People bring up Aerith dying as this major gaming moment as if FF games haven’t been killing off party members since almost the beginning. II, IV, V, and VI all have some sort of permanent party member death in them (and you’re directly responsible for the one in VI, depending on your choices.) The only thing that…

For whatever it’s worth, as someone who has played all of the previous FF’s to some degree except XI, and beaten most of them, I can say pretty firmly that the game feels very much like a classic FF game in everything except its combat, at least to me. Certainly more so than games like XIII and XV. I’m not someone…

I find it really disingenous how people are saying this one’s not a real Final Fantasy because it’s an action/RPG hybrid, as if one of the most acclaimed games in the series isn’t an isometric tactics game, and two of the numbered entries aren’t MMOs. Final Fantasy isn’t defined by picking your party’s attack commands…

But you’re not gonna argue that the MMOs aren’t “real Final Fantasy games” right? Because that would be absurd. I think that’s the big disconnect happening in this debate, and the people saying XVI doesn’t count as a real FF game are being disingenous, instead of just saying “this one’s not for me.”

This is a perfectly reasonable take on the whole thing, and it’s perfectly fine to look at something and say “I don’t think this one’s for me.” Personally, I bounced off of X, XIII, and XV pretty hard, and have never touched XI, but have had great fun getting back into the franchise with XIV and now XVI. At no point…

Buffalo wings are called that because they were invented in Buffalo, New York. This wasn’t the impressive clap back you thought it was.

It’s kind of the FFIX of the Zelda franchise, in a way. A little lighter (on the surface,) more cartoony than the fans of the time expected, overlooked to a degree when it first came out, but has had its reputation grow to the point that it’s frequently held up as one of the best entries in the franchise, if not the…

The brown sleeves looked good, though.

You both misspelled Oracle of Seasons/Ages.

They probably would have gone full steam ahead with the WW2 they were developing, before Nintendo of America convinced them to scrap it and make a realistic looking one.

Nah, man. Twilight Princess is probably the ugliest of the 3D Zelda games, by a wide margin. The whole game is filled with ugly textures, bland colours, and the overused bloom lighting of the time.

A supplementary book that came out around KOTCS mentions that after the events of Temple, Indy realized it was too dangerous to have Shorty coming on his adventures, and he and Willie helped set him up to get adopted by a family in The States. They kept in touch and Short Round was working to become an archaeologist…

I’ve been replaying FF IX on steam for the last few weeks, using the Moguri mods that clean up the backgrounds. This was the first play through I’d done where I really engaged with all the side content and ability system that I ignored when I was a kid (Chocobo Hot & Cold, learning every skill and spell for every…

I think Cap’s arc is probably the strongest tbh. He goes from being this idealistic, good soldier whose got no problem following orders to being a cynical rogue vigilante. The Steve Rogers in IW is a significantly different guy than the one in TFA

Tony went back to being the same wisecracking, combative asshole he was at the beginning of Iron Man 1 as soon as Iron Man 2 started. He regresses almost every movie.

Having Marcus and McFeely write all 3 Cap movies and Infinity War I think is a big factor too. There’s a level of consistency with him that the other characters don’t have, except for the Guardians I guess.

Captain America is the heart and soul of the entire franchise

Cap is by far the best realized character in the entire franchise, and I think a big reason why is that the same 2 writers have written all his movies, plus this newest Avengers movie (and the next one.) There’s a consistency to how he’s portrayed that the others don’t have.

Yeah he was originally only contracted for 3 IM movies and the first Avengers. They then extended it for Avengers 2 and 3 (and 4, I guess) and added the Civil War and Homecoming appearances as they came up. Iron Man 3 was written so they could write him out if negotiations went south.