Yeah, but the console industry model is totally dead because of so many people playing Angry Birds

That's the funniest thing I've read all day

With biceps to spare, no less.

Can we please name the things that make something a Final Fantasy game? I'd love to have a serious discussion about this. Here's my initial thoughts:

Well see my reply to Metroid Man (who is much more pleasant to talk to), but by "Completely Unplayable" I don't necessarily mean difficult, I mean that it offends my modern gaming sensibilities so much that I have to force myself to engage with it.

Haha sorry, to be honest I never played FFIV, and based on these comments I'll check it out. Toward the beginning I was ranking these titles legitimately, but after a certain point I just wanted to legitimize my list as a build up to the Chocobo Dungeon followed by FFXII and FFXIII.

Thank you - I'd like to think I was inspired by intense nostalgia and a burning passionate hatred for FFXII.

Why are you frustrated about Cost of Goods Sold? Trying to get your gross margins down?

This article is a very lazy exercise. If you really wanted to pick the best Final Fantasy, you'd have to brew it down to all the elements of various Final Fantasy game, and come up with the set of characteristics that make something a "Final Fantasy" game, and then benchmark each game according to how well they…

That's a good point - most of the SNES-era games that I missed are now completely unplayable. I'll have to start them out with NES and move on in the same way I did. The only problem is by the time they're old enough to play some of my favorite games, they'll already have been exposed to graphics that are about…

I am filled with deep, soul-crushing sadness every time I look upon a Playstation 1. I've replayed games from that console probably more times than I've played games from all other consoles combined. My only solace is that someday I will be able to vicariously enjoy the smiles on my children's faces as I force them…

You can only plaster a map in Arcos and Police Stations so many times

Oh, I agree. It just seems that it limits any potential expansion into mobile (of course, this has undoubtedly been in development for a while, whereas Adobe's mobile announcements were more recent)

I often wonder how some of my favorite JRPG's would have fared without compelling soundtracks - for the Playstation era of Final Fantasy, at least, I can't even imagine. In fact, I can prove that a good soundtrack is enough to draw me in by readily admitting that I LOVED FFVIII. If you ask me why, I'd mention some…

I'm aware, but abandoning updates effectively signals obsolescence and makes it difficult for developers to continue to use, particularly high-profile developers like this.

Why would they use Flash after Adobe has abandoned Flash for mobile? Does that limit the market?

I played through the entire game :(

"I could not give less of a sh*t about Penelo, Vaan, Ashe or Basch"

No one satires abstract, non-sensical gender commentary like Gaston

This is the third time I've done this and every time, people gloss over the part that suggests satire instead of serious post. I'm not sure if I blame commenters for not reading closely, or people who actually talk like this for making their eyes gloss over with abstract and attenuated arguments that amount to…