It's been probably fifteen years since I've played D&D, but my friends are weirdly intensely interested in getting back into it. I think what I used to play was AD&D 2nd Edition, according to Wikipedia, but I'm not really sure. I remember mostly being interested in reading the Monster Manual and making up characters,…

I've loved the entire season so far, and was even thinking this was going to top season 5 in terms of overall quality, but I wasn't completely in love with this episode. It felt a little bit too whiz-bang and chatterboxy, with the kind of mile-a-minute overly snappy dialogue that was perfectly suited to the Matt Smith…

I saw this at TIFF, and C- is about right. It has its moments, but on a fundamental level it's really boring and insubstantial and superficial. Considering how important Pike is to the film's conclusion, she's given almost no screentime and very little characterization, and the big climactic moment between her and…

Male pretty boys under 30, surely, but I think they're supposed to be Japanese rather than white.

This is what cow tipping looks like in a Final Fantasy game.

I'm at medium levels of hype here. Versus XIII was the only game that looked appealing to me back in 2006 (sidenote: holy shit) when those three FFXIII titles were announced, but it's been hard to maintain that level of excitement that long, and games that stew in development hell like this rarely meet the bloated…

It's being developed by Nomura's Kingdom Hearts team, so the combat will probably resemble that series' to some degree. Mind you, the party AI in Kingdom Hearts isn't exactly famous for its reliability, but it works well enough to be fun most of the time.

For the last several weeks, my friend group's go-to boardgame has been Avalon, the Arthurian themed spinoff of The Resistance. We like it because the board and pieces and whatever are just there to facilitate the real game of lying to and misleading everybody playing. The game is all about keeping secrets, hidden…

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If we're talking about favourite FFT tracks, I always go with Antipyretic. Mind you, it would be a terrible pick for this theme, since it only plays during some of the most high-stakes battles in that game, but it's a gnarly track. Starts out ferocious and tense, but about a minute in it becomes quieter and softer,…

Woah, killer list there bud. I especially like the mentions of Final Fantasy Tactics (perfect choice) and Suikoden II. I would also nominate Heart Softening Theme, the track used for your headquarters when you first acquire it- nice and peaceful and homey sounding.

There was behind-the-scenes talks of including either the Traverse Town music or Dearly Beloved on this list, but in the end we couldn't make our minds up. Glad to see Kingdom Hearts' soundtrack mentioned in the comments.

This is a really great choice. I know Mass Effect is celebrated for its score by a lot of people, but I found that most of its music had that sort of bombastic, overly symphonic quality that makes it difficult to remember. The Galaxy Map music though always got stuck in my head because it's so comparatively simple and…

Yeah, I love FFT, but its story is a bit scattershot. The first three chapters are all about the slow collapse of the institutions that have propped up Ivalician society for ages- the royal family, the aristocracy, the military, the church- and how those systems disappearing is affecting the poor, the privileged, the…

I sometimes wonder if Morshidi is some kind of artificial intelligence that lives in the AV Club servers.

I don't know, I kind of feel that issues like this are the ones that most require a firm stand to be taken. The goons that are pushing back against women becoming a more integral demographic in gaming are only going to continue to feel entitled to the space if we faff around and weigh our options and continue to treat…

The existing plot of Final Fantasy Tactics is rich and compelling and interesting and whatever, but every time I play it I always end up way more interested in the "stories" of my generic randomly generated troops. I always project really weird arcs and relationships and personalities onto them, and get more caught up…

Man, I'm really, intensely proud of the community here like, 90% of the time. But sometimes I just don't know. I poked my head into that article, took one look at the conversation, and walked straight the fuck back out again.

Argh, man, I got a 3DS XL this year and now I feel like a complete tool. It wasn't even an early adoption thing and I still got burned. I just hope there aren't any games that can only play on the new system, because I don't want to have to drop another several hundred dollars to stay afloat. If the new 3DS starts…

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