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Hello! Let’s all tread together the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

As mentioned previously one of the games I got the chance to finish during this past vacation was Dust: An Elysian Tail, a nice Metroidvania hack-&-slash RPG mashup. The game's audio was pretty good as well, and this track is perhaps the one I enjoy the most.

While it plays in its eponymous zone, it also plays…

It wasn't until the middle of last week when I realized I had left no message. No warning. No word. I've been on vacations for almost 2 weeks, and I forgot to tell you, dear reader. For that I apologize. I wish I could tell you I went on a backlog clearing crusade but I would be lying: life chores (banks, shopping, assorted responsibilities) kept me from playing as much as I would have liked. But I did get some time to game, and I even got to finish/experience a couple of fantastic games! I sha…

Howdy BG!

Some of you will remember us from the FFXI days or have heard about us in the past year but just in case you haven't:

Limit Break Radio is a Final Fantasy XIV podcast that doesn't sound like somebody hit record on their Vent channel. LBR is more like a morning radio show that just happens to be about Final Fantasy XIV. So, we have our podcast which is available on iTunes and limitbreakradio.com but we also do the show live on Twitch which lets anyone and everyone get in on the show…

The article this post is based on, from Dualshockers, is here: http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/02/02/xbox-one-version-of-final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn-might-have-just-been-teased-by-square-enix/

Never have I been happier to think a Final Fantasy game could be coming to Xbox. Ok, yeah, I admit it: I'm one of those fans that wasn't entirely happy when Final Fantasy made the jump to appear on Xbox as well as Playstation, and I'm not even talking about the performance issues of XIII, or the jo…

Some of January RIT





FFXIV

1. Patch 2.5 Part 1 release date Jan 20 2015
2. [DATs] FFXIV Patch 2.5: Mining The Fall
3. Patch 2.5 Notes
4. FFXIV Tokyo Fan Fest Translations
5. Yoshida Press Interview Translations - Patch 2.5
6. Urth's Fount, Gilgamesh, Mystery Trial Encounter
7. AK Hard, WP Hard, Keeper of the Lake, and World of Darkness
8. Random win: when it's just too good to put in random fail
9. Tonberry Server act like idiots
10. Patch 2.5 Info Translation (Screenshots, Artwork)

Dat patch 2.5.



FFXIV I…

Hello! Let’s all tread together the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

Oh, joy! No, waking up with tonsillitis wasn't particularly "joyful" but hells, after last night? Finally, after months looking forward to it (huehue) I finally managed to down the 9th Coil of Bahamut's boss, Nael Deus Darnus. Now I can finally wipe in Final Coil - ha!

Originally from 1.0, the song was brought back for this boss, who is a... well I don't wanna spoil too much fo…

When I was a kid I loved the heck out of my NES. It was a fascinating system: games could afford to become elaborate (yet also rudimentary) stories, more than simple pixels going to and fro. I stopped playing just to reach a high score or just get to the next screen, but rather to find out what happened next. The medium reached new heights in the SNES era, and it has gotten more and more complex ever since, thanks to advances in technology and storage that allow for voice and video content.

I …

Afternoon! Let’s all thread together through the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

If you follow me on Twitter (if not, why haven't you?!) you were probably expecting this theme to be this week's featured musical piece. "Agent of Enquiry" is a piece from Final Fantasy XIV and theme of one of the most special characters from that game the entire FF universe.

It's a song that borders on goofyness, and for good reason: Hildibrand Heliodor Mandervil…

Happy 2.5 day, fellow Eorzeans! And for those of you not from the fair land, know that today is the launch day for Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch, titled "Before The Fall". The first of three parts, it aims to close the storyline that began in the reboot, A Realm Reborn. There's a middle patch with some fun stuff, and the final part will come in a couple of months. Today's patch has been downloaded and everything's set for me to get home at night and start enjoying the new content. After I le…

Morning! Let’s all thread together through the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

First, a word of warning: the video above is a BGM-only capture of a cutscene from the ending of Final Fantasy XIV (SFX and dialogue are muted, but video track is still there). If you haven't completed the game yet and plan to do so, you may wanna skip watching it, or perhaps playing it but scrolling…

This post from the Final Fantasy XIV forums was brought to my attention recently. In it, Community Rep Grekumah states that SE would like to find a way to allow people that buys the boxed version of Heavensward (HW) to play the game before the package actually arrives. One of the drawbacks of buying this way is that you depend on the box with the code/key to be in your hands before you can enjoy the new content. Unless the package is scheduled to arrive hours before the actual launch, these pla…

Morning! Let’s all thread together through the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

I wanted to cheat this MF by sharing some music from the anime Kill La Kill which I finished watching this week. Great show with a great soundtrack. Alas, no video game music there. So while planning where to go next I told myself: "Why not take a trip to the fantastic Green Isles?"

