GamesRadar summed it up best with the headline “FFVII Rebirth Will Contain Innovations Like “Story” and “Characters”” because that’s about all those non-answers they gave amount to.

A good reminder that you could save a company hundreds of millions of dollars, but in the end, they’ll still tell you to fuck off when they feel like it.  Your hard work will never be rewarded or treasured.  You are nothing more than a negative balance on their profit sheet that they’re constantly looking to get rid…

Tired: It’s so over.
Wired: WE NEVER LEFT!

Let’s fucking ggooooooooo

I’m preaching to the choir a little, I know, but for those who dont understand—or are deliberately being bad-faith and pretending not to—the core concept is that Cops can NEVER be the allies of marginalized groups. Due to the very nature of their job as state sanctioned Violence Do-ers, police are always just one…

Yasumi Matsuno’s original idea/pitch for FF12's world included a strict caste system with Moogles as slaves but that didn’t make it into the game, so this isn't the first time a Final Fantasy has tried to go with a "darker" tone.

It was Kojima. He was *super* desperate to pay Kiefer Sutherland a lot of money to say...maybe seven lines total throughout the game. Why? I wish I knew.

Advertising: $5000
Development: $10,000
Players: $50
CEO/Shareholder compensation: $900,000,000

Please help my Esports league is dying.

I’m going to play this game for the story, then get whatever I need for the Platinum trophy and peace the fuck out. There’s plenty of games out there with more respect for my time than something that wants to be The Only Game You Play. And that’s fine!  Just means THE GRIND isn’t for me the way it is for some people. 

And *these* are the folks that nerds think are going to replace actual games publications/journalists.

It must be nice to be a Conservative Reactionary Youtuber and just have like...free content handed to you on the regular, though I don’t know how it isn’t exhausting being angry about everything all the time

Right it won’t go away. They’ll just go from 50 writers down to 10 “AI Editors” who won’t be paid as much as writers because the studio doesn’t classify the work as “writing” So the job isn’t going away, it’s just getting absolutely gutted in both staff and pay! Which is great! If you’re a CEO or shareholder, because…

Gamers aren’t owed an apology like the glitchy video game killed their parents or something. It was an experience they didn’t like, so get a refund and move on with their life. Bad dinner? Ask for money back. Bad movie? Get a refund.  They didn’t get cancer, their dog didn’t run away, their life isn’t over.  It’s…

Right? How are they fans of a game that doesn’t exist? They’re fans of the game’s *marketing* and that’s just embarrassing.

There’s ANOTHER twitter controversy over the fact that the New York in Spiderman 2 appears to be the New York from Spiderman 1 (shocker!) And people be getting all mad about “Same map, Lazy Devs” discourse all over again, by posting photos of the same location in both games and getting mad because they...look like the…

“Fun” in a game is whatever method of play you enjoy. Be it speed-running, money duping, out-of-bounds glitching, pacifist play, etc etc

Reminder, kids: always play offline/disable automatic updates while you're away.  Dont let grouchy companies take away the fun you dropped almost 100 bucks for.  

What? They guys banning books and screaming about degeneracy in all its forms would NEVER come after a specific part of culture like video games!
/s

As a mostly console player, I often have to wait *years* for damn near most PC exclusive titles to make their way to console. And that’s assuming the game is even going to come to consoles at all. Throw a dart at the Steam/Itch.io/Epic/GoG Library and odds are whatever game you landed on ain’t ever gonna make it over.

The Youtuber/Infliencer space was built ground up to be directly susceptible to industry payments and influence.

I’m pretty sure I just hold down the attack option for 90% of all fights in every Final Fantasy games outside of bosses, lol.