I just couldn't help but get distracted by all the MMO stuff

It's a lifestyle more than it is a game at this point. There are people on there who, when I joined ahd already been playing the better part of a decade, daily, for hours. They literally just log in and just chill out in their home with their group. Occasionally they'll go get some limited-time event or something and just count the minutes until the next expansion XD

It's wild. I could never tell if they had jobs or what.

It's a fairly depressing game with an underlying theme of fighting against fate.

This is true. When I think back to it I get a much stronger sense of... Melancholy, when compared to pretty much every other game. There's not much in the way of glory at any point in the game.

I always did wanna try the Japanese but at the time I was all anti-subtitle. Plus, If there's one voice the Japanese can't beat, it's Seymour's XD