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At 10/12/10 02:04 PM, KermitTheMuppet wrote: I thought you were the one who enjoyed Lucky Star and Azumanga-Daioh.

I call bluff and you and counter claim that you're the mental 13 year old who keeps lolicon pornography. Harr Harr.

C'est terrible, mon frere.

Dude, why are you so racist towards console gamers?

Console gamers are just like anyone else, man. Console gamers are just as smart as PC gamers. Console gamers can understand the sophistication that is Crysis.

Bloomin' racists.

At 10/12/10 01:24 AM, KermitTheMuppet wrote: We are officially the: NO MOE-SHIT NO TWATS AND HOWARD STERN AND ANIME APPRECIATION GROUP

Man, you are terrible.

It's like you haven't evolved past a 13 year old's sense of humour, and think that shouting 'randumm ^_^' things is the height of comedy.

At 10/11/10 11:15 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote: Don't you love the impossibility of doing a backflip off the ground? =P

It's all about upper body strength.

Press down on the ground hard enough and the world itself will move, bringing you into a handstand position.

I didn't watch the video because man, who has time for that? Mirror's Edge is broken for several reasons.

The combat is boring, and at times mandatory. Some seem to argue against this, but suffice it to say that I did not find the fighting to be enjoyable at all.

Running as fast as you can in a smooth, unbroken flow is amazingly enjoyable. The demo is one of the best that I've played, since it shows off this mechanic in full. However, the developers seemed to realise that this might be fun and so decided that they would take this part of the game away and throw you into tight, cramped corridors for most of your playthrough.

What they need to do is take out the mandatory combat. Allow people to avoid the soldiers if they wish. They also need to have far fewer indoor areas.

Making it into a full-fledged FPS is the exact opposite of what they need to do with the game. It should be a pure platformer, basically.

More running and jumping, please.

At 10/10/10 11:09 PM, TimeBender wrote: I think 3D is an unnecessary tool, im glad you have fun though. What game did you play in 3D?

Video games are inherently unnecessary. What's one more unnecessary addition on top of that?

I saw something interesting in a bizarre way today.

At my university, they're doing some remodeling of the inner courtyard. So before everything gets torn down, they decided to do this wacky thing where they give anyone that wants it a paintbrush and some paint, and lets them go to town, writing or drawing whatever they want.

Anyway, the anime-related thing.

On one four sided pillar, one guy/gal obviously marked his/her geeky territory. On one side of the pillar was the words 'HARUHI IS ART'. On another 'HARUHI IS LOVE'. A third, 'SOS DAN' (that being SOS Brigade in Japanese. 'Dan' was in kanji). And on the fourth was the words 'K-ON' about ten times.

So there is a pillar in my university's inner courtyard covered in references to Haruhi Suzumiya and K-On! in massive eye-catching red letters.

All I could think of when I walked past it was 'what the fuck was that dude/dudette thinking?' Complete creative freedom and all he or she could think of was Kyoto Animation.

This story is too ridiculous for me to find it scary.

The biggest problem is that the guy becomes terrified far too early in the story. He experiences a glitch, and all of a sudden he's FREAKED OUT. He instantly starts looking for deep meaning in whatever just happened, and it's ridiculous.

A normal person would just think "damn, my unofficial copy of Majora's Mask glitched. Time to restart."

At 10/9/10 04:01 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Is this guy serious? He needs to get his facts straight before he posts on here again. This post is totally not funny or worth my time to read. I am contacting the internet police.

Listen dude, I know you think you're hot shit for pissing off a bunch of forumgoers.

But the fact is, that pretending to be genuinely wrong, only to arrogantly snap back when somebody corrects you is more idiotic than being wrong in the first place.

Here's you:

"George Washington emancipated slaves in America"
"Actually it was Abraham Lincoln"
"HAHA, JOKES ON YOU, I WAS ONLY PRETENDING!"

At 10/8/10 05:46 PM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote: Okay, fine. I admit that I DID shout out a spoiler or two, but how else am I supposed to chronicle my adventures through the games? Obviously not by blatantly saying so-and-so dies but I at least have to give an overview of what's happening and my thoughts surrounding it. And don't say that belongs in my blog either.

At the very least mark your spoilers clearly.

If somethings sounds like it could be a spoiler, it's probably a spoiler. So just do something like:

"I'm halfway through disc 2 and...

SPOILER ALERT

I'm up to the part where I have to rescue so-and-so" or whatever.

It might even be better if you mark such spoilers like this:

SPOILER ALERT

Joe Bloggs has just died.

It's common courtesy.

At 10/8/10 05:13 PM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote:

At 10/8/10 05:03 PM, Aigis wrote: Some people haven't played Final Fantasy VIII.

Some people haven't played VII and yet there is still mention of Aeris dying, so who cares?

