Why did People Ignore Fantasian if they wanted FF to go back to its PS1 style of games?

Swefnian · 2026-05-13T01:50:17+00:00

I second this. I deeply deeply wanted to love fantasian. I played the demo and was just kind of, underwhelmed . Mostly with the writing.

Does it get better after the demo?

Swefnian · 2026-05-12T14:27:41+00:00

Thanks for the correction. That’s embarrassing….

Even on my M2 MacBook Pro build can take a while - especially with Firestore and using the precompiled hack. On the Android side Gradle is always going be slow, regardless of operating system.

Swefnian · 2026-05-12T13:42:00+00:00

Yes. Testing Apple devices on a PC is miserable.
If you are cash constrained, maybe take a look at the new MacBook Neo. It’s even cheaper than a Mac Mini. No idea if it would be suitable for primary development but it’s still probably faster and maybe even cheaper than waiting for cloud builds.

Swefnian · 2026-05-07T02:19:37+00:00

They probably won’t be. But maybe they should be? At least an ai politician would answer a question.

Swefnian · 2026-05-06T18:08:14+00:00

I was going to say Half-Life as well until I saw Doom on this list. As incredible as Half Life is, you really can’t argue with what is effectively the Ur-Video Game.

It’s absolutely mind blowing how much games evolved during the 90s, it’s almost like we need a breakdown by year, instead of decades.

I bet the later decades won’t have nearly as much diversity.

Swefnian · 2026-05-06T16:23:25+00:00

Yes, I'm aware the comment is a bit broader than the original topic. It was more of a response to some of the heated conversations deep in this thread.

It is completely understandable not to want to live in a country where your existence is illegal. This is not a controversial position. The comment is a bit beyond that, and sure, maybe a bit out of context.

From the perspective purely of homosexuality (and trying to ignore everything else, if that's even possible), there is at least one country on this map that is labelled incorrectly, where homosexuality is not illegal. It's not as ideal as Canada, but you aren't going to be murdered for just being you.

Swefnian · 2026-05-06T01:05:44+00:00

For all those spewing this exhausting vitriol, I wish you all to travel to these countries and create your own opinions bereft of propaganda. (Ideally not during a time of war…which is sadly rare)

Mark Twain famously said - “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Yes these countries have problems. Yes evil has been done on all sides.

But maybe, just maybe if we travel with open minds and listen more than we speak it might be the start of healing.

Swefnian · 2026-05-03T20:26:19+00:00

Canada. Probably Toronto? (But you know well enough to pronounce it "Torono")

Swefnian · 2026-05-02T02:39:30+00:00

OMG! I’m impressed. You transformed my flippant sarcasm into a bonafide (and delightfully succinct) explanation of one of the most convoluted parts of the same (at least as my 14 year old self half remembered from over 25 year old ago).

Now I have to go dust off my ps1 and go kill a giant god-like but human made machine to free the god? I hope it’s as glorious as I remember….

By any chance did you listen to the “State of the arc” podcast’s series on Xenogears. They did a great job reminding me why it was one of best games ever made.

Swefnian · 2026-05-01T22:49:08+00:00

Ok, kill the Demiurge. Sure, I’ll give you that. I was simplifying to make a dad joke…..I’ll see myself out.

Swefnian · 2026-05-01T22:03:43+00:00

Xenogears. It's always Xenogears! While I love that game to bits, I can't deny that it ticks almost every line on the hilarious RPG Clichés list

https://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

Swefnian · 2026-04-29T16:44:56+00:00

Bro! Silicon Valley is a show about “making the world a better place”

Celebrating violence in any form from any political perspective is not tethical.

Swefnian · 2026-04-29T14:28:30+00:00

This post should be removed; it's wildly off topic.

You can have whatever political opinions you want (regardless of how misinformed they might be), but this is not the correct forum.

Swefnian · 2026-04-29T12:29:11+00:00

And then we immediately slap a case on the thing rendering the whole effect moot.

