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While I get that yes it’s often a money grab, especially when it’s a remaster of a game that’s less than 10 years old (sometimes less than 5 years), there are times where it’s completely valid and justifiable.

Let’s just look at the very recent Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter release. Yeah we could probably just call this a remake, but in this case it’s such a faithful recreation of the original, it’s like playing that original all over again. But this fixes the accessibility issue this first trilogy has in that the only way to play it in English is either: PSP, Vita, or 2014 PC release. No modern console can play it, and it’s a very important story arc. Now us rabid Trails fans can pretty unanimously say where the best starting point of the series is.

Lol I feel like they added it simply because of all the people saying that of all Midgar enemies, there’s no way it’d fit in. Tbf, they truly jumped the shark with this one out of spite for what they could or should do in their game.

Not with that attitude

This is a strawman argument and has nothing to do with either the original saying, the translated saying, nor the post here. No one is trying to make anyone look ignorant, you just didn’t get the post and are willing to die on this hill apparently.

Sorta. It’s so loosely connected to the Dragon Slayer and contains almost no reference back to anyone before Trails actually started in 2004. Yes, I know, these are the origins, but saying “it’s not just any JRPG” makes it sound like the preceding series would be relevant to Trails too. I would say that the only games that you’ll ever see meaningful references to would be the Gagharv trilogy, but even then, not canon to Trails.

I think the more impressive thing is that Falcom has been making RPGs since before “JRPG” was a used term. Before Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy ever took the stage.

Either way, loving the remake, it’s truly one of the most faithful remakes of any games I’ve ever seen, regardless of genre. It’s insane that at a glance I recognize literally every area compared to the original.

Yeah the reason for the naming is that the original games were Trails in the Sky FC (First Chapter) and SC (Second Chapter) because it was supposed to be one game. And the scope of the story got so huge that it would never have been reasonable to release it as just a single game. FC was a 40-60 hour game while SC was 60-80 hours.

The 20 hour gap on each is really how much a player dug in because nearly every single NPC has their own story going on in the sidelines and some people (myself included) actually end up following them all at every story transition. They reoccur throughout this game and later games too, so the attention to detail to keep an these things happening is fairly incredible.

To further answer your original question though, FC really does need SC to get a satisfying end, but FC is a beloved entry anyhow from all the world building it provides.

The series is currently 12 games and will be 13 soon. That’s 4 major story arcs that all connect, get referenced, have some reappearing characters and talk of those past events, etc. In comparison to more well known JRPG series, it’s not like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because this is not an anthology series.

Has nothing to do with being “better” or not. “Veni, vidi, vici” is very commonly translated to “I came, I saw, I conquered”. While you’re correct that is not accurate in translation, it’s irrelevant to the colloquial saying and translation.

So again, it’s a very simple and likely easily understood meaning for which translation is meant.

I refuse to let people have joy the wrong way!! -them, probably

Another possible option if you’re on PC is using the mod that makes dodge/parry window bigger or smaller. I haven’t used it but I know people who have and it can really change your enjoyment of the game.

Eddie Izzard - Dress to Kill reference.

I remember it from a few years later in The Matrix, the guy yelling at Neo about his stolen phone.

Ood origin story.

Oh my god, are you okay? That’s one of those you never let go of.

There have been many games delisted over the years. That doesn’t mean they are deleted from your account. Prime example is Prey (2006): it had a lot of music in it they had to license from large publishers and when that license expired, they no longer could sell it. They then delisted it in 2009. You can still get the code for Steam on places like eBay, activate it, and download it. It’s very very rare that a game is both delisted and purged from CDNs. And in those cases it’s because of malware or other suspicious activity (like undisclosed crypto mining, etc IIRC).

Yep I completely agree that our Democratic party does incredibly little. They got all upset at Trump calling them Do Nothing Democrats during his first term, but it’s the fucking truth. Voting Democrat is only the “lesser evil” because the alternatives are either fascists or independents who have no power hold whatsoever at ANY level of government in the entire nation.

The part that is infuriating for me is that I’d rather at least have a more centrist party if not outright liberal party, because Democrats are still conservative; they’re just further left of Republicans. The only liberal parties are independents and you cannot get federal power without first having local/city power, and then state power, and finally federal. It’ll never work on any other way in the US and that’s been proven for over 200 years.

You can’t fight from the inside if you’re on the outside.

It’s easy to point blame at something or someone when you’re completely unaffected by the problem and have zero personal stake. What I’m trying to tell you is that everyone needs to prioritize their own privacy online and it wouldn’t matter if I was a resistance general or the just the random dude on the street. We all have something to lose.

The only thing I will say is that I do work for government myself. No, it’s not an elected position, and no I’m not someone high up in legislation or anything like that. But I have been a public employee for decades now and my own state has proven that they can and will work to have someone forcefully resigned based on unfavorable social media posts.

So again, no.

But also “because of people like you” is exactly the kind of shit we should be fighting against saying in the first place, my dude. Because that leads to generalizations that those in power do take advantage of.

And I’m sure your uncle works for Nintendo. What’s your fucking point?

Jfc, no. Any work I may be doing does not need to be proven to you, and disclosing any of it would only be putting myself at risk. Do you even understand what kind of shit the feds are trying to use for digital surveillance? Or that our TSA literally are checking phones of people coming into our borders for anti-Trump social media posts? Why would I ever fucking tell you or anyone anything I participate in? That’s just how out of touch you are if you think I should.

I mean, you’re right if giving any facts is just an excuse now. This isn’t a list of reasons why we shouldn’t do something, it’s a list of reasons why it hasn’t worked at all yet, because people are trying, but you’d like to assume we all sit on our fat asses and do nothing I’m sure.