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This week the PS1 turned 20 years old. What's crazy for the people old enough to have played/owned the PS1 (or rather a PlayStation) when it was the new hotness is that there are probably people reading this right now that weren't even born then. It's that old. The first time that these people played FF7 might have been on a iPhone. Gross.

Back then the Xbox was still just a twinkle in Bill Gates' eye and SEGA was still making consoles (oh and happy 16th btw to the Dreamcast too yesterday).

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Words that kill

Hello, folks! Have you been keeping up with your duties? Fultoning soldiers and sniping bikini-clad girls? I sure hope you have! Today I bring, in what could have been predicted a mile away by any regular reader, a Metal Gear Solid V theme.

Now, I confess: I have not progressed enough …

WARNING: This post will talk about a small detail pertaining Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. It's not particularly spoilerish since it doesn't deal with the story... directly. If you have already started playing TPP and done at least one mission then you probably know what I'm talking about. It's really not that big of a deal but if you'd rather go into the game completely oblivious to everything... you have been warned.

I am thoroughly enjoying TPP. No, really, I am. However I do have a…

This month, I thought I’d use this blog to take a break from reviews and to steer things in a different direction. Of course, you might be wondering, why? Well, for one, I have had access to this outlet for several years now which has offered an admittedly squandered potential to disclose and assert my ideas and poise questions to a fairly large community. Whether this sticks and becomes an alternative to my (bi-)monthly reviews is up in the air, but I thought I’d give something new a try. …

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Choices

As I sit here in my office waiting for the clock to reach 17:30 I ponder which song is more appropriate for this week. Do I go with the song featured in Metal Gear Solid V's launch trailer or do I go for the version of Answers featured in the area for the Rising event in Final Fantasy XIV?

The…

I want to give them to you
Oh man, that was awesome! As a fan of Metal Gear Solid, today's trailer is indeed an important, pivotal and a bit sad moment. It is likely to be the last Kojima-edited Metal Gear Solid trailer for the last Kojima-made Metal Gear Solid game. The man sure does know how to go out with a bang.

I don't think it's possible for any fan of the series to not shed a tear at the beginning sequence…

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Snap Click Crank

With Final Fantasy XIV's second anniversary coming up soon, there will be a 14 hour stream with different events happening in Japan. For us it means a new Live Letter and information about patch 3.1; nevertheless that's still a bit away so in the mean time Squeenix dropped the featured…

Polish your shields, sharpen your blades. This week on Limit Break Radio we take to the blood soaked fields of Player Versus Player! The crew is Joined by the ever famous, charismatic, Double Jumping, Wiki-wooomg PvP Streamer, JoeNeverFails! The discussion includes the evolution of FFXIVs player vs player environment, where it could and should look to the future and which games have done PvP better. We also cover some Gamescom interview info tidbits and read your emails!

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Sun and fun

I really like how Final Fantasy XIV handles events. Every one of these annual celebrations is accompanied with decorations in capital cities, fun and fitting musical themes, lots of fun rewards (mostly glamour and decorations), and most importantly: lore. This is crucial because it takes the event beyond the "farm this for a couple of weeks" to "there's this thing happening so go and investigate, and then farm this for a couple of weeks" - there must always be a farm.

Right now…

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Birth of a Forsaken

A few days ago I reactivated my Word of Warcraft account using in-game gold (fantastic system and idea) with plans to play with it every now and then. Yesterday I went even further: I logged with my Forsaken Rogue and spent all my "old" gold in buying two WoW Tokens from the Orgrimm…

Die and let die

Psssst! Let me tell you a little secret: I suck at PvP - Player Versus Player. Ever since my World of Warcraft days I have been a shame to my Horde companions. I did try, though! I even understood the mechanics of all the Battlegrounds and went as far as getting the School of Hard Knocks achievement; unfortunately my final performance was always horrible.

I have taken to trying the new "Seize" mode, introduced in FFXIV's recent patch. I find it to be a fun way to pass time, a…

This week on Limit Break Radio, we remember the fallen, we recall the glory, we unleash the spoilers. Join the crew as they dive into a discussion about the 3.0 Main Storyline Quest of Heavensward. You’ll find out when your favorite hosts hearts broke, who has no soul and sheds no tears. You’ll hear everyone rage about one plot hook or another. Plus, what’s to come for FFXIV? Everyone weighs in on the possibility of not just 3.0, but 4.0 and beyond! They also cover the little news that has cam…

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The floating city of mages

With Legion (World of Warcraft's next expansion) already announced and a few details out in the wild, the world is once more enraptured with what the world's most successful MMO will do next; of particular importance is that it's in a moment in its life where it doesn't seem t…

The drop

If you play videogames, MMOs, or follow videogame news on Twitter it's likely that yesterday you heard about the news regarding the biggest MMO game on the market: World of Warcraft (WoW) is down to 5.6 million subscribers. While it is still an incredible number (WoW is, after all, a 10 year old sub-based MMO that's still #1 in sub numbers) it's still an important drop - almost 50% of the player base of 10 million at the beginning of the current expansion, Warlords of Draenor (WoD).

T…

In 2009, I thought Arkham Asylum was the best superhero game I had ever played. For the first time ever, players were given the ability to control Batman and use his gadgets, intellect, stealth, and strength as he fought his way through his gallery of rouges. Back then, if you had told me that six years later, I would be able to take the experience of Arkham Asylum, free it of the confines of the Asylum, and give Batman the freedom to drive a Tumbler-esque Batmobile around the streets of Goth…

This is pretty much the month where everybody bitched that the PUGs in FFXIV sucked ass.



See these threads for more butthurt:
Random Fail: your words are false
The Official Forum fail thread: This game wasn't meant for alts



FFXIV

1. FFXIV Random Complaint Thread II: DPS can't count to potato
2. The Official Forum fail thread: This game wasn't meant for alts.
3. Alexander Discussion, Round 2: Wait is this the easy mode thread?
4. The crafting & gathering thread.
5. Paladin 3.0 Thread - Proved to SE we ca…

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Do you like shmups? Shoot-'em-ups! That game genre about ships that fly, shooting everything in sight, usually while dodging insane amounts of enemy fire? R-Type, Gradius, Axelay and many more are well known to gamers of the genre. There's a particular Japanese shmup that I didn't find out until years later because it never came to America.

Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie is based …

I sometimes miss World of Warcraft. Not in a "I want to play it again" kind of way but rather in a "I had a lot of fun during those years" fashion. It is a fun game and many of its mechanics cemented what I consider to be "my style" of MMO. The lore is extensive and ensures you have a reason to play beyond the mechanics; let's face it: any game mechanic will get boring or repetitive over time.

Even after moving to the pastures of Eorzea I still follow WoW news to see how it's doing and what's c…

After weeks of contentious end-game related shouting and discussion about the direction of Aniero’s angst and rage the crew dials it down a bit. They welcome on a very special guest, Fair Bear, who is brand new to FFXIV and MMOs. Fair Bear interviews the LBR crew with questions a brand new player might have, providing a unique point of view that the hosts haven’t experienced since their’ early years in MMOs. But don’t think that means there isn’t any salt! Kallo fucks up e-mails, Juxta is back…