Atomic_Tangerine

@Supermarius:

Oh ya, I get that they were about exploration and finding alternate routes and stuff, it's just that those parts where by far my least favorite parts of the Sonic games.  If I wanted that out of a platformer, I went for Super Mario World. 
 
I kinda hate Sonic 3 and Knuckles for what it did to Sonic in general though, and that's not really fair.  Sonic Adventure may be weighed down by all the stupid characters, but it wasn't SO bad with Knuckles.  It was still novel at that point.  I'm projecting my hate for recent, terrible Sonic games on the ones that were merely OK.   
 
Sonic 2 was still the best though!  Just gotta throw that out there.

" @Supermarius said:

" There are alot of game series that the GB crew incorrectly hate or ignore. Someone should keep a list. Just some things that would go on it are: Blazblue, Pokemon, Sonic & Knuckles (seriously, wtf Jeff), Just Cause 2, nippon ichi stuff, etc "

They said they liked Just Cause 2 but some stuff in it (as with almost every open world game like it) is janky "

"You can't ever really get "boxed in" because if you fail to rescue someone, you get sent back a week in time to try again. "

"No you can't really box yourself in.  You do need to do a bit of schedule management but you don't have to worry about whether a choice in the beginning of the game will kill you at the end.  It might make it easier but nothing to big.  If you play on easy you;ll have less worries.  This isn't a Fire Emblem game where if you have the wrong people kill enemies in the first battles you're gimped midgame onwards "

I'm sorry for not reading through the forums to find out this stuff, but I just have a huge feeling that at this point in time, every thread will mention late-game plot details and stuff assuming everybody knows them, because if you are on this forum, you probably do.  However, I bought this game on release and just finally took the shrink-wrap off and was thinking about playing it, as I heard that it was a much more structured game than Persona 3, which I turned off after about 5 hours as I was just paralyzed by the amount of choices I had.  Having to keep on a schedule just seems so nuts for a game like this.

So what I am asking is whether or not I can box myself into what could potentially be an unwinnable game at any point.  It seems like the game has a hard time-limit almost like the first Pikmin or Dead Rising, and while I could beat those games without much issue, this is an RPG.  I put points into the wrong stat, and next thing you know I'm at a boss fight that I can't win.  I remember hearing that if you don't get to a certain point in different sections on the game that the guy in the velvet room sends you back in time or something.  Is that true, and do you keep levels and stats and S-links and stuff like that?   
 
Once again, sorry if this is obvious, it is just that as much as I enjoy my bizarre Japanese games, this one is almost impenetrable in parts with all of its complex systems that it doesn't want to explain.

Most of the time, the word boycott is thrown around in ways that don't make sense.  Usually, when people say they are "boycotting" a game, it is because there is something with the game that makes them think it won't be as good.  Lack of dedicated servers in MW2 was one, and the idea that the game was a rehash was the big reason for the supposed Left 4 Dead 2 boycotts.  The problem is that if you are not buying a game because you don't think you will like it, then that isn't a boycott.  Using that sort of logic, I have boycotted Nickelback, Twilight, Need for Speed after Most Wanted, most sports games, and comedies starring Adam Sandler filmed after Happy Gilmore.  Most boycotts are just people who are vocal about not liking something, while a boycott is when you refuse to buy something you actually really want or need to prove a point.

 
Refusing to buy the cheaper clothing because it is made by Indonesian children is a boycott.  Refusing to buy a video game because you don't like something about it is simply not buying something, nothing more.