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This Week in Games - Final Fantasy XVI's Goodest Boy

The Xenoblade 3 news was cool, but uh... how's about a date for pre-ordering the special edition? Come on, I've got $100 burning a hole in my pocket. This wouldn't have happened if they just put the pre-orders through Gamestop...

FinalVentCard wrote:

The Xenoblade 3 news was cool, but uh... how's about a date for pre-ordering the special edition? Come on, I've got $100 burning a hole in my pocket. This wouldn't have happened if they just put the pre-orders through Gamestop...

I called up a friend in Japan to order the CE items for me (since Nintendo has gotten weird about foreign transactions lately). They're still in-stock in the JP store, amazingly, and the most you'll lose out on is maybe some translated names in the artbook. The steelbook will fit a US regular-edition game card.

Glad someone else still remembers Advance Guardian Heroes fondly (a.k.a. rapid-fire R-button defense). It's such a weird little game, but I liked being able to play as literally any character (spoiler[and always picking the rival anyway...]).

I'm still not sure about my feelings towards FFXVI. Yoshida producing is a good thing, but having the same writer as the critically-acclaimed expansion Heavensward (which remains divisive to this day in the XIV fanbase)... my hype is still minimal. Can't even get properly exited about the dog.

From what I gathered, Stormblood is the divisive expansion, and even then it's considered to be at least decently good, just is in the awkward position of being in between HW and ShB. If anything, Heavenward is one of the most loved expansion by the community, and some people even prefer it over Shadowbringers and Endwalker, as strong as those two were.

One of the key developers involved in the remasters featured in Sonic Origins has said the whole team is unhappy with the condition of the final product.

“Regarding Origins, we were outsiders creating a separate project that was then wrangled into something entirely different. We knew going in that there would be a major time crunch and we worked ourselves into the ground to meet it just so this would even be made and released.

“Again, I can take responsibility for my and my team’s mistakes, and there were some. Some actual mistakes, some overlooking, some rushjobs, some stuff we noticed but weren’t allowed to correct near the end. It’s absolutely not perfect and some of it is from us. It’s complicated.

“I’m extremely proud of my team for their performance under such pressure, but every one of us is very unhappy about the state of Origins and even the Sonic 3 component. We weren’t too thrilled about its pre-submission state either but a lot was beyond our control.

“We asked to do major fixes near submission but weren’t allowed due to submission and approval rules. We asked about delays early and repeatedly but were told they weren’t possible.

“We offered to come back for post-release fixes and updates – we do not yet know if this is happening.”