“We always have the choice to buy a better experience; we do not have a right to be fully satisfied for a period of time based on past console cycles.”

“Sources say that instead of one hardware revision every five years or so, as has been the case with previous console cycles, Microsoft plans to move towards an incremental model, with more frequent hardware releases and games that are both forwards and backwards compatible across both Windows 10 and different Xbox…

“Promotional Consideration Furnished by Blizzard Entertainment”

X was unquestionably better. And the Sphere Grid remains my favourite levelling system of all time. But at least where environments are concerned the two are very similar. X had more side-paths and alternate routes, but for the most part they were both designed around the principle of keeping the player moving…

I’d still say 13 was the last “true” Final Fantasy. It just wasn’t a very good Final Fantasy. Linear path FF games have happened before (as recently as 10).

You’re confused about how trademarks work then. Like I said, the trademark is listed as Active, not Dead. Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire, even the old Redguard trademark, are all listed as Dead. This one was first filed for in 2011 and has been repeatedly renewed, as recently as last year, which (importantly) requires…

“They will use country/land names as with previous titles”

Which would mean TES 6 is either called Starfield or Giant Monster News, or isn’t in development at all. In favour of developing a sequel to a game that sold poorly, at a time when new console owners are desperate for a proper TES game for the new generation, and after Skyrim became one of the best selling games in…

Going to copy/paste my other reply for you with the details. The short version is if it isn’t called Redguard, then it’s called Starfield or Giant Monster News. In other words, either TES 6 is called Redguard, or it isn’t their next game (the new Bethesda IP is) and Redguard is still a new TES spin off that definitely…

I linked the article specifically because I read your whole post. I figured you’re the kind of guy who’d be interested in an in-depth look into this, especially with your last point and the laws introduced by the EU over digital ownership. *shrug*

It Is Hammerfell ;) TES 6 is called Redguard.

It’s in Hammerfell =)

I wrote a fairly in-depth article about all of this for Polygon that also covered P.T. The short version is that being a free demo instead of a paid-for and full game is likely the only reason they weren’t taken to court over this. No-one’s really losing out on any investment beyond their own time. For the long…

It’s a huge thing. Mainly the transportation impacts, more than the packaging. And not just from the shipping and trucking of all the games, all over the world, but imagine a game sells 10 million copies. Now imagine ten million different people driving from their homes, to the nearest store (20 mins?) and back again.…

“The longevity of physical games is likely to be as long as the disc itself will last.”

We do have the assurances and digital rights. At least we do in the EU. Not sure if America finally got their act together on that yet, but in the EU it’s illegal to remove a digital game from being downloadable and playable after it’s been purchased.

Oh, mine definitely still work. But only an idiot pretends physical games are more future-proof than digital games. The opposite is far more likely, except in the cases of online-only games like this which are an obvious exception, and again - you’d be an idiot to assume online games like Project Spark or World of…

Both of you can’t read: “Anyone who bought a retail copy of Project Spark will get credit added to their Microsoft account.”

Pretty sure that’s what summoning is for. I used to summon for every single boss when I was new to Souls. It made the game insanely easy, and it still felt fun (ganging up on a boss made it feel like an MMO boss fight).

Your opinion is 100% valid, and the exact reason I love mods (tailoring games to meet your own criteria for being enjoyable is awesome), but I still don’t believe that the difficulty of Souls prevents all those things you loved in an “easier” game.