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We've also seen the mirror universe in DS9. And watching Dark Worf throw a giant hissy fit after he was defeated was hilarious. Look at it this way. Even Nemesis was better than the last episode of Enterprise.

NOTHING can be worse than the gameplay of FF4-9+X2. Second what ya mean I made no sense ? We just have diffrent opinions here thats all. Let's not fight here, making enemys is thing I least want to happen in this topic. Did ya mean by Spirits Within they didnt pay off enough dept to pay off the expenses for the movie. They spent around 140 million and only made 78 million somewhere around their. That and FF8 fell massively short of forecasted profits. Those were the major things. A. Learn to punctuate. B. Square CHOSE to go to Enix. The merger was, as I said, mutually beneficial. And it wasn't exactly their first collaboration. Ever hear of Chrono Trigger? That was a Squeenix production before anyone had coined the phrase Squeenix. How is that Sony's fault, anyways? Square was the company that chose to start a movie studio, invest obscene amounts of cash in massive render farms, then release a movie that wasn't ready for release. Sony... translated FF7. That was developed before the merger. In point of fact, FF11 came out in Japan A YEAR BEFORE the merger. It's just one of the final symptoms of Square's inflated ego. They thought they could do anything they wanted as long as it carried hte FF label. This one was also completed before the merger. In point of fact, the japanese version was released several months before the merger. Or not at all. But it's highly unlikely given that Square had already determined after FF8 that it wasn't enough to carry the FF label to secure the loyalty of rabid fanboys. They needed to remind them of the massively over-rated FF7. And what better way to do it than to make a movie that claimed to close the plot canyons present in the original game. And actually, Advent Children DOES only exist because of Spirits Within. Square applied the experience they got producing TSW to creating another movie. And this time there'd be no doubts about sales, because "ZOMG IT HAEV CLOUD N TIFA!111" Actually, I'm pretty sure the first demos of FF12 with it's Vagrant Story-based gameplay were making the rounds at game shows before the merger. But I can't find concrete dates without actually expending some effort. The dev team IS made of Square talent, however. While the music composer(Hitoshi Sakimoto) has never actually been a Square employe, they HAVE hired him for previous projects, including Vagrant Story and FFTactics. Yes, I'm sure. You've already proven you're just shooting your mouth off without actually knowing anything.

No "Last Starfighter" either.

No, because you will have received goods or services for your donation. You could only deduct the amount of donation that exceeded the value of the lego ship - if you could prove through appraisal that the fair market value of the ship is less than your winning bid. But the fact that you bought it in a free market auction would tend to make that impossible and the IRS would crawl straight up your rectum. 352887[/snapback] Tally the block count and work the value out based on off-the-shelf lego kits. That'll reveal fair market value fast.

I'd always assumed it was a way to emphasize the alien-ness. The "echo" reminded you that they weren't REALLY speaking english or japanese, but some strange other-worldly tongue never heard by human ears. Makes sense to me. Larger vocal cords can't move as fast, so you'll get lower-frequency voices, so bigger body = deeper voice. And Britai is large for a zentradi. Actually, I think ALL the zentradi should have deeper voices than equivalent humans(exempting miclones). ... Of course, Bodol's voice would only register on the subwoofer... which would be pretty cool, actually.

Bribery.

How does volunteering to sing make you the ultimate ladies man? It doesn't. Was totally unrelated to the rest of the conversation. He struck me as something totally diffrent. It was implied he was not new to the act. Also: random excerpt from his bio on the Compendium. "His unusually deep voice is a great asset in his "girl hunt,"... " There you have it. He's a white Luther Vandross.

That could be remedied by having a "no sexual content" rule for avatars. Really, not being allowed to use animated GIFs is silly. We're not allowed to have pictures in our signatures either, but it's not like it had to be taken to the extreme and not be allowed to have signatures at all. So this avatar thing is wonky. 352704[/snapback] Your analogy is actually right on target.Sigs weren't banned, just certain forms. Avatars weren't banned. Just certain forms.

I hear it's the only blade that's hard enough to cut through his hair.

Thank you for your uneducated and generally retarded opinion. I've had quite enough fanboy bullshit today, and you just broke the camel's back. Please... you wouldn't know what games were developed by who if they bit you on the ass. You just look for the largest logo you recognize. I bet you think there's a diffrence between the original release of Xenogears and the Greatest Hits one, just because one carryies a Squeenix logo. You're probably one fo the same 'tards that insists that Ikaruga was developed by Atari and Star Ocean was developed by Enix. Assuming you've ever heard of either of them, which is highly doubtful. Yah. If Sony hadn't translated FF7 and then pimped it as hard as possible, you wouldn't know who Square was, along with millions of other people. Which would've saved them the inflated egos that led to the financial crisis that was the motivation for the Square/Enix merger. Square made graphics-whore eyecandy, Enix made nothing(even the all-powerful Dragon Quest franchise was sublicensed out to third parties for development). Squeenix makes graphics-whore eyecandy AND sublicenses things! YAY! More relevantly, Square gained game publication facilities and Enix gained an American division that wasn't totally incompetent.

One of the Old Republic's Venator-class Star Destroyers, specifically(according to a rapid Google search). Which is relevant because it's not the Imperial Star Destroyer we all know and love.

