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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.

Date: 2008-10-14 05:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bk635.livejournal.com
Haha.. I'm going to be participating in this hearing study soon, I think. All it really involves is watching movies with a hearing aid and some probes hooked up to my brain. 2 Sessions with an honorarium of $40.00.

Getting paid to watch movies? Fucking sweet.

Date: 2008-10-17 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ria-oaks.livejournal.com
Sweet. XD I did a few of those studies to boost my Psych 100 mark. Dull, but easy... and that one sounds pretty sweet, yeah. Hopefully good movies. ^^

Date: 2008-10-17 04:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bk635.livejournal.com
I get to choose from publicly-available DVDs, which doesn't sound promising. But hey, guilt-free DS money. *shrug*

Date: 2008-10-19 01:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ria-oaks.livejournal.com
Might be a good thing - at least you get to choose. Better than them telling you which movie to watch...

Date: 2008-10-20 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bk635.livejournal.com
$20.00 richer. Was fun. She was also good looking.

She scrubbed my scalp. <3

"Publicly-available" is misleading. The movie selection wasn't bad. I chose to play it safe and selected Ocean's 11. I might go with Reservoir Dogs for my next session, since I've heard it's good. But I have to watch these on mute and close captioned... So I might choose something else.

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