Yeesh. On top of that, why clone yourself in a broken body? And why is the clone body already old? The clone soldiers from the prequels grew up as children. Imagine this same dumb fucking plot but with a younger Palps with a strong and powerful body of his own on top of being crazy powerful? But then how do you clone…

Oof...lotta very recent repressed memories in that short video. I had pushed my sadness down, but now it comes bubbling back up again...

True! But those were also generated and not handcrafted, so there's a difference in development efforts and way finding. Good point though!

That's true, maybe there will be more of a reliance on vehicles (which was there in the original to some extent). It makes me nervous because for the most part I see XV's open world as a failure - it added very little beyond travel time and barebones quests. It's possible they've learned, but I'll be skeptical until…

Throughout this game’s development I’ve had the sneaking suspicion that the developers are terrified of how to handle the world map in a cohesive way, which may explain why Midgar has become a much bigger chunk of game. In my mind there are three possible solutions:

I always forget that Stadia is not just a subscription, but you also have to pay for each game, which is bananas in itself. But then you combine that fact with what you pointed out, and it’s no wonder nobody trusts it. I’ve used probably half a dozen Google products that I loved and were then axed for no good reason -…

I was a Nintendo kid growing up and had a deep devotion to my SNES, but always had a curiosity towards Sonic as a contrast to Mario. I played it a couple times at friends’ houses, but otherwise it remained a blank spot in my gaming experience for a long time.

That’s great news, although along with others here, I’m not sure how they avoid abuse when they don’t use DRM to begin with. I’ve had GOG for years (ever since Witcher 3) but hadn’t really paid much attention to it until I tried their new GOG Launcher 2.0, which is just fantastically user friendly and well put…

It certainly looks like a game that traveled through time...from 2004.

One of the great brainwashing successes in modern history is how far right media has convinced large swathes of the country that those evil brown people are coming for their small towns, like anybody would give half a shit about rundown small towns in the middle of nowhere. Besides, basic economics and the opioid…

I have a deep love and respect for this show, but throughout its run the uneven and unpredictable release schedule has been such a challenge in terms of keeping up with the show and maintaining storytelling momentum. I basically gave up on watching as they came out, as I enjoyed watching the full seasons at a regular…

I certainly hope so. It’s a real drag to go browse what’s new on Game Pass and make my decisions based on ridiculous file sizes rather than quality. That 100gb for FFXV would likely be much smaller without 4k textures, for example.

To be fair, that word “supported” adds a lot of complication. Because the BC library is somewhat piecemeal, there’s no clear way to intuitively know which games will work unless it’s a major release (especially on the OG Xbox, which has far fewer supported titles). When I have a hit of nostalgia and remember a classic…

I finished the game last night, so I thought I’d update my opinion. I’m not sure I’ve ever played a game that so completely transforms from fairly mediocre to genuinely great over the course of a ~15-20 hour run time. I was really lukewarm on this game in the beginning, but the last 25% or so is genuinely one of the…

100% agree. Frankly I probably wouldn’t be playing it already except that it came bundled with my Xbox One S I got dirt cheap for Black Friday. It’s the poster child of a game that you should wait for a sale that brings it down to $20-30, which hopefully will also give them some more time to patch things up. And…

I finished DMC V this week, which is bittersweet - it’s honestly and surprisingly one of the best games I’ve played in years, right up there with God of War and Persona 5 in my mind. Not words I ever expected to say, but this game is polished to a shine and plays like a dream, so much that I’m sure I’ll pop back in…

There was a year in college where my younger self, full of the melodramatic angst and newly expanded musical horizons stereotypical of every indie movie, loved the shit out of Eternal Sonata. It was my jam in every way - the story was hyperdramatic navelgazing anime nonsense, the soundtrack was topnotch, and it was…

I’ll most likely avoid this hot mess, but I know quite a few fans won’t be able to. And trust me, I’ve tried to fill that FFT-sized hole in my heart for years - Tactics Ogre, FFTA, Jeanne de Arc, Disgaea...all good, but never with the right special sauce mixture that made me love FFT.

Thanks. It’s amazing what a slow day at the office does for the creative juices.

Seriously, those models looked like some early PS3 garbage. I can count the hairs on Archie Jedi’s head, but can’t get a decent Wookiee?