My first guess was that they were going to use Ixion as the thunder eikon, but your guess makes far more sense. Guesses for Sanbreque’s summon?

At the risk of sounding pedantic, are we sure that Final Fantasy XVI is truly a PlayStation exclusive? The text at the end of the trailer says “Not available on other platforms for a limited time after release on PS5.” It’s not exactly the same, but it brings to mind the sticker that was on FFVIIR cases which claimed…

I get the point you’re making, given that Toriyama is a director and Nomura has a larger role than he did in the original, but there are a lot of people from the original still involved. Kitase producing, Nojima writing; I’m not ready to write it off

Granted I’m not the kind of person who pores over individual frames of a video, but it didn’t seem wildly revealing to me. Without detailing what they showed, I took it as acknowledgement that even if you’ve played the originally 100+ times, you don’t know exactly what’s going to happen.

This is a great reading of it, and I hope they were going for the historical touch. I’ll be honest, my first thought was “how can they drop the pizza on a city that can clearly see the stars...?”

The visual resemblance between the Verum Rex portion of the game and Versus XIII was cutesy at first, but now it feels like Nomura has some sour grapes. Square has some serious problems with promoting people to roles they aren’t prepared for and everyone in the company’s management would benefit from a project…

Maybe I’ll finish Pokemon Sword this weekend. I’m right there, but every time I’ve booted it up in the last two weeks, I haven’t made it out of the wild zone. I really enjoy the raids (despite some people being less intelligent than Hop and having no idea how type match-ups work) and spend time jumping from one into…

feels about right

I was just too young to catch the Square wave as it was happening, but played a lot of the games when they got buzz in the mid-2000's when the nostalgia started. I picked up Vagrant Story after I saw a retrospect on G4, but I was just too young to grasp the combat. I’ve always wanted to go back and try again; maybe…

I can’t remember what franchise or year it was (although memory jumps to NBA 2k9) but I’ve got the foggiest recollection of a have that scaled team ratings in multiplayer. So superstars still played better than any other player, but the teams were far closer to even.

My day vastly improved after I saw this tweet. I can only hope this releases sooner than later

It sounds like Tokyo RPG Factory can’t quite nail a concept. Every one of their releases has sounded interesting but seem to fall flat

Recognize I’m years late here, but any chance of adding a log of what’s been removed and added to the list? Just found the article and looking at comments it seems like there’s been some changes

Can someone please confirm that Tim did not, in fact, have a heart attack?

I know there are about 12 of us in the commentariat who are fans of VIII, but I’m so excited about this. FFVIII was the first one I played*, I was at an age where the depiction of teenage angst really hit for me, and while I understand the dislike for the draw system, it never bothered me. This is great!

I may be misremembering, but aren’t we told that Thanos only killed half the Asgardians? I thought that was our introduction to his ‘halving the population is good’ schtick. From there I thought the implication was that Valkyrie was with the surviving half

Agreed. If anything, I think Bran would thank Jaime for getting him where he needed to be

Is this replacing the narrative of Kingsglaive? Or is this a wish scenario like some of the other DLC? If this game locked lore in another medium and then retconned it, well... It would be surprisingly fitting.

I’ve read this same rumor about the source code all over the internet, but with my limited technical knowledge, it confuses me. Can SE not use PlayStation discs to copy the code? Is it completely inaccessible on-disc?

I hope I don’t sound like I’m doubting anything you said, I’d just never heard the explanation. It absolutely makes sense, and your point about the end of Vagrant Story is absolutely right.