That definitely would explain a lot of the issues, you can pretty easily see where they would’ve split up the game too.

I wouldn’t go as far to say that it’s the worst FF. The potential is absolutely there and the hints of a great game that are actually in the game are enough for me to rank it higher in the series. There are some FFs I just didn’t like from the beginning that never resonated with me and I would definitely rate those…

That’s 100% what I was talking about and you boiled it down better than I did.

As someone who liked MoS (making me one of the very few on io9), I just couldn’t get into BvS at all. The first half was straight-up boring. Civil War was immensely better even though after I got out of Civil War I realized there were definitely a decent amount of similarities

I mean, if that’s the goal, why NOT movies? A movie that doesn’t cost much to make and maybe has some new up-and-coming actors that’s pretty enjoyable, I don’t see the problem with that existing. Sure, I could do drugs, but I could also watch a movie.

I really liked Kingsglaive so for a long time I was OK with the idea that the game doesn’t start out in Insomnia, but seeing how it’s actually used in the final game and how we BARELY see Insomnia, I think I agree now. Sooooo much of the marketing focuses on Lucis, and it has a very specific vibe to it. For so little…

I think my problem is that, what I felt were the “major” trailers (the initial FFXV reveal, Dawn, Omen) kind of set me up for a completely different experience than what we actually got. With a lot of focus on Lucis/Insomnia, Luna, Regis, and fantasy stuff, I kinda thought we’d spend more time on those.  

Agree. I’ve been listening to some podcasts and a lot of people are actually bemoaning that it seems we’re losing a lot of those “OK” movies. Movies nowadays are either indies or Oscar-type movies or these huge expensive blockbusters, there’s not a lot of just OK movies. I think it’s totally fine for a movie to just…

The Vietnamese?! Those are my people!

If it’s specifically about the Berseria “censorship”....ugh god are they being unreasonable.

Man, Evan, you’re such a good fit on io9 that I forgot you used to write for Kotaku! Miss your musings on video games

I think the headline is the issue, not the article. I actually got a lot out of the article, the idea of the obstetrical dilemma is actually pretty interesting and something I didn’t know about.

What’d the community end up doing? Based on the Siliconera comments section, JRPG fans in the West are really strangely hostile and toxic. Bring up any mention of “censorship” of any kind and they will go BERSERK. Not sure what the Steam community did but hearing that a JRPG community was toxic isn’t surprising

I have the Serial parody ringtone as my actual ringtone hahaha, but Brap Brap Pew Pew is very catchy

Man I didn’t even notice that it got taken off. I haven’t finished it yet (episode 5 maybe?) but as someone who had 0 knowledge of the comics, those first few episodes grabbed me like crazy. I hear maybe it has a rocky 2nd half but honestly I might say I like it more than Westworld

The end of episode 10 (or 11?) where Todd finally calls out Bojack, and any episode with Kelsey Jannings, were amazing

I will say, it happened just enough for me to know what you’re talking about and be mildly annoyed at it, but not enough for me to like hate it

If you’re into Japanese games I still think it was a good year. SMT:Apocalypse, Fire Emblem Fates, DQ7, Zero Time Dilemma off the top of my head

Again, who’s chairman of the University board of regents expressly said he wanted Briles. Wasn’t a rumor that was started by Briles. Briles didn’t go and say “hey guess what, UH wants me” and then UH said “uh no we don’t.” So you were wrong on that point.

Exactly. The teens may have been naive...but the end result was, the dude said he’d pay them a certain amount and didn’t. That dude sucks. The correct response should be “hey you kids, let this be a lesson going forward....but you know what? That dude that stiffed you sucks majorly.”