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

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Ugh. If I see that "Disaster Movie" commercial one more time, I'm going to kill a panda.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

LOL I know, it looks terrible...

[bk635.livejournal.com]

The worst thing about it is that they play it during almost every break (at least on Scream, anyway), and it's always the exact same commercial.

I really hate these spoof movies. >.>

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Lol, how annoying... and yeah, these movies in general are pretty lame. In order to have a good spoof movie you have to have an actual story and characters - you know, an actual movie that can stand on its own two feet. Like Shaun of the Dead, or similar movies. These movies, like Date Movie and Epic Movie and whatever the fuck else they've done so far, just seem like an excuse for some really stupid jokes and take-offs...

[bk635.livejournal.com]

The Scary Movie series also comes to mind. The first one was decent, because its concept was new (to me, anyway) at the time, but everything else after--no thanks.

My guess is that movies like these are just filler; you know, end of the summer, and the horror/Halloween season hasn't started yet, so they let some poor film school graduate copy ideas off other movies so the studios can make some pocket change out from advertising and shit. (Talking out my ass here.)