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What JRPG are you playing this week?
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?
It's digital snake oil.
Products or services that act as fig leaves for C-suites are a growth industry.
Deck Nine is also on this, and I thought their Life is Strange games were pretty good (Before the Storm, True Colors).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My dude with the Xenogears shout-out.
Why I left mine intact. The Reddit "library," as it were, remains one of the largest and most significant public goods online. I think that's more important than burning my contributions in the hopes that Reddit management will do a 180. I also pinned a post advertising kbin/lemmy and Squabbles on my profile.
I'm certainly no longer participating, however, and I don't think Reddit's built to survive only on visitors from Google.
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.
With Atlus announcing that they are going to add voice lines to all the S-Link level up scenes, I'm guessing that's why FeMC didn't get included. They said this will already have the most voice lines of any Persona game. Adding FeMC's S-Links to that would have been a lot more lines on top of that.
Whether or not expanding the voicing was a better move than not including FeMC is another question entirely.
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.
Persona 3 Reload Social Links Will Not Break, But Reversals Can Still Happen
The Japanese outlet Famitsu posted an updated interview they conducted with Persona 3 Reload staff, including director Takuya Yamaguchi...
Greater leniency and eventual abandonment of the idea would occur in later Persona releases, but it was a memorable feature of the original Persona 3. Still, Social Link reversals will be able to happen in Reload, though it seems like they’ll be difficult to encounter unless you go out of your way to do so.
It still makes sense if Reddit's negotiation with the subscription-based third-party apps was never in good faith and this was always about killing them.
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.
Bickering between admins and mods. Only a matter of time, though. It's already happening again over at lemmynsfw.
If you're into strategy RPGs, Tactics Ogre had a recent remaster and it has more side/postgame content than the story campaign does.
Triangle Strategy also has a lot to see, but that's more along the lines of seeing branching story paths you missed on replays rather than actual side content.
My worst ever is a gout flare that I got in my knee once. That's when I discovered I don't like morphine.
But yeah, I've had sciatic issues associated with spinal disease, a three-hour tooth extraction, a section of flayed skin. All of that doesn't compare to gout.
Combined shipments for Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout, Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy, and Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key hav…
I think the one I have the most nostalgia for is Destiny of an Emperor. The main boss theme is instantly transporting for me. That 8-bit Capcom sound is so iconic.
Final Fantasy IV is what truly got me to fall in love with the genre, though. It was one of my first 16-bit games, so I was blown away by the graphics and especially the music.
New XSEED Action RPG ‘Silent Hope’ is Connected to the Rune Factory Universe
Silent Hope, an action RPG that was previously announced at yesterday's Nintendo Direct, had an interesting trailer showing some rather familiar elements,
Looking like a great year for old gaming franchises, holding five of the top six metascores so far for 2023.
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Looking like a great year for old gaming franchises, holding five of the top six metascores so far for 2023.
What's everyone looking forward to on the upcoming release schedule?
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 …