Evil Genius

Femto wrote:What's the purpose of giving you different characters if they can all potentially do the same thing?

This, along with how easy the system is to break and exploit, is also the reason I loathe FFXII.

FFVII revolutionized the RPG genre... only to those who never played an RPG prior. Which is exactly the reason why the game was so popular, because it was the very first JRPG for a huge number of people. Overall, it's pretty mediocre. I played my fair share of (also japanese) RPGs before FFVII. But...

The Prince wrote:FFVII revolutionized the RPG.

Holy shit you are retarded.

NOMURA ZIPPERS character design has kept my interest level firmly at "run away, fast". Now, I might check it out.

I love amazon.co.jp

Super Jewel Cases are hella awesome, but I've never seen them outside of Japan.

I watched If You Listen Closely (Whisper of the Heart) on a big-ass screen yesterday. All I can say is holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit . Halfway through it dethroned Spirited Away as my all-time favorite Ghibli movie, and by the end it had killed an cannibalized Laputa and Nausicaä. If you've never been to...

The Prince wrote:

LordMune wrote:
I think we all agree that Griffith's reign will seem prosperous-

I don't agree with that assumption at all.

Griffith's dream is to be an awful king who doesn't do his job properly, making his subjects kind of pissed and generally disloyal?

When God is evil, opposition is what is best for the world, and is, objectively, good. But what, objectively, defines the moral value "good"? Traditionally, religion. Idea's very existence redefines the notion of "good" and "evil" into good and evil(Berserk values in p...

But then you realize that's how all devils work in western religion, and how they're coniving bastards with an eternity to plan and confuse all of us little plebians into believing they are indeed good. Griffith is the helmsman of all of God's (the Idea of Evil) actions in the world as of now. He i...

The title is "Thundering Skies" or something, though the "sky" can also be read as "deva", a divine buddhist being. The dual meaning is most likely intentional.

Femto wrote:Horrible character design.

Like every other character, then.

If I am still in Japan by the time you return home I will murder you.

Kubrick is a line of collectible block-style figures and associated products created by Japanese toy company MediCom Toy Inc[...] MediCom has released a likeness of Andy Warhol, as well as Kubricks in Eames patterns and Pantone colors. They also offer Grand Theft Auto III and GTA: Vice City sets. T...

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/LordMune/Sapporo08/DSC01546.jpg I picked up this Kubrick set, the Kubrick set, from a disused corner of a shopping mall in Sapporo a week ago (DS Lite for scale). Today, I caught a glimpse of a Black Swordsman art of war statuette for 14 000 yen, which I will ...

Well, it's the japanese VAs (this being the japanese release), so it's all good. I don't think there's a set release date for any american version.

I picked up the Special Edition of the DVD today (it was released yesterday). 2 discs, one with stereo and one with 6.1 surround sound. Sadly no english subtitles. However, the Special Edition comes with an awesome five frames from the original master reel . It seems to be EVA01 jumping or something.

ugh goddamnit~

I bought a PS3 a couple of days ago, and it looks like I'll be pre-ordering MGS4 tomorrow. I assume MGO signup schemes are not that different in Japan (which is where I'll be playing the game, in japanese, on the crappy dorm television)?

Neuro will eat your schemes.

The ending in Episode 2 is easily the most accomplished storytelling moment I've ever played in a video game. It changed my mind completely and proved to me that video games could one day be taken as a serious storytelling medium. If you think that was good, go find a copy of Planescape: Torment fo...

Are you kidding me? They pay him to say shit sucks very fast, you can find stuff like that in most of his reviews. The points he argues are hit-and-miss, but his rants are usually enjoyable even when he's way off. His hatred of Control-Alt-Delete (which rears its head from time to time) is genuine ...

comics suck and you're all gay lanterns with gay rings

Oh wow. http://www.imagenfilms.com/HellsingTrailer.mov This was produced several months ago as a spec teaser to get the greenlight from Japan. As of this point, production is moving forward and I will be directing it. My company is not producing as I was pulled on by an established production compa...

Yes. It's also not a very good fight. Different, but not exactly awesome.

I think the reason they stayed away from the obvious trap of overdone gimmick fights is that they realized they just don't work very well. Holly Summers somehow slipped through the QA process.

I've come to the conclusion that Holly Summers is one of the shittiest boss fights in the game.

Sad but true.