The Final Fantasy Continuing Committee at Square Enix is all out of new ideas, all they have left is grafting filler onto old games or making new games that take ideas from elsewhere. These men have already given the world many well-beloved games, but please don't ever expect them to concoct a brilliant new FF again. I think they should try a focused, relatively straightforward remake of FFVI in one game, without inventing new battle systems or significant new storylines, in modern 3D graphics. They've been able to do that with Trials of Mana and Romancing SaGa 2; just try it with Final Fantasy and see how that goes for a change. If that works then do IV and V. Leave the multi-parts for IX and VIII. And for Schala's sake, do aaaaaanythiiiiiing with Chrono Trigger at this point.
@Ruka Until they had the internet on a PC. Many people spent a lot of time on the internet on a PC between the mid '90s and mid '00s. Sure that's addiciton. I am assuming time not spent on a smartphone will be spent on another device, because people have other devices they can access the internet on, and they are addicted to it. Adding yet another device which has extremely limited use today isn't going to change your addiction. Show me the person who will dispose their smartphone, tablet, laptop, and desktop PC and buy a Jitterbug - good for them if they exist. Again, if you want to address internet addiction, you can do that with everything you have right now by putting it down and start doing somethong else. I am disputing this company's position that buying their device is going to change your habits as long as that habit is available to you in another form and as long as you don't directly address the habit itself.
Just speaking practically about the sales pitch of this will make you put down your smartphone and have a thing which you won't interact with very much... it already falls apart. You are using either a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer right now to read this. You already have that. In the wildest success of owning a dumbphone, you're just going to use that to call doctors offices and customer service and your mom, but still spend free time on the above said devices for internet consumption. You right now have the ability to put any internet device down right now and go outside, or go somewhere, or stay in and do a more fulfilling hobby. You don't need to pay anyone 500 dollary-doos for the right or even suggestion to do that. That's called grifting.
John Kricfalusi may be an awful sex pest, but he is an artist and has a unique and particular style, and I don't appreciate someone copying that wholesale as if it's just up for grabs. Sure be influenced but it's obvious they're doing exactly Ren & Stimpy in places.
So ININ are essentially farming out the QA process to paying customers (i.e. space shooter geeks) who will find and eagerly point out everything wrong for free, instead of paying a QA team to do it. That's cold. Or maybe they used AI to do QA (like Square Enix said they want to do) and they didn't question the results?
I'd like to recommend The Fighters Generation for being a very long-standing repository of information and current news on fighting games, as well as The Starlight Megaphone podcast for over 15 continuous years of episodes focusing on classic and retro games and legacy series with a small but faithful community and zero commercial backing.
After the absolute grifting he performed when blockchain & NFTs were new, I'm astonished he's taking this stance instead of moving to use gen-AI to pump out a worthless non-game he'd herald as the limitless future of all entertainment.
You should compile a list of every country, company, and wealthy person with an investment in the video games industry along with their history of human, animal, and environmental rights abuses and put in the relevant references in the post-script so us ethical consumers can make informed decisions, but putting "Saudi-funded" in front of the title of every article about a contemporary SNK, Capcom, Nintendo, &c product gets to be a bit much.
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Re: "Scummy As Hell" - AYANEO Reveals Another Colourway Of The GBA-Like Pocket Advance, Annoying Some Fans
They can't edit the preorders because of "the excessive order volume" but isn't the refund-then-order-again process just making more work for them?
Re: "We'd Probably Have To Release Them In 4 Or 5 Instalments" - Final Fantasy XIV's Director On Why More Remakes Haven't Materialised
The Final Fantasy Continuing Committee at Square Enix is all out of new ideas, all they have left is grafting filler onto old games or making new games that take ideas from elsewhere. These men have already given the world many well-beloved games, but please don't ever expect them to concoct a brilliant new FF again. I think they should try a focused, relatively straightforward remake of FFVI in one game, without inventing new battle systems or significant new storylines, in modern 3D graphics. They've been able to do that with Trials of Mana and Romancing SaGa 2; just try it with Final Fantasy and see how that goes for a change. If that works then do IV and V. Leave the multi-parts for IX and VIII. And for Schala's sake, do aaaaaanythiiiiiing with Chrono Trigger at this point.
Re: "This Isn't Your Granny's Flip Phone" - Commodore Defends Its $500 Dumbphone
@Ruka Until they had the internet on a PC. Many people spent a lot of time on the internet on a PC between the mid '90s and mid '00s. Sure that's addiciton. I am assuming time not spent on a smartphone will be spent on another device, because people have other devices they can access the internet on, and they are addicted to it. Adding yet another device which has extremely limited use today isn't going to change your addiction. Show me the person who will dispose their smartphone, tablet, laptop, and desktop PC and buy a Jitterbug - good for them if they exist. Again, if you want to address internet addiction, you can do that with everything you have right now by putting it down and start doing somethong else. I am disputing this company's position that buying their device is going to change your habits as long as that habit is available to you in another form and as long as you don't directly address the habit itself.
Re: "This Isn't Your Granny's Flip Phone" - Commodore Defends Its $500 Dumbphone
Just speaking practically about the sales pitch of this will make you put down your smartphone and have a thing which you won't interact with very much... it already falls apart. You are using either a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer right now to read this. You already have that. In the wildest success of owning a dumbphone, you're just going to use that to call doctors offices and customer service and your mom, but still spend free time on the above said devices for internet consumption. You right now have the ability to put any internet device down right now and go outside, or go somewhere, or stay in and do a more fulfilling hobby. You don't need to pay anyone 500 dollary-doos for the right or even suggestion to do that. That's called grifting.
Re: 'Oh My Doug!' Is A Hand-Drawn Metroidvania Set Inside A Human Body With Ren & Stimpy-Style "Gross-Ups"
John Kricfalusi may be an awful sex pest, but he is an artist and has a unique and particular style, and I don't appreciate someone copying that wholesale as if it's just up for grabs. Sure be influenced but it's obvious they're doing exactly Ren & Stimpy in places.
Re: R-Type III SNES's Original Director "Deeply Concerned" With Launch Quality Of ININ Games' Recent Remake
So ININ are essentially farming out the QA process to paying customers (i.e. space shooter geeks) who will find and eagerly point out everything wrong for free, instead of paying a QA team to do it. That's cold. Or maybe they used AI to do QA (like Square Enix said they want to do) and they didn't question the results?
Re: It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites
I'd like to recommend The Fighters Generation for being a very long-standing repository of information and current news on fighting games, as well as The Starlight Megaphone podcast for over 15 continuous years of episodes focusing on classic and retro games and legacy series with a small but faithful community and zero commercial backing.
Re: AI Is Not "Of A High Enough Quality" For Use In Video Games Right Now, Says Peter Molyneux
After the absolute grifting he performed when blockchain & NFTs were new, I'm astonished he's taking this stance instead of moving to use gen-AI to pump out a worthless non-game he'd herald as the limitless future of all entertainment.
Re: Saudi-Funded Metal Slug Reboot Looks To Be Taking The Series Back To Its Pixel Art Roots
You should compile a list of every country, company, and wealthy person with an investment in the video games industry along with their history of human, animal, and environmental rights abuses and put in the relevant references in the post-script so us ethical consumers can make informed decisions, but putting "Saudi-funded" in front of the title of every article about a contemporary SNK, Capcom, Nintendo, &c product gets to be a bit much.