EclecticTastes posted:

KataraniSword posted:

At the same time, those roadblocks were thematically consistent - actual gates that, in-universe, you have to reach a certain level of progress to pass. Better yet, the people in charge of them told you what you needed to do to get past them.

We didn't have things like this, nor did we have eternally broken bridges that would be fixed "Soon^TM", with soon being "as soon as you've beaten the game".

Zore posted:

Honestly I don't get the appeal for going wherever or doing gyms in any order. I'd rather a more tightly curated experience because level scaling has historically been incredibly awful and the games I can think of that tried the 'Do it in whatever order!' tend to suffer a lot for it because everything has to be so generic and can't assume or tie into anything else in case you haven't done it.

Just do not see the appeal.

KataraniSword posted:

Pretty sure the FFT 1.3 guy spent most of his time calling the entire forum "filthy casuals" who were playing his masterpiece wrong or something of the sort, too. Regardless, he wasn't around long.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

Uuuuuunfortunately we're reaching the point where I slather on thick layers of bullshit

Endorph posted:

to be fair, clover is going for intentionally stupid/bad/offensive designs. uranium is actually sincere.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

But before that, poo poo's about to get seriously hosed.