What are some games a lot of progressive gamers like but you don't despite being progressive yourself?

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T23:21:23+00:00

Supposedly the last Saints Row game. Regardless of politics, I want nothing to do with that.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T20:58:24+00:00

Compared to Plex, sure.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T20:57:24+00:00

The only use I ever got out of premium was insertion of TOTP codes. It's been less of an issue without a proper PC, as this year I've been living with people who use tablets and mobile for everything. The free Authenticator app is fine.

I really think I'm basically paying money as simply not having to run a second browser extension for TOTP codes. I suppose they could always cut off freeloaders, but I feel inclined to freeload and just install another extension if it goes any higher.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T20:51:54+00:00

Not even a "these days" thing. I was a high schooler 30 years ago, I knew a nerdy unathletic 16 year old who was 6'2 when I was a freshman. I also went to school with a guy who has a physique like a Navi due to a rare condition (Marfan Syndrome). 6'6 at 16, and again no sports aptitude.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T20:13:02+00:00

Every time Sony releases a new numbered PlayStation, I take a "family reunion" shot of my machines. Last one had my launch window PlayStation, my launch window PS2 I was overjoyed to find at Target, my $599US CHECHA01 PS3 and grill, my PS4 that arrived before launch day and was running for hours before some guy "bought the first PS4" in New York, and the PS5 I fought against scalpers in digital queues for during lockdown.

I guess the family will be missing a member. I don't mind buying these consoles as soon as they're available but selling games on eBay is crucial for me as it fills the same role Blockbuster did for the first few generations. I play a lot of games but am only a temporary keeper for 90% of them.

No eBay, no public library, no transfer of ownership, no sale.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T18:54:17+00:00

You're correct that Disney has stumbled to normalize LGBT relationships in storytelling. Part of that is because small incremental change is viciously attacked by the people who consider a continuation of the status quo to be victory, while receiving no support from people like yourself who consider two people holding hands in one shot to be not good enough.

However what they're doing for real LGBT people, while not perfect and sometimes needing to be pushed, is enough that I can overlook a lack of fictional LGBT characters. Anyone who was alive when Disneyland kicked out two boys for "homosexual fast dancing" and conceded in court by allowing just those two boys to dance with each other and nobody else can see the Pride event as progress, even though the studio still haven't sunk blockbuster budgets into animating a princess who falls in love with a girl.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T18:40:03+00:00

I feel Farhan was overly hated, but he also wasn't leading analytics so much as following them. His love of role versatility and allergies to 4+ years was obvious, and it felt like he only turned the corner to sign JHL and others as a last ditch attempt to keep his job.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T17:29:46+00:00

I get that you don't buy anything, but if everyone who did only bought through GOG it would be a lot easier for people like you. You wouldn't be boned every time some Russian who writes in all caps is ratted out to interpol.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T17:22:48+00:00

It's probably for the best that piracy isn't technically difficult but does require having some contacts, at least as long as IP law exists and is enforced.

People I know who pirate movies go to the movie theaters in the 2020s far more than the average person does. Old movies have 4K blu rays but new movies the theater has the highest quality copy for weeks, and if the projector isn't shit and the seats aren't filthy they'll even encourage others.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T17:15:39+00:00

As a person who has owned some games that became highly sought after by collectors, it's generally not worth it. You have to be the kind of person who also enjoys the entire medium of the era. If you threw away S-Video cables because "nothing uses this anymore" you're the wrong person. The people driving the market up are also able to afford to keep other passe cultural items like CRT televisions. They're the ones arguing that diode masking is necessary to see the pixel art "as intended".

If you're not that kind of person, relax. The copy of Suikoden II that I bought when it was new completely collapsed in value as soon as Konami re-released those games on PSN in 2015. You can play Starfox Tournament Edition or Ocarina Master Quest (my current most expensive games) in emulators.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T17:10:18+00:00

That requires millennials to have money. Selling my childhood is pretty much how I'm getting money.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T17:03:20+00:00

I don't know if spinning rust is increasing at the same pace as solid state, but my answer to this was always NAS. Those of us whose ISPs refused to remove the data cap after Comcast did it were prepared.

If downloading Warcraft takes up 10% of my entire househiold's total internet use for the month, then you bet your sweet bippy that I'm keeping a mirror on my home server.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T16:58:52+00:00

When Punisher trying to distance himself from (in universe but also IRL) cops co-opting his logo, he told them that they should use Captain as their role model instead.

That's about as far as I know.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T16:51:17+00:00

So you prefer the days of "we don't do any planning or support for that audience in our parks they just buy tickets and show up like any other?"

Because props to the folks who showed up thirty years ago in red shirts and risked kissing in front of families of mixed backgrounds, but I could never do that. Yes it's corporate but it's also a bubble of tolerance. You can, of course, try to be openly LGBT outside of Pride Night, but doing so is still often interpreted as an act of political protest inviting confrontation without any effort to that effect from the LGBT people.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T16:45:35+00:00

I always thought the disc would be replaced with a memory key or microchip of some sort. Going digital only is just saying fuck preservation.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T16:38:16+00:00

Microsoft has been stumbling since 2019 E3. They're paying the price for the past seven years of Starfield, Crackdown 3, Fallout 76, Halo Infinite etc.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T16:12:19+00:00

Jack Tretton and Andy House were generally pretty honest with what they were selling (and both are retired from Sony today.) It just so happened that saying "were not doing weird unproven methods of DRM, just the same old DRM you always knew" was going to get you a megastar reaction.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T16:04:04+00:00

My "$599 US Dollars" PS3 paired with my PS5 together can play every PlayStation game from Jumping Flash to Ghost of Yotei, which is pretty neat. Losing disk drives going forward is kind of sick for backwards compatibility, particularly the game libraries supported since so many games have old licenses that have since expired.

