My take on Steam / DRM vs XBone crap.

I will "buy" (an individual license to) 10 games for like $3. I'll do this once a month and find tons of high quality games that I really, really enjoy.

On XBone ... well, let me know when they have a sale like that that even comes close.

Ideologically DRM peeves me too, but the pragmatist in me says it's all about the Benjamins.

Here we go... I just couldn't resist...

1. What is your favorite word?
Sumimasen

2. What is your least favorite word?
Quixotic (okay, let me get this straight -- the word is derived from "Don Quixote," which is pronounced in a properly Spanish "Key -ho - tay" ... but when we make it an adjective we throw out all that knowledge and say "Kwik - sah - tik" -- that has got to be the stupidest thing ever.)

3. What turns you on?
My hot wife (as opposed to my ugly wife. They are the same woman; just depends on her mood and how I've been treating her. See: My Fair Lady)

4. What turns you off?
Children screaming (try parenting. "Hey it's 930 pm, it's about that tiime ... oh but wait, all my kids decided to wake up at the same time and hit each other and/or cry about the nightmares they had." You don't know what a turn-off **is** until you've been through this)

5. What sound do you love?
Campfire-crackling

6. What sound do you hate?
Lawnmowers

7. What is your favorite curse word?
DAYUMN

8. What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
Is there a job that just requires sleeping and being lazy? I'll happily try that!

9. What profession would you not like to do?
Porn star.

10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
"HEY! Here's everyone you ever knew! Even the douche bags (but they're a lot less douchy these days!). And here are your pet cats! St. Francis has taken special care of Mr. Clive!!" (I've thought about that cat part quite a bit)

Hyperduck Soundworks, aka "the guys behind the Dust: An Elysian Tail OST" -- are super-rad.

Also Parn ... that "Smooth McGroove" a capella guy is super-talented. Joypad released his music getting it properly licensed. It's a strange new world we live in!

That is not restoring it. I see everyone's but my own. Strange...

since the board was restored, my own avatar doesn't load anymore. Can you see my avatar? Can you see your own avatar?

Drives me insane that there wasn't any soundtrack release for this one. I mean, the *old* Glory of Heracles games got OSTs (some of them, anyway...). Why not this one? And with a soundtrack from Hirota-san, who's in Uematsu's new band and who did about half of the Shadow Hearts series OSTs... c'mon!


Much as I love Falcom in general and that specific song, I take your "awesome desert theme" and raise you with THE POWER OF NIER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pJ4Q7L9rBs "Temple of Drifting Sands" (used in the desert outside the Japanese-ish town with all the crazy laws)

This.

And yeah you totally, *totally* don't need to use blue song to get past the fight. It's only if you want to unlock some crazy crap that you need to exploit blue song glitch.

As for OP -- that's a great deal. I should look to buy other used games from Gamefly and see what good deals come of it. :)

Totally just went $45 tier for the full digital soundtrack and all the other fun stuff.

I loved the crap out of the Neverhood, and I put money on TenNapel's last kickstarter (an artbook). This was a no-brainer for me.

"Good" terrible. I friggin' love that vid.

Livealive remake

This is all I want

I just marathon'd every episode of "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin?"

And I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT_lvfiXJcg&list=PLB2FF10B5D6391E43

Soukaigi
"Quake"
by Hiroki Kikuta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrHCkD8R_84

Yeah. I'm totally serious. And the theme song is being sung in French and it's going to be amazing.

I'll probably preview ... 30 seconds of it when we launch the kickstarter.

This is the first time I've talked about it publicly:

http://www.originalsoundversion.com/introducing-stasis-concerto/

I'm sure I'll be annoyingly / shamelessly saying much more about it in the coming months. But basically ... I'm making a Visual Novel. I think it's going to be good.

Also, one of the three people writing the full script is Stephen Meyerink.

Also also, Emi Evans (from NieR) is singing the game's opening theme song. For serious.

My favorite memories from playing FFXI include:

1) pretty much all of CoP. I played through these missions in 2006: that is, after the first few balance-fixes, but before the removal of level-capping (or equipment-level-scaling, for that matter).
2) the ending of CoP.
3) beating the seven Jailers in Sea, and dying to AV a lot.
4) About 60% of the Salvage runs I went on. For some reason I just REALLY liked that event.
5) Level-grinding summoner in Abyssea. Ridiculously fun/easy/rewarding all in one.
6) Taking down some of the Abyssea zone bosses with a pet-only LS. That was wild.