The story unfolds in the northern sea Obelia Bay, a bay filled with countless islands of all sizes...Ys X: Nordics, the long-awaited latest installment comme...
Sales of Final Fantasy 16 did not meet Square Enix's high expectations, said president Takashi Kiryu. Last week the com…
I discovered Cosmic Star Heroine this week and I'm having a "why didn't I play this years ago?" moment. What are you playing?
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It's digital snake oil.
Products or services that act as fig leaves for C-suites are a growth industry.
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Deck Nine is also on this, and I thought their Life is Strange games were pretty good (Before the Storm, True Colors).
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A long music video is pretty much how I sell it, lol. Also a good movie to watch while in an altered state (it's my go-to movie when I get really sick/feverish).
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I tend to like sci-fi in this category such as Stargate, Dune (1984), and the Riddick films.
TRON Legacy is my favorite of the bunch, however. Incredible soundtrack, gorgeous costume design, and plenty of character.
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Ultimately, this is one of those things that needs subjective judgment and community ambassadors to be handled effectively. That requires human labor with high turnover.
I'm sure at some point one of the big players in the especially bad spaces (like MOBAs) will figure out how to do it on the cheap and create a market efficiency. But until then, all the profit chasers are allergic to creating actual jobs to solve the problem.
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I do the tourist thing now with WoW but I'm still talking with players, especially since my duo partner never stops playing.
Less so now, though, since /r/wow was where I participated the most.
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Zero chance this would pay better than even something like Mturk.
And yet, content quality on Reddit will tank even further because people will shitpost for pennies.
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I was selling countless pre-orders at retail going back to 2001. I don't know when this mythical time would have been either.
Ultimately, the vast majority of people making pre-orders aren't here, on reddit, or any gaming community. And frankly, with the rate at which physical print runs are shrinking, people are going to find they will need to pre-order if they want a physical copy of anything not AAA.
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Xenogears is my favorite romance story in gaming. Amazing depth to it.
I also liked the Bastila romance plot in Knights of the Old Republic. Some neat Force shenanigans going on there. Tali is my favorite self-insert Bioware romance, though.
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More than half of my personal follows on Twitter are enthusiastically jumping over. I don't spend a lot of time on Twitter these days, so maybe I hadn't realized it was bad enough to send people running happily into the arms of Meta.
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Something I've noticed as I've shifted more of my conversations from Reddit to Discord (even before the garbage fire over at the site) is that I'm not looking up stuff as much during instant, short-form communication. Just casual conversation really is okay sometimes. I'll be trying to keep that in mind as I spend more time on Reddit alternatives.
I also have a theory that message board conversations spend as much time on opinion as they do because all the little shit has been solved now that we have esoteric information at our fingertips. Some people don't even know what it was like to be sitting around with friends all trying to figure out what 80's film you saw Robert Loggia in because you couldn't just look it up on-demand.
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Mostly that exactly. The instance is probably the most restrictive general NSFW content platform I've ever seen, and that's ruffling feathers. There's also a lot of the same power struggle dynamic, too. It's exhausting. One of the threads publicly descended into name-calling (on both sides) so I doubt it'll get better in the long run.
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Bickering between admins and mods. Only a matter of time, though. It's already happening again over at lemmynsfw.
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Freelancer and Freespace 2 were also peak space sim for me.
Getting about 10 hours in before dropping it, I had two big issues with Everspace 2: experience level progression and immersion.
Once I got to a new system, everything was high level, and in ES2, the level scaling means it's more of a wall than a slaughter. There's also no experience point rubber banding to make it worth your while.
I really enjoyed the story so far, more than Freelancer (not exactly a high bar), but I'm at a point now where I have to grind levels to continue. The above already makes me not want to, and then there are immersion problems on top of that.
In Freelancer, the whole system was loading screen free as long as I wasn't docking. I don't think I realized how big a deal that was until now. The transitions in and out of "jump drive space" in ES2 are a stark reminder that you're flying from node to node, and not cruising through a star system. Other little things when off the main questline like lack of radio chatter, no consequences for looting stations, and low traffic add to the immersion problem.
I'll probably come back to it eventually as it's good enough, but that's only because virtually no one is making this kind of game anymore. It feels like it wouldn't much to surpass this game.
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Would be nice, but antitrust has been feckless in the US for so long that I'll take it where I can get it.
Silent Hope, an action RPG that was previously announced at yesterday's Nintendo Direct, had an interesting trailer showing some rather familiar elements,
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Here, it just depends on what's on the front page. A week was too long for most anywhere on reddit, but here there are still some places where I think a week would be fine.
Looking like a great year for old gaming franchises, holding five of the top six metascores so far for 2023. [\#gaming](https://kbin.social/tag/gaming)
This fall's looking as crowded as last year's was for me. The rest of the year is looking stacked, not even counting a half dozen games outside the genre I'm interested in. Trails into Reverie, Nayuta, and Persona 5 Tactica are definite buys for me. Eiyuden Chronicle and the Suikoden remasters are theoretically coming out this year too. I'm also interested in playing Baten Kaitos again, though I'll probably put that one off. What are you looking forward to this year?
Publisher Square Enix and developer Gemdrops have announced Star Ocean: The Second Story R for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC (Steam). It will launch both physically and digitally on …
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FF4 was also from an era where keeping scripts concise was part of saving on costs.
Playing third or fourth gen RPGs is certainly going to make virtually any RPG made today seem slow.
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Hard to pick just a few tracks, but some of my favorite original soundtracks are:
Nier Gestalt
Persona 5
The Witcher 3
Stellaris
For licensed ones, I particularly like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
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CP2077 has the best character creator music I've heard by a mile. Great for someone like me that spends over an hour in that sort of thing.
Dune was outstanding. If you haven't heard "Arrakis (Wormsign Remix)" from OCRemix, check it out.
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Good choice to go with the 1:1 remake style for this one. I think this will appeal to both the original fans and newcomers.
The soundtrack sounds great. I'm in just to hear the forest theme.