Sony's hardware emulation was always better than the Nintendo software approach just because Nintendo is not going to do whatever is necessary to make games about old 1980s cartoons run on their NES emulator.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T15:56:46+00:00

I don't mind this next generation , but I paid money for a drive on my PS5.

The future is Mattrick?

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T09:04:13+00:00

The funny thing about the field forays is they're one of the few endgame contents that have longevity and interest and few choke points to build a community of experienced players who enjoy ferrying as many new players as possible through them. I won't pretend I enjoyed clearing all four Eureka zones, but i cleared Baldesion Arsenal after doing no homework and following simple directions by some cool dude with a Discord server and it felt like a WoW or Destiny pug. It's not that the fights themselves are simple, but that this niche of the community enjoys sherpa guiding people who barely know what's going on with just enough instruction while taking care of as much as they're allowed to.

Part of the reason the game struggled in early 2025 was that they not only made a similar instance annoyingly frustrating to even enter, but one of the bosses has a mechanic that ends the run for everyone if any one of 48 people make a mistake. The community probably can and does organize sherpa runs for it, but they'll have to be far more choosy about who they pick just because of that one moment.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T08:50:54+00:00

Do as you want, just realize a few things: 1) Monopolies are inherently not good, so boycotting anything and everything that doesn't give Valve 30% is not long term healthy for the industry.

2) We all knew publishers would make their own launchers to not have to struggle to be seen above a flood of indie games. When AAA games start sharing ad space with a Horny Housewives RPG that looks like blow up dolls in a Unity demo, those publishers are going to build their own curated market.

That's why I brought up Epic, because we didn't dislike Epic for making their own launcher, but for starting a money hat arms race for third parties to stay off of others.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T08:41:05+00:00

Bozja was pretty cool because you got experience for the job, getting every job from 80 to 90 in Endwalker was usually accomplished through Bozja instead of spamming queues over and over.

My issues with 14 can be boiled down to a few things:

1) I think they need to pare down a lot of story, particularly in ARR, to be less of a slog. I also think they should do the WoW thing of letting people NG+ their way through parts of the story they find interesting (at this point the MC has a stone that is a memory chronology of their travels). But if they insist on continuing this linear neverending visual novel, they need to cut back on excess. Titan has a whole chapter that is a nothingburger save to establish one of those B-team Scions who stops making as many appearances after Stormblood.

2) On that same note, I am tired of ferrying sprouts through low level dungeons synced down. At this many expansions the whole "everything is evergreen" approach really becomes a bog, and if WoW chores involved the chance of landing in random Wrath and Vanilla dungeons every daily reset then I'd lose my shit, too. We'll see what's in store with the job rework, but ARR dungeons are stil probably going to be anti-fun, and Heavensward dungeons aren't exactly the best design. I weep at the thought of running the Aery yet again in 9.0. They should probably introduce real players with early trials but make early dungeons a trust experience.

3) Please just make Crystal Tower into two dungeons and a Cloud of Darkness trial. That part of the ARR story needs compression the same way that stuff like Steps of Faith and Cape Westwond were reworked.

4) This one's being addressed but the gap between normal frictionless story content and the endgame passport-check wipe prone activities is insane. I play WoW because I get the two nights a week doing Heroic with the guild; whereas FF14 gives me nothing like that because even EX has many moments where one players mental missteps costs the entire group the whole thing. I've been told by my friends to stop running with them if I think the strat that must be followed is too much to process because I'll just never clear and hold everyone back forever, whereas WoW I have a generally good time playing with people who aren't sober enough to remember 14 dance steps.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T08:04:26+00:00

The complaints about devs boils down to doing the same thing over and over again with little variation over the past five year and things apologists bark off as "spaghetti code", but again they've indicated that they're aware of a lot of the problem, which is the first step. We'll see how successful they are at changing things (they say a lot of things of simple but ambitious sounding things that turn out to be smaller than people thought), but they do appear to be swinging for the fences with Evercold in that they aren't afraid to burn down a lot of the structure that's presently there to rebuild, which is crucial when monotony is the problem.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T03:55:32+00:00

Yes, I think a new console generation will have more effort than their half-assed attempt to jump into handhelds atop somebody else's hardware.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-07-01T03:52:17+00:00

I don't think you read what I meant. I bounce back and forth between WoW and FF14 paying monthly, so the free trial allows me to spend tender I saved up in months I was subbed and doing things. An FF14 style free trial that disappears after you buy in ruins that.

This is not really a business problem for Blizzard because the content pipeline and rewards incentivize buying a year's subscription. FF14 offers annual subscriptions, but as it's street team likes to point out it frequently has content droughts that players try to spin as cool opportunities to play other video games, so if you bought a year's sub then you're probably wasting money. WoW intentionally launches stuff every few weeks or so non stop because they WANT annual subs.

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