It’s sort of hard to tell what people are getting upset about. Most articles reporting on the changes are only bringing up the most sensationalistic ones in an attempt to trade on the controversy. Nintendo won’t even provide a full list of what was changed, which itself seems like something that might be worth…

Xenogears was modified pretty heavily before it was released to tone down its religious references, apparently. There was some concern that Square wouldn’t release it at all.

I’ve always wondered about this. What sort of A / B testing is done for content being censored in various markets? How is it determined that changed will increase profit? For example, in the case being referenced here, edits were made and Nintendo didn’t announce them. Even after they were discovered, Nintendo largely…

I’d read comments elsewhere indicating that other bits of lore were altered. Specifically, it seems religious references were removed or toned down, though I don’t have hard data to that effect. However, it wouldn’t be the first time that had happened to a Xeno game.

I understood the psychology of the previous Steam sales, and I still preferred it to the current model. For one, deals on Daily or Flash sale tended to be a better price than those currently offered by the new “everything is the best price” model. For another, it injected a bit of excitement into the proceedings (as…

I cut my teeth on Final Fantasy. The first one was the first console RPG I ever played. I’ve continued to play them ever since. However as the series has migrate closer and closer to Action RPG territory, it’s really lost my interest. Persona for me.

Given the number of responses, I doubt I’ll be making a unique contribution.
This article focuses on two particular instances of censorship in Xenoblade Chronicles X. However, reading through the commentary here, these were not the only parts that were changed. I also read on another site that religious plot elements…

I may be wrong, but I believe that Persona 5 is going to be turn based. More broadly, the Persona series is an example of a recently released turn based game which was quite popular. Others are: Pokemon, Fire Emblem, etc. Now, I don’t know if these games match your definition of AAA. However, they do provide an…

I wasn’t intending to imply that they were making the game solely for the original fans, merely that people who played an enjoyed the original FF7 in whatever format (PS1, PC, etc.) were going to be the most likely to pick up a remake of the game. If you played and enjoyed FF7, you have a reason to pick up the new…

I have to disagree. People have been requesting a Final Fantasy 7 remake for a very long time, so long in fact that the requests may predate the popularity of real time combat in RPGS and episodic games as a popular form. In short Square is going to great lengths to alienate the game’s original fanbase, the ones who…

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Wow. I was already leery of the game based on the previous trailer (Yes, I like turn based battles.) I’m still going to wait to hear the whole story, but this is killing what remaining enthusiasm I had.

I’ll withold judgement until I get full details, but my initial reaction largely mirrored yours.

It’s a 3D render. Several of the images on the page are, or at least incorporate them. I’m sort of surprised to see them in a mainstream comic.

The SNES was the first console I bought with my own money, near the end of its life. I promptly spent just as much buying copies of FF6 and Chrono Trigger.

A while back (probably a long while, given howlong it’s been since I followed Marvel comics regularly), Marvel introduced the concept of Killcrops, which were nonmutant powered individuals whose abilities were present at birth as a way of explaining Multiple Man’s origin story. Squirrel Girl might be one of those now?

Certainly. The whole thing sounds rather nightmarish.

This struck me as odd as well. Since the source file was CSV, the problem as it’s described here seems like it would have been trivial to fix with a bit of scripting.

If the leak is true, then the next big release will be Destiny 2 (as free trickle dlc will replace the remaining two expansions). However, rather than an expansion, that appears to be being pushed as an entirely new game. So I’d expect it to be current gen console only, probably entirely new maps, characters will…

Reading through Bungie’s press release, I don’t see any wording which indicates that they aren’t planning to do more paid expansions. They mention that they’d like their live team to expand it’s operations from vital updates, but that probably isn’t addressing the expansions (since the game can be played (well ...…