We hand them out very rarely. I've only ever given two (and one was for a retro review).

I'm playing Tri next! :D

If it's the same, Freedom Unite has low level quests at 1-5 stars and then high level quests at 6-8 or 9 (can't remember).

So I did two hours of uni work this morning and, pretty much since then, have been playing Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. I've given up on it in the past when it got too hard, but I've pushed through and (I think) have actually gotten pretty good. Just finished farming for some new armour and am continuing to tackle the village elder 4-star quests. I know I have a long way to go. :P

Let me see.... I have played: Phantasia, Eternia, Symphonia, Rebirth, Abyss, Innocence, Vesperia, Hearts, Graces. (Plus spin-offs: Radiant Mythology I [boring], Tales of VS (kinda fun, but has serious problems] and Dawn of the New World [absolute crap])

Hearts would be my favourite. The battle system is on par with the fast-paced excitement of Graces (but 2D, of course) and I just really enjoyed the game a lot. You can find my exact reasoning here. :P I hated Beryl, but I thought all the other characters were great, particularly Hisui and Chalcedony.

I was very fond of Symphonia for a long time, but I feel it's been improved on in later titles. Having said that, it was the first one I played, so it's still an important one for me. And, as much as everyone rabbits about Colette and the cliches, I thought the story was fantastic and I loved Colette. Kratos, Zelos and Sheena were equally outstanding characters and the game as a whole was really polished.

After that, I'd say Vesperia and Graces f are on par with each other, though for different reasons. Vesperia has a much stronger story and cast of characters, while Graces has an outstanding battle system. As already mentioned, Yuri from Vesperia is great, and I like Flynn a lot too. Sophie from Graces was good and, for some reason, I liked Richard as well.

Phantasia wasn't great, but I like Mint a lot. Eternia I loved at the time, but I can barely remember it now, so I don't know what that says. I'm currently playing Abyss on 3DS, but don't really like it that much. I'm only about 15 hours in though, so I may change my tune by the end.

In short:

Hearts -> Symphonia -> Graces / Vesperia -> Eternia -> Rebirth -> Innocence -> Phantasia -> Abyss

[Haven't played: Destiny, Destiny 2, Legendia, Xillia]

I do like iDOLM@STER. Apparently not as much as this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tVNWxGbRAI

That would make me actually play a CoD game.

The first Final Fantasy game I ever played was Tactics Advance. I loved it then and I loved it now. I think the first Final Fantasy Tactics is a mediocre game that receives far more praise than it deserves. (Please don't hurt me everyone.)

After that, I played them in a rather erratic order:

Final Fantasy X was the first main series game that I played and, thankfully, an exceptionally good one. The cutscene that involves the gang stopping Yuna's wedding is still my favourite FF scene. Watching them slide down the chains is awesome. Also, great ending.

Final Fantasy XII was next. I love it. I love it a lot. I had my say over on the FFXIII v Xenoblade topic so I won't repeat it here. I would like to say though that I think Rasler Nabradia is one of the coolest characters ever. Is it weird that I think that and, apart from appearing a couple of times as a ghost, he's only really in the opening cutscene?

I borrowed VIII off a friend, but never actually owned it. Got as far as the end of the first disc and then gave up on it. I think that's when my friend told me all the characters had grown up in the same orphanage, or something like that. That sounded ridiculously stupid, so I think my interest waned. That said, after the FFX scene mentioned above, my next favourite is the waltz done by Squall and Rinoa.

I think I played IX next, but I don't remember it very well. I can't remember what I thought, but I'm sure I didn't finish it.

Like IX, I don't remember V all that well. Again, I don't think I finished it.

I played FFVII after a friendly kindly gave me his copy. I know it cops a lot of criticism these days, but I thought it was great. Even in (I can't remember the exact year) about 2010 I can see why it was thought of so highly. I hated hunting down Yuffie in those forests. :P

VI! I love VI. I don't think I need to explain why.

FFIII was next when I played the remake on DS. Did not like it at all.

Sometime around here I tried a trial of XI. I'm pretty sure I couldn't even figure out the controls. Needless to say, I never purchased the full game.

I think FFXIII came out around here, which was when I played it. I liked it, but it was certainly lacking a few important features. I don't think I'd go back and play it again. Didn't really like any of the characters.

I bought the remake of FFIV on PSP when it came out, and was glad I enjoyed it as much as II hoped I would. Great story and characters. Kain and Rydia are two of my favourites. Unfortunately, I did not like The After Years at all. It ruined the whole experience for me a bit.

Finally I played FFI on PSP. Which, shockingly, I actually really, really enjoyed.

Which I then, stupidly. followed up by playing FFII. Awful game.

And that's that! I'm playing XIII-2 right now... but I'm not sure what I think yet. I have not played XIV.

Oh, and I should make a special mention of Crisis Core. Zack is awesome.

I like Xenoblade, but I like FFXII more. I think everybody already knew that.

I thought the story and characters in XII weren't particularly exciting (though I did like Balthier), but I loved every other aspect of the game. I've played over 100 hours of FFXII and it's probably my tied favourite Final Fantasy (along with VI). I'm about 1/3 of the way through Xenoblade and haven't played it in months. I like it, and I can see it's a good game, but... I dunno. I'm tired and need to go to bed.

Is that a Baldur's Gate portrait? Looks familiar...

I am most like Satoshi Shimizu from Japan. He competes in Bantamweight. I didn't even know what that was until I looked it up. Apparently it's a type of boxing. To quote wiki:

I am currently watching a replay of USA vs Australia in archery. We're winning! ('We' being Australia). That said, we're not doing all that well this olympics.

I really like archery, it's probably my favourite sport. In high school I played a whole bunch of stuff including basketball, squash, rugby, cricket, swimming, softball, and probably other stuff I can't remember. My favourite at the time was cross country though, and I ran that for years. I still go running now and then, but it's hard to find time for it.

Might as well say it looks fine to me. Firefox/W7 64.

Agreed with Eusis. Though I would say there are very, very few games where I would say huge breasts and/or skimpy clothing is appropriate (either parodies or other select games that usually aren't serious in tone). Enjoyable to look at? Mostly. But I don't play games for that. If I want to see that, I can choose other forms of media. Plus, I've seen so much of it over the years it's more of a "not this again" response.

Ash, this is awesome.

Wow... that sucks. I really dislike when games are distributed like that. When I buy a game, I want to by the WHOLE game, and I don't mind paying a bit more or waiting a bit longer for it.