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Everything you say here is true. The fact remains that the technical aspects of coding a game that can jump to any point from any other given point without bugs and crashes is far more difficult than rewinding a set of fixed images and audio. I think the fact that you see a lot of cloud save support for games now… Read more

Never in my, admittedly short, life have I seen so many commenters so completely miss the point of an article and then spend so much time and effort talking about it. It is so baffling. Read more

“I feel like first counterpoint to come to mind here is that you very much can’t jump to the middle of a movie if you see it in a theater” Read more

Or just unlock everything from the start instead of requiring a cheat code, since a cheat code is an unnecessary barrier to what you’re suggesting. Read more

I remember spending every cent I had on a Playstation when it was still new. I had nothing left to spend on a memory card. I must have played the first half of Resident Evil 100 times, only to die and have to start over. I never finished that game because I couldn’t stand the thought of playing the beginning one more… Read more

Books and Moives don’t crash on you if you skip chapters since they are a static medium i.e. they are snapshots of pictures and audio that are unchanging. Read more

I disagreed until I remembered I wanted to finish Final Fantasy X again but I got stuck on Mt. Gigazet. A battle happens every three steps and I didn’t grind enough to where these battles are easy or short so when I died after two hours (with no places to save in between) I stopped playing. I did my time on that… Read more

I had this problem with far cry 4. I made it to the final encounter after completing every side quest and hunt, my system updated in the middle of the mission and when I loaded in I was in an kill loop that I couldn’t escape. After 100+ hours I had to start again from the very beginning to get to the final 1% of the… Read more

I feel like first counterpoint to come to mind here is that you very much can’t jump to the middle of a movie if you see it in a theater. Of course, you could argue that a video game is a merely personal experience; jumping to the middle of a movie in a theater would bother a lot of people, whereas nobody but you is… Read more

I’d love to restart FFXIII on pc. I’ve put enough hours into it that doing them again would be tedious, but living room time is incredibly sparse when you have roommates. So for me, this is a real issue. Read more

This is interesting because other media do have restrictions, in some situations. Read more

There’s an easy way everyone can wi in this: bring back cheat codes. Level skip/unlock everything. Boom. problem solved. I miss cheats.
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I feel like this would be really hard to implement, especially in some open-world games that don’t necessarily have properly defined levels, or where missions can occur contextually based on your actions in the rest of the game. Like... how would this apply to Fallout 3? Although I suppose in that game the only real… Read more

It’s also a case of US prisons being a common setting on TV. I’m from the UK and I have a much clearer idea of what US prison is like than our own, because it’s become an inescapable part of the zeitgeist.
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I totally get the “this is an American prison” thing because a for-profit prison industrial complex that employs the death penalty, locks up non-violent drug users, uses prison population as cheap slave labour, and only gives lip-service to actual criminal rehabilitation doesn’t exactly sound like, say, Sweeden... Read more

I watched the first 15 minutes on my Note 4 Gear VR Read more

The Oculus subreddit has been pretty irritated with the placement of the camera as well, because it does the headset and VR no favors publicly. They probably couldn’t place the camera closer because CNN’s production wouldn’t allow it. The unfortunate truth behind this sort of event is that we get reduced quality for… Read more

It wouldn’t give you the ability to walk anywhere you wanted in the space, but one way to generate the kind of flexibility and range of sight and some degree of movement of the kind being discussed would be to create a rig something like the bullet-time camera set up used in the Matrix movies(e.g. a 360 degree ring of… Read more

Someone on Reddit floated the idea of a virtual screen in a non-invasive location showing the actual television stream to accompany the VR experience. Add in another virtual screen for Twitter and all your complaints are answered. Then the question is whether the novelty of VR is compelling enough to warrant wearing a… Read more

I watched it in VR. It was cool for the first 20 minutes, then my S6 overheated, and then I watched the rest on CNN. Read more