Nillard

This is Final Fantasy XIV’s fatal flaw. A Realm Reborn does suck. It is one of the driest, most boring gaming experiences available on the market. For what is ostensibly an MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV’s introductory chapter has minimal gameplay, trite and unimaginative quest design, a total lack of engaging character progression, zero player interdependency, and a world that isn’t worth exploring. What it has in spades are hundreds of thousands of words of unvoiced dialogue, which the game insists that the player read, since the narrative context is the only saving grace for an otherwise hollow gameplay experience. This is why, in my opinion, Final Fantasy XIV is closer to a visual novel than an MMORPG, which is important for someone to know before spending their valuable time playing the game and waiting for the promise of “it gets better in Heavensward.” It does, absolutely, but the game does not meaningfully change—from 2.0 to 7.56, it is a lot of walking, talking, and essentially no gameplay. Not to mention that your reward for 400 hours of investment is Dawntrail, for the love of God. Obfuscating that fact is not our responsibility as veterans hoping to fool newcomers into playing the game that we love. It’s the responsibility of the developers to improve the experience of A Realm Reborn and for the players to pressure them into doing so.

How fun! Im so glad i played this instead of heckin persona 5 slop again!

just learned that there's an alliance raid where you have to do math in the middle of the fight???? brother i have dyscalculia

What do you people do in alliance raids that they take an hour????????????

Where nobody lives in America. All that green represents 0 population. We still have so much more room to grow as a country.

Modders have unlocked hidden AI compute performance on NVIDIA’s RTX 20, 30 and 40-series GPUs. The modifications remove software-level limits on certain Tensor Core operations, without changing the hardware or flashing a new VBIOS. - RTX 4090: 165.6 → 331.6 TFLOPS FP16 Tensor Core throughput -RTX 3090 Ti: 87.5 → 157.4 TFLOPS BF16 performance - RTX 2080 Ti: 59.9 → 111 TFLOPS FP16→FP32 performance - RTX 3090: 73.0 → 122.8 TFLOPS in a PyTorch GEMM test The gains are mainly relevant to AI and compute workloads, not gaming.

“This isn’t Castlevania” “This isn’t Gears of War” “This isn’t Silent Hill” “This isn’t God of War” “This isn’t Final Fantasy” What is this pattern? At some point you have to wonder if some people even like gaming anymore or if they just like being angry about it