Glad I jumped off after 12. Even if the games are good they’re not the kind of games I want out of FF. But I get that they’ve gotta keep the brand alive somehow.

Hot Take: I don’t think any of the Final Fantasy games are particularly amazing. I have tried to get into the series at various points: tried out a demo of FFVIII on the PC back in the day, I tried the NES games and SNES titles via emulation on my DS later on. I tried FFVII on my xbox one (the original xbox live arcade…

Oh please, stop acting like this is a scandal. Let’s be honest here for a minute, the people this API change is affecting are a very loud, yet VERY small minority of Reddit users, much like MAGA idiots IRL. Reddit(and CEO boy, who has def put his foot in his mouth a few times over this) doesn’t care, because those…

1TB SSD’s are like 40 bucks atm, same size nvme’s are maybe 10 more.

If your system only has one nvme slot, or doesn’t have one at all, a pci-e adapter card is about 15 bucks.

We're at the point where the words "Ubisoft open world" is an instant turn off. As enticing as the concept seems, I just can't bring myself to buy into their ... ... approach to open world.

Star Wars never had good writing. Even George Lucas admitted he’s a terrible writer of dialogue. Andor was good.

25 years in the making is an unusual thing to boast about.

Right, cause before them Star Wars was the pinnacle of story telling and dialogue.

This is kind of a catch 22 for Microsoft, when they cancelled that broken looking dragon game a generation ago they were panned as micromanaging. When they took a hands off approach and trusted the studio to self manage they get a half finished product. It’s a no win scenario for them (I couldn’t even get out of the…

I really can’t stand these “prestige” games.  They all feel the same to me.  I miss the kind of games that Sony used to make.

Because the rise of a conservative fascist is relevant to all Americans. And you’re kidding yourself if you think he wouldn’t start policing video games.

Some of the listed technical problems seem like they’d have easy workarounds - performing the facial mocap without actually performing the hug and then merging it with the capture of the hug, for example. Or making temporary use of motion capture solutions that don’t suffer from occlusion like IMUs for situations like…

Hopefully they're not making it too big. 10-15 hours is really the sweet spot for metroidvanias imo.

(could also be a lot of places in Australia have perfectly fine and functional public transport, which is convenient to use and a lot cheaper than paying for parking)

Yeah, exactly. Wii U had a lot of killer 1st party games. They did not sell the console.

The lack of confidence and focus is the ongoing issue.

Again, like I said, wait for a few third party reviews. Movie trailers can also be incredibly deceiving. 

I agree, but is there any indication that this was rushed out? This game’s problems aren’t (chiefly) mechanical (like Cyberpunk), it’s just a bad game. I don’t think any amount of time would have “fixed” it. It’s like a movie with a terrible premise and screenplay. It doesn’t matter how much time you spend filming it.…

Seems to be implying that Redfall’s, erm, “creative direction” was entirely internally motivated. Nobody told them to make a co-op looter shooter, they just wanted to try to flex themselves creatively.

Which is very plausible! A lot of bad games that people wanna pin on clueless executives were actually just creative…

Yeah, it’s like if the FTC blocked the sale of the original iPhone at the behest of mobile phone makers because no one else had a competing product.