The entire concept is a fever dream of a mid range executive on a lot of cocaine desperate to sell new toys. One really isn’t meant to scrutinize it.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s. Meaning one can’t really talk about Transformers and “great movies” in the same breath.

You know what’s dope about the non-Michael Bay Transformers movies, besides having things as rootable characters, giving females something to do besides bending over, and lack of shitty lowbrow dick-and-weed ‘jokes’?

Did he pay face value of 1 cent per copper penny? Because that is genius. 500,000 full copper pennies are worth $12,500 bucks right now (whereas face value would be $5,000)

Honestly, I’m very ok with this staying covered up and hidden away. The kind of absolute cutural shitstorm, the kind of insane paranoia this could would 100% spark is like nothing we’ve ever seen. The theological implications alone could would end up destroying society as we know it, and I like society. It’s where I…

And if I wanted to play a 16-year-old (or any) MMO I would look into that, but I’m specifically talking about a single-player narrative-driven RPG.

There’s more to player agency than moral ambiguity, so even if the game setting was as black-and-white as the fiction (which you’re overstating), that doesn’t mean that there’s no choices to be made or interesting stories to tell.

I just spent almost 100 hours getting the platinum trophy in Forbidden West and exactly zero NPCs seemed to mind when I would glide into their village and close the glider right above their heads. They’re stable people too! Not a single one lost their footing and fell to the ground when a full grown woman fell out of…

It doesn’t really tell you anything, to be honest. Most games don’t have reactive NPCs. For example, the NPCs in any Bioware game or JRPG or MMO. The number of games with NPCs that actually react to your actions is pretty tiny.

Whenever I see a game get such a low score it makes me think of this:

We want an RPG set in a relatively faithful adaptation of Middle Earth, with a compelling narrative and player choice. Why we keep not getting that is beyond me. FFS.

Because the other pillar of WB’s strategy is still “throw ip at the wall”, until they either collapse or publish Space Jam: Every Character is the Joker.

The greatest irony is that Deadalic does adventure games almost exclusively and your pitch sounds like something up their alley. Why they decided to get this IP to make a movie tie-in level stealth game with PS3 graphics instead is beyond me.

I don’t think Gollum’s a particularly interesting character and I have no intention of playing this game, but there are compelling hypothetical gameplay scenarios that could come from the character. It doesn’t sound like that happens in this game though. What if you have a really cinematic game that focuses on…

Did not expect (for better and worse) that it would look so much like the original in terms of art direction given how generic the setting was (with some notable flourishes here and there).

Probably Amazon. They just spent $600 million to license Tomb Raider. Embracer bought Crystal Dynamics, all of Square Enid's Western devs and IP (Tomb Raider, Just Cause, etc.) For $500 million. 

Given Amazon announced they were working on a LOTR MMO, I’m actually inclined to believe it was them.

I’d honestly put it on Amazon if I had to venture a guess. They’re more than happy to support something until they don’t, much like Google. MS pulling out of gaming deal seems less likely since they’re so desperate for an exclusive hit. Doubt Sony would even sniff around Embracer. 

Here’s the thing... from the previews, this seems like an Ivalice game in the vein of Vagrant Story. With the arguable exception of FFVII: Remake, I haven’t really enjoyed a new final fantasy since XII, which was 17 years ago. So I’m kind of willing to let the franchise change drastically if there’s hope to create…

I don’t want GameStop to turn around, I want them to go away. If your business can’t succeed without exploiting your workers then your business does not deserve to succeed.