Everyone talks about how great Miyazaki is but we gotta give credit to Elden Ring's co-director Yui Tanimura. He's most known for directing Dark Souls 2, but if it wasn't for him taking over that project it would've been dead in the water. He also Co-directed Dark Souls 3.
Apparently people still need to hear this:
Ellie let Abby go because she finally forgave Joel and herself. Not because "revenge bad"
You have 0 sense of media literacy if you think otherwise. I thought we were past this but apparently it's June 2020 again.
"FF16 isn't a final fantasy game. Where are the party members"
Idk bro there's this part of the menu, but obviously it can be confusing being overloaded with so much information.
First impressions...
If XVI apparently is nothing like final fantasy and changed the formula radically, then why does it harbor the same feelings I had playing FFIX, FFVI, FFIV and so on for the first time.
This is a fucking final fantasy game guys.
The longer I've been away from Cyberpunk 2077, and the more I think about it in my head, the higher it climbs up in my all time favorite games. It'll never fade away, what a masterpiece.
In my 7 years of streaming, I don’t think the industry has been worse than it is right now.
It’s just so uninspiring.
Where are the good online games at?
Persona 5 is a genuinely great game ruined by fans who make it way too weird and uncomfortable to talk about. Just another example of a great game ruined by an awful fanbase.
Thought I'd make this clear: as someone who has played Fromsoftware games since Dark Souls 1, you can *absolutely* start with Elden Ring. Anyone saying otherwise is gatekeeping for the sake of gatekeeping.
I have basically come to terms realizing I generally prefer modern Final Fantasy over "classic" Final Fantasy. Some people won't understand this, but this series has not disappointed me for over a decade now.
Something should be said about Like A Dragon's innate ability to become instantly memeable. So many devs (Naughty dog being the worst offender) copy existing memes for their gifs, LAD/yakuza MAKES memes.
Gaming is in a rut? Everything is amazing yet no one is happy.
FF7 Rebirth is like a game that shouldn't even exist, yet it does. We're getting the Elden Ring expansion this year, Helldivers was amazing. Infinite Wealth was great.
Sounds like a lot of mfs are just ungrateful.
Again, could we not use FF7 rebirth to put down FF16 (or vice versa even). "With no hate or malice" give me a break you know exactly what you're doing lol. 16 is incredible. 7 rebirth will also be incredible, stop the nonsense.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is getting rave impressions about it's gameplay, graphics & RPG elements.
With no malice or hate towards Final Fantasy 16, Rebrith will prove Final Fantasy is better off built like this, instead of the direction they took with Final Fantasy 16.
Not finished Rebirth, and I absolutely adore both of these games, but to me:
FFXVI has the better "highs."
FF7 Rebirth has the better "lows."
Hopefully that makes sense.
I wish gamers had more conviction. I see far too many people fall in love with a game only to be shitting all over it months later all because they let someone convince them that their initial experience wasn't valid.
Final Fantasy XVI's setting doubled down on the medieval (to the point there's not even functional airships) so naturally XVII's setting should double down on the sci-fi. I would love a straight up space faring adventure like Star Wars. Just my thoughts.
Don't be a hero. Starscourge Radahn is a RAID boss. There's a reason those summons are so brightly lit and let you resummon. The game *wants* you to use them.
But if you want to 1v1 him, by all means, go ahead people love soloing raid bosses. It's just not the intended design.
I actually do feel really bad for the FF fans who aren't into the games going the action route with FFXV/FF7R/Stranger of Paradise/FFXVI because to me it's the best decision they've ever made for the franchise. I love it so much.
I really don't enjoy having to point this out.
You can't criticize a game you haven't played, that is just an objective truth. Games are played not watched.
Yes, I even mean story. Because most of the time the story is *also* interactive.
You know what I really like?
When someone has like 300+ hours in a game that typically doesn't warrant that kind of play time.
Like, you really genuinely love the game that much. That's beautiful to me.
This game is known for its memes, but it's actually such a nice simple story that speaks volumes to why Final Fantasy villains are so popular.
The whole "monsters have hearts, too" trope is one I'll never get sick of.
Hoping for a Stranger of Paradise 2 someday.
Final Fantasy XVI gave me not just what I wanted but what I needed in a FF game. I feel like CBU3 set a new standard when it comes to spectacle and characters. It will be extremely hard to get this game off my mind, even writing this I am still reeling from the experience.
Anyone else have that moment after Kalm, and the grasslands opened up and said "Holy shit, they actually did it" when the theme started playing?
Just me? Alright.
In 2020 I was public enemy
#1
for enjoying both TLOU2 and Ghost of Tsushima. Now I once again have that title for enjoying both Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West. Because apparently you're not allowed to enjoy both.
I realize I am late to the party on this, but FF7 Rebirth is a dream come true. It feels like a true love letter to not just fans of FF7, but all Final Fantasy fans.
If you don't see the old school FF design in XVI, that's honestly on you lol. The way the towns are and how it flows from area to area is exactly like Final Fantasy 1-9.
After Mass Effect Legendary Edition, my standards for re-releases in any capacity has been skewed and I refuse any less than what Bioware delivered going forward. They really gave us all that for $60. Really set a new standard for remasters/remakes/upgrades imo.
The problem with Alan Wake 2 getting the notoriety it's getting right now is that a bunch of normally uninterested people are gonna play it and call it garbage when it just doesn't align with their tastes. It's a VERY weird game. I can't overstate that enough.
My least favorite kind of person currently is someone who rushes beating a 100-200 hour RPG in a week and then complains about it constantly for the amount of months it takes me to beat it.
Rare is it to actually play something so unique and special it has me uprooting my own tastes. Alan Wake 2 was that game and is now hands down my game of the year. A horror masterpiece.
Caught myself thinking about the incredible journey that Final Fantasy XVI was. Someone told me they were gonna wait for that "honeymoon phase" to be over for me. Nah, this game has only grown more fond over time for me and I don't see that changing.
Sorry, but if a game came out after November 2020, it's a 9th gen title. Doesn't matter if its cross gen or not. Also, stop acting like we're in such desperate times for good games, it's exhausting. This is a YOU problem.
Fine, I’ll just say it. The 9th gen has sucked so far. There are only 4 games that actually feel special to me and make PS5 or Xbox Series X feel somewhat worthwhile. Nearly everything else has straddled generations or feels hollow and formulaic. There’s no passion, no risk.
The fact that the last of us 2 is still being talked about with the same discourse that existed on release almost 2 years later says volumes. If the game was truly bad it would be forgotten
I'm sure Baldur's Gate 3 is amazing, but if you don't like CRPGs, I don't think it winning GotY is suddenly going to change that. Falling into FOMO is a dangerous thing, make an informed choice if you decide to buy it, is all.