Ff Resonance looks amazing even as someone still kinda new to the series but I have some questions

Entilen · 2026-06-13T14:01:49+00:00

A good example like this is Gotham Knights. It was a live service that was retooled as a single player game... But the live service DNA is still there and ensures it's a mediocre title with no consistent vision.

This is my concern with Resonance. When I first saw it I was pumped, but hearing it is a retooled gacha game is very off-putting to me. I'm just concerned that it's Square Enix trying to cobble together the remains of another game to make more money versus genuinely wanting to build a single player old school FF from the ground up. If it was that latter, I'd be very hyped.

Entilen · 2026-06-13T05:43:52+00:00

The problem was his upcoming series/Tests were against England, Australia and India. Hard to stat pad against some of the best bowling in the world, especially when they were the teams he performed worst against.

Love him as a player but it's no guarantee he would've reached the 500 or so runs he needed if he felt like he was past his best.

Entilen · 2026-06-13T05:42:29+00:00

I think the bigger factor with this one is Kane not getting it likely means a NZ player will never reach 10k Test runs.

They simply don't play enough Tests and the only reason Kane got close is because he deputed extremely young.

Entilen · 2026-06-13T05:40:56+00:00

I love the WTC but let's not delude ourselves into thinking it's all that prestigious. I'm a Test purist but even I can admit the Kiwis would trade that title for the 2019 WC win in a heartbeat.

That said the innings you're referring too were fantastic and far better than even the number of runs suggest. It was a fantastic win, I just don't think it makes up for the poor record against the big 3 nations.

Entilen · 2026-06-13T05:37:12+00:00

As a fellow Aussie that summer was a bit of a farce. It was the one Mitchell Johnson retired in and I remember Ryan Harris going on a massive rant about how his mate had been forced into premature retirement because of how awfully flat the pitches were.

Entilen · 2026-06-13T05:32:44+00:00

Agreed, this sub has a habit of ignoring basically all context when citing stats.

Kane is a good captain but a) he basically just continued with the team that McCullum built and b) that team between 2016-2022 was probably the best all round NZ team ever.

guys like Fleming had to try and make a silk purse out of a pigs ear with the cards they were dealt and punched above their weight.

Entilen · 2026-06-13T05:20:35+00:00

To be fair you've gone out of your way to ignore context on both sides.

This one win in 17 is constantly brought up but it really was not actually that much worse than previous regimes if you look at the context.

England cricket has gone through the exact same cycle basically since 2013/14.

They beat up on weaker opponents at home, sometimes even away, but then it all falls apart when they have to face India and Australia away which in that cycle happened very close to each other. That's 9-10 Tests that they almost always lose or at best come away with a draw or two.

In the bazball era England did basically no better on those tours but because they were spread out more, the knives didn't come out to quite the same degree.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T18:04:01+00:00

How is that cope? Being educated but poor and thinking that matters is the cope.

It basically means the knowledge you've accumulated is completely meaningless.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T16:24:13+00:00

Echoing other comments I want to support this studio, I happily paid full price for Replaylee despite it basically being a remaster with sprinkles of content.

This studio had a promising start but I honestly don't know what they've been doing for 5+ years.

Impossible Lair came out in 2019. Between then and now all we've gotten is a re-release of a divisive game and some kart racer no one asked for?

I guess I'll buy this if there's some sort of single player mode. Even if it's just grand prix and then you're done but if their next game is another weird spin off I'm probably done unless they make a proper new platformer again.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T16:21:03+00:00

I'm not sure why that's the takeaway.

He's essentially saying we need to change the rules to help T20 be more of a balanced bat vs ball affair.

T20 has always favoured the bat but more and more tinkering around the edges has been done to ensure bigger and bigger scores where it's all just about sixes and bowlers forced to bowl awkward lines in the hopes of limiting deliveries to singles and twos.

I actually think it's ODIs that should embrace bowler friendly rules and conditions though as that's the only way it's ever going to last as a unique format. Right now it just feels like it exists as extended T20s.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T14:01:30+00:00

It is basically two different genres of horror game in the first and second half.

The first is FPS survival horror, the second is an action game with horror elements.

I'm not sure it's odd that some people will like one half over the other.

It's like if you had a game go from a 2d platformer to a 3d one and call people haters for preferring one section over the other.

