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[Gunner-Chan]

Well I'm not even done with clear sky yet, and I'm at 650 dead stalkers. More than last time.

With these damn kill counts how is there ANYONE left alivein the zone anymore?!

[Vector]

I hope you're playing the original SNES version, or the PSX rerelease.  The GBA one changed some stuff I wasn't comfortable with, not least being the translations and the addition of a bunch of Superboss endgame stuff that I feel detracted from the proper feel of the ending (letting you play with characters who... shouldn't be there, for instance).  It's a really good game though, maybe better than FF6 in pure gameplay terms.

Yeah, it's an SNES version.  Pretty cute, too.  I like how I'm less than an hour into the game and I've already gotten booted out of a military organization, destroyed two villages, killed a little girl's mother, watched an in-battle earthquake do something on the main map (!), killed a dragon... oh, and I'm about two minutes away from my second dungeon.

Cecil is loaded for bear

[Ultimuh]

Oh.. it was FF4.. not 6.. IV and not VI.. something must have distracted me..

[Benevolence]

So my aunt sent me a package with this set of cookies about a week ago, maybe as congratulations and encouragement for my first semester at the university, or maybe just because.

Three minutes before midnight is a terrible time to sample sweets when one wants to actually go to sleep soon, but the first one was delicious. >_<

On the other hand, that means there are only five left for later...

[Aqizzar]

Yeah, it's an SNES version.  Pretty cute, too.  I like how I'm less than an hour into the game and I've already gotten booted out of a military organization, destroyed two villages, killed a little girl's mother, watched an in-battle earthquake do something on the main map (!), killed a dragon... oh, and I'm about two minutes away from my second dungeon.

Cecil is loaded for bear

Fantastic, you're in good form then.

Cecil is one of my favorite characters from the series, partly because he is a bit different from the "traditional" JRPG lead character, but not an iconoclast or anything.  He's a relatively normal guy, a Good Soldier, who wants to serve his kingdom and his king as a knight should, and finds out he's the best chance the world has to stop a problem way bigger than himself.  He complains, but his complaints are rational.  He charges around the world from one plotpoint to the next, but he always has a good reason to, if for a lack of choices if nothing else (FF4 is a great example of how to pace a linear story).  He's also not a pretty boy or magic child, but a badass hardened veteran, who still manages to... I won't spoil it for you.

And I love that intro.  The Red Wings Theme is such a fantastic song for a chiptune, and its used in exactly the right places throughout the game.

Spoiler: SPOILER TIME (click to show/hide)

Try suplex the ghostly train.

 

Spoiler: Works like a charm. (click to show/hide)

[Itnetlolor]

Well I'm not even done with clear sky yet, and I'm at 650 dead stalkers. More than last time.

With these damn kill counts how is there ANYONE left alivein the zone anymore?!

Resurrection anomalies? Maybe the reason blowouts glow red is because it's rebuilding more bodies for you to gun down the next time around.

[Vector]

I gotta say, I am pretty pissed at my inability to kill these zombies.  Durned Cecil.  Might have to go outside and keep training Rydia, because her defense is terribad and it feels weird to waste this much MP on one fight...

EDIT: Oh come on, Tella, that is way too OP >:I  No way this guy is going to stick around for long.

[Bauglir]

Okay, so I've got this weekend off, a preposterous quantity of caffeine, a ton of macaroni and cheese that I can fancy up with leftover sandwich ingredients, and Act 5 of Homestuck yet to read. Let's do this thing.

[Solifuge]

Yeah, it's an SNES version.  Pretty cute, too.  I like how I'm less than an hour into the game and I've already gotten booted out of a military organization, destroyed two villages, killed a little girl's mother, watched an in-battle earthquake do something on the main map (!), killed a dragon... oh, and I'm about two minutes away from my second dungeon.

Cecil is loaded for bear

Fantastic, you're in good form then.

Cecil is one of my favorite characters from the series, partly because he is a bit different from the "traditional" JRPG lead character, but not an iconoclast or anything.  He's a relatively normal guy, a Good Soldier, who wants to serve his kingdom and his king as a knight should, and finds out he's the best chance the world has to stop a problem way bigger than himself.  He complains, but his complaints are rational.  He charges around the world from one plotpoint to the next, but he always has a good reason to, if for a lack of choices if nothing else (FF4 is a great example of how to pace a linear story).  He's also not a pretty boy or magic child, but a badass hardened veteran, who still manages to... I won't spoil it for you.

And I love that intro.  The Red Wings Theme is such a fantastic song for a chiptune, and its used in exactly the right places throughout the game.

Spoiler: SPOILER TIME (click to show/hide)

Try suplex the ghostly train.

 

Spoiler: Works like a charm. (click to show/hide)

Final Fantasy VI is pretty high on my favorite RPGs of all time. Even if the plot isn't made up of solid gold storytelling, the gameplay itself was really really well-crafted. Only played a bit of FFIV though, but it looked like a well-done game too.

Speaking of game design, I've recently discovered Egoraptor's Sequelitis Series, where he reviews the elements of game design in an intelligent and funny way. He falls back on the RAEG thing a bit too much, but he considers video games, along with their controls, pacing, presentation, and the other elements that make them effective or not, the same way someone might consider the pacing, storytelling, or cinematography of a film. I like it.

[Gunner-Chan]

Resurrection anomalies? Maybe the reason blowouts glow red is because it's rebuilding more bodies for you to gun down the next time around.

Oh god the space anomalies are getting more severe. NOW THEY FORCE THE DEAD TO THROW THEMSELVES BEFORE ME TO GUN DOWN AGAIN AND AGAIN!

No WONDER I killed all of freedom THREE TIMES over two games!

[Duke 2.0]

 It's a zombie angle I can get behind. Space and time is creating temporal clones of people and it's your job to restore casualty.

[Vector]

Masquerade is pretty great, too, though I bemoan the fact that I can't set my apartment on fire.

[SirAaronIII]

Starting my NaNoWriMo 2011 thing. I'm behind so I better get to work now.

It will be amazing, I promise. Maybe.
EDIT: And with that I'm off to sleep. 2225 words in 2 hours. Wow I'm pretty good at this, but then again this is not exactly a regular novel story thing.

[Gunner-Chan]

Well I just finished Clear Sky. The endgame was obviously a little rushed, and a liiitle flimsy. But it was still an awesome trip. After going through that immediately after Shadow of Chernobyl I almost feel like I'm on some kind of stalker high. Like... I dunno it's weird. I blink and I'm like HOLY FUCK AM I IN THE ZONE?! Oh wait no I was just blinking. Heh...

Well Call of Pripyat is next in my stalker gameathon, lets see if this one makes me go totally batshit crazy given what I typed above.

[SirAaronIII]

As usual, new title is very entertaining and happy making.