Agree, I like the Junction system a lot. With a couple hours early grinding you can basically trivialize the whole game with some basic stuff like drawing Water off the fish enemies on the beach right outside the Garden and junctioning it to Strength.

FF hasn’t been truly turn-based since at least FF7, I’m not sure if FF6 also had the active vs wait in the ATB or not but in 7, unless you turn it on, if you leave the menu open waiting for commands to be input, enemies will continue to take actions. You can change it to ‘wait’ mode which pauses the action when the…

For me, I’m really enjoying it as a game but it hasn’t really captured that classic FF feel at all I think the biggest things that are holding it back for me have been the ‘fake openness’ or at least, the feeling that it’s an extremely linear story without much meat on the bones outside of that.

It’s absolutely possible to have dark content in games, if you’re going to treat it properly. The problem is that the caliber of writing that Blizzard has simply does not and honestly has not ever been high enough to tackle these sorts of things well.

It was even more complex than that - PS3's CPU memory was all shared between the 7 SPUs and PPU, but each of the SPUs also had a 2mb local storage to manage as well. Then the GPU had its own dedicated 256mb which ran at a completely different speed. If you developed for it like you would a PC or X360 you were…

Yep, took them about 5-6 years to catch up, albeit they also started a year later. The real issue wasn’t so much that Sony caught up, but that Microsoft couldn’t sustain the X360's momentum. They got there early on by buying a lot of exclusives and by having games that generally looked and ran better, plus having a…

That’s a Netflix problem rather than a streaming problem though.

Yeah, my experience with Discord has been pretty similar. It seems to attract a lot of people that love rules and categorization for the sake of it.

The noteworthy part isn’t this - the truth of it is self-evident and the writing was on the wall the instant we saw Don Mattrick’s Smarmy Grin at the Xbone announcement, there was no coming back from that and the XSX was already facing a huge uphill battle - it’s that Microsoft decided early on to instead pivot toward…

Only at first, the PS3 eventually made up the ground but for the bulk of the generation X360 was ahead.

“I just don’t want to reflect in 10 years and see this merger is the starting point that kicks of a push to buy up every studio, leading to every game either being Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, or smaller indie titles with nothing in-between”

It still boggles my mind that people see Discord as a replacement for anything other than IRC and the myriad of crap voip software we used before it (Mumble, Teamspeak, Ventrilo etc). As a replacement for those two products it’s actually good. As a replacement for anything else (especially forums and wikis) it is…

We’ll see if that actually happens when it comes down to it and they’re trying to launch a new console without the latest CoD etc.

This. Puerto Rico evolved into San Juan (same role selection mechanics, but now a card game) and then San Juan evolved into Race for the Galaxy. The instant I discovered Race for the Galaxy, Puerto Rico went back onto the shelf and I don’t think it ever came out again.

The thing is, that’s great for games that are all about exploring themes. But this game isn’t about that at all. It’s not exploring anything.

I own a copy of the original release. The “Puerto Rico” element of it is 100% window dressing. It could have been called “Island Traders” or something and no one would have even noticed the fact the worker tokens are all dark brown. The only reason it has this “real world place” theming is because it came out in 2002…

Reddit and Discord have managed to kill forums and we’re all worse off for it.

We did, yes.

Japanese trailer he explicitly says Tifa’s name, I don’t think it’s a line out of context. Rather I think people are reading too much into what a character who is not exactly notable for trustworthiness is saying, right after he talks about Jenova being able to look into people’s memories and deepest fears and…

This. At that point in the game, Cloud’s memory is severely messed up still, and you have to remember that at the points we see Sephiroth in the current timeline, it is not actually directly him, it is a piece of Jenova, or it is one of the many clones being controlled by him. He doesn’t really exist, he’s sort of…