I know SquareEnix hates cloud saves

I suspect with this being a PS4 game first, it’s less likely to receive an enhanced port, particularly with it being the newest entry in the series.

They changed combat up by the third game, and eventually remade them for Vita (and eventually PC) the remakes all use the combat system from the third game.

Everyone knows things you don’t like are objectively bad. Why do developers even bother with games that don’t cater to my personal tastes?

Depending on what you’re interested in there’s a pretty regular selection of new titles. It’s lost most Western developer support, but there’s still quite a few games to choose from.

It’s definitely been a highlight of my time here. That and yakiniku...

When the hell did we go back to the 80s?

Newegg says $1,099.99 USD for me (though it’s sold out.) But 1,449.99 CAD is still less than that anyway.

I’m currently studying abroad for a year, and perhaps unsurprisingly, I didn’t want to pack my small suitcase sized desktop tower and 27" monitor with me.

Final Fantasy type-0

Similar arguments apply to digital games though. I can buy digital copies of games long out of print and with incredibly high market values (like say Earthbound or Suikoden.)

Limited print runs of these games don’t let you do half those things though. You’re not renting one of these, you won’t have the opportunity to buy them again later.

The PS3 version definitely had its issues, but having played both on PC (especially contrasting Skyrim to New Vegas at their respective launches) the difference was pretty stark.

This feels like some serious revisionism. Skyrim was definitely not as buggy as New Vegas on release. Obsidian hadn’t until around Dungeon Siege III managed to release a game that wasn’t heavily flawed by performance issues, bugs, and/or unfinished content (Dungeon Siege III in turn suffered from not being all that…

Grand Moff Tarkin doesn’t either.

They’re still not really great replacements for discrete cards (even AMD’s APUs aren’t particularly good for gaming.)

Reviews are inherently subjective things.

Given the fact that it so easily smudges is relevant to the review, it seems a bit silly to go through any extraordinary cleaning procedures just to hide that fact in a photo.

Seems like a value judgement dependent on how much you like Gears of War over Uncharted. Personally I’m not a huge Uncharted fan, but I’d still take 3 of them sans multiplayer over any number of Gears of War titles.

why spend time making emulation work for digital only games you have to rebuy when a lot of games are getting HD remakes