Strong disagree that the game is not an RPG. An RPG is a role playing game, not a game with a turn based combat system.

Technically you do play as Cid, just in a different kind of context which I won’t spoil.

As a long time Final Fantasy fan, I think you’re overselling the strategic depth of the combat in the older games a bit.

I get what you’re saying on the tone, though I think the classic FF tone shines through more in the back half of the game when the side quests increase. To me it feels more like the tone of late 90s PS1 Square like FF Tactics, Vagrant Story, and even Parasite Eve. Which is not a complaint, because while this game is…

Yea killing characters is a very important tool in a action/adventure writer’s toolbox. Fridging women can certainly be problematic, but that is mainly if their only role in the story is to die to motivate a man.

Yea because 19 year old college kids routinely fake their own deaths to run away forever with their dad.

I mean the real answer is whatever the WGA and the studios work out in the contract. There isn’t really any incentive for a studio to prevent a writer from using AI themselves though. They don’t give a shit about any perceived hypocrisy, they care about budgets and deadlines.

Yea but in Scenario A someone loses a job, and in Scenario B no one is negatively impacted. Studio execs certainly don’t care who does the writing or how good it is, as long as it hits a deadline, and has at least one recognizable IP in it.

In that case I am specifically asking for 3d prints of Armand Assantes nipples to be thrown at me during any future shows.

Yea the thing that let me know we had a real Final Fantasy game were the monster and character designs. Those goblins had some great art, and were pleasantly nasty little fuckers, but wihout feeling like your basic LoTR/DnD inspired design that most games would go with.

I would say changing the combat system with each game is specifically Final Fantasy. The thing that defines the series to me, as a fan since FF1, is the mix of sweeping change with each game (different world, story, characters, combat/job/class/equipment systems) with familiar motifs (music, Chocobos and Moogles,…

VA Beach resident here. I think he means that this city isn’t dependent on tourism and doesn’t shut down in the off season, so our restaurants are made to cater to locals as well as tourists.

I’m from Virginia Beach and sadly this is not surprising. There are a few great seafood spots, but the places that get the most attention are mostly mediocre. Where did you eat Danny? I’m guessing Blue Pete’s.

No fan of Nintendos aggressive legal tactics. But here’s what I’ll say:

I think it speaks to the lifecycle of most social movements like Me Too. Over time they become commodified, and this is an example of that in real time.

To be fair, he was extremely dead by the time she said it.

Kinda feels like Gadsby was put into a position to fail on this one. The odds of any stand-up comedian putting on a good art show are next to nonexistent, the concept of snarky commentary over classic art is DOA, and I’m willing to bet the museum approached her with this idea.

How could you determine if a job candidate is queer without asking them about their sexuality? What I’m describing is the next logical step to making sexuality based hiring happen.

Yes what we need to do is require workers to document their sexual preference as a requirement for employment. That’s a really great solution that should make everyone feel comfortable, and couldn’t possibly be weaponized against anyone.

I’m more in the middle overall, but agree this was not a great episode. I’m digging the 90’s storyline even more. I think they’re maintaining a great witchy survival dramedy on that side of the house. The needle drops are getting a little too on the nose, but the “Scary White Lotus” score is excellent.