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Apparently it takes an "Ethics Department" to tell the FFVII devs that Tifa would probably wear a sports bra? https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-06-19-square-enix-has-an-ethics-department-and-it-told-the-final-fantasy-7-remake-developers-to-restrict-tifas-chest

Only sales I've seen since Black Friday have been around 25% off or so (so about $45) and I DO have it on alert on Slick Deals.

15.) Borderlands 2 Finally got around to finishing this now that the game has been out for like 7 years and I've owned it for around 6. XD Still have a bunch of shit to do in it though with all the DLC and if I go for all the trophies.

$45-50 is the "normal" sale price. $40 or less is Black Friday level sale price.

My understanding is the main reason Gaimen did the writing for the show is because it was basically Pratchett's dying wish that the show be done right and he started writing it the day after his funeral so that was a big reason why he went that way I'm sure.

Newegg is selling 1 year PSN codes for $49.99 and there's a promo code to get an extra $10 off. Code is: EMCTBVT44 Sale is good through Wednesday. Not sure how long the code is good for but it still worked as of a few hours ago. Good through March 2022 now I think. >_>

Show was phenomenal. Not sure how it compares to the book as I've never read it, but I've heard good things on that end too. Also, if the show itself weren't good enough, there's this: https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/06/20/thousand-petition-netflix-to-cancel-good-omens-even-though-it-ai/ They've since admitted to the error and redirected the petition, but holy hell.

14.) The Turing Test Have always been semi-interested in this game but never quite enough to buy it. Seemed like it might just be a straight Portal knockoff. Was in the collection on the Game Pass for PC thing that Microsoft has which I decided to try out for the $1 for a month promo they did and tried this out first. Definitely has a bit of a Portal feel to it, but without the funny. Super serious but really interesting. Puzzles were phenomenal and could be thought through logically without any guess work. Story was interesting and was a really good with a heavy emphasis on AI as an 'individual' philosophy type stuff. Was a pleasant experience all around.

Whelp. I guess that might answer some questions about where things will go with Billy.

Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith defends 2077 from post-E3 criticism

I'm about half way through it. Have enjoyed it so far. Character development for secondary characters has been really solid too. Makes me wish it would still be around after this. ?

You are severely understating the content in Midgar. It's collected areas equal about half of the other places you listed at least and they can potentially add some of the other sectors, and the story content within it is pretty fucking stacked. I can see it being it's own "story" with everything that happens there. A lot of the rest of it won't fare nearly as well though so they can't cut it up too much. However this plays out, I don't foresee it being more than 4 releases (though I sincerely hope it is less). I'm willing to go through with this first one and see it before I freak out and judge from there, but there is a breaking point in this somewhere and if they manage to hit it, they're going to fuck themselves. Having said that, I will say they are being far too aloof about what the plan is right now though and it's kind of bullshit. "How many 'games' is this going to be?" "We can't tell you because even we don't know lololololol." No. Not cool. How have you not already planned this shit out some time in the past decade you dumb fucks? I don't care if the first one is so extensive it takes 2 Blu-ray disks and that makes the potential for the rest a bit hazy. Sort your shit out. We don't have long before a new console generation too so logistics if this takes too long is going to be fucking miserable for both sides knowing how Square likes to function anymore.

Yeah, they seem to really big on accessibility so they're pushing things to be wider and easier to jump in to. Trying out the PC game pass thing for the month since it's a dollar right now to see how it is. One interesting thing I've seen with it so far is it looks like you can have up to 10 devices linked to your account (whether they be PCs, XBoxes, etc. ) and it doesn't seem to care if multiple things are using it at the same time. Downloaded the beta app for it and tested it out and could run a game on my computer through my account and also logged in on my wife's computer and was able to run a game there too at the same time with no complications that I could see.

I honestly like Phil Spencer. Ever since he took over I've been impressed with how he's handled their progress over the years. The XBone went from "What a fucking joke, I would never touch one of these in my life." to "I would consider buying one of those, maybe." His work, if nothing else, has really been highlighting Sony's lack of forward momentum since they stole the show for the PS4. His stances on a lot of pertinent issues to console gaming in recent years are exactly what I want to hear, and he tends to be really candid on difficulties with what he wants to do and/or things that people want to see. Still don't like their controller though. XD

They probably honestly don't know depending on how much they add I guess. I see the rest coming out faster though once they have the main models and all the combat mechanics and everything set, it should speed up the pace a bit. You of all people shouldn't care anyway since you haven't played the first game. If what you're getting is a full game with a full story and you have no functional context for any more story beyond that, but are still complaining, then you're just being difficult. There's definitely some stuff going on in the trailer that was not in the original game, so it looks like they've certainly added to it. If they split this up too much it's going to be kind of dumb though the approach right now seems to be that any splits to it will be where there is a fully functioning story. I can see where that works during the first part of the game, but am not entirely sure how they'll play that out after that point unless they go all out bullshit cliffhanger type episodic stuff. I'm willing to buy a well rounded game/story even if I know it's not the "whole" story. I don't want some Telltale shit though. Really like how the gameplay looks though. Looking forward to that much at least.

They say that now. That's literally how they described it. Not saying it makes a difference in whether you should play it or not before waiting, but and they will almost certainly sell another edition of the game with this as part of it after it comes out (they did this with FFXV as well. They added stuff to the core game as DLC thing and then also resold the game as "FFXV Royal Edition" or whatever it was. You could just get the DLC if you had the game or buy the game with everything if you didn't have it yet).

Saw that today. The person playing seems like he has no idea what he's doing half the time. XD

They said during the thing that the first part is JUST the stuff in Midgar but that they have expanded the story and everything there by a large amount and it functions as a full game story on its own I thought?

That's basically what this is. Instead of doing a "Final Mix" type of thing like they always used to do, they're doing this.

Showed a new mini-trailer at the FFVII symphony thing that was last night I think. Also got a release date. March 3rd 2020. Should get more specific info tonight at Square's conference I would imagine.

New story trailer. Also recommend actually watching the part of the Microsoft E3 presentation where it was shown. I don't think anyone is quite as hyped as Keanu Reeves. Edit: Here it is. There's a quick reel of gameplay bits at the end of it too:

Gameplay trailer from E3:

Pre-Disney Star Wars games let you do shit like that too. Force Unleashed had some pretty insane shit too including pretty much everything seen in this with the exception of pulling the "stop blaster bolts in midair" thing I think. When it comes down to it, it's a game, and they're going to put anything cool seen in the movies into it whether it makes sense for this kid to be able to do them or not. Though likely it's not something you'll be able to do right away anyway and will have to level up and acquire the skill at some point to do a lot of that.

If they insist on going that route, at least do more stuff between 6 and 7. They've shoved a plethora of things between 3 and 4 now but we've had minimal stuff showing the other and one of those was Battlefront 2 which was kind of meh ultimately in terms of story.