Yeah, I’m all for a stronger FTC that has the teeth to actually go after antitrust cases and so on, but this was not an example of a case they should have fought, the way they went about it looked like amateur hour. Don’t pick a fight with a giant unless you know you can win it. All it’s managed to do is make them…

This has to be really underlined. Yoshida is a very good producer with a proven track record of running a really tight ship and delivering on time and on budget.

Fate of Atlantis is absolutely the 4th movie they should have made instead of the movies they actually did make.

I bought a Legend of Zelda game for the Legend of Zelda bits and wanted to spend more time doing the Legend of Zelda bits?

I guess I just don’t play that way. The game is aggressively sandboxed, doesn’t put things on the map, have a proper journal with items to tick off etc. or anything really, which already makes it harder for me to get into because I am extremely goal-oriented. So what I end up doing is setting mini-goals, basically…

I bought the game for all the other stuff in it. Not for grinding resources. Read initial post. Tears of the Kingdom is not a resource grinding simulator.

I know how the Dragons work. They are often not in accessible areas. You have to wait for them to be in the right area of their circuit to be practically reachable, and then get over to them. Given how slowly they circle, that’s a tremendous pain.

Duping doesn’t really reduce the mechanical difficulty of the game or anything, all it is doing is sidestepping the need to spend hours farming the game for those materials because the developer made them far too scarce, and assumed you would spend hours upon hours just grinding mindlessly. But that is by far the…

“improve the gameplay experience” by taking away the thing people used to improve the gameplay experience. I wonder if it has occurred to Nintendo to look into *why* people used a lot of these glitches? Personally I used it to make the game much more fun by not having to worry about spending dozens of hours doing…

If the launch had gone smoothly then yeah, this would be the midpoint of the cycle and time for refreshed hardware. But the supply chains are only just now coming back to normal after the pandemic, I doubt they could manufacture enough to launch a new SKU, and it seems too early in general, the existing hardware…

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.