PA's makeover. FFXII suckage. X-Box 360 shortage.
Jesus Christ, this happens to me every time I walk away from the internet for a minute! I leave for a week, and Penny Arcade goes and updates their site theme. Damn.
It's a lot slicker and video-gameish. Go PA. I do miss the old Street Fighter style navigation buttons, though.
It happened on November 14, and is announced by Gabe's post on this news page.
Goddamnit. Apparently Final Fantasy XII is going to suck balls. In Tycho's own words, "Final Fantasy XII is an insult to a once proud franchise and to the people who have made it so."
I'm pissed. FFXI being an MMORPG did nothing for me, either. At least FFX and FFX-2 were good, even great in places. I really liked FFX except for the final boss battles which sucked ass. The sphere grid was interesting, if somewhat vexxing when trying to assess the relative power of your characters. Where once you could say "Well, Terra is level 37, and Gau is level 25, so clearly I need to work on Gau and leave Terra alone for a bit." or even "Zidane has 18 abilities now, and Vivi only has 9, so I obviously need to prioritize him for learning stuff." with FFX you had to squint at a colored map and make estimates, or compare exhaustive lists of stats and abilities.
FFX-2 was great, I think I liked everything about it, even only having three player characters. It tightened the game up. A big difference from some other games with huge PC cast lists.
Oh yeah, and the X-Box 360 is having unit shortages on their launch date. What a fucking surprise. I'm really tired of console companies pulling this maneuver, because they think they'll sell more that way. Assholes.
Bah. I go play Ratchet and Clank 3 now.
It's a lot slicker and video-gameish. Go PA. I do miss the old Street Fighter style navigation buttons, though.
It happened on November 14, and is announced by Gabe's post on this news page.
Goddamnit. Apparently Final Fantasy XII is going to suck balls. In Tycho's own words, "Final Fantasy XII is an insult to a once proud franchise and to the people who have made it so."
I'm pissed. FFXI being an MMORPG did nothing for me, either. At least FFX and FFX-2 were good, even great in places. I really liked FFX except for the final boss battles which sucked ass. The sphere grid was interesting, if somewhat vexxing when trying to assess the relative power of your characters. Where once you could say "Well, Terra is level 37, and Gau is level 25, so clearly I need to work on Gau and leave Terra alone for a bit." or even "Zidane has 18 abilities now, and Vivi only has 9, so I obviously need to prioritize him for learning stuff." with FFX you had to squint at a colored map and make estimates, or compare exhaustive lists of stats and abilities.
FFX-2 was great, I think I liked everything about it, even only having three player characters. It tightened the game up. A big difference from some other games with huge PC cast lists.
Oh yeah, and the X-Box 360 is having unit shortages on their launch date. What a fucking surprise. I'm really tired of console companies pulling this maneuver, because they think they'll sell more that way. Assholes.
Bah. I go play Ratchet and Clank 3 now.