You can turn it off, which I highly recommend.

I’ve long held Tactics Ogre was superior to FF Tactics; glad it’s getting some new appreciation.

Yep, three primary branching paths (plus a lot of minor ones). The branching paths are fairly obvious.

The issue was that most emulators had issues with the texture decompression, since everything was compressed. And I think Star Ocean also had a nasty bug that made the overworld music die from time to time. It was probably one of the last titles to get emulated this side of Star Fox 2.

“I’ve always been curious about this series, but my one foray into it was Til the End of Time.”

Yeah, people don’t really comprehend just how many boomers who were planning on working for 5 or so more years took buyouts during the pandemic; that’s the primary driver of the current across-the-board worker shortage we are having.

Yeah, speaking as someone who hates grinding, it’s not bad now. Maybe 4-5 hours per weapon, maybe a bit longer for the ones closer to 30 levels. Its not as bad as it used to be.

Thing is, everything you just said goes against Supply Side economic theory. Since the 70's, the entire point has been to lower production costs as much as possible in order to keep prices and wages low, resulting in inflation being kept minimal.

The problem with Tariffs is unless you have a local industry already producing the goods you are applying the Tariff to, all you are doing is increasing the end product price of the good you are tariffing.

1: Keystone would not decrease prices, as multiple studies across both Republican and Democratic administrations have found. It’s nothing but a handout meant to give cash to oil & gas companies.

“Yes, because importing 3% of oil from Russia shoots our fuel cost 100% due to Putin’s own doing, right?”

There are some good channels that explain all this is simple terms. Summoning Salt did a dedicated video on 4-2 a few years back that I highly recommend:

Simple solution: Bring back dedicated servers, and let mods do their jobs. Pass around a public ban list, and done.

Guys: It’s not Blizzard now anymore; it’s ALL Activision now.

It’s not the tattoo, it’s the *design* of the tattoo.

“At E3 2005"

You ignore three key facts:

4-2 continues to be perhaps the most analyzed 30 or so seconds of speedrunning, for exactly this reason.

I abhor XII. Played it again during my series playthrough late last year; never did I simultaneously want to learn more about a setting and want the game to just end then when I was going through the endgame of XII. I prefer XIII to XII; that’s how much I hate it.

Question: VII Remake aside, what was the last universally praised FF title? X? VIII? The series has been going downhill for literally decades now, with the scope of the titles frankly getting beyond what SE is capable of.