I’m in the opposite camp, I’ve been waiting 10 years for a new AC. The newest Bethesda RPG can hang out for a while until I’ve kicked enough robots off of cliffs.

At least for my part, I’ve in the past used Baldur’s Gate 3 to argue against people who’ve defended certain monetization models. Say I point out that it’s ridiculous for a game to both cost $70 and charge for microtransactions, I’ve seen responses like saying that’s how much games cost and that they need to charge all…

Seriously.

I think that this makes a better case on why a game needs to be delayed more often (by the AAA studios). These mega publishers EA, Activision, Ubisoft, have the cash to delay a game in order to push out a finished, less buggy game, but they don’t. IT FREAKING Kills them in sales and player retention (MTX sales).

I get this argument, I really do, but it gives short-shrift to the simple fact that $70 is no small amount to the average person, who maybe doesn’t want to feel the phantom hand of a publisher reaching into their pocket for more money every ten minutes.

Destin’s video rubbed me the wrong way for a lot of the reasons you mentioned, but I found Xalavier’s thread odd as well. He seems to be taking the argument too literally, we don’t expect every game from here on out to actually be Baldur’s Gate 3. Plenty of shorter games or games with a lesser scope can be just as…

“We had to dumb it down so Americans would watch it.”

Counterpoint: one of the biggest movies of the year is a biopic about a physicist and the morality and politics around his work. Art and profit are not an inverse relationship. Pandering to the lowest common denominator often drives off anyone with an intellect above that of a potato.

Agreed. I’ve learned I like RPGs with a big cast where every character is distinct but also very customizable. It’s no wonder FFVI is my favorite RPG.

LIZZO hounded her employees to catch dildos ejected from performers’ vaginas. LIZZO cheered loudly to motivate employees to eat bananas protruding from performers’ vaginas.

So stoked for Sea of Stars. The Messenger was incredible.  This team’s got the chops

Username checks out.

The demo is an excellent representation of the game. It’s not trolls complaining. I have played every main FF game and this was my second least favorite with 10 being the worst IMHO. It’s not a terrible game but it is not a good FF game and I think 15 was better and the 7 remake was even better still. It’s highly…

It absolutely doesn’t. It’s significantly worse as time goes on. Genuinely. Idk why people keep making things up and saying people are upset it’s not turn based. No, people are upset there is no skill involved at all you will never die, and there’s no rpg elements. It’s not an action rpg. It’s just not an rpg.

Honestly though, how did they make a mainline Final Fantasy game that isn’t an RPG and not expect to receive a lot of blowback?

I actually turned to my wife while playing the demo and asked her “Is it just me, or do these characters all bore you to death?” and her reply was just a slow nod of her head.  It’s baffling to me how the demo just did not feel like something I wanted to spend another 40+ hours in.  I kept on thinking that I’d rather…

Discussuing the rural population is well-intentioned, but a bit misleading: 80% of Americans don’t live in rural locations. The discussion of farmers is even more of an edge case: only 1.5% of Americans are farm or ranch workers.

“If you can’t do your job remotely, then Companies need to pay a carbon tax of sorts, and pay a portion of their employees fuel cost commuting to and from work (of course keeping in mind how much the company can afford, fortune 500 and up yea you’re paying both).”

“A split-fuel market isn’t a bad thing. It gives more flexibility.”

A split-fuel market isn’t a bad thing. It gives more flexibility.