EricUmbarger
Eric Umbarger
EricUmbarger

Personally, I’ve never met an Alphinaud fan. Personally I kind of dislike most of the Scions. Yda wasn’t too bad, and Moenbryda was alright as well. But I dislike Thancred, Y’shtola, and the rest. I am an Alisaie stan though, even though she’s far from perfect.

If you plan on non combat leveling at some point, The same lady that wrote a lot of Shadowbringers also wrote the story for DRK and ALC. I leveled all of my crafting classes with beast tribes and never went back to do the job quests which had the side effect of seeing them all uninterrupted and ALC was definitely one

I haven’t played MCH but usually recommend it to my friends that I recruit since I’ve heard the rotation is a lot better. I main AST but if I want to dps I have DCN leveled and it’s one of the most fun MMO classes I’ve ever played.

In case no one has told you, I highly suggest before getting too deep into HW that you find a group (it will be difficult) to do Coil of Bahamut and (not as difficult due to alliance raid roulette) Crystal Tower. I’m still a bit miffed that I didn’t do Coil before Stormblood, because it changes some dialogue with Alisa

I wrecked my Jeep Grand Cherokee when I was in college and couldn’t afford to replace it so I had to borrow my grandpa’s 1980s Datsun pickup, which was a manual with no power anything, no AC, no radio, not even power steering. It sucked but it got me around for a month until I found a car I could afford

Now if only someone could get Stuntman to play properly (the lead car clips a wall on the first level making it impossible to beat the level and play the rest of the game). I own the physical copy but the load times are on par with RDR2 and with the difficulty of the game, you end up starting at the load screen more

Hard question for me to answer. Generally there are a lot of great MMO raids. Alysrazor 25m Heroic is usually one of the first fights my brain races to, but most of the later fights in Ulduar were great, the first tier of Cataclysm raids were super underrated, Shinryu in FF14 was one of the best fights in that game

I’ve tried recruiting probably six different people to this game and none of them have gotten through ARR, most drop it by lvl 20-30. I try to repeat as many time as possible that ARR borderline sucks and everything after it is masterful, but they can’t seem to get through the sludge. I hope SE figures out a way to

I started Omega Quintet last week so hopefully I’ll be continuing that. Also going to check out Deep Rock Galactic in a few minutes since it is free this weekend on steam, and RE6 with my bff tomorrow to continue our run on cough coop

I’ve only noticed slow pumping a few times. What really grinds my gears is when the pump shuts off ever 0.02 gallons so you basically have to on/off the handle nonstop for ten minutes while you fill up. I’m assuming it is a bad valve on the handle triggering the auto turnoff but it happens several times a year for me

We’ve been asking for an open world pokemon game since the early 00's. This doesn’t look like quite what I imaged but could be a decent first attempt. 

As someone who doesn’t play mobile games I just want a Crisis Core remake/port. I own a Vita but it only works on PSP. I know I could just download PPSSPP but as a fan of SE I want to give them my money. I feel like a lot of other people would like to play it too. I don’t understand why they pretend they never made

I don’t mean to sound harsh but have you ever played a late 90's JRPG? Coming up with job combos, unique strategies, and having tough bosses is the main reason to play a game like FFT and in my opinion, one of the most fun parts of games like FF7 and FF8. And while it can feel painful dealing with the attrition of a

As a JRPG fan, it had to be either 97 or 98

If this got you, then you are in for it in the future. While they haven’t gone full Game of Thrones there are some really dark things that happen in the expansions (though there are still popular characters that have senseless plot armor too). I freaking love FF14, I need to do the new game + one of these days because

I hate to sound like a boomer luddite, but I honestly hate most car tech. I don’t want a giant ipad in the middle of my dash, I don’t want headlights that move, I don’t want my car to park itself, I don’t want auto adjusting windshield wipers, I don’t even want my seat belt ot beep if I don’t put it on. Your job, as

Ram 3500 (non-dually) with AEV Prospector kit
•Some small sports car, either a new Mazda Miata RF or Ariel Atom
•Some 75hp Compact Track Loader

I’ve heard Fell Seal on Steam is good. I bought it but haven’t played it yet, but a good friend of mine did, beat it in about a week. Said it isn’t as intense as FFT which is one our favorite games, but it scratches the SRPG itch. I also own MoeKuri on Steam which is, graphically, very strange but pretty good. It was

13 and 13-2 were turn based though...

Ironic that I had a long discussion about the 13 trilogy in my Discord yesterday and I was gushing how 13 did a good job of making turn based feel less dull without scraping it all together like 12/15/7r

I’m curious to know which SE games you find too hard. Most of them are pretty easy as far as the main game goes, they usually only put the really hard stuff as optional content. The FFX remaster comes to mind. As it was my third play through I slept through the main game, but the Dark Aeons completely wrecked my day.