Without spoiling anything, that fight has you fighting an arguably difficult boss.  When you finally beat them, a far more difficult boss climbs out of the defeated boss' shoulder (yes you read that correctly) and has 3x as much health as the original boss.  The joke is that if you thought 2020 was hard, wait until…

Goddamn it, Anti Matter is such a good song.  So sad to hear of his passing.

Thanks for the tips! And yeah, FFVI is like the magnum opus of the series.

I’ve heard that IV is where it’s at FF-wise, but it’s difficult for me to go back and try to enjoy turn-based battles. It’s strange, as a kid I loved JRPGs and the turn-based combat, but as an adult there’s no faster way to turn me off of a game, unless there’s a strategy element involved (like Fire Emblem, FFT, or…

Its funny because most of what I remember of the story of FFXIII is what I read from the codex in XIII-2.  I never finished the game, but when I started truly enjoying XIII-2 and decided I needed more context for what was going on, I read the codex entries summarizing the plot and characters of FFXIII, and it was…

While I absolutely did not enjoy FFXIII, and full disclosure, never actually finished the game, I did play FFXIII-2 and Lightning Returns (both fantastic games), and I kind of agree with the troll guy. FFXIII low key has one of the best FF stories and the best FF character development of any FF game, barring maybe FFT…

Because Deus and Miang, and by extension their progeny (humanity) were plagues unnaturally released on the world... and because Krelian needed an excuse to be naked.

+1 for repping PW

Yeah Billy is a mainstay in the party in any playthrough from the moment he joins up.  And when Citan gets his sword... exquisite.

Your friends are wise.

I feel like Id is stronger just by nature of the single-minded ferocity - Fei has it in him the whole time, but doesn’t necessarily know how to use it.  And yes, remaster would be nice, but I’ve said before the legal hell that that remake would have to go through is likely insurmountable.

Tie between Id from Xenogears and Lu Bu from Dynasty Warriors.

Im glad I only got a 3070, because the 3080 ti or whatever the higher vram version is called will probably have stock to be found *checks watch* oh, in about 2 years.  Right when I’ll be itching to upgrade.

You should definitely hit 60fps with rtx on at ultra settings on 1440p with a 3070.  I recently nabbed a 3070 KO from Asus and that thing is a hog, its absolutely destroying any game I throw at it in 1440p.

Ouch, right in the hope.

Now if we could just get P5 on PC we'll be in business.

Yeah agreed, as I said what you pay for vs. what you get varies wildly across games and publishers. But my original point wasn’t to the quality of content, but rather regarding the addition of completely original gameplay content (as opposed to purely superficial/cosmetic content).

There are several modern examples of this - Zelda: BotW, Grand Theft Auto 5, Fallout 4/76, Final Fantasy XIV, and even several from this article (Bloodborne: The Old Hunters, Destiny 2, The Witcher 3). I get the frustration with microtransactions and DLC (primarily that what you pay for and what you get can vary…

This is never going to happen. The legal labyrinth that Xenogears would have to go through (published by Squaresoft, Monolith Soft used the license for the Xenosaga series, and then became part of Nintendo for all intents and purposes) is going to put the kibosh on this dream.

I’m going to use this statement in so many different settings.  Love it.