I maintain Square is unable to write a good sequel/prequel to any of the mainstay FF games. Fun to play? Sure a few. Good stories? Not so much. Crisis Core is another example of one that...honestly didn’t need to exist. Zack’s role in the original is just to influence Cloud’s behavior, that’s it. There was no need for…

I caught the first few hours when I had a streamer on the tv just for background noise and i got a few chuckles out of what I heard. Definitely a LOT of NPC improv happening, but some of the gun lines were alright.

Yep. You can scam poor people until all they have left is their underwear, because “ThAT’S JuST BusInESS BaBYYy!”  but if you ever, **EVER** fuck with rich investors, you’re looking at decades in Federal Prison.

But it DOES have the signature. If I John Hancock scrawl “Arden” on my painting, in fancy gold cursive, and an AI outputs a similar painting with a big fancy identical golden cursive “Arden”... in English, we call those ‘signatures.’

Sony isn’t getting favoritism, sony is simply not the one in open process of purchasing a massive chunk of the industry. If sony were buying Activision then we’d be talking about Sony, but Microsoft is the one doing it so the focus is, rightfully, on Microsoft. 

I’m wondering why anyone thinks we should take ANYTHING these people say at face value? How many price hikes were “temporary” and then became permanent? How many games had roadmaps that just fizzled out? How many games we were told wasn’t going to have predatory microtransactions only to hunt us down for every cent?

Exactly! See, I tried to tell that to my professor when she brought me into her office. I was like “Plagiarism!? No, I didn’t COPY someone’s ORIGINAL paper. I simply assigned ink to a paper in a digital environment constructed with certain principles in certain orders, which, vaguely and abstractly resemble the paper…

It’s wild how people don’t consider AI art theft when some of the output still has the original artist’s signatures in the image. Like...you’re not even cribbing your friend’s homework, you’re just making a photocopy of it and turning it in as your own.

I *cannot* believe the stir that *clearly* light-hearted jabbing article caused. Terminally online Tweeters were acting like y’all had just murdered a dog on livestream or something.

Anyways, back on topic: Arekay and iamBrandon are killin’ it in those pics!

“Rules for thee, none for me” is a core tenet of Conservativism. Its why all the “sacred marriage traditional family’ guys go through multiple wives/cheat. It’s why anti-abortion politicians absolutely have a receipt for an abortion or two they needed their mistresses to get.  The restrictions are for YOU, not them.

Oh my god, is...is this an ACTUAL incidence of Ethics within Video Games Journalism? Of a major corporation wielding legal power to shut down original, factual journalism?

Someone called the Days Gone MC an “unseasoned chicken of a man” and that’s lived with me forever.

One of my friends attends annual awards conference for people in his industry (construction, paving/concrete, upper management) and if you showed up in sneakers and tie-dye shorts or some shit, you’d be turned away at the door.

See, this is why I do all my insider trading the legal way: following Paul Pelosi’s investments.

I hope there's no new equipment locked behind this, or is at least accessible somehow to single-player folks like myself.   Even if I have to invade and immediately hurl myself off the nearest cliff like with Varre's blood quests, that's fine. 

Endings are hard. Probably the hardest thing to write and get an end result that is satisfying. It’s rare when a story has an ending that really nails it. I don’t blame the guy for being nervous about it one bit.

I can’t believe they’re injecting POLITICS into my societal simulation game. UGH....

I’m curious how one creates an open world game without it being an Ubisoft “?” laden collect-a-thon. I’ve been going through my backlog and just recently complete Ghost of Tsushima. And for all the praise the game got it still felt like it was the worst aspects of Assassin’s Creed with Generic Bandit Camp #38 and…

Depends who you ask. Some people saw a middling platformer with somewhat dated graphics and lack of style. Others saw a sacred blood oath severed as the developer personally killed their dog in front of them.

Capitalism TRULY drives innovation, doesn’t it!?