Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread

[Gloria The Glorious]

I thought it was mid. The forced stealth insta-death sections fucking sucked and killed the pacing. Final boss was absolutely fantastic though.

I think you're right on the topic, but the whole video will be Jim bitching about Trump, just like the Hogwart's Legacy video was nothing but him seething about Queen Terf and never once mentioning the game.

I almost want to make it a formal bet.

 

[Diesel Boogaloo]

Has Nintendo made anything worth pirating in the past decade though?

Tears of the Kingdom seems decent.
Other than that, no.

 

[Endless Torment]

I think you're right on the topic, but the whole video will be Jim bitching about Trump, just like the Hogwart's Legacy video was nothing but him seething about Queen Terf and never once mentioning the game.

I will be impressed if Jim is able to put his politics aside and mention the fact that the prices were decided before the tariffs and this is just shifting the blame.
It must suck for him to have to make a choice between blaming politics or blaming Nintendo and corporate greed.

 

[consul_dondas]

Has Nintendo made anything worth pirating in the past decade though?

Subjective, but depends on what you want to see. As in, what graphical quality would you like to pirate for Link's Awakening, or Thousand Year Door?

Additionally, I liked BOTW, Dread, and the "ultimate" smash was fun for sitting on the can.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Well, here we go.

"EDIT" WOW, he dosent blame the orange man for this one. Jim becomes a bit sane for a bit and just blames the gaining industry being greedy and dumb fans still buying it.

 

[huesofmercury]

 

[Xev]

Indie wrestling is basically just fat men beating up girls. Congrats for being good at beating up girls, Jim.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I know the stupid metaphors are more important than accuracy, but it's both dumb and inaccurate to imply Nintendo are the ones spearheading price hikes when Sony and Microsoft already got the ball rolling by upping next gen RRP from $60 to $70. It is more of an issue with Nintendo, mind you, since their games almost never get price drops and even when they do they're negligible at best.

I'm sure the BING BING WAHOO soyboys will still eat it up but I'm curious to see how this much more aggressive pricing will affect Switch 2 performance overall given a huge part of the Switch's success was its price point and major appeal to kids.

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

Calling it now: the next Jimquisition is "Trump, Nintendo, And Tariffs: Why you are owed the right to pirate" And it will be exactly like the last 5 pro-piracy videos.

"EDIT" WOW, he dosent blame the orange man for this one. Jim becomes a bit sane for a bit and just blames the gaining industry being greedy and dumb fans still buying it.

@Oliver Onions This is why I said I almost wanted to make an official bet.

I know the stupid metaphors are more important than accuracy, but it's both dumb and inaccurate to imply Nintendo are the ones spearheading price hikes when Sony and Microsoft already got the ball rolling by upping next gen RRP from $60 to $70. It is more of an issue with Nintendo, mind you, since their games almost never get price drops and even when they do they're negligible at best.

I'm sure the BING BING WAHOO soyboys will still eat it up but I'm curious to see how this much more aggressive pricing will affect Switch 2 performance overall given a huge part of the Switch's success was its price point and major appeal to kids.

I think it's gonna get a 3DS price drop, and eventually get a cheap version without the Temu-Discord or 4K features (neither of which any Switch owner was asking for)

 

[Oliver Onions]

I think it's gonna get a 3DS price drop, and eventually get a cheap version without the Temu-Discord or 4K features (neither of which any Switch owner was asking for)

I would be both surprised and not surprised if that happened. I was confused why they devoted so much of the Direct to the stupid chat shit, back-patting themselves for finally integrating features that have existed since the original Xbox.

The Zoom meeting green screen cameras was especially cringe, I wonder if that was some cackhanded attempt at reviving the feeling of local multiplayer that forms a lot of people's core memories of the N64. Who am I kidding, they just wanted to sell the webcam accessory.

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

The Zoom meeting green screen cameras was especially cringe, I wonder if that was some cackhanded attempt at reviving the feeling of local multiplayer that forms a lot of people's core memories of the N64. Who am I kidding, they just wanted to sell the webcam accessory.

It can be both. Nintendo doesn't follow the rest of the industry, for both better and worse. Nintendo has a habit of just making shit to try it out. If it catches on, sweet. New thing to sell. If not, ah well. Being a company that doesn't run off of profit instead of endless debt has its benefits, I suppose.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

WOW, he dosent blame the orange man for this one. Jim becomes a bit sane for a bit and just blames the gaining industry being greedy and dumb fans still buying it.

Christ that must have took some real self control, maybe if he keeps going on this route he'll be able to play one (1) single gacha game without blowing his life savings on those microtransactions he can't keep himself off of.

 

[Mrsneksnekson]

Indie wrestling is basically just fat men beating up girls. Congrats for being good at beating up girls, Jim.

