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Are you playing the tales games on PC? I've been wanting to go back and play some of the earlier games. I've only played a gamecube one, Symphonia, I think? Also an Xbox One, but forgot what it was called? Also Zesteria, but I lost interest about half way.

I enjoyed your Castlevania podcasts by the way. Sorry your having a hard time with meds. I like your articles and think you should be featured on other gaming sites as well. I'm still finishing up FF15 and playing more of Dragon Age INQ. Might try to go back and finish Xenoblade on WiiU as well. 

Also, I like your metal music picks as well. Throw them at me. Have you heard of "Inter Arma"? Been listening to their latest record. Stumbled upon it and remembered you liked that kind of music. 

When you do get to it, I suggest pushing through the main story sooner than later because it will unlock new areas and sidequests to make things more interesting. I hung out in the beginning area for too long and got bored. I love all the maps. They are all very unique and atmospheric. Very grindy though. Im probably only half way through the game with 60 hours in.

I mean the game is fine the way it is. It's main strength is the open world and progress-at-your-own pace design. I honestly wish they had filled the open world with more stuff to do, like Metal Gear 5, instead of diverting focus on the final story parts which didn't really enhance anything in my opinion, but the ability to jump back at any time was a good idea, so I cant complain about it either.

I like the FNC concept-- main protagonist putting their own life in danger to help their friends. It was consistent with the FNC games, 13&sequels, TypeZero, and 15. I liked how they remixed the same Etro story, but in different worlds, like everything rhymes. I personally like dark themes and horror, and 13 was supposed to be a mature turn-around. The same thing happend with 12, the main protagonists were supposed to be Bash and Fran, but SE felt that FF should be light hearted and fun, so they shoe-horned in two peppy kids, Vaan and Penelo to appeal to younger gamers. I love 12 and 15, and Type 0 is quite dark, but I would love to have seen the original Versus13 realized in some fashion. I know they leaked a script for versus, but yeah, I think FNC is dead mostly due to the bad reception of 13, although I love that series personally.

While a lot of people hated the third act--stealth--it made the relationships that much stronger and made you miss the characters. 

I've read up alot on FF15 post launch and while some of it is rumor, basically a lot was decidedly cut from the game early last year, complete areas and story content were cut to make a deadline. SE was expecting mediocre reception to game and put a final nail in the Fabula Nova Crystal project and just move on, but they were surprised by the positve response from fans and so now they are supporting the game more. Initially, they mentioned that there were unprecedented amount of patches planned for the game post launch, which included story content that felt lacking. There was an interesting rumor that claimed that after FF7, KH3 they would start working on a sequel to 15, like 13-2 or lightning returns since they have a lot of left over assets and figured out the combat. Who knows? The major patch content was announced though, but I doubt that it's on the level of massive expansions like other games like Witcher 3 or Souls games. They are concernced about the quality of their product and want to make things right with fans, unlike WB or whoever made that last Batman game that was broken on PC, but they decided to move on w DLC instead of fixing it.

Yeah, but they are very vague about what that expansion will entail. I feel like there are so many options available with sequels, like a 15-2 is definitely possible since they have all the assets left over from what they cut out. I don't know what the multiplayer is either? I keep seeing stuff about a Carnival event? What's going on with this game?

I really want to play through Walking Dead TellTale games, but I just hate the prompt system so much! I only really liked Wolf Among Us, but it was an interesting world and characters. I really like what Life Is Strange did with narrative genre and hope to see more from them in the future.

Also, that Disney emoji game, can you use those emojis in actual texts outside of the game App? They look adorable.

I agree. There is definitly a gap where a sequel could exist within 15 if you know what I mean, IRIS. FF sequels have always had female protagonists, X-2, 13-2, so it would be only fitting here. 

I went in blind and dicked around the open world for 50+ hours without thinking about the story at all and I think I enjoyed it a lot more for that reason. This game is an inverse of Final Fantasy 13, if you know what I mean. FF13 was all hallways, then 20+ hours of open world, 15 is the opposite of that, so have as much fun in the sandbox as possible to get the most out of it. I only moved on when I felt I saw everything except for high level hunts and tough dungeons. The last 3rd is mostly plot, but mostly a skeleton or outline of story that was very obviously rushed. 

My advice, don't try to brute force your way through the game. Get to see and do as much of the open world as you can before progressing, because basically that is the main game.