That’s not weird so much as that the republic ships seem to be able to take twice as much damage before they explode.

I think, if the hype train ends, it won’t be against Aldo. Not to say he’ll win, but he won’t get embarrassed, I don’t think. If the Mendes fight should have taught us anything, it’s that McGregor is way, way too big for his division and, because of that, can ignore shots that would end fights against most guys in the…

the top 5 of 155 consists of people almost designed to dismantle a fighter like McGregor

Love these MMA articles.

You have to choose them for a partner. There’s some icon at the top of the screen for this, but I’ll be damned if I can remember what it looks like.

Definitely a fair point. The present state is that people either end up on a team that friggin facerolls the other team, match after match, or a team that gets crushed, in which case they quit and try to get in with the first type of group.

And that’s in one of the game’s marquee modes, Walker Assault.

Oh, it certainly holds a candle to the original. 2? Nah. Battlefront 1? Absolutely. What did 1 have that this didn’t, that you could jump in and out of a space ship? That’s about all I can think of.

Hahaha

“Evie Frye”

Oh, Wada’s probably not wrong about Konami. But he’s no saint when it comes to chasing off talent in suspicious circumstances, either (Sakaguchi, Matsuno, Kato, etc).

Employment law and the “progressiveness” thereof doesn’t matter on Kojima’s level. High level execs—especially Rockstar style, “face of the brand” execs— unless they’re fired for some sort of criminal offense (see Jared from Subway), get what they negotiate and what they negotiate is invariably well, well above what…

Eh. Wada engineered the ouster of a man who is probably exactly as talented as Kojima and was even more responsible for his company’s success (Hironobu Sakaguchi) than Kojima could be argued to be for Konami. It was in circumstances that were nearly as shady (though it probably carried a bit better business…

It could be argued that he’s been too loyal. The old moratorium for FF13 strongly suggests that Motomu Toriyama was negligent enough on that he’d not have survived at a US company (strangely, Toriyama’s the guy who hung himself in that interview...”well, I forgot to do focus testing until we were almost ready to…

As someone who’s prone to rants, myself, let me just say that this is not the time or place for this rant.

He’s keeping his mouth shut because he probably had to sign an NDA to receive his severance package. Standard operating procedure.

Yoichi Wada, who used to run Square Enix

Between the introduction and the reference section, it’s fine. The introduction has some...shall we say...problematic wording.

The introduction to this document conflates corporate/institutional speech with violence in a way that makes me extremely uncomfortable.

Merits of “Grim Dark” in a broad, culture-wide sense are, perhaps, debatable, but what’s not debatable is that there’s a great deal of dissonance when a game sounds like this (seriously, the whole score sounds like this with few deviations)