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Matt/Rey: Very good, but very short. ATrain/Big Show vs Undertaker: Wasn't painful to watch. Victoria/Trish/Jazz: See above. Haas/Benjamin vs Benoit/Rhyno vs Los Guerreros: Very good, but a little too short for my tastes. HBK/Jericho: Aside from the crappy finish, this was a GREAT match, best of the night and one of the best of the year. HHH/Booker: Decent. Didn't set the world on fire, but it had its moments. McMahon/Hogan: Fun for what it was. Little too long, though. Rock/Austin: I haven't seen their X-7 bout, so I only can compare it to XV, and it blew that right out of the water, especially the ending. Angle/Lesnar: Really good match - a notch or two below Jericho/HBK, but still an awesome effort.

The character models in Final Fantasy VII are ugly. They've always been ugly, they always will be ugly. No one is saying it's a bad game because they're ugly, but that doesn't change the fact that they're ugly. EDIT: And LTTP's graphics are still great, even today. So nyah.

Shady officiating? ME? That hurts, Pete.

Facial expressions. FF7 didn't have any. Hell, the characters didn't even have mouths. Exactly. The FF series has improved as far as body language goes, but there's something really stupid about seeing Squall do his AIR CHOP OF ANGER with a completely flat face, or Cloud do his MASSIVE MIGRAINE OW animation with a completely flat face, etc. I'm not saying it would be easy - I know nothing of PS2's technical capacity or limits, so maybe it's really not possible. I'm just saying that, so far, no title in the FF series has matched VI's cast in terms of visual expression.

One thing I love about the sprites in FFVI is they can actually show emotion. Rather than Cloud's blocky little hands or whatever those were moving to his head and then him just kinda twitching a bit, there are actual facial expressions (which even the newest ones haven't nailed down yet - 90% of FFX-2 is the cardboard faced Yuna). There's wagging of fingers (which even the newest ones can't do yet, goddamn clumpy FFX-2 hands). There's laughing that actually looks like laughing. There's crying. There's wigging out. There's that other one that I can't really describe but I know what it's saying. Rather than relying on a text box that says: WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? The sprites of VI can show it.

While I understand the Nina theory, and think it's got a pretty good chance of being true, I was thinking... What if it's Mandy? We know she's connected - she was used by the Season 1 villains, and when they all died, she was still around doing the dirty work of the Season 2 villains (or rather, the work of the people behind the Season 2 villains). Considering she was used not by Kingsley, but by the people who were really running the show behind the scenes, we can assume she's a relatively important part of their operation, not just "Lackey X". So what I'm thinking is, Mandy is there to bid as a representative of whomever it is she's working for. This could, in turn, lead to Nina, or... you know... maybe not. Just an idea. I'm actually pulling for it to be Nina, but I'm just shooting out ideas here.

If they decide the Chokeslam's no good for him, then fine. I don't mind if he gets a new finisher. But their reasoning of "because a guy his size couldn't really do it" is just retarded. Of course a guy his size couldn't really do it - that's the whole fucking point of him doing it. Ah well.

"Rated E for Everyone" "Rated K-A for Kids to Adults" "Rated T for Teen" "Rated M for Mature." They're on the boxes (with explanations of the content), in ads, in reviews, spoken aloud on TV. If the parents can't understand them they don't deserve the right to reproduce. A-men. There was an article in some paper, I think the Boston Globe, about the Haitian community all pissed off at Vice City. A radio show host said: "A Videogame is something you buy to please the kids." And then went on about how of all the messages a game could send, why did Vice City have to be filled with Haitian hate? All the problems with that ridiculous argument aside, how the hell is a game with this clearly visible M FOR MATURE - 17+ on the box something "to please the kids"? Oh, that's right. It's not.

Carding for games is a great idea. No, it won't stop kids from getting the games, but it will stop parents from blaming the wrong people. They can't point their fingers at retailers anymore.

Aw dude please never do that again.... Just be glad that no one has posted a picture of MANFAYE yet. Someone here will probably know what I'm referring to. Nope, no idea at all Actually, that's not the one I remember seeing. Still kinda disturbing, though.

Aw dude please never do that again.... Just be glad that no one has posted a picture of MANFAYE yet. Someone here will probably know what I'm referring to.

The way I heard it was you had to kill something like 1000 dinosaurs in the Dinosaur forest, then some uber-saurus would appear, and you had to kill that to get the potion. I attempted it, but quit after like... 30...

Good GOD. That would probably make the most expensive EBay auction ever, whether it was worth it or not.

Ah, ok. That'll learn me to make sense of the posts I read before responding to them.

IX has set character classes too. And VI characters had limit breaks, outside of their individual abilities. Granted, they weren't very varied or anything, they were all just extra powerful attacks, but they did have them. Get a character down to really low HP and just do regular attacks, and there's a chance they'll limit break. I remember Setzer's is "Red Card", where he throws not one set of cards, but three... *ooh's and aah's*

This is what you've been reduced to, King? Stealing PPV names from Powerpuff Girls Holiday Specials? For shame.

I'm a little late coming into this, but... Final Fantasy VII is worth it for $15. I don't consider it to be one of the greatest games of all time, one of the greatest RPG's of all time, or even one of the greatest Final Fantasy's of all time (all of those go to Final Fantasy VI), but it's a solid 8 out of 10 effort, and worth playing through at least once.

Point Blank, Time Crisis 2, and there's this game I've only seen in one arcade ever, down in Red River, New Mexico, called "Fast Draw". That's basically what it is - you go through a few randomized stages of some guy making fun of you, then this little thing flashes on the screen going WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT DRAW, and you have to yank the gun out of the holster and fire before the guy on the screen does it to you. The uber extreme super boss of the game draws in like .37 seconds.

I second the motion.

Seymour. Butz?

Yeah, that WAS kinda cool, I guess. But after he lost in MKII, the excuse for bringing him back in MK3 was so fucking weak, it mine as well have been written by the WWE writers. He had such a good buildup too- they left him out of MK1 and had his henchman as the big boss instead, building up to the MKII fight. But then they had to go and fuck it up with that uber-weak MK3 return. Bah. I never paid much attention - what was the reason for bringing him back?

If we're extending it to non-RPG's... Maria, from Silent Hill 2. *shudders*

Non-FF villains? That concept is unfamiliar to me. Let's see... I always did have a soft spot in my heart for Zio from Phantasy Star IV, best of the Genesis RPG's.

Seifer rocked. He had potential - he was one of the few things in FFVIII that didn't make me bang my head into the wall - but he was wasted as a sidekick. Given a bigger role, he could've been better I thought.

"Uh huh, uh huh... and which one of those buttons calls your parents to come pick you up?"