Nope. Case in point: Tom Cardy (slide 2) also posts his music on his youtube channel. It’s best not to put all your eggs in one basket after all.

As far as the original FF7 is concerned, and much of Rebirth, the Black Materia can be used to summon a massive meteor to destroy the planet. This was the end goal of Sephiroth in the 1997 game, which was ultimately thwarted by the party, the Lifestream, and Aerith’s spirit

There’s a reason people turn to TikTok to teach and learn about subjects like game design, content creation, and even guides for how to get shit done in your favorite games.

Oh wow, I didn’t even know you had to play multi. Half the time I played PD2 I ran solo to practice stealth heists when my friends weren’t online. I never got into playing with random people because so many people wanted to play loud that they’d just fire their gun the second a map started or refuse to change their…

Yeah. Payday 2 lost me when they added the safes. They reworked the skill tree around the same time and I didn’t really feel like figuring out a new build.

The game did have issues before that but that felt enough like a reset that it seemed like a great time to move on to other things.

I actually couldn’t watch Spiderverse because of that. I’m not really sensitive to framerate in games but for some reason that movie gave me a horrible head ache. I think it was a combination of the frame rate changing and light sensitivity. At least that’s what other people who experienced the same thing as me think.

I…

Even with the popularity of this kickstarter, I don’t know how well building a company around an RTS will go. It’s got a very passionate, but also very niche, following and attempts to launch new RTS ip tend to be fairly middling. This team has the history and the experience to make a good one, I’ve no doubt of that,…

No he’s boring because all he talks about are headaches. He’s got no personality in the first game. Ashley is terrible but at least she’s got something you can hate. Kaiden is basically the human equivalent of a communion wafer.

Well with all the money they’ve been putting into controller and accessibility stuff I assume even if they ditch the console, Xbox style controllers are sticking around. Plenty of people use them on pc so why would they stop making them? They don’t get sold at a loss the same way consoles do.

Well it kind of depends, me and a lot of my friends play Switch more undocked than docked. I only dock mine when the batteries are low.

Steam deck is kind of the same thing. I don’t want to dock it, that’s basically the same as just playing a game on my pc. The steam deck’s appeal for me is the portability. Being able…

But physical games are also dependent on servers and downloads in order for them to work. That got started with the PS3/360 generation. If they ever turn off the servers for patches on those consoles a lot of retro games will become useless.

Wow. That explains a lot. Thank you for the info, I had no idea.

I don’t really understand this game. When it was announced? Sure. But after all this time stuck in development hell I don’t see how it’s going to turn a profit.

Maybe someone on the dev team really wants it to come out and believes in it, but after all this time I wonder how well it would have to do to be viewed as a…

I can never get over how gorgeous these games look.

I never know what to call this style. It’s not pixel art so I guess you’d just call it 2d art but it’s very different from something like Spiritfarer or other hand drawn styles. It’s like they have a bit of painting with some digital manipulation thrown in? There’s…

But it remains strange why enough people would want to subscribe—and at $17.99 a month it’s not cheap—to a single publisher’s output.

I get the convenience of not having to spend time on installing or patching but I can’t see it being enough of a tradeoff to prevent the feeling of stagnation from always playing the same thing.

It’s not that I won’t play a game more than once. I love doing multiple playthroughs of certain games, to see content I…

The most baffling thing to me about all this is that it wasn’t just any award. It was Game of the Year, the big one. Whatever your personal feelings and levels of cynicism about award shows is, you’d think that if they’d give time for a big speech to any winner it would be that one.

I already didn’t like that some…

Look, disc rot from manufacturing errors is definitely a thing, but all my ps 1 games and old cds still work fine after 30 some years. So my blurays/dvds will all likely outlast me at this rate.

Will there still be disc drives around when I’m an old man? Hard to say, but there are plenty of people out there who repair…

It doesn’t help that the series has been having an identity crisis for years. Half the fans wanting smaller stealth focused games and the other half wanting more open world rpg stuff.

I kinda hated Double Dash too. Wasn’t the tracks or anything the AI just seemed WAY more aggro with items compared to the other Mariokart games I played (SNES and N64). Maybe because item boxes/double boxes are more saturated on the track, so AI got more items than in the older games?

Whatever the reason, I’d often get…