Wednesday, July 31, 2013

I always stick to default names in RPGs...

...but this time the temptation is killing me.

So how about you? Do you ever rename characters when given the chance?

Sunday, July 28, 2013

And you call that a love story?

So I just got done with Final Fantasy 8, which I played for the first time ever, and... well, I can definitely understand the vitriol many people have towards it. Now it goes without saying that I've mentioned multiple times that I don't play games for the story, but it can definitely drag the rest of the experience down if it feels like my mind is being insulted (don't worry, the gameplay has its issues too, I'll get to that later). Which it was, multiple times. Perhaps it's because of the expectations I had out of hearsay, perhaps it's because it really does show me the middle finger, who knows. What matters is that I'm left with a sour taste in my mouth, which is never good when evaluating a game. Not only is the consensus that it doesn't come close to 6 and 7 completely accurate and justified in my view, but it also doesn't compare to 4, 5 or 10 either.

Naturally I'm going to be delving into spoilers here, so since I'm such a nice guy I'm hiding them behind this jump.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Pokémon and Nobunaga's Ambition: no longer the strangest crossover

Yeah, they went there.

The question is, where do we go from there? Starcraft and My Little Pony? Mille Bornes and Chrono Trigger?

OMG WILLIAM N KAET HAD THEIR BABBY

I R SO EXITED DIS IZ RELEVANT 2 MAI INTERESTS

Said no one with a brain ever. Unfortunately, that leaves a lot of brainless people out there. Why do people act like this is important news? Why is the human race this fucking shallow?

Friday, July 19, 2013

Is my lack of upload schedule a bad thing?

I've been wondering about that, especially since many big YouTubers have one, and tend to catch hell whenever they don't stick to it, no matter how valid the reason is (and in some odd cases like RoosterTeeth, even when they DO stick to it). Now, don't worry, I don't intend to change that, because imposing myself an upload schedule would mean it'd start to feel more like a job, and it's at that point that the fun factor of doing LPs starts being drained away.

The question I want to ask, though, is this: is the fact that I can potentially upload a video at any given time on any given day, or not upload anything at all for a few days without prior notice, a problem for you, the viewer? Or do you just not care?

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Someone must really like car crashes...

...if he's going to do a job this sloppy. Sure, go on the left track to turn right. That can only end well!

This example of crass incompetence brought to you by Lignbec, a company hired by the city of Gatineau (just north of Ottawa) to draw the lines and arrows on the streets.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Chespin and Fennekin final forms leaked?

Normally I don't post about news that have the potential to be fake, but quite frankly, should this be fake, it's at least done well enough for me to at least point it out. Unconfirmed concept art for Chespin's and Fennekin's final forms has emerged on Tumblr, and while we have no clue if it's real or not, I still like the look of it. The parallel between Chespin and Oshawott, if true, would hold up rather well, to the exception that Chespin stays bipedal all the way through, while Oshawott's line was screwed out of Ice Punch and other such moves. And, needless to say, Fennekin DOES look like it might evolve into a Fire/Psychic, especially since it was confirmed to know Psychic to begin with.

I'd also like to point out that Servine and Dewott also were leaked through concept art several months before BW1's release, so a repeat of that is perfectly doable.

(Also, here's a zoomed-in version of Chespin Mk III's colored picture, just because.)

Oh, and what about the ghost sword Pokémon, you may ask? Well it definitely looks cool, but I'm wary of getting excited too quickly. I remember the last time I got hyped over a Steel-type pre-release... it did NOT end well.