Karkarov

Discovery is their best Album and "Get Lucky" is the best song of RAM. That said "Giogrio by Morodor" and "Doin it Right" are both very very good. I would also say RAM is probably their second best overall album and honestly... I don't think there is a bad song on it.

it looks like a set top box for cable/satellite tv. Which I imagine is intentional since they seem more concerned with getting you to use it as an Home Media/Theater box instead of an actual game console.

No reverse compatibility and forced kinect are painful to even think about. Motion controls were a catchy gimmick but they don't enhance games in any meaningful way, requiring a motion device to work is well... stupid. The people that wanted kinect would have bought it anyway. Another kick to the jimmy is the lack of support for Xbox live Arcade purchases. Any games you have on your current Xbox from the Arcade have to be repurchased on the One. Pretty bad show Microsoft.

But CoD has a dog so it is all okay right?

Fair enough but he was the skinny red headed white kid of villains. He was never going to get what he wanted and he was so mustache twisting cliche it was funny. So if you want to say he was the main villain, fine, but that doesn't mean he was a "good" villain.

Allow me to rephrase. Did you ever actually take Seymour seriously as a villain? Was he the "main villain" or was he just a "bad guy"? Were you able to guess he was a villain within say.... 30 seconds of meeting him despite pretending to be a good guy?

Sure he doesn't "come out of left field" fair enough but he is still a crappy cornball B tier villain. Predictable, never felt like a serious threat, and he wasn't even a "primary" villain. He was a how to put it.... glorified yes man in a lot of ways. He was the face of the villains for quite some time but he was never more than a face, he wasn't in control and he wasn't the real threat.

Meanwhile Yunalesca? She definitely had a big presence in the game before you actually fought her.... actually no she didn't. The "Church" again is a big faceless organization, they aren't even technically bad guys because what they do is "bad" but it does save society even if only for a temporary time. Sin works I guess but that is more like making your main villain a tornado. I hate that my house was destroyed, but can I really "hate" the tornado? It isn't a person it is like a brainless force of nature that just is what it is.

@video_game_king: That's the problem dude. There is no central villain, it is a collection of random dudes out of left field and this overall "organization".

There are a lot of reasons most people (out side of hipsters and people jumping the bandwagon) think FF 6 and 7 are the best FF's. Chief among them is the villain. Kefka and Sepiroth are both introduced to the game fairly early, in Kefka's case like in the first hour. You interact and deal with them throughout the whole story. Ultimately you are given a laundry list of reasons to not like them and actual specific examples of why the characters in your party will hate them. Sepiroth burned Clouds hometown to the ground and killed his mother, Kefka killed Terra's father and shoved him in a materia, etc etc. Even better these things are not told in a "two years ago blah blah happened" you either have to play through them as flashbacks or you actually participate in them as real time events you are trying to stop. Kefka even had that annoying laugh and most people wanted to kill Sephiroth for no other reason than being a stupid looking bishie.

Point is, by the end of the game you knew the villains, understood them to a point, had build up a relationship with them, and they (plus the party) have matured or changed based on the events you experience first hand in the game. All this comes down to one thing... you wanted to take them down by the time you got to the end of the game. It was personal, you didn't like them, and they didn't like your characters.

Then you have the other FF's....

Who is the villain of FF10 again? Do they even "have" a name? FF8 you get Ultimicia... no comment even needed as most FF8 players don't even know who she is. FF 9 you got.... some dude whose name I cant recall but he gets replaced by an even more emo Vegeta at the end anyway. I can give more examples, but in my opinion that is one of the big reasons FF 6/7 are normally the favorites of the series on any poll with a large number of votes. Especially if the people grew up with final fantasy instead of grew up with 9 being their first or some such.

So you like the train wreck that is the story of FF8 why again? It boggles my mind that people think 7 sucked, but the absolute monstrosity of plot that was 8 was good, and the god of generic forgettable 9 was excellent. Suffice to say, yes Adel would have made a better villain, but a one armed monkey from outerspace with the power to shoot lazerbeams out of their eyes would have been a better villain than Ultimecia. So that isn't saying a whole lot.

I almost always tip something. For average I will tip 3 dollars or 10% whichever is higher. For good service I will tip at least 5. For bad I probably leave a buck. For a driver that delivered my food two hours after I ordered it? I am probably not going to tip jack unless they are very professional when they do the delivery then they will get a buck.

Yu Suzuki does not own the rights to Shenmue... Sega does. Last I checked Suzuki either no longer works for Sega or is in a small branch of it where he no longer has any decision making powers. So no, this isn't really news. When you see a Shenmue 3 reveal and an actual tech demo/trailer then I will believe Shenmue 3 will happen.

Also Shenmue haters can suck it. Just cause you don't appreciate the fine arts of forklift driving and asking old ladies with groceries about the four Wu-Du doesn't mean that none of us do!

I can only speak for myself but most of the people I know drink either not at all, or only casually/during parties or special events. About half my friends smoke but none of them come anywhere near what I would call chain smoking. To put it in perspective I went to Germany last year. I remember sitting at a restaurant around 4-5pm eating dinner. I would bet that at least 80%-90% of the people eating there (if not more) were drinking some kind of alcoholic beverage. Sitting down at the same kind of restaurant in the States at around the same time you would see people drinking... but it will only be like 25%-40% tops of the people there. At least that is how it is where I live.

But then again I don't hang out with college kids anymore.