This is a very good point, but I don’t think it changes the audience-facing presentation of, the last couple games took place in largely “modern” settings, but the ones before didn’t. Just visually, and on a surface level that persists through most of the games’ durations, there’s obviously a difference between them.

Agreed 100%. Even if they kept the “engine” or whatever from FFXV (not that they will, since FF always seems to want to rebuild the whole thing from the ground up every time which has led to amazing innovation but also problems over the years), I want something that... Well, god damn it, get rid of Cup Noodle and…

The first part of your post reminds me of that scene in Lucky # Slevin where Morgan Freeman says, “And I don’t suppose I need to say anything as trite and cliched as, ‘Go to the police and you’re a dead man?’ “

And Josh Hartnett answers nervously, “I, uh, I think you just did.”

I say this knowing absolutely nothing about modding or, for that matter, the licensing and allowances from Konami for it, but with all the mods I’ve seen floating around for MGSV I am left wondering why there’s yet to be, like, a better and completed game built off it — the FOX engine is nothing short of amazing and…

This is exciting! My spouse and I have the game and it’s really great, but it’s sometimes difficult to play because it takes up so much space and it can take a long time to get through the rules (our time between sessions means we haven’t committed it all perfectly to memory). Nice to see this coming along so well --…

This is so much of how I feel. Because Destiny has impeccable, almost perfect shootfeel, but Warframe is much harder to physically play for me (with a controller) — the shooting is much harder to manage, and so I end up just sprinting around slashing things mostly, and powers are tougher to manage as well.

Added to…

Well, failure is a valuable part of learning and can be used as an educational tool, sure. But I was talking about kids being distracted by phones and that sort of thing, so if you’re insinuating that kids who are easily distracted are automatically lazy I categorically disagree.

It’s a nice sentiment but there’s got…

I work in a high school, specifically as the in-school suspension coordinator and also as a special education/behavior support facilitator, and let me tell you, you’ve hit the nail on the head. It is such a complex, pervasive, tangled web of a problem that addressing it and handling it is next to impossible. I…

Because parents lose their shit when phones are banned or confiscated. Because staff and administrators are saddled with huge burdens and expectations from said parents, or from district heads who operate at the whims of parents, or their opinions, or their money — some of those, after all, are involved in local and…

Counterpoint: kids are lazy when it comes to doing what you want them to do, and stupid about how clever they think they are at hiding it, but they’re neither lazy nor stupid *as a general rule.* That kind of underestimation only leads to more challenges and difficulties in my experience.

Also, I wouldn’t be so quick…

Counterpoint: yes, they can and do, and whether they’re allowed or encouraged to do so is up to the individual school or district.

Source: I work at a school and see it happen despite discouragement, and the changes of actual policy at the district level are a totally different beast tied into funding and local…

Damn! I remembered Johnny being confused that the old-timey S looked like an F, but really I was the one who was confused all along.

This was another reason why the very underrated Mad Max game was actually pretty cool -- you could go out there, but the hazardous storms were a sort of soft barrier. And if you bypassed those, you’d eventually run out of fuel and water. But for quite some distance it was still possible to find world elements and even…

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Seconded. And it’s so far up its own ass, too.

If you haven’t played it yet, you gotta do Bloodborne!

So they’re literally called “mad lads.”

This *is* the game. It’s gonna be like an 8 year trickle, there’ll be demos and shit so everybody has something to play, but calling it now -- we’re already “playing” Death Stranding.

Okay but no article on Wisp’s booty? Journalism is dead.

All games like this suffer from the balance debate, but I agree that the way PvP is treated in the context of the game is one of the most notably contributing design factors into how it manifests in Destiny.