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I never beat 7th Saga. It was neat how each character choice was quite varied, but it was too grind-heavy for me to hold interest.
I did enjoy SaGa Frontier, so I can understand your love of Romancing Saga, but...they're all so...disconnected. I couldn't stand how SGF never gave you any real direction on where to go, or what to do to beat the game. SGF2 was just f#%@ing weird.
np doubt, 7th saga/mystic ark was a grindfest. No doubt.
But the music was so haunting, the monsters so unique...I fall in love again every time I start a new game.
Saga frontier is allllllll about freedom. Just freedom. Go anywhere. Literally.
Much like my nudity.
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Chrono Trigger was a game made in the mid-90s (IIRC) by a "dream team" from the creators of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and character designs by none other than Akira Toryiama of Dragon Ball (and Z and Super, but not GT, 'cause f~$& GT) fame.indeed
Will always love chrono trigger. But it is not the best in my view.
I personally consider Chrono Trigger the best video game ever made. Ever.
I vaguely recall playing part of 7th Saga and losing interest somewhere in the beginning, but I was much younger at the time and new to RPGs so I might need to try it again sometime.
And add me as a third voice who could not get through the constant sidetracking of poetry, history lessons, and random trivia that was the LOTR books. I slogged through FOTR and quit early into T2T. The movies did a very good job of excising the unnecessary sidetracks and focusing on the actual plot.
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I tried the LotR books. They were a nightmare. We get it, you know the backstory of every tree branch and blade of grass. You don't need to tell it to us!
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Turns out we're getting a TV with a PlayStation.
The costs of not buying a new TV in fifteen years I guess.
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And thank goodness for consumer reports!
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I dunno, LotR did a pretty good job of holding true. They only cut out the unneccessary s!~#, like Tom Bombadil. F&&# that guy.
Shame. Shame. *cowbell* Shame. *cowbell* Shame. Shame. Shame. *cowbell*
Let me know when your feet start bleeding, eh?
lol
EDIT: To be clear -- Bombadil is awesome.
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got into a huge argument with my dad. He goes into telling me how I messed up all the other food I made and called it crap while he does not do what I need to get dinner done and then I get upset and do not cook well after I get upset and he tells me I am doing it wrong and wonders why I don't want to be in the same room as him.
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Hmm my avoidance defense mechanism (yes that is one of the bad ones) tells me to leave and let him do it. Your problem now suckAH you do better!
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Also was T-lion not on today?
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I personally found the LOTR books too lengthy anyway. Stop singing and get to fighting! RAWR!
But the problem is that I came from the movies to read the books, so I wouldn't have been considered as a book fan. If not for the LOTR movie I would not have even read the books.
I tried reading the books in high school. When I got to page 140 and Frodo hadn't left the shire yet I quit and went back to reading Robert E. Howard short stories.
Once the first movie came out I read the books with my youngest daughter. Strangely enough she was in high school.
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Weird.
So like a little while back I mentioned the boards saying this thread had around 20 people in it. That's because when I look at the main boards page, it says like "this person, this person, this person and 18 others", right?
But, I count way more than that within the first...ten pages maybe.
So...
Wasn't the goal of the thread originally to see how long until you break the board?
Goal achieved, it seems. I mean, you didn't freeze it over, but shit, even I know how to count.
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Also was T-lion not on today?Tac may be traveling to visit family elsewhere.
Hmm good point. your probably right.
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Weird.
So like a little while back I mentioned the boards saying this thread had around 20 people in it. That's because when I look at the main boards page, it says like "this person, this person, this person and 18 others", right?
But, I count way more than that within the first...ten pages maybe.
So...
Wasn't the goal of the thread originally to see how long until you break the board?
Goal achieved, it seems. I mean, you didn't freeze it over, but s&*+, even I know how to count.
Their is a Judas priest song that almost encompass my feelings about that. Keep in mind when this thread breaks it will be the 6th times. Do we get to choose a chosen one at that point? Can I be neo? even though neo wasn't the chosen one.
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That by the way folks is how you rant^
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I dunno, LotR did a pretty good job of holding true. They only cut out the unneccessary s!~#, like Tom Bombadil. F&&# that guy.Shame. Shame. *cowbell* Shame. *cowbell* Shame. Shame. Shame. *cowbell*
Let me know when your feet start bleeding, eh?
lol
EDIT: To be clear -- Bombadil is awesome.
He's not awesome. He's powerful. Powerful =/= Awesome.
Superman is powerful. Superman is also as boring as......he's as boring as watching the Star Wars prequels with every single light saber fight cut out and enhanced commentary by Hayden Christianson on exactly how he channeled the angst and emotion of his character.
The Silver Surfer is powerful. The Silver Surfer also was never interesting to anyone over the age of seven.
Too much power = No enough conflict. Conflict = Necessary For Good Story.
As Penny Arcade illustrated, what's the point of any other character when you have that super-powerful ridiculous hero?
Also, he literally serves no point to the plot. He's as needless as the extended lore throughout the books, except at least that stuff helps to set the narrative of the world, while TB is just a stupid little stop that makes no sense in any way, shape, or form. He's a speedbump, and a f@+$ing annoying one at that.
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This is where I would normally go into my spiel about how their is a proper way to write characters like that and make them interesting but I don't have the energy right now get back to me in a week and ill go over it then.
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The proper way is, ironically enough, the only way I find Superman to be interesting: the "can a god truly relate to man" question - the only time Superman really has any conflict is when they address his inevitable loneliness, because he is figuratively a god among men, and there is no way he will every actually relate to them.
