Give people their “consumer choice” and Free Market variety by offering a smorgasbord of different content options and we see how fast they *beg* for Monopolies. 

How the fuck would Starfield...or just, dialogue in general even work without any pronouns?

RE4, Dead Space, Metroid Prime, etc etc all seem to suggest it’s perfectly viable and popular to remake the original game without *wildly* altering the plot with dimension/timeline nonsense.

I don’t think RE4 would have been any better if an alternate timeline Brad Vickers burst through a portal and then we went on an…

Correct on where we first hear about the weapons, and Bugenhagen is also my guess. also apparently there’s an interview where Nomrua says point blank it goes up to Forgotten Capital (City), but the places they visit won’t be in the same order.

So we see events that are at LEAST up to recruiting Vincent in the trailer. I imagine the game will actually go farther probably to OG disc 1's end, and that’ll be the cliffhanger. The rest can easily be wrapped up in the final installment.

Changing up the formula isn’t the guaranteed failure you make it out to be—RE4, Metroid Prime, Fallout 3, GTA after 3, Final Fantasy VII “remake”, and many others all say hello—it’s more than likely a combination of the game being perfectly fine, but Square (and modern investor capitalism) cannot abide simply fine.

And…

Remember folks, it's only a crime if you're poor.   Otherwise, this is just smart investment/Capitalism.  

Line Must Always Go Up.

The good news if any Puppets are upset about APAB is that being a Puppet is a deliberate choice that one can stop doing at any time. If you’re not a puppet, you’re not a bastard.

Remember: consolidation is always a good thing! Having more and more studios/publishers getting bought out is good and perfect and not bad at all! If you resist the idea of giant buyouts then you’re actually just a shill for the console I dislike in the Great Console Wars, which I--in my late 30s--still believe is a…

That goes more to my point of Devs can only optimize with the set-ups they have available. They cannot account for all the random bullshit people install on their PCs that may or may not collide with the game as it runs.

Just because someone has “best-in-slot” parts does not guarantee a quality performance.  I could…

I’m saying having a checklist of modern parts does not guarantee a smooth gaming experience. My modern PC couldn’t even LOAD Shogo Mobile Amor Division when it decided I wanted to play thst a few months back and I’m *lightyears* beyond recommended spec.

It’s not the BEST response since quality of parts alone doesn’t account for everything but I get where Todd’s coming from. I’m sure they optimized the game fine using the tools and builds they had available for them during optimization testing. They’re not going to optimize for every possible part-swapped, patch…

Nah, if someone tries to tell me there’s a serious, culinary, discernable difference between bowtie pasta, shell pasta, tube pasta, flat pasta, and twisty pasta, they’re out of their f’in mind.

I can’t do this anymore...I just can’t with Live Service games. I’m too old, there’s too many cool games, there’s just not enough time.

To be fair lines like this “I have waited for this game since the trademark rumors of 2015-2016 (don’t remember when exactly)“ Kinda sound pretty sus. Like....at the level of a trademark rumor this could be a fuckin’ Nutrient Bar for all anyone would know and this guy buying front row seats to the Hype Train.

Like...…

People do pacifist runs in games all the time, have you never heard of them?

Retirement? Lol that’ll be raised to like, age 80 and even presuming I dont die from a perfectly treatable illness due to being priced out of our For Profit Healthcare system by then, the Water Wars will probably kill me first.

I kind of feel bad for newcomers who were expecting something similar-ish from their time in Elden SekiroSoulsRingBourn. This is Armored Core through and through. Structured, linear, level-based, and you either beat it or you don’t. There’s no open world for you to go wander around till you out-level the content or…

How else is the parasite investor class supposed to receive their eternally exponential growth if prices don’t go up?