QFT.  I really tried to love the GBA Kingdom Hearts game, and couldn't manage for exactly that reason.  I've also tried several of the yu-gi-oh/pokemon trading card/whatever games, thinking "well, I'll give this one a shot, to try to be fair."  Never managed to like any of the card games.

Wow - this week was really informative!  We found out for sure the answer to what we were just talking about here and everything.  I thought it was a great episode, along the lines of last season's "five years later" thing, although not QUITE as great as that one was.

Looks like I'm the only one who said that phrase, so I assume you mean in my post.  Nope, just talking about FFT.  I was saying that the graphics are old, but well animated, and I'd rather have the good animation than new shininess.

I was serious!  I'd try that!

Looks like it'd kill you if you ate it more than about once a year.  


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HAHAHAHAHA!  That's awesome.  Well, you know - because it wasn't me.

When I was in high school, I was a drama geek (among other things).  On the last performance of one of our shows, the band teacher thought it'd be funny to have the drummer play a polka beat to the whole show instead of the right beat - messed us all up the whole show, and I tell you what - we didn't think it was so funny then.  It's pretty funny looking back now, though. :)

I do wish that the FFT battle graphics had been upgraded, and there are sound issues, but the new cutscenes and translation are awesome.  Even having said that, though, the animations in the old graphics are great, especially in the scenes that happen before and after battles.  I wonder - if they had redone the graphics, would they have captured that same feeling?

Oh, man - Planescape: Torment is one of the greatest ever.


+ The only RPG I know of where you can get at least as much experience for talking your way out of a fight as actually having the fight.  Wisdom was probably more important than Strength.
+ The biggest question in the game had no answer defined as "correct" by the game.  You got to choose what YOU thought was right.
+ Probably the deepest game I've ever played in terms of philosophy.

- So much hidden/conditional stuff that you really HAVE to use a walkthrough to get the good stuff.
- Hate to admit it, but there were some points where I said "OK, we've been through this already."
- Uh... there aren't more games like it.


Always the hard part for me - picking a next game.   Looks like no one's said Fable yet.  If I'm wrong, just pick whatever you want. I'm feeling generous.  :D

Good point, but I thought it was pretty clear this week that Matt's dad was just showing her anything that'd make her kill Bob.

This week shows us the four months between the seasons, so hopefully there'll be some clarification there.

I don't know where you are, but I know several people here live in the NYC area.  If you do, there's a Nintendo World store in Rockefeller Plaza that gets shipments in on the order of every day.  Of course, if you don't, that's absolutely no help. :(

Haha - saw this the other day and thought it was hilarious.  The good news is that they have at least one common interest...

Nope - Linderman shot him at the end of last season, and he died from that.  I actually liked him better than her, so I was sad about that.

Did you guys see this interview?  Tim Kring basically said "I'm sorry" about the parts of this season that haven't been as good as last season.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20158840,00.html

In case you were interested, I Am Legend has been made into a movie twice before.  

First, it was The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price.  That one's available on Google Video for free because it's old enough to be public domain.  I've seen it two or three times, and I think it's a pretty good film.  It leaves out some of the interesting stuff from the story (like the answer to the question "what if a vampire is jewish?"), but it's still good.

After that, it was made again as The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston.  I haven't seen that one, but it's very different from the book, and I hear it's not very good.  Here's a trailer.

I just finished listening to the book on tape of The Picture of Dorian Gray.  Great book.  It's kind of twilight zoney, and I like that.  It's available for free too, also because it's public domain.  I found it at Librivox.  

While I'm plugging free stuff, if you want to read old books for free (rather than listen to them), you can download them for free at Project Gutenberg.

More recently, I found out that Baen books has stuff available for free too!  Baen puts out fantasy books, in case you don't know them by name.  There aren't a TON of books there, but hey, they're more recent books and they're available legally for free, and that's pretty nice.

I use blogger, and like it.  They've added some nice functionality since I first joined, and if you're more hardcore than me, you can do some nice stuff with customizing your templates.

They just added a thing so that if you comment on someone's post, you can check a box to have followup comments emailed to you.  I like that.

OK, no suggestion for a new one, so I'm doing what I want. :)

Diablo 2 (including the Lord of Destruction expansion)

+ Fun and accessible, with enough loot to keep you collecting for a long time
+ Expansion pack added a LOT of worthwhile stuff
+ 7 distinct classes (including expansion classes) that were all different and fun to play


- Patches you needed to fix bugs also made huge changes to gameplay that could take a character you had put many, many hours into developing and make them worthless
- Tons of items to collect and craft, but not much space to store them in, making collecting any rare sets very difficult
- Rampant cheating, item duping, and annoying kiddies online made multiplayer a lot less fun to play



And since I'm looking for more hacky-slashy here, I'm calling out Marvel Ultimate Alliance next.