They seemed to imply otherwise. They announced 150 + monsters, and monster DLCs (probaby a shitload of them, just like the Duodecim costume DLC fever). M.T.: The battle system in FFXIII was speedy as it was, but we have made it even faster and more dynamic. Each of the monsters the player can be executed in a similar fashion to the action-orientated commands of FFXIII’s Eidolons in Gestalt Mode. So, you can now add variety to your favorite strategies by using ally monsters. Even faster and more dynamic ? A bunch of action-oriented pokemons ? O_o ... Yay ? T_T Transformer Moogle ? The summons Etro sent to the characters in FFXIII were robots, Shiva could transform into a bike, all the Fal' Cie are robots too.
I' d be a hell of a lot more interested if the polycarbonate layer was also rock-solid, those expensive M Discs are just as sensitive to scratches as any DVD. Planned obsolescence is in the best interest of every manufacturer, anyone promising some cheap life-long product is just lying through his teeth (and in this case you' d also need a life-long way to retrieve the data, without it your life-long DVD is just a life-long frisbee).
NASA uses the 1998 film, Armageddon, in their management training program. It turns out, to absolutely no one’s surprise, that this is not because it’s an incredibly well thought out movie in how to stop an asteroid from hitting the earth… No, they use it because it contains over 168 distinct things that are impossible (not just improbable, but impossible. there are many many more if you want to talk about improbable). Because of this, it makes for a great exercise in seeing how many of those things their staff can recognize, both the impossible things and the improbable. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/armpitageddon.html
Oh gawd, fine, replace "always" by "90% of the time" in my previous post if you think it' s more accurate, my point remains the same. I was putting teenagers and twenty something young adults in the same bag. Rydia, Palom and Porom are adults ? O_o :lolface:
Well, there' allways a bad guy who chooses salvation via destruction, and a teenager group choosing salvation via hope, that for some reason is so skilled at fighting that 95% of the world population couldnt even try to beat them, including most 40 years old war veterans. Notice that they often haven' t received any kind of military training. Hell, they can even bring swords and staves (or cards, or umbrellas ...) to a gunfight and yet live to tell the tale, blowing any robot or tank to smitherins nonetheless. Unless they' re called Zack Fair and are suposed to die, suddenly the army gets as strong as a demi-god, Your team allways includes a cute magical girl, a cute/weird magical creature, a brooding warrior etc ... Just check TV Tropes, they probably made a list of all the recuring FF clichés. Since FFIV the mold is always the same, a Star Wars-like modern mythology in which a bunch of goody two shoes beats a myghty baddy bad bad evelish evil, flirting in the process. That doesn' t mean it doesn' t leave room for a philosophical approach, as in Xenogears, or for entertaining, but as Princess Ariel said FF chose the road of romance and constant feelings and emotions. I don' t hate FF stories, but I don' t really enjoy them either. What I care about first and foremost in any video game is its gameplay. If the story is good, bonus, if not, well if all I wanted was a story I would have picked a book or a movie. I guess that makes my opinion on straight-line RPGs or RPGs that play themselves easy to guess.
The overall plots and characters have more or less been the same stereotype rehashes for 20 years. Believe it or not, FF XIII is the only FF I didn' t enjoy, which doesn' t mean that I should praise them in every aspect (or that I can' t troll about them).
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It' s supposed to be a conscious choice, that' s why it' s called a leap of faith. Not a single believer on Earth has undeniable proof of God' s existence. Logic says there' ll never be any such proof. Sure, some believers actually think such proofs exist, based on insane troll logic, but not all believers do. When you decide to trust or love someone chances are you don' t have any undeniable proof that he' s worthy of your trust/love and never won' t have any. I highly doubt any human being who lives long enough, as logic-oriented as he may be, manages to live his life without making any such leap.
