Yeah, me too. I do wonder what the terms of the actual deal are, too. Presumably it was an up-front lump sum when the deal was signed, and that helped Squeenix defray dev costs. But I wonder if there was more to it down the line - a similar bonus for future titles in the franchise also being timed exclusives (likely)?…

*sigh* SO tired of the zombie fad. It really wasn’t particularly interesting when it first started, and it’s gotten very, very old since then.

Sqeenix probably does not, no. But that’s not why they did it. Microsoft payed them a bunch of money up front (which they used to help fund the development of the game) to do this. Accountants made a calculation that $X up front was better than $Y made from a simultaneous multi-platform release. Odds are pretty good…

Yeah, I was thinking as I read that quote that there were a lot of assumptions packed in there that aren’t terribly reasonable: that VR is going to be “the next big thing” rather than a new technology that’s going to, at best, take 5-10 years to work out the kinks enough to be appealing or practical to a mass audience…

Yup. I think a flat organizational structure can work great with a very small group of people (~3-6) who have a single overall mission, assuming they get along okay. Individual tasks can be largely assigned organically, decisions can be made through discussion or on the fly. You can MAYBE replicate that with a larger…

I think this is a combination of Valve’s famous “flat structure” combined with a functionally endless revenue stream from Steam - no financial pressure to ship anything, and no one in charge to force structure. Everybody’s free to play with ideas for only so long as they’re interesting, then they’re abandoned in favor…

But I think it’s only coming to PS4 stateside.

Decisions like that are almost always predicated on a cost-benefit analysis. Presumably, whatever cost is associated with porting the localization over to Vita didn’t look like it’d be worth it based on their estimate of how well it’d sell. Which is not to say they’re right - decisions like that always involve a lot…

Nah, I’m sure he means March of the Bunions! ;-)

I’ll certainly grant that it’s the considerably less common choice, but I’d hardly call it “original.” But then, there’s no such thing as an original story at that level of high concept - you’ve got to get into more detail before any real creativity can come into play.

They generally weren’t that simple and plain, because they had to serve as the sole focus of the set, rather than as background for something else as it is here. There was usually a bit more to them, even when they were just models of ordinary buildings. Usually they’d be able to do something - have some moving parts…

So here’s something I was never clear on (I never read old-school Avengers comics, they were before my time) - if, when he shrinks, whoever is wearing the suit that uses “pym particles” (Giant Man, Ant Man, Wasp, Yellowjacket, whoever) retains his strength from normal size (which allows him to be effectively…

Console will be high-end VR’s white horse since it has lower hardware requirements, easier set-up and lower pricing. PlayStation’s 35 million-plus users are also a far larger accessible audience than that of high-end PCs, which tops off at about 17 million.

That’s a shame. I kept hoping they’d bring out another single-player Fable game eventually. The series is deeply flawed, but I still enjoyed all 3.

That has never been stated in any comic featuring his character that I have ever seen. Admittedly, I stopped reading comics regularly over 15 years ago (so maybe somebody has started making that claim more recently), but his handle has, since his inception, been “Magneto, the Master of Magnetism” - he has never been…

To be fair, Magneto has no business being able to throw up energy shields that can stop Cyclops’ optic blasts or Iceman’s snowballs (not that 60's era Iceman was all that dangerous anyway, since his control was pretty limited). He controls MAGNETISM. Throw ferrous metal at him, sure, he could reasonably deflect that…

I always thought Karnak WAS exposed to the Mist, just that his resulting power (being able to instantly see the flaws in everything around him) wasn’t as flashy as everyone else’s. Huh.

Ah, ok. Thank you. I suspected it was someone like him.

To be fair, setting-wide reboots are more of a DC thing than a Marvel thing. Secret Wars was the first complete multiversal reboot Marvel has ever done, in fact, though they’ve done lots of stories and events that rebooted specific characters or teams in one fashion or another (I think the biggest one previously -…

I’ve got the exact same question - just skimmed through all the comments hoping for someone to answer it, with no luck.