Nerd Alert: Sept 26, 2017

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Kim Horcher and Ray Carsillo talk top 5 show picks for Fall 2017, Rick & Morty’s “Bethcentric” episode, Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds being copied, Microsoft’s Transantlantic internet cable, why Trump will never be banned from Twitter, Chernobyl radioactive puppies, and Final Fantasy’s strange marketing.

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  1. Im biased AF (given my avatar) but I totally disagree on “no good final fantasy mobile games” because Final Fantasy Record Keeper exists. Why the hell Squeenix hasn’t done much to promote this game is beyond me but it’s such a fun mobile game I’ll plug it here:

    – It’s an abridged version of ALL the final fantasy games.
    -Characters all fit in the job system. Each job (thief, black mage, spellblade) has a myriad of craftable abilities.
    – It’s gameplay is simple enough to be easily accessible yet in order to have a chance at high-level boss fights you have to understand the mechanics of buff stacking and vulnerabilities etc…
    -Weekly and monthly challenges. I’ve played this game for over a year, and I’m still having fun.
    -All characters from ALL games are playable (along with all villains, some side and prequel characters). All of them are retro-fitted to pixel-art (basically FFVI’s graphics). It’s actually quite neat seeing characters like Yuna or Lightning get shrunk to 16-bit pixels. Even alternate outfits like Yuna’s FFX-2 outfit or Cloud’s advent children are there.
    -Excellent adherence to source material. Iconic boss fights play out as closely as they did to their original counterparts.
    -Free to Play. No actual content is blocked behind pay walls. Paying only provides additional gambles. This gambling system, which gives character limit breaks, also forces you to play with characters you’d otherwise overlook due to the random nature of it.
    -The game has freakin multiplayer!

    That being said, I’m with you on “FFXIII-2 was dumb” and “lightning being a fashion model makes no sense.”

  2. For Final Fantasy XV, the tie-in with Assassin’s Creed was Ubisoft’s move. Assassin’s Creed does not do well outside of Europe and North America, so they were targeting the Japanese market. As for the Mobile port of FFXV, that’s also targeting Japan, since the PS4 has only sold around 5 million units in Japan and the XBone hasn’t even hit the 100,000 units sold mark, so to get that game out to as many people as possible, a mobile port is needed, for Japan. Japanese gaming is mostly Arcades and Mobile Phones, today, so having a Kawaii version of FFXV on the mobile phone is logical for Japan, China, Korea, etc. as those countries aren’t as console/PC-tethered as we are in Europe, Australia, and North America.

  3. Thank god, I actually thought I was missing the point of the show by reflecting on the dark parts of the story and trying to figure out how Rick can be a better person. I love Rick and Morty mainly because of the flawed characters it portrays and how it sort of shows in a real sense how everyone really is fighting their own battles, some toward self improvement and others towards selfishness.

  4. They completely ruined Khan in the new movies. I would not want them to ruin a pre-Enterprise Spock. They should run away from this idea.

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