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I can't say anything for sure about your specific model, but a lot of TVs have a lot of input delay. So they'll make a "game mode" that decreases picture quality in order to decrease the input delay. That seems to be what's happening here. The "game mode" is likely decreasing picture quality so that there's faster response time for gaming. If you don't like the default settings for these modes, then you should go into the advanced settings and adjust everything yourself until you like the picture.

Because it didn't get a price drop, it's just on sale. Those are two different things.

If the option to delete trophies ever happens, trophies will be essentially useless. Especially when it comes to trophy tracking sites like this. Since most everyone will just have every plat, completely killing rarity. Otherwise, they'll just delete the list and it wont count against them. I wouldn't delete mine, but I also would never pay attention to them either. I'd just turn off notifications and never bother going for them.

Neat. I've been wanting to get Heavensward, but they stopped selling it. The only way to get it is to buy Stormblood. I haven't wanted to shell out the money for it though. I would rather do one expansion at a time, since idk how long I'll be playing.

Console style gaming is still a fairly unique experience. You can't really get the experience of playing a game like Monster Hunter World, Horizon Zero Dawn, or Spider-Man anywhere else. When it comes to F2P games, they are very grindy and rely heavily on waiting and/or paying money. Some can be enjoyable, but they aren't the same experience as a console game. And they never will be. They're designed to entice you into spending money, and a good console game wont have that kind of nonsense in it. It'll just be boot up the game and play it. When it comes to emulators on phones, I just don't understand how people even do that. Touch controls aren't precise at all, and you tend to cover up at least part of the game with your fingers on the screen. I've never understood how anyone can play an emulator on a phone because of those two things alone. I tried it, and it was just an awful experience. I was playing a NES game too. So there was only the D-Pad and two buttons. I can't imagine the kind of hell that is a PS1 or DS game on a phone. More importantly than all of that, it's illegal to play roms of games you don't own. So, if you already own the game, it's better to just play it on the console it was meant to be played on, or an enhanced version on a newer console. Subscription streaming services don't work for a lot of people. Because most people don't have good enough internet for it to actually replicate a game playing on a console. Myself included in that. It just doesn't work for me. There's a lot of input lag, a jumpy connection, and it doesn't look very good. As for the backlog point, mine is gone. I spent about three years working though it. It got out of hand because of the rise of sales. Back in the day, they were very rare, so it was common practice for me to just go nuts on them, and then be good for a few months. Even before Flash Sales, I would buy most of the games I would play each year on Black Friday. I'd stock up, and then not buy anything for most of the year. But then they started doing constant sales, and before I knew it, I had bought too much. Because I was still in the mentality of, "I don't know when there will be another sale." Now though, they happen every week. So I don't care as much about sales as I used to.I might buy a couple games at once, but then I'll just play through them all before buying something else. I know there will be another sale fairly soon, so there's not much reason to really go nuts on a sale anymore. tl;dr Nothing can replicate the console style game experience.

I already stopped. I stopped really "trophy hunting" about a year ago, because I just realized it was a waste of time and money for me. At the time, I had hundreds of unplayed games, and was spending 50+ hours on a single game, just to grind out trophies. I had more limited time, because I have a family to take care of now, and I was really just throwing money away by not playing the games I had bought. The only reason I even started trophy hunting was because I was broke and wanted a reason to go back to games I had already beaten. So once my backlog was out of control, there was really just no reason for it. I still go for the trophies in some games, but really only if I want a reason to keep playing them, because I'm really enjoying them. Even then though, I'll generally just go for 100%, and if the trophies happen then the trophies happen, if not, then oh well. It's honestly been very freeing not having to worry about trophies.