/massages Tae's shoulders

Get better, Tae!

I have Four Swords on my 3DS already |D Iirc it was free for a month when it first came out. I've... not played it though. >.>

lols @ Fox's hider. Fox loves lot of unholy creepy stuff D|

Haha, thank you guys >w>

I used to be ALL ABOUT coffee, but I've spent way too much on the Starbucks at my school *A* Like, enough to fill out 3 of those stamp cards where you get a free one after 10 drinks. I'm trying to cut back on my sugar a little since I gained ~5 pounds over the holidays, so it's just water and unsweetened iced tea for the time being :p

I probably won't play it for a while either, but I'm not going to turn down a free game 8]

Did you play the Lightning Returns demo? I haven't played the other Final Fantasy XIII games, so the battle system's a little weird for me. I might try playing the other games first, though.

I've not @ LR demo. Didn't even know one came out. Tbh, I have no appeal in that game and limited appeal in Final Fantasy in general now. I'll still probs get XV when it comes out but my expectations are low. XIII and XIII-2 were simply horrendous games. Tae do yourself a favour and don't subject yourself to those abominations. They're rubbish. :/

I haven't played any FF games (for shame, I know!) but I did start 13. I found it to be kinda…tedious. The combat was weird and it felt like the entire setting was one long hallway, you know? I dropped it, cause I didn't like having to read the codex for everything lol. That said, I really like Lightning. I think she's pretty cool, and I love the fact that she has no romance in the game.

Fuck Snow, though. Like seriously.

Dannyel said
I haven't played any FF games (for shame, I know!) but I did 13. I found it to be kinda…tedious. The combat was weird and it felt like the entire setting was one long hallway, you know? I dropped it, cause I didn't like having to read the codex for everything lol. That said, I really like Lightning. I think she's pretty cool, and I love the fact that she has no romance in the game. Fuck Snow, though. Like seriously.

This was pretty much my impression of the game. The whole thing's one endless corridor runner. There's no towns, or any diversions from walking forwards, fighting, walking, fighting, walking, cutscene, rinse and repeat. It was just repetitive and boring. The world opens up much, much further in (about 40 hours in) but even then there's nothing to actually do bar monster hunts which is... more fighting. The actual fighting system itself wasn't too bad but it wasn't exactly fun either, and that took like 20 hours just to properly open up too.

Story's terrible too. Like, really terrible. Unbearably so. Saturday morning anime quality. Really abysmal for an FF. And to even understand what the hell is going on you have to read a codex. Took me a few hours to find that out and the thought of having to read something to actually understand the story being presented is just bad. Characters are also terrible. Lightning was cool enough, and I actually didn't mind her so much, but - Sazh excepted - the rest of the characters are shit. Snow's crap. Hope is gag worthy. Vanille is typical 'anime grunt nonstop'. Just... yeah. It was bad.

Soundtrack was good though. The battle theme's nice.



The FF's I've played are 3 and 4 for the DS, parts of 6 for the GBA, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 to completion and parts of 14. Looking forward to the 10 remake actually, and I'd love a proper remake of 6. 7 was good, although its aged a bit and the translation is... bad, but even despite how much hype the game gets, it's still pretty damn good. 9's wonderful too.

Just 13 was diabolical.

I have seen "Let's Plays" of 10, and dear god, it looks so bad. Like seriously. Tidus. Wakka /shudders

I do want to play 12 though, but it's only on the PS2.

Oh, and I recently got 7 but haven't gotten around to it.

Prepare yourself for horrible blocky character models in 7 D| And the translation is really, really spotty. Took me a few tries from the start to get through 7, but it was a fun ride. 12's a lot of fun. It's kind of... mmo-ish, but offline. There's not a great deal of story in it, but the world and everything in it was really cool, and Balthier's the man!

lol @ 10 looking bad XD I'm still gonna try it though, hahaha.

To be honest there's not many jrpgs of recent note that I actually enjoyed. Lost Odyssey was fantastic, and well I loved Trails in the Sky but that's psp sooooo... hmm. I miss the days of good jrpgs ;A;

Pachamac said
Balthier's the man!

I'm not gonna lie, that's a large part of my motivation. XD

"Who am I? Well, I'm the leading man, of course."

Balthier <3



I also liked 12's Star Wars influences |3

Lol at that video. It just feels so fan-worshippy. (Is that a term? Thing? Lol) But seriously Pach, stop making me wanna play the game I cannot play!