Perhaps, but that's the only common knowledge Final Fantasy event. That doesn't give you free reign to spoil whatever you want. Nobody should be going around spoiling any other FFVII plot points, and nothing in FFVIII has reached such a 'you should know this already' status as Aeris dying.

At 10/7/10 05:43 PM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote: What, now I'm trying to go back in time? Time compression? Some new bitch named Ultimecia?

You know.

Some people haven't played Final Fantasy VIII.

You probably shouldn't be shouting out all these spoilers at every single point of the game.

At 10/7/10 01:22 PM, MattTheParanoidKat wrote: Hate to break it to you, but it's the weakest of Ishii's films and Ishii was rather inconsistent to begin with. You're on your own on this one.

At 10/7/10 11:47 PM, orangebomb wrote: As Matt said, This is probably one of Ishii's worst films out there

Just thought I'd let you guys know that the guy's name is Mamoru Oshii.

They upped the resolution of the character sprites, but didn't improve their animation.

What we're left with is a game that looks great in screenshots, but not so great in motion.

At 10/5/10 03:16 AM, RobotTaco wrote: AZUNYAN I AM AUTISTIC SO MAI IMOUTO HAS TO TAKE CARE OF ME SHE IS CHO KAWAII

SENPAI WHY ARENT YOU IN SPECIAL ED

AZUNYAN BECAUSE MIO IS A WHORE LOLOLOL

Not gonna lie. I would like this show a lot if it was about actual special ed kids.

You could have Yui as an autistic, Ritsu as an attention deficit, and Mugi as a downie. That would be AMAZING

What.

What are you...

I don't...

You're just saying dumb things over and over.

At 10/4/10 09:52 AM, RobotTaco wrote: Because other than being moe, K-On has no other redeeming qualities.

It has some funny dialogue.

At 10/3/10 09:13 AM, SomaGuye wrote: So you're telling me that you legally acquire all the old anime that gets talked about in here? Even the stuff that hasn't been licensed overseas?

Did I sound serious when I said that?

Internet forums are terrible place to try and be subtle, I guess.

At 10/3/10 10:50 AM, RobotTaco wrote: Gahahahahaha.

Go back to watching your K-On! moeshit then.

Cause that's all Lucky Star is without the references.

K-On! moeshit.

K-On! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lucky Star for being moe

Uh.

At 10/3/10 10:33 AM, RobotTaco wrote: Lucky Star is only good if you understand all the references.

Excuse me, but not understanding the references is one of the main reasons I enjoyed it.

It was a great way of convincing myself that I hadn't crossed the geekiness event horizon.

Mini-doughnuts are probably the greatest invention of the last two thousand years. Forget modern democracy. Forget television. Forget the iron horse. Forget the nuclear bomb. Forget the internet. Forget Jersey Shore. Mini-doughnuts are the best things that have been created, and possibly the best things that ever will be created.

Now I know what you're saying. "Aigis, are you really saying that mini-doughnuts are the best invention? Why are they better than regular doughnuts". First of all, I am not a liar, and fuck you for thinking that I am.

Second, mini-doughnuts are brilliant because the sheer amount of them one can enjoy without feeling like a terrible person.

Let me illustrate this for you. Say you buy a box of regular sized doughnuts. Now I don't know how many doughnuts that is, because I don't buy doughnuts in boxes. But I'm going to guess that there's maybe six doughnuts in a box.

If you eat that whole box of doughnuts, you're going to feel terrible. You're going to think "holy shit, I just ate six doughnuts". This is because you have something to gauge the level of horrific indulgence. A regular person would eat one doughnut and give up. But if you eat a box, then you've eaten six times the number a normal person would eat. You might as well be the eponymous monster from The Blob.

But take a box of mini-doughnuts. Who knows how many mini-doughnuts are in a box of mini-doughnuts? Maybe no one knows. And they're tiny. What's going to happen if you eat more than one mini-doughnut? Probably nothing. They're like, a tenth of the size of a real doughnut right? You could probably eat like ten of them, I guess.

Now I'm not a vile mass of human fat, so I wouldn't eat a whole box of mini-doughnuts. But the point still stands. They are amazing. You get all the delicious sugary, vomit inducing potential of a regular doughnut in a form that you can pop in your mouth like some comically over-sized pieces of popcorn.

Mini-doughnuts are the industrial revolution of snack foods.

At 10/3/10 12:13 AM, RadRobert wrote: Lucky Star anyone?

I have probably talked about Lucky Star more than any other anime on these boards.

But that's only because, for some reason, I decided that I had the need to argue against any attacks on a show that, at best, I only found mildly amusing.

It's a perfectly watchable show, with a rather terrible first few episodes. It gets better as it goes along, but it never gets great.

It does seem to try to be Seinfeld in its bizarrely long conversations about nothing, but it never gets the humour just right in that regard. Plus, a whole bunch of the jokes were based around Japanese puns that I didn't understand. There were a few laughs every episode, and I did mostly like the characters though.

