I... Wouldn't really say that. "Epic story" isn't really a checkbox that they have that they oh-so-conveniently forget, and it's not exactly an objectively defined concept either. Final Fantasy has had emotionally challenged characters since the earlier days of VI and VII and whether or not a plot is "dumb" is mostly…

What I mean is that the story is clearly the main focus of the game with gameplay being an afterthought. I can't find the quote I'm looking for, but I do recall reading before that the characters, setting, and story are usually thought up before the game mechanics and to be honest, they don't really need each other.…

That's honestly what I'd say about the entirety of the Final Fantasy series. I used to really like them but, going back, the gameplay in so many of them is pretty terrible. I'd actually consider XII and XIII to be two very different steps in the right direction that were mostly undone with XIII-2 thanks to "fan…

Har har har. That joke was so 2010 before people actually played past the first three hours. You could say the same about nearly every other Final Fantasy game in fact, outside of maybe Tactics. There's a lot more skill involved in the battle system than that and anybody who has beaten the game knows it. Sure, it's…

Ugh, more Hobbit releases and still no HFR release outside of theaters. After viewing the first film in HFR 3D and the second one in IMAX HFR 3D, I was so personally impressed with the design of it all that I refuse to watch it any other way. As enjoyable as the story and characters are, without HFR you are quite…

I wouldn't really consider WoW to be a very competitive game to begin with though and honestly I just feel that most MMOs are more work than genuine play. I'm talking about things like Street Fighter, Battlefield, Mario Kart, etc. Cooperative games are fun without being competition, true, but by explicitly choosing to…

It's possible to play and compete at the same time. Those two definitions aren't mutually exclusive at all, and who's saying that competition isn't fun? Definitely not the people who try to get better at these games through competition. They, and I, think it's amazingly fun to try and get better constantly. In fact,…

Dude, I have written literally pages about how Xenoblade is just not a very good game in as close to objectivity as I can get. I honestly feel that the only reason people give praise to this game is that they either 1) don't know any better, 2) are blinded by JRPG nostalgia, 3) have bad taste which kinda comes with…

I don't think of these games as "games", ya see. Heck, I wouldn't consider a lot of games to be "games" in a true sense, but that doesn't mean they're not enjoyable. I find games like this, Gone Home, or other exploration/visual novel-esque experiences to be more about the atmosphere, tension, and writing than any…

I just played through Gone Home recently and I completely agree. When you can run most modern games with at least 45fps on average, Gone Home's framerate was downright pathetic. Great experience overall, though, but I'd seriously like a version of the game that doesn't chug along on something that can play much more…

To play devil's advocate, what's wrong with playing to win? People like myself who keep playing to better my own abilities don't mind criticism because it helps us improve. Likewise, I'll give tips to newcomers who aren't very good. It's a cycle of continuous improvement. Sure, being a dick about it is annoying and I…

To play devil's advocate, single-player games are a bit of a recent development. Sure, you had things like Solitaire before, but traditionally the entire concept of a game was a form of competition. Sports are games, chess is a game, Street Fighter and COD are games... The entire idea of an arbitrarily specific…

No, the Radeon card got the higher scores in almost every single test, even if by a small amount. I love NVIDIA but I'm willing to admit when a card is better than another. Try reading them again and actually paying attention to what the graphs are saying.

That game had different developers and writers, so, no I'm not. I haven't actually played it but I love me a good SRPG a heck of a lot more than your average JRPG anyway. The combat is just so much better thanks to movement being important.

I think you're missing the point of the smart pistol. The entire reason that enemies are so dumb is because the smart pistol is intended as a farming tool. Go by groups of enemies, lock on, and fire away. Get tons of points for your team and strategically grind! MOBAs have similar mechanics and I can see how it works…

I'd actually argue that Final Fantasy XIII is a significantly more interesting story than either of those and that's coming from a 19-year-old who has endured all three series so far... Twilight, never again...

I believe they said once in an interview that they were content with people growing out of final fantasy from age because the product wasn't made for them in the first place. It's mainly made for teens like you said while most people who play final fantasy in the west only do so for nostalgia and grew up with the…

I got an email from them since I used my Facebook account for login. They said that they simply just reset my Facebook login information (for Kickstarter, not Facebook itself) and because of the unique way it authenticates with the site as opposed to using a password, it was automatically resecured. Nothing to do on…

That's what I figured and I appreciate it. On a related note, what if it's not physically obvious or someone wants to be seen as a man that just likes culturally feminine dress styles?

This makes me wonder. What's the "correct" way to refer to Poison? On one hand you have the people who insist that Poison is a man, but on the other hand, to be "politically correct", wouldn't it be better to just call her a "she" since that's what s/he wants to be identified as?