When I was in my 20s I rode a bicycle across Canada with three other guys. It was one of the most meaningful and formative experiences I’ve ever had. Someone on the writing team for FFXV must have had a similar experience, because they captured a lot of the vibes of doing a real-ass cross country trip. We also had…

Channel 5 News comes to mind, re: recent emergence of a new channel (although this is a bit of a stretch considering All Gas No Brakes starred the same YouTuber before).

Opinionated Counterpoint: FF7 Remake was excellent and provided so much joy and nostalgia to play for longtime fans, FFXV was damn near a masterpiece even though it was a departure from the norm for the series, and the two sequels to FFXIII are some of the most fun I’ve had with Final Fantasy games as an adult.

F, M, K: Miranda, Tali, Ashley. If I were a fan of the man, it might go Mordin, Garrus, Kaiden.

I came here to say this.  I need a Skies of Arcadia reboot.

Dont forget to visit the Mih Khetto Amphitheatre in Old Gridania to get your chicken suit for hatching tide!

SICKNESS MUST BE PURGED

I play on PC but use a controller, and the cross hotbar system is about the most flawless implementation of MMO controls you could hope for.  Just get a wireless keyboard for chat and those annoying /say quests that you need to type something in.  Plus, the Dualshock/dualsense pads allow you to use them as a mouse if…

Same goes for booze. Douglas Adams turned me into an alcoholic for about 3 months.

Make that a trio.  Hear hear!

FFT is unapologetically my favorite Final Fantasy. And I consider myself an FF fanboy of sorts.

I never got to play the original so very excited to finally get to try it out.

Yikes yeah a lot of these are next level.

I’m a married man, but damn, that Morrigan cosplayer is making me thirsty.

Is big vampire mommy Viera?

I play using DualShock 4 on PC, and I far prefer it to Mouse & Keyboard for this game. As long as you have a keyboard for chat, the control scheme for DS4 is amazingly well implemented. I challenge any MMO to find a better implementation than the Cross Hotbar system FFXIV uses.

Yuss! Good choice, Ash. I keep coming back to FFXIV, and every time I fall in love with it all over again. You gotta get moving, new expansion slated for this fall!

You have friends? What’re those?!?

Yes, for 10 years kotaku was my homepage on mobile, and I bought countless products from your affiliates.  No more.  These ads are overwhelming and just slow the entire experience down.  I went from a multiple times daily reader of the site to at best twice s week.  Please let someone know y'all need to fix this shit…

Nah that's just overpressurized hydrostatic gel within the Mjolnir suits membranes.  Nothing to see here, move along.