I fondly remember…

Gosh!

Yesterday Kingdom Hearts fans were all riled up after finding that Bill Farmer, who is the voice actor for Goofy in both Kingdom Hearts and everything Goofy, stated on Twitter that the next installment in the saga - Kingdom Hearts "I broke E" 3 - was coming this year. The news quickly spread and people captured screenshots of the tweet. It didn't take long for the corporate overlords at Disney to recognize the goof (ha!) and Bill was quickly changing his tune to a more industry-conforman…

Happy New Year everyone! How did you spend the last minutes of last year and the first few days of the new? I did having the same sentiment: I wish I was home playing more video games. Sue me. I'm not much of a "let's go out" kind of guy but as the sole member in my house who can actually make a mechanized vehicle move it is inevitable to not be home as much as I want to. Still, hoping you all had a great time! My new year resolutions are already set and wait anxiously to be ignored once more. …

Overview of the whole year per forum:



The FFXIV peaks seems to pretty coincide with each update.



FFXIV

1. Relic / Atma / Zodiac / Novus / Nexus Weapon information
2. The Binding Coil of Bahamut, Act 2: Tail Slap is frontal, guys.
3. Elite Hunt Marks
4. The Final Coil: Yoshi P mentioned T11 was going to be the "gear check" as t8 was though
5. [Guide] Black Mage - Because, heavy deeps, that's why.
6. Retainer Compendium -- My Retainer out-dps' pugs
7. FFXIV Gardening
8. FFXIV PVP Discussion Thread: HAHAH SLEEP!
9. Fa…

Time flies. During work days it does so at terribly slow speeds while it switches to warp speed during the weekends. Despite this the entire year 2014 seems to have gone by quickly and I feel that I haven't had enough time to do all I wished to do. Of course this is incorrect: I've had time, I just have been terrible at organizing what little free time I have left. I blame Final Fantasy XIV.

This year saw the rise and fall of my FC due to some members going from "I thought XIV would be more lik…

It is nearly the end of the year. Whereas some people take the end of December to reminisce about the good times, reflect on the bad, and remember all the things that have happened over the course of the past three hundred sixty-five days, we’re gamers, so of course the end of the year means it’s time to look back on the gaming year that was, and pick out the best game of 2014. Undoubtedly, everyone will have their favorites, but I asked the BG staff members to share their games of the year, …

Oh, SquareEnix, we love you. No, really, we do. Even if sometimes you do the silliest things, or say the most insane stuff that man can come up with. To be fair, for every "we're bringing Final Fantasy VII to Playstation 4" fiasco there's an event like the Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest that took place this weekend.

A nice and interesting post popped today in the official Playstation Blog by SE, penned by Hajime Tabata (director for Type-0 and XV), wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New …

Unfortunately due to being on vacation I was unable to make any fine tune changes on this newsletter. Data was used just before I left. Have a great new year everyone!

BG Member Of The Week: Ryko

Q. How long have you been a part of BG?
A. I joined BG in 2005 after months of lurking and a year+ of harassing Dragoons on the GameFAQs FFXI forum.

Q. What is your favorite video game and why is it your favorite?
A. This one took some thought but I think the answer is Dungeon Fighter Online. I'm a…

Happy Holidays BG!

BG Member Of The Week: Psion

Q. How long have you been a part of BG?
A. I joined the forum in November 2007, so I guess that means i've been around for about 7 years. I'm pretty sure I lurked for longer than that though, since zilart release in NA.

Q. What is your favorite video game and why is it your favorite?
A. I would probably say FFXI, but not so much because it's the best game ever, despite it being great in story, music, etc. It's because I was quickly picked up b…