Pikachu>Raichu>RumHamchu

You already know, fam.

“It’s something else in VR but I’m telling you. Just turn off the lights, throw on a good pair of headphones, yadda yadda yadda and zone out.”

This seems to be a common theme for people who play modern Final Fantasy games. I’ll counter though and disagree. As someone who loved XIII, I’ll admit that my tolerance level for nonsensical stories and weaker gameplay elements is high. However, as I have JUST finally played and beaten XV, my thoughts about it are…

I think for a lot of people, “memorable” depends on where you were when you played certain games.

I started with the first, back in 1990, and I was a little young for it (I was all of 8 or 9), so I didn’t finish it then—but I will never forget that bridge and the “cutscene” that followed.

I wound up finishing the game…

FFVI: The starting town is Narshe. You can go back to it in the World of Ruin and pick up both Mog and Umaro there. I remember that game like the back of my hand. I’ve replayed it a dozen times or more.

Though, FF XII made up for its story with some damn good world design and memorable characters I felt. Well, maybe not Vaan and Penelo, but the judges were badass!. The problem was it was less a personal journey (like X especially) and more bothered with big world events. It was the little things that made the game…

I’ve been anti-Nomura since FFXIII. At that point the series was marred by style over substance. I’ve never been a fan of his artistic designs in FF. It’s just pretentious pop art that appeals specifically to the Japanese audience and the only time it truly worked was in The World Ends With You.

You lost me at “boring f-ing game.”

I don’t trust Illumination because they’re Illumination. They’re going to turn Goombas into Minions or some crap. Koopa voiced by Kevin Hart. Dance party ending at Princess Peach’s castle.

I buy this shit. I buy a lot of things. You probably buy a lot of things. Life is crazy sometimes. 

its probably not, its the idea of “upselling” making the low tier such a bad deal that it makes all the rest look like a “good deal” when none of it is a good deal.

I almost forgot about That Thing You Do - I was thinking Practical Magic was the first movie soundtrack CD I bought, but That Thing You Do predates it by a couple years, so that was probably the first one.

Hey, that’s the Oh-NED-ders.

“Starbucks appears to be striving for a lukewarm medium”

So, they replaced the villainous Rat King, who is a gigantic four-headed rat wearing four distinct crowns, and an avaricious tyrant monster who wants to eat all the candy in the world because fuck you, with ‘Mother Ginger’ who is not any of that stuff and therefore nowhere near as awesome, because fuck us?

I went to YouTube and insulted him in the comments, and then I led him to believe I did unspeakable things to his mother last night. He didn’t immediately respond, so I typed “Yeah, thought so” and went to bed. When I woke up, he still hadn’t written back, so I implied his sexuality was different than mine and that…

It happened to me.

I made a good faith effort to love Xenoblade when the 3DS version came out. I think I could have stuck with it, too, if not for one thing: Quest Givers don’t get marked on your map. I love that big, meaty world, but I hate, hate, hate having to run around hunting down the guy who asked me to go kill 9 wolves or…

Well, I finally decided on what my next game project is now that Prey is all taken care of, though I’ll be playing other games along with it. And that’s because the game is Xenoblade Chronicles, the absolutely massive, 100+ (150+?) hour MMO-inspired sandbox JRPG that pushed the Nintendo Wii well past its technical…