Random Video Game Crap
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I'm going back and forth between FF7 and 9 right now, it's nice.
Just read a thing where it said Bioware was looking to fix the choice mess made with Dragon Age 2 by listening to what the fans want.
DON'T FUCKING DO THAT!
Just don't make a shitty game for fuck's sakes. Don't make a game by committee. Make a game that's good and satisfying throughout. Fuck.
DON'T FUCKING DO THAT!
Just don't make a shitty game for fuck's sakes. Don't make a game by committee. Make a game that's good and satisfying throughout. Fuck.
Listening to fans is good, except you need to only listen to a small group of fans dedicated to making the game great. These people are generally known as playtesters and focus groups.
Listening to all your fans at once will just result in too many "good" ideas being crammed into the game, none of which work well together, and none of which are truly fleshed out.
Either that or the Internet trolls get a hold of you, and the protagonist to DA3 ends up being named Dickwad McPedobear.
I did that mission on Republic side. You basically break him out of a prison. There's also one where you find HK-47. They're pretty blatant callbacks to keep people reeled in. Also there's a DLC mission you can buy to get your own HK companion.
I honestly never really figured out what it was about 8 I didn't like. I think part of it came from never getting invested in Squall's story, as they seemed to take what little personality Cloud had and just ripped it out, leaving Squall with nothing but "..." and "Whatever" to fill the void. Junctioning was cool in theory, but it felt like an easily abused and kind of flawed system in that the junctioned spells were a risk to cast too often without the always-boring Draw farming.
Okay so maybe I did figure out what it was about 8 I didn't like.
Okay so maybe I did figure out what it was about 8 I didn't like.
Yeah I could see that making things easier. I play the same in early bits of the game but once I can buy/find Ethers/Tents I generally don't worry much about conservation. I grind enough that gold is barely an issue so I have a pretty ample supply of restoratives. I think 7 was the first time I was remotely conservative of spells, but that was mainly due to leveling All Materias. Once those were at 3+ uses it wasn't an issue.
I never had a Nintendo or Super Nintendo growing up, so my first exposure to Final Fantasy (apart from one gaming session on a buddy's SNES with FFII.... ahem... FFIV) was with Final Fantasy VII. We stayed up ALL NIGHT playing it through the first night he had it... his mom came out to the living room and found us all passed out in front of the TV (somewhere just outside Midgar, I believe).
I loved the Materia system, I loved how each character had a clearly-defined role... when I went back later and played FFVI, I just got overwhelmed by the number of characters.
FFVIII just never managed to get the same feeling from me that VII did, and I fully believe it's because I tie VII to one of the happiest times in my life.
I loved the Materia system, I loved how each character had a clearly-defined role... when I went back later and played FFVI, I just got overwhelmed by the number of characters.
FFVIII just never managed to get the same feeling from me that VII did, and I fully believe it's because I tie VII to one of the happiest times in my life.
This, as far as I can tell, is one of the main reasons 7 has spawned the legion of spinoffs and such. For a lot of people it was the first FF, hell, first JRPG, to really launch into the spotlight. There were tons of great RPG experiences to be had before it, but this one was the launching point for so many. It was the same when I was in high school. Most people my age that were into games got hooked on FF, FF2 or FF3, so generally 2 and 3 were held in higher regard. Those a bit younger than me were hooked with 7, and in rare cases 8. It also helped that both versions had PC releases (granted they were horrible ports that were ridiculously hard to run).
Oh god random. It's all like "Oh you have a great deck with awesome unique cards? HAHAFUCKYOU let's see you play with one unique card and four crappy ones! Get ready to lose your unique!"
It was actually supposed to be a completely separate game. The Laguna stuff was supposed to be a sequel to FF8.
GasBandit
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Yeah, I've heard that before - kinda wish they followed through. Ah well.
Capcom says that it's too expensive to make a 2D fighter with traditional sprites anymore despite tiny companies like Arc System Works (Guilty Gear, BlazBlue) putting out unbelievably gorgeous sprite based fighting games on a shoestring budget and making a profit on them. Hell, apparently Dragon Crown's budget was a million dollars and it was the most expensive game Vanillaware has ever made.
Fucking Capcom.
At least they're not trotting out that Morrigan sprite in every compilation game now. That shit got old a decade or so into it's reuse.
Fucking Capcom.
At least they're not trotting out that Morrigan sprite in every compilation game now. That shit got old a decade or so into it's reuse.
Yeah she looked ridiculously out of place in MvC2, especially compared to newer sprites like Tron Bonne.
I am going to play the hell out of this game.
To everyone with a Wii U, I've found this week's upcoming Virtual Console release: three different versions of Street Fighter II. There will be Street Fighter II, Super Street Fighter II: the New Challengers and Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting.
GasBandit
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Alex, what is "Lex Luthor stole 40 erotic cakes?"
Capcom is really a double-edged sword. Sometimes you get something really fun and awesome out of them, like Mega Man 9, 10, and DuckTales Remastered. Other times, you get shit like the current treatment of their fighters. I don't want a Goddamn Madden Street Fighter every year, just give me Super/Ultra/Master/Holyshit Street Fighter right off the bat.
Apparently, they might be even trying to push them with a buy 2, get the third free deal.