Except that, increasingly, we really *don’t* have those old games to go back to. Many of them there’s no legal way to acquire anymore, and even when there are, the quality of the porting is often questionable at best. And ‘alternate’ methods of acquisition get harder and harder to dig through the drek every year. The…

Every new announcement about 16 was met with reactions like “this doesn’t really feel like Final Fantasy to me” and “I’ve been a big fan of the series but I don’t know about this one” and people just felt the need to say like “come on, every Final Fantasy game changes, that’s how it’s always been, don’t be afraid of…

Granted that I am a curmudgeonly old fart, but I love my FF games for the aesthetics and wacky found-family team dynamics that, while they may have the occasional edgelord, are not above also having animals, stuffed animals, yeti, mysterious mimes, or even goofy underwater-soccer players. FFXV’s “What if instead of…

There are still turns though, the mechanics can change and it doesn’t mean there aren’t turns.

Absolutely, same here.

I’m going through Fallout 3 which I owned way back in the day on PS3 and while I don’t think the game is that bad looking.

especially if you’ve ever dreamt of sucker-punching a Chocobo in the stomach

Yea. I’m good. Just dont feel like playing DMC the on-rails rpg.

Yeah, me too.  I mean, I get it, it’s fine.  It’s just not what I’m looking for.  Unfortunate because I love Final Fantasy as a brand, but it is what it is.  

I’m disappointed, but I recognize that this is the direction the series is going.

Final Fantasy XV is underrated? It’s the most disappointed I’ve ever been in an FF game. I get actively angry thinking about the wasted potential with the story, chraracters and world. The whole way it was released and handled came off like the devs being honestly shocked that people care about those things in a Final…

The only thing this demo accomplished is to not make me want to play the game.

Meh.

You enjoyed it?  It felt very on rails and linear which I hope the full game is not.  Magic felt useless.

I had the same reaction to the demo and it bummed me out. FF just isn’t for me anymore.

Maybe Devil May Cry combat in a Final Fantasy Tactics-style world isn’t such a bad idea after all.

I’ll probably play and enjoy the game when it comes out but to me it’s just not the same. It’s too far removed from everything I’ve associated with Final Fantasy for me to really feel like that’s what it is.

I played the demo and enjoyed it, but it’s just not Final Fantasy for me. That said, it was fun, so overall mission accomplished, it’s a fun game period, Final Fantasy or not, I think I’m in. I’ll still probably wait for release day and reviews, I’m not pre-ordering shit ever again, but I think it’ll end up being a…

I guess I’m in the minority here, but I thought that the Great Sky Island was a genius section of game design. It flowed naturally and felt like it trusted the player to figure it out, and left multiple paths forward for quite a few areas (including that last shrine, which I do admit was a doozy). But all of that was…

Elon musk going from Libertarian Free Speech loser to Dwight from The Office screaming “Identity Theft is no laughing matter, Jim!” in record time is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen.