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Well, there is one thing that has gone downhill pretty clearly. Uematsu probably won't ever make a soundtrack like he did for FFIV, VI or VII again. Those games has GREAT music. FFVI has the best soundtrack of all time, in all its SNESy glory. They should try to get Yoko Kanno to write a score for a game.

They were screaming Martin Luther King? Do they even know who he was?

SLAP FIGHT!!!

HOW COME DID BUSH KNOCK DOWN THE TOWERS>?

I pretty much expected HHH to hog the mic and TV time after he lost the title to drive Batista's reign into the ground. How ridiculout is it, though, that they haven't found anything slightly different or new to do with HHH? For 3 years it's been 'I'm the best because I say so. Also, I like having the world title.' Man, that's fuckin' deep right there. The WWE just has absolutely NO IDEA how to make a new character nowadays. JBL: Evil Republican is the only good one they've had since....

You know what I love? The same people who bust on FFX-2 for being too girly bust on FFVII for being too angsty. Which is hard to take seriously when FFVI is pretty much angst in a cartridge. You know Lightning Flik, you're totally right about quality being more paramount than originality in RPG plots. Suikoden II wasn't anything too terribly original, but it kicked all types of ass with its story. Likewise, Chrono Trigger pretty much had a bunch of slightly-tweaked stereotypes for characters, and they were all great. A really good translation helps of course. I wish Working Designs did more stuff.

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Try to wait it out for the PS3. I bet Gamestop can fix the little guy too. I'm frustrated with PS2s. They have the weirdest shit. I have NEVER had a game skip, but it only recognizes games to start playing them 50% of the time, often when the game is brand fucking new. Once it starts playing, nary a problem. Man, Sony better step up and make a durable machine next time.

I think Dem president, Republican Congress is the way to go. Republicans (hopefully) keep spending in check, the Pres (hopefully) veto some of the Republicans social conservatism.

While I agree that Islam is all sorts of fucked up now, the above could be applied to the Catholics and Christians at different points in history, and it doesn't make their religion a 'joke.'

Dude, sorry to burst your bubble but that 'It factor' is NOSTALGIA. Breath of Fire I & II aren't that great! Neither are FF II and V. A whole ton of good RPGs have come out recently. Disgaea came out in 2003. It was plenty old-school and a terrific game. Have you played Dragon Warrior lately? Sure it's an important game, but it's painful now. The only thing that may be missing from RPG's is: It's really hard to come up with unique plots and characters after so many RPGs.

Well, this law in not possibly justifiable. It'll be struck down. I would say this is just a bunch of Texas politicians waving their dicks so that they look good in order to win reelction by all those good texas fag-haters. WE DON'T WANT QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GIRL! YOU RATS! [/savage]

Laws are passed based on common sense. No one can prove gays are evil, but people still try to pass laws based on that. Have we even isolated a blonde gene or something like that? That would seem a lot easier than a gay gene.

No it only works with gays. They're the reason we lost the Great War, after all.

Seattle's full of yuppies, not hippies.

So, you're saying it takes more people to make games nowadays. True in every genre. Are you saying video games as a whole are dying? I think most would beg to differ.

But it's so chic to refer to the Nazis! It automatically wins any argument. Honestly though, removing children from their gay parents and putting them where? Orphanages? straight foster homes that have WAY too many kids? (gay coupled are automatically last on the list as fosters, so if they get a kid, you know there's too many kids) That's frankly cruel and very dictatorial. And while I'm sure it would be easy to lie about, they're saying bisexual people who are in straight relationships are unfit as parents, making it clear once and for all that it's not about providing children with a male and female role model, it's about who sticks their dilly in who's hoo-ha.

Treasure needs to make a collection. I've never been able to play Guardian Heroes or Radiant Silvergun, but I've enjoyed every game of theirs I've played. Gunstar Heroes, Bangai-O! and Astro Boy are all great.

Even if I was being unwillingly cornholed, if they yelled "BOOMER SOONER," I'd giggle.

RPGs aren't dying, and won't be dead for a long time. They still make assloads of money for one, and excellent RPGs come out all the time, especially if you expand your definition to include strategic RPGs. FFX, Disgaea, La Pucelle, Shadow Hearts 1 & 2, KOTOR, Kingdom Hearts, Growlanser, Valkyrie Profile, Tactics Ogre GBA, Fire Emblem GBA have all come out somewhat recently, and they all are good-great games, and those are just the ones I've played (besides KOTOR, but I've heard its praises enough to go out on a limb and say it's probably pretty damn good.) Most of these games are far and away better than the first two Breath of Fires. No there hasn't been a game as timeless as FFVI and Chrono Trigger in a long time. There weren't console RPGs that good before then either. And let me tell you: FFII SUCKS, and has one of the worse levelling systems of any RPG I've seen. FFV has a SHITTY plot. I hear FFIII is the worst of the bunch. It's not like good graphics sullied an unblemished series, much as FFVI is probably my most favoritest game. Basically RPGs got popular, and it opened up doors for RPGs, both good and bad to come into the states. You just have to be a little bit more selective. It seems to me you're mostly pissed about FFX-2. I didn't see it overtly marketed towards 'horny boys'. It's no great shakes, but Chrono Cross and Suikoden III were poorer sequels to better games than FFX, IMO. FFX-2 did pretty much exactly what it wanted to in terms of storyline, whether or not it's to your tastes, and it has a very, very good battle system. Meatwad got it right in one respect: adventure games are HISTORY. Look at that, or the puzzle genre to see genres that are truly dying. Sam & Max was cancelled a good ways into its development because of lack of interest. For SAM & MAX one of the biggest cult games ever, and easily in everyone's top 5 adventure games. (P.S. Meatwad, check out the Longest Journey. And of course Grim Fandango if you haven't already.) EDIT: And it's not like they're fucking shovelling out FF's like sports games, or the excellent GBA Castlevanias (Good games that recycle graphics. The horror!), or the Mega Man's (Mega Men?) and Pokemon. THey spend a shitload of time and effort on those games, and whether or not they succeed by your estimation, they're try to make quality games. If Square had the same business practices as numerous other companies like Activision and EA, we'd have another Kingdom Hearts a year ago. Do you know how much money that fucker MADE? And, wait, did you just try to say that Star Ocean III was somehow old school? That thing reminds me of Xenosaga with some of its cutscenes.I'm sure it was created exclusively with you in mind though, and not to make money like those 'cash cows.' Go download Seiken Densestsu III, Bahamut Lagoon and Star Ocean the first. They're fun. They were in no way created to make money.

Dude, don't try to understand my tortured soul when you're working for the man, man.

There's one thing to learn from this: the WWE has an awe-inspiring capacity for killing someone's heat if they want to.

I've heard meth is now a big redneck drug.... I was huge here in Seattle for a while. You don't really hear about it anymore though. I don't think there's really a 'hip' drug in Seattle now. Maybe good ol' alcohol.

With people seemingly getting bigger and bigger, the BMI is complete crap. It seems like the average guy's height is like 6'1" nowadays. When I played football at one time I had 250 lbs. lean body weight, 275 lbs. total. I was 6'4" and according to the BMI, probably morbidly obese.