This is good Kinja. Agreed on all points. XV really hit the heart of the series, even though it stumbled in a lot of technical issues.

Counterpoint: it takes like ten seconds to figure out the quirks and mentally adjust, and a HUDless experience is much more rewarding because of the excellent and unparalleled world design which gives context clues at every step.

Counterpoint, hot take: for someone playing the game for the first time, it’s certainly nowhere near revolutionary. However, every individual component of the game is probably the best among the Final Fantasy series. I know this will be heresy to Schreier (and most of Kinja) but I thought VI was equal with XV. I beat…

Smartphone. Computer. Literally anything but the awful console browser that requires me to suspend my game and open another program on my console, which I can do approximately a bajillion times faster using the other methods.

Who the fuck actually uses a console browser though? I used my PS4 browser once and it was to leave a Google search of “tiddies” up for a snapchat because I’m dumb and thought it was funny.

I don’t think they really meant online parties and stuff, I think they meant actual human contact like Cartoonivore mentioned below. Ya know, the dying art of splitscreen.

Hey, the guy is a 74 year old actor who’s falling apart. It’s pretty damn impressive that he flies planes at all.

Oh. That’s kinda dumb. Thanks for the info regardless! There are a LOT of menus in that game and my phone screen makes the buttons and tooltips rather small. It’s a fantastic sized phone, but not really meant for games.

Honestly, that’s... pretty awesome. I’ve drawn like 6 or 7 times and I’ve only gotten a 5* Takumi and 5* Maria, both of whom are awesome, but since I didn’t play Fates I really want some of the more iconic heroes. Gimme Hector, baby. Hector or Lyn.

You sound like you know things. What’s a focus character and why are they better than regular five stars? If it’s by cutscene, then I know I have a 5* focus Takumi and a 4* focus Camilla, if that’s possible. They were the ones with cutscenes. However, Camilla really sucks and Takumi is a god no matter what you do. I…

I’m not going to argue with you, because you clearly know a lot about what you’re talking about and you said it very well. I do have to end up disagreeing with the conclusion, but as I said that’s not at all due to any inability of your explaining. Basically, you made good Kinja.

It’s just the new model for pricing. Honestly, it’s a steal that you can get MOST modern games for $40 or less, and AAA come out for $60 on release. Buy the $60, give your wallet some time to breathe, then get the expansion for what sounds like some worthwhile content. Final Fantasy did it, The Witcher did it…

Disclosure: this is a long and beautifully written article and I’m sorry but I only read the first half. I got stuff to do, man.

How am I not surprised that xkcd plays Stardew. I wish I was cool enough for that dude to be my spirit animal.

Yup. I married Olivia and Donnel and boy did they make a great baby. Absurd speed from Olivia, absurd everything else from Donnel, and the best skills in the game. That child broke the damn game.

BLESS

Bayonetta, Devil’s Third, Fatal Frame. Those are the only three games that I could find that had an M rating and were published by Nintendo across three systems (Wii, 3DS, WiiU). Sure, they have a handful of third-party M rated games but they’re hardly exclusive to the console. You’re right that Nintendo being family…

I know, right? It’s like, man, there’s enough porn on the internet to satisfy ten thousand deviant fantasies but dem tiddies and I end up whipping it out. Every time.

Pro-tip: actually watch the video, it’s one of the funniest and happiest things I’ve seen since Joey and Kermit sang the alphabet together.

You’re halfway right, especially since you’re taking it very casually (as am I). The biggest perk to having a better starred character in this type of game is the stamina bar, while the second biggest perk is Camilla’s rack, and of course the third biggest perk is the gloating.