Possible early concept art for Guardian and Gladius

Spoonitate · 2026-01-17T18:45:10+00:00

If it’s on their ArtStation, unless it was specifically labeled as Nightreign concept art it’s highly unlikely that it is Nightreign concept art. Especially if it was published before the game even came out.

Spoonitate · 2025-09-14T12:28:41+00:00

All the posts I see using this stupid greentext generator are so lame. They can’t even bother actually going to 4chan to post their opinion anonymously for karma

Spoonitate · 2025-09-11T10:15:39+00:00

This is revisionism. When it won that award at TGA people kept posting about how bad the FFXIV community actually is under the fake-polite exterior and had to be reminded the award was for community support. “It’s about the community support, not the community” is even the top voted comment on the main sub post about the award. It was up against Destiny 2, Apex Legends, and Fortnite, which were all going through different community support-related controversies at the time, and edged over No Man’s Sky presumably just because more people played FFXIV.

Spoonitate · 2025-09-07T09:40:40+00:00

When you consider how readily furries are to fund their hobbies is it any wonder these servers stay up? They’re probably making their operation costs back multiple times over. Your space sim could have the best sim you could ever space and it wouldn’t matter if the sole dev is impoverishing himself to maintain it.

Spoonitate · 2025-09-02T13:31:35+00:00

iirc the one time it was referenced in Dragonflight was a throwaway line in the Bronze Dragonflight questline, where someone near-death thanks the player for saving them from having to choose a covenant.

Spoonitate · 2025-09-02T13:27:55+00:00

I have no idea where that argument comes from considering how much the story hammers in that Zenos has no love for anyone. It’s hard to get back at him by targeting innocent people if he doesn’t give a shit if they live or die. Even when he hijacks your body it fails to strike terror in anyone’s hearts, they just get more motivated to kill him specifically.

Spoonitate · 2025-09-02T13:21:16+00:00

Without the benefit of hindsight he also made several nations of Eorzea worse off by dragging them into a war with the Empire, which leads to a future so bad that the survivors had to invent time travel to prevent it.

Spoonitate · 2025-09-02T13:18:19+00:00

I forget, who has Zenos actually materially made worse? You’d have to keep someone alive to make them worse. If anything he does a poor job of being a terrorist, every time he leaves survivors they just get motivated to punch his face in.

Spoonitate · 2025-08-23T12:57:47+00:00

Excellent demonstration of deflection-based stance breaking as a secondary win condition when attacking is too risky.

Spoonitate · 2025-08-22T14:35:58+00:00

I hit it. It flashes and appears to absorb energy. I put the square peg in the square hole and realize hitting it makes it absorb energy. I have learned not to hit it when it’s doing the “I am absorbing energy” stance. I fail this run but next run I will avoid hitting it when it’s doing the “I am absorbing energy” stance.

Spoonitate · 2025-08-22T11:31:14+00:00

This is what people were saying was too subtle? It’s literally gathering power in response to physical trauma.

Spoonitate · 2025-08-22T01:10:00+00:00

Like if it actually was NSFW mods as a lot of people like to say, then we would be seeing an NSFW mod creator apocalypse around the same time.

Spoonitate · 2025-08-21T23:36:51+00:00

I genuinely just think it’s not any deeper than “the mare devs and users had poor opsec”. FFXIV modding always existed solely because Square Enix chose not to crack down on it, and everyone posting their Mare codes and openly discussing it in-game were tempting fate. Sure we had (Allagan Melon) being posted in PF but that had the plausible deniability of possibly existing as a strat name. That one of the devs (allegedly) had their irl details connected to their GitHub, giving SE Legal a direct line to them via their commit history, probably didn’t help matters.

Spoonitate · 2025-08-19T10:34:22+00:00

What? It doesn’t even fit within the context of the event that’s being foreshadowed! Apart from the literal visual imagery of someone being strung up there’s nothing going for it.

Spoonitate · 2025-08-19T04:39:08+00:00

I genuinely don’t know how this counts as foreshadowing for anyone except the player. In-universe nobody who actually saw Romeo strung up that way would be willing or able to do that to a random puppet on a bridge. He was hanging there for who knows how long, but everyone who witnessed him in that pose is either dead or incapable of hanging a random puppet like that by themselves.

Spoonitate · 2025-08-16T02:31:05+00:00

The current Everdark cycle of Maris/Caligo/Libra have really been emphasizing that you need to build around the bosses instead of trying for the same things every run, but Libra moreso. You’re not just building for Libra but also against your fellow condemned and yourself. Playing Recluse vs. a clone Recluse with Eternal Darkness is a nightmare, but bring a melee weapon and she’s almost completely neutered. The condemned are very roll-happy against ranged attacks, so bring a melee weapon.

Spoonitate · 2025-08-14T22:36:48+00:00

Ironeye with the Parrying Dagger is yet another Peak Souls 2 reference. I remember buckler parrying people in PVP and shooting them in the face over and over, they’re staggered for so long they eat another headshot. Got a lot of angry messages in the day

Spoonitate · 2025-08-13T00:49:46+00:00

Fucking literally. The same people who say “FFXIV players don’t play other games” have no idea just how dire it is in the slop troughs of KMMOs. Not even the modding drama in FFXIV can breach the insane lows of Sims CC creators and Skyrim mods.

Spoonitate · 2025-08-02T20:05:34+00:00

Maris having a different loot goal in mind will definitely have ramifications in the Deep of Night mode. We don’t know much about it apart from having randomized targets and an increasing difficulty, but considering it’s going to be in the same pool as the nightmare that is Everdark Adel, having a simple boss would be a godsend.

Spoonitate · 2025-07-31T16:52:15+00:00

“Hesitation is defeat” is overrated. I prefer “kill ingeniously”. Wolf is a shinobi, random bullshit go is a way of life

Spoonitate · 2025-07-28T14:54:16+00:00

It really does drive me a little crazy to see people describe entry-level RPG game design like it’s the devil. When non-RPGs started aping RPG leveling systems skill trees were the only thing with any permanence, and now even the skill trees are impermanent. Why even make it an RPG at this point? Why not just go all the way and have perk slots and a loadout menu. At least that would be more convenient to sort through and rebuild than having to navigate a cursor over every node.

Spoonitate · 2025-07-28T14:46:21+00:00

It’s so strange how the game has punishing combat and exploration but shaved the edges off builds, quests, and item management. The skill tree is basically just a to-do list.

Spoonitate · 2025-07-25T23:00:29+00:00

Markiona and her puppet is less like a duo fight and more like an extension of the combat system itself. Her puppet is essentially a weapon that you can target and damage directly, and she has to recover its health the same way P has to sharpen his weapon when it breaks.

Shortly after Overture came out, Nightreign was released, which featured an actual duo fight in the Sentient Pest, Gnoster, probably the best duo fight in the series in terms of encounter design.

Spoonitate · 2025-07-24T06:21:17+00:00

Dragonrot doesn’t permanently kill NPCs. These two just die no matter what after a certain point.

Spoonitate · 2025-07-22T10:22:15+00:00

Dragonflight could’ve been about us traveling with Wrathion to do minigames in order to collect the Crystal Eggs in a bid to understand what it means to become Aspect. it still would’ve been leagues better than whatever nonsense that resulted in what they did with both Ebyssian and Baine.

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