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tempestuously) wrote2009-11-03 06:30 pm
tempestuously) wrote2009-11-03 06:30 pm
"We could shit in a cartridge and sell a million copies"
A 67-year-old editor punched out a reporter at the Washington Post recently. Said reporter allegedly called the editor a "cocksucker." Wow. Also, I made another dumb offer to prove that I'm willing to do anything for my job. Sleep, why do you ever elude me?
I saw Ice Age 3 last night. It was fun, but the tonal switch between Ice Age and its sequels has always sat uneasily with me. Ice Age is just such a powerful movie.
I went on a rant about Squaresoft and their being whores with the Kingdom Hearts franchise again last night since we were discussing the history of video gaming in some book, and it failed to mentioned the Final Fantasy franchise despite covering Lunar. I was told that Squaresoft's greedy love for spreading its KH games among systems isn't that different from its Final Fantasy franchise. Whereupon I replied that the Final Fantasy games aren't linked so you don't necessarily have to play all of them to fully enjoy each individual one. I enjoyed FFVII just fine without playing FF IV or FF V. Enter KH: Chain of Memories, which was only released on PS2 *after* the release of KH2, despite the fact that lack of knowledge of KH:CoM drastically impaired complete enjoyment of the game since you didn't know who the hell half the dead cast were, what the Organization was or why characters like Namine were even there. KH:CoM was of course originally only released on the Gameboy Advance. Why the hell would I buy Gameboy Advance, which I can barely SEE, when I have a gorgeously rendered PS2? Seriously. Square then chose to release KH:CoM on the same system as the main KH games because it knew it had generated enough interest by confusing the fuck out of players in KH2 that they would want to play KH:CoM. So Square, teasing with the bullshitery that is to be KH3 (yeah, I have absolute ZERO interest in a game that doesn't include the original cast), decided to release its newest KH incarnation (the backstory to the Organization, gee your regular fanbase wouldn't care about a little thing like that) on the Nintendo DS, again playing fast and loose with its Playstation base. Now, I get that it's smart marketing. I get that the diehard fans will do whatever Square tells them. I get that a lot of people have a DS because it's popular. And I still think it's an asshole move on the part of Square to send me from system to system to system just to keep up with its damn storyline. Let's not forget that upcoming KH: Birth by Sleep will be only available on the PSP. Square, suck my balls. /end rant Yeah, that pretty much sums up the entirety of what we discussed. Maybe with less requests for Squaresoft to suck my balls, as my company might have found that comment slightly... odd.
Also, King, Ro's hate for you is NOTHING compared to mine right now.
We shall conclude with this amazing chat about Palin that truly illustrates... Actually, I don't feel like friends-locking this so I will just say you can make your own judgments.
I saw Ice Age 3 last night. It was fun, but the tonal switch between Ice Age and its sequels has always sat uneasily with me. Ice Age is just such a powerful movie.
I went on a rant about Squaresoft and their being whores with the Kingdom Hearts franchise again last night since we were discussing the history of video gaming in some book, and it failed to mentioned the Final Fantasy franchise despite covering Lunar. I was told that Squaresoft's greedy love for spreading its KH games among systems isn't that different from its Final Fantasy franchise. Whereupon I replied that the Final Fantasy games aren't linked so you don't necessarily have to play all of them to fully enjoy each individual one. I enjoyed FFVII just fine without playing FF IV or FF V. Enter KH: Chain of Memories, which was only released on PS2 *after* the release of KH2, despite the fact that lack of knowledge of KH:CoM drastically impaired complete enjoyment of the game since you didn't know who the hell half the dead cast were, what the Organization was or why characters like Namine were even there. KH:CoM was of course originally only released on the Gameboy Advance. Why the hell would I buy Gameboy Advance, which I can barely SEE, when I have a gorgeously rendered PS2? Seriously. Square then chose to release KH:CoM on the same system as the main KH games because it knew it had generated enough interest by confusing the fuck out of players in KH2 that they would want to play KH:CoM. So Square, teasing with the bullshitery that is to be KH3 (yeah, I have absolute ZERO interest in a game that doesn't include the original cast), decided to release its newest KH incarnation (the backstory to the Organization, gee your regular fanbase wouldn't care about a little thing like that) on the Nintendo DS, again playing fast and loose with its Playstation base. Now, I get that it's smart marketing. I get that the diehard fans will do whatever Square tells them. I get that a lot of people have a DS because it's popular. And I still think it's an asshole move on the part of Square to send me from system to system to system just to keep up with its damn storyline. Let's not forget that upcoming KH: Birth by Sleep will be only available on the PSP. Square, suck my balls. /end rant Yeah, that pretty much sums up the entirety of what we discussed. Maybe with less requests for Squaresoft to suck my balls, as my company might have found that comment slightly... odd.
Also, King, Ro's hate for you is NOTHING compared to mine right now.
We shall conclude with this amazing chat about Palin that truly illustrates... Actually, I don't feel like friends-locking this so I will just say you can make your own judgments.