I expect nothing and I’m sure I’ll still be disappointed

I think AAAA stands for the sound you make when you realise how much money you wasted buying it.

Nope. Boarding is just getting the ship a bit low and then pulling up close enough for the boarding grapple hooks to land. It auto resolves (no chance of losing, because they dont really track crew or anything) and then you get the loot. It is simultaneously the best method of quickly dispatching an enemy to focus on…

It’s just Sea of Thieves for people with no joy in their lives

They removed everything we wanted from Black Flag, except ship combat. How could they have misunderstood the fanbase that much?

All I needed to read:

Someone just needs to tell Sid Meier to make a new version of Pirates! (or it’s 16bit version, Pirates! Gold) and that’ll fix it. 

I’ve never been the speedrunning type. I completed Midgar within 4 hours. Casually. On the PS1.

Thank you! Thank you for mentioning pacing and tone. More is not always better.

Jesus, we need to retire "cash grab" as so many have no idea what it even means and misuse it repeatedly.  

Angry comments be damned, the glacial pacing of FF7 Remake was one of its central flaws, and it sucks if it continues to plague its sequels. Pacing does matter, especially in storytelling. 

Bingo. At the pace they’re going with all the extra material, how are they going to go from the Forgotten Capital to the end of the original in one game without making it either feel rushed or making that game 150 hours long?

Especially in a game that likely took 4-5 years to make.

Bingo. At the pace they’re going with all the extra material, how are they going to go from the Forgotten Capital to the end of the original in one game without making it either feel rushed or making that game 150 hours long?

Yea, that whole sequence bugged me because it also felt like it stopped every 15 minutes or so for Tifa to angst that they weren’t going to make it in time to help.

I don’t think anyone ever looks at the amount of words/pages in a novel as ‘content’, it’s such a weird way to describe something like that.

I don’t think you can just offhandedly define videogames as a thing like that, at least not if you want to be taken seriously. It’s pointlessly and incorrectly reductive. Video games are a medium and an art form just like any other, and they can be designed for any number of playstyles or reactions they’d like to draw…

Just like Fort Condor, Bike Chase, Snowboarding, etc from the original FF7?

This is just another Kotaku journalist writing a “negativity piece” about something extremely popular just to get controversy traffic. None of these points hold any merit. 

It was a big leap on its own to not just make the straightforward remake people had been asking for for 25 years, but respectable as long as they could put some boundaries around it, but it kind of seems like the trilogy is both too long (dragging Midgar out in Remake to the point of exhaustion and claustrophobia and…

So long as this filler is optional, I don’t see a big issue.  Stuff like this is a big reason why the Like a Dragon games are so fun for fans.