Global Account Director at PlayStation. Helping F2P and Live Service Publishers achieve rad things on PS5 and PS4.
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Maybe there are “better” fighting games than Dragon Ball FighterZ but when the crowd did the Cell Yell at Evo and nearly blew the mics out it was like Dragon Ball was real
If you played Elden Ring connected to the internet and were reading messages from other players? You didn’t beat the game on your own. You got carried. You cheated.
Me: what i like about Final Fantasy XIV is that it takes its own lore really seriously, it doesn't feel silly or forced
Final Fantasy XIV: the dragons came to earth from space
You can tell FFXVI was written by the old FFXIV writers and not the new ones because the events that kick the conflict into motion is a refugee crisis and not a collection of increasingly tragic grandpas.
A coworker at the office today asked me, “So wait, what is the end of Metal Gear Solid 2 really about?” and it was like my entire career had been leading up to this exact moment.
I’m summoning the mimic tear every fight. I’ve got a +9 moonveil. Im drinking the unlimited mana potion and using Comet Azur to obliterate bosses. I am not without sin. But isn’t that the point of the game?
One the one hand, I support FFXIV’s effort to eliminate toxic behavior and maintain the momentum of their surprisingly successful PVP relaunch. On the other hand, I do think bards should be able to pull out the bongos mid match and play “In the Air Tonight” when they kill you.
I’m sorry, not only is it ahistorical to think most pc versions of games were good 20 years ago, but there was literally a period of time from 2004-2010 when the PC ports got WORSE because publishers assumed the entire market was being spent on WoW and the ports weren’t worth it.
Also, I know it’s cute that Sakurai can joke about not being able to take a break while working on Smash Bros.
But also, like
Did everyone forget what we’ve been talking about for the past three weeks?
It was very funny to go through life thinking Amano was just “the Final Fantasy box art guy,” like he was just another Square game dev and then you go to his Wikipedia page and read “in 1996 Amano was the most highly paid artist on Earth”
there IS something to be said about how player messages in Elden Ring do impact exploration—it can lead you toward things you may not have been looking for in both positive and negative ways
@xoxogossipgita
The stupid scenario where a Quidditch team can end a match by grabbing the Snitch and score 150 points and still lose. It sounds like the premise of a cute Secret Base video but it’s, like, a big plot part of book 4.
Burnout Royale. 100 Cars. All in Paradise City. Use takedowns to knock players out of the match. A circle shrinks to designate the play field and force competitors into different spots of the map.
I’m just gonna sit and wait for my million dollar check to show up in the mail.
Me: well, the internet is never going make anything funnier/worse than that Simpsons Steamed Hams/Metal Gear video
The Internet: Here's a note-perfect Steamed Hams/Ace Attorney one
Me: god damn you all
There’s two kinds of people in this world: those who disabled every song on the Burnout Paradise playlist except for Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend”, and cowards.
I cannot believe this weird, horny, bleak masterpiece—a game that looks like it cost less to make than Rockstar’s pizza budget—has sold this many god damn copies.
This should continue.
[Alert]:
#NieR
:Automata has shipped more than 3.5 million physical and digital units worldwide!
Thank you for all your continued support & to everyone who has played and enjoyed the game.
Glory to mankind 🙌
Yakuza 6 is a power fantasy, but the fantasy is that no one—-not the gangsters, the joke characters from two games ago, the kids who don’t know better—-is so far gone that they can’t set themselves on a path to be better people.
The quality of a Metal Gear Solid game is directly proportional to how emasculated the protagonist feels by the end of the game. If they’re a cool guy at the end, it’s a bad game.
The neat thing about Sekiro is that I used to think I was OK at video games because I could beat the other FromSoft games.
But this game has taught me that I actually belong in the trash garbage, so that’s interesting.
The funniest thing I saw after the game awards was tweets gatekeeping “fake fans” of Armored Core as just bandwagoneers of From or Souls or Elden Ring. You dorks, it’s the big budget mech game like you always wanted, don’t blow this opportunity by keeping people out now
Super Smash Bros Ultimate Review:
Pros: A gorgeous, joyous celebration of video games in all their wonderful stupidity
Faster gameplay/movement that doesn’t make the game inaccessible to newcomers
Cons: Doesn’t feature Bowser’s wedding tux from Mario Odyssey
Final Score: 1/10
Giant Bomb is the best video game website on earth.
Ten years after the site started, I still feel privileged and humbled to be a part of that community and to have gotten the chance to work alongside that team.
The new Animal Crossing is really slick: there’s not a lot of tutorializing, instead encouraging players to expirament and collect Nook Miles to understand the gameplay loop. It truly is the Dark Souls of Animal Crossing games.
I had a Smash match online against a fellow King K. Rool main and just barely eeked out a win. After the match, I sent him the pre-populated message, “You’re pretty good.”
He replied simply, “Our cause is just.”
It was the most moving experience I’ve had in any online game.
every other piece of media: every hero or villain you thought was dead? They lived somehow
me: fuck you, this sucks
FFXIV: every good hero or villain you thought was dead? They lived somehow
me: holy shit, they crushed it again
Last week my seven year anniversary
@PlayStation
. I joined just a few weeks before the PlayStation 4 launched. If I knew back then I would be working with so many great teams and partners on the launch of the PlayStation 5, I don’t think I’d believe it!