This is pretty in the weeds for the average gamer, but it’s all part of the two sides’ strategies for the trial, the outcome of which could have huge ramifications for how we buy games.

That explains a lot.

The US rating system is a bit different than the Japanese rating system. Your’e right that AO over here is basically only used for porn, but in Japan the CERO-Z rating is just basically our MA rating.

I just recently moved from PA after three years of my PhD there and, lemme tell you, the parking expenses have not changed almost twenty years later. There’s also NO FREE PARKING anywhere in town.

lol no. that’s not at all what’s happening in Puerto Rico.

Why not both?

Thanks, Smaug. I’d offer up an arkenstone as tribute but uh

As someone who has read a bit about Japanese literary styles and history, I can add a little bit of confirmation to whole “heightened engagement with reality,” theory as being fairly true. Their earliest stories with a lot of—for lack of a better term on my part—picaresque and philosophical themes, along with a focus…

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.