Every time I see these weird out of left field narrative, I’m reminded of writing principles of Brandon Sanderson.

Casey, who I believe was studio head at the time, should have let the writing team do their job and give them time to do it. 

Alright, then I watched different interviews and read different things to form my opinion. BioWare had some really good writers, and they needed the time to figure it out. At least a Queen Reaper would have made more sense.

They could have even asked Drew Karpyshyn, who had left Bioware by then but wrote a lot of the…

Based on other interviews, I will blame Casey Hudson for the not-so-great ME3 ending and causing the studio to have to re-work the ending. From everything I read, it was his idea to come up with the Star Child and have that ending. He overrode his writing team’s ideas.

For some fans, that ending came out of left field…

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If they had any smart QA people, they could have simulated being jerks, and the product owner and dev team would have seen how incomplete their feature set it. I’ve worked with some very clever QA people who would ask about or create a scenario that the devs never thought about.

And, if these devs and product…

Unlikely. Nintendo is sitting on a large cash reserve, and they stopped competing on raw performance after the Gamecube.  They also have a pipeline of fall and holiday games, which could continue to sell more hardware.  They may not reclaim the spot again, as the market gets saturated, but they will definitely make…

Arcade operators can configure the claw strength in crane games. So, even if you were to practice on your own unit, your skill wouldn’t necessarily translate to another crane game.

Thanks for your input on this.

I work in website development, so I don’t get a specific credit for parts of the website that I work on.

It is interesting to see how game development and creative industries handle credits.

Is “Special Thanks” considered a lesser credit than being listed as part of the original department?

I would think being listed somewhere in the credits without a patch would be pretty good.

Also, when you interview for a job, the potential employer has can at least verify you worked at your previous employer. So, how…

I see. I didn’t play the last two Tales games, so I didn’t know. Good to know Namco Bandai had started moving away from that system. I guess the system is in optimal form in Tales of Arise.

Is there a standards body that has a list of accessibility guidelines for video games? For government websites and access to government buildings, Section 508 applies.

The combat is the biggest improvement. They ditched the line formation battle, where you have to hold a separate trigger/button to roam freely. Now, you can just roam freely like a normal action game.

It’s funny that you can jump in the overworld, but you can acquire a double-jump in battle. That double-jump does not…

Rollback netcode.  (at least the competitive players would want that)

Square should have just leaned into the meme.

Either that, there should have been better voice direction on the English trailer, so every reference of “Chaos” would not sound so meme-tastic. If the Japanese dialogue talked about Chaos, the English one should as well.

While I can find references to the S3TC compression system on the Internet, that was for the Gamecube. Where are you finding information that Nintendo has such technology for the Nintendo Switch?  Given that Nintendo had one for the Gamecube, it is certainly plausible they have one for the Switch, but I can’t find…

Sorry, I didn’t know what Xbox games Capcom has put out. I just did a quick lookup. It looks like Capcom has put all their recent franchises on Xbox One, so with the commitment to PC that means Xbox players will likely see those games as well, possibly as simultaneous launches.

Does this mean more Xbox support? The Xbox platform is based on PC architecture.

Yup, this mod is all washed up once Nintendo’s attorney’s hit the Gamebanana site with a takedown notice.

The more I think about it, an Avatar fighting game would likely work well.  They have enough characters.