Petition to add the cost of games to reviews and previews if it is available.

In the Rumble spin-off games, the Pokemon are all mechanical toys- they even start each battle with a key winding them up. So gears actually do make more sense here.

I’m gonna be that guy then. P5 was my first Persona, though I’ve followed the series for a few years, but holy shit. It instantly became one of my favorite games of all time. This only makes me more excited and I can honestly say: A Persona game can’t be long enough XD

Japan has a different approach to these issues in their culture. No need to light the fires of war. 

P4G came out four years after base P4; Persona 3 FES (which seems like the better point of comparison here given that P5R is on the same platform as the base, and judging by the similar variety of new content) was released only a year after P3 (and is widely considered the definitive version of P3!) - this isn’t that…

Persona 3 and 4 both had enhanced remakes within three years of their initial release, just like this one, and for those games the remakes are largely considered the definitive versions. Persona 4 Golden especially is widely praised as a far better game than its base incarnation. It’s a tradition for this franchise,…

I would have been happy to just have them flesh out Haru’s story. The way you meet her is janky as hell, and you never have a real need to build any sort of bond or relationship with her. 

Studios like NCSoft etc that makes multiple MMOs probably reuse parts of the code or tend to do things in a similar way, which would be a literal goldmine for any hacker. (While they don’t seem to care that much about hackers, it could be a lot worse.) :p

The copyright thing is just because the law hasn’t kept up with technology. If software were a physical product the company would get a patent and then someone trying to make a knockoff could get sued for patent infringement. Since you can’t patent code, but code still represents a product that has an actual cost in…

Yup. pretty much this.  They look at it like lost income, yet it isnt.  If they were better with this sort of thing more people would support their current projects.

The copyright BS surrounding MMOs always seems utterly absurd. On the other hand, when a company decides to shut down servers, why don’t they just instead start selling their server code? Anybody can host a private server for $xxx

Dubious. The “tour video” is - cough - “cited” in the back half of paragraph 4 (of 7), and gets one sentence of the next.

So... what’s the scene or ‘Marvel Moment’ of this column?

I’m putting money down on vaporware/Never gets released past beta.

It will be DOA. Unless Google has Fiber in every neighborhood in the US, this is simply going to be a laggy mess. It’s only redeeming feature will be that is far more cheat-poof than existing parser/data-mining that happens and takes all the fun out of existing games.

They’ve already started to quietly abandon YouTube Music after promising regular updates a few months ago. The app is still missing tons of features and the team behind it has not communicated at all. I give this gaming platform 2-5 years before it’s in the Google Product Graveyard.

Five years to shutdown. Two years until active development ends.

or until their “disruption” runs into actual world problems like google fiber and instead of spending their billions of dollars to fix it they just throw up their hands and walk away

So are we betting one year or two years before Google gets bored and just shuts the whole thing down?

While Scotland is to the South in the UK, it looks like the snowy region up top may represent the country in Galar.