I’m not much a fan of the guy nowadays but i kind of like the idea of Will Smith doing the genie. I feel it has to be an iconic celebrity playing the role, the type where their own personality can’t help but bleed through the character. Cartoon genie simply was Robin Williams being allowed to do his own stuff while…

To be fair, he’s been in the coma for so long now that it’s understandable that memory creep is starting to set in. Misty was based upon a girl that he met once and Brock was personification of his suppressed urges during puberty. We tend to forget a lot about our teenage years to the point where we just rewrite…

Mr Miyamoto! You either do not know how the internet works... or you are wanting to encourage your personal fetish.

Now if they had said that then maybe they would have had a point. Instead they seem to be focusing on the ‘glorified killing’ angle, which the commercial doesn’t have.

I’m not sure what reality is anymore...

It does seem half the time that these live action anime movies do get made with a weird mix of desperation and trying to look cool, usually abandoning significant parts of what made the original manga/anime work (i’m looking at you Attack on Titan!). Not to mention the entire manga medium is based on overexaggerating…

I wouldn’t say shocked. It’s just such a terrible excuse that i can’t believe it’s truly the reason he’s rationalised himself into believing. I like to think that he just said it simply as a joke.

While i love the idea (it’s basically a full on Battle Royale/Hunger Games version), i can’t help but feel it would be painfully hard to balance. The short term nature of a Last man Standing game verses long term survival mechanics feels like it would be more frustrating than fun/challenging. Constantly wolfing down…

I legitimately hope that his tweet is just flat out sarcasm. There is no way he can be saying that seriously.

In all honesty it was exactly things like this that caused me to lose interest in Final Fantasy after X. Prerendered backgrounds allowed for an artistic composition in each scene that an over the shoulder camera lost.

That would be in terms of sheer revenue. Note that steam and other services takes a cut, plus actual development and overhead costs, not to mention the refunds they just mentioned and probably a whole bunch of other stuff it ends up being a lot less that goes solely into the profit margin. Saying that it’s still…

I’m sincerely hoping that their next game is called ‘I’m trapped’.

Aye. In SF2 it very much felt like just a blind chase. Just keep your sights on the dot for as long as possible and mash fire. Make sure that they don’t escape.

I honestly reckon it was never as finished as they initially claimed. The actual rom itself clearly wasn’t, and some modders had to add things to essentially get it to play properly. Maybe it was the programming that was complete but not all the polygon assets had been created or something but there was definitely…

Great question. I suppose it was very much a simplification for me to separate ‘intelligent and free thinking’ and ‘someone with mental health issues’ so sorry about that.

They’re very much in the category of requiring specific knowledge of certain games to get the joke. Which is fine, but yeah a lot of the time i just end up staring at it thinking ‘well i guess that would be funny if i was investing any time whatsoever on Persona 5/FFXIV/whatever’.

It’s the type of thing that could have easily fizzled out after just a few months/years and then kept making weak attempts at coming back that continuously tried new gimmicks that just flat out didn’t work. Instead they simply grew stronger and more popular and i’m gonna stop here because it’s sounding like the exact…

That was my point. It only *appears* easy. Luck and persistence are big factors.

I suppose that’s true. I had essentially ran through the whole series in nice chunks before hitting a hiatus point just before the boat arc, then got back into it while it was being slow in this section. On top of cutting to Griffin’s new city it feels like we spent forever getting to the land of the fairies.

I guess it just seems too easy. Start recording yourself playing a game and let people watch equals profit. Sure i bet there’s a chunk of work that goes on in the background but that would just be a part of it after a while.