mind you, worth remembering some maori folk tried to sue lego for some stupid amount for using a maori Word... as in spelled and pronounced the same... to mean something compleatly different from what it does in maori. in fact, that was part of Why they sued. at least if i remember the incident correctly.
'course, a few idiots with more money than sense does not an entire race describe.
doesn't stop me thinking most FPS games are over hyped rubbish.
of course, i'm also one of those who basically doesn't game online. the progressive stripping of LAN and splitscreen play in favour of online multiplayer which is unreliable, involves people i want nothing to do with, uses up my data cap (costs money, ya know...)... the list of downsides is huge. anyway, this annoys me greatly.
but i'm not going to try to claim a game is bad because of this one thing if i can still have Fun with it.
(i found spy vs. spy to be Horribly unfun, however, though many others apparantly didn't.)
which is why it's brilliant.
do it, present it, and they either have to accept that the first one is garbage and thus they cannot act on it, or they have to accept this one as valid as well...
in both cases the consumer wins.
of course, there's no way it will turn out like that so it's probably just an interesting little mental exercise, but still.
fun part is that i find this instance of trillions far more likely than the RIAA etc.'s billions.
also, what's the US debt at now? i mean, i know the last few digits were going up so fast you couldn't even read them on the counter for a while there...
see, i finished 8 (the final form of the final boss fight is Funny. it can't kill you unless you draw what is supposedly the most powerful spell in the game from it's second draw point target... but if you do it oneshots your party before you can use the thing (which, of course, does no more than a properly set up ultima, and is nothing compaired to Squall's Lionheart limit break.)
seven... got near the end of the third disk (the Plot went missing somewhere near the start of that disk, at the latest :P) couldn't beat Sepheroth, decided i'd start over and see if i could beat him that way, got distracted, and didn't get back to it until many games with much better graphics had ruined my ability to look past the pointy hair of death...
(barret's reference to cloud's 'spikey arse' near the beginning is very fitting :P)
i'll admit to not having played all the earliest ones, but still, my list runs something like
X
VIII (first one i ever played)
XII (this may change if i ever manage to finish the thing without getting distracted.)
VII (this would probably rate higher if i played it before 8, and finished it before playing 10, but... i kept getting stuck and now ... spikey jaggidy polygons of doom just make putting up with it Hard.)
X-2 because... well... ok, i'll admit, i would like this a lot less if it didn't constantly feel like a hybrid of 8 and 10 to me. the eye candy didn't hurt. getting Stuck (ie, repeated play throughs and i could NOT get past this point) where you fight Aeons in the farplane (spoiler? whoops?) kinda killed my interest though.
XI is, as an MMO, undeserving of ranking and i have yet to play XIII (picked it up cheap second hand the other day, it's sitting on my shelf until i get through some other 'sequals that are not even the same genre as the game they're supposedly sequals to' type games.
music wise... 7 could be great... if... ok, honestly, my memory of it was it mostly being nice tunes failed by, you know, being early ps1 software. the Hymn of the Fayth (X) and Eyes On Me (VIII) are both awesome, however.
... also, i have noticed you can start insanely long discussions (and often flame wars) almost Anywhere by compairing VII to VIII in any way what so ever.
(as for 9, it felt like they took everything that Prevented 7 from being as good as it might have been (mostly technological limitations) then did it on Purpose. it may well have been good, but i could never get past that enough to justify buying it... or even renting it again.)
makes me glad i live in a small country far away (though apparantly not far enough, all things considered) where we have one sales tax set at a national level that applies to everything, everywhere, all the time, exactly the same.
(though after it was recently increased, there's some talk about dropping it again for only specific things like some foods and such, and there are extra taxes over and above that on petrol, tobacco products, and alcohol... and probably a few other things i know nothing about)
we have our fair share of problems, but an intentionally unamangably broken taxation system is not one of them.
