FF ramblings

[ria_oaks]

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.

Comments

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Huh. Sure, maybe - you own the latter, right? I remember you picking it up at Blockbusters one day. Do you have the first one?

Those reviews are a bit over the top, though. o.o

[bk635.livejournal.com]

I was reading those reviews the other night, and it reminded me about how much emotion those two games elicited from me (which is very rare). So I figured that you'd enjoy them too, and now that you have a large TV, (hopefully) not a whole lot of detail will be lost, which is very important in these games. Then I think of what else you have in your backlog; yeah, crap in comparison. :p

Um, I have both. I bought Shadow of the Colossus, and downloaded ICO.

ICO would be a problem though. I have two versions of it, the superior PAL version, and the NTSC version. In order to play the PAL version, you'd have to borrow my Swap Magic DVD, because the PAL version is printed on a DVD. I use my Swap Magic DVD almost exclusively these days. So that's a problem. The NTSC version is printed on a CD, and I don't use my Swap Magic CD at all, so you could borrow those two. Unfortunately you'd still need a slide tool, so you get fucked there. :\ I guess I could make you one if you gave me an old bank card or something...

Eh, the two games are only spiritually connected, so you can play SoC without having played ICO and still enjoy it. I did it this way too.