They should do a new Nintendo Direct because that's the only thing that still allows me to briefly feel the embers of hope once again within my cold dead heart

I think I like Glitch Productions’ Gameoverse, but in the same way that I like early 2000s DeviantArt webcomics, where it’s like “that’s cute, not my cup of tea but this kid is really trying to do something with their OCs.” Except it’s a million dollar project helmed by adults so it’s weird.

I played FF7 Remake when it was a PS4 exclusive and my OCD really wanted me to finish out the other two on PlayStation but maybe at this point I just just concede that I'm never buying a PS5 and get it on Switch 2 with chopped framerate.

STRAY CHILDREN is still out here pulling 92/100 scores! Thank you so much for the kind words, @rpgfan.bsky.social!

I understand how ridiculous what I am asking you sounds on its face, but can you please consider the idea that Everybody's Golf Portable 2 could be one of the most beautiful games ever made

Life is already hard enough but it's even harder when I think about how my one true hero and idol, Maru the cat who jumped into boxes on YouTube, is no longer with us

They should do a new Nintendo Direct because that's the only thing that still allows me to briefly feel the embers of hope once again within my cold dead heart

The amount of world building in the Doug Funnie Silmarillion is truly decadent

Nowadays they just reuse the same 2015 sunbreeze event, but it's cool how back in 2008-2015 FFXI had a summer event about a magical girl idol Mumor, and the story progressed every year with new characters and everything

It used to be you released a cheap tie-in game to coincide with your family film, but this has become so prohibitively expensive that now you release a collection of your old cheap tie-in games to coincide with your family film and put “retro” branding on it for kids who watch Scott the Woz.

It’s so depressing to watch Japanese Dragon Quest fans have substantial discussions about combat balancing between titles, then look at English DQ fans and the prevailing sentiment is “All DQ games have The Basic form of turn-based combat with no fancy additions, and I find that ‘cozy’.”

A beautiful San d'Orian sunset~ 🥰 ** photo taken from Northern San d'Oria (And fyi, this is the raw beautiful in-game graphics. I play retail and I use no addons to improve visuals, resolution, aesthetic, FPS, or whatever else. This is Final Fantasy XI as is). #ffxi #ff11

My hot take is that online RPGs should be a little less about ultimate freedom of expression through character creation and make you conform to the world you are inhabiting a bit more.

My big dream right now is to hijack the aux at my job and play Sketches of Moondays in the store.

The Sonic Symphony means so much to me I'm very sad I never got to see it in person because of Covid but I'm very grateful they livestreamed a version that I can always go back to also because of Covid

Following my theory that a good videogame should frustrate you & make you want to take a break: I posit that the ideal perfect videogame is one you are constantly thinking about playing when your not playing it, but when you turn it on you immediately want to quit. The game of your mind.

If they really are remaking Sonic CD there’s absolutely no way it won’t be worse than the original in every aspect but also I’m buying it Day 1 no questions asked

The fact it’s animated too lol FFXI really said Six Seven

Whenever people try to say the Bomberman Hero soundtrack clears (Baku) Bomberman 64 it's always just fucking Redial. Does anyone actually like another song from that game

Metal Gear Solid V is so weird in retrospect like what do you MEAN they released the prologue mission as a separate product and it’s actually a better game than the full thing

Can I nominate this to be like a disclaimer to all new Final Fantasy XI players, because I keep seeing people not really Getting It. And can I expand it to say the different storylines aren’t linear, you don’t have to do them in order, they are all just pieces to the puzzle.

I think what really happened with the Twitter ube ice cream drama is just that the people running culture war engagement bots realized that they can double their market by pretending to be leftists too.

I really want to do a replay of DQ1+2 GBC and compare them to DQ1+2 HD-2D but who fucking has time for that. I’m not a YouTube video essayist I don’t get paid for this shit. You will all just have to do without my extremely correct takes on the matter.

