Does this get the message across?

He knows exactly what he’s doing, and he’s going to continue to do it until people stop expecting machines to solve all their problems for them.

I also recognize that effectively nothing actually changed from roaming a world map

There isn’t much, but there are actually a couple of hidden locations related to important sidequests, like the zodiac weapons. I think there might also be something there related to the post-game content in the International version, but I’m not certain.

I’ll actually copy a comment I saw recently by someone else who knows more about Final Fantasy than I do. Apparently it’s much older than that.

Though historically the ATB system was invented for FF4 and used by all games until FFX itself before being used again for X-2, though I think most of them had the option of “active or wait” like Chrono Trigger to pick from. I haven’t played most of those FFs to say for certain. Not that it makes it better, but it technically was the return to form and earlier games just had less you cared to watch happen.

It’s wild to me how he left partially because of FFX, which is widely regarded as one of the best, and is my personal favourite.

You’re not wrong. I still remember the day I picked up a newspaper and saw the headline “video games earn more than movies for the first time ever,” and I immediately knew where the industry was headed. In retrospect, I was 100% correct.

Weird people were forced out of the industry over the past decade or more, for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with making games.

It’s great to see sex workers getting legal protections.

They’ve been trying to fix things that aren’t broken, and upset a lot of people because of it.

Best I can do is to hide core functions every time there’s a sale.

Sword Art Online?

Oh great. Nothing is safe from the Trans Am agenda.

I think someone calculated the time it would take to read every single one you’re expected to agree with in normal every day life, and it worked out to needing 76 work days to read everything you “agree” to in a typical year.

I’ve mentioned a couple of times around here how weird it is that nobody is really bringing it up so far.

How many people are actually playing the game to find out though? I’m always strongly suspicious every time some new game explodes onto social media. Why couldn’t they use AI to generate user reviews and comments also?

Same here. Played a ton of CSGO, but CS2 just failed to hit for me.

Thanks for the tip!

Edit: How close to finished is it? Their website lists version 1.01 as current.

Yea, fan projects (when there is actual work put into it) are often significantly better than AAA remakes.

Oh man, I can’t wait for them to reveal it, so I can finally know about it.

I think of it like an oil slick on a pool of water. Very pretty, but absolutely zero depth. They indulge heavily in the aesthetic of a space sim, without actually having anything of substance tying it all together into something coherent.

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Thank you!

I’ve always found the “games like this” section to be so superficial that it very rarely actually has games which I’d consider to be similar to the one I’m looking at. Just looking at the store right now, for “Aquaria” which I really enjoy, it recommends Skyrim as a similar game. Sure they both are open world adventure RPGs… but I definitely would not consider them to be similar games.

That’s unironically the reason I don’t even attempt to find games on Steam anymore.

You obviously don’t even know how it works.

when the servers are down, you’re fucked regardless.

As long as you keep the files you don’t have to access their servers to play it again. That’s exactly the same as even physical media. It’s not like a company will send you a new DVD for free if you throw out the one you bought.

when their servers are offline, you can’t download it anymore…

I have no idea what else you would be expecting?

I thought the sarcasm was obvious enough. Guess not.

Sounds like a good reason to seize greater control of the Internet other people’s computers.

You get to feel like a super cool insider in a shadowy club secretly ruling over all the foolish little people who aren’t clever enough to be deemed worthy of receiving dark money!

Business people don’t care what you want. They care exclusively about what they have to to do get you to accept what they want.

They probably just don’t have the talent to make a new game anymore.

How much did they cut?

How are they going to break record profits quarter after quarter if your pants don’t wear out weekly?

You can get feedback from people you know, who’s opinions you actually trust. Why anyone ever thought taking advice from anonymous random strangers online was a good idea is beyond me.

I’m astonished it took this long for people to start realizing that injecting social media into every facet of their lives isn’t a great idea. Why people wanted anonymous comments on their art, which could be from psychopathic junkies for all anyone knows, is beyond me.

It’s only a non-sequitur if you hyperfixate on the part inside quotes while ignoring the central thrust: That attempting to reduce large populations down to simple catch phrases will never end well in the long run. Too many people argue fervently over how we should label broad segments of society, to the point that they attack anyone suggesting that they shouldn’t be doing that by assuming those people must just want the opposite, but equally reductive, perspective to be true.

…as a lazy and simple answer, so you can put the blame for society’s problems on other people, and take no responsibility for learning and growing as people yourselves?

It’s bad because, exactly as you have displayed, people will hyper focus on trigger words, while ignoring everything else that gets said.

You assume too much. Those were problems brought on by the intrusion of big business after gaming became more profitable than movies, and precursors to the current blight. I’m talking about when gaming was almost entirely run by hobbyists doing it on their own time and dime.

I thought everyone knew that limited plexiglass barriers and stickers on the floor did nothing.

Plenty of places still have them.

Masks aren’t even intended to prevent airborne disease spread. They’re designed specifically to prevent spittle and skin flakes/hair from falling on whatever is directly in front of you, which is why they were called “surgical” masks not so very long ago, because it protected the open wounds a surgeon was working on.

Lastly, once again, they literally just changed the official definition of vaccine so they could associate their novel genetic therapy with a completely different established medicine. If there’s a more open example of corruption I’ve never seen it.

Well that’s just completely the opposite of my experience. Blizzard Entertainment, for example, was reliably putting out hit after hit after hit for many years. AAA studios used to actually hire talented people, and allow them to make the games they wanted to make, which resulted in fantastic products.

The problem with indie gaming is that it’s nearly impossible to actually find the few good games within the massive crush of shovelware. Even besides that, this thread is specifically about a large publisher.