Only if they’re not native Windows games. They use DOSBox for most older DOS games, ScummVM for some others, and I believe they’ve used UAE for certain Amiga titles. But there aren’t any retail-quality Windows emulators for Windows, and I’ve not seen them do anything fancy with virtual machines (which would pose all…

Beyond everyone else’s takes, I think you’re ignoring the signs regarding what the CW’s DC crossover this year is likely to be about. You’ve got throwbacks to all sorts of previous DC media adaptations. I think they’re very likely deliberately evoking Donner’s movie as part of that. It’s not like they can get…

Telltale had a real problem with this. I bought their Sam and Max games the moment they showed up on Steam, and they simply stopped working for me when I upgraded to Windows 10. That’s unfortunate, but I can sort of understand it. It happens with older games, whatever. Except, the exact same games from GOG.com worked…

I love Max, but his brand of humor really only works with Sam by his side. At minimum, he needs a straight man, and none of the other players here are really suitable for that role.

The fifth regeneration had no explosions or TARDIS crashing. It was a mess for the Doctor, what with him trying to kill his companion and then going out for a sulk, but Peri was standing next to him for the regeneration itself and didn’t go so much as a suntan. The Doctor immediately starts piloting the TARDIS, too.

The Doctor’s first regeneration had him clutching at his head and screaming for a bit. With the second one he wound up hospitalized and acting like a child for a bit. The third was probably the most “stable,” but he was still considerably more manic than he’d be once he’d settled down (and this was the fourth Doctor,…

The clip from the other side of the table (with the original audio) makes it look like he’s waiting for a pause in what everyone else is saying. Mind you, the fact that he’s got his mouth open while waiting is still genuinely weird. It’s also just vaguely rude: it makes it look like he’s impatient for everyone else to…

They didn’t do anything more fancy with Final Fantasy VII, though. The Steam version is similarly just the old PC port with a couple of (fairly rudimentary) patches to update the sound and graphics and make it run slightly better on modern hardware. And the mobile and PS4 ports of both it and Final Fantasy IX are…

None of the series is. You don’t see it quite as often as you used to, but I used to get really irritated by the cohort of people who seemed to think that not having knights and castles meant a story wasn’t fantasy. Yeah, Final Fantasy VIII takes place in a modern-esque world. It also features sorceresses, soooo....…

It’s been as “remastered” as both Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy IX, which is to say it’s been dusted off without any significant improvements so Square Enix can sell it for a few extra bucks on modern systems. The only difference is that VII and IX also got mobile and PS4 releases, while VIII remains stuck on…

The hatred towards The After Years always struck me as weirdly performative, and I say that as someone who doesn’t actually like the thing. It’s solidly outside of my interests, since I didn’t care for the original Final Fantasy IV, either (far too on rails for me, from a gameplay perspective). Was TAY as good as its…

You know, as an old timer with the franchise (been playing since 1990) who considers Final Fantasy VIII his favorite, I can’t disagree about how terrible that twist was. I was complaining about it even back on release. I guess the biggest difference between us is that I don’t really expect a Final Fantasy game to have…

As others have said, it has historically outsold Final Fantasy IX, both in its original PS1 and Steam releases, but Final Fantasy IX is apparently profitable enough to be ported everywhere. And, unlike Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII, which were both very slightly cleaned up versions of 1990s PC releases, Fina…

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.