Wellman

Had a few friends give it a go with little or no OP knowledge and enjoyed it. They might give the anime or manga a try so hey that's a win in my book. A few questions and some course correction they asked about but hey more OP is never a bad thing.

Figured that game was dead - dead. I guess for a vampire game I should have expected it to rise again.
 
Hope for the fans it doesn't suck or require the community to patch it to respectability 

It's Luffy, he is all about the cringe, but it comes from a place of honesty and pure dumbass which we all share to a degree.

Figured that game was dead - dead. I guess for a vampire game I should have expected it to rise again.
 
Hope for the fans it doesn't suck or require the community to patch it to respectability 

It's a miracle... they actually managed to pull this out of development hell?!?!
From this little bit that is shown, I guess it's not a complete overhaul.  I was concerned that it was either canceled or in the off-chance it was still around....was being completely redesigned, but there it is.
 
I still wish they had 3rd person perspective as an option though.
ah, Gametrailers just posted this
 

I actually just beat FFXVI about 30 minutes ago. 
 
+ Remixes of original tracks are godlike 
+ The game is absolutely stunning to look at. 
+ Summons have always been one of my favorite things about FF. So having a story HEAVILY, heavily based around them was a treat
+ The summon designs are very true to the characters but breathe a fresh new take on each of them. 
+ Top to bottom incredible voice acting. Everything more-or-less flowed naturally in terms of dialogue and convos. There’s some cringe here and there but it’s an RPG. So 🤷🏻
+ so many great characters. There’s next to no wrong choice in terms of favorite character. All the designs are great too. 
+ How many nods, tributes and Easter eggs there are to the FF’s that came before it
+ Story for the most part is amazing. 
 
- Combat is incredibly boring. Despite how many different styles of combat you have access to the combat portion of the gameplay loop is very one dimensional and boring. 
- Lack of enemy variety. I know this is just kind of a thing with JRPG’s as almost every enemy is a pallet swap of another but this was the first next Gen core FF entry. they should have came out swinging and they didn’t. 
- Lack of item variety 
- Lack of difficulty curve. This game is not hard. At all. 
- No real RPG elements. 
- Crafting is very boring and doesn’t really add anything to the game. Outside of the crafting materials needed to make the ultimate gear You’re always given the crafting materials needed as soon as the best equipment becomes available to you. 
- Hunts/Notorious Marks are back. Unfortunately there's nothing really fun or interesting about them. You don't really get any major rewards for them either outside a very few of them.  
- The characters all feel very lively and interactive but the environments absolutely do not. 
- A lot of the side quests that pertained to world building, relationship building, etc came too little and waaay too late. So it makes the story feel very rushed, and disjointed. 
- Active Time Lore. I hated it. I love exposition dumps. I don’t want to have to do shit like this to get the full story. 
 
= Eikons fights would be amazing if it wasn’t for all the god damn QTE’s. 

Like, as much as like there’s just as much I don’t like about it. If I thought about it, there’s probably even more I dislike. So for now I’m at a right down the middle 6/10. 
 

That poor Yoshi must be questioning his life decisions
 

Some people going in with no respect.
 
 
 

Looks like the same girl
 

Well... even the narrator in BG3 is quite nice on the eyes
 
Really, for a while I thought it was Claudia Black (one of the sexiest voices of all time, btw; also just generally hot as well... Claudia was "Sam" in Gears of War games, and Dahlia in The Originals along with several other tv/movie roles)...in the game she sounds  like a younger version of her.

The first episode is probably the most straight forward in terms of adaptation.  The arcs are still fairly faithful afterward with either missing characters, characters who were not there originally, or there a slight scenic change for where conflicts take place.  Luffy's actor is the cringiest but the thing is...it comes with the territory of playing a character like him.  I think the standouts were Zoro, Sanji, and Mihawk. 

Managed to get the first episode in last night of the live action adaptation. It was good. As mentioned I had lowered expectations going in but I think it was good. 
 
Some of the actors they got were not great in capturing the cool of their source material, mostly looking at Shanks with the hair/wig, but they had a good pacing for the events and the actor playing Luffy is really good.

New shots of the Scott Pilgrim anime taken from an article.
 




 
 

We have to wait another year for this? Sigh. 

I will try to watch the live action adaptation tonight. I am going in like I did the Super Mario Bros animated movie with lowered expectations so I think it will be ok. 
 
 

You have to appreciate the animators long hours of research to ensure the accuracy of that dance sequence. 👀

Sym Bionic Titan was too good for this world.  Those "out of pocket" threads for animation that have been showing up in my feed on twitter have been pretty great.

https://tcbscans.com/chapters/7477/one-piece-chapter-1091

RIP
 

Arleen Sorkin, the inspiration and original voice of Harley Quinn, passed away. She was 67.