You literally said that the game was not revolutionary for the time because PCs existed, dude. The fact of the matter is that Final Fantasy VII was indeed a gigantic step forward for gaming (and the franchise); it merged cinematic storytelling and video games in a way that hadn’t really caught on by that point.

It’s a good thing I took some time off it to play more Jedi: Fallen Order, then!

Oh, yeah. I’m not expecting to literally be able to explore the whole city itself; I’m just expecting that it will be larger and have more to explore, including a good amount of new stuff. Obviously, we have yet to know for sure, but based on what I’ve seen, it looks like Square might actually pull off expanding…

Dude, calm it with the PC master race stuff. The game was literally groundbreaking for consoles and RPGs back then; that’s not just an opinion, but fact. Just because PCs existed with better graphics doesn’t mean that FFVII wasn’t a huge thing for consoles and players. 

Er, it kind of was groundbreaking at the time, though? The protagonist being an unreliable narrator, the worldwide search for the antagonist, Avalanche being morally ambiguous to a degree, and the portrayal of death as true loss instead of noble sacrifice were all things that weren’t done so much in gaming. Plenty of…

To be fair, Midgar had a huge percentage of text compared to other areas of the game, and it’s probably the one place we see the least of compared to how big it’s supposed to be, with Junon coming in behind it. Midgar was supposed to be a sprawling city, but what we see are only tiny segments of it; it seems to me…

Ehhhh. XIII wasn’t conceived as a story with multiple parts. They only did sequels to it because fans wanted more.

I think a lot of this is going to depend on whether the new content is actually done well or not.

Part of the reason for me was that the Renegade options rarely felt like they actually went with the descriptions. There were times where you’d choose to disagree with someone, but Shepard would punch them or yell at them or berate them when the option was along the lines of “That won’t work.”

I mean, it’s not quiiiite so simple as “don’t put homophobic stuff in your games.” The culture is vastly different. That doesn’t excuse homophobia—in this case, it’s pretty damn blatant—but it also means that progress will look different than what we would expect in the West. For example, to my understanding, Naoto’s…

So what this boils down to is that you hate that anyone spoke up about this.

I’m hoping you’ll agree with me, but just to make it clear for other readers: you don’t represent all gay men (let alone other queer people), so you not having an issue with the scene doesn’t mean nobody else should. Just because one queer person doesn’t have an issue with it doesn’t make the scene okay.

I’m glad the localization staff realizes that these scenes hurt. I really enjoyed P5 as a whole, but these scenes existing were incredibly frustrating considering the very same game treats Lala with such a light hand. Japan’s certainly different than America when it comes to how society treats queer people, but imo…

My store legit didn’t really seem to care, luckily. I know one of my coworkers was legitimately on SNAP at one point, with the leftover breakfast and lunch sandwiches being the only way he was really able to eat on a regular basis.

They’re literally not false equivalencies, my dude. It’s ridiculous moment compared to ridiculous moment.

It’s not false equivalency when they’re literally every bit as ridiculous, though. What, exactly, makes a trained martial artist engaging in a slap fight better than a stoic soldier being put in an embarrassing situation? How is a tree-man-demon turning himself into a splinter to embed itself in someone’s leg less…

Fair enough, but it’s not like that’s the only thing they’re adding. The game very clearly has more elements to it, like characterization for Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie, and it looks like there will be more worldbuilding (like the use of Wutai as scapegoat). It certainly could be as flat as much of XV’s extra content…

imo, the Hobbit was pretty clearly not meant to have that sort of expansion. VII, in contrast, barely shows Avalanche, and we don’t get to see anywhere near the entirety of Midgar. I’m still skeptical, but I think what we’ve seen so far has been positive. We just gotta see. I don’t think we should be blindly positive,…

lol I wasn’t mad by any means, and frankly, it’s not at all obvious when someone uses language like that considering how often games devs and journalists get death threats and how often people seriously do act like that.

Take a look on YouTube! They put out a video a while back detailing the combat system. :)