> passive aggressive comment literally beginning with the words "no offense"
> wow I can't believe you took any personal offense to that, you must be defensive

If you really intended no offense, you could have simply not responded and waited for a response from the user you were originally replying to instead! Have a nice day, now.

Yes. That's literally what is being said. 2008 candidate Obama was a more charming orator than either 2008 candidate Clinton or 2016 candidate Clinton.

Unfortunately the Taxi unions are insufferable in NYC. I stand with their strike at JFK, but honestly I'll still take a rideshare (now Lyft) over a yellow cab most of the time.

Prophets of Rage are carrying the torch without Zach.

Lots of studios do it. I don't think it's as much "knowingly putting out crap" as much as not giving the games the proper resources and attention/focusing resources on other primary projects (again, like Scalebound and Nier).

Development was handled on Platinum's end, but Activision could still dictate hard release dates and production budgets. Not sure if that was the situation but it could be one explanation.

Star Fox aside (Nintendo did the design for that game, from what's been reported), the rest were Activision games. It could have been a case that Platinum simply didn't have the time or resources to make those games as great as the rest of their library.

Hence why I noted "licensed games aside." It's a shame that - for whatever reasons - the Korra, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, and Star Fox games turned out mediocre, but I don't hold that against them as much since they're not original productions.

I would argue The Stranger and Glass Houses are both worth listening to all the way through.

Clover was great but PlatinumGames have been doing work. Maybe nothing as artistic as Okami, but Bayonetta and its sequel were fabulous and - licensed games aside - their other titles manage to nail the "stylish action" angle.

I LOVE the music that plays when you've got a fish on the line. It really does feel like a battle!

I'll be continuing my journey through Final Fantasy XV. I preordered it and meant it as a gift for my October birthday but the delay and a move left me unable to play until after Christmas. I'm enjoying it more than many - I'm 13 hours in, on Chapter 3, and enjoying taking my time through monster hunt sidequests, frog…

The fact that the last episode - which almost made me quit the show entirely - was graded an A while this episode gets marked with a C indicates that maybe I get something different from this show than the reviewer(/average audience?)

I made new friends who don't make bigoted "jokes" and know how to respect a friend's gender identity, so I'm good.

The "pied piper" technique was something real promoted by the left. Prop up a phony candidate so there's no way the Dems could lose.

I'm the person who my old college friends don't invite around anymore, because god forbid I don't tolerate anti-Semitic humor, or misgendering our mutual trans acquaintance. Such a buzzkill! I should just keep my damn SJW mouth shut!

Despite all the cross-media promotion, they've been doing a poor job of promoting the GAME. I remember at E3, they had a producer (or some Squenix person) play the E3 boss fight demo, and they were atrocious at playing the game. They made the combat look clunky and cumbersome when - with some practice - it can be…

Sounds ripe for a Chaucer adaptation.

Having played the Platinum Demo several times, I will say the gameplay is what draws me to FFXV in the first place. It's like a more combo-oriented Kingdom Hearts. Switching between up to four weapons mid-combo has a lot of potential, as does the conversion of magic to a projectile weapon of sorts.