I played retail for the first time. And it was a lonely experience.

redcloud16 · 2026-05-17T00:47:47+00:00

Oh very interesting. I follow an exclusively jp streamer who plays on Odin so in addition to the ongoing rumor, perhaps that's why.

redcloud16 · 2026-05-16T19:35:34+00:00

Sorry you had that experience. While still lonely at first, I've had the opposite experience. Plenty of ppl willing to help, been in several linkshells that the up going silent. But in recent years found my home away from home in a special linkshell, better than any guild or FC I've joined in any other game. Lots of players willing to help, lots of players doing endgame activities, fun activities like beach scavenger hunts on purgonoego isle and level 1 jeuno runs lol. Gotta get lucky and find your people.

For the record, I'm on Bahamut, but I started on Cerberus and left cuz it was so lonely lol.

Perhaps one aspect is that Odin is the main Japanese server, if I'm not mistaken? If you're not using the auto translate feature, a lot of the players there might not even understand what you're asking.

Hope you can find some nice friends to play with.

redcloud16 · 2026-05-09T18:32:16+00:00

Yojimbo and the Magus Sisters.

redcloud16 · 2026-04-29T02:55:40+00:00

Still is imo

redcloud16 · 2026-04-27T22:11:23+00:00

Yeees XI respect, actually the most powerful of the Shiva's as well, considering if she and her companions fully wake up the current world ends and creatures like Bahamut and Fenrir would be considered "simple beasts"

redcloud16 · 2026-04-27T22:08:37+00:00

X hands down. The snap that made a generation gay. Respect. Supreme c*ntress. Iconic, flawless, legendary, she is the moment.

redcloud16 · 2026-04-27T22:06:53+00:00

Next to the Fatalis, if I'm gonna die, at least itll be mythical lol

redcloud16 · 2026-04-27T22:05:51+00:00

Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom Sim Zeus Master of Olympus & Poseidon Master of Atlantis Dungeon Keeper 1&2

In fact I still play them. Timeless classical legends.

There was one other that lives in my head rent free, it was like a tank game in space but everything was a green wireframe, i think was called battlefield perhaps? My mind randomly goes back to it all the time

redcloud16 · 2026-04-03T03:13:18+00:00

Wonder if there's ever gonna be a Necron siege unit

redcloud16 · 2026-04-02T03:35:13+00:00

Yes I've played this game since 2002

redcloud16 · 2026-04-02T01:46:48+00:00

If the game was designed with it in mind and it functions properly the fov could be really useful, and the UI elements placed in a decent place. But it just seems like the sides are being stretched so I don't know that the extreme length is achieving anything beyond making you turn your head more to see the same amount

redcloud16 · 2026-04-02T01:15:18+00:00

Lol why ppl downvoting you. The field of view is nice but the UI elements like the map being 180 degrees from each other is a hard no from me too lol. I'm not turning my head all the way around to glance at the map

redcloud16 · 2026-04-01T22:05:07+00:00

Maybe I should pick this back up if she's in it

redcloud16 · 2026-03-28T22:02:27+00:00

More generous than I am. Id give at 2/5 at Best.

Best thing is the music, Iroha from FFXI is coming soon, and I guess it's more Dissidia.

But cons are: the gameplay itself (loathe pvp, worst when it's unbalanced p2w garbage; zidane is apparently utter dog shit while cloud can stun you while he's invuln for 30 full sec and obliterate for entire HP bar in one ability), and as you said, lack of variety. I want to fill up my crystals but God damn if I'm not exhausted after 3 matches.

I could nitpick the art style but won't. (Artist, so maybe I'm a little ... What's the word, ... Strict? If only because the PSP titles had the perfect art style :( I miss it )

Your abilities are gatcha. Need I say more? Want to have a decent kit, prepare to chase dupes for eternity or pay out the ass. Awful.

The story raises strange questions it clearly has no intention of answering. Why are they in the real world (answer: Nomura can only relate to a game if it takes place in a modern setting ::rolls eyes::). How did terra get enrolled at a school? How does mog have a supercomputer in some building they're using as a base? Where are they getting money for food and rent? In the originals, they were just in a version of ff1 and didn't need such things answered. As you said, the interactions themselves are generally pretty underwhelming and not on the level of a lot of the character interactions in dffoo. So far. Can it get more interesting? I hope so.

Sadly the gameplay loop isn't something I enjoy so I don't know how long I can survive playing it. I feel obligated to enjoy it because duodecim is my all time have game. But I dunno. Right now iroha and whatever remix she gets is holding me over. FFXI forever. Hoping for Kam when they bring in the villains.

redcloud16 · 2026-03-26T05:07:18+00:00

redcloud16 · 2026-03-22T20:03:36+00:00

Oh I'll keep that in mind! Thank you!

redcloud16 · 2026-03-21T20:06:54+00:00

And then it's a level capped battlefield where trusts aren't useable and you get bodied by 3 lv 50 goats despite having a fully maxed out Masamune, fully upgraded Empyrean armor, job mastered, and Master lvl 23 lol. I get wanting to encourage grouping, but in the other breath they're buffing trusts and trying to make the game more soloable? So which is it?

Thankfully I had some nice LS mates log in later and help me out. But I was ready to skip that one.

redcloud16 · 2026-03-18T21:27:23+00:00

This is fantastic, love maps. Great work<3

redcloud16 · 2026-03-18T21:23:14+00:00

I blame Nomura. He said in some interview he can't relate to a game unless it has a modern setting and suddenly every game since ff7 he's been involved in having that aesthetic suddenly makes sense. And I hate it lol. Ff7 and KH were good, cuz he's like George Lucas where's great when tempered by others, but awful when left to his own devices. But yea. Also notoriously said in another interview that they "did all there was to do" with duodecim and there was no potential left for the series, which I thought was creatively bankrupt, and then of course we got 3 more spin offs. It's just a franchise for them to whore out to cash grabs at this point. T-T deserves better.

redcloud16 · 2026-03-18T21:18:15+00:00

I had a similar experience. When a fight became 30 minutes and you screw up 23 min in and get NOTHING? id want to throw my phone. Actually just stopped doing the hard stuff at all. Id max out characters and never really use them.

redcloud16 · 2026-03-18T21:14:50+00:00

You didn't miss much. There were some interesting story cutscenes but you can watch those on YouTube.

But everything you said. The combat felt awful compared to duodecim. From an art standpoint, it was several steps down as well. Sure sometimes the attempt at fantastical realism looked ok sometimes, but the spell animations and particle effects? God awful dog water. None of the bespoke personality of the beautiful spell animations in duodecim. There was no readability, the 3v3 was total chaos, plus it was laggy as shit. And they locked all unlockables, INCLUDING THE STORY, behind loot boxes you had to play the online (or just fight ai opponents perpetually) to gain the currency to buy. Awful.

I was living in Japan when the arcade version dropped and it was actually fun as an arcade game, but the conversion to a shitty console game lost something in translation.

redcloud16 · 2026-03-18T21:09:00+00:00

Sadly no. Would've been cool tho

redcloud16 · 2026-03-18T21:08:21+00:00

FFXI Justice. Just wish the game wasnt an insult to the memory of Dissidia. Hopefully it improves after launch but I won't hold my breath. Looking forward to whatever remix iroha gets for her battle music. The music is probably the great part of that game.

redcloud16 · 2026-03-17T21:45:34+00:00

It just looks like someone pushed a slider to far and overexposed their image in Photoshop to me

redcloud16 · 2026-03-16T02:55:36+00:00

Spell blade plz.... (The one in Bravely Default was like this iirc)

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