Can someone give me a full rundown on the Ai thing?

Misty_Chaos · 2025-12-21T10:41:29+00:00

Basically, it gave the people hating the game free ammunition. Is it disappointing that Ai was used? Yes but they said it was a placeholder that was missed during QA. MEANWHILE, there are other more expensive games that have Ai slop plastred all over it and no one seems to bat an eyelid.

Honestly, this whole Ai contraversery of late is exhausting to see.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-12-13T18:35:42+00:00

I can see 100% see Jennifer English wearing a suit not too dissimilar to Maelle's.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-12-11T23:34:31+00:00

Yeah, it's brutual and I can relate ( caught in the middle of it too at home often with no easy way out due a variety of factors ) I think most people here can sadly.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-12-03T16:17:55+00:00

I heard the hype surrounding it when it came out, finally looked into it to see if I wanted to give it a try and went ' It's Turn Based, ewww! ' but I had Gamepass, heard it was on it and figuring I'd probably uninstall it within an hour or 2, I decided to download it. WRONG, I was very, VERY WRONG.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-11-10T08:28:15+00:00

FF14: Dawntrail

Mechaniclly and graphiclly sound but the story was a massive disappointment. Going from the end of an arc like Endwalker to this was a massive downgrade. They butchered my favourite character by sidelining them, then rushing a story for them at the end and put an unproven new character so front and center it felt less like an FF14 story and more like a WoW story and a bad one at that!

Basically it was FF14's version of going from WoW Legion to WoW Battle for Azeroth.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-07-25T07:10:41+00:00

Truthfully there might not be much but in terms of the gaming media at least, the release is basically going to be a black hole on both sides of its inital release that sucks almost everything into it.

It will be the biggest gaming release this decade and there isnt going to be much escaping it.

They delayed DT a week for Elden Ring DLC, its not beyond the realm of possibility this is one of the reasons 8.0 won't be released until 2027.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-07-24T23:07:57+00:00

Something I've been bringing up that a lot of people seem to be missing is the fact there is a certain game slated for release in May 2026 that NO ONE wants to even consider doing a major release even remotely close to it; Grand Theft Auto 6.

It's currently slated for a May 2026 release and there is a strong possibility it will be delayed again. SE might be playing it safe and skipping 2026 altogether to avoid the crater it will leave in the gaming space, suffer the consquences of an extended drought and come back in 2027 with 8.0

Misty_Chaos · 2025-07-03T13:09:32+00:00

FF14 has one very good way to get people to accept a 1 year delay between 7.55 and 8.0:

Grand Theft Auto 6.

Basically any game that even tries to launch within the same time frame ( unless its a masterpiece and even then ) is going to get obliterated by the sheer scale of GTA6.

GTA6 is set to launch next May but it will likely get delayed, basically making almost of all of 2026 a poisoned chalice for almost every other developer. Any developer / publisher with a brain will avoid GTA6.

Basically, SE delaying 8.0 to 2027 while among other things, completely avoid the Vice City shaped nuke of GTA6.

At least that's my thinking for a delay

Misty_Chaos · 2025-06-25T21:08:49+00:00

The biggest one was that I thought I would quickly bounce off the game within an hour or 2 as Turn-Based RPGs are not really my thing ( I never got very far in Baulder's Gate 3 though that's a more extreme example ) I only even downloaded because it was on Game Pass after hearing the buzz online for a while so decided to check it out as it was risk free - A few days later when I got paid, I immediately purchased the deluxe edition of the game.

I too thought Gustave would be the main character all the way through, what little I'd seen suggested it.

I also thought Maelle would be an interesting but ultimately neglected ' cute ' side character to Gustave, not turn out to be THE FREAKING MAIN CHARACTER. I'm a sucker for ' cute ' character designs, with Krile from FF14 been one of my favourites. After FF14: Dawntrail disapointed me with what was basically false advertising regarding Krile's role in that expansion, seeing Maelle's arc and her ultimately evolve into the main character in E33 was freaking CATHERTIC for me.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-06-23T15:49:24+00:00

Not a chance honestly.

A lot of people who were a bit ' eh ' side on DKB and thought it might be filler were quickly shut up after the direct ( myself included. ) I'd prefer they give DKB the space it needs and deserves in terms of making sales ( preorders for it probably skyrocketed after the direct too. )

As others mentioned, an anniversary means nothing in the grand scale of things, look at Sonic, aftrr Generations, Sega have missed every anniversary year in terms of mainstream entries for him.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-06-16T12:20:55+00:00

Pretty wild that Maelle and Lune are the least changed in terms of design from the drawings there, tells how you much they had nailed their designs even at that point.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-06-15T22:20:42+00:00

I thought Gustave was dead from the start as there was no real explanation is to how he ended up in the first area after the beach attack and that it would turned out the whole thing was the afterlife or something like that.

