OH. MY. GOD!
Did you guys see Breaking Bad? No? Did you see everyone on your Twitter feed talk about it? How about your friends posting about Breaking Bad parties on Facebook? Did you real one of the approximately 90 billion articles written about it over the last week? Did you find yourself getting sucked into a vortex of hype despite never having seen an episode of the show?
This week’s LoadingReadyRun video is Badly Broken, a timely piece on our latest cultural moment, a true classic that I’m sure won’t age or lose relevancy in the coming years at all.
Next up this week is Unskippable, with the thrilling conclusion to Remember Me. (In case you missed it, part one is here.) This game leaves so many obvious questions unanswered. Why are they disposing of corpses in the sewers instead of just burning them? Why would you listen to a mysterious voice in your head? Isn’t that usually the international sign of crazy? Why doesn’t he tell her the plan while she’s got nothing to do? Why is EVERYTHING about killing Superman these days?*
And finally this week’s episode of CheckPoint is The Ghost of David Jaffe, in which we discuss David Jaffe’s new company, and new business partner. Hint, one of those two things doesn’t actually exist! Also, Final Fantasy XIII-3 looks confusing, and the “One” in Xbox One might just mean “only one correct way to display.”
And finally, in Kickstarter news, we’ve got 13 days left and we’re getting closer to our first stretch goal, a whole new year of Crapshots! Fingers crossed!
* One of these questions does not actually come up in Remember Me. Guess which one it is!
Your chosen Checkpoint screenshot seems to be suggesting people should not use the Xbox One itself. I find this unintentional message amusing. :>
Comment by DeltaStrata — September 30, 2013 @ 9:40 pm
Did you [b]real[/b] one of the approximately 90 billion articles written about it over the last week?
Comment by Lord Hosk — September 30, 2013 @ 11:46 pm
I real’d so hard, Lord Hosk. SO HARD.
And.. Yeah, I’m gonna be *that* guy. It isn’t “Final Fantasy XIII-3”. Like, at all. The ‘writers’ (I say writers VERY loosely because FFXIII-2 was batshit insane and they admitted they didn’t actually have a solid ending in mind when they started it.. And I *liked* FFXIII..)
But, apparently, in SquareEnix (Well, no, Toriyama actually, he wrote it) logic, LR:FFXIII is a *spin-off*, as a sequel to XIII-2, but not quite related to XIII. They purposefully didn’t call Lightning Returns “XIII-3” because it’s more of an action game with only Lightning playable.
As for confusing… Yeah, that’d be Toriyama. But from what’s been revealed so far, Snow (and Noel) both believe the “real Lightning” is dead. They’re consumed by the Chaos that tore up everything real wacky-like. Lightning’s now some saviour (gifted by Bhunivelze, aka The Maker from the past games). Basically needs to sacrifice a whole bunch of people to “make things right” or somethi—.. Okay, y’know what? I may have liked FFXIII, but there’s just no way to make sense of Toriyama’s writing. Dude is weird. XIII-2 *entirely* contradicts an absolute *ton* of FFXIII’s original lore.. So who the hell knows anymore? XIII-2’s Yeul isn’t even the Yeul from XIII’s Datalog entries. She was merely a prophet for the old Pulsian people, they were all just religious sermons. XIII-2 pretty much made a lot of it actually legit, for some unexplained reason. Etro was, indeed, banished to “The Unseen Realm” (suddenly known as Valhalla in XIII-2), but she never had any actual powers.. Until XIII-2 happened.
They’re basically considered entirely different universes (though supposedly XIII-2’s “Chaos dun goofed up everything” ending combined the two, rather than making two alternate conclusions (XIII’s original happy ending and XIII-2’s OH GOD WHAT THE HELL ending)…
….Why does my everything hurt now?
Comment by Matt — October 1, 2013 @ 12:37 pm