Jason

@Levi

I was exactly where you were (gettin' PISSED), but as you read the rest of the article the tone becomes more clear: the author is clearly being sarcastic. What I find troubling is that Square will likely take these words to heart.

With that being said, the Way To Fix Final Fantasy is to put it back on Nintendo where it belongs. I played all three initially available in the states (I,IV,VI), and while I was as blown away by VII as everyone else back then, it was clear that some kind of magic had been lost along the way.

All they really have to do for FFXV is peg Sakaguchi-san to design and direct, get Yoshitaka Amano on as character designer, and confine them and Nobuo Uematsu into a hotel suite with nothing but LSD-punch and a Wii U development kit.

Best. Game. Ever.

@DavidHinkle wrote:
"Just look at the image above and tell us the guy isn't CEO material. Heck, even better: watch the new PlayStation Move ad for yourself past the break and try to tell us it isn't the highlight of your day!"

Was anybody else let down after reading that and then watching the video? I think Butler's hilarious for sure, but was this ad really representative of hilarity? In my opinion. it was not.

@MystileArmor

"Am I tempted to download free games? Sure.
Am I a douchebag that steals? No.

Shame on whoever does this. Theft = theft, no matter which way you spin it. "

Your idealism is noble, but still your failure. You download the full game TO PLAY THE TRIAL DEMO, the exploit simply allows you to play it.

If one of your friends had one of these games on a physical medium that you have a console for, let's say the DSi hypothetically , and you used it for a month, would you feel compelled to turn yourself into the police for theft?

If SNK sent you a copy of a game on a physical medium that you have a console for, with the intent to play the 1st few levels as a trial, and you found you could play all the levels--and did--would you commiserate yourself as a dirty thief?

There are more important things in this life, people. Don't allow the big companies of the world to rape your wallet and then feel bad if you end up ahead for once. They don't care about you.

The game's not out until what, June, with the Collector's Edition arrriving at the same time, and the DLC pack 1 will come with it ? What effing garbage.

As long as you sheep keep enabling the developers to rape our wallets by charging for things that should already be included from Day 1, they will.

I would please like this.

"The team members have worked on games like Fable 2, Crackdown, MotoGP and Grand Theft Auto, which all seem pretty ... disparate? What are we supposed to derive from this?"
Let's see - Crackdown and GTA...no similarities there, pal? Isn't Fable 2 fundamentally a sandbox, too? So other than Moto GP, isn't there more in common, than not?

What we should take from this is: A new developer is in around who is experienced in making AAA sandbox and racing games.

Not bad.

Too bad it ended up being a bunch of garbage. If my sack was a gamer, we'd have blue balls.

Jetpack with guns...while this is very cool, is it new information? It's mentioned more than once in the 13 minute video you guys have linked to the Dark Void preview from August of '08.

Just sayin'

"...he became fascinated with the Halo series and would play them for hours at friends' houses. His father forbade the games, saying that were too violent and sexually explicit."

LOL?

@ Brian, #9 & 11 - I think you need to look again. No one's EVER said it won't be free. What Bungie has consistently said is "We are not aware of any plans to make it free."

Considering that Microsoft sets DLC prices, and Bungie isn't part of M$ anymore, the statement means only that they're not privy to any plans to make it free (if there are any at all).

It probably will be free, eventually. But they're using ambiguous language to increase demand and convince people who are on the fence to buy it.

I personally bought it as the "deal" (400 points), knowing that it will probably be free. But $5 is what I consider the right price, so I wanted to let MS know that.