They’ve mismanaged OW in general but I think regardless of how they had organized and monetized OWL it was going to get wrecked by the pandemic.

Yoko Taro has helmed three different mobile gacha games already, fwiw. SinoAlice, NieR Reincarnation, and 404 Game Re:Set.

Great that he’s a fan of Square Enix games but I just hope he drops all the dumb web3 shit his predecessor dumped their money into.

I think if they could have shipped a fun replayable co-op PvE mode with progression they absolutely would have. Even when they showed it off last year (or was it the year before?) it seemed like they were repeatedly changing and redesigning it to try and “find the fun” but never actually came up with a way to make the…

Just to be clear, they didn’t “cancel PvE.” There were two components to the PvE experience planned for OW2. The first was Story Missions, essentially a co-op story campaign. The second was Hero Missions, which were going to be a replayable, semi-procedural PvE missions that you could queue for which would tie into a…

Maybe it’ll work like Sym’s teleporter, using the interact key to accept the rescue while his barrier is on you. Or at least an option for it.

I’ve been saying this from day one, but there’s no way our hyper capitalist governments don’t just let these giant megacorps do whatever the fuck they want.

She doesn’t look like Ellie at all to me, but her voice and performance are spot-on. And I think within the setting she actually feels more real. Game Ellie kind of looks like a model with some dirt and scars added on top, while Bella’s Ellie looks like an ordinary person actually living in the apocalypse — no (overt) …

Because it was a cop, 100%. Citizens don’t get this level of protection unless maybe they’re rich and/or famous.

Boruto = Bolt = Neji. He was named after his uncle.

Wasn’t the plot of FF2 also fundamentally just Star Wars?

I really don’t recall JRPG ever being used as a prejorative, at least in a broader context, outside of maybe a relatively small number of people who had boilerplate critiques of the genre’s tropes like random battles and melodramatic writing.

He has Tourette Syndrome.

Let people take down the corporations in video games so they get it out of their systems.

My guess is that it’ll be kept to DLC episodes. Episode Yuffie in Remake, Episode Vincent in Reunion, and maybe like an Episode Zack in the third one. The three main pieces of optional content in the OG FFVII, two party members and the Zack flashbacks. Wrap up all the DC and CC loose ends simultaneously with the main…

I love how Libertarians and Ancaps always talk about how Capitalists are the ones taking risks, but every time their dogshit business decisions backfire they keep making their money and just raise prices and layoff employees.

Longest running sitcom. General Hospital and Days of Our Lives have been airing since the 60s. The Tonight Show since the 50s. Meet the Press since the 40s.

I think the suits would scoff at your use of the word “colleagues.”

“Genuinely curious,” said nobody who was genuinely curious, ever, in the entire history of the internet.

I sincerely hope nobody buys that corporate response. If Activision wants things to go a certain way, it’s because it’s what’s best for the company, not what’s best for employees. Look at Activision’s track record, they’re never on the side of employees or even consumers