Wow, much love for a classic! I spent so many hours on that game, and never got past the maze stage. That game was tough.

Ah, David fucking Lindelof. Because thinking about the actual setting and the concepts and implications of what’s there is hard, making up random shit and calling it “mysterious” is easy. I did like Legacy, but it paled to the original and the TRON 2.0 is a vastly more faithful and interesting sequel to me and is…

Ok that’s just wrong as hell, but I laughed my ass off anyhow.

They shouldn’t, to be honest, unless they’re simply mimicing humans. They shouldn’t need mouths or binocular eye structures, or a head for that matter. None of these things are necessary and they are only surface copies of human features without purpose or function. Same thing with genders. I don’t care who says what,…

They aren’t male though. They don’t have genitals and cannot engage in intercourse or reproduction,thus they are in fact genderless and asexual. And really, the shape of most of them is humanoid in a vague fashion at best, not really make or female. No, they don’t have breasts or curvy hourglass shapes, but many human…

Programs have genders in TRON because programmers have gender and the programs look like their programmers. In the movie, the programs and programmers / Users are played by the same actor or actress, even. They are created in their makers’ image, you might say.

Communism has been practiced by several horribly abusive autocratic regimes that committed many atrocities, but so has capitalism. TheNazis were in fact capitalist, and Fascism is a form of hyper-capitalist government according to Mussolini himself. It is defined as absolute rule by the financial elite.

Unless there’s…

*deep breath* I’m about to step into a minefield here, and knowing that I have to start this with the statement of “I’m not racist, but...” is an indication of the heat of the water I’m about to wade into. But I need to say it.

The history of the Civil War (and slavery itself) is much more complex than the simplistic,…

Maybe it’s just me, but I expected Roger Moore to be much worse and was quite surprised. I remember him being the campy silly one, almost like a British Dudley Moore, but he’s actually cool as a frozen cucumber here. The way he never breaks the deadpan facial expression or raises his voice at all, that’s pretty damned…

See, for me VIII is where Square jumped the shark and stopped telling stories with good characters and began making shallow fluff that was all focused on the pretty pretty graphics and cutscenes. It was like they listened to all the praise for VII’s visuals and decided they were making playable movies and not games.…

Oh you haven’t said anything about Tifa I don’t agree with 1000%, Tifa is awesome and my absolute favorite but Aeris (no th, dammit lol) is also amazing and beautiful in her own way and so is Yuffie. Don’t you see? The game gave us not one but three great female characters who were very unique from one another in…

PS: I really, really don’t think you want VI remade. Rereleased, sure, tweaked a little bit maybe, but good GODS no please don’t remake it! Why would you even do that? The game was done in 2D pixel art sprites, you can’t improve on that with modern hardware. 16 bit is all you need for a good pixel art game, PS1…

Or maybe it really is that good and you just can’t see it because you’re hung up on FF6. Seven was a huge departure, yes I understand that, and for many fans it was just too different. The changeover to 3d polygon graphics (crude as they were) was very highly praised but it was also pretty jarring compared to…

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room... Aeris dying.

NOBODY anywhere, whether they have ever played the game or not, doesn’t know she dies. It’s the most commonly known twist right behind Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father. So how do you handle remaking a game built around a then-shocking mid-game twist? Do…

Did you really just slag on FF& and Chrono Trigger in the same post? You... you can’t be human. Only a monster, a true demon, could say such blasphemous sacrilege and not immediately burst into flames. Back, foul beast! Back into the pit from whence thee came!

Chrono and FF7? The two very best JRPGs ever made...

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I love Tifa as much as anyone, but Aeris is amazing too andeven Yuffie is pretty damned awesome. I only wish we had gotten the choice to let Clod sacrifice himself to save Aeris so we could have had the Holy Trinty as our party.

It’s not about race, it’s about change. Understand? We as nerds want the characters and stories that we loved on the page translated faithfully onto the screen. That’s it.

That means if the actor cast doesn’t look like the following, he’s wrong to play Johnny Storm: