u/B1izzard15

With all the outrage about GTA6's digital codes and Sony announcing they are cancelling physical games I felt like I should share my input and bring a bit of sense to the debate. Discs were cool back in the fucking 1900s but now they're just an outdated technology and it's time to move on. Digital games are far superior, they can't be damaged or lost and you don't have to fiddle with inserting a new disc until your console whenever you want to play a different game. You also don't need to deal with all these cases cluttering up your space. The world really doesn't need anymore plastic.

"But with a physical game you can sell it when you're done"

You buy a game for $70 so you can trade it in for $4.50 store credit? Great roi am I right. Us digital gamers only buy quality games so we never have a reason to sell them in the first place.

"But you can buy physical games for cheaper on the used market"

Ever heard of steam sales my friend? All I have to do is wait a few months and every game I could ever want is available for massive discounts.

"But digital games are just a license, you don't actually own anything"

I hate to break it to you but you've always been buying licenses for your games, even when the whole game was on a disc. Whether you own the game or a license to play it doesn't even mean anything to you anyways so I don't know why you care.

"Physical games are better for preservation"

No they aren't. Cartridges eventually stop working and Discs just sort of rot away with age. You always say that companies can always take away digital games but remind me when has that happened?

If you wanted to sit down you should have got there earlier. I am not responsible for your poor time management skills. It was your choice to become pregnant, you should have accepted the challenges that came with that.

If your goal is to make your game as scary as possible, you should just make it a film. Games have to exploitable to some extent to make them fair. The problem with horror games is that once you figure out how to exploit the game it stops being scary. You realize that the thing chasing you isn't some eldrich horror, it's just an AI programmed into a videogame. Here is an example: recently I have been playing through BioShock (amazing game btw, not trying to diss it) and I remember the very beginning being low-key terrifying, same with when you see the Big Daddy for the first time. But as I've been playing the game more and learning all the mechanics I am hardly scared at all. The scariest games I have played are all essentially walking simulators where the game is almost entirely scripted, every jumpscare is perfectly manufactured. And at that point you may as well just turn it into a film, you can still do it from a first person perspective though. Films have a few advantages over games in this situation. For one, you don't have to worry about the frustration of not knowing where to go or repeatedly dying, and also you don't have to deal with tutorials and menus that could potentially take you out of the immersion.

Edit: I'm not trying to say BioShock fails as a horror game, it's not trying to be one. it's a first person shooter with a few horror elements. Also when I say it was scary at first I am talking about the first half of the first level or so, some people seem to think I have been playing it over and over again

Going second is a massive advantage. When someone is judging a rap battle those last few lines will likely be the lines they remember most which could influence the judge to gravitate towards the second rapper, regardless of the first rapper's performance. Additionally going second allows you to immediately start making disses about the first rapper's bars while the first rapper has to wait until their second verse. Going second also presents you as an underdog which appeals to many people. That's why I came up with the idea to lengthen the first rapper's verses in an attempt to make battles more fair.