? More cinematics, more game footage, more ridiculous character designs and absolutely no clue what the fuck is going on. I’m still excited.
? Conversely, I’m anti-excited about FFXIV, which Square Enix announced as yet another MMORPG. Goddammit, Final Fantasies are supposed to be about the stories, and you can’t tell a decent story when NUTSACKILLAH238 is busy trying to gte your party killed. As I mentioned yesterday on Twitter, if I wanted to play an MMORPG, I’d stop hating people.
? Bitter over XIV, I was ready to dismiss FFIV: The After Years as another soulless sequel/cash-grab, which it probably is. But it’s also done totally in SNES-style, which has utterly charmed my heart, despite the fact it’s going to be on WiiWare and episodic. Maybe we can just set up some kind of direct deposit system over at Square, where they immediately get our paychecks and they release the games we want, all at once? Does that seem fair?
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.
