drqshadow

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  1. She's with Reed out of convenience and necessity. She'd have been with Namor out of passion. Myself, I'm a hopeless romantic so I like to still believe that your what you feel in your heart should outweigh what you know with your mind.

    Besides, Reed's a little bitch. I could apply the same reasoning to Jean Grey / Scott Summers / Wolverine. Jean shouldn't have wound up with the boy scout, either.

    drq

  2. I bit the bullet and bought this last night, since I'll be leaving Circuit City and wanted to get it while I still had an employee discount.

    Easy hardware installation, but actually getting all the drivers installed and the software updated took a couple hours. Didn't help that my router spontaneously decided to quit working for about ten minutes in the middle of the process.

    FF11 is... odd. It doesn't feel like a Final Fantasy, there's too much to keep up with. I was fortunate enough to find somebody running around in the first village that helped me gain my bearings and figure out what I should be doing, but it's on the whole a really overwhelming experience at first glance. The character customization isn't nearly what I was expecting, but the game itself seems OK. Like I said, it doesn't feel like a Square game, more like Diablo meets Everquest. I'll be trying my damndest to get addicted to this over the next couple days. Failing that, at least I have a hard drive for the PS2 now.

    Though FF11 comes pre-installed on it, in its entirety. They give you a game disc, but I've yet to use it. Basically, it proclaims this is a revolutionary, ass-kickin', 40GB hard drive (which really isn't all that impressive, honestly), but when you plug it in, you realize system files are eating 2 gigs of it, and FF11 takes up close to 10GB. So you're really buying a 28 gig HDD.

    drq

  3. RE2. They're all a little dull to me, but that was the first one that really captured the "cheap theatre thrill" aspect of true horror movies. The first one was fun camp, but the second was somewhat legitimate. Plus all the extra shit they piled onto it was just ungodly cool.

    RE3 I could never get into. The whole "mix and create your own ammo" thing killed the whole fun of it for me.

    drq

  4. I've already bought one of these friggin' things and it broke.

    How did it break?

    A DVD got stuck inside. Here, I'll post the story... this was mid-December, when I thought I'd just buy another right away. Later changed my mind and decided to wait for the price drop.

    First Xbox I got, about this time last year, shipped with that infamous "dirty disc error" problem. Took it back within the week, since I could only get my games to load once every three or four tries.

    Now, last night, I'm sitting on my couch watching "The Royal Tenenbaums" on DVD, sick as a dog. Movie ends, I throw myself off the couch to pop in the second disc so I can watch some bonus material. The Xbox tray opens, but no disc comes out. It's fucking stuck to the machanism that spins the disc, inside the box itself. I shake my box around for a few minutes, thinking about the kind of abuse it can supposedly take (it took a f'ing BULLET, right?), still no dice. Well, there is a tiny bit of progress. I can make it so the tray won't close, then I can hold it upside down and it'll grudgingly agree to close up. Still no DVD has come out of the thing. So, since I'm beyond my warranty anyway, I break out the drill and open the thing up. After about an hour of sweaty, sneeze-filled agony, I've managed to remove the offending DVD. I plug everything up again, put everything back in its place, and after some struggling (they jammed the shit into that thing) get it closed up again. Plug it in, say my prayers, and.... nothing. Not even the faintest hint of a green light on the front of the box.

    I open it up again, check to make sure I didn't leave anything unplugged, and... still nothing. Motherfuck.

    So the moral of the story is, I guess, don't tinker around inside your Xbox if you're not 100% sure of what you're doing. Which is something I wouldn't have had to do if the bitches had molded their tray mechanism differently. If I had just a little more leeway, I could've got a pair of pliers in there and removed the disc without opening up the box. But now I'm just venting. Fucking hell, this sucks.

    The bright side? I get another controller, two games and a new warranty.

    The down side? It's gonna set me back another $170.

    drq, still on his FIRST PS2.

  5. Psylocke. I remember she hit on Cyclops while they were in Russia for some reason... she was coming out of the shower in a towel... damn.

    I think that was mostly an excuse for Jim Lee to draw Psylocke in a towel emerging from a shower.

    Me? Either Roxy from Gen13, Blink from the Age of Apocalypse or Velocity from CyberForce.

    drq

  6. Ditto to Yoda's thoughts.

    I did get great personal satisfaction out of completing Tom Nook's first task. "Go write a message on the bulletin board!" I quickly ran to the board and posted "Tom Nook is a gay fag." He didn't seem to mind.

    I also adorned my front door with a beautiful middle finger mural.

    That game's hella fun with more than one person on the same card. Autumn and I kept leaving little surprises for each other when the other wasn't looking. I once planted an entire forest of apple trees behind her house. She wasn't pleased. We also kept burying trash in front of each other's homes, so we'd start the game thinking there was a wonderful present right on our doorsteps, only to be let down.

    drq

  7. There's no sense of closure and god forbid you complete the side quests--Sin is a pushover if you even finish HALF of them.

    I'm right with you about Sin being a piece of cake if you've done anything even remotely resembling a sidequest, but dude... how can you see that ending and not get closure? I hated that they had to cut to an unecessary scene of Tidus swimming somewhere after the credits, but aside from that I thought the story wrapped itself up tremendously. Everybody had a logical conclusion, even if they weren't all happy ones.

    Anyway. My games:

    Star Ocean: The Second Story. I will never stop praising this game. Incredibly addicting gameplay, a story that's more than solid, dozens of different playable characters and endings, and a step away from the tired old "everybody take turns hitting each other" RPG cliche.

    Final Fantasy VIII. My favorite FF. The best characters, the most interesting sidequests, the most original gameplay. Great graphical direction, and characters that aren't just cartoons: they're human beings, complete with personality flaws.

    drq

  8. I wouldn't necessarily call Squee a sequel. It was more a series of funny shorts starring the kid who coincidentally appeared in JtHM. "I Feel Sick" was more in the way of a true sequel to Johnny.

    One of my favorite books of all time, though. Jhonen Vasquez is godly. His sense of humor is spot-on, and he can do serious stuff without losing a step.

    drq

  9. They discontinued it after, I believe, issue 25. The storyline explanation was that he visited hell and recharged indefinitely, but I think McFarlane just got too lazy to keep up with it.

    drq