Buckle up. This’ll be a hell of a ride.

While I do feel bad for Tessica, and especially her kids who absolutely do not deserve the notoriety and abuse, she did in fact bring this on herself. If you post videos of yourself doing something really stupid, you have only yourself to blame when you become a meme.

Yeah. The story drags a little in the middle parts of ARR (with 50 levels worth of quests there’s inevitably going to be a bunch of filler) but as you get farther in, and especially once you hit Heavensward, the story gets really good.

I wonder if there’s more to the story than we’re being told. Immediately disqualifying someone without even telling them why, let alone giving them the chance to fix the issue, seems really weird and sets a pretty bad precedent for the tournament going forward.

Those were my first thoughts too. It looks cool, but damn does it have a lot of design and practicality issues.

I agree. I’m glad Nintendo is always off being weird and quirky rather than trying to directly compete with Sony and Microsoft. We don’t need a third, nearly identical console. We need someone to be innovating. Sometimes it works (Wii, DS, Switch) and sometimes it doesn’t (WiiU) but even when Nintendo fails at least…

Yeah. It’s easy to look at the N64 and PSX and see year-2000 Nintendo as failing, but that’s not the whole story. Nintendo also had complete dominance of the handheld market and near infinite Pokemon merchandising money. They didn’t need Microsoft’s hilariously low offer.

and I do still kinda wish that admission to its servers were bundled with a free lobotomy, so that we could truly stomp through the Azerothian wilds as if they were new all over again.

I swear, I will never understand why everyone loves this game so much. I know taste is subjective but most of the time I can at least understand why people like certain things even if I’m personally not a fan. Not this game though. It’s not a bad game, but it’s one of the most boring games I’ve ever played. It took…

Eh. Depends on the game. Ice Cap is the best zone in Sonic 3.

Yeah. I expected FF7:Remake to be mediocre at best, but it was shockingly good. Not amazing, but waaaaaay better than I expected.

It’s cyberpunk. If you showed me that top screenshot and told me the game looked like that intentionally, I’d believe it.

To be fair, this happened back in what, June? Pretty early in the vaccine process when no one had any idea which companies were going to come up with anything, let lone something effective. Hindsight is 20/20. Not buying hundreds of millions of something that might never exist in favor of increasing the odds of…

I also loved the first campaign quest with the play. The pure fun and absurdity of the story reenactment, while in the audience Ysera is visibly horrified learning about what happened during the rest of Legion and BFA.

I didn’t mind the guided story so much. My only real complaint is that the pacing was completely out of whack. Compared to say, FFXIV’s laser precision where MSQ keeps character and quest levels almost perfectly even (on a first character, anyway) In SL I hit 60 halfway through Ardenweald, and that was with only a…

It’s the difference between moving your head and moving a camera.

The fact that 20+ years later you’ve gotten used to it doesn’t make it a good idea.

Okay, just so we’re clear on what happened here. This is how it played out, right?

Yeah. In 1998, “40 hours of gameplay!” was a big enough deal to be a back of the box selling point. Today if your game is only 40 hours people will laugh at your cute little mini adventure.

but only because there are no laws in Judaism that I’m aware of which bar believers from wearing horrifically ugly dresses that look like two Sesame Street characters sewn together.