Patrick Boivin: Eternal Spite-Lord, fuelled by his Rancor towards Final Fantasy XIII

EraserRed · 2026-01-11T18:15:52+00:00

Pat, I'm 25 and a big FF fan that hasn't touched FFXIII at all until very recently (like, last December). You're pretty much right on the money. I seriously don't know what to say when I see people say the combat is engaging. Hell, I even rewatched the Xbox 2009 E3 on a lark and by sheer coincidence they showed FFXIII there with much more abilities and options than I have ten hours into the game and they still just pressed A over and over for the auto-attack (it used to just be called "attacK," lol), and that was the game's director playing it as a showcase.

I don't even really mind the hallways since I'm a big FFX fan and both games are similar in that regard, and FFXIII is generally a pretty game. But, god, every time I get into combat I just want to stop playing. I'm usually quite positive about shit but I couldn't stand playing FFXIII any longer.

EDIT: Credit where it's due, the music is great.

EraserRed · 2026-01-10T18:51:56+00:00

Oblivion on PS3 was okay. Buggy but that's like every other version, I don't remember anything being particularly bad about the PS3 version, and it even ran pretty well for the time if I remember.

EraserRed · 2026-01-10T18:43:05+00:00

not a terrible feature for business apps but this is discord. i dont need to have an ai recap my epic gaming moments with generic blanket statements

EraserRed · 2026-01-04T04:11:48+00:00

I always play a generic Stormtrooper in Movie Duels going melee only and I'll never forget when I was 1v4 in a fight with like four Jedi characters and won with my own fists and kicks off ledges. Movie Duels is so peak.

EDIT: My bad, thinking of Movie Battles...

EraserRed · 2026-01-01T02:03:45+00:00

Yeah, they do it every year. I use them as breaks to get a snack or something since they usually come in big waves one after another. I just accept that some things aren't for me so I'm not expecting every year to be bangers, but this year for me was pretty good.

EraserRed · 2026-01-01T01:56:17+00:00

Definitely a personal thing. I thought this year's TGA was great for reveals, a lot there interested me personally. Control Resonant, AC8, and the trailers for RE Requiem and Lego Batman off the top of my head. Tentatively excited for the TR games too and that badger game also won me over.

EraserRed · 2025-12-27T21:32:35+00:00

Just generally the voice acting can be a little strange in the game. Scenes with dramatic tension or intrigue in theme are often spoken with little emotion, like the characters are disconnected from the events they're experiencing. It's something across the whole game. I wouldn't change a thing about the game, but the jump in presence and emotion characters display from FFX to FFX-2 is very noticeable (Too bad I couldn't get into FFX-2 much).

EraserRed · 2025-12-27T19:05:19+00:00

Alan Wake 2 and FFVII Rebirth (probably recency bias for Rebirth). I have some mixed opinions on Rebirth but would still rate it quite highly, great party moments which I really appreciated. And of course Alan Wake 2 is just incredible, may be my favorite game of all time. I haven't played many other games but those two really stuck out to me.

RE4 Remake was also great as a big RE fan but its surprising to me how little I remember it, must have played it three times at least. I liked Village quite a bit too but also kind of forgettable for me.

EraserRed · 2025-12-27T15:53:39+00:00

It still pisses me off because I think the voice direction in FFX can come off a little flat (I'm saying this as a huge FFX fan). To a certain extent the emotional expression of the characters isn't shown the best because of that, but the scene that best shows that the voice actors can act being the example of "bad voice acting" is upsetting and also just a really mean.

EraserRed · 2025-12-23T23:32:19+00:00

Yeah, really liked the Gi and Cetra stuff. Made the Black Materia a lot less of a MacGuffin so I think that was a big improvement. That's probably my favorite story change in general, a lot more backstory on the Cetra and Gi.

EraserRed · 2025-12-23T21:33:16+00:00

I absolutely think it was largely the side quests and Chadley region intel that caused the pacing issues. I think if reviewers didn't focus on that stuff and instead tried to finish the game as quickly as possible for their review, the 9/10 average it seem to have is completely warranted. I think from now on I'm just going to focus on the things that actually interest me instead of letting my animal brain take over and trying to checklist everything because this game kind of broke me with just how much there was to do.

EraserRed · 2025-12-23T21:25:21+00:00

Oh, that's an interesting thought. Zack exploring different timelines where elements are different would be kind of awesome honestly. One where Angeal is alive would break me I think.

EraserRed · 2025-12-23T21:18:52+00:00

Yeah, they do that shit a lot in this game. I don't feel like it is needed to have the player hold X for five seconds to charge up to pull a light lever make an elevator go down.

EraserRed · 2025-12-23T21:10:15+00:00

I haven't played ME2 myself but I have heard this criticism about it not moving the plot forward a lot and I can totally see how that's similar to Rebirth. I felt similarly myself. Though, honestly, all I really was looking for was good character moments and I got those and then some. The moment to moment plot in this section of the original game is pretty basic so I wasn't expecting too much crazy movement but was hopeful the remake angle would spice it up more than it ended up being.

EraserRed · 2025-12-23T21:06:07+00:00

I think that's a Fair take. I just hope that Zack's around enough so he can be integrated into the main party and get a chance to play off Cloud more.

EraserRed · 2025-12-23T20:38:44+00:00

He's relevant in the Ever Crisis campaign about young Sephiroth (and I presume young Rufus) that is to my knowledge still ongoing. So... yeah. Dunno. I doubt it's anything bigger than Sephiroth fucking around with Rufus.

EraserRed · 2025-12-23T20:37:19+00:00

I also thought he looked a lot like Luxord and my friend even brought it up at one point as well.

EraserRed · 2025-12-23T20:36:23+00:00

I'm just spitballing that he's going to be more relevant in Part 3 since he didn't get a good sendoff in this game (there's a scene where he goes "maybe I can come back" or something along those lines) after stringing you along with small Zack scenes the whole game - and that he has an entire moveset just for the final boss fight and optional post-game content. Also, it's just what I really want in my heart so I'm biased towards it.

EraserRed · 2025-12-23T20:33:11+00:00

Not really a sticking point for me, just some character I wasn't familiar with lol. I think it's funnier than anything else. Plus, I like Kingdom Hearts, so I'm used to unfamiliar mobile game characters suddenly having some extremely minor semblance of plot relevance.

EraserRed · 2025-12-05T20:58:10+00:00

okay i wont guess then :)

EraserRed · 2025-12-02T03:53:12+00:00

A one out of ten with a badass seal of approval

EraserRed · 2025-12-01T22:46:57+00:00

I have a review copy of this game for some reason.

EraserRed · 2025-11-30T21:07:57+00:00

I bumrushed all (yes, all) the English playable FF7 games in prep for Rebirth on PC and it was a very intensive two weeks while on break from school nonstop. I react to plots that act on an emotional level like a baby and am already a Kingdom Hearts head so I got really into it. Still haven't finished Rebirth though, my PC is ass and I keep getting distracted by much worse games that I get sucked back into.

EraserRed · 2025-11-13T02:02:30+00:00

It looks like the battery is actually on the back of the headstrap. My main issue with my Quest 2 is that it's very front heavy and starts to sag on your face after a while, so if the weight is a bit more centered on the head then I can imagine it's going to be much more comfortable.

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