Matsuno Fantasy or maybe letting Masato Kato work on a project that isn't set up to screw him over would interest me.

I can dream

There was a 2?

The best summarized conference is still the 2006 Sony one.

Can't find a lot of super-old screenshots, and even fewer of people that you might recognize.

Also my screenshots have ass resolution. I should really update my computer more often.

ky's samurai ponytail looks horrendous on him

not buying it

I definitely knew there was a lot of people playing the game when it launched, I just didn't know there was more than one guy on the staff currently still playing, heh.

Players in the know actually prefer to do reives outward because farming Reives in further out areas results in much higher bayld yields. Of course, they kinda killed the point of getting Bayld because the Delve stuff is so ridiculously powerful that nobody gives a crap about the Wildskeeper weapons anymore. This shift to vertical progression within the game is a bad idea.

On the bright side, they've been promising a lot of stuff in the next patch, including:
-Tier 2 Skirmish
-Tier 2 Naakuals
-Monstrosity (Play as a monster)
-Mog Gardens
-RUN/GEO AF

The nice thing about Skirmish is that a few days ago, they patched the Simulacrum drop rates to be apparently really, really high from doing Reives, or at least high enough that the prices have crashed quite a bit. Hopefully they'll take that same route with the tier 2 Skirmish. I'm also expecting some story content to come along with all this new stuff, otherwise I'll be disappointed. I actually cancelled my account for a bit after the expansion released because of real life stuff + lack of content, but this next patch does look promising.

Browsed through the site and I noticed this game has a lot of classes. In a lot of the cases I'm having a hard time knowing what the differences even are (EX: Assassin VS Nightblade). I've actually heard a lot of positive things about the game so I might check it out. The only thing I'm not crazy about is how the races all seem to just be humans...though I haven't read enough about the story or lore to know if they're trying to go for a more "realistic" sort of thing.

Even that didn't stop him from coming back to the game again a while after that.

Atmospheric CO2 reaches 400 ppm for the first time in history.

I propose we eat pieces of dry ice to celebrate.

Eh, in ST2 they explained him enough within the movie itself for you to know who he was without watching the show (Besides, he only had one episode in TOS and it honestly even wasn't that great).

They were probably playing it straight because the main villain is
(Spoilered that, not sure if it's a spoiler or not but I'll play it safe) In case you arn't a nerd, that's
Wasn't really expecting much myself. I didn't like the first film very much but a part of me wanted to believe that after they got the initial success from the first film they would try more than just make "Generic Space Action Film No. 532343" this time. Oh well.

Picked a good day to post a review for the game.



Happy XIth birthday, FFXI.

I didn't even know there were people on the staff other than Arliman still playing the game.

Understandably the review is pretty shallow, because...well, there's barely any content in the expansion. Personally I'm pretty disappointed. I was expecting it to launch with more than basically just one cutscene of substance (The one in Castle Adoulin). Lack of AF is pretty par for the course given their track record, but the most heinous thing is the areas themselves.



It honestly reminds me a lot of Gridania from FFXIV, and not in a good way. Gridania had pretty trees to look at. The only new area that I've enjoyed exploring around in is Foret de Hannetiel.

And while unlike Derek I enjoy Into Lands Primeval a lot, I too find it annoying that it's literally the only field song. There's no music in Cih, Moh, or Morimar. Even WOTG had something like 4.

The best praise I can give is that Delve has a lot of decently enjoyable fights, but a movement back to 18-man content is really not a good idea in a game this old.

Sword was sub-par.
Children was okay.
Heroes was god awful.

The art and music of the series is great and all, but I'd rather see that talent being put on games that are actually good.

Grandia holds a special place in my heart because I grew up watching a couple of the Ghibli films and my favorite was always Castle in the Sky. Grandia was like playing a Ghibli film...it captured that childish adventure feel so great. The best I can hope for is that they make another game that captures that feel for a new generation, because it's probably impossible to do that for an adult.

But then, Pixar movies are always praised for being able to do just that.

Also this theme is amazing.

You didn't hear about it because FFXIV 1.0 was a horrible game to the point that even the usual game critics that score of scales of 7-10 gave it sub-5 scores.

It's commendable they are putting so much effort into fixing the game, though.


you say that like its a horrible loss