Man, if a bunch of belligerent teens came up to me and said “i bet you love jeffrey dahmer,” i might just tell them “yeah i fuckin’ do, i actually love killing and eating people”. it’s a trick question for them, they’re not gonna leave you alone if you say “n-no, of course i don’t like donald trump!”

It was poorly received by many fans.

I would love if they’d make a low-budget entry JRPG-ass JRPG where I fight god at the end. Then, twenty minutes later and inexplicably in between dimensions, I fight god’s supervisor.

I’m not as down on the post-X series as you are (12's got some good bits, the MMOs have their merits, and 13... is there), but I agree with you wholeheartedly. The more S-E tried to chase trends and be more action-oriented, the less it feels like Final Fantasy. They should just plant their feet, make a kickass ATB…

X was the last good single-player FF. Give me atb, give me FULL control of every member of the party. Don’t try to make it actiony. FF shouldn’t try to be DMC.

Yoshi-P must have the patience of a saint twice over at this point. I don’t know how he manages to stay sane while dealing with not only the FF14/MMO community but also the heads of SE who are probably badgering him non-stop to add NFT’s, Loot Boxes, and whatever other flavor of the month micro-transactions…

Final Fantasy isn’t the thing having issues with adapting, Square Enix management is the problem.

You’re really asking for a big sacrifice here. Though born in CA, I was forcibly transplanted to OK at the tender age of four, and wasn’t able to permanently escape back to CA until I was 29. This afforded me plenty of experience with AR, TX, KS, MS, and LA. These just aren’t states I’d encourage anyone to move to,…

I wouldn’t say cancel culture isn’t real, more like it just didn’t work on Dave Chappelle because his fan base is entirely too large. People absolutely did try and cancel Dave, and still want him to stop doing comedy.

I would rather outlevel the main story in order to ignore the overly complex, nearly-incomprehensible combat system.

I don’t even understand why the Bonus XP system exists. If I am gaining mysterious extra XP on the side, just award it to me. Don’t make me hop into yet ANOTHER menu to spend it.

However, you are limited to 99 Nopon coins, so make sure you spend them on food or fulfilling colony requests or whatever once you get above 85.  Don’t hoard them too much, they are there to buy stuff!

THIS! some elites are in massive waypont dead zones that for some reason all the sidequests love to plop right in the middle of too.

I liked when the kitty got a bag stuck on its head. 

“the suspect was seen twirling his gun for a solid minute before leaving the scene of the crime. local police were described as baffled but entranced”

He would have distracted Abe with a dirty magazine. 

And the bodyguards were distracted by a poster of a woman in a bikini

I feel Kojima would have been more stealthy about this type of activity.    

I just find it hilarious that they used a picture of him in a Soviet Ushanka. Yeah, he’s a communist, but he’s not out there hunting neoliberals.

I can just imagine the exchange - or rather, Kojima talking to himself before pulling the trigger.

I never found classic fire emblem to actually be an interesting strategic situation. Either you are steamrolling a mission by losing literally nobody, or you are resetting when you lose just one dude, or you decide that one person is irrelevant to your party composition and you move on. It really leaves little room…