But isn’t that like the dream? Making money off of war?

I get that, I had a hard time reconciling the rest of the franchise after that, but to be fair, IMO it’s the rest of the franchise after 3 that ruined the series. But SO2 will always be masterpiece despite SO3's implications, because after all, it really is just a game.

Indeed, it was a fantastic plot for a video game, it just would have been nice if the outerverse was the rest of the Star Ocean universe or like I said, it just been its own game. As it stands it made the rest of the series kind of hard to go back to, which is actually kind of fascinating in itself really. Like, why…

Can you imagine if they spent even half their marketing budget for that game on some of their smaller titles instead?

That’s the thing though, the market now is vastly different than it was in 1998, you can’t judge current potential sales by what they sold back then. At this point the game has become a cult classic, known by many as one of the best stories in JRPGs. People are going to want to check that out. Sure, it would be a huge…

Sometimes I swear Square hates money. They have so much low hanging fruit for low cost remakes of cult classics that would guarantee a good return, and instead they keep fixating on lazy remasters, questionable spin offs, and freakin NFTs. Hoping now that their CEO has been replaced things will change a little around…

From what I remember, it’s more of an amalgam of endings based on each character’s relationship with each other. You can’t recruit everyone in one playthrough, there are a couple characters you can only recruit depending on which character you pick to play at the start, and then there are a couple characters you can…

Not sure what Kojima did to you, but I’m sorry that nobody will sleep with you, that really sucks. I get that’s quite frustrating for you, so you want to take it out on someone anonymously from the safety of your screen, but you should at the very least save it for something that makes sense, straight up said that…

Sure, it could have been recorded better, but looking back I still don’t think it was that bad, definitely not horrendous, especially when most RPGs of the time didn’t have any voices. RE2's recording was definitely much better, but I’d argue that it’s actual acting was even worse (though still amazing for the wrong…

The project’s been known for a while now, seems like a good chance that it will come out. If this were a Nintendo IP then Nintendo would definitely be shutting it down and fans would argue that Nintendo has to protect their IP. Capcom would probably just call it cheating.

That actually sounds pretty cool, I’d be down.

This looks fantastic. Really hoping it sells well so that we can get more games in a similar vein. Also really hoping they remake Star Ocean 3. I actually find the twist fascinating, though I wish it would have been its own game instead of part of the Star Ocean universe, but trying to play it these days is a bit…

My guess is that they’re adding a sepia filter in attempt to induce a feeling of nostalgia. 

I’m so confused... Could you even consider it as having voice acting? It had some midi voice clips inside of battle, but I thought they were actually pretty good for the time.

What everybody seems to miss is that up until Quiet, his characters were designed horny for horny’s sake. But this game came out when the oversexualization of women in Video Games was becoming a big talking point. Kojima has a history of sexualizing both his male and female characters though, he’s just kind of a horny…

“My only conclusion to all this is that Kojima has somehow brainwashed people into believing he’s some brilliant auteur when really he’s a very mediocre man with extremely mediocre ideas trying his damndest to make movies and being forced to make video games instead.”

Yes, obviously that’s the most plausible scenario…

Taxes are controlled by the government, it would be up to them. Unfortunately, in the United States we’re mostly governed by corporate shills.

Sorry, I just don’t consider Ezio with some pumpkins for a Twitter ad to be fulfilling art. With a universal income the person that would otherwise be paid to make that throw away image would be free to create actually meaningful art.

That’s the whole point of a universal income mate, people shouldn’t have to worry about making a living, they would make it regardless. People could still make art, there is still a demand for film photography, for oil painting, for printed books despite the advance of technology, and if they weren’t worried about…

We should be moving toward a future where humans can rely on AI for most labor so they’re free to pursue their own goals instead of grinding just to survive. Businesses should embrace AI. And businesses embracing AI should be taxed HEAVILY for it, and that tax should go into a universal income. AI shouldn’t be a way…