First off, that GameNOW article was great. Second, I have always loved FF8. I tend to go back and forth between 8 and 10 as my favorite. FF7 was my first FF game. I liked it a lot but when FF8 released and I snatched it up, I was in love immediately. Even past the glee of how good it looked, I enjoyed its cleaner sci-f…

I don’t know. Yuna and Titus were cute. That puppy love was there from almost the start. The love story was as saccharine as you could get. I liked it a lot and it is definitely elevated by his sacrifice in the end but I will still take FF8 over it. If only because of the added complication of them not caring about…

This whole intentionally obtuse thing doesn’t work. People can tell the difference. That is why the people complaining about Rife were not accusing him of hating women or advocating for domestic abuse. They were complaining about the joke itself and that type of joke in general. I think they are too uptight about the…

Do I think he is funny? Who cares. We all know comedy is subjective so what is the point of giving people a personal frame of reference that means nothing to them. To the point, I always hate these controversies every time somebody’s comedy special pops up. I can definitely enjoy offensive jokes. Dark jokes, sick…

You know as well as I that people will hang you for this but I actually agree. I love VIII.

I have had a few like that. I find it interesting that when people make a comment like OPs here, more people tend to agree with them than not. So, yeah, it actually does sound kind of normal. The difference with these situations in the article, with Ellen and the like, is in how the workplace culture revolves around a…

to be honest with the AC series, as much as i loved Ezio, when that trilogy was being released, you could tell that Ubi was pulling back from what they were trying to do with AC1. That game revolved around its gameplay style more than anything else. How many trailers did they release that emphasized mechanics rather…

Sony has great first party studios but they got to where they are now by being the destination for many 3rd party studios. The list of best selling games in the PS1 and PS2 era is littered with names like Namco, Square, Konami, Rockstar, Eidos, EA, etc...

It obviously isn’t a bust or anything like that. I will also sell pretty well on PC when that release happens. The question is about perception, I guess. This change in direction in the franchise that has been happening for over a decade has always seemed geared toward expanding their audience to new fans and…

Both. You can create a Character or pick a companion and play from their POV.

A big part of enjoying the ending for me is the understanding that many of the things you bring up either didn’t really matter or were never a major player to begin with. The entire setting makes it clear that the Earth and its factions of ‘freedom fighters’ don’t have a shot in hell of accomplishing anything on their…

The menu system comes from the series having its roots in Dungeon and Dragons tabletop ... which has a turn-based combat system. Action RPGs are not new in the slightest. The first Ys game came out in 1987, the same year as the first Final Fantasy, and the Mana series wasn’t far behind. It is a style, not a tech…

I don’t get why more people don’t understand this. Sure, it changes things up in more ways than a series like Tales or Dragon Quest or Phantasy Star would when looking at a series of games in a franchise but it has hardly ever not been within the framework of the JRPG genre (even if they may not like that term).…

But did it really even do that? Outside of its immediate sequel, people are not exactly clamoring for other developers of open world games to ape BOTW’s style. Between asking players to explore a fleshed out world or using a world as the means of exploration, people seem more than happy with the former even if they…

See, you are kind of missing the point about what the article is about. Cloud gaming, right now, doesn’t rely on content. Nobody is saying, “I would move to cloud gaming if only [insert game] was available.” It relies on tech. And nothing about stopping this merger changes the fact that MS has a bajillion dollars and…

I think I will play it at some point because I always do for FF games but I find myself not caring AT ALL about this game and agree with you about the direction of the series. They have been lurching toward this action gameplay for well over a decade now at the expense of the traditional party system and gameplay…

Exactly. It didn’t matter that the arcade cabinet in the game was made up. It could have been MKII and the scene still works perfectly. Choosing to actually show them playing the game, no matter what it happens to be, is the part that probably feels to the author like an ad intrusive decision. It doesn’t add to the…

That is totally true. It wouldn’t be as bad if they didn’t decide to make his movements during traversal very deliberate. The weight exhibited when he needs to make a sharp turn. The slight stumbles when he starts to sprint. The way the character model leans into whatever direction he needs to move in. The footprints…

Of course they get blame. They will always get the biggest share of the blame because of the nature of their job. They didn’t do their job well at all. The point is that people always wait for some kind of magic words, ‘Corporate meddling,’ ‘ Incompetent leadership,’ or ‘Failure at the top’ to put that blame solely…

Why are you guys acting like this is first time they made a sub-par game? At some point, they have to take some blame for it right?