Like I said, different strokes.

The minutiae that the game explores seems tedious to me at this age.

It may appeal to some, but it will never be my cuppa.

Having said that, however, I do appreciate 80s WRPG callbacks in JRPG games like Dark Souls which vary NPC responses depending on the character's current state, what they're wearing, etc. (i.e. in DS' case whether or not the character is hollowed or how they have responded in a previous NPC interaction).

Sadly, I have little patience for most RPGs these days given my limited gaming time and the stereotypical Hollywood junior high level script writing.

This thread is awesome.

KF2 is a fun game.

Consolites expecting "true" 4k for $500 or less (unless it's a racing game running at 120 mph/193 kmh) while believing either manufacturers' hype need to be cut off from their kool-aid refills.

PC gamers told you guys this wouldn't happen and were once again proven right.

Discrete GPU > APU.

Always and forever.

Player Unknown's Battlegrounds.

I'm glad to see that this prediction was wrong, but lol @ most JRPGs ever attaining these levels of popularity.

Based on his passion and recommendation, I even tried watching some P5 streams to see what the hype was about and I still don't get it, at all.

I will confess that I was only hate watching Dark Slob Phil playing and he's not someone to watch for competent gameplay, but someone you watch to troll in Twitch chat with "WoW D00d?! *grunts* "snorts* *belches* *farts*. Gib monies!" but still ...

Maybe it's my age or the dudebro in me, but I do not understand the excitement for RPing as a Japanese high schooler.

Different strokes and all that, though.

FFS, why do consolites never learn?

Previously, it was cows and now we're back to lems.

No, when it comes to multiplats, your thermodynamically impaired, APU powered, plastic toasters will NEVER overpower/exceed the performance of an efficiently cooled PC with a comparable discrete CPU and GPU. The only way this happens is if the devs refuse to take advantage of the additional power provided by PCs.

Why do you guys still buy this PR garbage when you've already been lied to so many times? I guess if it's for SW purposes I can understand, but I really hope that none of you honestly believe this crap.

Yes.

Checkers are babby's swimming floaties when it comes to strategy, but chess remains my preference.

Both Archon and Battle Chess were some of my early PC favs.

Being born on the analog/digital divide meant that many of us initially flocked to board games, but (esp. if only children) would later turn to video games for computerized opposition due to a lack of friends with the compatible time required.

Full games of Axis & Allies / Fortress America / Shogun required multiple people with LOTS of free time to be played to conclusion.

Part of me misses those days, but now we have Paradox games.

"Alt-right" guy, here according to reactionary @texasgoldrush.

FWIW, I never accused you of being a SJW. I just pointed out that the market that the original LiS devs were aiming for were undeniably SJWs (i.e. anime hair, alternative piercings, "unironic" retro-hipster appeal, LGBTBBQWTF? etc.)

Speaking the truth that the LiS series is an absolutely pathetic pandering series developed around the SJW zeitgeist that Nazi / Alt-right = anyone with a different opinion, CIS gender, and natural hair color.

"'Member when being liberal meant acknowledgement of the idiocy and scumfuckery of SA goons and similar wannabe 'moral' authoritarians?!"

Why would I bother playing this game? I watched a couple of episodes of a playthrough on YouTube around the time it was released to see why it was being so effusively praised.

Like Undertale, it didn't take long to realize who those people were.

It is a SJW game because that's the exact audience the developers hoped to tap into due to their obsession with all things: "marginalized," "problematic," "oppressive," and angsty.

The bullying behavior you just described along with an ingrained hatred for all things traditional or "normal" are the hallmarks of SJWism; coupled with being finger wagging moral scolds and sporting anime dyed hair.

It's like the devs took to social media and ticked off all of the necessary SJW selling points. It's an insipid blend of Sweet Valley High meets Choose Your Own Adventure with the depth of an ABC after school special (i.e. "Ooo chaos theory / butterfly wings analogy, drugs, suicide, lecherous men, lesbian shipping, and muh oppression").

The essence of SJWism, as I see it, is basically taking Marxist/Socialist thinking and adapting it to encompass all social interactions instead of economics. It maintains the same oppressor/oppressed dialectic where all interactions are distilled into this pathetically simplistic black and white oppression dynamic.

This seems to be the reason so many millenial, otherwise failures, have embraced it ("Yeah, they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't the white cis het male default (easy-mode). Muh marginalization and oppression! Full communism now!" Are you sure it had nothing to do with your electric blue hair, facial piercings, lack of work ethic, or degree in polygenderism as expressed by the tribes of the Amazon basin?)

Harbl, but if that kind of thing appeals to you, then I'm sure the devs will be happy to serve you more.

Writing another novel length response to justify why everyone should love this game won't sway my opinion.

I prefer games with actual gameplay, depth, and ideally, lots of replayability.

Goodie!

I for one look forward to playing a poly-gendered/fluid SJW danger haired high schooler.

EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATIC AND YOU HAFTA CALL IT OUT!

@texasgoldrush: You have questionable taste.

The existence of a single JRPG title in this list completely invalidates it.

I remember playing the D&D gold box games while some of my non-PC friends were playing as toddlers in the excruciatingly dumb FF series.

Good times.

I was referring to the screenshots posted.

Are you denying that everything outside a 5m radius carries the trademark PS4 glaucoma blur?

And, no, I've not played the game. The setting/premise have 0 appeal for me; like most console titles.

"I got it guys, 'Robotic dinosaurs.'"

"GENIUS!"

The Dino-bots were the Transformers jumping the shark point in the 80s, imo.