Simultaneously, I'll always respect the ambition and innovation in the attempt, and I kind of miss that part of new console releases, but overall, the Wii remote was an abomination that made gaming on that console worse, not better

Any one of these obvious instances of I don't know what to call it cause sometimes it's this and other times it's just gambling, but any one of them is 100 times worse if not more than any drug dealer has done in their lifetimes, but it's the drug dealers thrown in prison and not these guys.

i’m such a stupid fucking mark for trying to “work” and “follow the law”

>1h played this week: R = Replay Bayonetta 2 (R) Guilty Gear Strive KotOR 2 (Finished) Asura's Wrath Shadow of Mordor The Ninja Saviors Final Fantasy 7 (Finished) Final Fantasy 8 Ball x Pit Super Mario 3D World (R) MGSV Phantom Pain (R) Tetris The Grand Master 2 The Absolute Plus

There goes the last bit of gamedev esoterica I had. It's funny cause the company I worked at when playing that internal build went under years ago... I think

Nipps from Buddha Brand on Ningen Hatsudensho: "My shit is tighter than 小学生 の pussy" の is the possessive particle. 小学生 means elementary school student.

Israeli ceasefire in Lebanon went into effect about 5 hours ago. I became aware of it 1 minute ago. By the time I learned of the ceasefire, it had already been violated by Israel. "Israeli ceasefire" continues to be an oxymoron

I'm not sure how I feel about Final Fantasy 8. Its stock-based magic system basically means, every time I encounter an enemy or boss who has a new spell, I sit there for a few minutes slowly drawing out 300 units of it. I guess doing something with enemies other than killing them is interesting

This is fine, because I don't visit too many social media sites, and thus can find something else to do

I just noticed that Steam game forums now put an icon next to your name if you actually own the game you're discussing. Oh, man... That's gonna be funny for a few very specific games

Finished Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 with the restored content mod. Phenomenal game. Changes your perception of "exp" as a concept, kinda like Log Horizon. Peak. I'll do a dark side run when Fate is near release.

Near the end of KotOR 2, there's a scene where a lower officer is letting the boss know that they failed part of their mission. Boss responds something like "Don't kill yourself until I tell you!" which was one of the hardest video game lines I've heard in a while

A year into our Patreon, and we're spinning up 2 new games and a manga. Give it a share if you like what I'm trying to do :) www.patreon.com/posts/render...

; anyway, after playing Final Fantasy 1 through 7, I can recommend them if you wanna play: Just one? FF7. Just two? FF6, then FF7. More than 2? You can skip any of the first 5. 1 is good, 2-5 are great, 6 is special, 7 is a sweet spot perfect hit "JRPG"

Pro: At the end of my attempt to e-file my taxes, I found out that I didn't actually need to file taxes Con: It's because I didn't make enough money for any gig work company to send me tax documents. [laughs in bitter sadness]

I think the folks getting into arguments over workers actually continuing to work when ordered to ignore the fresh corpse nearby are forgetting USA has employment-based healthcare and some folks die when they lose access to it. Would you kill whoever relies on your healthcare to take a stand?

I popped my head into the conservative subreddit, like I said I wouldn't, but always do on days like this. Their reaction: I don't like this but I wouldn't take back my vote over it. Note: That is their reaction to literally everything that might make one go find out what they think. Every time

Booting up Final Fantasy VIII, not only does it seem to have more copious tutorials than the previous game, it actually forces some of them on you, which speaks to how much more complex its systems are than before. I suspect the fall off starts here.

The secret MVP of going back and playing PS1 JRPGs is using Lossless Scaling to turn 15 fps fights into passable 30 fps scenes, and 30 fps everywhere else into super smooth 60 fps. I don't notice any extra input lag.

Finished Final Fantasy VII for the first time yesterday. Definitely the best RPG I've ever played. Story, music, mechanics, characters. Even graphics, in context.

I got the save crystal on disc 3 of Final Fantasy VII, which is an hour before the farthest I got in this game as a kid. I'm reading in this strategy guide that it's not a point of no return, and you can just go back to the ship after. Had I known before, I'd have finished this game 20 years ago.

