I tend to like sci-fi in this category such as Stargate, Dune (1984), and the Riddick films.

TRON Legacy is my favorite of the bunch, however. Incredible soundtrack, gorgeous costume design, and plenty of character.

Would be nice, but antitrust has been feckless in the US for so long that I'll take it where I can get it.

It still makes sense if Reddit's negotiation with the subscription-based third-party apps was never in good faith and this was always about killing them.

Why I left mine intact. The Reddit "library," as it were, remains one of the largest and most significant public goods online. I think that's more important than burning my contributions in the hopes that Reddit management will do a 180. I also pinned a post advertising kbin/lemmy and Squabbles on my profile.

I'm certainly no longer participating, however, and I don't think Reddit's built to survive only on visitors from Google.

Zero chance this would pay better than even something like Mturk.

And yet, content quality on Reddit will tank even further because people will shitpost for pennies.

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.

Something I've noticed as I've shifted more of my conversations from Reddit to Discord (even before the garbage fire over at the site) is that I'm not looking up stuff as much during instant, short-form communication. Just casual conversation really is okay sometimes. I'll be trying to keep that in mind as I spend more time on Reddit alternatives.

I also have a theory that message board conversations spend as much time on opinion as they do because all the little shit has been solved now that we have esoteric information at our fingertips. Some people don't even know what it was like to be sitting around with friends all trying to figure out what 80's film you saw Robert Loggia in because you couldn't just look it up on-demand.

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.

My dude with the Xenogears shout-out.

I was selling countless pre-orders at retail going back to 2001. I don't know when this mythical time would have been either.

Ultimately, the vast majority of people making pre-orders aren't here, on reddit, or any gaming community. And frankly, with the rate at which physical print runs are shrinking, people are going to find they will need to pre-order if they want a physical copy of anything not AAA.

It's digital snake oil.

Products or services that act as fig leaves for C-suites are a growth industry.

Mostly that exactly. The instance is probably the most restrictive general NSFW content platform I've ever seen, and that's ruffling feathers. There's also a lot of the same power struggle dynamic, too. It's exhausting. One of the threads publicly descended into name-calling (on both sides) so I doubt it'll get better in the long run.

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.

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.

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.

Deck Nine is also on this, and I thought their Life is Strange games were pretty good (Before the Storm, True Colors).

Bickering between admins and mods. Only a matter of time, though. It's already happening again over at lemmynsfw.

If you're into strategy RPGs, Tactics Ogre had a recent remaster and it has more side/postgame content than the story campaign does.

Triangle Strategy also has a lot to see, but that's more along the lines of seeing branching story paths you missed on replays rather than actual side content.

I think the one I have the most nostalgia for is Destiny of an Emperor. The main boss theme is instantly transporting for me. That 8-bit Capcom sound is so iconic.

Final Fantasy IV is what truly got me to fall in love with the genre, though. It was one of my first 16-bit games, so I was blown away by the graphics and especially the music.