Agreed. Damage from enemies feels very high, damage dealt with beams feels very weak, and some of the item upgrades (capacity ones, never core items) are stuck between ROMhack styled puzzles. I am very unimpressed with this entry in the franchise, and that’s regardless of some questionable story aspects.

Last I heard the ability to buy directly from Sony required an email from them first giving you the option.  That’s how two of my friends got theirs.

There is at least one aspect that requires a certain amount of dedication and demands your attention at least once every 30-45 days: Housing.  If you have a house in FFXIV, you can’t take a two month or more break from playing, or else you lose that house.  Otherwise yeah, it requires very little actual commitment.

Let me make this clear to you: The Nintendo Wii U is not commercially available because it is no longer made and sent to retailers by Nintendo. The PS5 and Xbox Series X/S are Commercially Available even if they are considerably difficult to obtain due to limited stock and scalpers. Your BS argument is built upon ease…

The Wii U is not sold in stores anymore, and as far as I know, is no longer being manufactured. That puts five titles out of availability to just go purchase.  Just because you can go purchase them second hand does not make them commercially available.

I’m more annoyed that you can obtain upgrades to one of the items before the item itself, but they remain unusable until obtaining the item itself.  It punished what I thought was sequence breaking.

Oh look, all of the reason this game will never get streamed...

I’m not saying that FFXIV is the only one, that’s your interpretation. Most big name MMOs have gone to shit, either recently or over a span of many years. If they hadn’t, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. FFXIV is different in that it started out absolutely terrible, so bad in fact that they stopped charging a…

My guess is its a combo of 3D and CG, but it sounds lazy and stupid on top of the confusion.

Or they recognize that a lot of other MMOs are kinda shit these days, and are offering an alternative to people, primarily recommending trying it free for the core game and it’s first expansion.

I mean... it’s a new MMO at launch.  I experienced long queue times with WoW and the first two of its expansions, SWTOR, and Guild Wars... this stuff is standard and I had no surprise when I heard that New World was experiencing it.  Same with game breaking bugs.  Sometimes things just don’t trigger during QA or Betas…

I understand the distaste for the controller, but the design for the buttons make playing some titles on anything OTHER than this controller a pain in the butt sometimes. I’m looking forward to being able to play LoZ: Ocarina of Time on a control scheme that feels coherent again, since nothing has properly replicated…

To be honest, I’d love to just have her as a friend.  She seems pretty damn awesome in general.

I’m more concerned about what happens when games have radios in them that play copywrited music.  Like, I understand we can’t play music in the background while doing stuff, that is a no-brainer... but I guess if I’m playing a game without stream safe music on the radio, I’m just screwed?  There needs to be rules put…

My only complaint is how often in the School or Prison my group ends up getting hunted before we can even locate where the spook is... making it sometimes impossible to get anything found out because it hunts ten seconds after one ends...

I feel like I wasted five minutes of my life by reading this very obvious joke about David Cage games...

At the store level, no, they’re not homophobic. The CEO is, however, having outright donated a ton of money to anti-LGBTQIA+ charities and outright saying that he believes all homosexuals are doomed for hell regardless if they’re actually good people or not.

I like the Valheim style because it encourages returning to a camp for repairs instead of spending hours upon hours away from camp, only to return every once and a while.  It’s especially nice in multiplayer because it can encourage grouping up so you have multiple people using the same style tool for longer…

While Nintendo owns the IP, Rare does get some minor say in distribution due to their name being on the product (the laws are really weird here, specifically due to joint names being on a product). Granted, Rare (and Microsoft) are fairly cool about these types of things and tend to just say “go for it”.

Donkey Kong 64 was developed by RARE, so if there are no RARE titles, we won’t get DK64.  Also, way too many sports/racing games in that initial list.