This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If its all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isnt then you've lost nothing right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts...". Terry Pratchett
Science fiction movies are usually about making metaphors and raising ethical issues, not about being realistic. Add "American blockbuster" on top of that ... ^^
Spoiler I don' t get it, do you think brute force would be the ideal human response to the movie ending ? (That is if we ignore the fact that humanity as a whole is about to have a much bigger problem than the damn puny forest at that point, see here : http://www.movieweb.com/news/rise-o...el-may-go-full-metal-jacket-says-rupert-wyatt) Or are you merely suggesting that' s how humans would undoubtedly react ? Damn, humans can suck (which was my point and the point of the movie).
Actually the true original is the book, and it has an even better, slightly different twist than the movie. About this "prequel", it actually isn' t a prequel at all, neither the book nor the first movie had anything to do with a virus. This movie wasn' t great, but if there' s a sequel it might be much more interesting. Spoiler Err ... freedom maybe ? Just a wild guess ... My my, who said you were supposed to root for anybody in particular ? It' s a movie, not a football match. They' re not "running around", they' re fleeing the city and humans in general and he knows it. He only cares for Caesar because he sees him as family, he doesn' t give a **** about the other apes. Why the hell not ? Because, you know, monkeys living in society in a forest is something entirely undocumented and unheard of, and the intelligent apes would obviously treat the normal ones as awfully as the humans treated them in the first place. Gee that' s a tough one. Maybe he used his walking superpower ? Are we really supposed to believe that the humans will let them live in peace in a forest they obviously didn' t buy ? Or that they will ever recognize them as equals with equal rights ? Who says they want to hide ? They certainly aren' t ashamed of what they are and they don' t fear us anymore. The point is not to hide, it' s to establish their own cage-free territory, seizing it by force and defending it if it comes to that.
Technically he' s just Bruce Banner, they' ll motion capture the Green Giant to get the Hulk performance, as usual. :stupid:
Marvel just released this clip from what appears to be called "The Consultant," a series of short films starring Agent Coulson which are at least partially set at some point before Tony Stark meets General Ross in the post-credits teaser of The incredible Hulk. This one will be included in the Thor DVD and Blu-ray. [video=youtube;TBJMq-isHU4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBJMq-isHU4[/video] Mark Ruffalo is just replacing Norton, the same way Katie Holmes wasn' t acting as Rachel anymore in The Dark Knight.
FFX is pretty much already tailored for noobs (not as much as XIII, but still). There' s only two advices I can give you : - Sell every piece of equipment you come across and don' t need (which is to say most of them), the only thing that you actually need to buy in this game is phoenix downs (and maybe the capture weapons). I always got tons of cash that way, which is good cause Yojimbo can kill ANY enemy in the game as long as Yuna gives him enough money. - Don' t dezombify your characters when you fight Seymour at Mt. Gagazet, eventually he' ll use an attack that kills any character who isn' t zombified. If you still have trouble then maybe you need to read an abilities guide to check which one you want to give to each character (if you chose the expert sphere grid that is, the regular grid doesn' t give you much of a choice) and which one are actually useful/powerful. I' d also tell you to do lots of random battles if your characters seem under-developed but that seems like a given. Oh, and if you like bitzball that much you can get Wakka' s last limit break that way (by far the most powerful limit break in this game)
Yeah, I tried to find some more reliable source, apparently it' s just one chain which temporarily took those games off the shelves and it's not just games, it's also toy guns and stuff like that, they are saying they are doing it in sympathy for the victims and their families. Sorry for the misleading "news". I don' t speak Norwegian myself, maybe you could tell me if I' ve got my facts right this time ? http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/oslobomben/artikkel.php?artid=10081059
I stumbled upon a French website news : http://www.gameblog.fr/blogs/yohann2...CtAUtg4U.tweet 51 video games have been banned in Norway (WOW, and probably every other FPS). I also found this : http://feedthegamer.info/2011-07-29/...norway-killer/ Riiight, let' s ban a bunch of inoffensive games rather than real guns ... I propose to also ban water guns, you have no idea just how much one can gather about real guns handling from them nor how much of a madman it can turn your kids into. Ater all, a law hastily thrown as an emotional reaction to the latest saddening news has to be a good law, how could it not be ?
