I will say the community is for the most part really good now if you wanted to give it a chance. I think in part cause they introduced a system to reward people for running content with new people. I understand if you don’t want to risk having that experience again, I’m just saying I’d be shocked if that was the norm…

Because this MMO in particular has a really good story that I’ve loved experiencing in addition to being one of the few RPGs I really can do everything on a single save (ie character).

Honestly just reminds me more that Biff Tanen in Back to the Future was based on Trump.  Especially with that smile...

Its also worth noting blue mage gets some outright broken skills, which imho is part of the whole point of being blue mage.  The Look - if it hits, the enemy dies after 10 seconds from Doom.  Missile - does 50% of enemy health.  Just two little examples, both of which even function on many boss fates and at least…

I have no hope for WC3:R for one reason - that was the title that started their obsession with esports. I’m just waiting for the announcement of a new revived WC3 esports league, and the game to rebalanced purely for competitive play, complete with skins you can buy for units in various team colors. I’d love to be…

Should avoid the monetization stuff.  In fact, last year their big announcement for the game was it’ll include full co-op and will have full mod support!  I’m really hopeful for it.

I’m starting to get flashbacks in how blizzard is treating their fanbase to Square Enix just before the launch of ffxiv 1.0. Just a lot of talk basically saying they know better no matter how loud the fanbase tells them they’re wrong, weird decisions in favor of secrecy, and now hearing a major franchise is going…

On the contrary, I think the ideal is the opposite. We already have numerous unscrupulous devs who have no problem attacking and banning any negative opinion of their game, no matter how valid the criticism. In theory, this could mean policing comments would be done by an impartial party as opposed to potentially a…

All this is part of why I want to look into the original Japanese one of these days, because I’ve always heard the localization team at Square did a real hack job to Squall’s character, just like they did with Cloud in ff7.

I mean, really the goal is “thirteen hearts of darkness,” but the big bad is the kind of asshole who only trusts himself to do the job so keeps creating time dopplegangers to possess people and.....ya know what, you had it right.  It sounds fucking awful. 

There’s a really good documentary on what happened with ffxiv on youtube, but the most relevant to this discussion part of it is the director of 14 saying that a big part of the problem is that SE became a company that believed it could do no wrong, and any complaints are just a vocal minority that’ll buy it anyway.…

I loved it, but seriously, how is no one else talking about this basically being the macross season?!  I enjoyed it a lot, but the Atlas at the end was like “oh come on, that’s not even subtle now!”

its even better if you have the dream nail, cause they make sure you can see his body one last time as you’re leaving the area, and he’s glowing - he’s also a dream boss, so in a way he does have a third phase.

I feel the same way, but at the same time I definitely feel a large part of the core of the movement and combat that I love requires the air dash, and I’m going to guess those that don’t find the exploration interesting might not get that far, or might not feel invested enough to get through the raise in difficulty…

They’re kind of optional? You need so many essence points which you can get from them to unlock the true ending basically.  But they’re technically optional if you just want the basic ending.  That’s something I respect about hollow knight, there’s a lot of content that’s like “you can walk away and say you beat it,…

My hope - Fallout 3 remaster. Which would likely make a new vegas remaster much easier to put together, if not part of the same package. My expectation - another Fallout Shelter type mobile game...

well, if nothing else, anything involving access to internal computer systems is probably out, which is an increasing amount of jobs. Heck, even someone who doesn’t understand what he was charged with might be concerned about him messing with the company email system or something.

More likely violet wurm is an ode to a classic d&d monster, the purple worm, whose art is most commonly the worm rising up almost exactly like in violet wurm’s art. So, yes, there was a clear inspiration, but its totally missing the reference to think it’s mtg. Also, to be fair, there’s only so many things you can do…

I just think this anytime I see anything about turkey fryers....

I just think this anytime I see anything about turkey fryers....

I’m surprised you mentioned Assassin’s Creed as something that is doing better in this regard....Assassin’s Creed has had real money items since 3. With the exact same explanation - “you can get it all in game, but you can pay for the convenience of having it now.” I honestly would be shocked if Origins did not have…