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.

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[bk635.livejournal.com]

I blame the TiVo.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Well, if I didn't have it, I'd still be taping them... it'd just be a lot more invconvenient and would probably result in me being more likely to miss them. ^^

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Hm. I wasn't aware that you taped shows. I hypothesized that the lack of TiVo more or less forced you to watch most shows, and download the one or two that you happen to miss due to time constraints or scheduling conflicts. But with the TiVo, you can just record them all and put them off until later...

...and later...

...and later...

...and so on...

Like homework. Kinda.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

To a certain extent it does result in me recording a bunch of stuff I haven't watched yet (I've had the BSG miniseries on there for ages... and all of this season's Smallville and My Name is Earl for whenever I get around to finishing last season of each), but mostly it's just SO much more convenient for my weekly shows. I used to have to tape a lot to keep up (esp Mondays and Thursdays - 4-5 shows both nights, and even WITH TiVo I have to download Grey's Anatomy because it conflicts with both The Office/30 Rock on NBC and SPN on CW. Sigh.). I ended up getting behind quite regularly for the lower priority shows, and having to download stuff because I wouldn't have a blank tape available and... yeah. Pain in the butt. Plus, this way I can record The Daily Show/The Colbert Report every night without lifting a finger, then watch them the next morning. Believe me, TiVo has made a huge difference in my TV watching - it's so freaking awesome, and makes things so much more convenient... plus, I usually have at least a couple of eps of Seinfeld or Friends sitting in my 'suggestions' section for when there's nothing on... I've even got my mom hooked - she wants one now, and I'm thinking of getting them one for Christmas.. mind you, they won't get much else. ^^ Might hit up grandparents to chip in, or to buy them a 1-year subscription or something. If you happen to see TiVo's on sale for less than the normal $199, let me know... :)

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Actually on the news I saw a story that a lot of stores are having sales on everything as incentive to get people to buy things; you know, credit crunch, etc. Something like the Christmas sales starting a month early. I just don't remember if the story said which country this was happening in. Regardless, it's probably worth keeping an eye out for any discounts.

How much hard drive space do TiVo's have, anyway? Sounds like you're keeping a lot on that thing.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Hm, not surprising... yeah, I'm going to keep an eye on Futureshop and Best Buy, at least, since I can follow them online and download their weekly flyer.

Not sure... depends on how high quality you record them at. A fair amount, anyway, esp at lower quality. I've got... too much on there. Really need to watch those SV/Earl eps to get them off. Oh, and Fringe, that's on there too (saw the first ep, recorded the rest.. never got around to catching up when I got back from Europe). Having it while I was away was fantastic - otherwise I would've had to download it all when I got back, and god knows when I would've caught up with the other shows...

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Fringe seems kind of interesting, but it wasn't really on my radar until I saw a commercial for it on SPACE one day, while watching Eureka. Seems like a pretty fucked up show.

lol, Smallville. Pretty much gave up on that one. It wasn't too uncommon that I'd have it going on while attended to other things while waiting for Supernatural, so I kind of still followed it. But now, fuck it.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

The first ep was pretty entertaining, and I tuned in because it's a JJ Abrams (Lost creator) show, but can't get around to watching the rest.. it seems nifty, though.

Only a few more monthes until Dollhouse... here's praying it doesn't die!!

Lol oh Smallville.. sigh. What happened to you? The first 3 seasons were pretty good, then s4 happened... it never really recovered. ^^