Girls Playing video games

7 months 1 week ago

"That's terrible. I could see why there'd be a dearth of girls too. I play games, but I don't advertise my sex much."
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Soul Caliber 4

7 months 1 week ago

"I played it. I think it's fun! I like Mina, Talim, Yunsung, and Yoda."
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Saga Frontier

7 months 1 week ago

"Are there any other Saga Frontier fans here at AP? I love it! I think it's so much fun. I want to try to make a wallpaper for it, but I want to find some art of Suzaku first. My favorite character is probably Gen, but I like the heroes too - especially Astellus - IRPO, and the rebels. Next time I play as Red, I'm going to try to get all of IRPO and the rebels on my team.

Anyway, Saga Frontier is an RPG for the PSX. It was made in '98 and while the graphics haven't aged well and the story can be confusing at times, the gameplay and battle system are as good as ever.

You play as one of seven characters - Blue, Red, Emilia, Lute, Astellus, Riki, or T260 - with different stories set in the same world. Like I said before, the storyline is messed up. Apparently, Squaresoft published a book with most of the story. You heard right - a book! Fortunately, the information inside the book is readily available on GameFAQs.com and various Saga Frontier fan sites. However, there's enough in the game to care about and there are a lot of characters, so at least one will be appealing.

The character designs are gorgeous - Tomomi Kobayashi is awesome! - and the OST is pleasing. There are rarely any times I felt like putting on another song over the game's.

What really makes this game is the game play and battle system. You can have fifteen characters made into three parties of five. It's actually useful to have a lot of parties, since one heals while the other battles. And instead of leveling up like in most RPGs, characters' stats increase differently depending on their race. Humans' stats increase depending on their actions in battle - for example, a human who uses a lot of attacks will have his ATK increase, Mystics can absorb monsters and their stats will increase depending on how powerful the monster is, Monsters can absorb monsters and become more powerful monsters, and Mecs can equip items and have their stats increase depending on how good the item is. Also unlike most RPGs, characters learn moves differently depending on their race. Humans learn physical moves in the middle of battle, Mystics and Monsters get moves from the monsters they absorb, and Mecs get moves from enemy mecs they absorb. "
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Urahara Kisuke

8 months 3 weeks ago

"The upper left is what looks empty to me. Maybe you could put Hiyori there and show us what that looks like afterward?"
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Amano's Art

8 months 3 weeks ago

"I like the colors. The right is bare, though. I'd go with what Prettypeoplelie suggested. Maybe you could put a title there too?"
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Samurai Champloo

11 months 2 weeks ago

"Samurai Champloo was a really satisfying historical fiction anime.

I liked the historical references to Van Gogh and Chrisitianity and such and the stars are such appealing characters.

I loved the music too. Nujabes is awesome! I liked him, but I didn't know he did so much of this anime's OST. I liked the hip-hop references too.

The fight scenes were also great."
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How is Japanese Anime better than America Cartoons?

11 months 2 weeks ago

"I too am biased, but I'm going to play devil's advocate here, since I also like animation from the USA.

While American animation tends to have a lower quality of what's being animated, the animation tends to be better. Compare the Fleischer brothers' Superman made in the 40's (?) to the recent Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex. I love them both, but while GitS is really detailed, there are scenes where nothing is animated at all - not even eyelids! (:O)

Also, the classics - like Loony Tunes and Disney movies - appeal to a large audience without alienating anyone. Children like them, because of the humor and animals, while adults like them for the war and pop culture references and deep themes. American animation tends to be more stylish too. You've got things like Spawn and other things like Flapjack and Chowder. They don't look all that similar at all. I'm not saying stylish anime doesn't exist, but you've got to admit, it's few and far between sadly.

When was the last time you saw comedy in a non-comedy anime series that wasn't bodily humor, potty humor, or involved perverts? This seems to be the only humor I see in anime, while in American animation, you get wordplay, awkward scenes chockful of humor, trifles being taken seriously, etc. that is just much funnier IMO.

American animators and crews also get paid more and everyone on the crew is usually skilled in the arts. That's all I can think of for now."
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Full Metal Alchemist Season 2?!

11 months 2 weeks ago

"Another Fullmetal Alchemist series is something I wasn't expecting, but now that I know it's coming out, I'm really looking forward to it! The original was one of my favorites. It satisfied me."
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Are old games harder than younger ones?oO

11 months 2 weeks ago

"Older games are harder, because technical capabilities meant they couldn't make long games, so to make the gaming experience last longer, they made them harder instead. There are still some hard games out there, though, like Saga Frontier and I Want to Be the Man.

