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.
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.
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.
Yes, the bangs are a game changer! They even work well on niche sites like Jisho and Scryfall.
Would be nice, but antitrust has been feckless in the US for so long that I’ll take it where I can get it.
FF4 was also from an era where keeping scripts concise was part of saving on costs.
Playing third or fourth gen RPGs is certainly going to make virtually any RPG made today seem slow.
Hard to pick just a few tracks, but some of my favorite original soundtracks are:
Nier Gestalt
Persona 5
The Witcher 3
Stellaris
For licensed ones, I particularly like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
CP2077 has the best character creator music I’ve heard by a mile. Great for someone like me that spends over an hour in that sort of thing.
Dune was outstanding. If you haven’t heard “Arrakis (Wormsign Remix)” from OCRemix, check it out.
Good choice to go with the 1:1 remake style for this one. I think this will appeal to both the original fans and newcomers.
The soundtrack sounds great. I’m in just to hear the forest theme.
Looks like it’ll shake out to the best scores for the mainline series since FF12. Curious about
how sales are going to be, was a lot of hype around this and it got in early before a very crowded upcoming release schedule.
Sounds like the sidequests are bad, again. JRPGs are way behind on this front.
It’s digital snake oil.
Products or services that act as fig leaves for C-suites are a growth industry.