Great. How am I supposed to get around now? Take the bus?

Perhaps, although it does sound like seeing this character is a rare occurrence so it could have just been missed. 8 voice lines out of thousands for a random side character isn't completely out of the realm of possibility to simply be an accident. 

I feel like “Hey, also GameShark is back” is a story on its own.

Because in America, kids get the cops called on them when they hang out outside.

When asked for a response they replied

Yet for all its Game of Thrones trappings and potty-mouth interludes, the plot of FF16 reminds me most of Final Fantasy IV.

It’s not clickbait if you literally have to read the entire article to get to the bait. 

yeah you should be able to buy the console and a disk and never need to go online just to play your game

100%. I don’t know what was worse, Microsoft’s terrible explanation or their poor response to the criticism. It’s one thing to attempt something new and have confusing messaging as to how it all works and why it’s necessary, it’s another issue to tell critics and potential customers to “deal with it” if they don’t…

It already has. I learned this when I was forced to buy Alan Wake 2 digitally (on Series X because i had gift cards) because there’s no physical version. An hour after starting it, in the middle of playing it, the internet went out and the game stopped working. A single player game, long after the “did they really…

I’m not saying the other companies aren’t looking heavily into sorts of changes that would be largely unfriendly to consumers, and are similarly guilty, but MS’s diligence in those aspects has had its drawbacks.

Agreed about that online check bullshit. I don’t buy stuff digitally because in the end it’s an expensive rental. But I had Xbox gift cards and Alan Wake 2 is annoyingly only available digitally. So I “bought” it. One night when I was playing the Comcast internet went out and I got a pop-up saying I can’t play without…

I love my Xbox One X but even today I would not buy a console that requires me to be always online. With the constant updates and patches needed nowadays this “Always Online” would be nothing more than a bad DRM Method, that makes my system into a useless brick whenever my Internet provider has some problems. Or a…

“Ahead of its time” is normally something I associate with a great idea that noone was ready for but always online DRM is a bad thing whether it becomes common place or not.

The Xbox One was designed from the ground up to make publishers happy, not the consumer

And let’s not forget that the mandatory Kinect, coupled with a mandatory always-on internet, was a major privacy issue.

“It combined a console, streaming device, and Blu-Ray player into the original all-in-one media player. But like Marty McFly rocking out to “Johnny B Goode” in Back to the Future, people weren’t quite ready for that. Yet.”

I see we are to the point now where it’s time to try to rewrite the history of the Xbone and make excuses for why it, once again, was a failure. At this point Microsoft has given up completely on even trying to learn from and correct any past mistakes, they’re not even trying at all anymore to attract new customers…

Kinda missing the point here. You mention the Kinect, but the other big thing that really hurt its optics at its reveal, was its no pre-owned titles being able to be used with it. Microsoft’s focus on being an entertainment box, specifically trying to mesh TV/Movies/Whatever with games was the most minorest of…

even a straight port would be nice, it’s one of the few FF entry we cannot buy at the moment. unless we want to play it on a phone...