First off, you’re using a flawed analogy: this game isn’t adapting from another medium.

Secondly, if it’s a silly take, it’s a silly take that echoes common complaints from the first remake installment. There’s way too much filler, to the point where it feels like defensive justification of the remake itself.

A lot of…

Plenty of people complain about book, movies, and novels being overlong. And that complaint is often lodged at things like TV adaptations that stretch an originally shorter story thin.

I don’t really agree that this isn’t a great juxtaposition, Remake also combines onto itself elements from Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus. Elements which imo can often distract and detract to the same extent that the appendices stuff in Hobbit can

Its important to remember that back in the PSX era, multiple discs didn’t represent “plot” or “content”, but rather storage for lots of FMV cutscenes. The final sections of the game needed a lot of space for video of it’s climactic scenes and the ending. In reality, without FMV, the entire game easily fits on one…

That’s making a lot of assumptions. There have been additions to novelizations of films that were disliked. More content doesn’t automatically mean that content is good or enjoyable.

Dang, Remake was amazing to me. Just seeing all the characters and environments re-imagined in high-res graphics was worth it. Yeah, the story got a little weird near the end, but I found the game really fun.

I don’t think anyone ever looks at the amount of words/pages in a novel as ‘content’, it’s such a weird way to describe something like that.

That it is a video game does not make it above concerns such as pacing and tone. More content and things to do is not a universally better thing. Video games are not solely interaction machines, those interactions can and should have some sort of meeting.

Yeah, sure, they expanded Midgar, and it is a good setting, but…

I don’t think you can just offhandedly define videogames as a thing like that, at least not if you want to be taken seriously. It’s pointlessly and incorrectly reductive. Video games are a medium and an art form just like any other, and they can be designed for any number of playstyles or reactions they’d like to draw…

Not if it's not optional/skippable.

There really weren’t that many side quests/mini games in OG, honestly
Chocobo breeding — was just farming the racing game to get best stats before farming some nuts for the right chance, and then save scumming the result.
Gold Saucer — a bunch single button push minigames that lasted 5 seconds, except for the mini…

Tate’s cookies are SO GOOD. It almost tastes like they brown the butter a little. I generally don’t buy readymade cookies because most of them suck, but Tate’s are reliably great.

Half of True Detective’s appeal was the idea that there was always something deeper and weirder to the mythos.

In Season 2, Pizzolatto literally wrote the line, “I will come back here and butt f*ck your dad with your mom’s headless corpse.” I think whatever mantle he held regarding quality or “classic dialogue” ended right there. Also, so much of what made season 1 what it was the acting and direction. Many of the ideas were…

Coming from Pizzolatto I’d say it’s probably half misogyny, half egomaniac showrunner/control freak.

I can’t help wondering if there is some misogyny in this and a lot of other criticisms of the season. Honestly, it may be my favorite season of the show. 

It’s a massive and incredibly complex RPG that does far more right than it does wrong. That’s why people were willing to overlook the bugs and polish issues.

I first played it back when it came out for PC in August and while act 3 was notably laggier and sometimes there would be odd pauses in battles or weird quality of life issues, even back then I wouldn’t have described it as broken or unfinished. And subsequent patches seem to have no only resolved things but refined…

Pretty sure “the spell” and “the item that gives you the spell” are logically interchangeable, even for pedants.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news (well, bad for you, because I hugely dig the compilation), but Final Fantasy VII Remake was already incorporating elements of both Before Crisis and Crisis Core in the form of both narrative references and easter eggs. And the Yuffie chapter being added this summer appears to focus…