A respectable opinion, and one that we’re all aware does not represent all FF players. That said, you’re absolutely right that it’s a bad example. Perhaps X or even XIII would be better.

I think the downfall of a lot of modern video games is the promise that you can do anything. I’m not a big fan of Brandon Sanderson, but I love his take on magic: magic is most interesting when you’re exploring what it can’t do, not what it can. Games like Skyrim (which promise endless possibility) or any modern…

The only downside is that you have to live in Chicago.

See, but that would have been reasonable.

Not to mention, since they can control the choke point where the Thanos-zombies are coming in, why don’t they keep their ranged weapons activated and concentrate fire there?

The only DK games I ever played had bongos.

No game works for everyone. No book works for everyone. No movie works for everyone. (Except for Space Jam. That’s my shit.) It’s just the nature of tastes.

Wow, I didn’t hear about Simone. That’s... yuck. Bodies are so frail.

Man, I love this. What a simply tremendous game. It’s really one in a million. I’m sure this won’t be the last great game to be made, and that it will one day be surpassed, but it’s a testament to its quality that it’s continued to receive so much praise several years after its release.

I grew up in St. Louis. Our rush hour is legendary. Driven there plenty of times, and you’re right, it’s miserable in manual.

Heh, good runs from PA and MGDMT this week.

I’m in favor of fully manual cars. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a generation of drivers who actually know what happens when they push all the buttons and levers. Best purchase of my life was a Mazda stick two years ago. I didn’t know how to drive stick, but now I don’t think I can ever go back. I might just still…

I hope the continued success of Heroes shows Nintendo devs that there’s a market for more tactical-RPGs like that. I never got to play it, but Shadows of Valentia seems like a good step away from the “waifu simulator” that the series was in danger of becoming, and more of a step towards quality gameplay and story.…

Whenever I get a troll, it’s more fun to derisively respond ‘k’ than to ignore them. Ignoring them lets them feel victimized, but ‘k’ puts them in their place. Not to mention, it’s a helluva lot of fun...

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What’s wrong with Heroes? I’ve been playing it since launch, and for a mobile Free-to-Play game it’s actually quite generous. They’ve pulled more good moves than they have scummy moves.

Counter-point: Noctis is very emotionally nuanced and displays both strength and vulnerability, just like Joel and Geralt do, just like Kratos does in the most recent GoW. The deeply flawed plot of FFXV shouldn’t take away from that at all. Noctis is a terrific protagonist.

Yes. And there are countless books for thousands of years before that. I’m talking about video games, which very clearly are separate from cinema and literature.

So you’re saying that developers are beginning to learn that protagonists like Joel from The Last of Us, Geralt from the Witcher 3, and Noctis from Final Fantasy XV (flawed but still a good example) were popular?