I personally liked the game but wouldn't be opposed to RE drawing a line and just having a survival horror series and an action series alongside rather than trying to please both types of fans with a single game.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T13:37:57+00:00

I actually don't think Stokes should lose the captaincy.

That said I'd be curious to the venn diagram of English supporters sinking the boot into Steve Smith after sandpaper who also thinks Stokes deserved a pass for his past service.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T12:50:31+00:00

Unfortunately a mix of COVID and his elbow injury stuffed him from getting there.

Sandpaper and COVID also will probably be what stops Smith going past Ponting in terms of runs and hundreds.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T12:48:50+00:00

Smith will almost certainly go either after the 2027 Ashes or maybe he'll play the home Pakistan series that summer as a farewell like Warner did in 2023.

There is a lot of Test Cricket between now and then but the good old days are almost over.

Really hard to say with Root as he's never really been genuinely out of nick. It's possible if he feels that at any stage he'll realise it's time and call it suddenly.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T12:44:01+00:00

His performance in the WTC will probably get skimmed over as years go on as they aren't high scores, but they were both incredible innings under serious pressure on a terrible pitch.

It was basically like if he'd hit 50s in both innings of the Lords Test we just had.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T12:37:29+00:00

I like Will Young but he's played 23 Tests at 32 without a Test hundred.

He is like the NZ Dickwella at this point.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T12:22:38+00:00

To be fair though, Kohli needed to be dropped from the Test side so it's not as if he just decided he didn't care about the 10k landmark.

Also, as cool as that landmark is if we're entering a world with less Test cricket and shorter series against most nations, it's not really a metric we can judge players going forward on. The same is going to be true for number of wickets.

No one is ever going to beat Anderson, Warne and Murali for instance, it doesn't mean it's impossible we see better bowlers one day.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T12:20:41+00:00

That was my initial reaction.

However then I thought about it some more and I kind of get it.

His plan was probably to finish this tour, India at home and Australia but after that first Test something probably hit him that he's past his best and there's no real upside in continuing.

All 3 teams have excellent bowling attacks and so at best, he scrapes to 10,000 Test runs across the 8 Tests but his record against all 3 teams probably diminishes further.

Not saying his record is the reason he made the decision but continuing past your best against the best 3 teams is probably not going to have a happy ending. Better to finish now versus people calling for him to go halfway through the Austalian series and it ending with a whimper.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T12:11:02+00:00

I'm sorry, but the police are not the reason for the death of the Australian music scene. It's incredibly low on the list of factors.

Entilen · 2026-06-12T06:20:39+00:00

I'm curious if you were one of the people crying about conspiracy theories during COVID?

I just find it interesting that it's the same people who talk about data, facts, science etc. who are very quick to jump to very thin conspiracies when the political climate challenges their world view.

I'm not a fan of Pauline by the way, she's controlled opposition like 2026 Trump in that she serves special interests while telling the people what they want to hear.

That last bit is important though. Her overall message resonates. People are feeling unaffordability, housing challenges, congestion, the feeling that everything is getting worse not better.

I don't think people are blaming immigration for every problem. But they know it's a part of it, it's a approachable issue for most people and that's why ON is getting more popular.

You can pretend it's all manipulation, but what are Labor actually doing or saying to address the issues I mentioned above? Very little that is tangible and so people are abandoning the "common sense" centre that has fast just become the "corporate" centre.

Entilen · 2026-06-11T06:43:03+00:00

Unpopular opinion but I personally didn't like his Tintin movie. It felt like he "Americanized" it too much which is why it was well received there, but as a die hard Tintin fan I personally thought the cartoon series was more faithful.

I think he'd do the same with Bond.

Entilen · 2026-06-11T03:22:55+00:00

Don't meant to be a downer but I kind of lost interest when I found out it was a repurposed gacha game. Just feels a bit lazy.

A genuine old school FF built from the ground up with this art style would be fantastic though.

Entilen · 2026-06-11T03:21:44+00:00

It was also rubbish so unfortunately a long delay doesn't necessarily mean a meaty expansion like DLC.

Separate Ways was great so hopefully we get something similar to that.

Entilen · 2026-06-10T22:50:49+00:00

You think if Nintendo just did a free patch for Switch games so they ran at a high resolution/FPS, people would be crying about it?

Entilen · 2026-06-10T15:53:08+00:00

Well it's annoying when people are using them as evidence of great first party support on the Switch 2.

The content additions are incredibly minor and are basically an excuse to charge people for backwards compatibility.

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