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- Comment on Dragon Age veteran defends studio's attempt to make something different with Anthem: "BioWare's always been changing" 1 week ago:
Probably more floundering. An EA exec told them at one point that their demo was crap (and based on word from other devs, he was probably right), so they reintroduced flight, which IMO was one of the best aspects of the game. EA didn’t force a new story or concept on Bioware, though. All that was Bioware’s own fault between lack of leadership and staff burnout.
A long read, but this article goes pretty in-depth on what happened during the development of Anthem: kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731…
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 weeks ago:
Maybe. Maybe not. Some Amazon exec thinks it will, though.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t for Fallout fans. It’s for people who watch Netflix/Prime and saw the Fallout show. Reality shows are pretty popular on these platforms (Beast Games is #2 on Prime right now) so that’s who they’re going after.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 weeks ago:
A reality show vault? Not even Vault-Tec had any experiments that were that cruel.
- Comment on Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore' 2 weeks ago:
Hashbrowns scattered all the way was my go-to.
- Comment on Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround 2 weeks ago:
“Anthem actually had the code for local servers running in a dev environment right up until a few months before launch,” Darrah continued. “I don’t know that they still work, but the code is there to be salvaged and recovered. The reason you do this, it pulls away the costs of maintaining this game. So rather than having dedicated servers that are required for the game to run, you let the server run on one of the machines that’s playing the game.” This, he added, could have worked alongside an additional move to add AI party members to the game, allowing people to play it like a single-player game.
Ok, this is even more heartbreaking now. I loved the concept of Anthem and had a fair bit of fun with the game in its current (prior to shutdown) state and was hopeful that the “Next” project would overhaul it into something great. I still don’t blame EA for their decisions in this case; Bioware fucked around for way too long during development and the overhaul project was most likely seen as too little, too late… or too expensive.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It means GW1.
- Comment on DAE name their characters by their official name? 1 month ago:
My WoW characters had a mix of thoughtful and funny names.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 months ago:
An item that is sold to you at a loss in hopes that you buy more profitable stuff from them to make up for said loss. Game consoles are usually sold at a loss in order to get people into their ecosystems, so they can buy things like games and subscription services, which are more profitable.
- Comment on You guys should check out Far Far West, they're having a Playtest that ends on the 10th 2 months ago:
Looks cool, Wishlisted.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 2 months ago:
Might be fine with space bar as-is. I use the side of my thumb for the space bar, not the tip.
- Comment on Dispatch sells 1 million copies in 10 days 2 months ago:
I’ve enjoyed Telltale games in the past (specifically Tales from the Borderlands and Batman), so I’ll likely pick this one up later during a sale.
- Comment on Halo community lead wears PlayStation t-shirt to announce: ‘Halo is on PlayStation going forward’ [VGC] 2 months ago:
We’re already seeing some of that with things like the ROG Ally. There are also specialized emulator platforms that can play cartridges from multiple consoles.
- Comment on Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer 3 months ago:
Considering Skyrim Special Edition is handled like a different version of Skyrim, I would completely expect this version of Fallout 4 to break mods.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles | Review Thread 4 months ago:
FFT is hands-down my favorite Final Fantasy game. I’m busy with other stuff at the moment, but I definitely plan on getting this one eventually.
- Comment on they really need to nerf this boss 4 months ago:
I now understand why so many people are complaining about Silksong being too hard.
- Comment on After current events I'm now replaying this gem. Forgot how fun killing Nazis actually is 4 months ago:
I started replaying this one recently, as well. And yes, killing Nazis never gets old.
- Comment on Blue Archive, [an anime RTS], got hacked, but the hacker just spawned the same character everywhere without touching valuable data, Nexon confirms - AUTOMATON WEST 4 months ago:
It was definitely one of the funnier hacking incidents I’ve seen in a game.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
A lot of executives in publicly traded companies only have a tenure of a few years, so they’re focused on pumping the stock for next quarter to maximize their bonus. They probably won’t be around if/when the whole thing comes crashing down; that’s the next guy’s problem.
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 5 months ago:
One streamer dropped over $100k on Diablo Immortal when it released. His gear was leveled so high, he couldn’t match against anyone else in pvp.
- Comment on The PS4 version of Genshin Impact is being delisted and shut down | VGC 5 months ago:
Yeah, I’m sure they ran the numbers and a decision like this didn’t come lightly. Also, since this is a multiplatform game, there’s a good chance the displaced ps4 users already have another device they can play the game on. Ultimately though, if the devs want to grow the game, then these decisions have to be made. Back when I played, after every major patch, you were guaranteed to see people lamenting that they could no longer play the game because their device no longer had enough storage.
While I understand it’s not a 1:1 comparison, Final Fantasy 14 dropped support for PS3 in 2017, and the console was only 11 years old at the time.
- Comment on The PS4 version of Genshin Impact is being delisted and shut down | VGC 5 months ago:
Unfortunate, but sometimes you need to cut support for 12 year old hardware in order to do more with your game. I come from MMOs, and this sort of thing would regularly happen when a new expansion would be announced. Minimum specs rise, and support for old stuff gets cut.
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 5 months ago:
I remember getting punished by trying to use the Descent 1 cheat codes in Descent 2.
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- Comment on Does anyone play Final Fantasy XIV? 6 months ago:
That’s a major paint point for a lot of new players. You have to invest at least a couple hundred hours into doing the MSQ to get to current endgame content. I know it’s more about the journey, rather than the destination, but it sucks when you have friends doing endgame stuff, and you’re still stuck behind who knows how many more quests in order to join them. I quit the game twice during the stretch of post-ARR quests. They cut the number of quests down since I went through them, but it’s still a slog.
- Comment on Does anyone play Final Fantasy XIV? 6 months ago:
I used to play off and on. It was fun, but I didn’t do current raids or craft, so after finishing the MSQ, I’d just level alts and chase mounts/skins until i got bored and quit. I also work evenings and was active late at night, so it was difficult to find groups for things. I played on Zalera.
- Comment on Anthem servers shutting down January 12, 2026 6 months ago:
I was hoping EA would greenlight the overhaul project, as I also really liked the flight and combat. I understand why they didn’t, but it still sucks to see this.
- Comment on The Illuminator Advert - Game Boy Accessory 6 months ago:
I had something similar for my Game Boy, but it had a built-in magnifier as well. It made the thing top-heavy, so my hands got tired pretty quickly.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 7 months ago:
And what do you know… it just went on sale. Thanks for the info, I just picked it up.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 7 months ago:
My favorite is the original Final Fantasy Tactics, hands down. I also liked XCOM 1, Advance Wars, Ogre Battle 64, Unicorn Overlord, Fire Emblem 3 Houses, and probably a few others I can’t think of right now.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 7 months ago:
I’ve had my eye on Tactics Ogre Reborn for a while now, but haven’t bought yet since it seemingly won’t go below 50% off, and the reviews say some of the later missions are pretty stacked against you, forcing you to play a certain way. Thoughts on this?