Growing up Tifa (FF7) and Miranda (Mass Effect) for sure. Beyond the obvious reasons, Tifa was grounded, modest, child-hood dreamer, could still respectfully kick your ass, and Miranda was total girl boss, she could kick your ass disrespectfully. But one person I don’t think gets enough love is Monika (Doki Doki…

Seriously, so many people out here talking about how powerful the PS5 is despite the fact that it can only play watered down graphics at 30fps. 2026 seems more than reasonable for a new gen. 

The PS4 was held back by the HDD, standardizing NVME was important towards moving gaming forward. And while 8GB of RAM was sufficient at the time, it would be a severe limitation at this point. Those might not be as obvious of changes while you’re actively playing the game, but I’m sure you would notice if you were…

Load times aren’t going to be meaningfully impacted because of the NVME drive, last gen consoles were still using slow as molasses HDD’s despite SSD’s being prevalent in the PC world. But look at FF7 Rebirth and you’re forced to choose between a 60 FPS Vaseline screen or being stuck in one of those dreams where you’re…

Didn’t you just see what happened with the SAG-AFTRA strikes? That may have been the movie industry, but it’s indicative of business as a whole, executives don’t value writers. They don’t value stories, they don’t value quality. All they value is money, and if something is successful, it’s successful because it made…

The silver lining here is that Aspyr didn’t make a KotOR remake...

I only knew of Immortals of Aveum because it was one of two release titles for AMD’s FSR 3 technology, along with Forspoken. Getting tied to Forspoken certainly didn’t help it any, and on top of that, I originally assumed that it was part of the Immortals: Fenix Rising franchise, which I didn’t play either. Then when…

As far as I know Lies of P has done decent for itself (though perhaps you don’t consider the Pinnochioness of it as a new IP). At this point most games are part of an already existing franchise, and single-player success stories have been abundant in that realm the past year. There were some high-profile duds, sure,…

FFVIII Remake and FFVIII Reunion: Core Crises please!

Yeah, I don’t feel like it’s lazy or bad, just uncreative. FF7 was no stranger to graffiti, they could have shown somebody holding onto a ledge and spraying graffiti along it to give an in-universe explanation that graffitied edges are climbable or something. Practically the same exact thing without drawing your mind…

Oh man, maybe in 10 years we’ll get The Day After Tomorrows and eventually work our way up to 2012s!

I would say that a movie about scientists and their quest for science is pretty nerdy. And “nerd culture” is just whatever appeals to nerds, before the 2000's nerd culture was typically seen as “uncool” but these days a lot of nerd culture has mainstream appeal, just look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe or Stranger…

Yeah, there’s only two women that would have anything to do with Hojo and both of them are “someone’s real mother”. But, one of them is commonly associated with red and the other blue. And, while they may have killed the beloved and iconic staircase (RIP), I don’t see them killing something as critical as color…

Part of me really wants to buy a PS5 for this game, but PC will be so much better... 

Oh believe me, I’d never forget i, you’re just imagining things...

That’s just standard counting, you know: 0, 1, -0, 2, 3, π, 4, 5, 6, τ, etc...

Literally drinking tea as I read this, such immediate practicality!

Yeah, they also did the KotOR port to Switch, but they’re pretty much only known for ports, so a full-on remake was probably beyond their scope. It was taken from them last year though and given to Saber Interactive, which is a little more promising, but it still seems to be floundering. Everything that Embracer…

Jeff Grubb (whoever that is, an alleged insider I guess, whatever that means) reported that the game wasn’t being worked on by any studio so everybody pretty much reported it dead, but afterwards Jason Schreier (of Bloomberg and ex-Kotaku fame) X’d that two different sources at Saber Interactive told him that they…

After I beat Remake I was talking to somebody that hadn’t played it yet, they said they didn’t care about spoilers at all, so I told them about how they were setting it up as a sequel instead of an actual remake, and they were just like, “no, I don’t think that’s what’s going on.”

I was just like, “. __ .”