Keep going. While the story in vanilla FFXIV is ok, it gets soooo good in Heavensward, and apparently keeps getting each expansion. (I just finished Heavansward, and am working on the in between content to stormblood.)

A Realm Reborn is very much decent. Not great but manages to land some blows

Look...Ian...I mean this in the nicest way possible, and I say this as a fellow progressive who has tried to get people to vote for Bernie twice in a row, and this isn’t directed at you specifically but at the group you are currently representing with this article...but please, shut the fuck up.

I’d love to, you know, pay off my house and credit cards and buy a reasonably nice car, and put away money to send my kids to college. And be able to take a vacation in the summer.

Even if you hated the game, you can say, “I hated the game because...” without threatening the creators, voice actresses, and other people involved in the creation of the game.

I believe I’ve posted this a couple weeks ago but one of the major reddit groups for this game is a fucking dumpster fire with people who just hate the game for no logical reason. I just finished my 2nd play through this past weekend so I really liked the game obviously and it’s just so mind boggling the shit people…

I loved it precisely because it made me feel like I’d been punched in the gut for 30 hours.

I sort of agree, but I think it’s more nuanced than what you’re saying, at least in regards to the WLF. Remember, they started off as a resistance group that was fighting back against the brutal, authoritarian control of what was left of the government. Did they lose their way completely and end up becoming similarly…

That is the thing; I sort of understand that for some people, the theme is too simple and obvious, whether you think the theme is “violence/revenge is bad,” or “Empathy is good.”

The Last of Us 1 was my favorite game. Played it a dozen times over, watched it played a dozen more. So to say I had high expectations for TLoU2 would be an understatement.

Maybe you should try not playing games that don’t resonate with you next time instead of slogging through 20+ hours of pain just to write a click bait article.

I keep saying it, but the lack of empathy displayed from a lot of people is troubling and shows that the game clearly went over their head. Or it didn’t go over their head, in which case I don’t really want to be in the same room as them, because that’s a little scary.

I think that’s just kind of the nature of the game. I agree; I liked all the things she disliked. But also I can see why it would be a lot for some people. Because even though I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was still a lot.

Calling this game torture porn or a misery simulator is deliberately reductive. Getting very tired of these “The Last of Us 2 is just a game that tries to tell you violence is bad” takes. If that’s the case, Mad Max Fury Road is just a car chase movie. Get Out is just a “racists are bad” movie. Parasite is just a“class…

...I don’t know. I guess I disagree with basicallly everything in this article.

Teenagers are, almost down to the individual level (I’m sure there are a few that are decent people), sociopathic shitbags.

When you combine their natural inability to engage in basic empathy for others with a political movement like the one that continues to support Trump, only awful things can result.

This is why I…

It’s a legitimate question. I can’t speak for anyone else on the staff, but I’m generally against pre-ordering games because A) games are rarely hard to find anyway, and B) games have a good chance of shipping broken. I will personally pre-order hardware because oftentimes you’ll have a hard time getting it if you…

FFWD to 2045: “I really think today, in our time of crisis, is the day where Josh Paul transitioned from Candidate Paul to President Paul.”

It’s not about leading voters to the Democratic side - the Republican nominee for President has won the popular vote only once in the last quarter century (Bush in 2004).

I know who can stop this :3