I don’t know if it is just me but the reds and browns in TOTK look really bad to me. The green and blues pop brilliantly but red just looks really flat.

6 million units sold in 2022 alone for such a small country is nothing to scoff at. Most of that is switches but 1.5 million were PS5s. it was 20% of the sales for PS5 consoles globally.

This is exactly what some of us have said about the situation only to be told that we’re wrong and MS wouldn’t waste money on out-cashing Sony. Well, it seems like they sure did f’ing consider it.

Which proves, yet again, the entire plan is monopoly.

Single studio that makes a single game vs merger of two very large publishers. There’s not really any real antitrust concern around Sony owning Bungie, any more than there was when Microsoft acquired Obsidian or Double Fine.

Burying the lede a bit here, Zack. Here’s the juicy bit to me, about how Microsoft might be able to spend Sony out of business by acquiring a bunch of studios, but “that was an old strategy”, thought up way in the distant past of 2019:

It would have taken even longer if the open world sci-fi RPG was also on PlayStation 5, Bethesda executive Pete Hines claimed in recent federal court testimony.

We all spend a lot of time arguing about what makes a Final Fantasy game, as if the series didn’t immediately establish right out the gate that it was about reinvention and not being beholden to a specific framework.

Interesting that so much is mentioned but very little about the mechanics. Final Fantasy is also a game where you wander around the world searching for items in odd places, secret bosses, and ultimate weapons. FF is a game with elemental alignments and type advantages. FF is a game where you have party members that…

Honestly, it’s a great game.

I just miss having a party. And everything that comes with that. Party banter, managing equipment, planning out how a fight will go beyond ‘main guy swings sword.’

I miss thinking ‘I wonder if they’ll join my party!’ instead of ‘I wonder if they’ll die to motivate clive.’

I miss the sense of…

Yeeaaa.. as a bit of an old schooler, I’m just not a fan of the combat. Hence why I fell off the series starting with 13. I don’t need all this “action” they keep force-ably injecting in the games. I enjoyed the first and third Devil May Cry games, but I haven’t had any interest in returning to the series or any…

I’ve never really been a huge fan of character action games - I’ve played some, enjoyed some, and disliked some - so while I’m happy for folks who are apparently getting one of the best character action games in years, this is not what I’m looking for in Final Fantasy.

Or maybe they should have actually developed them further to be deep and meaningful to the gameplay instead of tacking them on as an afterthought.

Right? Like if the next Zelda was suddenly a turn-based RPG I’d be confused, but try it out. And regardless would be incredibly disappointed if Nintendo went “this is Zelda now.”

I know I’m old cause I miss turn based Final Fantasy combat and Serve Point in Volleyball.

That’s what started pushing me away from FF after 12. Yes you could TRY to get something going with the gambit system, but I was so opposed to the idea of my party acting without me (mostly because I liked the ability to manage their actions) that I abandoned it entirely and just jumped from party member to party…

“Then Final Fantasy might as well be Dragon Quest!”

I think the problem is Final Fantasy doesn’t have an identity. It’s pretty much just a marketing term now for Square Enix to use on their next big grandiose story based game. 

Glad I jumped off after 12. Even if the games are good they’re not the kind of games I want out of FF. But I get that they’ve gotta keep the brand alive somehow.

I wonder what risk he’s referring to. Usually releasing across multiple platforms is a way of reducing (financial) risk since you greatly increase your audience for a relatively small increase of cost...