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Neranja said:

For added insult to injury, maybe I should ask people if they can tell Japanese and Korean women apart.

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Maybe Chinese vs Japanese women would be a better question because Korean women are incredibly easy to tell apart from other East Asians.

I'd love to see this forum learn about blue archive

Noodleface said:

Final Fantasy X has some cringe moments, but overall I think it's one of the better told stories in the series. It's on my Mount Rushmore of FF games.

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X - purely aside from the oft loathed laughing scene (that is a Japan thing, they could have set it up better for Ameri'canz to understand or get it better) -

Anyhow, X is a really well done game and story, that actually could have been even better if it widdled off some of the outside of the mainline narrative stuff, lowered the "action" or battles down and kept the intimate and intense focus on the personal character stories that was very, very well done in the start, middle and end of the game. It actually could have been a great movie or mini-series, and I think that is how it was really put together - the "pad time playtime" stuff is...to me.. very much the worst and can be removed... I personally do not think they needed a big bad guy outside of Sin and the dread of your MC being fake / memory and essentially walking willingly into his own non-existance. The info about the summons or whatever was enough of a plot tension build to add on to the main through-plot to keep the player on board.

The music was awesome and fit the dread, love, somber, fore boarding feel perfect.

Not often do I really get into characters and "cheer" them on... but when Tidus and Yuna finally kissed, like about time! I think that was built up to and paid off almost perfectly in timing, any sooner or later and it would not have been as good.

The lore and background that you learn on the journey was perfect... again the "oh but THIS is also happening!" and. "Oh and THIS DUDE is gonna kill everyone also!" was all just kinda needless (imo) distractions from a very good dual heroes journey with Tidus and Yuna both having their own solid journeys weaved together.

X culminated Squares "love" story that they started with 8, and even 9 - the "Empire world domination" thing was 2, 4, and 6 general themes. 3, 5 and 7 (maybe kinda 1) were also thematically similar with the entity/ alien poisoning the world/earth kinda thing.

Caeden said:

This is gonna really piss people off but my Mount Rushmore is 4, 6, 7, and 16.

Honorable Mention is 9 and maybe 14 through Endwalker. I think 9 is overrated by a lot of people and is very cringey. In truth, I have never played 8, 12, 13, and barely touched 15. I’ve only played about 3/4 of 5. Never touched 11 either.

I have a copy of the Zodiac Age for PS4. It’s on my list for this year too.

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Do not play 8. 8 is fake and gay and sucks, it all sucks, anyone that gives 8 anything other than a negative 192432842 out of 10 is wrong and gay

Caeden said:

US: play as a frumpy, ugly female protagonist in every game.
Asia: play as an attractive, questionable aged female protagonist in every game

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This or SB2 or anything- do not have a pre-pubecent Asian woman look... it is...just I guess people are not used to asians being petite small and young looking for longer than most others? We (Americans think blacks dont crack... lol then asian are stone immortals.

We are just over saturated with "white" that age generally in a normal curve, or Hispanics that shoot up quickly to then crash down harder faster.

Siliconemelons said:

Do not play 8. 8 is fake and gay and sucks, it all sucks, anyone that gives 8 anything other than a negative 192432842 out of 10 is wrong and gay

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omg i've tolerated your posts because you're sometimes funny but this is too far. welcome to ignore!!!!1!1!!1one!

the trick to 8 is that you have to read squall's voice, in your mind, as the goth from the IT crowd.

I was just fucking kidding on the Asian stereotype. I’m just tired of having to play as women for every. Fucking. Protagonist.

Except Bond. James Bond. (junior)

I will say the weebs and the yellow fever guys came out fast.

Regime said:

Good Bioshock is amazing

As for that Era definitely do Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect Trilogy, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Red Dead Redemption 1 remaster, and Spec Ops the fucking LINE.

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I knocked out RDR1 earlier this year. And DA:O I actually put a solid 30-35 hours in before an MMO got me again back in the day.

Goddamn. Spec Ops the Line gonna force me to get my 360 back out….

The best part of FF8 was triple triad. I’m glad FF14 used that version of the card game because the version in ff9 sucked

Phys copies run about $40 that I can see

Spec Ops was always a weird one for me. People talk about how dark it is and are all like "you're not the hero" and it's supposed to be some critique of both the US and video games about war, but nothing in it affected me at all. At least not in the way the devs were intending it, anyway. Personally I think they are the ones who don't really understand war. I still liked the game a lot at the time and always recommended it to people, but I suspect if I tried to replay it now (still have it on Steam from way back then) the past decade of dealing with SJW/Woke faggotry would sour me even more on the game's message.