Yeah, mostly because they finally got some fresh blood in the franchise. The problem with FF over the past twenty years is that it just hasn’t been allowed to do anything new because it was mostly the same guys (like Nojima, Nomura, and Kitase) deciding who got to work on it. It became a very closed off club where if…

He had to emphasize he’s a PRODUCER, he’s already got his hands full with XIV. The director is Hiroshi Takai who was the director of The Last Remnant and a co-director for XIV’s Stormblood expansion

Yeah, it almost makes me feel like it’s taking after Vagrant Story a bit.

Well, this is the problem: FF has never BEEN high fantasy. It’s always been this weird, subversive fantasy. It’s why the games kept doing new things, adding new terminology, exploring new themes. The reason FF has stumbled is because it hasn’t gone anywhere; it stopped doing NEW stuff and trying to just rehash old…

Mostly because it’s being done by Yoshida’s team, the only FF team with talent and self-awareness

The only thing that interests me is that it’s being produced by Yoshida.

FFVIII is about watching the FF team trying and failing to plagiarize Xenogears properly

The reason Sakaguchi left a void was because he was able to tell guys like Kitase and Nomura “No!” and stop them from indulging in their worst habits. When he left basically there was no one at Square who could fill the role of a mentor figure. Kitase and Nomura have proven to not have the chops to do that. They lack…

And conservative politicians have repeatedly blocked expansion of high speed internet because that would mean people would be informed.

This is what happens when you let games and hardware be designed exclusively by privileged tech porn fetishists who don’t understand that internet even in urban areas is inconsistent and fucked

I would say the core problem is this: VII was mostly about questioning and outright dismantling authority. A lot of that is the time it was made in, being 90s Japan with a lot of problems like the Lost Decade and the angst of the youth. They felt directionless with no real aspirations, but rebellion gave them an…

This is really the start of Square making it clear they never truly understood FFVII. Or if they did, they hated it. FFVII was, at its heart, a dismantling of the RPG tropes of the 90s but Advent Children seems determined to rewrite that, trying to make the game something it wasn’t. It really comes off like a cowardly…

I stop taking him seriously the second he tried the “Yeah, well I’m older than you!” excuse like every geriatric dweeb uses when they’ve been pimp slapped

I’m the same age as Zelda, dweeb. I have played literally all of them, including remakes and still own physical copies, so fuck the hell off with trying to pull rank and failing at it, you gatekeeping loser

I....don’t know. When you can put Immortals on the Switch, I very much doubt the system is going to break with Sands of Time unless the code is strung together by string and wacky glue

You have clearly missed the point of Zelda so hard you were aiming away from the point into a Tim Horton’s

I expect Ubisoft will Ubisoft it by making it grindtastic

It’s almost like after hearing the comparisons to Breath of the Wild instead of taking that as praise they freaked out and tried to make it different enough to look like they weren’t plagiarizing. The problem is it makes the game look LESS interesting.

People who think BOTW’s story is somehow weak are idiots

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