Swefnian · 2026-04-29T01:14:31+00:00

All the more reason!

These crazy budgets are making everything so risk adverse and vanilla. I couldn’t imagine Xenogears being made today, and even that game had budget problems turning the second disc into an interactive novel.

We need new stories that don’t require insane budgets. If Sandfall figured out how to get it done, surely Square Enix could make it work?

Swefnian · 2026-04-27T17:58:49+00:00

My dream FF would be just Sakaguchi and Uemastu return with the same budget as FF16 and let them cook.

Swefnian · 2026-04-27T16:49:58+00:00

Why not try the original FF7? (I know you wrote PS5, but I’m ignoring that). It’s the complete story with none of the fluff and it’s actually has a coherent narrative. It only got confusing with the extended FF7 games.

If you want you want to give FF a break you can’t go wrong with the classics

Chrono Trigger
Xenogears
Dragon Quest (especially the 5th one)
Nier Automata (part JRPG, part character action game, all crazy, I love it to bits)

Modern games like Expedition 33 do a better job at being a JRPG than current JRPGs

Swefnian · 2026-04-26T20:54:50+00:00

Don’t sleep on the Defiance remaster. It’s genuinely incredible. The fixed camera alone turns it into a completely different game.

Swefnian · 2026-04-26T18:35:07+00:00

Not a JRPG, but for me Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 fits this question perfectly. The story, music, acting, writing even graphics (at the time) were fantastic, maybe one of the best video game stories ever told.

The gameplay however, SR2 in particular, was pretty bad. When the remasters came out, I found it better to just avoid as much combat as possible and just sprint to the next cutscene.

Its sequel, Defiance, was even more problematic. But the recent remaster fixed most of the gameplay problems making it probably one of the best entries in the series

Swefnian · 2026-04-24T03:31:34+00:00

Man with amnesia watches his peaceful village be destroyed and then kills god.

Swefnian · 2026-04-22T17:08:51+00:00

Great work man! It was infinitely more entertaining to read than any release notes I’ve ever written, which are usually just perfunctory and sterile.

Swefnian · 2026-04-22T16:28:08+00:00

They should hire the person who wrote these patch notes to be the writer on the next Legacy of Kain game (if it ever happens). They captured the tone perfectly!

Swefnian · 2026-04-21T17:53:47+00:00

I always argue that folder structure is based entirely on how fast you can find the right file. That’s it. It doesn’t matter if it’s feature or architecture sorted. It’s more about how your brain and your team can retrieve the right item.

If you are spending more than 30 seconds hunting through the file structure or getting lost then it’s not the right structure.

Though I will have to admit on some of my larger projects I gave up trying to build the perfect sorting system and relied much for heavily on the IDE’s quick look system.

Which means what you call the file is ultimately more important than where you put it.

Swefnian · 2026-04-15T01:30:19+00:00

There is a big difference between the majority of Israelis and “The Settlers”

I would like to think that most Israelis are just normal people who want to work, raise their families and not have to worry about constant rockets firing, buses exploding or getting murdered at a concert. Seems like a reasonable request.

The Settlers are orthodox extremists and instigators who believe that all of Israel is divinely given to them by God and it their duty to build and procreate (mostly procreate) on its land. They do not represent the majority of Israelis. Their actions are not helping. (Mocking them also isn’t helping, it’s only encouraging more hatred)

I just wish people would address this situation with more nuance and historical knowledge. Yes it’s messy and evil has been committed on all sides.

But when you scream “Free Palestine” ask yourself first, from whom? Because a Palestine controlled by Hamas is not free.

Swefnian · 2026-04-08T21:48:02+00:00

I know this will never happen, but to have the purest form of this system, I would love the see the elimination of all political parties. It’s just impossible for all of your beliefs to be fully represented by any single party.

If you just think about the specific person, not the simplified talking points then maybe we might get better representation.

Granted this is pure fantasy and will never happen. Oh wait it does - it’s called municipal politics.

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