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I happened to check Rpgamer.com a few minutes ago and noticed that FFIII:DS comes out today (I haven't really been keeping track...). I'm probably just being too over-emotional, but this day feels rather historic in the RPG world - the last Final Fantasy that wasn't released in the US is finally here. I checked, and it's been approximately 16.5 years since FFIII was released in Japan - well, better late than never, I guess. XD I mean sure, I played it years ago on a translated ROM and I won't be buying this version anytime soon (lack of a DS... and lack of time to play. woe.), but it's still cool to think that it's here. It's sort of a pity that the original version of the game will never make it here, most likely (how hard would it have been to include the orignal version in the new game, really...?), but the new version looks pretty spiffy. Hopefully I'll get to play it someday.
3 FF games in the past 2 weeks, 2 of which are new to the US (FFXII and FFIII:DS) and one of which only ever made it here in a mangled fashion (FFV Advance) - makes me miss the days when I could play all the time... I haven't really been into gaming as much the last few years, largely because of a. lack of time during school, b. other interests take up my free time, and c. i'm lazy., but I still get excited hearing about games and still want to play when I get the chance. I'm way behind on all the games I'm playing, but I still plan to ask for either FFXII or Disgaea 2 for Christmas (leaning towards the latter - FFXII will be easy enough to find for years to come, and it'll get cheap fairly quickly, whereas Disgaea 2 will start disappearing soon...). I am sorely tempted by FFXII, though - it's been getting fantastic reviews, and hell, it's FFXII! We've been waiting for this game for years, and it's finally here... and I really can't justify the time or money to get it. Part of me, too, is still a bit uncertain about it - but most of the reviews have said that the game is nothing like (and much better than) anything we've seen of it to this point, including the demo. I plan to give it a chance eventually, but can't do it yet.
And... I'm procrastinating. Back to my Farscape paper... it's due tomorrow at 9, so I need to get moving. Up to 5 pages, need about 12 - and I'm still blathering on about the context, haven't even gotten to analysing the series itself! Ehehehe. baaack to work.
3 FF games in the past 2 weeks, 2 of which are new to the US (FFXII and FFIII:DS) and one of which only ever made it here in a mangled fashion (FFV Advance) - makes me miss the days when I could play all the time... I haven't really been into gaming as much the last few years, largely because of a. lack of time during school, b. other interests take up my free time, and c. i'm lazy., but I still get excited hearing about games and still want to play when I get the chance. I'm way behind on all the games I'm playing, but I still plan to ask for either FFXII or Disgaea 2 for Christmas (leaning towards the latter - FFXII will be easy enough to find for years to come, and it'll get cheap fairly quickly, whereas Disgaea 2 will start disappearing soon...). I am sorely tempted by FFXII, though - it's been getting fantastic reviews, and hell, it's FFXII! We've been waiting for this game for years, and it's finally here... and I really can't justify the time or money to get it. Part of me, too, is still a bit uncertain about it - but most of the reviews have said that the game is nothing like (and much better than) anything we've seen of it to this point, including the demo. I plan to give it a chance eventually, but can't do it yet.
And... I'm procrastinating. Back to my Farscape paper... it's due tomorrow at 9, so I need to get moving. Up to 5 pages, need about 12 - and I'm still blathering on about the context, haven't even gotten to analysing the series itself! Ehehehe. baaack to work.
What If...
Did you have a chance to speak with the others regarding the movie? It's Friday, right?
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No, haven't talked to them yet. I'll call Jane tonight.
Went to Blockbusters today and got a shiny new cover for SH3. Yay! :) And picked up a used copy of PotC 2 for $10... Now sitting on the ferry about to get off and miraculously have wireless. Woo hoo!
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I think my PS2 is dying. D:
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Really? That sucks! Typical Sony pieces of crap... what's wrong with it?
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The screen flickers; kind of like there's a loss of signal between the console and the TV. This mostly happens with games printed on blue-dye CDs (like the one I bought from the guy), but it also happened during the memory-card data screen that you can access without a disk in the drive (the screen is all white, so it's easy to tell if there's anything happening).
But then it might be the TV itself, because I noticed the same type of flickering going on while just simply watching TV.
But everything seems to work fine now though.. I need to try out the blue-disk games again. And I'll have to try hooking the PS2 output directly to the TV instead of through 2 different RF adaptors and a DVD thing. But I've never had any problems with this set-up until now.
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Hmm. Well, if your TV is doing it too then yeah, I'd assume it's just the TV. You could always try hooking it up to the TV in the living room and see if it works okay there. But at least it's working okay now; hopefully it will be fine.
I talked to Jane, and we might catch the 2:00. There are showings at 11, 11:30, 12, 2, 3. and 3:30, so we'll try to get the 2 and then get the 3 or 3:30 if we have to. I'll talk to her tomorrow to work out details. You'll have to get there yourself, though - I'm busing straight from Horseshoe Bay.
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What about tickets though? Are we reserving any or are we going to have to get there early enough to buy them at the counter?