her on Facebook or X

…no. that is not likely.

Not sure, but I certainly don’t get “it’s there” from “there is something else instead that feels completely different from the original design”.

Well, if I get what they’re doing this time, it’s different.

Heroes in Fable are driven by narrative forces, they are supposed to be literally heroes of a fable. Morality in these games is not reputation, it’s not supposed to be realistic, it’s like a natural law of the world. And, along with a few other character development traits, morality changes your character physically.

You can even “boost” your evilness with stuff like eating live chicks. Nobody witnesses you doing that.

There’s a whole shtick in Fable that sets it apart from most RPGs, in that, Fable never even pretends you’re a character among others. You’re one of 5 or so heroes destined to shape the story, and the rules applying to you are just different from everyone else.

It sounds like this time, they’re going for something a lot more classic, i.e. scoring how people feel about your choices.

As someone who loves the three other games, even 3 that was a bit more divisive… 4 is rough. Part of it is decent, but it’s riddled with bad choices.

One of the worst crimes for a Metroid game, they just felt like polluting the plot with a bunch of quirky allies pestering you all the time. You literally can’t explore on your own for ten seconds before one of them calls you on the radio and point at wherever the plot wants you to go next. With forced unskippable zoom in on the map destination. Previous Prime games only had subtle, impersonal hints from your suit, and you could disable them. No such thing in 4.

Bonus, those characters are all so annoying. Especially the one you have to go back to just to activate half of the game’s new abiities.

And then, the huge, “open” central area. It’s a desert, both in appearance and features. It only exists because you need a place to go through with the motorcycle. And the motorcycle almost only exists to go through that place. I just couldn’t see the point.

The enemy variety is very poor (though to be honest some environments look pretty cool at least).

It’s half a good game, with some cool moments, and the rest is either boring or cringeworthy.

I’ve played it long ago. Doesn’t it end on a cliffhanger of sort? Or am I confusing it with something else?

I kinda remember being annoyed with the state the plot was left in.

Microtransactions, and gacha in particular, are a plague. I don’t expect this terrible mess will have any significant negative impact for the game publisher, but if it does, good.

Steam Link doesn’t work on my Quest 3. it used to, about 2 or 3 versions ago, but for a year I had to revert to “previous version”. And then a couple months ago they rolled another one, the new one still doesn’t work, and the old one that did is now out of reach. I can’t get more than 3 minutes of streaming before a mysterious 451 error crash. Not even playing a game, just being on the SteamVR interface.

I’ve tried everything, I’ve reported many times on the Steam VR discussions, and plenty of people with Quests are struggling there too. I have used the exact same PC and wifi router (that’s completely dedicated to the headset to PC connection) at two different places, and in one it sorts of work, but in the other it’s completely unplayable.

Of course I can’t recommend using Meta Link either. It’s crap and it doesn’t play nice with Steam VR (which is still required for playing Steam games). Instead I’ve given up and got Virtual Desktop. Best streaming I ever had, in all configurations, and connections that last hours.