To be fair to FFXIV, the devs are aware that the pre-expansion story drags on. They’re working on trimming it down which will make it a bit more friendly to new players.

They are reworking XI into something. I think it’s still going to be an online game, but probably without a subscription, and hopefully with the ability to play through the story solo.

You should totally try XIV. It’s great after the first 200 hours. Don’t let the fact it’s online put you off, there’s no reason not to play it unless you have kids, a relationship, a job, or literally anything going on your life.

I read somewhere that apparently it doesn’t make it that much easier to emulate an x86 based console. My assumption was that there would be some way of running the code sort of natively, like how WINE can run Windows software on Linux.

I remember a discussion about some DLC for an RPG (I forget which one, but it was single player) which included a quest and a new sword or something as a reward. Some people were complaining saying things like “WTF? We’ve paid real money for this sword and we still have to do a quest?!”.

The SSD thing isn’t something that can easily be cut though. The idea is games will be designed differently to take advantage of the SSD. To then make that game run on a platform without an SSD you’d have to redesign the game to add in corridors, cutscenes or something else to hide the loading times (or stick loading…

I use suspend and resume, but I don’t fully trust it. I always make sure I’ve done a proper save recently before suspending.

There’s only so much you can future proof things. Maybe they did high poly models 10 years ago, but they can’t easily predict everything they may want to change in the future. Maybe they want to improve those bad animations, which may need the models to be set up differently. Maybe they want to change how materials…

I have a question about raids in general. Are they at all accessible to casual players, with no time to grind for good gear, “git gud” or make any friends?

It will have negative input lag by predicting what you would want to do, so you don’t actually have to play it yourself.

In the PS3's case it needed additional hardware to support PS2 games. The PS3 had a different architecture, and wasn’t powerful enough to reliably use software emulation. So it had to have actual PS2 chips inside it, which were then removed for cost reasons.

But day 1 patches won’t be fixing issues found from real users playing the game.

I also own all 3, but sometimes I forget I have an Xbox One. I only have it because my brother gave it to me because he didn’t use it any more.

So the company that made GTA technically made only $10 million in profit? I know that might sound like a lot, but it really isn’t considering how much money GTA has made. There needs to be a better way of handling tax for multinational corporations. They can basically pick and choose where they pay their taxes.

Also it doesn’t really sound like this study disproved the idea that sexualisation of women in video games impacts women’s body image, it just disproved that it’s a direct effect.

I keep accidentally punching my horse. Or pulling a gun on someone instead of talking to them. Why did they make “aim gun” the same button as the talk button?

I’m interested in trying this, but it sounds like there’s going to be a lot of stuff to get through before I can even start it.

Or Irn Bru-Buckfast cocktails.

Metal Gear 1 and 2.

One of the arguments against considering lootboxes gambling is that they have no monetary value.