asmongold's entire appeal is seeing a toxic masculinity guy who's geared up to hate anything from japan get 20 seconds into the endwalker trailer and go "oh shit that's cool actually, i like that"
"haha look at me react to the weeb game for weebs and girly men who like girl stuff, haha wouldn't it be funny if i played the game that isn't for manly men who like orcs"
(2 minutes, 2 seconds later)
watching people who hate your interests get into the thing you like is pretty much just the most aggressive outlet for enjoying seeing other people have fun with things
also the pure satisfaction of watching angry wow dudes complain about ffxiv having music two months before their completely soundtrackless game took the world's most spectacular nosedive
@kat has this person played a final fantasy game before actually probably not i guess but really come on, the series has been like that since VI
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@kat actually jrpgs in general have kinda used the whole magitech thing a lot ever since around that time, final fantasy VI and Xenogears and stuff
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@Felthry it's been there since final fantasy 1 tbh
@kat To an extent, but it was VI that really went hard on the magitech
IV had a bit of it too but I feel like VI was where the series really got into it to the point that they ended up saying "we've strayed pretty far from our roots, let's do a pure fantasy entry" with IX (that was actually the thought process there, they specifically said that they wanted to make IX more pure fantasy after how sci-fantasy VII and VIII were)
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@kat yeah, but my point is that this was ancient technology, the world and civilizations weren't really... I dunno how to express it? It just feels like stuff like the warmech in I and the tower of babil in IV were the exception, whereas in VI you get things like magitek armor and figaro castle and stuff, and then VII has the entirety of midgar being basically a modern urban city but powered by magitech
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@Felthry tbh ff5 has more tech going on than ff6 does when you stack it up
@Felthry you have an airship that turns into a submarine, a segment where you're climbing a giant tower full of machinery to turn off a barrier, there's an ancient high tech civilization and you interact with their stuff a lot, and a giant floating metal sky fortress with laser cannons
also a secret boss that's an interdimensional space robot from space