All the developers needed to do with this aspect of the continuation process is put a sanity check on the equipment and cap whatever needs a cap so that continuity isn't broken and the player doesn't feel all their work was for nothing. This is absolutely the worst way to handle continuity in a fragmented game like FF7R.
A 25% EXP "boost" to soften the -50% EXP penalty of anything outside of appropriately high tier nightmare dungeons or Helltides. I'll uh, sign right up for that.
@RogerioFM: The reason "hit stick" controls are considered the best has been because you could hold two directions simultaneously (e.g. up and down at the same time), allowing you to perform a move and charge the next move while you're performing the first move. It's the reason Capcom has banned that capability on these controllers in their tournaments, as it provides a massively unfair advantage vs. joystick users that can only hold one direction at a time.
@The_Deepblue: It had some very notable games to play, but I hated its controller. In fact its controller actually prevented me from getting past the first major area in Metroid Prime. The problem? Its hard, and I mean hard click triggers used for the lock on feature that you had to constantly make use of. My hand got so sore and tired so quickly that I ended up ditching the platform entirely and just returning to my PS2 (outfitted with a nice 120 GB HD for storing/loading my games).
Had the controller not had that hard click I might have stuck with the GC and ditched the PS2 instead. That was one seriously awful controller design. Glad they ditched it for good outside of the modern GC controller for the Switch VConsole games.
@jenovaschilld: I mainly went for overkill with the Monolith M7X amplifier, which is coupled to my Yamaha CX-A5100. For a smallish bedroom this is most assuredly overkill, but I like my movies to have punch and this setup delivers. I'd have gone 7.1, but bi-amping those A9s made more sense and really upped the quality of the sound.
If I had to go small form factor I'd search out a few more of the TSi-200s. For a bookshelf speaker they can really put out. Before I found a good soundbar for my grandparents I let them borrow my TSi-200s so they could understand the vocals (the TV speakers were so bad they had trouble hearing words). In the setup I made for them with my speakers I could feel them from up in my bedroom. Had to go back to 3.1 while they borrowed my speakers, but they got a lot of enjoyment out of two not so large speakers.
I like overkill, but for many people bigger isn't necessarily better. :)
Microsoft has been getting very desparate to try and get this deal through. They've engaged in a literal flurry of concessions to try to make this appealing to the regulators. Thing is, if this deal is such a good thing for competition, why then do they have to make concession after concession just to eke out a win? Shouldn't the acquisition stand on its own if it's good for competition?
The answer is no, it shouldn't, because it can't. In the game industry, acquisitions are for one purpose and one purpose only: to bolster one's own IP portfolio while subsequently making said IP exclusive to the new IP holder. This happened with Bethesda, and Microsoft has a very clear track record of not adhering to either agreements or even legal requirements (MS Edge, like its predecessor, Explorer is tied directly into Windows Update, which was supposed to have never happened; Click a link in any of Microsoft's own control panel windows and it opens...Edge, regardless of what your default browser is).
Is that so? Don't mind the old school iPod. That pic was taken eight years ago. The weird looking red thing with the yellow button on top of my computer is a Leo Bodnar input latency tester.
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