Newegg has a limited time deal where you can preorder GT5 for only $48 (and free shipping).  Seemed kind of too good to pass up.

I can't stand when people stretch a non-widescreen image to fill a widescreen.  It always looks horrible.  How can you go on about texture filtering and anti-aliasing and then butcher the image like that?

I used to do a fair amount of online gaming on the PC back in the day, but widespread use of mics has kind of killed online gaming for me.  I don't want to listen to most of the people playing these things...

But what the heck is with you people trying to lose?  I can't even imagine it.  I only feel 'bad' if it's a bad game, like if half your team isn't actually trying or something.  A close, competitive game is too much fun to feel bad about even if you do lose!

All video games are CGI.

Well, unless they have live-action footage in them.

Look forward to Ar Tonelico 3 then!

I thought the series was popular because of its gameplay.  You know, something that has nothing what-so-ever to do with what the main character looks like.

What the heck, the set on the NISA store with the soundtrack and artbook is sold out already.  I didn't expect that...

Kind of kills my enthusiasm for ordering the game now.  I have enough keep me busy so I might just wait for a price drop.


Do you know how many games came out in March?  I spent roughly March through September playing nothing but games that came out in March...

What, like March?  Do you remember how many games came out in March?

Well, it certainly sounds worth trying out.  I liked the shopkeeper interactions in Atelier Iris.  I haven't tried Annie but the lack of a save-the-world kind of plotline doesn't bother me in the slightest.  Why should every game be about saving the world?

The its release date is a week away and I'm still torn on whether I should get it or not.  I haven't played any of the 'traditional' Atelier titles before so I'm not quite sure if I would enjoy it.  Looks nice, though.

The only things I expected from FFXIII was that it would look pretty, have good music, and be fun.

Well, I guess two out of three ain't bad.  Except when the third is the most important.

I like geo puzzles...

I have to agree.  The line was incredibly lame, which was exactly why it felt realistic.

But on the other hand, that tiny nugget of realism felt out of place in FFXIII...

You know, if it wasn't for forums like this I wouldn't even know about the not opening chests thing.  I never consult guides and things my first time through a game unless I really am stuck.  Just play it normally and enjoy it.

I have to join in on the FFXII-was-a-good-game camp.  Vaan was pathetic as a lead and Penelo was even less-developed than Vaan, but if you ignored those two the other four characters were good.  The game had a lot of things going for it, too.  I loved the massive world to explore that actually felt alive.  I love politcally-themed plots and I just wish the plot in FFXII had more time devoted to it after the first 10-20 hours of the game.   And I've said this before but I think FFXII easily had the best dungeon-crawling of any FF game ever.  It was not a perfect game, but I very much enjoyed playing it.

Totally hated XIII, though.  XIII was like the anti-XII.  It got as far away as is even theoretically possible from the vast open-world feel and instead of having inadequate plot development it constantly bombarded you with pointless cutscenes...