It’s was the lack of backwards compatibility that killed it for me. I’d had niggling considerations of PSVR1 for some time, then PSVR2 was announced and I was all ready to hand over my money. Until it became clear there was no backward compatibility. So I own neither.

Not exactly. PlayStation version uses the same payment methods as the PC version. So though you can’t pay through PS Store you don’t have all this extra layer of Coin crap to deal with that Xbox has apparently enforced on them.

Exciting times, best of luck with the update!

Not being American, thus no pizza rolls is stopping me. I do want some though.

Sounds like you were living the dream.

As interesting as it is, thats actually a common misconception. It wasn’t due to facing bankruptcy and years later Sakaguchi gave a different account from his supposed last effort at making a game.

This Famitsu article details it as such because they hoped it would be abbreviated as FF because it sounded good in Japanese. Their initial name was Fighting Fantasy but that had potential trademark issues, so they settled on Final Fantasy. Apparently they also didn’t care so much about what it was and any words that abbreviated to FF would work.

I like the more recent story as it gives some certainty to the series from the beginning, but I suspect it was a mixture of both Sakaguchis possible last hurrah and wanting a “cool” name.

Jesus Christ, why?

I don’t get it either. PlayStation have release some amazing first party games, and equally great consoles over his tenure that have captured my imagination and passion many times over. These are the things that matter, not some idealised or stereotypical c-suite gamer persona. He’s done great things with PlayStation and deserves the credit for that.

This generation was the one where I intended on buying my first Xbox as well. I wasn’t going to get it at launch but I was interested enough to be willing to put the money down. However seeing how MS have progressed so far, the increasing push to cloud gaming, game rental and more has been increasingly off putting. It’s a shame as well because around launch I was excited by how beautifully engineered the Series X is.

No problem. I still have my account there but if I can avoid it then I will, so always prefer Nitter too. I also respect that there is content that others want to see without giving Twitter data and/or a click.

It’s a great game on the whole, I had fantastic time playing it and super excited for the DLCs. Fantastic that other people are still coming to the game and enjoying it.

I loved playing these as a kid, not so much any since then, so I’m pretty excited for this to revisit some childhood moments.

Well that’s disappointing, but glad the lemmy.world team are making sure they are on top of it and keeping transparency with all that you do. Thank you.

another rendering API

A assuming you mean Vulkan, but did you know Metal is older than Vulkan by 2 years? It’s hardly a reinvention of the wheel from Apple here. Plus it allows them to give complete low level support of their own silicon and hardware that you’re likely to not yet with other APIs. A lot of developers also use MolktonVK to get around that support.

I’m trying to run a community here, so it might not be a surprise and may actually be cause and effect, but Lemmy.world is somewhere that’s taken hold of one of my social media habits too. It’s one of first places I check in on and spend a considerable amount of time using.

I’ll always welcome more point-and-click games like this. We don’t get anywhere near enough of them these days.

I dunno, TLoU2 definitely got it harder but there’s still that massive gap in middle range reviews (see image) that made me question it with Starfield.

Oh I know there are, I’m not saying otherwise.

It would seem so to me. When there’s a big disparity across the ratings - positive and negative are similar on metacritic with little in between - it raises a lot of red flags to me.

This looks great, but not holding out any hope of it not being stuffed full of micro transactions.