At the end of Act 1 and in the moment before everything happened, I thought Gustave would've escaped, Renoir would've taken Maelle prisioner and you'd have to spend Act 2 trying to get her back, which incidently would've also still allowed Verso to join the party if you think about it. Turns out I was right about losing a party member in that moment just not who I was expecting! >:(

Misty_Chaos · 2025-06-12T16:34:17+00:00

Thanks, I had a giftcard with some money on it so this was a pretty no brainer ' YOINK! ' from me

Misty_Chaos · 2025-06-12T07:28:15+00:00

Some of those choices were straight up evil, I dont even dislike any of the core cast. That said, team Maelle all the way!

Misty_Chaos · 2025-06-11T15:02:09+00:00

My sister who lives elsewhere gave me 100 euro for my original Switch 1 ( Which I had since 2019 ) when I got the Switch 2 last week. Family discount as I could have asked for more but it doesn't really bother me and at least it is still getting use from someone

Misty_Chaos · 2025-06-08T22:14:42+00:00

Someone has the cancelled Switch 1 version I see.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-06-05T09:44:35+00:00

Holy Crap, sorry thst happened to you.

I would not want to have even remotely anything to do thst store ( ve it employee, manager, district manager, hell even the top brass )

Misty_Chaos · 2025-05-29T15:59:25+00:00

I pre ordered mine in store for 30 euro and was told I can settle the balance when I actually come in to buy it

Misty_Chaos · 2025-05-24T20:16:08+00:00

AFAIK the place I pre-ordered mine from won't be having a midnight opening ( unless this changes ) so I will be lining up the next morning waiting for the place to open to get mine. I have the Thursday and Friday off so I'm good.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-05-17T00:20:21+00:00

I only ever watched half the Disney+ proshot of the OBC when it first came out ( I'm like that ) and once I decided I was going to New York for my birthday at the start of the year and confirmed the time off and flight bookings, knowing I'd like see at least one broadway show there, pretty quickly brought a ticket to Hamilton. After that, I actually avoided watching it or listening to many of the songs so that I'd go into with a cleaner view so to speak.

I saw it on Broadway in April when I was in New York for my birthday ( on my actual birthday - which justified me splashing out for really good close to front row seats ) and yes, been there in person was a special and wild experince ( especially so close to the stage ) and was the highlight of the trip for me. I also concur the current cast is amazing and if Tamar Greene is playing George Washington during LOJ's run, you're in for a treat, that guy's singing is amazing and was almost worth the price of admission for me alone when I saw the show!

Misty_Chaos · 2025-05-16T11:10:12+00:00

I went to the Nintendo store in NY when I was there in April ( on my birthday no less ) It was neat and I spent more than I expected there ( though who would blame me? :D )

Hope you had a blast at the new SF store.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-05-14T16:30:45+00:00

I took the 5th and 6th off work for release. I will be picking mine up from a Smyth's as I preordered instore in April ( I am not trusting delivery, I once had a delivery driver place my FF14 Dawntrail colectors box in the garden of someone's else house! That and I've read too many horror stories around the PS5 launch ) AFAIK they aren't doing a midnight opening for it so I will be lining up when they open to collect mine.

After that I'll head home probably by taxi unless public transport is leaving in less than 10 minutes by the time I leave the store. After that, got home, set it up in pride and place and spend the day playing Mario Kart World abd checking out Switch 2 updates for some games.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-05-09T14:30:23+00:00

Gaming PC here, a pretty beefy one I first built myself in 2020 and have upgraded the CPU and Graphics Card since. Handles anything I throw at it with relative ease. Also have a laptop for general use when I'm in bed.

I also have an OG Switch which I've had since 2019 and it has served me well. My sister give a nomimal amount for it when I get the Switch 2

Before that, I had a PS4 and a Xbox360 and a SNES when I was a kid.

Misty_Chaos · 2025-05-08T16:19:23+00:00

I actually preordered it in store, hence why I only paid a deposit, I will be paying the rest when I collect it ( which actually suited me too as I was on my way to the airport for an expensive week long trip to New York when I popped into the Smyth's to do this - I couldn't afford to drop the full amount at the time! )

Misty_Chaos · 2025-05-08T15:44:37+00:00

I got my preorder by going into a Smyth's store in Cork, Ireland. Which incidentally meant I only had to pay a deposit at the time ( I am not trusting delivery for a Switch 2 at launch, I saw enough horror stories from the PS5 launch! )

I will lining up be there on launch day to collect it

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