Did they ever fix the progression freeze in Valhalla, with the paint pots? I haven’t gotten around to picking it back up, waiting for that to fix. 

It’s not presented as evidence in an article, and requires no scrutiny. It’s just a sample of the kind of buzz that lead Ari to being interested in writing a PS5 article, instead of an XSX article. Ari’s motivations for writing the article don’t need to be scrutinized this heavily. 

Transparency? Accountability? The editorial decision was made to write about PS5 shortages. They did so, reporting interesting information with sources. That they did not choose to write a different, broader/longer article has nothing to do with transparency or accountability, regardless of their thought process. If…

Reading up on this more, I’m willing to accept that Dark Alliance is not actually within the same series as Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance I and II like I had assumed. So, they’re not successors within the same series after all, and “spiritual successor” could be an appropriate thing to call it... and seems to be…

But like... it DOESN’T bill itself as a spiritual successor, because it’s an ACTUAL sequel within the same franchise. That’s just not what those words mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_successor

A “spiritual successor” is a thing. A “successor in name only” is a thing. A “spiritual successor in name only” is not a thing. 

People are buying.

Are you trying to tell me that “first and only guy to jack off on the moon” could have been part of Alan Bean’s obituary, and wasn’t? I mean, if that was me, I’d probably have left some instructions in my will or something...

Disagree. Nothing makes a game feel more like a mobile port to me than turning a town square into a menu. 

That’s why God invented masturbation, melatonin, and weed. 

I think that games like Oxygen Not Included handle pooping well, as one more system requiring infrastructure to prevent being a problem... or with better infrastructure, possibly an asset! And while you can’t use waste in Sims, managing hygiene as something that takes up precious time in a day totally jives with the…

The expectation that you can just keep playing a game... forever... yeah, I don’t know where that started. Obviously the game companies want that to be true, when they put out a game which has monetization, but it so rarely is true that it’s odd that gamers expect it. 

It also sounds like something that makes A LOT OF SENSE with how people play phone games. Sure, sometimes you lay in bed and give a phone game your full attention, but just as often you’re glancing down at it for a few minutes while you wait for something else. Being able to pause attention-heavy content, rather than…

I have no problem with quality games being developed for mobile devices, and I have no problems with a service like Apple Arcade curating quality games through a subscription. I have a phone, and would enjoy playing games on my phone, if there were more of them that weren’t either developed to be exploitive cash…

Well if you’re not using it.... 

The old adage holds that good artists copy, and great artists steal—and it’s nowhere truer than in the world of video games, where the job of creating the Next Great Thing is as much an engineering challenge as one of writing or artistic intent.

I would pluck the wings from and devour a couple dozen still-living Green Lollives in a heartbeat #sorrynotsorry.

After seeing your comment, I googled, and... yeah, Ever Crisis is a remade compilation of chapters from several games, not of FFVII itself. So, weird of Luke to not mention that. :/

Knack was beloved? Now, Knack II.... but Knack?

Wait, is Ever Crisis a scaled-down remake of FFVII, or of FFVII Remake? Oh nooooo we’re crossing over into Kingdom Hearts territory here, it was bound to happen sooner or later :(