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[owsf2000]

I -was- going to rant about how the latest Batman game on PC was apparently so poorly put together and released to the point where the devs have actually stopped selling the game on PC until it's been finished. This is apparently their second PR damage control action. I don't know what their first response to PC gamers being pissed off at them, but apparently it just added fuel to the fire - much like how people are now up in arms over the Destiny DLC bullshit and the dev's interview that basically told long term players who had spent 100 dollars on the game that they'd have to buy the 80 dollar collectors edition if they wanted the couple of exclusive DLC items added to it - even though they already owned 75% of the collectors edition. (So it'd be like spending 80 dollars to get "40" dollars of DLC after spending 100 dollars on the game.)

Oh I shouldn't get started on a rant about that. Especially since I have no interest of ever picking up the online only game.

Yeah, I was actually going to talk about Anime conventions and how I'm going to go to one this weekend, but now I don't feel like typing it up after the mini-rant above. (I could say lots more about what I think of it.) Anyway, yeah, I'll be offline for a few days this weekend as I go to one. I'll probably talk about it on here on Sunday or Monday. Only downside of it is probably going to be me not being able to work on my Atari 7800 game over the weekend. It's starting to take shape! Links to the current beta/alpha/whatever of the game are in the first post of the thread. You'll need an emulator to play it. Either Prosystem or MESS will work. MESS will be more accurate with colors/etc. I'm not going to be optimizing the colors for real hardware until I can sit down and play it on real hardware myself.

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[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

So Arkham Knight is actually out now? Huh. First I've heard of it, which shows just how out of touch I am with video game news lately (even though I must have at least gotten the Steam announcement email that it was out, I don't recall it or just didn't pay any attention to it if I did). I might pick that up someday, if I ever see the "complete" version with all the inevitable DLC on sale for $5 or so on Steam. Maybe. Assuming they've actually fixed it into a playable state by that point, of course. To be fair, the PC versions of Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Origins were all pretty cool games, especially considering the total of maybe $15 tops I payed for all of them, including all DLC, on Steam not too long ago. (This, though, after I had paid full price for vanilla Asylum and City on 360, several years ago. Ugh. Yeah sure I had fun enough with them at the time and all that good shit, but thinking back on having done that now, though... Ugh. At least I didn't bite on Origins until it was in the $5-$10 range, and I don't feel like I missed out on anything at all by waiting a few years to play it.)

And I give exactly zero fucks whatsoever about Destiny at all, aside from the general "So this is what the video game industry has fallen to, has it?" casual dismissal. The AAA video game industry as a whole is already well on its way to the sewage treatment plant by this point in history, if we're going by the "flushed down the toilet" metaphor. As always, I continue to hope that this sewage treatment plant comes in the form of another huge industry crash like the one back in 1983. Something is going to have to give way, sooner or later, though.

As for conventions... I had nine opportunities to go to PAX Prime when I lived in WA, as it would have been a relatively short bus ride to go... but I never actually went, for whatever reasons. There have been other conventions that I've vaguely considered going to in the past as well, be they anime or brony or sci-fi conventions or whatever, but I always ended up not going. Hell, even just watching videos of other people at cons tends to make me feel slightly agoraphobic. I don't think I actually have bona fide agoraphobia or anything, because I think I could handle it if I ever did eventually go to a con or something, but still... I'm really ambivalent about the concept of going to cons, in general.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Heh. Speaking of Batman and Destiny bullshit...