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Nov. 6, 2009
  • Nasar7 replied to the topic Wireless Router
    Also, is the router in good condition? If it's old/fried it can be messing with your speed.
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  • @Potter9156 said: " I commonly get kicked for just joining a game. People need too learn how to create private matches. "Happened to me just yesterday. It's a waste of everyone's time.
    2 days ago
  • Nasar7 replied to the topic Gamer chairs
    I personally would never buy a gaming chair; its a really juvenile piece of decor imo. Assuming you don't already have one, I agree with saving up the money for a nice surround system.
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  • @Jimbo:" I really don't understand the logic behind the Swastika decision. This isn't less offensive in any way at all. They have erroneously put Nazi armbands on the entire German Army just for the sake of a splash of colour, refer to the German Army as the 'Nazi Army', but somehow think that using a historically accurate symbol would be the insensitive part. They have even changed the massive Eagle ...
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  • @doctorchin said: "  I fell out of interest with GTAIV quite a while ago but by god can rockstar make a good advert. "Agreed, their powers of satire are second to none.
    2 weeks, 1 day ago
  • Nasar7 commented on Ryan's editorial review A Boy and His Blob
    Looks like a breath of fresh air.
    2 weeks, 1 day ago
Oct. 22, 2009
Added by Nasar7 on Sept. 25, 2009

I haven't really enjoyed Mario games since they went 3D. This summer, however, I started playing Super Mario Galaxy and what do you know, really liked it. The unique gravity puzzles are a breath of fresh air and just the twist the series has needed for me to get interested in it since Super Mario 3. I suspect it also has something to do with the fact that the game isn't set in the Mushroom Kingdom, a setting I have no great love for. I'm now eagerly anticipating SMG2.
Related to: Super Mario Galaxy


Added by Nasar7 on July 2, 2009

Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to the thread I made a month back. I was originally going to post this right in the thread but as it got ever longer I realized it would be more appropriate as a blog post. Moving on.
OK, so I finally decided to get back into LO and give it another go. I just played through the story segment at the very end of Disk 2, and man, let me tell you, that was the some of the most tedious gameplay in an RPG that I can think of. For those of you who can remember, the end of Disk 2 is at the experimental staff. My first problem with it was unnecessarily big. The level design seemed large just for the sake of being large, and the layout didn't really make sense from an in-universe standpoint; it was very gamey. 
The random encounters are another thing. This is probably true for all of the game but I'm just noticing it here, but the rate of encounters seems really random. Sometimes I would get into another battle literally 10 steps after finishing another, at other times I could walk freely for a good few minutes without any fights. Which, naturally, happens only when you actually need to get into a fight in order to get a Gate Pass. Having to get these passes was a huge pain in the ass because you had to steal them from the enemy, which takes forever, and they were one-time use only. A big annoyance I have with this game is that the battles take FOREVER. There are just far too many people in a fight, both on your side and the number of enemies. A five person party is huge. And when you're facing about 5-6 enemies on average each battle, who take two of your characters two rounds to kill each, it just never ends. 

The crate/platform/lever puzzle, was simple yet mindnumbingly tedious. The boss fight was pointless and lacked any sense of danger. It was fairly obvious to me that you were supposed to lose the fight. Most damningly, it did nothing for the story. I didn't learn anything new about Gongora, Kaim, Seth, or anyone else. The plot in this game hasn't really gone anywhere since the end of Disk 1. It's ridiculous. 

Then, after the fight which you're supposed to lose, everyone just stands back up because Lirum somehow heals the kids (BS), they heal Jansen, and everyone else is immortal anyway (boring). There is a countdown timer to get out of the staff but they might as well not. There is ZERO sense of urgency, danger, excitement, adrenaline, nothing. Two examples of games that did this concept MUCH better immediately come to mind. Remember in FF VII when you have to escape Midgar on the bike and you have to protect everyone in the car from being attacked? Remember in FF VIII when you have to escape Dollet and the giant mechanical spider is chasing you and you (Leon/Squall) almost get left behind, barely jumping on in time? Those were some of the most memorable moments in the game, and I don't even have to get into the awesome scenes that those two games had right before the switch between each consecutive disk. In LO, there is a time but timer which gives you 12 minutes, way too much time to feel any sort of Metroid-esque time crunch, the boat is waiting for you, you get on and leave, and thats that. Oh and the music doesn't help.

Sorry for the rant but I just wanted to get my feelings about my latest experience with LO out. I'm trying really hard to enjoy this game, but its just not letting me.
Related to: Lost Odyssey


Added by Nasar7 on June 2, 2009

When I was a kid I was such a Nintendo fanboy. I remember when Nintendo was the underdog generation after generation, I wanted them to be on top so badly, but not like this. Somewhere it all went horribly wrong like a perversion of all my childhood dreams. Even now I can't help hoping that Nintendo will do a 180 and care about the fans that stuck with them through thick and lots of thin. It almost makes me feel like an idiot because they probably will not do so. All I'm asking is, don't break my heart, Nintendo.
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Symphony 1 day, 1 hour ago
Symphony is sleeping. Zzzz.
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jakob187 would like to remind folks that he's pissed about the PC version of MW2. Doesn't mean he won't be rockin' the fuck out of the console version!
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Tebbit is reaping the benefits of not sleeping.
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Stang is 50 points away from 1000 in SFIV. One day, one day.
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simpsons_28 is wanting to know how to block people here.