The trailer looks great, but I really really wish Japan could figure out how to make a trailer that isn’t “random disconnected shots with other random disconnected chunks of dialogue cut over the top”. Some trailers are fine but I find a lot of Anime and Games trailers are like this and you come away with an idea of…

Good. Maybe now the absolutely fucking ridiculous pricing for this set will go back to normal.

If you look through some of the materials that have come out of this case, you’ll see there *is* a point, and it’s King. Microsoft has basically zero presence in the games market on mobile and King at the time was the largest mobile publisher outside of Asia (Playrix edged ahead of them in 2022) and I think fourth…

The Internet Explorer antitrust suit was decided 22 years ago today. The Microsoft of 2023 is vastly different and in a vastly different position than in 2001. Not a fair comparison at all. Their obligations as a result of the settlement expired over a decade ago. If anything a couple decades of good behavior since…

Personally, long time FF fan and have been enjoying this installment quite a lot. More than I enjoyed XV by a fair degree and vastly more than I enjoyed XIII or XII, it’s probably the most I’ve enjoyed a Final Fantasy since X, with the exception of XIV which is such a radically different thing it’s hard to compare.

Gamers might have forgotten but this was a deliberate move by Microsoft, they pushed out the 360 early when they knew Sony was not ready, in order to get a competitive advantage because I believe that their research had showed that the first one to a certain number (might have been 10 million?) was the system that…

Rather I think it suggests that the FF “feel” is something fairly fundamental that is not necessarily intrinsically tied to the gameplay, but instead is at a deeper level. There is very little that 16 has in common with even FF12 at this point, yet somehow while it does feel diminished a bit, it still feels like a…

They did have the wait option but you had to manually turn it on. “Recommended” is not true turn-based, time only stops advancing during animations.

Additionally Sega and Microsoft have had a close relationship for years. The Dreamcast was originally going to run Windows CE (and it did for several titles) and the shared DNA between Dreamcast and the OG Xbox is really obvious, a lot of the better exclusive titles were Sega games that likely had started development…

Single studio that makes a single game vs merger of two very large publishers. There’s not really any real antitrust concern around Sony owning Bungie, any more than there was when Microsoft acquired Obsidian or Double Fine.

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.