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This Week in Games - Leonardo Leads, Donatello Does Machines

"We know 2022 was a tough year for bank robbers, as many bank robbers were arrested and jailed. We absolutely think this justifies our decision to double down on bank robbery, as we've now seen and learned from the many different ways it can go wrong."

The comment about live-service games comes off as odd given the author also cites Final Fantasy XIV as a massive success and a showcase of Square-Enix doing right since XIV is actually a live service game. A few cherrypicked failures doesn't really change the fact their mobile division is bringing in lots of revenue for them. The only takeaway I find is people don't want action-oriented battle-royal style games like First Soldier or Babylon's Fall, they want more traditional GAAS titles like Brave Exvius and Dragon Quest Tact.

I feel Square-Enix has become the new Konami in the sense they get a lot of random hate and misinformation said about them by bitter fans. Konami of course being more profitable than ever these days, but it's from GAAS titles like Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel and their pachinko stuff rather than Metal Gear or Castlevania so people will say they're a failure of a company despite the numbers. Square-Enix reported a record 71% profit gain last year so I trust they know what they're doing to make money, even if it's not something some traditional gamers are happy with. Even with all the praise FF14 gets, most people refuse to try it at all on the principle of it being an MMO.

Also, the hatred towards Konami is not "random" or "misinformed" in light of the rampant employee abuse or disrespect towards fans and their own properties. We here at This Week In Games do not value the almighty dollar over the human or emotional cost of game development, to say nothing of the fact that this 71% profit increase from Square Enix didn't translate to any of its big announced Live Service games lasting more than 12 months. We at This Week In Games reject the notion that games are purely economic means for studios and while we acknowledge the economic cost of developing games we reject exploitative monetization and the sacrifice of narrative or good gameplay in the name of companies desperately finding the easiest way of putting money from our wallets into theirs. If these games are so expensive and they have to nickle and dime us to "stay afloat" then we at This Week In Games believe the studios are bad at making games.

While making an accessible controller is pretty cool, it's kinda insane how inaccessible games still are to people with poor vision, when it's trivial to even just make sure the text and UI are plenty big. But even still, the text and ui elements are usually TINY, especially if you're playing on a console in the living room at a normal living room distance from the screen. Some games allow you to scale up, but often the biggest size is at best comparable to the size of standard sized closed captions. My eyesight is theoretically 20/20 when corrected with glasses which I wear all the time, yet still sometimes some elements are uncomfortably small. My roommate has vision issues and cannot see certain things at all. I can't help but wonder if I'm like a dinosaur for playing my consoles that way, like does everyone just use them by sitting right in front of a monitor now?

The new Fate looks... interesting. It's an interesting 'verse, but for too long the only way to experience it has been Grand Order, which I am pretty well and truly over. Being able to hang with Musashi outside of that cash-grab, though? Tempting. If they announce Fuuma Kotarou it might turn into an instabuy. (Shimosa was still the best FGO chapter.)

W/re the Fate/ game and Gudaguda Servants appearing, it all depends entirely on when the game is set. Nasuverse stuff has some hard rules, and one of those is that (barring Counter Guardians and Merlin, both of which are special cases), you cannot summon someone as a Servant in a time period before they have died.

Looking at the trailer, it is almost certainly set in a time before the Shinsengumi, which means that the odds of Okita, Hijikata, Saito or Sakamoto showing up are extremely low. However, if it's set in the era of the Tokugawa Shogunate or later, that might still leave the door open for Nobbu, Nobukatsu, Chacha, etc. since it would fall after they died. Oryou... technically Oryou could probably show up regardless, being what she is. Okita Alter is also more likely than base Okita, since Alter is a Counter Guardian.

Gotta say it's very funny to see "there are hard rules against this... except all the times they did it and made up new reasons why it's okay this time" as logic against it happening again and not proof that they'll just do whatever.

W/re the Fate/ game and Gudaguda Servants appearing, it all depends entirely on when the game is set. Nasuverse stuff has some hard rules, and one of those is that (barring Counter Guardians and Merlin, both of which are special cases), you cannot summon someone as a Servant in a time period before they have died.

Looking at the trailer, it is almost certainly set in a time before the Shinsengumi, which means that the odds of Okita, Hijikata, Saito or Sakamoto showing up are extremely low. However, if it's set in the era of the Tokugawa Shogunate or later, that might still leave the door open for Nobbu, Nobukatsu, Chacha, etc. since it would fall after they died. Oryou... technically Oryou could probably show up regardless, being what she is. Okita Alter is also more likely than base Okita, since Alter is a Counter Guardian.