Yes, you’re quite correct, my mistake (it’s been a long time, I always played them back to back)

“Can you tell me about the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime?”

I think the problem with this approach might simply be budget and scope. BG3 took 5-6 years to develop (they started in 2017 having secured the license in 2016). Some of that time was certainly spent in building the engine and systems and so on but the majority of it was likely spent creating and testing all the game…

It’s probably coming up as a question because BG1 and BG2 both had pretty significant expansions (with basically Bioware’s original BG3 plans being cut down to become the Shadows of Amn expansion for BG2) so there was a precedent. I also don’t think it’s an invalid question to ask them “will you be looking to continue…

I didn’t realize how much I wanted a game to revisit Dark Sun until you mentioned it. Super interesting setting that WotC basically forgot existed.

Imagine how different modern TV would be if the writers and producers would realize that trying to make something for everyone is equivalent to making something for no one.

It’s roguelike -_-

There’s a shortage of good ones.

Mad Max was a seriously underrated gem of a game.

I really hope not, that’s the biggest thing that turns me off BotW - I *need* the icons on the map or I just can’t be bothered.

The question really should be, are the hours you are spending doing all that “content” quality hours?

I don’t mind it being a more major place for stuff around ANH simply because Jabba clearly had a huge amount of influence with the Hutts, and it was his seat of power, and that alone should have ensured it was more major than an actual backwater like eg Dagobah which was truly remote.

Do bear in mind that CoD2 had no PS release because the PS3 wasn’t out, it was primarily a PC game with an Xbox 360 port at that system’s launch, and by the time the PS3 released a year later, they were on to CoD3. Big Red One was the previous gen console CoD for 2005, and it was across all three previous-gen…

As long as they are in distant third place behind Nintendo and Sony, this won’t be the case. The only time it would make sense to cut exclusives off is when you are in a dominant market position and don’t want to allow your competitor a leg up. Sony is so far ahead of Microsoft this generation that the dynamic will…

That huge stable of older Activision games will end up on Game Pass too, remember that Game Pass is on PC and that the XSX has pretty decent backward compatibility. It’s not going to just be the last couple years releases - which is what we probably would have gotten best-case on Game Pass without the acquisition as…

A game with Zelda as the *antagonist* would be pretty interesting.

They wasted so much time on Nintendo because Nintendo not being part of the games market was the whole crux of the FTC’s foreclosure argument, to even begin to make that approach work they needed the market to be defined as a two-player race between Microsoft and Sony only.

It is how it works. These things only go to court after an investigation is done to decide whether it will be a problem. If they can’t find a legal argument for blocking it, they don’t go to court.

I’m really hopeful that FF17 takes the combat of 16 and the playable party members, more customization options etc of FF7R and finds a happy medium between the two. I don’t think there’s enough room in a FF16 DLC to fundamentally change up things, it’s going to have to be in the next game (which I hope doesn’t take…

Futhermore, the American regulator putting the stops on two American companies trying to merge to better compete against a Foreign-owned market leader is just not a good look.