I shot the lake in the original GameCube release and in this one as well. Absolutely worth it, I’m pretty sure it’s not even possible or at least EXTREMELY difficult to beat the game without shooting the lake.

I really like how the game recontextualizes a lot of the areas of the original so they make more sense. It keeps things familiar, yet feeling very fresh, which is impressing tbh.

Yeah like, when I see the words “Bobby Kotick calls out to the world”, in my head I’m all like, “Hey Bobby, remember that time you sent a voice message to your secretary, threatening to have her killed?”

“Hey everyone! Let’s stop what we’re doing and let Bobby Kotick lecture us about morality and decency in business!”

Bobby Motick is a piece of shit, who cares what he has to say.

Hi, just a friendly reminder that Bobby Kotick is a piece of shit and the world would be better off if literally the entire fleet of Greyhound busses ran over him (and the rest of Activision-Blizzard executive leadership, for that matter).

“And I know a lot about obvious disappointing behavior for almost 30 years!”

If it makes you feel any better, they made a few changes to up the difficulty on this version of the village fight. A couple different places that were originally relatively safe in the old version have been fudged with, so now there’s a couple enemies in a house that used to be empty, that same house has a window in…

It’s still one of my favorite openings in a game ever, it was just brilliant.

There’s been LOADS of analysis on this and the consensus has always been that Microsoft doesn’t understand the Japanese market.

Japanese dude here. You have to understand that Japanese people are really into a lot of Japanese series that have never seen the light of day in the US, or are very niche.

This overly-specificly defined market is imaginary. Its an intentionally crafted term, likely crafted by lobbyists at Microsoft, to create the false impression that Sony has a Monopoly in Japan, by excluding other big players in the market like mobile and nintendo.

If only there were some sort of history between Japan and Korea that might explain why the people of Korea wouldn’t necessarily favour Japanese consoles over others to the extent that the people of Japan do...

Sorry, I should add, there’s more context for the competitive arguments in the full recording of the hearing, which you can see here:

But they’re not doing anticompetitive things in Japan. The Xbox hasn’t failed in Japan due to shenanigans, it has failed because the Japanese market isn’t interested in it. It’s very weird to ask for an open and free market and make these allegations when...the open and free market has been saying for 20 years that…

A politician was paid to put a narrowly handpicked fact, void of contextual value, on the record?

Very simple.
They canned a planned PS5 version from a studio that they acquired.
Sony doesn’t buy a studio and then take shit from Microsoft, they acquire a studio and plan new games for their own platform.

Well, partially because Sony isn’t buying up major publishers and then making their games platform-exclusive, at least not yet.

“This deal was not done to take games away from another playerbase like that,” Spencer said. “Nowhere in the documentation that we put together was: ‘How do we keep other players from playing these games?’ We want more people to be able to play games, not fewer people to be able to go play games.”

I had honestly forgotten about the domestic abuse allegations, I thought most of his being “canceled” was on the basis of the number of inappropriate texts with an underage fan (which then prompted other similar texts and DMs to be released).