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Ok you guys know I love Final Fantasy 7. That's obvious right? But even i have my limits.


More ff7 games? we don't need more. Come on please stop.
Let's finish the remake before going nuts with the spinoff games.

We don't need SE becoming the GRR Martin of video games.
 
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Dunkey's 2021.

EDIT: According to Dunkey, the last two beat'em up to come out was Castle Crashers?! I know he likes to troll, but brawlers have been making a comeback since the mid 2010s. Double Dragon Neon came out in 2012, Fight N' Rage in 2017, and The TakeOver in 2018 (been in early acess since 2014). Now we're in a new golden age. Glad he likes Streets of Rage 4, but I do wish he made an entire video specific to the game. Could have gotten more gags out of it.
 
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GT7 is looking awesome. It's the CaRPG I've been waiting for since like Forza 3 because Forza kept fucking things up.
 

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I was just gonna post Polygon's article review about Dying Light 2 but I think the video is the same, basically.

I am not interested in this particular game but I do find it interesting how reviewers are treating gameplay vs story; either/or; bringing equal importance to each.

While it seems the consensus on this site is that gameplay >>>>>>>> story. Well, it's certainly a sentiment I share. I mean.. it's a game.
I guess there's the point that some marketing promised more story but honestly, who's still believing marketing or actually is in DL for the story?
 
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Tim Schafer has an impressive ongoing grift for free classy dinners

In a world where video games seem to be fair picking for movie adaptations, Psychonauts' Tim Schafer just doesn't see that sort of thing happening in Double Fine's future.

Psychonauts 2, the most recent game from Double Fine, was met with overwhelming praise on its release. Eurogamer's Edwin Evans-Thirlwell called it "witty, eccentric and imaginative" during his review, noting it had a "more developed understanding of mental health" than its predecessor. More recently, the mix of hallucinogenic gameplay and emotional storytelling won Psychonauts 2 the Game of the Year accolade at the New York Game Awards. But even with this success, Double Fine's founder Tim Schafer revealed that a movie adaptation of any of his games is not something he is interested in.

Speaking to IGN, Schafer stated: "We often get approached by people saying, 'Hey, can we turn this into a movie?' but, you know, it's usually just a distraction.

"I think games are what I really care about and what I like to make and what I think are interesting. It comes up every once and a while, but it's never turned into anything. I've had a lot of free lunches out of Hollywood."

This is not to say Schafer doesn't think Psychonauts wouldn't make a good movie. He agrees there is a lot of stuff that could be done with the video game title. It is more that Schafer feels games are "cooler than movies" and therefore Psychonauts has "already peaked".

In the same article, Schafer said he had previously been approached about a Full Throttle movie. In a bid to win him over, Warcraft director Duncan Jones wrote him an entire script to showcase just what a Full Throttle movie adaptation could be.

However, while Schafer thought that the script was good, noting Jones was clearly a fan of the game, ultimately nothing came of it. In the words of Schafer himself, "you know, LA and Hollywood, they are just a big whirlpool of lunches".
 

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A long video but a rather interesting one about why Disco Elysium is so interesting. It's also spolieric for the entire fucking game so don't watch if you plan to play it and want to remained unspoiled(and if you plan to play it, you should remain unspoiled).
 

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Yes, according to Max, but he does admit she loses some of her fun mechanics from past games.

 

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