You won' t know until you try it, it' s different for everyone. The reason is that everyone use their brain differently, some people have a "lazy" brain : instead of interpolating the left an right eye pictures to compute a full 3D visual their brain just pick the best picture out of the two and go with it, using the perspective laws to gather information on ... well ... perspective. When you watch a 2D movie or close one eye you' re still able to tell what' s in front and what' s in the back, right ? However if you were to play tennis with one eye closed you' d really have trouble playing because the game forces you to pinpoint the exact location of the ball in 3D, a vague guess based on perspective isn' t enough to play well. That' s basically what the 3DS forces your brain to do, pinpoint EVERYTHING in real 3D ALL THE TIME (which is immediately tiresome for "lazy brain" people, and eventually gets tiresome for the others). Do you happen to know how the cross eyed 3D technique works ? I' ve known it for years, I' m comfortable enough with it to watch entire movies that way (whether I have to cross or "uncross" my eyes) so I figure I wouldn' t have any trouble with a 3DS (still haven' t tried one). It doesn' t give me headaches, however I have to admit that playing a cross eyed 3D game (Metal Gear Acid 2 on PSP can be played like this) gets annoying quickly, the constant conscious effort I do to cross my eyes correctly plus the whole 3D gimmick get in the way of thinking about the game itself. Spoiler [video=youtube;zBa-bCxsZDk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBa-bCxsZDk[/video] [video=youtube;fhEF-w6DTRo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhEF-w6DTRo[/video]
Published in "Le Figaro", a French newspaper : Spoiler La passion du jeu en ligne comme couverture de ses activités Anders Behring Breivik explique ainsi comment s'être servi du jeu en ligne World of Warcraft (WoW) comme couverture. «Savoir se servir des tabous sociaux est un excellent moyen d'empêcher vos proches de fouiner un peu trop dans vos affaires», explique-t-il. Il s'est ainsi servi du tabou de l'addiction au jeu. «Par exemple, dites à vos proches que vous avez commencé à jouer à WoW, ou à tout autre type de jeu en ligne, et que ce jeu va vous demander beaucoup de temps et d'effort dans les prochains mois ou années. Ce 'projet' va pouvoir justifier le fait que vous vous isoliez, ou que vous ne répondiez plus beaucoup au téléphone. C'est simple, il suffit de dire que vous êtes totalement absorbé par le jeu», écrit-il. «Vous seriez étonnés de savoir tout ce que vous pouvez faire sans que personne ne vous soupçonne en invoquant votre passion de ce jeu. Par exemple, si vous avez besoin de vous rendre à l'étranger pour mener à bien votre plan, dites simplement à vos proches que vous allez voir un de vos amis joueurs de WoW, ou mieux encore, que vous allez rencontrer une fille de votre guilde (équipe de jeu NDLR). Vous verrez, personne ne vous en demandera plus.» http://www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...ttaques-preparees-depuis-plusieurs-annees.php Loose translation : Anders Behring Breivik explains that he used the on-line game World of Warcraft as a cover. «Knowing how to use social taboos is an excellent way to ensure that your loved ones mind their own business.» Therefore he used the video game addiction taboo. «For instance tell your friends that you' ve started playing WoW, or any other on-line game, and that you intend to spend a considerable amount of time and effort into it for several months or years. This "project" will be a perfect explanation as to why you isolate yourself or don' t answer your phone much. It's simple, just say you're totally absorbed in the game.» «You' d be surprised to find out the amount of things you can do without anyone ever suspecting anything by invoking your passion for this game. For example, if you need to go abroad to carry out your plan, simply tell your loved ones you'll see one of your WoW friends, or better yet, that you'll meet a girl who' s in your guild. No one will ask for more.»
