Man, the first Scarface game came out of left field a little and was the perfect balance of played well and just bonkers enough to scratch that mayhem itch. I spent so much time carting bricks around in sports cars and enjoyed it far more than when I do that IRL.

Hmmmmmm. I was waiting for this list and it’s right in that range of “I’m not sure if the next level is worth it.”

Yeah. I was stuck for non descript name for the sport as a whole. ‘American Football’ or just ‘Football’ seems contentious either side of the Atlantic.

Yeah, it makes sense since EA Sports is the division. EA Sports FC leads it’s way to EA Sports MMA, EA Sports Gridiron, EA Sports Hockey, EA Sports Rugby and so on, if they lose further licenses. (Didn’t realise UFC was already “EA Sports UFC” so it lines up.)

Yeah, that isn’t going to stop them. “International tournament” is right there, and they license the international teams direct from each nations league (LaLiga, FA, DFL etc.). They won’t be able to make a World Cup specific game each 4 years, but they haven’t done that in forever anyway. Don’t need to set their…

If at any point you feel like an impostor, remember that someone at EA thought it was a good idea to pitch “EA Sports FC” as the name replacement for the FIFA game and it was fucking accepted. I’d hate to see the other options. “Kicky ball game” and “Socfoot not FIFA” must have been the only other suggestions.

I wonder how much of the hate for Thief 2014 was borne from people playing Dishonored 2 years earlier, loving that, then finding Thief through the 2014 game and comparing it unflatteringly.

I’ve seen speculation (from no-one in particular) that the sale of the Western studios is in part to help smooth some form of sale of the Japanese studios to Sony.

If E3 pivoted and made it once every 2 years and move it around the world, I think it could get a revival.

It’s a shame, but it’s the way the world is going that E3 is becoming less and less relevant each year. The die was cast the moment the big players started running their own big announcement events (Nintendo Direct, Sony’s state of plays, whatever MS call their scheduled announcements etc.)

It says far more that the CEO of the company that owns the rights to one of the most well known franchises, didn’t realise the super famous drummer he was with, very famously orchestrated the soundtrack for the game.

I understand what they were trying, but it felt like a really week set piece in a convoluted, and frankly unnecessary story beat. Faro being alive amounted to absolutely nothing and seemed like it was dropped in last second. Coupled with not showing Faro or having any meaningful interaction, and it fell flat.

Hmmm, makes me wonder if this is some legwork linked to Chrono Cross remaster coming out soon. It’d make sense to bundle them together in some fashion, and a “broken” Trigger that looks vastly inferior to Cross might put a damper on things.

It’s extremely fun to have a game where the understanding of the mechanics and UI is crowdsourced by fans. Doesn’t make it super spoiler risky when you have to google “what the fuck is this symbol that appeared on my screen when I walked into this area”, or “What the fuck is this debuff supposed to be because it’s a…

Those commenters went the wrong way. Gimme one without the turtleneck and we got a deal.

Exactly how I felt. Enjoyed the game enough to platinum it (thanks in part to being 2 trophies away from the plat at the end of one playthrough naturally), but good lord is it pulpy.

Hades on switch (not sure if it’s the same on all platforms) is the worst for me. I know Zag’s room and Skelly’s chamber transition is a save point, so I’ll only ever leave a game after crossing that threshold back and forth at least once. That shows the “saved x minutes ago” message as well.

Maybe I’m just a luddite, but I’ve not trusted “autosave only” games with the rest feature since day one and I’ve always quit to menu at the very least on those games.

Hadicken!

Of course we are, because it’s an easy target and lazy “journalism”. If you can practically rewrite the same article you did for the previous major “upgrade release”, why wouldn’t you?