Sadly I never got to blow up a tank. My last year there we actually were selecting an old soviet tank to use as a test for some kind of anti-tank weapon, but I went off to pursue other things before that test ended up happening.

Heh, yeah, some people have a tendency to go off on people who have any kind of history working on military projects. Really, I was more on the testing end and mostly stuff involving rockets and warheads. Still lots of neat stuff to do and lots of flashy explosions to see.

Too true. I found FFXIII to be a frustratingly linear game, but I still enjoyed playing it. I might hate all the characters in it (except Sazh), and I might wonder why I'm not just playing an older, better Final Fantasy game the whole time, but it was at least worth exploring.

I guess it just hits home because I used to work in an industry full of bacronyms, TLAs, and this exact sort of jargon.

I fucking hate this series, but I know exactly the reason people like it. It's the exact same reason I like the Disgaea series even though most of the entries in the series are kinda shitty (somehow only the first ever had anything resembling a compelling story, though I guess D4 kinda came close). We are addicted to…

Ionized polymer syballistic attack platform. The system's lethality is dynamically robust across tactical spaces.

To be fair, the engine switch is probably a big part of why people were pulled... it's very hard to get good assets built for a project in the middle of a transition to something completely new like that, so they probably only needed the core team while all of that stuff was being refined.

Rip off of FFVII? We know basically nothing about the plot, little about the setting, or really anything substantial so far. Is the fact that it looks contemporary what has you out of place? Because that's crazy... contemporary settings are very rare in RPGs, J or otherwise.

Pretty sure it'll execute a smash attack based on the direction that you tap it in (or execute your typical aerial normal attacks/dash attack/etc). I think they said as much overtly.

Fuck, I ddn't think posting that link would turn me into a defacto advertiser.

There's your problem. This article... this one right here... that's not journalism. Not games journalism or any other kind of journalism. It's just entertainment.

Oh dude, what do you really care. Clearly the whole purpose of this post was just to share a video (well, a song more accurately). Mission accomplished.

and yes, there are vocals

Dude, if someone is willing to risk incarceration to take your shit you should never think it's a stretch that they'll cross worse lines.

"I know he wants a shiny hitmonchan for it, but damnit... this is the Bidoof from my dreams!"

Eh, I'm just assuming that's what most engines would do to clear it. I'm not actually sure if they do it that way. It doesn't really much much of a difference though, the vast majority of the work is just going to be against fill rate either way.

Damnit, now I feel bad for questioning why you would cover this. My explanation from another post:

If you think they don't do this on the other platforms, I don't know what to tell you. No matter which platform you are on, rendering the full screen buffer with blank crap is a waste of time... and the jump from 720 to 1080p roughly doubles that time (yeah, better graphics hardware reduces that significantly, but…

No it doesn't.

No no, just being excited enough about a fucking donut to pre-order it.