There’s a difference between an extremely linear plot (Xenosaga, FF X) and an extremely linear game design (FF 13). Xenosaga and FF X had tons of side stuff and towns to explore - these let the game breathe. FF 13 is just relentless in never letting you out of the corridor.

First, FF X didn’t come right after FF 12. FF 12 opened people’s eyes up to the possibilities of (semi) open-world. And then FF 13 crammed then back into the funnel, so it had the disadvantage of being later.

I don’t think anyone had a problem with Lightning (though there’s always That Guy)- everyone loved Lightning. And Saaz? Who could hate Saaz. People hated the whiney teen kid, who was obviously just crammed in there because a Final Fantasy game literally requires a whiney teeen boy (see FF 12). Eventually he gets…

I have to say $200 is quite reasonable for something like this. I thought it’d be $400 or so. Yeah, the case on its own is $80, but those look good and $120 is nothing for people ricing out their gaming machines. Many spend more than that just on RGB fans.

That livestream mentioned above. It’s about the 2:00 mark.

Basically, the big butt is a cosmetic item, pads for your real ass which is under the 2B ass. So when you sit down it doesn’t get ‘tucked’ under properly and looks weird and clips through the chair. Nerfing the asses is an ‘emergency’ solution (*woop* *woop* *woop*).

There was a time when for most people it was good enough to sign up for Netflix and they had most of the stuff. You didn’t need to worry about torrenting (black magic for most people) and worrying about copyright strikes or whatever.

Well, that’s too bad. These guys were offering a service the media companies aren’t.  We’re back to the bad old days when pirating is a better experience than signing up for some crappy hugely limited content service.

Dwarf Fortress, where the bugs are features.

Alpha Protocol was pretty crazy, but having finished Outer Worlds last month I think it compares well to Fallout New Vegas in terms of length and complexity. They’re just managing it better - and they’ve said this publically. After New Vegas they admitted they Had a Problem (TM) and started working hard to fix it.

I love these sorts of crazy bugs (except when I’m debugging them when the product is live). But they make great stories later.

Ah, I figured he just looked like that normally.  Dr. Disrespect rocks that 70s porn star look too.

The child molester sunglasses and especially that child molester mustache probably didn’t help.

The straightforward naming simplicity of ‘PS4' and ‘PS5' is looking mighty good right now.

And it’s just a matter of time before they start showing you ads on the Rift.

At this point they have to be trolling anyone silly enough to still be playing. How do you possibly lose all your armor points from reloading a weapon?

The JoyCons are just terrible for anything needing precise movement. I upped my level rankings on Astral Chain by 1-3 entire letter grades (D to A) by switching to the Pro controller.

The JoyCons are just terrible for anything needing precise movement. I upped my level rankings on Astral Chain by 1-3…

At least they chose an actual word instead of all the weasely operators choosing multi-word phrases like ‘climate emergency’ (Oxford Dictionary)

The approaching auto thing is not going to work, unless you add a camera for context or they significantly improve the state of aural location using mics only 8 inches apart. How are you going to tell which honk is important in NYC?

Color me skeptical. It’s easy enough to mash up genres (hundreds of games do this), but it’s hard to combine them properly and make all the mechanics seem natural and inevitable. That’s near impossible to do with this many combinations, so I suspect the game you get will be pretty generic.