(heck, i qualify for an invalids benifit from the government here... they actually eliminate a whole chunk of beaurocracy by just giving me less in the first place, checking my taxes as 'payed' so far as anything that cares is concerned, and carrying on (rather than going through the whole process of officially giving me more and then taxing it, which would not be unexpected...)
about as well as you'd expect in a country who's international trade policy usually amounts to 'how can we screw over all our internal industries except dairy, and either raise prices or destroy quality for the consumer?' *sigh*
(well, ok, that may not be Quite true, but it usually looks like it.)
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apparantly it makes it harder to sue them for getting it wrong :P
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this is why the USA is in absolutely no danger of ever getting invaded :P
nuked maybe, but not invaded.
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'course, a few idiots with more money than sense does not an entire race describe.
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doesn't stop me thinking most FPS games are over hyped rubbish.
of course, i'm also one of those who basically doesn't game online. the progressive stripping of LAN and splitscreen play in favour of online multiplayer which is unreliable, involves people i want nothing to do with, uses up my data cap (costs money, ya know...)... the list of downsides is huge. anyway, this annoys me greatly.
but i'm not going to try to claim a game is bad because of this one thing if i can still have Fun with it.
(i found spy vs. spy to be Horribly unfun, however, though many others apparantly didn't.)
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do it, present it, and they either have to accept that the first one is garbage and thus they cannot act on it, or they have to accept this one as valid as well...
in both cases the consumer wins.
of course, there's no way it will turn out like that so it's probably just an interesting little mental exercise, but still.
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also, what's the US debt at now? i mean, i know the last few digits were going up so fast you couldn't even read them on the counter for a while there...
it was certainly in the trillions.
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seven... got near the end of the third disk (the Plot went missing somewhere near the start of that disk, at the latest :P) couldn't beat Sepheroth, decided i'd start over and see if i could beat him that way, got distracted, and didn't get back to it until many games with much better graphics had ruined my ability to look past the pointy hair of death...
(barret's reference to cloud's 'spikey arse' near the beginning is very fitting :P)
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i'll admit to not having played all the earliest ones, but still, my list runs something like
X
VIII (first one i ever played)
XII (this may change if i ever manage to finish the thing without getting distracted.)
VII (this would probably rate higher if i played it before 8, and finished it before playing 10, but... i kept getting stuck and now ... spikey jaggidy polygons of doom just make putting up with it Hard.)
X-2 because... well... ok, i'll admit, i would like this a lot less if it didn't constantly feel like a hybrid of 8 and 10 to me. the eye candy didn't hurt. getting Stuck (ie, repeated play throughs and i could NOT get past this point) where you fight Aeons in the farplane (spoiler? whoops?) kinda killed my interest though.
XI is, as an MMO, undeserving of ranking and i have yet to play XIII (picked it up cheap second hand the other day, it's sitting on my shelf until i get through some other 'sequals that are not even the same genre as the game they're supposedly sequals to' type games.
music wise... 7 could be great... if... ok, honestly, my memory of it was it mostly being nice tunes failed by, you know, being early ps1 software. the Hymn of the Fayth (X) and Eyes On Me (VIII) are both awesome, however.
... also, i have noticed you can start insanely long discussions (and often flame wars) almost Anywhere by compairing VII to VIII in any way what so ever.
(as for 9, it felt like they took everything that Prevented 7 from being as good as it might have been (mostly technological limitations) then did it on Purpose. it may well have been good, but i could never get past that enough to justify buying it... or even renting it again.)
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only here, instead of tanks, it's law suits.
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(though after it was recently increased, there's some talk about dropping it again for only specific things like some foods and such, and there are extra taxes over and above that on petrol, tobacco products, and alcohol... and probably a few other things i know nothing about)
we have our fair share of problems, but an intentionally unamangably broken taxation system is not one of them.
(heck, i qualify for an invalids benifit from the government here... they actually eliminate a whole chunk of beaurocracy by just giving me less in the first place, checking my taxes as 'payed' so far as anything that cares is concerned, and carrying on (rather than going through the whole process of officially giving me more and then taxing it, which would not be unexpected...)
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i agree with you, actually.
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(well, ok, that may not be Quite true, but it usually looks like it.)
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