I was really happy when they announced it was coming out on XBL downloads.  I was hoping it would come out before I moved out (it was my roommate's 360), but it didn't.  I played the old version back on dreamcast with friends and absolutely loved it.  It's a really cool style of gameplay, even if we didn't have any idea on how to play it, due to it being in Japanese.

Hopefully the 360 since the FPS is supposedly a lot better than the Ps3's for some reason.

I'm really interested in playing this game.  I have some questions for you.

-My roommate said something about how the shooting, while similar to nhl 07, allows you to shank the shots if you don't pull back on the stick straight.  How does that play in the game?

-How many one-timer goals do you see?  I come from the old school games where one timers ruled the earth, yet when I played 07, I had a really hard time scoring like that even on really nice one-timers.

-Also, one of the biggest flaws in the 07 if you ask me was the ease of scoring with manual dekes even without a breakaway.  Even on the hardest goalie difficulty, my roommate was generally able to score on easily 50-65% of the manual deke/fake-outs that he was able to get.  Was this fixed?

Jylan -  I definitely see where you're coming from.



Persona FES Ending Spoilers



End FES spoilers, but adding to my spoiler post about P3:

ending spoilers.

I'm having some wi-fi problems which I don't believe that are my fault (the landlord sucks and she knows jack shit.  what's worse is that she tells me there's no number to call for help.).

A lot of times the internet is slow and pages often don't load at all and time out causing a very simple page to take a few minutes to actually load.  Needless to say, this pretty much has killed any online gaming I like to do.

My question is, when I complained yesterday the landlord told me everything is fine as far as she knows (which it's not.  My wi-fi at home worked perfectly fine before I came back to school).  I'm using Net-gear to connect to the internet and I notice when I scan the available hotspots, I notice many from my apartment (ones with different channels and different mac addresses).  However it won't let me connect to them even if I push "connect" on that one.  It always connects me to the very first one (which isn't even the best signal) and I'm wondering if that's a software problem.  Maybe it's just that specific channel/mac addresses that is pure shit.

Any ideas on how to connect to different channels?  I tried using the windows software to connect but I didn't see any channels at all, just the main "X apartment" listed.

Thanks in advance!

Speaking of Sony's future...

Wasn't FFXIII and MGS4 (or whatever the next one is) supposed to come out on multi consoles?  I'm not sure if that was a rumor or a fact.

I'm interested in hearing about Star Ocean IV and The DS Dragon Quest remakes.  I'd be interested to hear about release dates and just generally how they are going to do it.

Nothing really surprising really.  That kind of thing happens a lot... and this is the reason why I left alliance shortly after starting wow and went to horde.

edit:  hahaha.... i retract my statement.  that is pretty funny shit.  gotta love e-hardasses

you're probably right about the third party thing.  I just hate leveling up a feral druid.  I just want to hit 70 and go resto =p.

As for the tier 3 part, I don't recall what numbers he exactly used, but we all knew he was full of crap anyway.  He might have been talking about how many bosses he downed, I'm not sure.  He types like a 7 year old so half his sentences were incoherent.

Fucking A I now remember why I switched to horde.  These last two nights leveling my night elf druid have been annoying as shit, mainly because my guild is fucking retarded (it seems to be a theme no matter what guild I join, since he's too low for any decent guild).  

I never can let things be when I hear stupidity spewing from someone's mouth.  What makes it worse is when you state facts or try to explain why it is a certain way and they still don't believe you.

Two nights ago someone was adamantly arguing with me trying to tell me that warriors are weak in arenas and outdoor pvp.  Also that they can't do any damage in raids.  I told him that most people are crying nerf in arenas about warriors and fury can do a nice amount of damage in raids, but no amount of explaining seemed to convince him.

Last night one mage was arguing in a rather childish manner that frost spec is the best raiding spec.  Even after telling him the facts that he was wrong and someone else asking a mage friend from the best raiding guild on the server, he managed to say, "I HAVE A DRUID WITH 4/7 TIER 3 NAXX I KNO WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT"

This is a guild that's supposed to be an alt-leveling guild for a raiding guild.  God almighty.  

