Ocarina of Time had it in 1998. And like every mechanic in Ocarina of Time, Mega Man Legends did it first in 1997. Wild Guns had it back in 1994. Flashback had it in 1992.

Fine, it’s not a scam. But it is a cult.  

With some studios, such as Capcom, it was an attempt to emulate the West. Capcom’s executives outright moved veteran devs, such as Keiji Inafune, into more senior roles. Keiji Inafune was basically handed the same job as Shigeru Miyamoto, in that he had oversight of almost all Capcom projects, and the ability to guide…

Yoshi-P described it in the NoClip doc on FF14 as SE having a mentality in the mid-2000s of hyper skilled swordsmith crafting exquisite products while the industry as a whole was automating a ton of that labor intensive work so they could focus on the rest of the product and save money.

This is interesting, because after reading the comments, all I can think with a lot of them is “you’re all right.” The Japanese gaming industry wasn’t ready to shift focus to multiple “similar” platforms simultaneously, they absolutely favored themselves over foreign ideas and people, and the change in what players…

I always just figured it wasn’t a drop in quality from Japanese developers, but audiences starting to prefer the open worlds and agency provided by titles like Oblivion, Elder Scrolls, the Witcher, and etc. This was probably the period where the term JRPG was most relevant because there were significant mechanical…

“Fans are waiting for it from your official company. It is not necessary to spoil the game for people because of politics.”

Good for them. These hackers are fucking awful: “Just because our country is literally trying to murder you is no reason for you to not... localize the game for Russians”.

Entitled pricks. Like, sorry - the devs aren’t monkey forced to dance for your amusement.

Weird timing when they are on the decline now. Honestly surprised they didn’t do it at the rise of NFTs, would have been a no effort massive profit for The Pokemon Company. Seemed like something TPC would have jumped on quicker to me.

Because written words make it possible to create deepfake videos, right?  Oh shit, wait.

Whether ragging on NFTs

NFTs and AI art may be “nerd shit”, but that doesn’t mean Kotaku has to automatically accept them. NFTs were a huge obvious scam and I’m glad they’re dead. AI art is built on a foundation of theft. Why do they deserve support? Supporters always want a “reasoned debate” but most folks aren’t interested in debating the…

But there already are automod bots that humans made by programming them.  We don’t need to teach an AI how to do it.

“We’re literally only using Discord for one thing: to talk to people.”

Right, and even then Sony still wasn’t able to take lead in the North American market.

Come on man, why do you have to choose to be this lousy and disingenious? Like what is the goal here?

For anyone else reading this: the 360 lead most of the generation, PS3 only caught up and overtook in sales 6 months before the PS4 and XboxOne released. So Microsoft commanded a 7 year lead over Sony in the 7th gen…

I just want what is worst for all companies involved, is that too much to ask?

The prices of those passes is crazy but so are the characters... The biggest thing that doesn’t make sense, is that the ultimate version of the game which is also on sale AND includes both season passes, is cheaper 80 dollars cheaper than buying the game plus it’s season passes individually, like how did that even…

Hehehehe you think they read it. That’s funny.

Is that all you got out of it?  You should slap your elementary school teachers for failing to teach you how to comprehend what you’re reading.