I’m starting to wonder if Square Enix today is basically just being bankrolled by the astounding success of FF14 at this point. lol

Maybe, but they make decisions based on these projections. If they were actually profiting from these games, they wouldn’t be cancelling sequels, releasing studios, or spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt among their shareholders. All of the above behavior makes a Hollywood Accounting scenario unlikely.

I literally explained in the comment you are replying to why the “but violence” argument is a false equivalence.

It negatively impacts people because the objectification of women is still generally considered acceptable in modern society, and media like this merely perpetuates this perception.

Question: what is WeMod and how exactly does it let you circumvent loot systems?

It’s important to note that HZD’s infodumping was that it was mainly only things that were important to the main plotline. It still left a lot of questions behind (“Where is Elysium?” “Do backups of Apollo exist anywhere?” “What is Sylens’ endgame?” “if Hades didn’t die, where did he go?” “Can GAIA be rebuilt?” “Did…

This right here:

I remember hearing Shohreh Aghdashloo’s incredibly distinctive voice as the kindly but firm Admiral Shala’Raan from Mass Effect 2, and thinking to myself that I really hoped I’d hear that voice in more works moving forward.

I don’t know how they’re going to fix this problem to be honest. All three studios make CoD on different engines. Sometimes they restart with a fresh fork, but since all three games are developed at the same time but separately, they inevitably transform into something incompatible with the others midway through…

Yes. 100% interoperability between Xbox One and Xbox Series accessories. They’re even forward-compatible; you can use an XBS controller on an XBO console.

Meanwhile, basically every first-party Xbox title gets a free upgrade from Xbox One to Xbox Series without any hassle whatsoever.

When you compare it even just to something like Game Pass, which had most of what Stadia had (cloud streaming, cross-platform access, cross-save) and a ton of things it didn’t (hundreds more games, one monthly price, you don’t need to buy each game individually, and options to play locally), it makes sense that Stadia…

Admittedly, while this all sounds super cool, I have to admit I’m more interested in reading an article written from the perspective of a woman about what this game is like. And maybe that’s just because I’m having a weird whiplash reading this article describing VR face-touching being A Thing™, only mere minutes…

I don’t disagree with the premise of the article, but this article is much less about why the Warthog is important, and much more about why Halo is important.

There are simply not enough words for Outer Wilds and I can’t recommend it enough. I have never played anything like it before, and I don’t think I’ll ever play anything like it again.

In all fairness, the question was easy to misinterpret. I read it the same way, since it’s my biggest complaint about first-person melee games. And also because I don’t think weapon durability is really that big of a deal lol

What they should do is make this a story concern. They experimented with this towards the end of BfA, where you could side with or undermine Sylvanas’ warmongering. But that should be a full thing. Let players decide for themselves whether they want to be hawks or doves, and integrate that schism into each faction’s…

It’d be nice if they at least acknowledged this sort of thing happening from a lore/roleplaying perspective. Maybe give players an option to identify as pro-war/pro-peace or something through quests n’ stuff. Like the TOR Light/Dark thing.

Wasn’t it more than just the price? Like, for example, the much-touted VR mode being blurry as hell, with no options to increase the resolution.

I wish I could be endlessly entertained by something as much as this kid is by Joe Danger. How awesome it must be. I hope he never gets tired of it.