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  1. TheMuffinMan
    I believe Pullman greatly dislikes that people refer to his books as the "Anti-Narnia", he never intended for his series to be that, and it's an atrocious example of how everything in our culture has to be labeled and associated with something else. All he wanted to do when he made the series was explore his own questions and philosophies about Religion through a story, and perhaps via that his readers could reach their own conclusions.
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 13, 2007 in forum: Debate Corner
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    Uhh, Star Ocean has never been a "Sony game" to begin with...considering the series started on Nintendo
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 13, 2007 in forum: Gaming
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    I'd like to see more of this "Vault" menu, and perhaps more on Wifi

    Only about 2 days until CoroCoro releases
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 12, 2007 in forum: Gaming
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    Uhh, we don't even know what the content in the game is, so I don't see how you can say it's going to be repetitive or not, or even make assumptions on what's going to be in the game or what Boss battles we'll face, when there's little to no known information on the game

    For one, you're not stuck in Twilight Town, it's already confirmed that you travel to many worlds, and you don't know that Riku is the only Boss that is going to be in the game because we know absolutely nothing of what Roxas did in the year that Sora was asleep, so Nomura has an entire black hole in the Kingdom Hearts timeline in which to fill with new events and plotpoints that we never knew about, as Sora was asleep the entire time

    And, assuming you have friends, Multiplayer alone may give it quite a bit of replayability so long as you're having fun with friends.

    tl;dr, don't make assumptions until we actually know more about the game, rather than the insignificant bit of info we know now.
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 11, 2007 in forum: Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 ReMIX
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    That's the PS1 port of FF6, on the "Final Fantasy Anthology" collection, correct?

    According to Sony's website, the PS2 Slim has backwards compatibility issues with that game
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 11, 2007 in forum: Gaming
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    Not really, no one expected the Wii to be this much of a hit, people expected it to be dead from the start
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 10, 2007 in forum: Gaming
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    If you want to taunt after you kill someone, that should be your decision to go and press the Taunt button when you feel it's safe/necessary, I wouldn't like it if they took the liberty to make it automatic even if it was cancelable =\
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 10, 2007 in forum: Gaming
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    Yeah, think of how annoying it'd be if every time you killed someone, the game automatically made you taunt? xD you'd be left wide open, lol

    They most likely just staged the screenshot so that Diddy was taunting when they took the picture...which is what they do for the majority of the screenshots, stage everyone's positions and stuff
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 10, 2007 in forum: Gaming
  10. TheMuffinMan
    Post

    Trading up

    Well, the PSP's internet browser has very low support of Flash/Java, so most websites that even use minor amounts of Flash or Java apps will either overload the memory (which you'll then have to restart the Browser), or will simply not run at all (you'll get a blank white error message)

    So, the most you'll do with the PSP's internet browser is use it to browse text-based websites, as you won't be able to watch videos or play internet games or watch flash animations on it

    And as Marrie said, you need to be within range of an unlocked Wi-Fi signal in order to even use the limited internet, in which case if you're in range to do so, you may as well be on a computer.

    I'd say if you want a PSP but like the DS as well, find some other means of making money so that way you can save up and then own both, that way you're not losing either, and you're gaining the greatness of both.
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 10, 2007 in forum: Gaming
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    Yeah sure, go for it. I dunno, maybe there are people out there who haven't read these game summaries before, so whatever, it's always good to be reminded of stuff atleast

    ¯\(o.O)/¯
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 10, 2007 in forum: Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX
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    The Birth By Sleep, Coded, and 358/2 websites don't have any new info, all they have is the official summary of the games which were revealed in early October, so we've already known what they say for going on 2 months

    The Birth By Sleep website says:

    The 358/2 website says:

    The Coded website says:

    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 10, 2007 in forum: Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX
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    Congratulations, you know how to use Google Translator

    Also, sound out the words to understand what they are,

    "Kiburedo" = Keyblade
    "Sola" = Sora
    "Kiburedo Masuta" = Keyblade Master
    "Zeanoto" = Xehanort
    "Ansemu Repoto" = Ansem Report
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 10, 2007 in forum: Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX
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    It might be one of Diddy's taunts
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 10, 2007 in forum: Gaming
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    People using Mupen64 cannot connect to people using Project64k, and vice-versa
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 9, 2007 in forum: Gaming
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    Perhaps, it would be quite a cliche, but even so I think that with the right art direction it would be quite a memorable turn of events, no matter if it's a soap opera cliche' or not =P