Or, you take OPM's route and have them bored as hell, like Saitama, trying to find a way to deal with the ennui of being so strong.
Essentially, the only conflicts they can have are internal.
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I said next week.
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Oh hi Robert! That's one of my Strange Aeons players. Everyone say hi and be nice =)
*waves a paw*
Yeah next time someone tells me the food sux, please offer constructive criticism. Yes, I know I tend to cook things a little more salty and sweet, but heck, that's the way I roll.
And if you just want to complain, you can cook your own stuff next. I'm eatin' out.
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Robert it costs about tree fiddy to join this thread. Msg me I'll send you my paypal...
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STOP! do not trust that lizard! he speaks lies!
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*smacks the loch ness monster with a paw*
Don't listen to that rubbish!
It's like Nobody's Home asking me to go for a snipe hunt!
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Night shift job is done with, now to enjoy the holidays. I survived that ordeal pretty well, even though the first week was pretty rough.
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Night shift is my life.
the night, she calls me.
Its take about 2-3 weeks to really adapt to the night life and about 2 months to be comfortable with it.
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100% true, can confirm.
I love the graveyard shift nowadays.
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Its really the perfect time to work if you have a extreme dislike for the public.
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Well, I have school at the same time, so it's not viable for me. XD
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So the new Blade Runner movie did not suck.
I was prepared to loathe it. I didn't.
Also, anyone who hates LOTR needs to grow an effing attention span.
Except for Bombadil. Even Tolkien himself readily admitted that Bombadil's songs were the worst verse he'd written.
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You tell em lisa.
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*sigh* I hate people...
Someones car was broken into I stepped out to see what was going on it scared them off but they took a few things and broke a window. Already talked to police etc. Man breaking into someones car and stealing their Christmas gifts while their on their way to see their family for the holiday. that is pretty low.
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Sounds like someone's getting coal.
And by that I mean I hope Santa steps on them until they are literally compressed carbon and left under peat for several thousand years to become coal because seriously why would you do that to a person?!
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Plus I'm super paranoid now and looking out at the parking lot every few minutes now.
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Weird.
So like a little while back I mentioned the boards saying this thread had around 20 people in it. That's because when I look at the main boards page, it says like "this person, this person, this person and 18 others", right?
But, I count way more than that within the first...ten pages maybe.
So...
Wasn't the goal of the thread originally to see how long until you break the board?
Goal achieved, it seems. I mean, you didn't freeze it over, but s$#$, even I know how to count.
The goal was achieved five times. We still don't know how long this thread to be to break the forums the sixth time. The experiment goes on.
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*sigh* I hate people...
Someones car was broken into I stepped out to see what was going on it scared them off but they took a few things and broke a window. Already talked to police etc. Man breaking into someones car and stealing their Christmas gifts while their on their way to see their family for the holiday. that is pretty low.
A few years ago I was going for a NY party, and passed next to a shopping kiosk. It took me a few steps to realize that the guy I saw was reaching inside through a broken window instead of closing it for the night as I first thought.
To be honest I panicked because I was sure the guy will run after me and will attack me. I walked a hundred meters or so and then called the police...
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It is. I don't keep anything in it that could be stolen and it has one of those weird computer system ignitions so I don't think its possible to steal it. So they would break a window and be disappointed. I'd have to get a new window. Course the family their car was parked towards the back mine where i can kind of see it by looking out the door. Plus surely they would not be dumb enough to come back in the same night.
Edit: Plus cops are still driving by frequently. So i'm just being paranoid.
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Funny enough they had a car alarm but it didn't go off from the smashing window it was later when opening the door that the car alarm went off. I guess the censor only cares when you get in to it normally.
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I need to re-read LotR. I was twelve when I did last time because I wanted them read before the movies came out. I'd probably like them better now.
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I need to read the silmarillion but too many mixed reveiws is my hang up right now some people tell me not because apparently its tedious. I can't decide If I want to make that commitment or not.
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I think anything written by Tolkien is tedious =)
I suppose it's cool if you could plough through the whole thing but meh...lets just say it ain't for me.
Actually I was thinking about what Drejk said. Most thieves don't want to get caught. So if they get caught in the act, they would probably run away instead of attacking right?
I mean if you kill someone the crime is murder. Knock someone out and it'd fall under grievous bodily harm. Much more serious offenses then burglary.
And the thieves shouldn't try it again now the cops are around.
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You must not remember the 80's/early 90s programming. all the pacing was so much slower. some would argue richer.(really the further back you get the worse it is as far as pacing goes.) Some of it can be hard to watch now a days. things seemed needlessly stretched out etc. I think its just a generational change of mindset and maybe a bit of evolution on entertainment in general. I mean I don't have to take up for Tolkien his legacy speaks for itself. I think he wanted much more then just a story but rather an world with a rich history.
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There's still an appetite for that sort of thing--I mean, look at erfworld.
Then again, I'm basically the maximum anime nerd so I usually deal in light novel tropes.
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I may actually have some form of ADHD. I can't sit around doing nothing. I mean give me a book, a computer, or maybe some fluffy animals to watch, I can keep myself entertained.
But ask me to lie around on the beach and enjoy the sun and sea? Not gonna happen. I'll go splash in the water looking for crabs and octopi.
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I know when I worked at Walmart we weren't suppose to do anything to get in the thief way aside from let him know he was being watch subtlety. Really I didn't see any motivation they have insurance for that stuff and expect a certain amount of theft per day. Breaking into someones car and stealing presents presumably for their children is about as crappy as it gets.
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No I mean the guests said they took some presents.