My comment about it being similar to Puerto Rico was moreso--before more people came in to explain things--that Puerto Rico, historically, exists in this limbo where the US only wants to consider it part of the US when it’s economically and politically convenient.

Thank you! As someone who only knows about this through patchwork wiki reading and cultural osmosis, this is really helpful

You really think newspapers in Puerto Rico, of all places, cover what’s happening outside of the US or Latin America?

Thank you for taking your time to answer! This tracts with what I kind of know about the situation, and makes it sound—eerily enough—like a more intense version of what’s going on in Puerto Rico and other colonies still “owned” by the United States.

okay but what does this even mean

Both of those games.....are literally....franchises where each entry is a new part of the same story?

Yeah, I should’ve been more clear! Seven is def the easiest game to “jump into” if you don’t care about lore, since it’s--I guess?--a soft reboot or whatever. But, like I said elsewhere, I def. think that knowing who Chris is before playing 8 makes his face-heel-turn more impactful, at the very least.

Can someone give a quick overview of why the CCP is so bonkers crazy about Hong Kong and Taiwan? My US-centric education is failing me.

Yeah, that’s also another point to be made. RE as a series really just is “Plug in and Play,” moreso than a lot of other longstanding series. You don’t generally need to know the wider story or goings-on because the concept is usually very simple: evil biochemical company tries to make super weapon, fails misterably,…

I mean, we’re talking about franchises that have been around for decades at this point, no? And all of them without really rebooting their universes so, at least with RE, the ten games + spinoff entries are obviously going to feel dense and hard-to-get-into because they’re all operating on the same narrative timeline.…

P3P is the best version of the game because it adds more to the game than FES does. P3P also has everything FES added to the base game outside of the dungeon and epilogue, which aren’t—imo—worth losing everything else P3P offers just to play FES.

All this, just to avoid piracy.

The PSP emulator runs it perfectly, and additionally has the best version of the game available.

I actually feel the reverse: as an adult, I think you get more out of Persona 3 simply because the story isn’t just about a “plucky young teen saving the world,” but more an intense rumination on how people from all walks of life deal with death—metaphorically and physically—in various different ways. You really start…

All of these are excellent points, and things I—largely—agree with. Here’s my additions to what you’re bringing to the conversation.

And deciding to get them all...is still...a choice? That you can say no to? Holy shit, how is this not getting through to people.

The fact that you think any of this is the creators somehow manipulating people into doing something pretty much tells me all I need to know about how much you think about videogames.

ok o7

Again: you have to do this ten times to get the trophy/achievement.

Again: you have to do this ten times to get the trophy/achievement.