Why? XII has an amazing team behind it, I fully expect it to be one of the best in the series. 352581[/snapback] Admittedly, 12 does seem to kick one of my major gripes with the franchise to date(notably that it's maintained a play style that was chosen due to the limitations of the NES). Also notable is the FF7 spinoff "Dirge of Cerberus." I've always felt Square was at their best when they WEREN'T churning out dated RPGs. If they can sustain the "let's just slap the FF label on whatever we decide to make" attitude instead of the older "let's churn out something that looks like an old FF game" attitude, it'll go a long way towards redeeming them. I still think focusing on the big labels to the exclusion of all else is a bad idea. It encourages sloppy development when you know your product will sell on name alone.

Go to the address bar in your browser and type "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightBA" then hit enter.

'Tis true. You don't want to be standing behind him. Graham 352515[/snapback] I suppose power goes out to his entire block when he takes a shower, too.

*chuckles* DeJap took a LOT of flak over some parts of that translation(the amount of bitching people will do over some huorous inn names is amazing). But it was still a pretty decent job. And heck, being able to tell what's going on kicks ass.

VP's battle engine is fun, but simplistic. I love the raw STYLE you can inject into a fight. ... And the overattack indicator has been known to send me into a frantic button-mashing fit as I try to get a sluggish combo gauge up before the end of the turn, just so I can chain killer moves on my already defeated foe(especially if I can get great magic into the chain). Yes, I AM the guy that has lost to bosses in Megaman because he had to kill them with a megabuster shot(Hmmm... we're both at one pellet, one hit with anything will kill either of us, he's going into attack animation now... let's change to the peashooter and charge it!). For genuine depth of combat, I prefer something with a little more complexity, though VP is definitely fun. Most of my favorite RPGs aren't menu-driven. If the game had been done by ANYONE else, I'd've been annoyed that it didn't stick with the Symphony of the Night style of play evoked by stabbing enemies to enter battle. tri-Ace is one of the few companies that can make menus an enjoyable experience, though. I genuinely don't understand how people can have so many problems with AI characters. Mine have always behaved fairly rationally. But for the record, I think that the Tales series peaked at Destiny. I can only judge the english games, but SNES Phantasia is TOO simplistic for my tastes, and "Destiny 2" gets just complicated enough to suck most of the fun out of the fights, IMO. Destiny lands right at a warm fuzzy spot in the middle. It's like Goldilocks, only with swords and fireballs! Haven't played Symphonia yet, but I gather it's a lot like Star Ocean 2. Which isn't a BAD thing, but it's not as much fun with the wider battlefields slowing everything down(a lot of my fun in the SO games comes from the out-of-combat stuff). And as worthless trivia: The Tales of Phantasia team left Namco after ToP and formed tri-Ace. Hence why Star Ocean feels so much like Tales with a 2D battlefield.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the one I dropped earlier was worse. It smelled it, anwyays. STEALTH!

Have you played Tales of Destiny? IMO, it's every bit as fun. Could slap 'em with seagulls. Once you get mental reaction they have a lot more to do, just because they can act every other turn. A lot more reliable than running up combos and hoping the mages pulled enough purple gems. I hope diffrent. Not that Nibelung Valesti wasn't awesome(second form = favorite. The energy glops added onto form 3 didn't really do anything for me), but I'd like to see something fresh. Aside from just being something new, it'd emphasize the diffrence between valkyries. Hmmm... that makes me think... they can recycle a fair bit of cast based on what I saw of the Hrist backstory. Who do we want to see preincarnated? I'm voting for Aelia. She was one of my favorite characters, and I was kinda disappointed that her backstory wasn't developed to any degree. ... Crap, tri-Ace pulled a lot of stuff off their site with the redesign. Was gonna yank some of the old artwork down. Not that I can't find it elsewhere, it'll just take a hair more effort now.

FF11 is the antithesis of everything the FF name is associated with. IMO, Square(now Squeenix) needs to just retire the name. Sadly, people will buy anything and everything that carries a big name. Even a complete turd like FF8 makes best seller lists everywhere.

I put a google link to her on the bottom of my 'sig. 352464[/snapback] Which is why we love you.

The truth is... he'd only gone bald right before the series started. And it took him 2 years to get over his scalp.

THE GAMEPLAY IS INTACT! COMBO GAUGE AND EVERYTHING! BUTTON MASHERS OF THE WORLD REJOICE! 2 new gauges... I hope they don't complicate things excessively. Not a big fan of the 3D characters, but the backgrounds look nice. I hope they keep it to sidescroller maps, though.

Keith IS a doorknob. 351112[/snapback] Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk! 351317[/snapback] Is that a line from a song you heard at a gay club? 352045[/snapback] Yeah, wasn't that the one you were dancing to while being sandwitched between 2 hairy biker's? 352247[/snapback] Like I said before, just keep posting. Each time you hit "Add Reply" you reinforce the thoughts that all members have about you. 352340[/snapback] That it's a bottomless well of amusement when you two go at it?

Please... nothing can match the glory tht is ProgressQuest!

Hrmm... pearl-white, kinda like the Saturn and Dreamcast? 351999[/snapback] The Saturn was silver in prototypes, dark grey in Japan, black in the US, then the redesigned one(with round buttons) was white for NiGHTS, and the US redesign was black again. 352082[/snapback] And let me say right now... the metallic one was DAMN sexy.