kishinfoulux

Do they do a segment on games that missed the cut off the previous year or is that the kind of thing that comes up in podcasts? I know there is 'Old game of the year' but that's not necessarily the same thing. Unless they just use that segment as a place to talk about late games from the prior year before talking about older games.

Final Fantasy XV and The Last Guardian seem to have come up after the cutoff for people to have put enough time into them. Obviously same games are always going to be left behind with a cut off, but I'm always interested to hear how they rank against other things.

When I was doing the Deadeye quest I killed him in 1 shot from a fire spell, so probably.

It's kinda funny how many interpretations of calling a game "mgsv" can have. To me that means calling it the best game in the series lol.

Look man, have you SEEN the combat, its so flashy and looks awesome with amazing graphics in it and the rest of the game in general. I mean not being able to lock on to anything while holding circle, holding square, and the occasional circle press after square along with a warp strike or two, shits deeeeep. Did you see how cool looking armiger form is, you literally just hold circle and it looks so sick. And the summons, MAN OH MAN they look so cool, thank god they are scripted into the fights otherwise you would never see them ever in the entire playthrough, glad SE made sure we could see 5/6 for sure as they look so cool.

The above is why some people consider it the best ever, because it looks awesome and feels awesome (even though you aren't really doing anything). Visually its the best FF ever and its one of the best looking games ever made, but I mean it A) is the newest FF, B) had insane resources put into the visual aspect, and C) just game out. Visuals and flashiness can really hold up games using older brands as they can easily evoke the feels, which the game is riding the FF feels coattails. Without the FF brand the game being in the 6-8 range wouldn't be so heavily debated by the people loving it.

@dunchad: Actually, I'd say Luna is more a poor man's Yuna. They both fill the role of the pure maiden destined to sacrifice herself to save the world. Aerith eventually falls into that role, but it's not preordained by official state religion. There's also the fact of her foreknowledge: Yuna knows she's marching to her own destruction but she keeps on trucking anyway, which is one of the most ennobling aspects of her character. Given Luna's constant sickliness and Ravus not wanting her to form more pacts, it seems that the Oracle stuff puts a similar strain on her as the Final Summoning would on Yuna.

The part where Yuna mostly succeeds, though, is that she's an actual character -- they put in the work to develop her as a person with motivations independent of helping the hero power up. FFX is arguably her story. Fucking Luna gets killed off without having a single conversation with her supposed love interest.

It's crazy how much of a difference there is in difficulty between the main line story stuff and basically anything outside of it. Some of the hunts are absolutely brutal. A single Coeurl can destroy the party in seconds, even if I out level it by 4 levels, and one of the hunts is to take on 6 of them at the same time. I had absolutely no chance, even spamming magic. The only way I won was by surviving long enough for one of the summons showing up, my other 3 party members were dead and I was at 10% life in danger mode.

I'm not feeling it so far. It feels like it's never going to have the depth of the previous games. It's like they traded the depth of those earlier systems for a not particularly great third-person action system.

I'm enjoying the game overall, though, so I'll stick with it hoping it'll improve.

bad. combat is very very bad. water looks very bad