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I consider this the absolute least they can do.

This was a glorious quote and made me laugh XD It makes me feel a bit bad because I have friends who love the series. I just never played it or even know what it's about. I only know it's a cult hit so if this happened with a game series I loved, I'd be fucking pissed. Still, you are so right with what you said. I'm over this bullshit. All Epic did was ring console wars to PC and this shit is just as annoying as when Skyrim had timed exclusivity on Xbox 360. Super lame. Moreso because fucking over project backers is unforgivable IMO

Yeah I'm loving the designs. I still think it's dumb they're limiting the number of pokemon. Mainly because they're choosing to do so now, for the first main console release where they are vastly less limited in terms of space and graphics. They could literally patch the rest in later or make them free optional dlc. The models are just the same as USUM but with alterations and at a much higher resolution. Frankly it seems more like they're just omitting them to meet the launch deadline. They should just patch the national dex in later like they did for X and Y ?

I don't know if speed runs are a good yard stick for judging game length dude. In fact, it might be the worst thing to use as many speed runs include glitches, skipping huge parts of the game, game breaking and exploiting bugs ? Even in the best case scenario of none of these examples being used, speed runs rely on skipping anything you're not locked into and that is the main reason midgar would take 2 hours. Long-winded story, back and forth and being unable to leave midgar til after shinra tower. Then you can just ignore most everything and skip through dialog like crazy. Especially in the HD version with triple speed lol

That sounds more like you're implying that epic store exclusivity was a good thing for an already backed 3 years prior project that listed steam keys as pledge rewards. If there was any altruism whatsoever they wouldn't have made it exclusive. Apparently though, Epic and Deep Silver love fucking gamers out of choice and woukd rather strong arm them out of the platform of their choice so they can make extra money. Fucking piss weak. Now Ghostbusters HD is Epic exclusive and even worse, Telltale Remastered collections are going epic exclusive too which sets a shitty precedent. Now remasters going store exclusive potentially means those who already bought and supported games in the past won't get free or discounted upgrades. Tim Sweeney isn't improving the games industry. He is improving his wallet and fucking people out of choice, plain and simple.

Pretty sure you're overstating it a bit ? Like yeah, its valid that Midgar is content rich and I agree completely but to claim that Midgar's content is equal to half the other areas in the the first disc.. just, no dude. All the Fort Condor battles, Chocobo Farming/Racing, Midgar Zolem and Mithril Mines, Gongaga and the Turks, Junon sea serpent boss and soldier masquerade, Cargo Ship, Mt Corel Barrett story, Golden Saucer dating and all the minigames and battles within, Corel Prison, Nibelhiem, Nibelhiem mansion, Mount Nibel, Yuffie/Vincent, Cave of the Gi, Wutai.. Thats me glossing over it too. Midgar is specifically two missions with Avalanche, Midgar tunnels, meeting and protecting Aerith at the church, Return to Avalanche HQ, the side quest lead up to Don Corneo, Shinra Tower, the escape and that's it. Sure all the Midgar areas are detailed and meaningful and a lot of the subsequent towns are throw away stops but the areas between them aren't. Midgar is like a quarter of the first disc content-wise. It really is only the first 5-6 hours, it's just more memorable but still prologue. I mean, Corel/Prison, Nibelhiem/Mt Nibel and Junon is just as much content as Midgar really. I agree with it being bullshit too that Square claim not to know how many entries it'll be. Like seriously, there is no way they haven't sat there with a storyboard and divied it up estimate-wise. They could at least give people a ballpark estimate within two games. Still, I like you will try and be optimistic til after i've played the first episode. It does look better than I thought and I am onboard with them fleshing out the story a bit, just reluctant for it to be a $200 game lol I like that Jesse, Biggs and Wedge are getting attention and all the details of the beginning area. I honestly would love them to do the same to the rest of the game too but i'm just trying to be realistic as to how they're breaking the game up based on them making Midgar the first episode as I really thought it'd go at least til Junon. If Episode 2 is just up until Junon or if Gold Saucer or Nibelhiem is its own episode i'll facepalm hard. I just hope they don't price it too high and don't have a lot of faith that they won't and really.. i'm surprised they didn't release Cris Core HD prior. Like really.. wtf

And Epic fucked over backers again by making Shenmue 3 a timed exclusive despite steam keys being a pledge reward til crowdfunding campaign completion. Phoenix Point, Outer Wilds, Shenmue 3, etc.. This isn't competing with Steam. This is directly fucking over the people that funded the game itself out of the platform of their choice because Epic threw some Fortnite money around after the fact. Super, super shitty..

I love the idea of competition. Competition comes from competitive pricing though, not forcing people to reluctantly buy games on a lesser service (and it undoubtedly is) All the timed exclusivity does is drive sales to consoles or add 6-12 month artificial launch delays for people that want to play on a launcher that has any features at all. If it were about gamers, they'd stop buying timed exclusivity for 5 minutes and spend time matching the features of their competitors launchers. At least the big ones. Cloud saves, achievements, etc.. Those are kinda a big deal and sure, while people don't need them, technically they don't need games either ? I haven't hated Epic from the beginning. In fact I cheered them on. But they just kept doing shadey shit and lying about stopping. It was several instances of buying timed exclusivity on kick-started projects with steam keys as part of the pledges and stretch goals that tore it for me. Literally fucking the people who helped fund games out of the platform of their choice because Epic has a hate boner for Gaben. Did Gabe fuck Tim Sweeney's wife or something or bully him in high school, because shits ridiculous. I was also pissed off at how they just decided there was a sale on games like the unreleased Vampire: The Masquerade 2 (among others) without telling the developers resulting in games being pulled. Not cool. I honestly just hope they dirt their shit out. I don't appreciate choice being taken away from me or others. It's why I really appreciate Xbox current as they're adding choice and now I'll be able to get PC Game Pass and rock that shit.

