FF ramblings
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ria_oaksI 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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Date: 2007-11-06 06:09 am (UTC)Apparently Whistler set Mahone up to get him out because he didn't want him around. And watching Whistler fight; yeah, he isn't a fisherman.
Mahone is safe for now, I guess. But as long as he's around that guy (What's his name? Lang?) he isn't safe.
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Date: 2007-11-06 06:15 am (UTC)Heh, yeah.
No, Lang's the woman. Who Alex used to work with. Not sure about the guy. Guess we didn't need to be too worried considering he was with her, but I'd forgotten that's who she was (can you tell that I've been paying good attention? And my memory for last season's shot) and these days I don't trust anyone. And the constant moving backwards of the hearing... don't trust it, still.
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Date: 2007-11-06 06:22 am (UTC)Mahone is a huge liability for the FBI and the Company; the fact that they "want" him to testify pretty much confirms that. If Whistler works for the Company then he might have been acting in the Company's favor by getting him out of SONA and letting them deal with him.
If Mahone does die, I bet it'll be Lang that does it. The male agent doing it would be too obvious, because he's a dick.
But anyway, I'm kind of looking forward to next week's episode now. I'm mainly just glad that I'm not all "Meh" after watching the show as I have been so far.
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Date: 2007-11-06 06:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-06 06:30 am (UTC)I think it's been implied that the Company has strings in every facet of the US Government, including the FBI. And even if it doesn't, Mahone still did some things while working as an agent that would tarnish that branch's reputation. Maybe?
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Date: 2007-11-06 06:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-06 09:56 pm (UTC)This just occured to me this morning, but I guess Lincoln is a murderer now, huh? :/
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Date: 2007-11-07 01:55 am (UTC)Guess so, yeah... had he not killed anyone before? I find it hard to keep track sometimes on this show. -_- But yeah, think you're right...