Mister Jack

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age I enjoyed this a hell of a lot more than I did the first time thanks to all the QoL changes, which completely address the majority of the game's problems. You're still a little too dependant on the RNG for some items, and I got annoyed by all the bosses who could put up barriers that completely negate all damage, forcing you to just wait until they go down, but aside from that I don't really have many bad things to say about this remaster. I might try to platinum it, but I dunno if I'll actually do it this time. Some of the trophies require some serious dedication and luck. I'm definitely going to beat Yiazmat, at least, and there's still plenty for me to do even after beating it. I'm realizing now that, aside from the MMOs, FFXII probably has the best postgame content in the series with all these extra hunts and bosses.

Also, we could use a new poll, methinks.

This show is really determined to ruin soup for me.

I have to say, while I approve of most of the changes for Zodiac Age, I'm less a fan of absolutely vital spells like Esuna being taken out of magic stores and instead put inside chests that you're never told about. I'm having to use a walkthrough to find out which chests I'm supposed to open to get the spells I need.

How do you have your party set up? I've gone with this one myself: Vaan - Bushido/Monk Balthier - Shikari/Archer Fran - Uhlan/Machinist Penelo - White mage/Time mage Ashe - Black mage/Red mage Basche - Forebreaker/Knight

I have wanted this for over a decade. I am so ready.

Man, the quality of life changes to FFXII do so much to make it better in The Zodiac Age. It's almost like I'm playing a completely different game.

The only "Soulslike" games I've heard positive things about outside of the Souls games themselves have been Dragon's Dogma (if that even counts) and Nioh. Everyone else seems to be fumbling over themselves trying to figure out what makes those games appealing to people.

About that hut scene:

I don't even know who Ed Sheeran is. I thought the whole episode was great. Sometimes it pays not to listen to modern music.

The turbines kill me. I know how to do it, I just haven't gotten the timing of the jumps down, and considering that it boots me to the beginning of the mission after I die two or three times, I don't think I'm going to bother.

I tried the beta and I didn't even finish the story mission. I get all the way to the end, then I died a couple times on the turbines. The game forces me out of the session by acting like I'm holding down triangle to leave even though I'm not, then it puts me ALLLLLLL the way back at the beginning of the mission. It happened to me three times before I said fuck it.

Better luck next time, cake losers!

Traded Ghost Recon and a couple older games to get this for 10 bucks. I told myself I wanted to wait for the PC version but I just can't hold out that long.

I see the fuzzy text and picture puzzle ones all the time. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

I would go one step further and say that if you turn them off, you're likely to get slaughtered in multi.

Jotun is free on GoG right now.

When the Wind Blows I basically watched this because someone dared me to. It's well made but god damn, it's hard to watch. It's about an elderly British couple named James and Hilda who live in Cold War times and manage to survive a nuclear strike from Russia by using a lean-to shelter James built by following the instructions in a government pamphlet. However, they are ignorant to the true dangers of radioactive fallout and it comes back to bite them in the ass hard for the entire second half of the film. Even while they're both deteriorating from the radiation, James insists that the government will be sending rescue any day now and Hilda keeps worrying about trivial things like the errands she needs to run. Watching it made me glad that I'm too young to remember the Cold War. Having to live with the fear of being nuked every day must have been hell.

Crash Bandicoot 2. Got 100% on this one too, which was considerably easier to do than in the first game. I never actually played Crash 2 and 3 before but I hear they get progressively easier, so getting 100% on Crash 3 shouldn't be too hard if I was able to do it on the first one. I'm really liking this collection but I have one major complaint. In order to get full completion for a lot of levels, you have to play them perfectly. If you mess up, however, there is no restart level option. You have to quit the level, sit through a loading screen, pick the level again from the world map/hub, sit through another loading screen, and only then can you try the level over from the beginning. For some dumb reason, the restart option is only available in the time trial runs, which doesn't help me because those change the level's items into time related items rather than the fruits and Aku Aku masks I so desperately need.

Yeah, Spiderman was pretty good. The villain was great, which is funny because I've always hated Vulture in the comics. Here, however, he's a great character and Michael Keaton brings a ton of charisma to the role. It's also funny, perhaps too funny for its own good. It almost felt like I was watching a comedy at some points. My one major complaint is that the side characters kind of fall flat. Ned at least has a reason to be there and he does something useful, but Michelle serves no purpose in the movie and I just flat out cannot buy Flash Thompson being a mathlete bully. I mean come on. I'm pretty sure I could bully him if I wanted to and I am not a big guy by any stretch. Aunt May is okay but it kinda feels like she's only there because she has to be. Definitely the best Spiderman movie since Spiderman 2 though, despite my nitpicks.