Digimon, Monster Rancher, and other games also didn't have creatures that are very clearly direct knock-offs of the Pokemon creature IP, either.
Ninety god damned dollars.
If you have Game Pass, it's available there.
I laughed aloud when I heard, "Bahldoors...Gate III officially!"
The worst part of getting old is listening to younger folk tell you how the world couldn't have possibly worked the way it actually did work in the past.
My apologies. You seem to be absolutely correct. It seemingly does not work outside of your LAN.
Just to be clear, it can stream your PS5 remotely. It doesn't only work across your LAN.
Got in a great 7P game of Ares' The Thing. I was the starting alien. I infected someone and they, in turn, interacted with someone else.
Just as the rescue helicopter was to arrive, I decided to out myself as an alien. That instantly cast doubt on those two other players, one of which was actually human. The humans left him behind and we won. So fun.
Enter your games in to GAMEYE. If their value seems worth your time, then double check the current market value by checking recently sold listings on eBay or by using Price Charting.
If the value is still there, I would say eBay is your best bet unless you happen to know of a community of gamers where someone may be looking for the title (like, say, a retro gaming convention) If you try to take it to a retro game store, they'll (necessarily) low ball you since they need to make a profit.
I strongly disagree with this. As with all engineering tasks, it comes down to what you're trying to solve.
If a framework can do some significant lift for you, then it's a question of whether learning it is worth the time and effort saved in writing a bespoke solution that does what the framework offers. You also have to measure how "locked in" to the framework you'll become and whether or not that will be a problem for you.
One example of a framework I wish I never touched is React Native. The way React Native handles everything from dependency management to coding practices to how to handle breaking changes is nightmarish. More than once on a React Native project did the entire project explode for reasons such as wildly major refactors (with only 6 to 12 months given for folks to switch over), "clever" code having wacky ambiguities and conseqent side effects, a convoluted toolchain breaking somewhere in the middle, and even the package manager itself being conceptually problematic (which I understand is not the fault of React Native but still) I am convinced the team lost more time in learning and coping with the idiosyncracies of the framework than if the project had just been written in Java and Obj C with some useful libraries.
One example of a framework (or game engine or whatever you'd want to call it) I adore is Monogame. Monogame is super straight forward. You're given a game loop, I/O handling, and some additional niceties. Nothing is obfuscated from you. The tools you use, with the single exception of the MGCB, are whatever you want to use. There's no magic. Everything is right there in plain ol' C# for you to see and understand clearly.
As you rightly point out, some tasks are both critical and complex (e.g., cryptography) and shouldn't be performed on one's own. Choosing a framework or a library that will handle that for you is prudent. However, most of the features of a framework are not that. Most features are about solving boilerplate and general issues for you so you can get to the task of writing whatever it is you're trying to write. That's all well and good. However, choosing a framework can come with as many headaches as they relieve, if you're not diligant.
I think there are enough tabletop games in the hobbiest game space for everyone. That means there's a very wide range of games from the simplistic to the complicated. I think if expectations are not kept in check, it can be easy to bite off more than one can chew.
Moreover, everyone's going to find different things complicated. I've been in this hobby for decades. I don't find Gloomhaven particularly complicated. I very much enjoy hex and chit war games. But god damn, I cannot wrap my head around Oath. There's just something about it in which the rules don't click for me.
One of the first things I do when considering a new purchase is head over to BGG and read some reviews. If it looks up my alley, then I'll give the game a go.
As much as I want to like VR, it just makes me so nauseous. Even games attempting to mitigate motion sickness make me nauseous.
There's a game on PSVR called RIGS. It's a high speed sports game. That game made me nauseous in about thirty seconds and the nausea lasted for hours. Such a dreadful experience.
I love Monogame. Long live XNA.
tri-Ace has made some of my very favorite JRPGs on the face of the Earth. I am so stoked for this release.
I just buy wider shelves for the wide-box games: https://imgur.com/a/otbkAdm
I don't think I have the gene which lets me blindly trust someone with a transaction, heh. I research every game I buy. My money is guaranteed to be worth something. I want to know my game will be worth something in exchange.
That said, Volko Ruhnke, Eric M. Lang, Corey Konieczka, Rob Daviau, and Vital Lacerda are some of my favorites who are still active.
You don't have to plug the remote in to your PC. You can use the mobile application.
Regardless, how would you have designed it differently? The DB of devices has to be updated all of the time. Not all of those devices are IR controlled. Some are BT. Some are 802.11. There has to be some means of pulling down data, common configurations, and providing a mechanism to change those configurations within the context of a single UI. The Sofabaton remotes are implemented in a very similar way.