Beat Dragon Age ( Read more... )

So although I was super productive yesterday, I have spent most of the weekend playing the new Dragon Age, because it is awesome.

( Mild spoilers ahead, and possible spoilers for DA:Origins, I suppose. )

Gonna talk a bit about feminism in video games! Because people tell me I bitch about this too much. I am sorry it seems that way. In truth--do I want to see more games with strong female leads? Of course. Do I thoroughly enjoy watching Balthier run around in his tight pants and making Ezio climb epic shit like a sexy motherfucker? Fuck yes I ( Read more... )

Final Fantasy XIII, why are we attacking the motorcycle racers? They were having a race. It was probably the most exciting thing to happen yet in the game, and you interrupted it to attack them. I don't know why you are attacking them--they didn't do anything to you. You appear to be stealing their motorcycles? But why would you need those, ( Read more... )

I was talking to my brother about FFXIII last night, and he mentioned how knowing that there's only two chapters left in the plot makes the incredibly speedy deaths of two of the main "villians" a lot more understandable. But that made me realize that part of the problem with XIII is that it doesn't really have villains.

( The following discussion contains spoilers only if you have a very limited imagination. )

I finally got to the good stuff in FFXIII! I get to run around wide open spaces! I get to decide whether or not to fight monsters that may or may not kill me super dead! I get to choose who is in my party, and what skills they use and level up! (I must say that this is the most poorly designed map I've ever dealt with, though. What the fuck, ( Read more... )

( Spoilers through Chapter 8 )

I was thinking about my post the other night, and I realized my criticisms of FFXIII reminded me of something: fucking Folklore. My complaints about Folklore's pitiful excuse for "gameplay" are uncannily similar to those that I and many others before me have made about the "gameplay" of FFXIII: largely, that all you get to do is run down a ( Read more... )

Been playing more Final Fantasy XIII. I think I'm ten hours in? I'm not sure how long I've been playing--in terms of what I've accomplished, it feels like it should have been four. This game moves verrrry slowly for a Final Fantasy. I've been mostly climbing over rocks the whole time... and if what I understand is correct, that's what I'll ( Read more... )

I was gonna wait until I beat the game to post this, but I figure I'm pretty much close enough.

( Have some Persona pet theories! SPOILERS OH GOD SPOILERS )