I've always wondered it with Jim is it just about being allowed to fondle women that he, as a spheroid, could never obtain or is is it just the impotent rage that they effortlessly have what he can never have?

 

[The Fatriarchy]

It's going to be an unpopular opinion, but I think with people demanding ever grander and realistic games with massive worlds and high customizability, games need to get more expensive. They've been the same price forever, while almost everything else in the world is 4-5 times as expensive as it was then. People pay almost as much for one-time experiences in other forms of entertainment.

I remember a point in time PC games were always cheaper than any console. That didn't last long, either. More than double now, and we can't use the excuse of the cost of physical media because that never changed.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I know the stupid metaphors are more important than accuracy, but it's both dumb and inaccurate to imply Nintendo are the ones spearheading price hikes when Sony and Microsoft already got the ball rolling by upping next gen RRP from $60 to $70. It is more of an issue with Nintendo, mind you, since their games almost never get price drops and even when they do they're negligible at best.

I'm sure the BING BING WAHOO soyboys will still eat it up but I'm curious to see how this much more aggressive pricing will affect Switch 2 performance overall given a huge part of the Switch's success was its price point and major appeal to kids.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this, seeing people sperg online about the price hike to the industry standard seemed super weird to me.

 

[Endless Torment]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this, seeing people sperg online about the price hike to the industry standard seemed super weird to me.

$80 isn't industry standard and it's not like quality has improved over the years. You pay more for less as years go on, micro transactions, dlc, can't rent games, paying for online, games are worse, performance is worse, and so on.
Games could be over $100 and you wouldn't be getting a better product and it's important to also remember that game revenue is way higher than it was in the past as well. Nintendo first party games also never have any significant sales no matter how old the game is too.

 

[Gloria The Glorious]

It's going to be an unpopular opinion, but I think with people demanding ever grander and realistic games with massive worlds and high customizability, games need to get more expensive. They've been the same price forever, while almost everything else in the world is 4-5 times as expensive as it was then. People pay almost as much for one-time experiences in other forms of entertainment.

I remember a point in time PC games were always cheaper than any console. That didn't last long, either. More than double now, and we can't use the excuse of the cost of physical media because that never changed.

I agree with the sentiment... but that doesn't apply here. Switch was bought by people who didn't care about any of that. Most of those games never game to Switch. And it was one of the biggest successes ever. How much of that expansion is actual consumer demand and how much is developer pride or marketing department assumption?

I don't care too much about the Switch 2's current price - if I can afford it and want it, I'll think about getting it. If I don't, I won't. But this is the market that desired and loved budget gaming now being told to pay Series X numbers for features they weren't asking for.

 

[Baguette Child]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this, seeing people sperg online about the price hike to the industry standard seemed super weird to me.

I played a lot of games last year and can't recall even one of them hitting $80. This is not an industry standard.

 

[Oliver Onions]

It's going to be an unpopular opinion, but I think with people demanding ever grander and realistic games with massive worlds and high customizability, games need to get more expensive.

If that was true then I'd agree, but I never see any people demanding these things. If anything I see more and more people complaining now that worlds are too big and everything is suffering from quantity over quality. I know it does matter to some people, but I'm convinced this demand is largely astroturfed by the big corporations because making graphics shinier and worlds bigger is the only thing they know how to do any more.

The PS5 Ratchet & Clank game is the most visually impressive of the series, but I can't even remember what happened in it, and I'd still rather reply 2&3 from the PS2. Same with God of War.

They've been the same price forever, while almost everything else in the world is 4-5 times as expensive as it was then.

This isn't true for multiple reasons. Game prices have fluctuated wildly due to cost of production: PS1 games were half the price of N64 games because they were CDs compared to the far more expensive cartridges Nintendo stubbornly clung to, but they evened out to about equal for the PS2/Gamecube era. Since then, game prices have steadily increased by about $10 with each new generation, but that's in stark contrast to most other media: DVDs were $20-30 when they first came to retail and now you'd struggle to find one that costs more than $10 unless it's super rare or a boxset.

You might say 'but DVD prices crashed because everyone switched to streaming', which brings us to the real elephant in the room: the major shift from physical to digital media. We were told for decades that games are so expensive because of production costs, so why does God of War Ragnarok cost $70 for a boxed copy and $70 if I want to buy it from the Playstation Store?

It's all a scam to help these corporations line their pockets and we shouldn't fall for it, buy sadly many will.

 

[consul_dondas]

Id reply/quote Oliver, but either he has me blocked or somethings twitchy.

Either way, excellently said. This industry has pushed, and we have caved like the consumer worms we are.

To those saying $80 isn't industry standard, you mis-typed the word "wasn't".

Because it is now.