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[ChairmanPoo]

Figured out how to play "the entertainer" (aka, the sting's soundtrack) on my Marine Band :-)

[TherosPherae]

Yo dawg I heard you like "yo dawg", so I put a "yo dawg" in a "yo dawg" So you can "yo dawg" while you "yo dawg."

Yo dawgception?

[Aqizzar]

I had no idea there was a new Sonic game coming out in two weeks.  Haven't thought about that crap in a while now.  Ho hum, I thought, another middling flash-game with reasonably good graphics, and more nonsensical extras getting in the way of entertainment, like Colors.

I've been watching videos and screenshots for an hour.  This is jawdropping beauty, fantastic music, and what looks like really good gameplay.  Apparently Sonic Team finally decided the road to success was Fanservice, Fanservice, Fanservice, and just make a really good platformer and cover it in pretty.  I'm pleasantly surprised.

[Duke 2.0]

 What Sonic Colors was filled with that pretty junk. It was part of what made it good. Heck it made the 3D segments okay.

[SalmonGod]

Zero Punctuation today, and not for the reason you probably think. Thank you, Yahtzee, for reminding me of Final Fantasy 7, and through it, the much-more-beloved-by-me Final Fantasy 6. They both have nostalgia value for me, but goddamn if I didn't love 6 to fucking death. And this time, I'm not going to abuse what I've learned about the system. No glitching my way to infinite gold through thousands of dirks, no careful planning of esper bonuses, no level 99 Locke with a Genji Glove, an Offering, and two Atma Weapons dealing more damage than it is mathematically possible for any foe to actually have hit points bullshit. I don't think I'll even use savestates.

Except for the Vector Railway, because fuck doing that over and over. I've seen that poorly-animated tunnel far too much for a single lifetime. And maybe the pre-Flying Continent airship battle, because the octopus battle there is always a clusterfuck for me if I don't use shenanigans. I'll have to see how that goes.

EDIT: Screw work, I'm going to get reacquainted with 14 pixelated fellows I used to know.

FF6 is my 2nd favorite jrpg of all time, behind Xenogears.  Chrono Trigger is a close 3rd.  Soooo much of my childhood in those three games.

[Bauglir]

Clearly, I need to play Xenogears. I've heard good things about it, but if it beats out my two favorite RPGs of all time, that's something. I've said it before, but it's worth repeating - Ted Woolsey is like a god to me, and is directly responsible for much of my education in the English language, after I learned enough basic sentence structure to piece his sentences together. I loved those games so much, even if I always had trouble beating an easy boss (typically because I was too young to figure out the gimmick, even when, in Vargas' case, the game explicitly tells you how to do it - I couldn't master the controller input, for reasons that are now obscure to me).

Close 3rd behind them is Secret of Evermore, for me, followed shortly by (of all things) FF12.

[Duke 2.0]

 I played Xenosaga a bit, put me off from playing any game with a Xeno prefix.

 That was just terrible to wade through. Star Ocean TTEOT was better than that if only because the plot appeared to move.

 I might want to try playing the other games to see if they have anything related to that. They probably can't muck it up like that multiple times. And I'm probably being unfair judging all games for one that didn't suit my tastes.

[SalmonGod]

I loved Xenosaga, personally.

Xenogears is significantly different, though.  Less time spent in cinematics and a fun combat system.  But then, I haven't played it in like 12 years, so my description is based mainly on nostalgia-stained recollections.

[Bdthemag]

I dislike JRPG's, mainly due to the fact there is so much grinding. Although I do have a few weaknesses....but I digress.

[Duke 2.0]

 I might try it out. The story was a huge reason why I felt like I was slowly wallowing through anime hell and I never really got a grasp of the combat system outside of "You had best know the specific way to beat this boss bitch."

 And I know all about nostalgia staining. Oh Terranigma, you crazy, stupid amazing game.

[SalmonGod]

They're more fun if you don't do any grinding.  Most are balanced on the assumption that you will work your way straight through the story instead of wandering around doing lots of random encounters.  I never understood the appeal in doing all the secret stuff that requires tons of grinding.  The gameplay gets old fast in most of those games.  Tactics types are the only exception.  I play through them for the art and story.

[ToonyMan]

Oh, I can play Shining Force again so that will be fun.

[Vector]

I frankly enjoyed grinding up in VIII and IX, but that's mostly because I was so attached to the characters at that point that I really did like running around and thinking about them spending all that time together.

[MaximumZero]

I never finished IX. The PS2 ate my disc 1 after the stage swordfighting thing and then promptly died. Not even my DiscRX fixed the accursed thing.

[Gunner-Chan]

I streamed again for a bit. There was... BOOMF.

And someone who was threatened with hand removal and bitch slapping with said hands. And limo stunt driving.