B-b-b-b-but Baltheir!!

I'm off to sleep now guys! I hope you all have a wonderful mornight and a splendid weekend! Take care of yourselves, guys! Love you all <3

Have a good sleep Pach!

Hahaha the FF talk xD I watched the cutscenes for FF13 and 13-2 (because I'm chronically incapable of playing/beating FF games) and the character summaries are totally spot on. I agree, Lightning's cool. I really wanted to like Vanille, but yeah, the anime grunting ._. The anime grunting thing is actually what keeps me from enjoying JRPGs and anime these days, I don't know why but they just make it hard for me to take it seriously now o_o

Honestly, I have no idea why they don't just.... remake FF7. They'd make a ton of money, and I know I'd actually be willing to play it. :/ I only got about a few hours into that one. I enjoyed FF12 but I think I ran out of revives and I stranded myself in the middle of nowhere, idk, but I remember feeling stuck and not picking it up again ever since.

Oh, also I'm going to get a PS4 in a few weeks ^-^ And I might go to another (non-televised) wrestling show next week, fingers crossed!

Only FF game I've played is 14:RR. I should probably log in again sometime.

I haven't watch Frozen in the cinema, but from what I've seen on youtube I'm not a fan of the ending. Yeah. I spoiled the ending for myself. What did I do that for! I won't go into why in even vague terms in case anyone wants to watch it, but yeah. It seems well done otherwise though. I like how they poke fun at a lot of disney tropes, haha!

Okay I'd better go bed now! My manager is talking about changing my hours at the moment which is a little exciting I guess. I'll never be able to change that horrible 11pm finish Tuesday shift, but it looks like I might be able to get it so I don't need to work every single Saturday (unlike pretty much everyone else at my work). We'll see!

/subtly sidesteps FF convo because not FF fan... >>;

lol this is gonna sound totally random, but I get emailed updates whenever pages on the Tales wikia are updated and

He is horrible at dancing and has two left feet.

Fox, does Lucien really? lmfao. I can't remember for the life of me if this has been mentioned IC or not, but that's bloody hilarious.

Good luck with your shift changes, Buns!

Pfft, I didn't mean literally, but yeah. xD Lucien is a horrid dancer.

Good mornight guys, I'll get a post up ASAP and FF13 was definitely horrible. I wasted my money and only played around 5 hours before quitting because of the boring fighting and traveling mechanics. The only game I played involving FF is Duodecim Dissida. (^w^)/

Yush, best of luck with your shift change, Buns. Hopefully you get your Saturdays free and have fun with your soon to be PS4 Tae :D I hope everyone has a grand mornight.

TAE! PS4 BUDDIES! *A* YOU BETTER ADD MEEEEE

I don't think there's much out on it so far yet but Infamous is out March I think! :D

I'd love an FF7 remake but I'm not sure how they'd actually do it. Would they keep the gameplay itself the same only with updated mechanics, or try and change the world/towns about so it's in third person perspective etc etc... idk. Would love that, but I'm sure they think it playing the same way as the original game did with prerendered backgrounds wouldn't sell. Although I love me some prerendered backgrounds <3 FF7's on Steam though if you wanna play it.

Good luck with your shift changes, Buns!

And yeah, Lucien's a terrible dancer. Remember during the horror chapter and they were all in the ballroom, and Lucien was dancing with... Celeste, I think? Didn't end well |D

I have Dissidia Duodecim but haven't played it yet ;A;

ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEEKEND, RP. YOU'RE GROWING UP SO FAST <3

In fact, in celebration of the rp's first birthday, I got it a nice present! ^o^

My ending of Alter Ego: "Once you are in the car he turns away from the school and heads for the highway. This man is very sick. You are tortured, killed and buried in a landfill. Your body is never recovered. This game is over."

MORAL OF THE STORY, DON'T GO INTO STRANGERS CARS

UNLESS YOU'RE PACH AND LIKE TO HAVE YOUR CHARACTERS SUFFER 8D

Calling next post. :D

Update: AND DONE

Damn, Danni. A hell of a post! That was just so splendid and fun to read! You described it so beautifully and you managed to do to the scene what Dylan does to his artwork - come alive. Seriously, seriously good. Loved it!

Everyone's posts have been nothing short of absolutely fantastic! Gosh I love you guys <3

Aww, glad you like it. Was feeling kinda artsy, lol. :D