Letterboxd and Goodreads both use a star rating system in addition to long-form reviews and it seems to work out great. I have my disagreements with how the sites are run, but the rating system isn't one of them.
YouTube star ratings never included the opportunity to review (in text) a specific video, so I think your comparison isn't very applicable or helpful in this specific situation. The Steam review system isn't very analogous to how YouTube used to work.
Seconding this. I got a used Wii and hacked it to play pirated games from an SD card, including Just Dance. Literally every commercially sold Wii can be hacked now, it's super easy. No money given to Nintendo.
Also, the Just Dance modding scene is still pretty active and there are Wii ports for newer songs/games. But you can emulate stuff instead if you don't have/want a Wii.
I guess they're hoping no one buying 2 has played the original or has much familiarity with the source material. Not the worst move from a marketing standpoint, but not really inspiring confidence for me since VtMB is probably one of my favourite linear/sandbox RPGs purely because of the atmosphere and dialog.
No, the combat in VtMB wasn't very good, but that doesn't mean the sequel has to be an ARPG. I really hope this is just one person's opinion and it's not that bad. Also, Phyre is a cringe name that hasn't grown on me at all, so that sucks considering she apparently fucking says it constantly.
Hell yeah, Shipbreaker had some cool worldbuilding that I vibed with while tearing shit down. Who knows when it's actually coming, but I'm looking forward to more stuff in that universe.
I hate using the Steam client to browse the store because it stutters all the time and doesn't support tabs. Not to mention that the Enhanced Steam browser extension adds support for 3rd party sellers so I can see if there's a better price without leaving the page.
Without tabs, I can't browse a specific tag without having to go back and forth constantly, which is super annoying because page listings are dynamically loaded, so going back means starting from the top of the list all over again.
It's not really meant to be beautiful or functional or push boundaries, it's meant to create (or recreate) a certain atmosphere or aesthetic sense. And you can't forget that Puppet Combo's games got really popular on YouTube and Twitch, so their style inspired and was iterated on by others. Mouthwashing was also really influential.
Sometimes things are intentionally ugly or weird or messy or technologically outdated. Sometimes people think it's cool to make a car out of rusty parts.
Really? You don't understand why people might look back fondly on the hardware limitations of early games that they now feel nostalgic for? There are still people making Game Boy games and physically releasing them, to the point that there's now third-party handhelds that can play GB/GBC cartridges. There's still a thriving Commodore 64 gaming community, for fuck's sake.
If you like retro-inspired arcade racers, Slipstream is a fucking blast. You can use your own music if you want to and there are mods to add more cars.
I'm going to say The Last of Us 2. I loved the first one so much, and then 2 was not what I wanted or was expecting, which completely killed any love I had for it and any desire for a larger franchise.
I was hoping for an anthology series where each game focused on a different group of people in the same universe. I loved Joel and Ellie, but I wanted their story to be over and to get a look at how other people had dealt with things.
It's funny to me that AMEX is supposed to be the fancy card considering that we accepted it at the rural Canadian grocery store I worked at as a teenager. We also accepted Discover.
Any gift card still needs to be processed by a processor, who could get all up in arms just like MasterCard and Visa.
I mentioned digital transactions because that's what has been restricted in essentially all cases. They don't seem to care if you buy porn in person, they just don't want you buying porn online.