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I never finished Majora's Mask. The farthest I ever got was the end of Great Bay Temple, five or six years ago, where I was mercilessly slaughtered by Gyorg and could never muster up the will to go all the way through the dungeon again. Recently, I played through all of Ocarina of Time in one eleven-hour sitting. I didn't use any guides, and I didn't 100% the game, though I did get a good amount

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A while ago, I tried to make a real time "live blog" type thing of myself playing through Xenosaga ep.1. I couldn't finish it. Here's what I managed to get down. Note that it is profanity-laden and reads like an IRC log or something. There are probably spoilers too.-opening cutscene20XX? reallykenya, lolKENYAN SLAVES DIGGING FOR ANCIENT ARTIFACTShe knew it!LOOKS LIKE A SAVE POINT IN XENOGEARSoh

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I finished Final Fantasy XIII the other day, and I liked it. It was a beautiful, intense journey through the worlds of Cocoon and Pulse, showing flashes of where the JRPG genre may be heading as a whole. It was concise and to the point, the battle system was fantastic, the music and graphics were beautiful, and once you finally got down to the rolling plains of Gran Pulse, the game really did

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RPG elements. If you've read a video game review in the last five years or so, you've probably heard someone say it. What does it mean? In game industry terms, it's the implementation of a character progression system that usually includes upgradeable equipment and experience points, among other things. These are certainly RPG elements. To clearly define the full range of what "RPG elements" are,

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No, not that new-fangled XZeroLegendsBattleNetwork stuff, the original series. Mega Man: Rock Beats Scissors, Get It?Mega Man was, I think, the first game to introduce non-linearity in an action-platformer context. Perhaps Metroid did it sooner, but Metroid was primarily an adventure game -- Mega Man was a true left-to-right action game. This style also offered a sort of built-in difficulty

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Hey, I'm back from the dead to create this entry and then I'll be immediately returning to my grave. 2009 was a strange year for videogames. It started off kind of slow, with a few gems here and there, and ended strong with hits after hits. There were almost no notable RPGs this year though. All we really got was Star Ocean 4, Bowser's Inside Story, Persona PSP, and a bunch of other handheld RPGs

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Haven't posted anything in a while, so.Phil's pretty much done with the whole writing thing, so you won't see much/anything from him here anymore. He's back in school, studying radio broadcasting to pursue a career in voice acting. Wish him well, plz. He'll probably pop in occasionally to post a thing or two, but don't expect much. I haven't updated in a while because I've been studying for the

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(9:40 PM) Mapping an invisible world:after a bit of researchdemons souls is probably a shitty game(9:40 PM) REPLACEHUMANS:isn't it like super balls hard(9:40 PM) Mapping an invisible world:noit's super balls annoying(9:41 PM) Mapping an invisible world:somewhat like getting hit by aoe instant kill before you have a persona that can resist itin P3(9:41 PM) REPLACEHUMANS:lol(9:41 PM) Mapping an

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Yuji Horii wants to make Dragon Quest IX really hard. Perhaps, if you haven't given it much thought, this seems like a reasonable statement. Maybe you even admire him for wanting to make a difficult JRPG.Me, I'm too busy being dumbfounded at how little the man who created the JRPG understands his own genre.valkyrie profile is hardI don't know if you've noticed, but JRPGs aren't difficult. Ever.

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Alright, here's the thing about this year's E3.Last year's E3 was so unspeakably terrible that it couldn't have gotten any worse. E3 2008 was the worst video game-related expo that I can remember.With that in mind, be glad that all three major competitors announced games. Like, real games.I've heard the most braintarded complaints about the conferences in the hours since Sony's ended today.

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Oh wow, I completely forgot about this.A little while back, Phil and I were talking about posting insightful discussions we'd had in IRC (#scurvyworms at irc.calindora.com port 49233), just because we get into some interesting stuff sometimes.Phil actually sent me a txt file with a few quotes in it, and I just completely forgot about them and never posted them. So, here they are.IRC Shit #1:

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Oh god, not this again. (see: comments)Look.The console war is over. If you weren't paying attention, blu-ray won the format war. Otherwise, most of us who were watching came to the conclusion that, and I hate to burst your bubble: everybody is getting fucked in the ass this generation, regardless of what console you own.Xbox 360 is plagued by faulty hardware.Playstation 3 has a pitiful library

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My favorite Final Fantasy titles are V, VIII, Tactics and XII. When I tell people that, most can understand Tactics, but they're usually a little puzzled by the other three -- V and VIII are usually considered the weakest of their generational trilogies, both occupying their respective middle slots -- and XII is mostly written off as "too different" from the rest of the series, which is a

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It's probably expected of me to praise Star Ocean 4 (I refuse to use its silly subtitle) as if it were the final seal on the rapture of video gaming. Star Ocean 2 and 3 are two of my favorite games ever -- my nick was shamelessly stolen from the former -- and I've logged, probably, upwards of 500 hours into those games combined.I'll start off by saying that, as far as I'm concerned, Star Ocean is

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Playstation NetworkFlowerI didn’t really know what to expect when I purchased this game. I’ve never played flOw, so I don’t know much about the type of games Thatgamecompany creates, but reading about Flower I had only heard good things. It looked arty and innovative, yet simple in concept. I was intrigued. Despite all of this though, I did have my doubts. I found out that you can only play the

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Playstation 3Burnout ParadiseBefore discussing the actual contents of this game I just want to point out how cool it is that I can download the entire game and all of its DLCs in one package on the Playstation Network. Which is, of course, exactly what I did. Just to clarify, Burnout Paradise is a retail game, but you can also download it if you wish on the PSN. I actually debated about this for

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Why isn't it more like Chrono Trigger? Why are there so many characters? Why is the plot so confusing?Man, I hate this game!Here's a statement I can't back up with any amount of factual evidence: most gamers probably aren't artists in any capacity, or at least in the field of writing stories or anything that involves the written word. If they are, most probably aren't very good at it. Most of the

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I hate "best of the year" lists. I feel they're relatively pointless in the same way that award shows are, because it's so hard to actually compare games to each other for anyone who thinks critically about the games they play. This is why when someone gives one game a higher score than another, but they belong to two different genres, it doesn't mean one is better than the other.I hope you knew

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2008 was an excellent year for videogames in my opinion. I find that it even surpasses 2007, which is a hard thing to do with such amazing titles as: Mass Effect, Super Mario Galaxy, Bioshock, and Persona 3. In this little feature I’m going to narrow down my top five favourite games of 2008 in order of ranking, with a couple notable mentions. It was pretty hard to single out my choices and much

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