Except, that’s exactly what these gaming execs are pretending to pitch and it’s been around for years, also doesn’t require any blockchain/crypto/hype nonsense.

The fact anyone marketing something made a comparison to Hallmark cards shows you how out of touch and out of date the people behind it are.

Kind of lame.

This article is really unclear: was she streaming her reaction, or was she literally showing the episodes on stream? Because plenty of people do watch-along streams, but most people easily understand they can’t show the actual content on their stream unless it’s something truly old enough to be public domain.

Right? That “it practically wrote itself” comment especially stands out to me. Sounds like they had a lot of been-done-to-death ideas that can easily slap into anything i.e. “go capture that base by defeating the enemies”.

I think others have already said it, but yeah it seems to be an issue of quality. People BUY the game before they know what they think of it, and I’m sure Sony has some metrics on how many people purchased, how many actually played, and how many completed it (among those who connect online).

From selling massively overpriced merch to 10-14 year old boys (via mom’s credit card) I assume.

I had no idea Now had started shifting to letting you download things to play, and had completely avoided and ignored the service as I find game streaming too unreliable a notion to subscribe to.

You don’t believe his own comments that are very clearly tempering people’s expectations for how much input he had? Where he points out he ONLY worked on world-building, not the actual plot, etc.? He’s not exactly trying to steal a bunch of clout in that post.

I mean, you could literally read his post. He says himself, he did world-building and background, history writing. He wrote to flesh out the world they were going to make a game in. That’s more than just names.

A valid experiment might be along the lines of “If we charge 350 rather than 700 for this, do we then sell at least twice as many making up the difference in income while giving players a better deal?”

This has consistently been my experience with kickstarted/crowd-funded games. Your knowledge and excitement starts far too early in the development process compared to a privately funded game you don’t even hear about until it’s approaching a release year. So the forces or feelings that usually make you interested in…

I think it’s funnier you can’t be assed to Google image search the actress to realize it’s pretty much just modelled off of her before you go off on some judgmental bullshit.

From Network test videos I’ve watched (especially Iron Pineapple) there are changes to combat. Blocking, for example, is a more valid option because they’ve added in a block-counter kind of move. After blocking, you R2 for a special heavy counter attack.

Yeah, the only thing I dislike about the change is it took something very clear-cut and made it into something “open for interpretation”. So you’ve got a lot of “the baby is just in his mind” nonsense floating around, when the story presented it much more clear; Oceiros was obsessed with dragons and becoming a dragon,…

Been hearing good things from the network tests, and seeing the vids from Iron Pineapple, Vaati, ymfah, etc. Glad I didn’t try to sign-up for this though, as I think I’d only end up terribly annoyed I can’t continue playing at the end of it. Happy to wait for the full game, I think an appetizer would just have stoked…

The one example of concern I would point to is P.T. You literally can’t download that anymore regardless of having it “owned” on your account. Which I believe they got away with for 2 reasons: it was free, and Konami was technically classifying it as something like an interactive announcement trailer for Silent Hills…

I think previous King’s Field games, as well as the first Shadow Tower, didn’t do very well with US releases which lead to Sony seeing a track record of these not being something to localize. US releases of King’s Field were OK to mixed, with the PS2 game not reviewing well in the US. Shadow Tower had a poor…

Could just be a throw in, or could tie into whatever story the setting has. I can imagine maybe there are a lot of sentient puppets, or were a lot, and that somehow lead to a massive downfall or societal upheaval or whatever. People lashing out against and persecuting “puppets”, meanwhile the whole place has gone to…

“As we’ve focused more on work, and frankly, as we’ve heard your feedback more broadly, we’re working on making it so that you can log into Quest with an account other than your personal Facebook account,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his keynote speech. “We’re starting to test support for work accounts soon.”