Yeah after sitting on it for a few hours I’m actually extremely disappointed that they’re trying to capitalize on the “Toriyama and Sugiyama’s FINAL GAME” aspect and just do DQXI again.

On the one hand I’m glad they’re not converting Dragon Quest to some new half baked experimental combat system, on the other hand I am now concerned that this game won’t address any of my issues with DQXI. I think I would rather they had swung for the fences than play it safe.

The stupid Phantasy Star Online 1 card game spinoff that nobody likes except me really does have the greatest OST that a videogame has ever had www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avpx...

The stupid Phantasy Star Online 1 card game spinoff that nobody likes except me really does have the greatest OST that a videogame has ever had www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avpx...

I do feel like I've betrayed my longtime followers somewhat by just becoming an FFXI account this past year but also I'm not really sorry about retreating back into Vana'diel because the real world keeps getting suckier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLFA...

I’m a Reptilian but I’m not really part of the conspiracy; I’m just trying to live my life. Actually the guys won’t even take my calls and kind of make fun of me when they think I’m not listening

The Chocobo theme honestly never makes me think of Final Fantasy, to me it will always just be the MIDI background music of Web 1.0 Pokemon fansite Gyarados.net

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

I’ve seen a lot of Reddit posts that say like “I enjoyed this game as a kid but when I try to play it now it’s too outdated and clunky” and I’m like dude you’re literally admitting that it’s a You problem

Although Final Fantasy 11 turns 24 this year, the MMORPG enjoyed a big boost in concurrent player count thanks to the successful Final Fantasy 14 crossover event. In light of this unexpected rise in popularity, FF11 director Yoji Fujito talked about what’s next for the online game. bit.ly/4dZGzDA

Playing even janky kinda bad PS2 games brings me a sort of zen about the state of the industry. Even if no good video game is ever made again I'll still have 'Nanobreaker' or 'Dual Hearts' or 'Bloodrayne'

After Elon ruined Twitter I kept browsing it exclusively to follow Japanese users but now with auto-translate the site has just become Japanese people asking innocent questions about American culture and racist chuds explaining culture war BS to them like it’s fact, so it’s pretty dire

I’ve seen a lot of people say things like “we need to gatekeep harder” but I’ve never seen someone explain the mechanism by which the gatekeeping actually works.

It makes me feel bad to be mean to a kind person. And I feel that being mean towards my enemies isn’t constructive and just further galvanizes them against me. But if I had a fanbase of stupid people who liked my art, the limiters would be off. I’d torture them and delight in every single moment.

Maybe I'm just old but I don't really get this new world where an author has to make statements condemning things that fans of their work do.

No Clinton Context in the Gaming Years

Hands down THE worst film I have ever seen, and I’ve seen Guns of el Chupacabra.

The whole reason I like Crazy Taxi (and most other Sega IPs) is because they are short, infinitely replayable, arcade-structured games that can be picked up instantly but take time to master. If that element isn’t in the revivals I’m not sure I’m interested.

I have seen several people new to FFXI talk about how difficult they find it and I'm just like "You don't get it. It should be harder. It used to be harder."

Top 3 JoJo parts apropos of nothing: -1- Diamond is not Crash -2- STEEL BALL RUN -3- JoJolion

eventually "developing FFXI" is going to be one of those longstanding japanese crafts where only a few aged masters remain and they do the NHK documentary about the one guy who's the youngest apprentice at 47 and still gets up at the crack of dawn to tend to the mill

The new King of the Hill should have been a prequel about Hank working at Jeans West

In FFXIV the city of Ishgard is closed to all foreigners until the player reaches a certain story quest, yet you are able to watch other father-along players walk in and out freely. Anyway FFXI would never allow this and I think that’s emblematic of the difference in the games’ writing styles.

XIV players really have no idea what they’re missing huh

Final Fantasy XI 24th Anniv. Music Special Live Stream via: Square Enix Music Start: May 17 @ 8:00pm (PDT) Stop: May 20 @ ~5:00am (PDT)