*looks at list*

Big oof at first glance. As HyperGamer mentioned, development time was super fast early on - typical development time for the 2d games was about a year on average, and the core gameplay was relatively similar from FF I thru VI. Even FFVII & VIII were relatively quick projects, if I remember right about 18 months each…

Still confused why this rerelease of a game with an existing localization / translation took seven extra months...hopefully not an omen for SMT V's eventual release, assuming it ever arrives.

I’m genuinely baffled that the PS Store doesn’t have some kind of simple hardware check between whether you’re browsing on a PS4 or PS5 (I understand you might need to specify on a phone or the web), which could then prioritize PS5 versions on that console. I just assumed something like that was the basis of Smart…

I admire your optimism, but you can’t fix poor game design in a couple months...

I think it’s one of those newfangled meal kit services?

38% of Iceland’s GDP!

According to a quick google search, as of 2021 (and possibly before this bonus took place) Kotick already had a personal net worth of $8 billion, which for context is:
-a third of EA’s entire net worth ($24 billion)
-five times the net worth of Square Enix ($1.26 billion)
-almost double Ubisoft’s net worth ($4.5 billion)

B…

I get your point, but maybe not a solid general rule, since you could also say something like “I pay X in taxes and I sure wish those went to medicare for all, public education, and green infrastructure rather than the military industrial complex, tax cuts for the wealthy, and fossil fuel subsidies!”

Same here. I’m waiting for a PS5 Slim, FFXVI, or FF Remake Part 2 (assuming either of those is still exclusive at that point), I can’t imagine anything else getting me excited enough to drop that kind of money anytime soon when I have a massive backlog already.

I know that’s an option, but I just can’t imagine PS Now streaming would work properly for my completely average internet, as even PS4 remote play streaming just refuses to work decently in the same room no matter what I try while every other streaming option (Xbox remote play, xCloud, Steam via both the app and Steam…

I loved this game when it came out, such a unique and beautiful theme for a story. I wish I could revisit it without needing a 360 or PS3 just to do so, but unfortunately it continues to stubbornly evaded Xbox backwards compatibility...Microsoft, please, there are dozens of us! (Or, you know...Switch port??? Stranger…

They could probably explain it away through his powers somehow - whenever he’s in a crowded place or somewhere he might be filmed, he’s learned to use his speed to rapidly vibrate at such a micro level that he appears blurred on film, but it’s too fast for the human eye to notice...or something.

So many authentic features too! The conductor having nefarious plans that put the whole train in danger. The announcer yelling “Get on the train!” at every stop. Preteen boys shamefully masturbating in the corner of every car. And they ran out of budget for the last couple of train stops, so you just kinda have to…

Hot damn, that Mace Windu clip just never gets old. Such an absolute legend of a show.

Tim Rogers (formerly of Kotaku) and a couple others recently did a great Let’s Play of the first couple hours, which is how I found out about the game.

I’ve only tried Wild Arms 3 and 5 so far - WA3 has a really interesting opening segment where the main cast all show up separately in a heist with guns drawn at each other, and you then pick which order to play through their intro / backstory, but after that it just felt old and sluggish in that way that some early…

I’ve done the same thing. I think maybe 80-90% of my gaming time over the past year are either on retro consoles or ports onto modern consoles? I’m enjoying the deep dive back into old games I missed out on at the time (Grandia, Breath of Fire, Wild Arms, etc), but I find that I’m also having an incredibly hard time…

I get that, but to be fair to the game, each palace / chapter is mostly focused on a different type or area of corruption (police, politics, abusive teachers, the art world, etc), each of which has enough potential material and subject depth to be explored much further within its own game or story. They’re certainly…

One of the main events in P5 (and one that’s shown in the first few minutes) is the main character getting viciously beaten and treated terribly by the police, with the detective being shocked at this cruelty. Later plots show corruption in high ranks of law enforcement in conjunction with the political villainry.