Watched Gate and Rokka earlier this week, I’ll definitely be following those two. Still bummed about no Western Similcast for Dragonball Super. The owners are probably asking too much for the license.

There’s a scene like this in a book actually, except it’s an accountant, and the werewolf is his boss. Yes, said accountant is remarkably good at combat considering his occupation. Doesn’t fit the stereotype at all.

To make a game of similar scale to the original, six to eight million should suffice. They’re using a pre-built engine so that saves some money there, Sony appears to be covering publishing costs so that saves a bit of money, and simply rereading the original game design with some extra polish saves some money as well.

Realistically, most Mac’s really aren’t good gaming machines to begin with, so once you put that additional layer in there most macs go from passable to unworkable. Square Enix should have known better, but at the same time Apple really should put more effort into making Gaming a priority on Macs.

That figure was later revised to 40 million, and included advertising, work on the Saturn version of the game, ShenMue 2, and supposedly even parts of the early preliminary work on ShenMue 3.

My read was that Sony’s involvement would mainly be aid in publishing, which yea would save the developers a million or so dollars, if we’re talking about a large scale release. However that wouldn’t help all that much in development. By my estimate, the Kickstarter probably needs six or seven million to make a full…

Dude, no. Repeating the same tired argument in a slightly different way isn’t actually in any way compelling.

Dude, I looked up the definition before replying, whether or not it’s a government is immaterial, companies can censor subject matters just as effectively as governments.

Yes it is Censorship. This isn’t like a food that isn’t selling, there’s clearly a market for products that contain this imagery. Apple is taking a product that contains forms of expression it does not like, then suppressing them. That is the actual diction definition of censorship, no exaggeration.

Uh, no no, and no.

Again, you can be entirely aware of your cultures shortcomings, and still be proud of your culture.

1: The flag in question was never actually adopted as the symbol of the confederacy. While it was used by a few armies, it never really became popular until decades later when it was widely adopted as a symbol of the American South. It has since been used both as a symbol of Southern Heritage.

Heh, sounds about right.

Can’t comment on this too much. While I know the history of the South I’ve never really identified with that region enough to really get into the nitty gritty. I identify much more with things like, The Alaskan Gold Rush, the various Mormon exoduses, the Oregon trail, the settling of California, stuff like that.

Whose downplaying? This is not an either/or situation. People can be proud of their heritage and use iconography to demonstrate that, while still being fully aware of the failings of their cultures past.

Frankly, I think people are being overly sensitive about this. Yeah I’d consider casual use of the Confederate Flag to be tacky and it might lack a certain degree of consideration, but I wouldn’t call it an inherent endorsement of racism either.

Oh, I was initially interested for the same reason. The world looked pretty and the back story had promise.

But it has the MMO grind, and the treadmill style progression model designed to keep people coming back. You are right that it lacks the features that make well made MMOs popular, but that’s why I described it as a poorly designed MMO.

When I read this, it somehow translates into. “Bungie creates an MMO, designs it like an MMO, doesn’t tell it’s player base that it’s an MMO, doesn’t market it like an MMO, gouges players at every opportunity because they didn’t use an MMO business model.”

Oh, man. I would offer to help, buuuuuut we are probably on different servers.