[X] My Assistant

With this FAT COCK.

And my COWBOY HAT!

And TRUSTY PNEUMATIC NAIL GUN!

I go with cocks.

As Confucius once said, "You just can't go wrong with cocks."

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Your approval fills me with un-shame. Um... what's the opposite of shame again?

Man, I wish FFXIII was good.

Everyone that had the misfortune of playing that game wishes the same thing.

Except Geo McNumbername, who is dumb.

And bad.

At everything.

Ever.

As always, my usual response to the matter of FF.

Eww, FF.

Still awake. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

Arrested Development is still so fucking good in my brainholes.

:/

I should clean out my PM box more frequently.

I should clean out my PM box more frequently.

I disagree.

I should clean out my PM box more frequently.

Let it fester and rot. Then the next time some fucker tries to stick his dingus in your PM Box he'll catch something unpleasant, then die of an infectious disease.

I give you my word as a doctor with a PhD in kicking people's asses with medical malpractice lawsuits.

People actually get full PM boxes? Didn't think it was possible.

I don't like the clutter.

PM boxes can get cluttered? Didn't think it was possible.

Man, I wish FFXIII was good.

I'm sure you are as happy as everyone else who didn't like that game to find out that [na.square-enix.com] a sequel is being made.

I'm sure you are as happy as everyone else who didn't like that game to find out that [na.square-enix.com] a sequel is being made.

I heard about that a while ago, wasn't too affected. It's not that the game is bad, per se. It's more that the game tries too much to be something it isn't. It starts really strong, with real potential and decent characters, and I don't even care that much about the linearity of the main game, honestly. Some of my favorite RPGs are linear as crazy (Mother series, Lunar, Pokeymans). But the battle system doesn't accumulate very well, and by the third disk, all you really need is COM/RAV/RAV, RAV/RAV/RAV and MED/MED/SEN to get through the campaign. Maybe a few rough spots where a SAB or a SYN comes in handy, but it's not a real requirement.

The problem is, the game starts so high and then just kind of plateaus throughout. The Crystarium is a shitty character progression tool, Paradigm Shift is largely unnecessary, the characters themselves kind of devolve from refreshing personalities (especially on the parts of Light, Sazh and Vanille, in my opinion. Snow and Hope can go away and I don't even pay attention to Fang) to cookie cutter personae and boring archetypal paper dolls.

So, really, it's not bad, but it's also not very good. If it lived up to its potential and wasn't so steeped in playing all the tropes it has straight, it could have been a pretty alright distraction. But it suffers the stigma of so many triple-A RPGs coming from Japan since roughly 1998: Terrible story, amazing graphics. And I understand that those things aren't even related in the slightest during development, but it doesn't help that it happens. All. The. Time. I'm a man without a country, I hate the way that Japanese RPGs refuse to change the paradigm, and I hate that I don't have a locus to follow in Western RPGs.

People actually get full PM boxes? Didn't think it was possible.

I regularly have to throw out old PMs to make way for new ones.

'Course, I've had less need lately... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

I feel like Jesus.

And just like I don't believe in him, you don't believe in me.