I enjoyed it when I watched it, but I don't think it's the sort of thing I'd watch now. I'm not usually one to attach meaning to everything I do in life, but even so. This is show about a group of sixteen year old girls talk about video games, anime, and, with the regularity you'd expect in this sort of anime, weight loss and uh, chest size. I just feel like, as an adult male, perhaps that is not the sort of thing I should be spending my time watching.

At 10/1/10 01:50 AM, SoulMaster71 wrote: What the age of consent is in Wutai, however, hasn't been revealed. Still, 16. Not pedophilia!

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

'Tis but a joke, good sir.

At 10/2/10 07:31 AM, SomaGuye wrote: You guys always talk about the same old anime, why don't you ever talk about something that's currently airing, like Panty and Stocking.

Why, because any attempt to acquire such anime outside of watching it on television in Japan would be, gasp, illegal.

At 9/29/10 02:55 PM, SoulMaster71 wrote: I'd drop her and chase Yuffie, since at least Yuffie is somewhat attractive despite her, ah, kleptomaniac ways.

What a paedophile.

At 9/26/10 07:29 PM, Joseph1R2P3 wrote:

At 9/26/10 12:49 PM, Deadly-Shadow wrote:

At 9/26/10 03:50 AM, Joseph1R2P3 wrote: Who here likes Elfen Lied

Nobody.

Why not? I find t very well done for an anime even though it is a short series.

I only watched the first episode, so I can't comment on it as a series as a whole.

But, I did not enjoy that first episode.

From the opening, I was treated to a much longer, much less artful, and much... nakeder version of a scene from Akira. It just seemed like dumb violence from that. Then it moved to a point where the girl actually got some clothes on, and she just kept taking them off.

That is the impression I got of the show from the first episode. I'm not really big on gore and nudity for their own sake in my television shows.

At 9/25/10 12:13 AM, Blaze-Heatnix wrote: Holy shit, chocobo breeding is so boring.

You can just not do it.

The things that you get from chocobo breeding make the game too easy anyway.

Saw a couple of films at some sort of travelling anime exhibition that hit my city.

Redline and King of Thorn. Summer Wars was also there, but I had already seen it a few months ago (great movie).

Redline was great. It had amazing style and animation, it was incredibly funny, and altogether thoroughly entertaining. The film is basically what you would get if you got the film version of Speed Racer, turned it (back) into an anime, turned the dial up to eleven, and mixed in a heaping dose of animated flair. The plot concerned some sort of hardcore future car race on a cyborg Nazi planet called Roboworld. The cyborg Nazis do not want the racers on their world and hilarity ensues.

If you get the chance, see it.

King of Thorn, however, was pretty average. It some some sort of sci fi survival horror which worked reasonably well as a dumb Hollywood style action horror but devolves into a reasonable dose of pretentious nonsense. I enjoyed it well enough, and a few of the action scenes were quite entertaining, but it's not really something I would recommend. It's one of (if not the) the first anime I've seen that utilises stereotypical hollywood action-horror archetypes (rather than anime archetypes) as its uncreative fallback, so that's uh, a little bit interesting?

Also, again. Summer Wars. See it. No excuses. Redline too.

At 9/20/10 12:44 AM, Aigis wrote: Shave the neckbeard, too.

That was supposed to say 'dude', not 'too'. The point still stands.

Anyway, I watched your video for some reason. It was well done as far as those videos go, but I think making a list of the 'most overrated' games is just a little bit ridiculous in the first place.

Just because, say, I don't like a game doesn't mean that other people shouldn't like it as much as they do. I thought that Ocarina of Time was an okay game, but other people think that it's the best thing ever. If I say that the game is overrated as a result, that's me saying that my opinion is the correct one, and that they're all wrong for not agreeing with me.

I can't say that, because I'm not them. I can't experience the game the way they can, and I can't determine whether, if I were them, I would think it was the best game of all time. All I know is my opinion of the game, and that's just as valid as anybody else's.

'Overrated' I think is not the right word. It implies objectivity in a subjective opinion, which is ridiculous. A more accurate phrase would be "the Top 10 games in which the average opinion most differs from my own".

I would comment on one of the games in your list. Final Fantasy VIII. I can't say that this game is overrated because there are so many people that hate it. For every person I've seen that likes the game, there are two more that hate it.

Also I understood the junctioning system when I was like 8, and I thought the graphics were pretty good at the time. And I quite enjoyed it, despite the flawed narrative (hand waving the motives behind the bad guy's ridiculous actions? What the hell?). But that's not this argument.

Shave the neckbeard, too.

At 9/19/10 02:26 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: Eh, I feel like the minority who thinks God Of War is just naff. Not crap, not good, but just naff.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

At 9/19/10 08:22 AM, Dean wrote: 4. You anticipate a new game more than you eventually play it

"Signs you play too many games"

What.