Shiggy has a fair amount of power, but most of the time outside of questioning why such and such is the way it is, he rarely uses his clout. He’s not infallible and seems to realize this to a point.

Forget literary standard, it speaks to the rank hubris manifest in the gaming industry. Tolkien is a huge name to invoke in terms of the comparison of a project in gestation, in this case saying that Avalon had to be literally epoch defining. Like I said, hubris and unsurprising it came from a man later shown to be as…

Pretty sure he was a douchebag who didn’t know what he was talking about and provided nothing to actually help the project or process. I know quite a few “designers” that had a single good idea and then made a career out of providing nothing but criticism about everything else.

It’s wild to hear that one of the largest developers in the world gives so much creative control to a single individual - I’m not sure even Miyamoto has enough influence at Nintendo to unilaterally can a project just because he doesn’t like one aspect of it. From Jason’s article, it also sounds like this CCO was one…

I’m starting to really ****ing hate Ubisoft.

Hascoët reportedly set a very high bar for the project, telling the team working on Avalon that it needed to be “better than Tolkien.”

Motomu Toriyama dug that grave, and Hajime Tabata couldn’t fill it in.

I mean, what information is this supposed to convey? Do other companies just hang around when developing their games? Call it cynical, but way I see it, this is a rather circular story which doesn’t really tell us anything. It’s like when Blizzard says their games are done “when it’s ready”, like, yeah, no kidding. I…

This statement from SE tells us less than nothing. I still expect 2023 for Part 2 at the earliest. Streamlined development has never been SquareEnix’s forte even back when they were still Square and Enix.

Oh, see, I would have thought that they were going to get it all ready and then delay it for no reason, but now that I know they’ll be releasing it “as soon as they can” well that about changes everything.

Claiming that there is “need” for more transparency doesn’t actually mean anything. You didn’t offer even a single reason why there not only could be more, should be more, you want more and especially a reason why there “needs” to be more.

AIDDON NO DON’T HURT ME WITH THE TRUTH.

Then you aren’t a fan of 90% of SMT’s artwork.

First off, the concept of the ‘Enlightenment’ is an incredibly Eurocentric concept that has no bearing on Japanese lifestyles. Also, the ‘Enlightenment’ is more or less a historical myth used to propagate European superiority cultivated in the late 1800's and early 1900's as a justification for Imperialism.

Yep. And the one player they consistently interacted with (Nairo) is one of the alleged. They’re never dipping their toe in this shithole again.

Also the “why won’t Nintendo support us” crowd finally has the loudest and clearest answer imaginable.

This is the most obvious milkshake duck in the world. 

Pham described multiple instances, taking place in the early 2000s, of Cuellar using gifts of arcade tokens to bribe teenage boys into stripping down to their underwear and jumping into the miniature golf course’s water hazards.

Yeah, the last point is what I find most offensive about Hiero Glyph’s screed. “Won’t somebody think of the billionaire businesses and those sad capitalistic fatcats?” is one of the most disgusting moral positions you can take in today’s world.