Yeah, ripped right out of a world where a stereotypical short/loud Italian works construction/plumbing and flies around in a Tanooki Suit. Guess I just enjoyed a light hearted, well crafted platformer.

There’s a demo out. So you can give it a try. Digital Foundry also has their tech review for it out

“My answer is simple,” he said. “You need to have the best story, you need to have the best graphics, you need to have the best battle system, you need to have a lot of content, you need to have the Chocobos, you need to have Moogles, you need to have great sound, and that makes a Final Fantasy. And if you’re…

The joke I like to make with my wife when it comes to things like this is that “they just want Metallica to make another ‘... And Justice For All.’” I.e., fans want something new, but they want the same thing again too. Creators (musicians, game developers, etc.) are damned if they change, damned if they make the same…

I always find comments like this funny. While the series has had turn based entries, they’re hardly the series staple. FF X was the first main line turn based entry since III. Everything in-between used ATB

I don’t get it...it looks exactly the same as the origi... ... ...oh.  Man those old TVs made up for a lot.

It’s literally an HD version of the original game’s art.  I love it.

Tbf it really can’t be understated how exhausting it is to be *on camera* for 6-8 hours a day. And unlike actors, there’s no doing another take, it’s all live, so your performance face and energy needs to be on 24/7, and it can easily turn your favorite hobbies and past times (things that can “recharge” people…

As someone who’s pro streamer, I agree with this comment. This guy hit adulthood as a streamer and has never had to work 40 hours a week to pay rent. I work 40-60 hours a week and that’s just normal for 90% of us.

He said he felt trapped by the neverending grind to create, saying streaming “six to eight hours a day” has grown tiring.

90% of the content in every Battle Pass is low effort garbage.

I’d venture a lot of the viewers are kids too, or at least teens. I don’t allow my kids to watch YouTube unsupervised in my house, but my 11 year old has lots of friends who don’t live in houses with that rule, and almost all of them want to be streamers, it’s wild.

Ads, subcriptions, and para-social relationships. I’d bet the vast majority of people don’t sit at a computer and watch a stream all day, but instead have it on a secondary device (tablet, phone etc) while doing other stuff. It’s basically Youtube to an extent, only everything is live.

What Netsubunkai said. Comparing it to DMC is like saying GTA and Gran Turismo are the same because they both have cars in them. Like, yeah, you drive cars in both but the execution is vastly different. 

The comparisons to DMC are super overblown. The resemblance is superficial at best. 

Looking into the linked article, the graph they show has “traditional gaming” being console and PC, while “casual and social” is phone/mobile, browser, and app. So the problem is that they use words that aren’t necessarily accurate for type of game, so much as type of how those games are played.

Aren’t many of the biggest “non-casual” games also f2p? Fortnite, Apex, etc.

A lot more people than we like to admit have gambling addictions, and they will keep opening their gacha games for 10 minutes at a time to get a hit of dopamine even if they realize it’s a manipulative business model that is designed to keep them addicted.

This is true but it doesn’t really dissuade publishers. Instead of thinking “hey, maybe we should diversify our portfolio,” they think “we need to market the shit out of our live service game so that people switch over to it. Also, we should probably minimize risk by using a popular IP and genre.”

people havent learned to avoid the scam tactics of free to play games? How come? I thought we all went through that phase and came out stronger on the other side. But youre saying 50-75% of people are still caught up in them?