I enjoy and am fairly knowledgeable about the Dragon Quest series. I've played all of the numbered ones except 5, 6, and 10. I have a basic idea of what's going in 5, I've seen some character art here and there, there's the monster catching stuff and I guess you play as your character's kids like in...

the sentiment is entirely appreciated but i can only manage a high three

Obviously it comes highly recommended, heh.

I'm super excited about it myself, but I still can't play it without LPing it (I've tried! I can't!), and I haven't had any LP juice in me for... uh... longer than I dare contemplate. One day though, one day.

I bet they figured no one was so attached to the any of the original's fairly cruddy water tiles that there'd be any complaints about them being so completely overhauled. Might be the same reason all the spells have been given 100% of the juice.

I've been playing the FF1 pixel remaster those past couple days and let's just say, boy, what timing.

Le zoo, c'est les autres.

I like the implication that being struck by lightning is exactly as bad for you as eating a sandwich is good for you.

Stormblood goes to worthwhile places eventually, as you've started finding out. But yeah, half of it is very slow and/or very brown, and the slowest, brownest parts have the ill fortune of immediately following Heavensward's ending.

When it does climb itself out of that pit, though...

Alright, so, you open a page with an article on a news site or wherever. There's a video at the top, under the title but before the article proper. It starts playing. You scroll down, because fuck videos, you want to read. As soon as the video scrolls off the screen, it flies to the lower right of t...

Yeah, good call. Each expansion has its set of relic weapons that's basically there to give people something to grind while waiting for the next expansion. It's basically not worth doing any but the latest ones unless you really really want the glam. Personally I tend to prefer the various primal/bo...

It is absolutely integral to the FFXIV experience to have fellow adventurers joining you for critical plot moments in the goofiest outfits imaginable. Moogle weapons have the advantage of being audibly goofy as well, which is a feat otherwise difficult to accomplish without resorting to Lalafell emo...

I'm, uh, Alys Levarq , and Elisance Sorenceaux , and Perspicacious Fjord , and Zanfio Panfio , and Albayar Haragin . And yes, Twelve help me, I looked up 15th century Mongolian naming conventions to pick a lore-appropriate Xaela name. I can only be comforted in my nerdiness by the fact that there ar...

I hadn't really paid attention to the mechanics of buying housing plots so far because there weren't any to buy, but now that they've added some, wow, what a shitshow. http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/lottery.jpg It only took two and a half years! and now i'm the dog that caught the car and i...

If you have a billion dollars and want a second billion dollars, your brain is fundamentally broken. It's the same impulse that gets a hoarder to get started on their twenty-second ceiling-height stack of newspapers. Zuckerberg can already buy anything that can be bought, and he still wants more mon...

when you get radical you gotta get radical all the way dudes

Landlord, though.

Fun fact: I was two updates deep in a test run for a FM4 video LP when I remembered how unbearably slow-paced the game is and consequently abandoned the notion.

I suspect I was mostly enamored of the thought of comparing Elsa's French accent to mine for some reason.

no preorder link, 0/5

Man, I made all this fuss, I'm probably not even going to like it.

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i like it