    I just think it'd be cool mindfreak sorta moment. Like throughout the game there are certain points where you sorta notice a data influence, perhaps an out of place flickering stream of data here, or a strange almost digitalized skyline there, but you never make the connection right away

    But then at the end of the game after the big final battle, you stand victorious...and then suddenly you look around, and everything around you is slowly deteriorating into numbers, letters, mathematical symbols...the very landscape around you returns to data form and there's a flash of light

    Suddenly the scene cuts to a pure white room with a lone pod standing in the middle, it slowly opens and an unknown figure steps out slowly, the camera pans over them without showing their face, and all you see is a final shot of their eyes slowly opening, and the single line "I remember everything now" before the screen turns black and the credits roll

    Just picturing it in my head like that makes me think that it could be a cool turn of events, even if "it was all just a dream", hehe.
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 9, 2007 in forum: Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX
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    So I was thinking about BBS.

    I always had found it very strange that the way Terra summons his Keyblade seems entirely different from that of Sora...Sora's is summoned in what appears to be a natural sense, lights and sparkles flash around and form into the keyblade...but with Terra, it seems like weird blue particles form it...reminiscent of...electricity..or technology/data

    Essentially, it reminded me a lot of how it looked when Roxas summoned his Keyblade within Ansem the Wise's data Twilight Town..

    So that got me thinking...perhaps both instances differ from what we would consider a "normal" summoning animation, because they're both what it looks like when a Keyblade is summoned in a digital world...? What I'm saying is, what if Birth By Sleep is a simulation? What if the events taking place in the game, is someone reliving the past in a similar fashion to that of the Data Twilight Town?

    Now I don't think that Birth By Sleep's events are fake...no, I'm sure the events in the game actually took place...but what we are actually playing in Birth By Sleep is just a simulation of those events.. And, based on my connection drawn with Roxas's Data Twilight Town, we could assume that it's with Ansem the Wise's technology..or something similar.

    So, perhaps Birth By Sleep is just a reliving of a someone's past, experiencing the memories locked away inside them through a simulation, which fabricates past events/memories the same way Twilight Town existed as a simulation within Sora's mind. And when you think about it, Ansem the Wise's data world was used in the assistance of returning Sora's memories...

    So, if a certain someone we know has no recollection of their past, and has access to the same technology that Ansem the Wise clearly had at his disposal...perhaps Birth By Sleep's story is of that person's past, experienced again through a computer and used to return their memory to them.

    This scenario fits rather snuggly with the game's title, and at the same time leaves room to give insight on the enigmatic "Room of Sleep" and "Room of Awakening", which we learned of in Final Mix+ but know nothing of.

    In order to gain his memories back Sora had to be asleep, and the process of getting his memories back had him seeing his past in the form of a data simulation. Your memories return to you through a process involving sleep, hence "Birth by Sleep", so the game's title would imply precisely what Sora went through..only I don't think it's talking about Sora, it's talking about someone else.

    Perhaps Birth by Sleep is taking place in either the "Room of Sleep" or the "Room of Awakening", or through it's story we'll inadvertently find out what they are, where they are, and what their purpose is.

    So, in summation...Birth by Sleep could be a simulation using Ansem the Wise's technology to relive their past and return their lost memories. Any thoughts?
    Thread by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 7, 2007, 27 replies, in forum: Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX
  18. TheMuffinMan
    That's not that surprising...Melee's Euro release was almost 6 months after the NA release, June 2008 is only 4 months from February
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 7, 2007 in forum: Gaming
  19. TheMuffinMan
    The 15th falls on a Saturday, so who's betting that on Friday the 14th they update the Dojo with the info that CoroCoro plans to reveal in their magazine issue? xD
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 7, 2007 in forum: Gaming
  20. TheMuffinMan
    I think it is very likely that Geno is the next 3rd Party addition >.>
    Post by: TheMuffinMan, Dec 7, 2007 in forum: Gaming