Team Four Star General Thread

Oh good, so this is the general Final Fantasy thread.

I love Final Fantasy X. One of my favorite games of all time.

edited 22nd Jan '16 12:20:42 PM by wanderlustwarrior

I liked it but I kinda just stopped playing somewhere around Zanarkand and, when I started a new playthrough a long time later, my game got stuck endlessly loading on the first SIN fight.

Final Fantasy X is my second favorite Final Fantasy, right behind XII.

Oh god, I hated XII.

From what I've seen of it it seems pretty solid (and I like the Star Wars/Game of Thrones-esque war and politics angle). What are some of its problems?

edited 22nd Jan '16 1:49:09 PM by theLibrarian

The biggest thing most fans have against XII is the western RPG feel it has. It plays a bit like Dragon Age, with the real time combat and tactics menu for party members. It's also far more open world than most console Final Fantasy games, outright entering the MMO realm even.

Another big deal is the plot-driven narrative. The party doesn't effect the plot as much as they react to the machinations of the events, which gives the impression of the party members being poorly characterized and weak protagonists.

Then there's the "Star Wars" feel, which I like so I didn't care about the complaints on that front.

edited 22nd Jan '16 2:25:31 PM by VeryMelon

As someone that loves Dragon Age Inquisition and Witcher 3 I doubt I'll have any issues with that stuff XD

A bit more on topic, a new episode of Fallout 4 is up. I think they're trying to take everything as far off the rails as possible.

Bethesda should probably make more important NP Cs invincible.

Like.

...God, TFS would be amazing playtesters.

Bethesda should make all NPC's killable but people will hunt you down relentlessly if you kill too many or important people.

...Or, actually.

They could have done the Actually a Doombot thing.

Like, let's be honest, it would make sense.

NPCs that are required to be alive for quests are usually unkillable. I was actually surprised when they killed Father.

If I was Bethesda I would have made it so that everytime you killed Father there would be a new one that came in because the last one was actually a Synth.

And I would have had that go on endlessly.

To the extent that you could be standing in a room filled with their bodies.

That wouldn't terribly work. You see, if you join The Institute then, at the end of the game, Father dies of natural causes, I do believe.

That would be the real one.

It'd be schrodinger's doombot. It's the real one unless you kill him.

Today's episode had the best possible ending.

Forgot to post yesterday but yeah, that ending had me cracking up. lol

I watched 48 last night. "YOU MONSTER! *SPLAT*"

Podcast!

So they've been trying to get Masako to move down to Texas. Maybe if it happens we can finally get a "Paragon til Death" and Two Saiyans Plays with Goku and Vegeta.

edited 27th Jan '16 6:57:05 AM by Lionheart0

So I took a look at their Patreon last night. They get almost 11K a month from donations on that. I can see why they've got enough to get an office now XD

Plus apparently now the "full time" crew now also includes Masako, Kirran, and Antfish.

edited 27th Jan '16 2:22:35 PM by Lionheart0

11k per month isn't a lot of money, especially split among 5+ crew members.

Well, that's on top of the ad revenue they get for the Gaming channel and who knows how much that is.

That's just one source of revenue. There's also the ad revenue from their Wesbite and Let's Play videos and whatever amount they get from their merchanise.

Prior to the Patreon, they made enough for Lani, Kaiser, and Taka all to be able to live off of it.

edited 28th Jan '16 2:49:27 PM by Lionheart0