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Post by stephen on Sept 16, 2020 20:25:27 GMT
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Post by stephen on Jun 3, 2022 12:48:39 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 3, 2022 13:43:19 GMT
I never had a viable internet connection back when FF11 was at its peak, and 12 was a garbage fire. 13 had terrible reviews so I didn't play it until recently, at which time I found out that it was actually pretty good (until the final act ruins everything). I just started playing 14 a while ago, and despite it being an MMO - a genre I had never played, and that I still don't like very much if this one game is much indication - I had a blast with it (except in the parts that I didn't, as some expansions are far better than others). So consider me reconverted. Playing these two games sparked that old FF joy in me once more, with their tales of heroism and sacrifice. These trailers don't do much for me - and I still only have a PS3, so I won't be getting to this for six years at the absolute minimum - but I'm still happy to see Final Fantasy continue to do its thing.
I'm even considering starting up FF11, even if it is a shell of the game in its glory days.
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Post by stephen on Jun 3, 2022 14:48:40 GMT
I never had a viable internet connection back when FF11 was at its peak, and 12 was a garbage fire. 13 had terrible reviews so I didn't play it until recently, at which time I found out that it was actually pretty good (until the final act ruins everything). I just started playing 14 a while ago, and despite it being an MMO - a genre I had never played, and that I still don't like very much if this one game is much indication - I had a blast with it (except in the parts that I didn't, as some expansions are far better than others). So consider me reconverted. Playing these two games sparked that old FF joy in me once more, with their tales of heroism and sacrifice. These trailers don't do much for me - and I still only have a PS3, so I won't be getting to this for six years at the absolute minimum - but I'm still happy to see Final Fantasy continue to do its thing. I'm even considering starting up FF11, even if it is a shell of the game in its glory days. I'd love to see what you think of FFXV -- a game that I think is hellaciously underappreciated despite its flaws. |
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 3, 2022 15:17:10 GMT
I never had a viable internet connection back when FF11 was at its peak, and 12 was a garbage fire. 13 had terrible reviews so I didn't play it until recently, at which time I found out that it was actually pretty good (until the final act ruins everything). I just started playing 14 a while ago, and despite it being an MMO - a genre I had never played, and that I still don't like very much if this one game is much indication - I had a blast with it (except in the parts that I didn't, as some expansions are far better than others). So consider me reconverted. Playing these two games sparked that old FF joy in me once more, with their tales of heroism and sacrifice. These trailers don't do much for me - and I still only have a PS3, so I won't be getting to this for six years at the absolute minimum - but I'm still happy to see Final Fantasy continue to do its thing. I'm even considering starting up FF11, even if it is a shell of the game in its glory days. I'd love to see what you think of FFXV -- a game that I think is hellaciously underappreciated despite its flaws. The opening is amazing, I'll give it that. The four guys bantering while pushing the car is what made me reconsider the franchise and start XIII. Unpopular opinion: XIII has the best cast of core characters. Lightning and Hope going full vengeance mode, Snow getting religion and searching for a higher meaning, Vanille and Sazh running away - the variety of reactions to having their lives ruined is such a great piece of storytelling. The narrative fails them, but the cast is uniformly excellent. I also think the gameplay is a load of fun until the final act allows the player to become overpowered too easily. This is the only video game I've played in which using debuffs is a viable - even necessary - strategy. I don't want to say much about XIV (I believe you mentioned that you've only gone through HW), but despite some ups and downs, the high points of the narrative are unbelievably high. By the time EW is finished, I can confidently say that no story in any medium I've encountered has created such a big world. So much of XIV is devoted to things like peace treaties, trade agreements, POW exchanges, the logistics of "liberating" hostile territories from an enemy force, etc. Sure, not all of it is complex, but by having the guts to devote so much time to the affairs of nations makes the whole narrative a grand endeavor. I fear that I'll never fully understand how tanking works in dungeons (as a healer main, it just seems to me that their goal is to drag as many enemies as possible for no strategic reason), but when everything comes together and a team clicks (usually only in trials), the game is loads of fun. I'm considering going back to XII as well, but the gameplay threw me off and the cool stuff in the narrative - the political intrigue - seemed disconnected from anything going on with our cast of protagonists, who were all boring as hell. |
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Post by stephen on Jun 3, 2022 15:37:05 GMT
I'd love to see what you think of FFXV -- a game that I think is hellaciously underappreciated despite its flaws. The opening is amazing, I'll give it that. The four guys bantering while pushing the car is what made me reconsider the franchise and start XIII. Unpopular opinion: XIII has the best cast of core characters. Lightning and Hope going full vengeance mode, Snow getting religion and searching for a higher meaning, Vanille and Sazh running away - the variety of reactions to having their lives ruined is such a great piece of storytelling. The narrative fails them, but the cast is uniformly excellent. I also think the gameplay is a load of fun until the final act allows the player to become overpowered too easily. This is the only video game I've played in which using debuffs is a viable - even necessary - strategy. I don't want to say much about XIV (I believe you mentioned that you've only gone through HW), but despite some ups and downs, the high points of the narrative are unbelievably high. By the time EW is finished, I can confidently say that no story in any medium I've encountered has created such a big world. So much of XIV is devoted to things like peace treaties, trade agreements, POW exchanges, the logistics of "liberating" hostile territories from an enemy force, etc. Sure, not all of it is complex, but by having the guts to devote so much time to the affairs of nations makes the whole narrative a grand endeavor. I fear that I'll never fully understand how tanking works in dungeons (as a healer main, it just seems to me that their goal is to drag as many enemies as possible for no strategic reason), but when everything comes together and a team clicks (usually only in trials), the game is loads of fun. I'm considering going back to XII as well, but the gameplay threw me off and the cool stuff in the narrative - the political intrigue - seemed disconnected from anything going on with our cast of protagonists, who were all boring as hell. It's an incredible opening for sure. The thing about XV is that I think it has the best party of any of the mainline games. I love the combat and the lore of the game as well. The only downside to it is that the story is so fractured because they attempted to do this huge multimedia rollout across different platforms (game, DLC, movie, anime, novels, etc.), which would've been more beneficial for something like FFXIV. If FFXV had been more complete in the game we got (and the Royal Edition definitely improves this), it would probably be my favorite of the franchise. XIII is very underrated and over-hated for sure from what I played of it, but I never finished it because I got distracted. I will eventually return to it because I did enjoy what I did play. Yes, I've only just now gotten to Stormblood, but it's because I spent so long grinding up different classes. I'm a DPS/tank main myself and won't touch healer with a ten-foot pole, so we come from wildly different worlds. I get your complaints with it but man, I just find it so beautifully immersive. |
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 3, 2022 18:32:13 GMT
Yes, I've only just now gotten to Stormblood, but it's because I spent so long grinding up different classes. I'm a DPS/tank main myself and won't touch healer with a ten-foot pole, so we come from wildly different worlds. I get your complaints with it but man, I just find it so beautifully immersive. I'm a lala and I feel weird picking up a war axe. I plan on doing that as my first alternate job, just to understand better how to work with a tank. But I'll still look silly. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud to be a lalafell. Lord "The Law is the Law" Lolorito is my favorite side character in the game, and our race also boasts such esteemed personages as Teledji Adeledji, Nanamo Ul Namo, and Tataru. We should get a gil bonus to every transaction just for existing. |
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Post by stephen on Jun 3, 2022 18:34:44 GMT
Yes, I've only just now gotten to Stormblood, but it's because I spent so long grinding up different classes. I'm a DPS/tank main myself and won't touch healer with a ten-foot pole, so we come from wildly different worlds. I get your complaints with it but man, I just find it so beautifully immersive. I'm a lala and I feel weird picking up a war axe. I plan on doing that as my first alternate job, just to understand better how to work with a tank. But I'll still look silly. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud to be a lalafell. Lord "The Law is the Law" Lolorito is my favorite side character in the game, and our race also boasts such esteemed personages as Teledji Adeledji, Nanamo Ul Namo, and Tataru. We should get a gil bonus to every transaction just for existing. I'm a basic bitch and am playing as a Hyur female (Aisling Greytide is my character's name, and I modelled her after my Fallout 4 player character of the same name). Marauder/Warrior is a good tank intro class, but once you hit Level 50, the quests for that class kinda become uninteresting, but that's when you can access Dark Knight and Samurai, which are far better. |
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 5, 2022 1:16:48 GMT
Yoshi-P has confirmed that they're going for the M rating on this one. Considering how adult (in a good way) some parts of FFXIV are, this seems like a smart decision. Give me some graphic war crimes, yo!
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Post by stephen on Dec 9, 2022 14:53:26 GMT
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Post by stephen on Apr 14, 2023 17:07:09 GMT
Hold on to your butts.
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Post by stephen on Jun 12, 2023 14:56:26 GMT
The demo dropped today.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 12, 2023 15:55:17 GMT
Is that the voice of Ralph Ineson at 13:20?  |
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Post by stephen on Jun 12, 2023 15:59:14 GMT
Is that the voice of Ralph Ineson at 13:20? Goddamn right. First Michael McElhatton in XIV, then Ralph Ineson in XVI. If we can get Stephen Dillane and Charles Dance in the next one, we're in business. |
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Post by stephen on Jun 13, 2023 0:06:11 GMT
That demo was fucking phenomenal.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 25, 2023 4:33:59 GMT
I just watched a small clip of Asmongold playing a sidequest in this game. I wanted to confirm if this was indeed as dark as I hoped it would be (the title of the video was "FFXVI sidequests are DARK" or something like that). Yeah. Looks that way.  There are some moments in ShB and EW that really, REALLY wanted to stretch for the M rating but weren't allowed to do so. This looks like exactly what those moments would have been if they were given full freedom to depict the horrors they had to play with a soft hand in FFXIV. |
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There are some moments in ShB and EW that really, REALLY wanted to stretch for the M rating but weren't allowed to do so. This looks like exactly what those moments would have been if they were given full freedom to depict the horrors they had to play with a soft hand in FFXIV.