I have some spare cash at the moment so I'm considering getting my druid power leveled to like 68 so I can just switch to resto and start getting some gear to raid on him.

I thought about this for awhile and there aren't too many games out there that I put down and actually came back to later, but there is one noteworthy game that came to my mind after a few minutes of thinking.

Fire Emblem.

I don't remember why I originally bought it, perhaps because of the hype here, I can't remember.  I do remember my first play through that I pretty much did all the things possible to really screw yourself over.   I did dumbass things such as evolving my characters at level 10, using that over-leveled paladin to kill just about anything he could reach, and not picking up the optional characters in chapter 16 (I think I got that far).  I can't really say I HATED it the first time around, but it was frustrating as hell because my characters were a lot weaker than they should have been.

I then read much later on how to correctly play Fire Emblem so I restarted my game and played it correctly.  I ended up beating it this time around and loving every second of it.

WTB new Fire Emblem for the Nintendo DS!

I had to comment on this just because I hate Kouli's FAQS.  I realize some FAQ's have spoilers and that it sometimes cannot be avoided, but the first and last Kouli FAQ I read had a very unnecessary big spoiler that kinda pissed me off.

Just a word of caution if you do use one of his FAQs.  I don't know if that part was just absent minded and the only spot where he did it, but it's pretty much caused me to stay clear of his FAQs since.

That sucks that your group fell apart because of that.  I thought Kara was a pretty fun instance.  After you run it for awhile it gets annoying though.

The season 2 arena gear seems to be pretty close to on par PvE wise with SSC/TK gear (depending on your class - holy priest pvp set is shit for PvE; minus maybe one piece) which I think is a little ridiculous because of it's ease of getting loot.  I am VERY casual when it comes to PvP and I could get a new piece every 3 weeks.  Really any nub with patience can get at least t5 caliber weapons in a month-ish, maybe slightly longer.

What makes things worse is on our server both alliance and horde sell arena rating services for gold.  I remember in season 1 that someone paid 2 of the most well-known pvpers on my server 2,000g each (i believe around there) for them to get his 3v3 team high enough so he could get the gladiator title and a swift armored netherdrake.

I disagree about the catering to hardcore raiders (I agree about the other part, any nub can get awesome epics through arena at the moment)

They've been nerfing things left and right lately:

-no SSC or TK key needed

-as of next patch, many high-end bosses will be a hell of a lot easier due to removing the random factor of certain bosses (which I don't view as a bad thing. It just makes it more difficult).  There was also a few different versions of Illidan, which I assume to make him easier.

-SSC trash is going to be near a joke soon and if TK isn't included, it will soon follow.

However, they are catering to them somewhat in that there is supposed to be one more 25 man dungeon before the next expansion pack hits that will supposedly give better loots than Illidan (thus most likely harder).  Some think it will deal with the dragonflight, some think it will deal with the Sunwell.  We'll see I guess.



I agree.  Granted, only 51 guilds in the world have killed him at the moment (only 21 US guilds) which isn't that much.  I'd like to see some form of cockblock for Illidan that stops shit like what Nihilum did for Illidan (for those who don't know, when they first got to Illidan they played pretty much 24 hours straight to make sure they would down him before the server reset).  I don't really think what they had for the original Nefarian was a good idea, but maybe 3-4 attempts per night instead.  Probably won't happen though.

-----As for the Deathknight, I'm just worried about balance issues in pvp and raids.  We don't know what kind of things Blizzard has in plans for the classes talent trees, but at the moment they are looking like they could either:

a.) Become the new rogues and not be used in raids

or

b.) Be given nice utility that it pushes other classes out (rogues, hunters - assuming they aren't given a new utility to make them more wanted).  

Ideally it'd be nice to see more classes have equal ability in raids so everyone is wanted equally.  We'll see in the upcoming months.