Annie Felis

It really depends on what you like. If you want a game that looks gorgeous, play 12. If you want a game that sounds gorgeous, play 6. Anyway you might want to decide what you like based off setting and plot synopsis (without spoilers): FF4 - high fantasy series with swords, sorcery and flying ships. The story is about friendship, betrayal and redemption. FF5 - medium fantasy with some mechanical technology. The story is about sacrifice and loss and....well, it's a good game but it's pretty dark and depressing so maybe don't start with this one. FF6 - MAGICAL STEAMPUNK! The story is about repeating the mistakes of the past and surviving the apocalypse. FF7 - Dystopian, modern society with many paralells to our own, plus magic rocks. The story is about the evils of corporate greed and how a product of their research pretty much fucks everything up. FF8 - Modern-day world with magic added in. Plot is like an anime high school romance paired with some kind of crazy shonen mercenary story. Something about sorceresses too, I don't know. I only played because of Laguna and the music. FF9 - Back to swords, sorcery and steampunk. Very much a similar feel to FF5 and FF6 (al the FF games before 7 really), and is intentionally made that way. Plot is...full of spoilers if I describe it too much so just accept that the main character is a smart-ass and the bad guy is a sociopath who dresses in drag and recites lines in iambic pentameter. FF10 - Post-apocolyptic world that was once high technology and magic, now people are struggling to survive and have turned to religion to do so. If a JRPG ever took a jab at rome and the pope, it's here. Plot is the main character is dumped into this world, and spoilers spoilers plot twist spoilers. A great game, but the voice acting can get on your nerves even if Tara Strong and John DiMaggio in it. The guy who does most of the voices in Johnny Test is the main character, so... FF11 - This is a MMO. Skip. FF12 - High magic and high technology. Great acting and graphics, but the battle system is not like your standard Final Fantasy game and takes some getting used to. The story is really complicated and full of more plot twists since they decided they liked that somewhere around FF8, but it basically is about wars, evil empires, and the forces controlling them all. FF13 - I don't know, I never played this one. I heard it's one long hallway and you hit the X button a lot.

Ohh myyy gooooosh that's her dark queen costume from Paper Mario 2. Edit: watched the video, and HOLY CRAP THANK YOU I WANT MELEE SAMUS IN BRAWL OMG. Seriously, as a Samus player this makes me so happy. I really disliked how slow and clunky Brawl Samus was (probably made that way to make people play as Suitless). She looks nice and fast and dangerous at close range, with side-rolls/crawls and a grapple-slam that looks so easy to do. The slam was harder in Brawl, but man it was easy and so useful in original Melee.

I never wanted a video game soundtrack until I played Final Fantasy 7. Yeah, that seems rather late, but I was stuck playing crap shovelware on Genesis until I could buy things with my own money. Otherwise, if I had gotten a SNES like all the other kids, probably Secret of Mana, FF6 or Super Metroid.

That equality and representation in media is important. That video games, movies, books, what have you should not be labled and marketed specifically towards males or females. That both genders can enjoy the same things, and these games do not need hooks like sexy outfits or sixpacks or whatever to draw people in. That the old corporate systems of deciding what is appropriate in video games by a bunch of old white men in suits should end, and they should take a look at how indie publishers are doing things. That even if you do not feel that the misrepresentation of both males and females in video games affects you, you can understand that some people do not like these cookie-cutter roles and are getting tired of it. Those kinds of things.

So she's still preaching to the choir just to say "HEY LOOK THIS HAPPENS" instead of offering solutions or reasonable explanations to people who don't understand inequality? Lovely. I haven't watched this series after the first one, and hey I'm a feminist. I like my equality. The first one and the discussions it sparked were such a fantastic failure, I have little faith in the rest of the series. She's making people talk, but she's making them talk about the wrong fucking things. I mean, if she had just stepped up to start with and said "representation matters" when it comes to having equal amounts of male and female protagonists of varying ethnicities, people would have gotten it right away. Or even "these same tropes we've been using for books, movies, TV and video games for 15 years suck and we deserve better writing because we're tired of hip rugged white guys doing shit". Instead we get "this is a problem because I say it is", which subjective ideas never get viewed correctly. Like I said, I stopped watching after the first video. I mean...she could have some good points, I don't know. I just know the method in which they are presented are more of an editorial piece than documentary. It's stupid that people are complaining about how her earrings look or the fact she's wearing the same clothes or whatever, but I don't see what good she is doing with this unless she prompts somebody who is better at presenting material and facts to make videos.

I understand that, but every time I've had malware or a virus on my computer in the past ten years, it's because I either didn't have Adblock or I had it turned off. The way ads work involves too many shady 3rd-party companies, and it's more for my computer's safety than the ads being obnoxious. Now if there were some of those plain google text ads that I know are straight from google with nobody else involved, I'd be cool with not blocking those. The option's right there in Adblock. But seeing the ad featured in this topic makes me want to keep blocking, just because if that crap can get worked in, what else can get in there? The only ad company I haven't blocked is projectwonderful, because I read a lot of webcomics and a lot of advertising is done through that, and most of it is for other comics.

