In anime, there’s two elements that really contribute to quality:

The Diablo 2 Sorceress is explicitly from an all female order of Mages, the Zann Esu. Diablo 3 implied but never states that the Zann Esu specifically lay claim to the title of “Sorceress” and that if you’re not a member of that order, they will send ninjas to kill you for calling you a Sorcereress (thus the Wizard…

Every game you’ve ever played has a ton of this stuff in it. Games are complicated, and finding tricks and shortcuts to make the game do what you need it to is a constant thing.

He’s got the survival, but he doesn’t have the damage. No big single target, no big AoE, not enough skills to push his weapon damage through the roof.

To the best of my knowledge, Ooblets was *never* available for pre-order anywhere, including Steam. It could only be wishlisted.

April 1st is also the first day of the new fiscal year in Japan, which makes it that much harder to separate jokes and actual things - of course companies want to make announcements on the first day of the fiscal year!

This is actually nothing really new. The biggest change here is that they’re actually crediting the companies doing their contract work, but it’s pretty normal for any given AAA title to actually be the work of three or more development studios.

Arnold does real-time licensing from a license server, so what this probably means is that a single machine doing a single frame lost connectivity to that server. It’s... a surprisingly common issue, and usually gets caught somewhere in QA. Either it got missed or they decided they didn’t have time to redo the scene.

Colossus specific components give a hair under triple the health non-specific components give, or a hair over if they’re only health/shields. It’s not hard to have 2k health compared to like, 600 from generic mods.