I agree. These kinds of mechanics make the game feel like it’s trying to justify spending an entire game in Midgar by putting in as much filler as possible.

I literally laughed the first time Cloud flips a switch in the reactor and Jessie says something like “wow, you’re strong!”

Girl, he had to summon his strength for 10 seconds to flip a switch... it’s not that impressive

Oh god, they didn’t fix the audio mixing? I’m playing through FF7R right now and it drives me nuts. Not to mention battle music continuing once a battle is done, despite it not being mixed to work well with conversation.

Also, thank you for clearly stating how I feel about these minigames. The same things that come…

It’s 2024. The rest of the world has moved beyond “h8rs gonna h8,” you probably should too.

Yeah, I can envision a world where you have hitscan shots that you shoot into the ground which explode into foam after a short delay.

Or maybe a rocket launcher with a missile that explodes into foam on contact.

100%

I will randomly sing “got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow!” at odd times, and I’m not even the right age for SA2 to have been one of Those Games for me.

A friend told me there was talk of getting the team back together. Turns out, they were just goofin’

The irony here is strong. The article said Keyring crashed because so many employees were trying to use their codes before getting laid off.

What the fuck do you think the implication is? Perhaps, just perhaps, the implication is that they could no longer use them after being laid off.

And Nintendo (or more specifically, the Pokemon Company) is all over it.

Oh my fucking god. Stop pasting this ridiculous comment everywhere.

And they are. What kind of defense do you have now?

Oh rad! So if I want to “satirize” Elden Ring, I can just rip all their meshes, _very_ lightly modify them, then get paid for that?

Whether or not it’s satire isn’t even remotely the point. The point is that they based their assets on someone else’s artwork and called it their own.

1. “Zooming in” in 3d space is a description of a camera movement. You’re talking about scaling the model.

You’re doing a really good job trying to find a specific sentence that you can pick apart in a vacuum. Too bad you’re only doing it so that you can ignore or excuse away the larger point.

First of all, you okay, buddy? You’re awful wound up.

Secondly, in what possible way are they wrong? Are you seriously saying that it’s just as possible to go to a music store or video store and buy a DVD/CD/Blu Ray as it was 10 years ago? You seen a mall lately? Been to a Best Buy to peruse their “media section”?

I’ve thought about this a lot (the art illiteracy of gamers) and I’ve never seen it put better than “they see games as fun content-delivery toys.”

As opposed to The Olden Times, when recreation was good and true?

I remain mind-boggled that this style-biting, 14yo-dating hick’s legacy hasn’t been blown up by now. I guess people only care about pedophilia if you’re not successful at stealing your entire steeze from Black artists.

Yes, yes, defend the giant corporation. One day it will pay off.

Unless Bethesda is employing monkeys to write code, the game isn’t keeping track of non-rendered physics objects in memory. Their positions would be stored elsewhere, and be loaded when the player position or camera frustum was close enough to trigger rendering.

Any game can be optimized if it’s a priority; that’s not…