It's an interesting thought exercise, isn't it. How would you manage to stay grounded if you'd been one of the biggest, most recognizable movie stars in the world since 1996? If you couldn't so much as get a taco down the street without people freaking out? If every single person you ever met was overwhelmingly likely…

The twin pillars of "tells it like it is" and "lies constantly (and we mean constantly)" is pretty incredible.

I think they probably gave up on DQ ever making a real impact back in 1992 and haven't really revisited the idea.

Let's not forget about the big Nintendo Power/Dragon Warrior giveaway. Getting a free video game was essentially unheard-of and that did a lot to raise the series' profile stateside. I know that's how I got a copy.

The Android version is fine as far as I'm aware. I've played through the whole game twice without an issue.

My girlfriend's favourite is FF8, but that's because she's the sort of person who loves drawing 99 of each spell from a fucking crab or something on a random beach.

Eh, not your cup of tea. It happens.

I find that nearly all SNES games have aged worlds better than all PS1 games. Those untextured polys and low frame rates are brutal today while pixel art looks as good as ever.

The funny thing is that the fight with the four-armed goat demon is pretty damn challenging, but it's the one-on-one between Wiegraf and Ramza that's the killer.

The balance also gets pretty out of whack toward the end and you have to pretty much try to lose when you get TG Cid (or just handicap yourself by not using him).

I have played through 95% of FF12's plot twice and I still don't really understand what was happening. Of course that's a pretty common theme with those games pretty much since VII (Is the Sephiroth you spend the whole game chasing a clone of the one encased in Materia? I 'unno.)

Made up for, in my opinion, by the fact that FF12 and Vagrant Story both take place in the same world as FFT and the clues are there if you look.

It's always been sort of fascinating to me how huge Final Fantasy has become while the Dragon Quest series never made much of a lasting impression outside Japan.

I'm way late to this, but probably not. All the rogue soldiers wanted was to buy enough time for the bomb to go off, which they did. Following that they likely laid down their weapons and were taken into custody.

Probably helped a couple of kids in the audience, too. She doesn't extract some kind of elaborate and implausible prank-revenge on Gideon, thus balancing the scales.

Same. No TV along with ad-blockers have reduced my information stream about upcoming movies to near zero. It's terrific.

Doomsday has never not been terrible in anything I've seen.

Tess is clearly smart and well-educated and sensitive. She has strong opinions about Art. And she looks like Julia Roberts, so there's that.

Which both makes sense and is a credit to the audience, in a strange way.

In such discussions I'm always reminded of that replicant who's a snake dancer from Blade Runner. When we first see her she's all wet with slicked-back hair and the aforementioned snake, and could come from any futuristic period at all.