It pisses me off that they’ve tried to reboot this property at least three times, and the best they can manage is “halfway competent.”

Really?!? You can be sympathetic to the guy who was used, abused, and molested as a child? That’s some sociopathic thinking.

According to Square Enix you do not need PS+ to play FF14 on PS5, it’s just that a large proportion of FF14 players on PS5 also have PS+. The situations aren’t the same in the least. This reeks to me of a Microsoft requirement that SE was required to adhere to in order to release FF14 on Xbox.

I’m not that bothered by it. At this point it feels like any time some Kotaku Staffers rage over one of FFVII Rebirth’s areas, minigames or mechanics, it really just boils down to them being bad at it. I’m just gonna chalk this off as “I suck at navigating through this area, therefore I must hate it and so must you…

Other than some poorly designed fights (looking at those solo Corel Prison fights), how is the combat system convoluted? Is it just because it’s not the easy button masher that XVI was?

And only the one area is confusing, the rest is just garbage Ubisoft-like open world. Which I personally don’t like, but I know it’s…

Release the game 10 years later, needs 2 active subscriptions to play, mask purchases behind Square Enix’s fun coins... It’s like they really don’t want you to play the game.

OH MY GOD WE’RE HAVING A FIRE...sale 

Gary?

“For starters, it has the worst music of any of the regions I’ve visited so far.”

It’s all subjective, but I didn’t find Gongaga that bad. The worst part is figuring out how to get up to certain optional objectives but I personally only had trouble with a couple of the towers and one life stream spring.

This episode was the best the franchise has had in years, and I wouldn’t mind if they just had Gurira write the rest of the series. 

...yikes

I’m going to file this in my head under Things that Make you Weep for Humanity

I understand where Proyas is coming from, but if anybody is going to play gatekeeper it should be James O'Barr. He created the comic as a means of dealing with his fiance getting killed by a drunk driver, then watched the narrative of the character get permanently associated with the death of someone else instead. 

I’m a much bigger Star Trek fan than Star Wars, but Roddenberry was problematic as hell and shouldn’t be remembered half as fondly as he is.

DS9 violated a bunch of Gene Roddenberry rules (no religion, no wars, no inter-personal conflict) and is the best Star Trek there is.

Huge respect to Roddenberry for kicking off Star Trek. But TNG didn’t get really good until they kicked Roddenberry to the curb, so I don’t see his “vision” as necessarily being all that great. And, by all accounts, he didn’t like Wrath of Khan, so his tastes are questionable.

Maybe he didn’t know they were filming.

that includes crew members not making out with each other

I love Star Trek but it feels like every time I read about one of Roddenberry’s rules or complaints about TNG they’re dumb as hell.