we're gonna get some mileage out of this

this gif was originally made for e3 conferences but now it just represents the entire games industry as a whole

There is no FF fandom, instead there is the FF Fandom Continent upon which each numbered entry/spinoff collective carves out a fiefdom & wages war against all the others, only to rally & join forces when the dreaded Ys Federation starts sabre-rattling.

regarding the recent news

Like Everyone gets this is bad, right? It doesn't matter if I say it, no one is thinking "Ah, this is going to be the shot in the arm Xbox needs," yeah?

Writing has been on the wall for Xbox for a while, but it's still shocking to see it get closer to outright death.

I sort of fundamentally don't buy any argument that attempts to blame the industry's problems on attention-share (tiktok / netflix / whatever), kids all playing Roblox, or really anything beyond the critical pain point that "investors are not funding the kinds of games that provably make money"

Real shame that the PS5's legacy is going to be almost nothing but destruction and remasters.

We are about to run face-first into a combo of: - Covid development delays (2020-2022) - End of Zero-Interest Rate Policy (2022) - Overinvestment in games-as-a-service (2021-2025) - AI-based hardware shortages (2025+) AAA games take 4-7 years to develop and bring to market. It is going to be BAD.

I don't normally comment on stuff like this because I've given up on understanding this business, but I'd have to think the remasters Bluepoint was known for are maybe the closest thing we had left to a predictable business model?? I get that everything is volatile but that part feels pretty safe???

Honestly just amazing how much Playstation has just wiffed it by putting so much effort into live service games that never came out.

are you telling me the history of bluepoint is that they got bought by Sony, got made to make a live service game, and died not remaking/remastering a SINGLE game since the acquisition?

I feel like over the last 20 years or so the western gaming press has fallen into this historical revisionism that every FF game released prior to like 2003 was universally loved upon release as a way to play up how bad new FF is and that’s just kind of bullshit.

i dont know what devices retro game corps will make videos about in 2027 but in 2028 he will have to review sticks and stones -albert einstein

imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?

the thing about the guide characters in 3D Zelda is that the games introduced the problem, sure, but they also solved it, and their solution was "make the guide character a goblin girl with a huge ass who sits on you and berates you constantly while you literally get turned into a dog"

i can’t think about deer anymore without thinking of this tweet

Here it is, your moment of zen.

My default position on TikTok is that every video I see is someone saying whatever shit they think will go most viral with 0% overlap with their actual beliefs and information levels

-The Arcadion- Black Cat #FF14 #FFXIV

World of Final Fantasy

One of my favourite parts in XC2 is when Rex is like errr I don’t really want to be involved in any wars or politics going on and Vandham just looks at him and is like Hey kid. You were involved in the war the second you started participating in society

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

With more people getting the opportunity to play Metal Gear Solid 4, it means more people will understand one of my favorite posts online

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

liberals doing voter outreach on Bluesky

if it's 2026 and you're already insisting everyone throw their support behind literally any idiot democrats nominate no matter what, you are telling everyone that not only do you have zero principles but that you just want to be told what to do and how to vote bc thinking for yourself is too hard

POV you are about to lose at Guess Who

I think video game centrists have a morality system like in Fallout 3 where you can offset doing bad things by giving a homeless man a bottle of water every now and then

I'm writing an apology to him as we speak. I was not familiar with your game.

Seattle Seahawks fan parade today Seattle, Washington

the desire for single-player games also comes from the security of knowing you won't spend $$$ on something that is likely intangible and may not exist within a month. two months. three months. maybe even weeks. it's to have something, that you know won't disappear. or the $$ spent on cosmetics.

Easier to justify spending money on Fortnite or FFXIV when you can trust it’s not going to be shutdown in 3 months.

Holding a Busch Light in his mouth while trying too open a Bud Light, living da dream bby

Minnesota still needs your attention

People used to get so shitty about Tales of games over this and it baffled me even as a teenager. Like are you really getting thrown off by the term 'fonon'

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

YOU GOT THE WRONG ONE #ffxiv #alisaie #estinien

The comparison to P3 Reload is wild considering that Yakuza 3’s remake added a sex pest, and P3 Reload removed one.

Age Verification? I remember the internet dial-up noise perfectly.

Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.

spending a decade - that’s ten years, or 12.5% of an average human lifetime - making a fighting game only to immediately go ohhhhh wait a minute fighting games don’t make as much money as league of legends and we already own that let’s fire everyone