added! I'm jeoy on switch

oh man. Give telling me to stop putting headphones on on stage at ect. Beating my best friend finally in our college smash tournament. Finishing Persona 3 the first time. Dad bringing back halo reach and taco bell on release (we were poor so we never got games on release). Too many to recount.

gamers swear by so2 for good reason because of its systems beyond combat, but i swear so3 fury gauge is just the perfectly tuned version of what every action jrpg wants to do to combine resource with realtime action without skewing too far one way or another. cannot recommend it enough!!!

tie between star ocean 3 and bravely default. bravely perfectly decontextualizes a basic truth of classic turn based jrpgs, while so3's fury gauge makes a better argument for action meets jrpg than an atb gauge ever hoped for

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

my team did xenoblade 3ds lol its been very funny looking at it and thinking "how can i resurrect this old tech to be performant" hahahahaha

HIIIIIII weve been mutuals forever lets be best friends RIGHT NOW

i be chuggin tequila like my latino roots demand

we are at the point where 0.1ms is make or break between features being cut or not. figuring out how to make sure we target 60fps when we are bringing in laser scanned race tracks is a crazy big order, i cannot believe my team accomplished a 4k 60fps ue5 game in 2.5 years!

but a lot of old techniques dont work when you have to incorporate new tech to leverage realism. i like to refer to it as your "index of realism" and it's why old ps2 era tech cant scale when new tech fails. i hate modern graphics (dlss is CRINGE) but its never simple to optimize

oh my god where to begin that wont get me in trouble, i think performance! people assume "old tech worked why doesnt it work now" like even basic lighting in games is a different ball game when we deal with 2020+ AAA standards. I LOVE old tech and my team is 10-20 years older than me so they agree

holy shit are you playing mercenaries

the internet is so back

everyday i am more and more frustrated by how much this industry fails to value QA as a legitimate and critical career path of its own. I do more menial, should-be-automated bullshit day to day as a tech artist than QA testers but execs will never think that