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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.
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It is kind of hard to believe that it's been so long since those games came out, but that's the way it goes, I guess. Pretty soon when someone says "Aerith dies!!," instead of saying "lol I know" people will be saying "who?"
I start Monday. If we're going to do that store thing then it's probably best we do it this week (or next), since.
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I know eh? Over 10 years since FFVII came out now... it's odd, because when I was most heavily into RPGs it was still relatively new. I was just musing over the old "old school vs new school" debates, and realized that FFVII is definitely not new school anymore, lol. And also thinking that the entire argument was idiotic because really, FFVI and VII came out with a YEAR or so of each other, and other than the shinier graphics, really, what was different about them? They were both great games in their own right, certainly. (I was also recalling my first forays into RPGs, lol... remember? "Oooh, this guy's cute! Who's he? Can I play this game to see him??" Oh my. This is why I didn't take the game seriously at all for the first several hours and ended up naming several of my caharacters dumb names. Then realized I couldn't rename. -_- Especially irritates me because that's my mastered, or close enough to, game. Level 99 on everyone, all the materia mastered, KotR mastered at least 3 times, both weapons beat... and Cloud is still named "Glump". -___- (on the plus side, with all that shit mastered I was able to beat Sephiroth in appromixately 1.5 minutes ^_^)
Anyway, I suppose either week works for me. We're going ~4, then? I get off class at 3:30, then will bus to the store. You can either meet me at the store or bus to UBC then bus with me to the store, it's up to you. It's probably faster to just bus to the store - skytrain to Broadway & Commercial, bus (west) to Fraser & Broadway. Go stick it in Translink's planner if you want. You can get the exact address from the website; I know it's around BW & Fraser, but not sure exactly where.