Recent content by SirPumpkinLongshanks

I complain. In fact I'm pretty harsh toward the video game industry as a whole this generation. I haven't even invested in a modern console; when I want to play a new game I go over to a friend's house or borrow their stuff. One reason for this is bugs. Every game on every console has had...

Thus far the best JRPGS were released on the PS1. Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, etc. On the whole PS1 era RPGs had better atmosphere than their SNES precursors and the stories, while still pretty hokey, developed and matured with their audience. Final Fantasy...

Jesus Christ, is it that hard to call somebody or leave a text? No matter what people say Facebook does become a replacement for real communication in many circles and that is one of many reasons I agree with the OP when he says it's a piece of shit. If you don't have the decency to text someone...

Voting is only one part of the process and in a political system which was bought by major corporations a long, long time ago voting is practically meaningless. It's a feel-good gesture that makes you feel like you're doing something. What we need is fundamental change in the system which...

What's worse is when I played it it froze during the final boss fight, so I had to go all the way through the final stage again. I swear I nearly broke something, I couldn't even look at my PS2 for a few hours after that. I didn't even enjoy it when I finally won, it was just a matter of...

Where's the, "I still don't believe it's getting made" button?

Really, if people in the industry lose their jobs because they spent their energies on a waste of time it's not my problem. I don't want to see that happen, sure, but I've seen nothing from Kinect or Move that's worth my hard-earned money. I wouldn't lose sleep if the developers of Big Rigs went...

Dumbing down? Reducing customization? No, there's more room for customization than there used to be. In old WoW you'd use a cookie cutter spec if you wanted to play optimally. There was no other spec. You didn't have points to put wherever. Now you've got at least 2 or 3 for every spec and...

When you break it down like that, the exact same thing can be said for PVP. PVP encounters are based on hitting the other guy and timing your counters. The thing is, actually doing it is a lot more complicated than it sounds on paper. Take every single player game in existence-they all run on...

If we're talking ICC10 normal mode, that's pretty accurate. The only hard encounters in the whole place are Sindragosa and the LK himself, the LK being the easier of the two. Sindragosa is a legitimate challenge. She requires coordination on the part of every single raid member. If someone is...

That's the way it always worked for video games. Now it doesn't hold up because we've come a long way since then. We don't have the memory constraints we had with cartridges, graphics have improved, we can include voice acting when appropriate, etc. FFIV came about when the medium was much...

For its time, it was incredible. The story is straight up bad by today's standards and it was hardly brilliant when compared to other media but prior to that we hadn't seen something like it in games. And just because the genre has stagnated since then it doesn't mean there's something wrong...

Not always. IV was really the first of its kind; it laid the foundation for the JRPGs we have today. FFVI wasn't all that special in terms of gameplay but the characters and story made the experience. It had charms the later games lacked. FFVII was hardly a bad game. It was the first one I...

I stopped giving a shit about anything Star Wars related when episode 2 was released. That is, I stopped giving a shit about anything Lucas has had his hands on. Kotor is still awesome, as were the Clone Wars animated shorts that aired before the release of episode 2.

Dynamite Headdy, Gunstar Heroes, Shining Force, Phantasy Star... The Genesis had an excellent library which was every bit as good as the SNES. Just because Sonic is the quintessential Genesis series it doesn't mean they're the only good games it had. Sega wasn't a bad console maker, they just...