Only 2 more episodes til #100! Anybody have ideas on what they should to commemorate the occasion?

Great episode you guys, and I'm extremely excited to pick up Soulcalibur 5 as soon as I get some money. Should be around Monday or so.

I'm going to make so much stupid stuff with the character creator! ^_^

Despite the story I'm liking 13-2 so far, I kinda started thinking honestly all FF's story plots are ridiculous so I think 13-2's isn't that bad, besides having a chocobo in party is just *** lol

I finally will get to play both XIII-2 and SoulCalibur V tomorrow. It was really awesome to hear your thoughts on both games.

In your FF discussion I think both Type 0 and Versus XIII are the games that people have been waiting for. Both games look absolutely incredible from a gameplay perspective and should actually have stories and worlds worth caring about. In the case of Versus, I really trust the creators of both Kingdom Hearts and The World Ends With You to deliver an awesome story. With Type 0 as long as it comes out it should be really good. I'm hopeful because in the latest interviews it was said the team was working on the international version of Type 0. It hasn't been announced, but if the creator himself said that is what he was working on, I'm definitely hopeful.

I've always been a huge SoulCalibur fan so I'm excited for five. That said, the best modern fighting game is without a doubt BlazBlue as it reaches the perfect balance between depth and accessibilty and is just a total blast to play. It is completely unlike the slow and stiff nature of the Capcom fighting games and it just brims with personality. The story and characters are fantastic, in spite of how they are presented, so that just adds to the appeal. There is a wealth of offline modes, including the best tutorials, training and challenge modes across all fighting games, and it boasts incredible net code. I'm hoping GI will review the latest one this month (on the 14th) since it is a vast improvement of the original.

The thing is, when was the last time a Final Fantasy game had a heavily armored knight? An old school black mage? A red mage? A monk or fighter? It's all J-pop and pretty boys now and I am completely disinterested. There's no Cecil, no Rydia, no Auron, no Vivi, no Barret. I see the most recent games characters and they all look like one big JRPG stereotype, especially XIII, half dressed and not an ugly one in the bunch.

Good game. I agree with either releasing a new numbered Final Fantasy that's great or rebooting the series. Whatever its future, I will support it to the fullest.

My first thought when they suggested rebooting the franchise was, No, not another reboot.... But you know what? I think that might actually be what the series needs. It would force them to make it epic, get back to basics. You can't restart the whole thing and give people something mediocre like XIII or even XII (I get that Twelve had some cool things about it, but Vaan had all the personality of a shoelace, and the story wasn't that special). A brand new FINAL FANTASY would have to be special...which is what every numbered entry should have been in the first place. And now to vent a few of my frustrations at a franchise I love... Give us heroes we can cheer for. We don't care if you give us a lame character or two. Every great Final Fantasy game has its Relm or Cait Sith. They are actually pretty charming if everyone else is awesome. Make them characters we love, not want to hit upside the head. And please give us a main character that is actually tied to the story. Final Fantasy 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 could not have happened without their main protagonists. But if you take away Twelve's Vaan, the story could keep on fine without him. As cool as Lightning is, she is not as tied to the story as she could have been. Okay, so she wants to save her sister. Giving her a motivation is not the same as binding her to the tale you are telling, forging a bond between her and the player. When she stands before the games final boss, it won't be a Showdown like when Terra stood before Kefka, Cloud before Sephiroth, Zidane before...I'm gonna say Kuja and let's forget the whole Necron thing..., or Tidus before Sin. Yeah, part of it was just that XIII's Big Bad was one of the worst villains of the entire series, but part of it is that the storytellers don't seem to think that it matters to CONNECT their game heroes to their world and story any more. (And while I'm being nostalgic for better days gone by, I have to mention the Airship. Remember when getting it was awesome? I don't know if it will ever matter again since the series doesn't really have an Overworld any more. But I'll still miss it. With FFX, getting the Airship just meant teleporting to anywhere you wanted on the map. Same with FFXII. But XIII, that was unforgivable: Now that you have an Airship you get...a camp site! What the heck?!) You know, I actually used to love JRPGs because I felt that they had better stories than American games of the time. Then, I found myself this last console generation playing things like Mass Effect, Fallout 3, and the Bioshock games, and I realized that things are upside down now. All the smart storytelling is happening in the American games, and in Shooters for crying out loud. The spiritual heirs of Doom are the ones carrying the Storytelling standard for this generation of gaming. And I thought to myself, What just happened? I still can't believe it. The fantasy RPG is my favorite genre of video game, and I'm more excited for Bioshock Infinite than anything Square-Enix could give us today...

Final Fantasy games simply need to get BETTER STORYLINES and BETTER WRITING to get back to the "juggernaut game series" status. The quality of writing has severely dropped ever since Final Fantasy XII. Get that going again, and the success will follow.

There's no series more disappointing to me than the Final Fantasy series. Such a classic, much-ballyhooed system and yet every time I see it I can't help but wonder why. The story is just completely idiotic... even X, which I enjoyed, I can recognize as being full of more holes, gratuitous shots, and such than a ten-year-old's fanfic. Ok, I can deal with that. It's a "fantasy" and that's the MO of the series. There's a point though where it becomes too much. I can deal with a lot of it - if I enjoy the gameplay. I also believe that a game of such a scale and reputation should make me care about the world and the characters. It started in XII when they decided to plop in Vaan and Penelo as the leads in order to satiate, in their views, a Western audience. That was the equivalent of calling me a simpleton to my face. Why? Because they think that by slapping the FF label on it they'll mint money on our backs. I don't even care for the battle system and the way it tries to play itself, let alone the ways they punk you - but there was enjoyment to be had in that game, such as going on hunts. So why do they settle on taking a few steps back? Don't even try to milk me with DLC. What do I want from this series? I'm not sure, but a nice start would be to not make all the characters into whining *** girls with the ridiculous hair and the big swords... I have to agree with the above comments. The smart writing and design seems to have passed to the Western developers. The FF series is emblematic of the downfall of the Japanese dominance. They just don't get it. And they completely lost me with all the spin-offs.

As uninterested as I've become in FFXIII-2, I'm equally as excited for SCV. I completely lost that series after III. Of course I wish the roster offered a little more variety but come on... a fighting lizard.

loved ff 12 but men Square doooo something dont do this anymore, have meeeeee!!! have meee to work for you and youll see money coming up on its own to your wallets!!

For the the latest FF can u skip the cutscenes?
If yes I'll try it...

Just give me Kingdom Hearts 3 already!

You know I watched it because I am going to complain that the end was cut off, at least for me.

"oops, don't have time to fix the story; time travel" that had me chuckling.

Great show as usual.

They need to remake Final Fantasy VII!  The best FF I'd ever played.

Trying to finally catch up of my podcasts. Great GI show guys! I still have yet to check out FF XII-2 and SC5. I plan to within the next month or so.

I still don't see myself getting 13-2... 10-2 was weird enough.

(sigh) The first FF game I never truly care about getting. 13 fooled me long enough to anticipate. . . SOMETHING from it. Raise your hand if you had dreams about Lightning's feather costume. . .