Square Enix Hates Me
And, if you like videogames — excuse me, if you like good videogames — they hate you too. It’s the only reason I can conceive of that they would announce a sequel to the godawful mess than was Final Fantasy XIII. Yes, Final Fantasy XIII-2 is all about how Square Enix would prefer to spend their time making FF games that suck (like the incredibly flawed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV) instead of making a potentially good FFXV or even a remake of Final Fantasy VII which practically everybody in the world wants and would make a jillion dollars, a far surer financial bet than anything else Square could possibly do. Nope, instead we get FFXIII-2. Fucking. Fantastic.
About The Author
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.