General gaming discussion

So they kind of did 1 game per franchise.

Can we all stop pretending that FFX is not one of the weaker FF games that feels half finished.

Golden Sun, Ni No Kuni and Kingdom Hearts 2 don't deserve to be on any list.

Same with Lost Odyssey, only remembered because of the lack of JRPGs at the time but it's not awful like those three.

Live a live, interesting game but only on there because it's the new hotness. Plenty of other better weird games like something from the Saga series.

BoF3 is good and all but Dragon Quarter is the masterpiece in that series.

Paper Mario 2 isn't that great, kick that off for Valkyrie Profile.

Kind of ok with everything else. Xenogears is a bit **** but also worth playing for how bananas it is.

I'm actually kind of envious you never played kingdom hearts. I wish I never played it.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was releasing Golden Sun as the first JRPG on the GBA so that people thought it was good and also disguising the fact that it's a spiritual sequel to Beyond the Beyond, a game that is as wretched as the Legend of Dragoon.

Absolutely cracking Matsuno soundtrack all the same.

Its a tough series to go back to. Had a friend that didn't believe me how badly it aged and she tried the recent rerelease and found it a complete chore and gave up because it was dull and nobody would shut up talking.

Jan-Mat has become more favourable since publishers found they were competing with CoD, yearly franchises or other big games. That's spring period means they miss out on all that nonsense. Probably started about 20 years ago when a number of very well received games flopped undeservedly in that period. Think Mirrors Edge, Prince of Persia Sands of Time and Beyond Gold and Evil.

People also seem to be willing to spend money on a new game for their new console or finished up their Xmas present games.

Just finished up Metal Wolf Chaos. The game is absolutely nuts, brilliantly so. But the ending might be the mostly brilliantly deranged thing I've ever seen in a videogame. It features a giant missile with merry Christmas on the side of it. And then gets more bonkers from there.

It's a really fun game but not the most amazing game ever. A solid 8/10. But the satire of Bush era American jingoism and politics elevates it. It's hilarious and feels a bit like the closest we got to starship troopers in videogame form.

In case you didn't know, magic the gathering is making Fina Fantasy cards part of their current deck. I don't play MTG because I've actually had sex before but the FF card art is really good with some really funny ones. My two favourites are the best thing about FFX:

And FF7 Remake's best character, Chaerith: