Recent content by lysanderprophet

Well, this isn't so much "feature" as it is "fundamental concept upon which all gameplay hinges", but: when I first played Final Fantasy VII, I missed?-which is to say, failed to grasp entirely--the idea of leveling. ...look, give me a break, all right? I was eight years old, I'd only ever...

Except that the language seems to be saying the same thing over and over. In other words, I see your point about not necessarily having to change the races/milieu of a fantasy landscape?-a common world-grammar can be useful, to be sure. But the problem is that nobody seems to be using these...

1. Read the following authors: China Miéville (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, or Iron Council), M. John Harrison (Viriconium), K.J. Bishop (The Etched City), Jeff VanderMeer (City of Saints and Madmen), Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun or the Wizard Knight books), and Michael Swanwick (The...

"Get your penis out of my face." Seriously, people tell me that all the time.

Woops, double post.

The entire ending to Shadow of the Colossus. First time I saw it, I cried.

The entire ending to Shadow of the Colossus. First time I saw it, I cried.

Because I am lazy and can't be bothered to read over all the previous posts (most of them seem to say the same thing anyway), I may be saying something previously stated; if so, apologies. My question is: what is it about FFVII that's so badly in NEED of a remake in the first place? If...

It all comes down to the game for me, really. If I find that a game is challenging me so much that I can't enjoy it, I'll lower the difficulty (e.g. the original Baldur's Gate, in which I died pretty much every eight seconds until I put it down to easy), but if I find that the challenge is...

It's too bad you generally can't name every character anymore these days; I remember having fun with that when I was a kid, e.g. the time I started a Final Fantasy VII file and named everyone "Barret." Chaos ensued.

Ah, touché. I completely forgot about both of those. (Of course, Butcher Bay was a tie-in, not an adaptation, and thus I think it distances itself a little bit from the realm of videogames lifted directly from films. Still, it counts, I suppose.) Mortal Kombat was pretty solid, though...

Er...you mean a good game adaptation of a film, or a good film adaptation of a game? In either case, it seems unlikely for a while. Game adaptations of films seem more often than not to be an attempt to expand the franchise a bit by the studios. You know, make a quick buck as a tie-in. A...

Rascal, from that crappy old PS1 game Rascal. The kid was a complete loser, and the game was terrible. You get the idea the creators themselves didn't even like him.

Crono, from Chrono Trigger, hands down.