I think there’s definitely merit to critiquing changes that are made and seeing how they impact the game’s themes, tone, and so forth, but I’m largely in agreement with you: far too many people end up being purists about updated versions or adaptations of their favorite media. I personally welcome the changes, not…

I’ve had a tab open to remind me to play Coffee Talk for ages. I have a lot of other games I bought to play during all this, but I want to make time to get to it!

If you don’t mind not having the game now, buy it digitally and wait until the price drops! I’m sure there’ll be a used copy you can find. :)

I follow you on Twitter, and I’ll continue to follow you wherever you go; I really like your work. It’s a shame so much bad shit has gone on with the site owners, because I’ve really enjoyed reading Kotaku even with the snafus they’ve gotten themselves into. It feels like most of the authors I’m familiar with are…

I haven’t gotten very far (I just opened up the first round of sidequests), and I’m a man, so my perspective might be a little narrow, but I’m not really seeing her shoving her boobs and butt around so far? Yes, she leans forward when she comments sometimes, but when she does so, Tifa’s rigging doesn’t push her chest…

I can’t imagine “every income stream they have” will take a huge hit. While there’s certainly a hit to media production (and we don’t know how long that will be due to the uncertain length of social distancing recommendations), Disney has a variety of income streams outside of those even if we stick to…

Though I agree you don’t need to disinfect everything daily if you’re staying home, this is ridiculous, dude. Between people who still have to physically go out to work (and might bring their Switch with them to play on their breaks), people who have to utilize public transit (and might use their Switch to pass the…

We’re in a pandemic. This isn’t a normal situation.

Their main revenue sources are media networks and the parks, not motion pictures and the parks. Disney+ is still going strong, and while I’m sure there are royalties to be paid to cast and crew, Disney owns the rights to the vast vast vast majority of the media on it, so they don’t have to worry about those costs. The…

WDW is closed and not making money, that’s true. Disney itself, though? Bob Iger’s 2018 salary alone could pay those 43,000 furloughed workers a month’s worth of Florida minimum wage. One man’s salary could do that.

I thiiink their point is that the parks’ revenue is zero, not necessarily Disney as a whole (though I could be wrong). Disney would have to rejigger a bunch of their assets to go to different divisions, from park staff to Disney Store staff to animators and writers and so on, to keep paying them. If they normally only…

Yeah, Junon was the only place that came to mind that might be expanded more, and that’s primarily because of the big buildings that are present when you go up the elevator, since the stuff you first encounter is essentially just a small town. Rocket Town, Cosmo Canyon, Wutai, Gongaga, Nibelheim, Kalm, and North Corel…

Ehhh, plenty of people still don’t know, to be fair. Plenty of people in various forum threads (from here to Reddit to Resetera to social media posts) are still finding out for the first time. It’s easy to forget that even fans of the original game might not keep their eyes on gaming news as much as we do.

I’m super intrigued by the comments I’ve seen on the ending, but I’m avoiding spoilers, so we’ll see! It’s interesting you comment on the script, because I’ve seen multiple fans that got the game early talk about how the script is too anime-style at times (though, to be fair, I think a lot of that is the difference…

We don’t know at all as of yet. I’ve been avoiding spoiler stuff too, so I don’t know, say, how high the levels and stats go, but from what I understand and have read while trying to avoid spoilers, there’s no real indication of how this will function. It’s not clear if it’ll be the sort of thing where we completely…

Eh, I don’t think it’ll be that soon. XIII’s sequels took 2 years between each one, and they’ve already said that the Remake parts will take a little longer in development. I’d guess around 3 years or so per part.

It’s not the same situation, to be fair. For Kingdom Hearts, it was new games and new engines and new platforms for most of the entries. For the FFVII Remake, they already have the core framework down. They’ll have to create more textures, program in assets and events, and create combat systems for the other party…

lol so you’re just going to ignore that a generalization like that is a)not at all harmful, b)based on hundreds of years of oppression, and c)an expression of solidarity between people that have been marginalized by white people at large

lmao it’s not racist to make a lighthearted joke about the majority culture being unable to handle anything with flavor tho

PLEASE. I tried hooking up my Wii to play it again recently, but it was so fuzzy on my TV that it gave me a headache. I’d love to replay it, and my boyfriend hasn’t played it or 64, so this would be fantastic.