It’s especially surprising because, despite the series’ roots as a turn-based RPG, Final Fantasy has already covered a ton of weird genres. Outside of the main entries, the series and characters have been adaptable enough to fit in with third-person shooters (Dirge), politically-focused tactics games (Tactics series),…

I used to work at a large international architectural design firm that prided itself on creative collaboration, and one of the strategies we tried for collaborating between offices was some VR software where you all login while wearing a headset, walk around the in-progress model of the building you’re designing, and…

Every weeb now rushing to find a Gardevoir and crossing an item off their bucket list...

This made me nostalgic for Most Wanted’s incredibly cringe FMV sequences with dialogue and acting seemingly directed by a 50 year old marketing director who saw Fast and Furious once and loved it.

And yet, a few minutes ago I just watched the official gameplay trailer for the Dead Space remake on Youtube without any kind of age / content warning, which holds nothing back in terms of violence, gore, and dismemberment, and quickly reminded me that, holy shit, that game had some messed up shit in it. But that’s…

PS4. Valid point, but considering how PS4 vastly outsold the competition and is damn close to beating out the Game Boy as the third best-selling console of all time, I’m betting that most of those sales happened on Sony’s console.

Yeah, I think the issue is that Fromsoft sure doesn’t seem like a developer that ever looks backwards in its catalog. Outside of Dark Souls and Demon’s Souls (technically Bluepoint), have they ever rereleased a game in their long history? King’s Field is long gone, it’s weird there hasn’t been some kind of Armored…

I really don’t understand this strategy, especially this month. Surely the overlap in audience is big for most of these games, so is Diofield going to eat up some attention from Valkyrie, maybe meaning that neither of them reaches their full potential due to lack of oxygen? I would think it would make more sense to…

Google’s track record of creating something interesting, getting bored when it isn’t immediately super successful, and then abruptly killing it is a big reason why I’m much more hesitant to even bother trying most of their new apps and services. I loved Inbox and used it for as long as I could, tried using half a…

Considering this is the “Best JRPGs” and not “Best Retro JRPGs” list, I was surprised there weren’t any modern additions to the list. I know we’re still relatively early in our new JRPG renaissance, but surely one of them’s gotta be better than Legend of Mana.

I’m really surprised that those big sheets of cards aren’t comprised of multiple copies of one or two card designs, but instead seems to have all unique cards. Maybe that’s an easier way to maintain the ratios / rarity of certain cards?

On the one hand, I’m sure they’re very aware they need to avoid this being a repeat of Sea of Thieves, which sounded like a barebones framework of a game at launch and seems to have taken a couple years to actually flesh out. But on the other...there’s no way this game’s even half as good as Black Flag, the game it…

Wiglett used Bulk Up!
Wiglett used Harden!
Wiglett used Dig!
Wiglett used String Shot!
Wiglett fainted...

I mean, given Nintendo’s general secrecy and love of sitting on projects until they’re almost finished (or even long after), I don’t think this is surprising. The new Fire Emblem comes out in less than six months and was just revealed, Pikmin 4 has allegedly been complete for a long time and was just revealed, and…

I’m far from their target audience with these specs and prices, but my two cents for anyone looking at building a PC or buying a graphics card: 99% of us don’t need these new cards. I work in design doing a whole range of graphics-intensive tasks (modeling, renderings, some animations, graphic design, etc) while also…

This just reminds me that there’s never been the great Fullmetal Alchemist game that series deserves...it’s a damn shame.

My dream for this kind of software / toolset? The equivalent of RPG Maker for 3d RPGs (JRPGs especially, but it’s easy enough to imagine other subtypes as well).

And yet...you’re still coming back here? At a time when there are probably more gaming sites and a higher volume of games writing at any time in history? If you don’t like it, fuck off.

As always, the loudest whiners in the room prove that the critic has it far easier than the creator.

If nothing else, my hope would be that more transparency into the development process would quiet entitled fans’ vitriol towards creators. Whining that the puddles are less shiny than they were before would hopefully be minimized a bit with the understanding that the environmental effects were changed in order for…