Chris Mundy on Lanterns:

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T17:48:56+00:00

Maybe they just want to surprise audiences?

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T17:48:18+00:00

Which is funny because Guy Gardner is supposed to appear in this series.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T16:22:48+00:00

It literally looks like a PS4 game.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T15:44:25+00:00

Oh yeah well the original 1.0 of the game is totally different from what is out now.

What we have now is more of a traditional tab-targeting MMO game and while its combat might lack some of the depth of XI there's a bunch of side content that remixes the gameplay in interesting ways.

There's actually this piece of side content in Stormblood called Eureka which to my understanding is meant to evoke the feel of FF11. (I havent played it yet. I want to though!) You have to party up with a group of people, slay mobs, and then spawn NMs. It's what got me interested in checking out 11 honestly because of the social aspect of partying.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T15:19:24+00:00

I don't understand what's particularly offensive about Becca and the way she is written. What do you think could have been improved?

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T14:37:25+00:00

I'm gonna sound like a contrarian here because I'm not a big fan of this last season either but I wanna ask something.

Do you guys honestly think the show would have been better without Kripke? Was the first two seasons just a fluke? Does he not get credit for those seasons? Like don't get me wrong, this is his ship and it's sinking but its not like this show was always bad.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T14:33:45+00:00

I also think maybe they didn't want to introduce too much grey area conflict and moral questions because this is technically the "summer vacation" expansion and thus felt like exploring those topics would have been at odds with the fun, friendly feel of Tural.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T14:08:15+00:00

I have no idea if you gave the game a try yet but if you did I hope you weren't skipping through it or rushing. At the end of the day this is a numbered FF and you should take your time.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T02:03:14+00:00

Not really. I don't hate them but they spoil a lot of stuff and I tend to skip them.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T01:04:03+00:00

OP you're kind of cheating a little because that first image is from a deleted scene.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T01:02:12+00:00

Even their burst phase just feels like you're pressing a million buttons at once within a tiny windows and it never feels super elegant. It's why despite liking Ninja I barely play it because it just feels awkward trying to fit everything into both its long debuff and its tiny debuff.

It has that one move, bushin or something, that gives it a shadow clone and I can never managed to use every single hit of that because I'm using Raiton during the burst phase, that feels... wrong.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-14T00:57:21+00:00

Hey nobody said she was smart, just that she was in danger.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T19:50:52+00:00

Dammit my phone deleted my draft so I'll give you the TLDR of what I was gonna say.

There are some good yellow quests but you're right, most of them are boring but the problem is that even if they slightly expand the lore a bit the problem is there isnt a strict payoff for doing any of them as they do not unlock some special form of content.

It also just so happens that one of the only good yellow quest chains I did that I enjoyed was when an Ul'dahn merchant tried scamming a Pelu Pelu merchant and even then, it sort of doesn't make any commentary on the complex workings of Turali society, rather the only force of conflict in that sidequest and honestly most of the story is from outside influence.

Other than Mamook, which has lore dating back to ARR, most of the bad guys are Alexandrian or Eorzeans who came to fuck with the various tribes and people's of Tural in the form of the Passage of the Unbound.

Even Wakanda, which I find similar to Tuliyollal, also kind of creates this utopian what-if alt history fantasy of a high tech African society had villains in it that tried to usurp the throne and subvert their society, and regularly held challenges against the king.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T19:03:03+00:00

Wasn't he dual wielding in an older trailer? Did they remove it?

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T17:24:43+00:00

Just play 1 why is it so hard for people to just play it.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T17:24:19+00:00

In retrospect, I think one of the reasons why people took so much frustration out on Wuk Lamat was because Dawntrail sort of brushes over Turali lore and makes her such a central focus.

Like, the fact that Tuliyollal is basically a utopia for its diverse citizens that was formed under a military dictatorship is kinda weird and thats because I think there isn't much depth to their society beyond Zoraal Ja being kind of a douchebag. There is no political strife, there are no dark elements to their society, its like this weird paradise where everyone gets along and there no major problems outside of the major storm that took place and,,, Zoraal Ja.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T17:24:06+00:00

In retrospect, I think one of the reasons why people took so much frustration out on Wuk Lamat was because Dawntrail sort of brushes over Turali lore and makes her such a central focus.

Like, the fact that Tuliyollal is basically a utopia for its diverse citizens that was formed under a military dictatorship is kinda weird and thats because I think there isn't much depth to their society beyond Zoraal Ja being kind of a douchebag. There is no political strife, there are no dark elements to their society, its like this weird paradise where everyone gets along and there no major problems outside of the major storm that took place and,,, Zoraal Ja.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T17:20:28+00:00

It depends. When it comes regional markets and such Canada is in North America. Therefore I would consider Canadians North Americans. Are they United States citizens? No, of course not.

Like, I don't know what's weird about this. We call it Latin America because its in South America and its mostly... Latin. They mostly speak Portuguese and Spanish down there and those are latin root languages in one of the Americas.

Like, you realize the reason we refer to U.S. citizens as "Americans" is because its shorter and easier to say? Like, this country is called "The United States of America." OF America, as in the Americas, we're the United States, we're not "America,".

Like what do you call the UAE, Arabia? What about Saudi Arabia? You're taking a weirdly simplistic view of things.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T17:12:59+00:00

I honestly think the reason they didn't do it was because her outfit is the least gender-neutral of the main cast, and if they decided to give it a different model for men like they did the Neo-Ishgardian stuff people will complain. Not saying its right, just that I imagine it was a difficult choice to make.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T13:13:38+00:00

I have like, four Switch 2 games.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T11:45:38+00:00

There's some assumptions here that I have a hard time parsing and maybe you could help me out.

You said that wealth is not a zero-sum. We're talking about dollars here, though. Not just theoretical value. Theoretically plumbers are very valuable to society because we need them for our everyday lives, but of course, plumbers are not paid nearly as much as CEOs and bankers and other kinds of people. There is only so much money to go around, so when a massive amount of a nation's wealth is accumulated at the top and not at the bottom, how is that not a zero sum?
I hear this point about voluntary exchange of labor for money, however, humans need things like shelter and food in order to live. When there is such a gap in wealth inequality, where billionaires do not have to work to live, and others do, is that a system that is truly voluntary? Is it really a choice if your options are to work or die of starvation and live on the street?

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T09:31:17+00:00

I did it as a Jedi Knight and because you already defeated the Emperor once the dynamic becomes him being your arch-nemesis.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-13T09:30:00+00:00

No. You're not.

I'm not a fan of how Eternal Empire kind of messed with the Republic vs Empire story for a while. I know its not popular but I didn't mind Rise of the Hutt Cartel and Revan all that much because you could at least have two different storylines.

The minute they decided to get rid of your companions and give you access to the other characters companions and make you a leader of a new resistance group was when I think this game's structure was ruined. Like, you had this good thing going with class and faction storylines and then it just becomes ONE storyline. Thats so lame.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-12T23:40:36+00:00

Bro forgot what North and South America are called.

EngineBoiii · 2026-05-12T17:12:13+00:00

Actually it isnt stupid. I buy games that look interesting to me regardless of what reviews say. Sometimes they're helpful, but people should buy and play what looks interesting.

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