I'm using Adblock. Let Google AdSense do its worst.

I've seen those ads on tumblr posts chuckling about them...they're the Wartune publisher with some new bland similar game with kinky advertising. It's still a boring "build up your ___" game, and I don't think all the poorly-drawn T&A shots in the world can help them. The funny thing is the ESRB told them to knock it off before they descended into Evony levels of madness. Best part is they keep stealing artwork. They're a chinese company so fuck copyrights. Check out the source of that image, it was not painted for some lousy browser game ads. Oh, and this is what the game looks like: CHECK OUT THAT HOT LOG SAWING ACTION 18+ ADULTS ONLY

Yeah, you done got scammed even if it seems legit right now. It's like those "Buy gold for WoW" scams where they contact you. Sure...you get the gold sent to you, and then a month later you log in to find your characters naked with every last thing sold. It seems cool now, but wait. Just wait.

I was 25 when I found this site. When I was 13, the internet didn't exist!

Back in 2004, I had just played Super Metroid for the first time, and was still obsessively playing Metroid Prime. I looked around the internet for original versions of Lower Norfair and Magmoor Caverns to compare them, and I came across Relics of the Chozo and Adhesive Boy's Braving the Flames. Almost ten years later I've kept 5GB of OCR tunes and albums on my computer, and continue to add more. I also found VGMix and Dwelling of Duels after coming to this site.

Never happened to me. Then again the Gamestop I go to treats their customers with respect and doesn't refer to them as anything but "sir" or "miss" if they need to. I'm also female so being called "bro" would be kind of hilarious.

Probably the Tamriel, whether it be Morrowind or Skyrim or wherever. The thing is, unlike the people living in Tamriel, I know the source of all problems is the Aldmeri Dominion and their racist superiority bullshit, so probably my first order of business would be going to Valenwood and taking down their dictatorship. Because hey, if I'm in an Elder Scrolls game, I'm going to be a hero, and heroes can pretty much do whatever they need to do to get shit done. If not Tamriel, then Arcadia. Airships on a jovian planet with rainbow-colored moons, hell yeah.

It's okay, Raz. I popped in for a while last night and enjoyed the music, the Symphonia and discussion about japanese actors. Even if you think it wasn't a full success, there were 54 people in the room when I was in there, so that's 50+ people that enjoyed themselves.

Oh man, that makes me want to dig up one of the old Dungeon Siege games. I have fond memories of the first two.

I find myself playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night whenever I'm watching the door for little trick or treaters. I ought to get a bigger October gaming list, though. I do Lament of Innocence every Christmas and Skies of Arcadia every summer, but I don't have that many things I play every year.

I think it's justified just for all of Rikku's overdrives. That's why my friend got the guide. That's also why I consulted GameFAQs instead of paying for a guide.

"please. lend. us. your. strength." I had hoped, really hoped that they had re-recorded Yuna's badly-delivered english lines, but nope! Same crap as 2001.

Seymour on Mount Gagazet? That one always gave me a ton of trouble, far more than Yunalesca usually does.

Because Lulu was not a teenager and thus too old to be used in a game that featured girls undergoing magical girl transformations into hotpants with multiple belts. FFX-2 came out right after the time moe started fucking over the ideals of beauty and sexy over in Japan, and it's always been the trend in JRPGs that characters over the age of 20 are "old".

They could be saving the release for some big promotion, or could be saving it for a lull in the game market. Or it could come out in December and they haven't said anything yet. Who knows with Square-Enix.

oh no the gaming industry made something for children not us entitled adults let's throw a shitfit

It seems like they're trying to make the music fit in to modern JRPG trends, which is to make it have a ton of reverb, some rhythm guitar somewhere, and viola or cello samples that sound like they came from Vocaloid. I don't know, maybe it's just my own personal preference, but I don't get why they had to rehaul music that was great to begin with. All they're doing by trying to bring it up to date is well...making it dated. Oh, sweet. I like the concept art of Bevelle in that book there. We actually get to see what a city street looks like! Maybe I ought to drop some bucks to put in a preorder too.

SE isn't going to give up their baby so easily. They've sat on the Chrono series like a mother hen on a nest, and people aren't even allowed to make fan works. There's all sorts of romhacks, mods and fanmade Final Fantasies, yet Square-Enix rarely makes a fuss about them. Meanwhile if anybody messes with Chrono Trigger, they send their rabid lawyers after them. If they decide to pull a McCaffrey with their fans like that, I doubt they'll send it off to a third party developer. Chocobo Racing, however...I can imagine Obsidian doing that. I'd be all over that, too. Chocobo Racing was crazy fun.

It sounds okay, but I don't see why the music needed a big change. The original sampling was pretty good.