For instance the PC version on steam, is the year 2000 game with a bootloader.

Final Fantasy VIII outsold Final Fantasy IX on PlayStation, too.

For me, it’s entirely the junction system. It provides the kind of fine-tuned control over character progression that marks all of the best Final Fantasy games in my book (for comparison, my other favorites are Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy V). The presentation is nice, but I wouldn’t put it in the top tier of…

It’s fine, I guess. It still has Square Enix’s stupid always-online DRM, IIRC, and it’s as bare bones as all of the PS1-era ports, but it gets the job done. If you’re willing to put the effort in to mod it, it’s probably the best way to the experience the game at present, but the difference isn’t so vast that you’d be…

It wasn’t my first. Heck, I’m pretty sure it was my eighth (I can’t 100% remember if I beat Final Fantasy III, the Famicom one, before or after it, though). It’s still probably my favorite of the mainline franchise (not counting spinoffs, because then Final Fantasy Tactics takes the top spot).

I mean, I don’t personally wish cancer upon anyone. But I hardly think it would be appropriate for me to criticize anyone else for doing so.

Three decades and change ago, that three year old would have been me. It took years before I was brave enough to order anything other than chicken nuggets and french fries from McDonald’s.

The fries, I find, vary wildly by location. A lot of the McDonald’s near me wildly undercook the fries, and the result is close to inedible. There’s a location a bit further afield, though, that cooks them properly, and they’re still reasonably tasty.

Yep. It was tasty, if a bit filling. The problem is that it wasn’t around for very long, and I’m convinced they ended it because of the decision to move towards fresh beef patties for the quarter pounders.

Before Fallout 3, the entire combat system was fully turn-based, so they concept of “slowing time” didn’t really apply in the first place. You had a certain amount of action points per turn (up to 10, IIRC, depending on your agility), and every action took a certain number of them: each step took one point, and…

Sorry, but Gerry is right: Shakespeare is absolutely considered Modern English. The differences between Elizabethan early Modern English and contemporary English may be jarring to many modern people, but they’re not significant enough to be considered a different language. Shakespeare’s prose may be confusing, but the…

Well, since Duke Nukem Forever actually came out, something else had to step in and fill that void. Star Citizen is the hero the gaming industry needs.

I actually felt like the first was a bit of a bait-and-switch. The trailers hyped up the whole classic arcade thing, but the bulk of the movie was spent with something that felt decidedly more modern and... cell-phone-y, I guess? It was still a strong movie (and possibly stronger because it didn’t rely on nostalgic…

The thing is that a lot of legitimate NES games use similar tricks, albeit not to the same extent. The real thing that catapulted the NES past its initial competition was the ability to extend the capabilities of the hardware by adding new hardware to the cartridge itself. Without custom memory mapper chips and the…

This is my concern, as well. I thought the ending was effective within the context of this movie, but that it basically upended the whole toybox for everything coming after it (well, until the next Avengers film, anyway). I don’t know how the TV shows are going to be able to plausibly avoid dealing with the fallout…

I suspect it will do decently well commercially, but not amount to much long term. Something along the lines of Wii Fit, or even Super Mario Maker. Nintendo will support it well enough to ensure that it doesn’t flop in the short term, but likely don’t have any real plans to follow it up with a second generation or…

Yeah, I think it’s entirely possible Apu could have introduced racist stereotypes, beliefs, or behaviors to people. Racism doesn’t have to be malicious in intent, after all, and by perpetuating and reinforcing stereotypes about Indian Americans that real life Indian Americans don’t want to be saddled with or have been…

That, I think, is the core of the complaint. The producers of The Simpsons don’t get to pretend it’s still the 1990s, any more than octogenarian racist business owners get to bar African Americans from their establishment as if it were still the 1950s.

Because it’s not a product of the ‘90s. Or, rather, it’s not just a product of the ‘90s. You might justifiably give something a pass for being a product of its time, but implicit in that is the fact that it was produced in that time.

I remember that one! Or one very like it, at least. I don’t know if I found it myself or if it was something I saw in a magazine or was given to me by a friend, but it was certainly one of the better ones. Best as I can tell, it was somehow giving regular Mario the properties of Tanooki Mario when he was in statue…