It was a great ride, but im getting off.If I had a cool internal monologue, that is what I would have said as VP2 invited me to play through a second time on a harder difficulty. While I played 54 hours and got my characters to the 50-60s in levels, I am not hardcore enough to do it again on a more difficult setting.
I will say this, I may still get FF12, but VP2 is my RPG of the year. The battle system is fast and exciting without getting too obtuse, the story is fucking amazing but doesnt really blow you away till the second half when SHIT GOES DOWN. I mean mythic shit, clash of the titans crossover shit that will make you say AWESOME.
The main villain is also a badass, I won't say who is the MAIN villain cause this is a story of Gods and Demons that exist in the dusk between night and day. You dont know who is good and who is bad, except that the main character, despite being a 16 year old girl, is one of the most hardcore RPG characters out there.
I was also amazed by how far VP2 pushes that old PS2. I mean stunned. Just like blown out of my goddamned chair in chapter 6 as all the stops are pulled and I am shown everything the ol PS2 can do.
Delving into the ABYSSGrabbed Tales of the Abyss on recommendation with warnings that while its incredibly charming, its lacking on a technical level. I started my adventure just the other night and they are right. It IS lacking on a technical level. I think its a bit more obvious since I had just finished Valkyrie Profile 2 which blew the goddamned doors off my PS2 and created a black hole of AWESOME around my apartment. I mean the overworld for example is an unpopulated flat texture world with horrible trees, yet it takes forever to load in and out of it and as you turn the camera I get chop I havent seen since Shadow of the Colossus.
However, the story and characters thus far are great. The voice acting that IS there (I will touch on this point) is awesome, and I am really enjoying the banter provided by the completely selfish rich spoiled brat of a main character. I am assured the characters later in the game are just as unconventional and that does have me pumped.
The story is supplimented by these 'skits' that take place when you press the select button. The japanese version had voices in these talking head moments, but the US release doesnt. However the music is still turned down when it occurs and their lips still move. Its like watching a modern movie then being jolted into a silent film and back again. its REALLY weird.
The battle system is fun and active, and the fact that you have to pull of moves should keep it interesting. After being so engrossed in VP2s Dungeon/Sphere and Combat system it still feels ...welll.
Im just saying I shoulda played this before VP2, cause now TotA has to live in VP2s shadow
Yes Blizzard, I'm back. Where's my stuff?At the prodding of some old friends I have rejoined the world of warcraft, on a casual level. When I mean casual I mean level 11 after two weeks. I just dont have time to commit like I used to, but I still have my level 60 warlock on Gilneas if I require some instant PVP gratification.
Its really amazing I kept paying Blizzard 15 dollars a month even during the three months I wasnt playing. I mean, they make it incredibly easy to close your account and turn it back on, but I just never got around to it. Could just be im lazy, or a fool with his money, but fact of the matter is unlike OTHER MMORPGs I didnt remember I still had my account open with the thought 'damn bastards shouldnt get any more of my money'.
Blizzard whore? Probably.
Anyway I rolled another Warlock on Alliance side this time. Why Alliance? Yes, they are a bunch of no-talent hacks, HOWEVER, being alliance means I can MURDER BLOOD ELVES who prance around trying to be warlocks. My affliction build that served me so well in PVP will destroy them, forever rite lol.
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And STAY down!Its 30 bucks, its Clover Studios last game, and its fuck awesome. Its a game about:
(well, no chun li and ken)
and
To quote one of my previous posts:
haha over the top, well lets put it this way, the plots as bizzare.
***SPOILERS TO A BEAT EM UP GAME INCOMING***********
So the game starts and I show up at this town, thirsty, and then I have to beat guys up. Then me and my female co-star decide to get a room, my character mocks her sexuality, she puts a kick me sign on the characters back and sends him out to fight more people who mock the sign. Then like...this poison chiuauahahhaa (sp) which is purple is forced by this gang to like bite a guy and he's poisoned so I check the guy and APPARENTLY I have to get the antidote, so I fight guys, but the fighting leads me too...some dance hall with gay mexican wrestlers, and I MEAN gay. They do bizzare hip gyrations and thrust their crotches and talk with a femme voice. So I beat them up, and I go up to 'check them' and the main character observes THEY DONT HAVE PARTS OF MEN and 'they must have lost them in 'the war' wtf'. So then I go through the next door and all of a sudden im like at the steps to some shinto looking shrine shit with purple fire, I beat some guy up, now im in some god damned mansion beating people up.
Boy I hope that guy doesnt need the antidote soon.