We need to bring back ITMFA

The gamefaqs walkthrough I was reading screwed up and mentioned a strategy guide, so I switched to that, and I think I'll be using these guides instead moving forward. Author got paid writing it, plus it has tons of screenshots. Spoiler-free to boot!

I'm on disc 2 of Final Fantasy VII after about 20 hours. I forgot how early that moment happened. But I'm still a little bit bummed out how it was utterly spoiled by 90s and 2000s video game magazines before I ever got a chance to play.

RE4R VR is an intersection of mass amounts of game design iteration and VR mechanics implementation on a level that has happened maybe 5 times ever.

I have to admit, I started reading that page, and my heart sank deeply when I read that Blacksky had been developed using Claude code all along.

; anyway, I recently updated the steam shortcuts of some of my Steam Deck games to point to years-newer versions of those emulators, incl. Cemu 1.26 to 2.6. I didn't realize there was so much room for improvement.

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

The way Cloud explains the mechanics in FFVII feels like Yoshihiro Togashi is explaining some manga power system. The gears are turning very heavily as I try to understand it all. Summon + Elemental?!

FF 1 to 6, the starting area lasts between 5 and 10 minutes before you're out on the overworld map walking to the next town or cave. Final Fantasy VII, you don't leave Midgar or see the overworld until the 6 hour mark. FF VII is different!

Just beat Kefka to finish Final Fantasy 6. FF1 was good, and FFs 2-5 were great, but 6 was spectacular. They used everything they learned making the previous games, applied ambition, and did even more stuff.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Every aspect of Final Fantasy 6 is in a different league compared to all of the previous games. This is the first game in the series where I am giggling at how OP my party is. But they need it. Some random battles wipe them within 2 or 3 turns.

They put a whole opera performance in this game??? With vocals???? Even tho it was just 3 lines, that's still outrageous. I almost wanna check if that was in the OG version with way lower quality audio.

"The wandering whatever? Who is this guy?" "Were you born on a farm, son? That's..." And then you pick his name, but Setzer is filled out by default. Introduced as the owner of the world's only airship. Final Fantasy 6 is different!

TIL I get more free cloud storage from Valve for my save files than I do from Google for my emails and photos. 19 gb vs 15...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Final Fantasy 6 is different from the first 5 almost immediately. The intro is like "we don't want there to be any wait before this gets good."

Out of the first 5 Final Fantasy games, 5 is the best narratively and mechanically. 4 is a better introduction to the series since you don't have to make job decisions, but 5 has all the job freedom of 3 without penalizing you for engaging with the mechanic or forcing it on you with gimmick bosses.

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

Something very telling about this Final Fantasy series playthrough is that I'm probably almost? Halfway? Done with FF5 and I have not encountered a single villain I had heard of before playing. I guess FF6 is the one with Sabin suplexing a train, and Hiso-, er, Kafka as the villain

2 months ago, gas was about $2.80 a gallon. Just drove past a sign that said $4.30. Definitely not the worst ramification of bad decisionmaking at the top, but damn. Everyone in the country is feeling this heat, and we all know why. But nothing changes.

We’re in a video game crash. You can’t look at 45K jobs lost, games in dev for 5-10 years shuttered in a week or a month, jacked prices on hardware to 30%+ vs launch, and component prices through the roof due to garbage SlopTech and tariffs and draw any different conclusion.

Final Fantasy V is slow to start, but great. I like the 4 and 5 themes of "you would have no idea of the greatness you came from if you didn't have the character to match it" Much better than "prophesied chosen one? Well okay..."

Every Final Fantasy I've been playing has been some re-release, so I don't know when "auto battle" became a feature before 12's Gambit system, but despite the wasted time, it sure is satisfying setting it up nicely. Focused tanking with auto-counterattack, with MP usage and recovery.

Playing Final Fantasy IV Remake, and after 2 games of it, I am ready for a "no encounters" cheat or a consumable item that temporarily disables this, because enough is enough. Auto battle basically handles it, but it still slows me down a lot. And trash mobs with status effects are a slog.

Noble Reincarnation was great. "Underlings' stats boost yours" is an excellent cheat skill. Informed dude's whole world view, to the benefit of everyone who meets him and isn't an asshole. Will go as far as killing to limit the amount of deaths other people's malice causes. Wild stuff from a kid.