Oh god I remember watching the 2019 anime but getting really confused a few episodes in because things just seemed off and like I was missing something. When I searched for it the next day on the site I was using showed the 1998 OVA “series”, and I thought it might provide the context I was missing. And oh boy it certainly did, just not in the way I expected…
Never knew it had such a big role in Visual Novel history. That’s cool to learn!
I’ll say it a million times: they tried to copy several games but ignored the development structure that made them successful: release a minimum version and work on it alongside the community.
A lot of people saw this coming since when they announced that they were completely restarting development of their engine.
They let perfect be the enemy of good enough and so not a single build ever saw public release.
Oh my god I had completely forgotten about that game!! I vaguely recall being taught some exploit that trivialised it but it was so fun to come back to every now and again.
Woah, this is really helpful! I don’t know why but I’ve always struggled keeping up with SGF and similar events, so thank you for sharing!
This sounds like Osvaldatore’s Apex source is being sniffed out. It’s just believable enough that the opportunity to be the guy to leak TF|3 was too exciting to pass up.
I hope one day they’ll have the courage to actually make TF|3 but I imagine there would be few who worked on the original left at Respawn. I know a bunch of big names left when I played Apex a ton from launch to two years back or so.
There’s been an interesting development; Krafton have responded with some pretty direct claims and the founders are suing.
TL;DR the most important claim seems to be
Ever since the Doom Eternal Mick Gordon situation there has been several more controversies (Bayonetta’s VA pay comes to mind) where it seems the first person to make the claim is hiding something. Is it an attempt to control the narrative? It has always backfired so far so we’ll see if that trend continues.