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Well seeing as there is no in game guild system I imagine people will use them to keep in contact. We'll also have some useful tools, news on patches, people discussing lore. This forum was around before D3 was even announced, it'll for sure be around when the game goes live.

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Hum... FF7...


I always hated, despised even, the gameplay of FF games. Beyond boring and tedious. Make it action based and still so interesting story wise, and I would have played them more.

Tried to get in a few. Thought FF8 was very interesting but again, gameplay got in the way. Random encounters with appearing enemies and turn based system... all day long... yaaaawn...

FF7, story wise... looked very interesting, and everybody loves it. So I thought lets give it a shot, right? I'm sorry but I can't. I play ugly games alright. But FF7 is beyond ugly. It was done in that one era of absolutely disgusting 3D that looks worse than Pong, Doom, and any half-3D games I've seen. It truly is the ugliest game I have ever seen, and one of the only game I can actually say: I can't play it, because its too damn ugly!


I'm saying that because people find that FF7 "aged well", but no 3D game looks as bad as it does. I never thought I'd push a game away purely because of its graphic before I played it again.

I had the same problem. The combat system weighed so heavily against my enjoyment of the game that I dropped it. Turn-based battle is simply not for me.
I didn't mind the graphics.

You should try FF12. This is the only one I managed to play. They did a brilliant spin on the traditional fighting encounters.
Story-wise though it leaves much to be desired. I still enjoyed it all the same.

Quote from apples

tbh id still get an iphone.

android after updates just starts to fail on me. idk what it is but it lags now, crashes, and just stops working. plus it got a whole lot complicated somehow registering apps to 2 of my gmail accounts, and always telling me theres an update when there isnt...a whole host of problems. the 4s is a worthy upgrade from 2 if u ask me - 4 to 4s, not so much.

Quote from Zanmato

I was never much of a PC gamer, but I did have a few console games that I feel changed my life, or certainly defined my childhood. It wasn't so much that I didn't like PC games, I just didn't own a PC until I was 16 or something. For me it was always NES, SNES, GameBoy, N64. Later I finally broke the habbit with a PS2, but overall it was still a general love for consoles over PC.

Anyway, I remember when Zelda: Ocarina of Time came out.. I wanted that game so bad that I dreamt about it at night. I didn't have any money, and my mom thought it was stupid to spend that kinda gold on a simple game. Then one day we were at the mall, and I headed to the games section as always. To my amazement some moron had labeled the game 50DKR by mistake, which is like 8$ - even though it'd come out less than a month before. Due to Danish marketing law it is illegal to take back an offer once a costumer is acqainted with it, and so my mom bought it for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-I_Y9agnUc

I must've played the game for 24 hours straight. It's the kind of game that's still exciting to play even if you've played though it a million times before. I instantly fell in love with the design, the music and the general atmosphere of the game. It really was something else. You played through it, and you felt like you were experiencing something that only your fellow OoT owners would ever be able to understand - something unique, like a piece of art.

That love still persists, and to this day I still haven't come across anything that gave me quite the same feeling. I found games that I loved aqually, but it was always in sort of a different way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43IPAGw01IY

Take the music for example; Most of my gamer friends would agree that Zelda(in general) has some really nice tunes, but they don't listen to it the way I do. For me, every piece in that game has a story of its own, and I guess that's what makes it so special.

Anyway, this game stands out as the one that defined my pre-teen years. I still plug in the ol' N64 every once in a while just to have a game. I don't really have the time for it like I used to, but it's still a blast from the past whenever I do. Good times.

My next great love conveniently took over where the last one left off. I had a brief transitional phase where all I played was GoldenEye(which was also a great game but nowhere near the two giants of my youth) but that was soon releived what, to this day, I still remember as being one the most defining experiences of my life. The experience was Final Fantasy X. Many argue that this isn't at all a competitor to FF7, but I honestly think it's better. Maybe it's the fact that I played this before I did FF7, who knows. All I know is that this game did to me exactly what was described in the first post - it took me away.

To me, this game had it all: The story was great. It's not the most original story in the world, but then again, originallity doesn't necessarily mean success. 'twas a good story, and I was sucked in from the go. Moreover the game was held together by absolutely stunning visuals, beautiful music and some very lovable characters. As for the visuals, that was some of the most amazing work I had seen at the time. It was able to rival many games for years to come. Then there was the music..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wcVnJQ-FN4

Oh my, the music! I remember whenever I got to a part that had great music, I would just pause the game and have the music running in the background while I sat around listening. It's a shame that this game didn't get the recognition that FF7 did, just for the music alone. Once again, listening to it without playing the game probably leaves you less amazed than it does me, but the soundtrack to this game stands out as the most incredible one for me - maybe even topping Zelda: OoT. Maybe. They really did a tremendous job of combining the striking atmosphere with suiting tunes.

Those of you who played the game will remember the scene at the Al Bed 'Home' where you learn of Yuna's true purpose and Titus following reaction to this. 'twas intense. Well, that's the power of a truly thought through soundtrack for ya.

To finish my endless rambling about music, let me just throw down what, to me, is the heavy weight musical champion of not just this game, but of all games that I've ever played. If you've listened to none of the tracks I've listed above, do yourself a favor and listen to this one at least.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-0G_FI61a8

Still makes me shiver, this one does..

But FFX didn't just have good music, great visuals and an entruiging story. Many games do. It also had hours and hours worth of gameplay, that made the game feel non-linear and alive. I remember I had a saved file where I'd played over 450 hours. That doesn't say a lot of you're a WoW player, but for a console game that is a lot. Whether you spent your time playing blitzball, grinding for ultimate weapons or just killing Dark Aeons for the hell of it, this game offered a lot more than comtemporary titles did, and it wasn't boring for a second.

So there you have it, the two greatest titles as far as I recall. Just talking about them makes me wanna go have a game. Oh well, these were my 2 cents. Sorry for rambling on for an eternity.

Yoho!

Quote from Tonikor

Well for those Apple haters, I'll just leave this here:


Gaming as of itself wouldn't exist other than Pong and Bomberman, if it weren't for Apple.


They introduced to the computing the MOUSE peripheral, and the whole "icon" navigation concept that everyone uses nowadays. (Graphical User Interface)



They were/are pioneers in SO MUCH that no-one should "hate" Apple, they are the fathers of computer/smartphone/musicplayer technology and they will always be.

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I mean, how the hell is an exam that is consisted of high school math (which I haven't seen in the passed 3 or 4 years) and English vocabulary and comprehension (which I don't even have the time to get used to the style it's put up in), supposed to predict how successful I'm going to be in my pursuit of a PhD in a completely and utterly irrelevant field? There's a molecular biology/biochemistry GRE, yet the university I want to apply to wants the regular, math and English one. What the fuck? This is completely dumb.