Yup! Still my favourite store to support for that reason. Only reason I’ve been buying more Steam games of late is cause they have the Steam Deck community controller remappings. But other than that the GOG games are just as reliable on getting them to run on Deck.

Having no DRM is part of GOG’s whole philosophy.

Off-topic but anyone else seeing this dot/period underneath the “you may also like” feature.

I didn’t mind the Epic Store on Windows but it’s so unreliable on Steam Deck. Turns me off buying anything on the store.

Phil Spencer is our only hope.

Lighting candles and doing a weird ceremony I just made up to will Phil Spencer into reviving THPS 3+4 Remake after Activision canceled it and sent the development studio into the Diablo 4 polishing mines.

Ahh THPS1+2... the game that finally sealed this for me: If a PC game is not available on Steam, I will not under any circumstances purchase it.

It still feels like Peak Activision when the company posted a strong end of the year financially in 2020 in part, explicitly laid out in their quarterly report, because of the success of THPS 1+2 and Crash 4, and their conclusion was not “Hey, maybe Vicarious Visions and Beenox can remake a couple more Hawks” or “Hey…

Very nice copypasta, really kept me engaged with each sentence. 8.6/10.

I recall an interview with a Solar Opposites animator who said that the other co-creator is involved in all aspects of production, but they had never actually met Roiland.

The domestic violence charges were dropped, yes. I’d imagine the dozens of screenshots and saved convos of him leveraging his position to send inappropriate messages to minors was kind of the bigger deal to the company that makes cartoons for teenagers.

The amount of improv had steadily declined over the seasons and while it is noticeable in its absence, the quality of the show wasn't impacted. 

Could well be the case, but writers with Roiland’s sense of humor are a dime a dozen.

A lot of people also fail to realize that despite the “created by” credit Justin Roiland receives, he actually has done less than 5% of the writing across both of those shows. Dan Harmon handles a lot of the writing and direction in addition to a writing team that helps write a majority of the episodes.

Aaaaaaaand they sound pretty damn near identical, so all those children crying on Reddit will chill now right? The “heart” of the show, these two dumbass, easily replicated voices, sound about the same, the show is back, and the same, right?

Chocobo breeding returns in Rebirth, complete with blue, green, and golden chocobos.

Yeah man, they spent 5 years and hundreds of millions of dollars on a “cash grab”.

I think the idea is that for this type of game (big AAA Japanese action RPG) you don’t really expect to be able to do something like that. It’s small yeah, but it could be an indication of the philosophy behind the design that is exciting or refreshing.

Granted, you could play Sephiroth briefly in the original (or he was in your party, at least? Now I can’t remember). But I remember using a Gameshark to extract him from that sequence and put him in my party. It was amusing for a bit, but he couldn’t level or equip anything, so his use was limited. You could take his…

Playable Sephiroth in the Kalm Flashback isn’t really that surprising. Whats more my question is what narrative purpose does the Kalm segment really serve considering most of its main points have already been planted, other than i guess spelling out Jenova’s involvement. I kind of always felt like remake should have…