As of right around December 25, 2023, Starfield had received enough thumbs-downs on Steam to push its user rating status into “Mostly Negative” territory.

I think the issue is outside of Dragon Quest, Persona, and various remake/indy efforts, most RPG JRPG franchises have moved away from pure turn-based systems.

Fair enough. It would be logical to include MGS4 in the next collection but as we all know, Konami has a history of illogical business decisions. And yeah, they really do need to sell their IPs to a publisher that can actually handle them properly.

Act 3 runs better now after various patches and optimizations. It’s still the most demanding section of the game due to its sheer density, though.

People really need to specify when they’re referring to JRPGs. Persona 5 didn’t revive turn-based RPGs. It came out in April 2017. Turn-based RPGs that came out in the years preceding it include:

But you are making the most pedantic of arguments because TECHNICALLY if an artist gives permission to have their art scraped for AI training it’s TECHNICALLY not theft.

Logical positions are not *inherently* superior to emotional ones.

I’m not making a blanket statement. I literally said “yeah, considering what ‘stealing’ actually means in the context of art raises a lot of questions,” in a previous reply. There’s a ton of ambiguity about what “theft” actually entails when it comes to art. The specific claim I’m refuting is that AI generated art is i…

If you tell an AI to draw a vampire and tell a human artist to draw a vampire, the human artist is still going to create something more unique and individual than the AI.

Pretty much every CRPG launches in an unpolished state so BG3 wasn’t really breaking from the norm. Act 3 has a ton of content so it’s unsurprising that it would be far less polished than Act 1 (which was in early access for years) and Act 2 (which had far less content than Act 3).

We’ve had enough debates that you should know I argue logic first, emotion second. People are claiming that AI-generated art is theft. I’m challenging that specific claim because it’s illogical. People might believe it’s theft because they don’t like AI and feel threatened by its existence but that doesn’t really have…

If you ask AI to draw a vampire, it will draw a humanoid with two fangs. That’s because that’s the most common imagery associated with vampires. It’s the most common imagery because the vast majority of human artists just reference existing imagery of vampires made by other human artists, much like AI.

You might need to do a bit more research before posting snarky comments. G2A is a marketplace. They don’t sell keys. They provide a venue for third-party resellers to sell keys and they take a cut of each sale. They’re basically like eBay and, like eBay, a small percentage of sellers are fraudulent. However, the…

The mainstream success of BG3 was easily the biggest surprise for me. I knew the game would be great for CRPG fans but had no idea its appeal would extend far beyond that.

Baldur’s Gate 3, despite coming out this year, feels like a relic of a bygone era where games were complete at launch, post-launch updates were substantial and somehow still free, and the player feedback has been heard and applied.

Given Xbox’s small market share, it might not be worth it for smaller developers to bother supporting it unless they can get Game Pass funding.

I feel like you picked the wrong studio there. Treyarch mostly made mediocre licensed games and only existed for three years before being acquired. Raven might have been a better example except they were acquired in 1997 and still made a wide variety of games after the acquisition. They didn’t become a CoD studio…

The game has been well-received so the answer for most people would probably be “yes.”

Many keys have been sold by unauthorized resellers over the past twenty years. The statistic that matters is what percentage of said keys were stolen and we simply don’t have enough data on that. We know that some percentage of keys are stolen. We also know that some percentage of eBay sellers are fraudulent. Should…

Yeah, considering what “stealing” actually means in the context of art raises a lot of questions. If I draw a vampire with two fangs, I’m probably doing that because I saw a bunch of pictures of vampires with two fangs. I’m not duplicating a specific image on a per pixel (or the real-world equivalent) basis but the…