No actually, I never really like Final Fantasy IV. V to me was way more fun, gave me more flexibility to deal with challenges instead of just leveling up, and was about as narratively deep (that is to say, not at all).

They established in ME2 that a Mass Relay pretty much wipes out a star system if it explodes, so that's one rewrite for the better.

It isn't the Indoctrination Theory (which would have been -brilliant- if refined properly, and everybody would have come out of that one feeling like a winner) but it's a better, if more generic, ending that manages to not leave a horrible, awful, no-good, very bad taste in one's mouth like last time.

I wanted a proper final boss, not a tense and snippy chat with a mid-management AI who stuffed his creators into the first of many spacefaring death squids.

There need to be more Japanese developers like him, more who actually speak their mind. It's entirely possible I'm looking in the wrong places, but too often Japanses game makers come across like shells of people with only meek, feigned enthusiasm whenever pitching or discussing their games.

The ending is less stupid now. It isn't "Indoctrination Theory" levels of potential, but all (most?) of the plot holes were plugged up.

I don't mind sad endings per se, but endings need to be well-written all the same.

Couldn't he just take the Reapers away himself? What's the point of a deified administrative AI if it can't even do anything besides tell you to pick a door?

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Hey Square: Just release a Final Fantasy VII with analog control and characters that don't look like piles of angry triangles already. No one's forcing you to gussy it up in HD, ya dipsticks.

Just more evidence that the fighting game circuit is just a giant boys club, to say nothing of gaming in general.

They probably won't show us the Pyro's face. Valve knows the question is far more compelling than the answer.

Likewise. I played ME3 on 360, it's not like the PS3 version was worth playing according to all those reports of slowdown and the litany of graphical problems it had despite a massive, mandatory install.

I guess all the new blood killing the once-lauded Final Fantasy brand and destroying the Square logo's reputation as a seal of quality was literally sickening the old guard.

I've heard the phrase "too many cooks spoil the broth" (and it sure as heck applied to FF XIII), but to have no one crosschecking each other is madness. I know I've already made the comparison, but without crosschecking George Lucas would have made Han Solo into a lizard-man in the original Star Wars instead of the…

Yeah, not tactless at all.

I know just enough about Mass Effect, I don't really read the codex entries, novels, or comics to be honest.

It is the least attractive face I've seen attached to a body like that, I'll say that much.

It basically came down to the moral dilemma of sacrificing all of humanity through "ascension" to save the future, or casting off the Reapers and try to find a solution with what little time and resources the galaxy had left.

Ya mean it? Golly! :D