And that’s over a year old. Since then...

I’ve been going strong a year and change so far over the Blizzchung fiasco and they’ve only continued to pull bullshit since, so I think I’ve got this.

Uh, what? How exactly does one punish the execs beyond not buying their products?

*Sigh* I want this so, so badly. Diablo 2 is probably one of my top 5 games all time. I literally had just reinstalled it like three days before the announcement (Trying my hand at modding, which I have yet to get working right).

See, all this talk of packratting and I’m now worried my mother is going to be accused of regicide. Way to go.

And also the whole “I.” Significant improvements to the story aside, there was a lot in that section that I’d contend was infuriating because of the way it railroaded you into bad decisions.

That was one of the parts I hated. It was probably the biggest idiot ball moment of the entire game. I’m looking at this vial on the ground thinking “This is definitely poison and I am 100% going to be implicated in something because of this. Can I just... not pick it up and call the Immortal Flames? I’m kind of hot…

Alphie’s got some strong, strong stuff in ShB too (Alisae’s arc has more pathos, but Alphie’s is just kind of hilarious).

I... disagree strongly? Yeah, the regicide got retconned, but there’ve been a whole lot of losses to this point. Shit, you lose two major NPCs in HW alone. Then we lost (Kind of) two scions during Stormblood.

Having gone to 80 on a WHM, I’m more or less over padjals at large.

Honestly, my biggest issue with 1.55 is that... (Spoilers)

I’d echo this with a caveat: read a quick summary of 1.0 first. Everything in Coil is, more or less, built as an ode to what came before but isn’t in the game anymore. Final Coil, in particular, would make absolutely no sense without that step.

Playing through it, I never really held Alphinaud’s attitude against him. He’s like 16 during ARR and I lay the blame for his fuckups at the feet of the adults he was surrounded with that never bothered to try to pump the brakes on him. Like, I’ve got a 15 year old and he sure has a shit ton of bad ideas because he’s…

I’m played up to 5.45 right now. When do I get to the content where he’s isn’t ain’t shit?

You’ll come around even farther. He’ll be back again eventually and his further adventures are even better.

Binding Coil is something I would only recommend doing unsynced with a group and even then? Unless you feel like reading up on 1.0, it adds almost nothing. Without the 1.0 background, none of it makes any sense.

“I’m dying for some fucking folders”

Not gonna lie...

Same. I started FFXIV last January or so and got caught up a week or so after 5.3 came out and it’s really satisfying seeing Ash’s articles on stuff like this because it really cements some of the character development.

Same. I was super into the lore of WoW. Haven't read every novel, but I'd read most of them at one point. But the point it was at when I quit (Just before the final BfA patch), I kind of stopped caring. Like, I knew next step was to kill the last Old God and I just couldn't muster the interest needed.