People could make a killing just by making good assets for others to use in their own mods.

I’d have less of a problem if the system was introduced from the “ground up,” honestly. I’m partial to the current Skyrim mod scene, and I think it’s incredibly naive to believe that the sense of cooperation and collaboration could have emerged in a situation where for-profit mods are the norm, so I’m not claiming I…

This, exactly.

I should back up: I am most assuredly not a lawyer, so I’m not entirely comfortable saying that there’s absolutely no (legal) problem at all. But the biggest potential red flag (repackaging someone else’s work for your own profit) doesn’t apply. My gut reaction is that there’s likely no legal issue, and whether or not…

This situation is being widely misreported. Chesko didn’t include any art of FNIS in his mods. FNIS is a framework that was required for parts of Chesko’s mods to function as intended, but the content itself is all Chesko’s own. He had no more legal obligation to Fore than a developer who makes a program for Windows…

Surreal. Of all the games Square Enix could have chosen to actually put significant effort into a PC port, they choose Final Fantasy IV: The After Years? I mean, I don’t hate the game like you do (but then, I like early SNES-era throwback grind-fests), but after half-assing Final Fantasy VII, VIII, III, and IV, this is…

Eh. I’m fairly indifferent towards The After Years. I can’t really dispute any of the good Mr. Schreier’s points, but... eh, I found enough to enjoy about the game despite all of that. It’s by no means a great, or even a particularly good game, really, but I don’t regret buying it, and I’ve certainly played far worse…

That certainly didn’t help matters, but I it wasn’t the biggest factor. It explains certain changes (“Gilbert” changed to “Edward” to fit into the 6 character name limit, “Milon” instead of “Scarmiglione,” etc.). And there were certain content-related changed, too (“White” instead of “Holy,” mandated by Nintendo of…

When I was much younger, my bar for judging the quality of a fan translation was “can I see an actual big publisher putting this out”? Which was weirdly naive, looking back: looking at NES and SNES era games, there’s probably more polish in the fan translation scene than there is among commercially released titles.

Which is really the problem with the Final Fantasy IV/Final Fantasy II localization. It’s not technically bad on the level of, say Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy Tactics. It doesn’t get the basic grammar wrong (“this guy are sick”) or mistranslate common terms (“rich” instead of “lich,” “bracelet” instead of…

Like all early Final Fantasy games, her name is configurable. It defaults to “Aeris” in the original English localization, but can be modified as the player sees fit. Personally, I went with “Aerith,” because I’d been following the game for long enough that the “-s” suffix looked weird to me.

I dislike the Souls games and the community turns me right off, but I’m not a fan of that quote. “Mistake it for fun” reminds me way too much of “forced difficulty,” and I find the entire concept weird. If I sit down and enjoy a game, I’m enjoying it, there’s no “mistake” about it. It reminds me way too much of…

I feel much the same way. On the other hand, I credit the Souls games (and, more specifically, the rapturous praise heaped upon them by the fan base) with helping me identify my own preferences in gaming. Which is, basically, pretty much exactly the opposite of the entire design philosophy of the Souls franchise.…

If there’s a song/album I specifically want to hear, sure, I’ll buy it (though typically not through iTunes, as I hate the client with a passion). That’s not the same itch that services like Pandora or Spotify scratch, though. There are times, fairly frequently in fact, where I don’t want to know the song I’m about to…

Truth be told, I’ve never been the world’s biggest fan of the Batman books. When they’re good, they’re great, but more often than not I find the near-fetishization of Batman himself as infallible immensely irritating. And I have a long held grudge against the range and its editors for screwing with non-Batman titles I…

I think it’s just unclear inking and coloring. In the top panel, it looks to me like the oval is supposed to be there, but it’s barely visible in the shadows of the cape.

To be fair, he’s probably presuming that this Bruce’s history is like his own son’s. The original, Bruce Wayne Batman from Earth 2 grew up believing that Thomas Wayne had been killed, but discovered later than it had happened differently. It’s a long, spoiler-y story....

I’m not sure I agree. This is such a loaded scene, not just on Bruce’s part, but on Thomas’s as well (given the events of the Earth 2 series that introduced him). I don’t think there’s anything that could have been shown that wouldn’t have been a disappointment. Handling it the way they did was the most tasteful…

The Thomas Wayne Batman is not a new character introduced for this series. He’s been a regular in DC’s Earth-2 book (and it’s follow-up, Earth-2: World’s End) for some time now. Suffice it to say, this isn’t a Marvel style “what if?” The premise isn’t as simple as “Bruce Wayne’s dad becomes Batman instead of Bruce,”…

I honestly didn’t think Convergence #2 was terrible. It wasn’t good, to be sure, and it’s utterly workmanlike nature has pretty much shut down any expectations I might have been clinging to that the series was going to get its act together and be anything memorable, but it wasn’t bad. After the first two issues, where…