Benny

@wampa1: If you want the soundtrack and don't care about FTL, just pay the absolute minimum for it and you'll get mark of the ninja and stuff as well :)

Quick PSA, the new Humble bundle has Brutal Legend, Mark of the Ninja, Trine 2, and paying more than average gives Fez and FTL!

Also included is beta access to Klei entertainment's new game Eets Munchies and paying more than average gets you any new games they add (of which there's definitely at least one as is stated on their site.)

OP uses Vegans in the post and vegetarians in title suggesting they may not know the difference

I dunno, Nobuo Uematsu may well be the single most well known games industry composer.

Edit: Some of the work in progress music is really fucking good.

It makes sense that their quests are boring when you think about what a "quest" will generally be in a Final Fantasy game. You either go from A to B, talk to people, or kill things. The rest of almost all Final Fantasy gameplay is story and combat (barring one time things like minigames or quick timey stuff and puzzles which are never more than 1% of a final fantasy game,) so having to stretch that out over hundreds of hours seems like the worst possible scenario for a specifically 'final fantasy' style game.

What little I recall of FFXI involved being in a group in a desert and staying in one single place so a guy could pull one monster at a time safely for hours (sub job mission perhaps?) I don't remember much of the early questing in that game so perhaps there it was a different story but it seems like they made the gameplay the thing that made the game take hours of your time, not going back and forth ticking boxes in quest logs like it seems you do in FFXIV.

Eggs son. Eggs.

wow, qlcrew is an extremely useful site, first time I'm seeing it. And yeah, the twitch streams are what OP is looking for.

those digital foundry dudes who do the frame by frame multiplatform game graphics comparisons will get to the heart of whatever differences there are before you even get your hands on a console so I'm sure whatever truth there is will be out there before long.

There's a very early massive chalice screenshot been released today and it looks and sounds to me like the game is going to be Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics mixed together and ohmygod I cannot wait for this game.

Nier. It's got an amazing new game plus that ties into the world and story.