I honestly just hate EPic Games at this point. I'm done with their bullshit, their shitty featureless launcher and them throwing Fortnite money around because they don't make anything else all while pretending to be doing it to make a better gaming industry. Epic Games is the definition of virtue signaling. Sure, developers getting a better cut is great but you don't just force people to but 3rd party titles on your shitty platform. Give them better options, lower prices, better sales and features. All they do is fuck gamers and while many people don't care where they play their games or about things like achievements and cloud saves, plenty of others do so Epic..yeah, that can suck a fat unkempt dick! *logs in to get the latest free game*

No. It's not even a 10th of the game. The first disc ended at the Temple of the Ancients after Midgar, Kalm, Junon, Costa del Sol, Corel, The Golden Saucer, Cosmo Canyon, Nibelheim and finally Rocket Town. There were 2 discs after that although the final disc was mainly endgamel, Midgar was still only the first 5-6 hours of a 55-80 hour game. I am pretty wary of Square doing this because if Square make every 5-6 hours of content a separate episode, we're looking at a 10-15 episode game and you know they'll charge out the ass for it. Episodic games are $10-15 per episode here but I think Square will go for $20-30 claiming that each episode is like its own game. Either way, it'll be hundreds of dollars.. I just don't get Square. They act like overworlds are too hard to do yet keep putting them in Dragon Quest games, meanwhile, Level 5 and Bamco have never had a problem putting them in Ni No Kuni or Tales games. Then Square act like they need to retell or flesh out a story and remake everything and they.. don't.. really. I mean throw in some tie in lore to Crisis Core, Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus and just give the game a visual makeover and everyone would have been happy and it likely would have been finished by now. But no, they'd rather retcon the game and make a completely new game and while on the one hand it's cool that they'd do that, on the other FF7 is a cult hit. If they fuck anything up too badly, half the fan base will lose their shit.. I can already see what will happen. They'll charge people out the ass and ignore criticism while every noob on the planet wows over the graphics with little to no regard to games that came before it.. just like they always do. It's annoying and while I think the remake will probably be awesome, I think this is going to be a brutal milking of a fan-base. Keep some chapstick handy for those nipples! The whole game will cost the same as a console here >_>

It's so overdue too. I'm so bored with Pokemon now I've resorted to IV/EV training various pokemon to max level in between shiny farming. I even farmed for a shiny Smeargle so I could teach it false swipe, recover, recycle and aerial Ace and trained to max as my shiny farmer. I need a new game badly lol

Nintendo Direct is apparently going to be 40mins or so. Fucking HYPE!!

Happy Birthday Des! Hope you got spoiled and had a lovely day

I laughed when Bethesda announced NPCs for Fallout 76 XD Carrion looks awesome though. So does Scarlett and PC gamepass

I prefer strong doggo to knife doggo but I'll probs grab the double pack TBH. And start with Sobble

Hacking.. people..?

Cringey ass shit people like those from 4chan that appear all over the net now grasping at low hanging fruit and generalisations mostly. People that claim to be trolls but instead of tricking people into outrage and getting mad for the lols like actual trolls, they're passionately proclaiming and arguing stupid shit that they actually stand by and trying to pass it off as trolling because people get "triggered" by picking apart their dumb arguments with logic. When I was growing up, trolls used to just fuck with people to piss them off and then laugh about it, even if they disagreed with what they were saying to said person, it was done do to get a rise out of people. Edgelord douchebags are just there to talk shit and call you a triggered cuck for not agreeing with them.

I mean like generally people are harder to find. Rather than just being, for instance, Bill Hader with a blue verified tick on Twitter that you can @ easily, on Reddit he could be BillyWilly69 for all I know. Still, I do follow a few people on Reddit, it's just harder to find people generally speaking.

She's just a poor little Smol. We already call our other kitty "Smol" as a nickname. Pixel is either "Smol Smol" or "Teeny" because she is so small. She was all bug eyed and sunken cheeks when we got her. The Bug eyedness is gone but the sunken cheeks will take some time. We need to fatten her up haha She also farts like crazy because her belly bacteria is still a mess. She'll get there..

I'm not saying it isn't. I'm saying is less cancerous than Facebook. I prefer Reddit TBH but you can't directly speak to bands, devs and pixel artists as easily on Reddit

This is Pixel. We rescued her. When we got her she was infested with fleas and worms, emaciated and sick af. This is a semi-old picture. She's been fattened up since and we've gotten rid of a lot of her fleas and dewormed her. She'll still sick but improving. She also has a food obsession from living with a neglectful family who didn't look after her and as a result if she smells food on your fingers or toes, she bites.. and draws blood. I wanted an Artemis but I can deal with a Pixel ??

Edgelord shit. I remember when trolling was actually funny but these days its crossed so far past cringe its alarming. I just shut off when I see it now. And Facebook. Fuck Facebook. In the face!

I doubt Sony will reveal hardware yet but they'll probably have a Nintendo Direct styled teaser of their last big run of titles for PS4. 1st party devs tend to go hard on their last gen console after the launch of their next gen console to make use of the install base so we could see the beginning of that. Nintendo Direct i'm expecting a lot of cool things but more than anything i'm interested to see what XBox do. With all the working together with Nintendo, now Sony and even releasing games on Steam I expect they're going to announce some random ass and hopefully unexpected shit. Also, those e3 sales will be nice

Us I actually thought it was a bit overhyped. It was good but not great. A lot of cool themes though

Dat pre-e3/Nintendo Direct anxiety.. Can't wait for them sales, news on Animal Crossing/Metroid Prime Trilogy HD/New Smash Character Reveals/etc