The more action-oriented installment in the franchise feels like Square Enix should've left its RPG mechanics out.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
TNS - NCSoft CEO admitted that AI is rapidly becoming a core part of game development, but he added that it cannot replace what makes games fun.
To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
''The more action-oriented installment in the franchise feels like Square Enix should've left its RPG mechanics out.''
Why?
What's in the game, works well for the game.
What they have done with what's there is brillant.
I am literally playing something that seems to be blowing my mind every step of the way!!
Like this game is goddam insane, next level shit!!
I'm literally being floored constantly, like fuck I don't even know how to describe this game.
All I know is it's my game of the year, spider man 2 and starfield ain't gonna have shit on this, neither did my 90 or so hrs with totk.
I won't say to much but I have a favourite eikon from the series and I was looking looking forward to the battle, and fuck me side ways they made it the longest most epic battle ever depicted in a video game, could've cried tears of joy.
Just go buy the game people, it's insanely good.
So many posts to try make this masterpiece look like an disaster. You trolls keep em comin.
FFXVI will sell millions and gather new fans to the franchise.
30 hours in and can't stop playing and I'm glad there is still a lot of the rpg elements in the game, I've come to love through the almost 40 years I've been playing rpgs.
Yoshi P has quickly become one of the best in the business, thanks to the revival of A Realm Reborn, and now this.
Haters gonna hate, and we love you for it ❤️
The game is Final Fantasy XVI in the year 2023 including the game being fabulous. Why some folks are going out of their way trying to discredit the game for being a Final Fantasy game (RPG) is bewildering as well as dumb. Smh.
It's just DMC. It lacks traditional rpg stuff asides equipment. Skills obviously are in many other genres. I was surprised there was no MP nor status effects. No controllable party members with their own unique abilites. No weaknesses. No strategy involved besides button mashing, get the stun bar down, button mashing.
Just an action game hidden by rpg looking stuff. QTEs....there are QTEs.....this makes me appreciate ff7 remake for actually giving us traditional rpg elements.
Bright side is that story and cutscenes are great though.