I remember the old, hard games. Like Battletoads. My brother and cousins would try to beat it. I played it to, but I always got stuck on the later levels. The old Sonic games were hard for me too, but very fun."
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other peoples grammar

11 months 2 weeks ago

"There should be an apostrophe before the "s" in "peoples" to show possessiveness. I'm not even sure if "peoples" is a word.

That aside, I know what you mean. In general, poor grammar/spelling is a pet peeve of mine. I'll point it out in conversation, but I won't be a douche about it, so long as I can tell what is meant."
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Life imitates Art?

11 months 2 weeks ago

"I think it is possible for life to imitate art.

I mean, there have been times when urban legends have come true. The stand alone complex is another example of this, because the idea of someone doing something can inspire copycats to do the same thing, even if that thing never happened, but was merely rumored to have occurred.

Strangely enough, I think Pokemon has inspired me quite a lot. When I feel like giving up, I think "would so-and-so give up?" and keep on going. "
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Does AP have this Tsubasa scan?

11 months 2 weeks ago

"I lost a colored Tsubasa scan of the group in a vehicle with the cats Shaoran mistook for Fai and Sakura walking in front of them and I thought I'd be able to find it at AP. Does it have it? If so, where is it? I know it'd be in the scans section, but there are almost 1,000 images to go through, so I'd rather know if it's there or not, before finding out the hard way."
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How is Japanese Anime better than America Cartoons?

1 year 5 months ago

"Pink-Sakura, I could not agree with you more! I also enjoy anime and cartoons, but there are some anime I watch just for fun, like Sayanora Zetsubo Sensei or Dai Mahou Touge, and cartoons I watch that are more serious, like Spawn or Avatar.

Luvu, I mean no offense, but each frame of animation in an anime, in general, tends to be lower quality, so that's why the animation isn't exactly top-notch. The quality of what's being animated, however, is normally better than that of most cartoons. I've seen frames where characters had extra fingers, so yeah. I love them, anyway, though!"
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Things that you thought could only happen in anime happens in real life

1 year 5 months ago

"The nose bleed stories made me giggle. I wouldn't have expected anything like that to have happened IRL.

Mine isn't too out of the ordinary, but I met a girl who beat up the guys she liked kind of like Naru Narusegawa (sp?) from Love Hina. It was so, so, so weird!"
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Scan

2 years 4 months ago

"I have a lot of unusual things that I want to scan and submit, but when I scan them, they are much smaller than the required size to be submitted, but I see scans of things that I know are tiny, like cards, that are larger than the required size. How do people get large sized images out of things that are small IRL?"
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.hack//G.U. Redemption

2 years 4 months ago

"You know a lot, Therealdark! Wow! I had some idea that CC Corp. was working on a game for the PS3, but I didn't know that it'd be a .hack one. Now, I'm really excited about what's yet to come!"
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What's your biggest Pet Peeve when it comes to Wallpapers?

2 years 4 months ago

"I have a lot of pet peeves. Misspelled words, poor extraction, JPEG artifacts, and clutter are my biggest wallpaper pet peeves. Misspelled words make the wallpaper creator look sloppy and lazy. I mean, you can spend hours makings a gorgeous wall, but you can't spend a few seconds to make sure you spelled a word right? If I feel like going at a wallpaper with a red pen, then there's a problem. Poor extraction makes a wallpaper look messy and sloppy. It shouldn't be obvious that the images are all from different places. JPEG artifacts make a really gorgeous wallpaper look really dirty in all of the wrong ways. I've seen it get so bad that you can't even read any of the text on the wallpaper! Ew! I don't like clutter, because then I don't have anywhere to put my icons. A wallpaper should have form and function. If it just looks great and I can't put my icons anywhere, then I can't use it and all of that great-looking-ness is for naught!

I actually don't have any problems with low-res. I use 800x600. That is the largest res my computer can get. Low-res to me (Was is 640x400?) doesn't exist anymore! XD"
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Those who wait for manga

2 years 4 months ago

"I'm patient, so the wait isn't so bad, but I really want to read the next Alichino and DNAngel. I know the next Alichino exists, because there were previews, but I'm beginning to think DNAngel will never get an ending. (T_T)"
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.hack//G.U. Redemption

2 years 4 months ago

"Is anyone else looking forward to .hack//G.U. Redemption?

I really like .hack, so I'm looking forward to it. I was able to get a lot of information about .hack//G.U. Redemption from the official .hack//G.U. community site, Altimit Corp and the official G.U. site, .hack//G.U.

Some videos of .hack//G.U. Redemption can be viewed on Youtube.com here. They all look really interesting and get me pumped up over .hack//G.U. Redemption, but the Crimson VS. video is my favorite! The cards look so cool and some of them look like they have older .hack characters on them. I wonder why...?

Here is an interview with CC Corp.'s Hiroshi Matsuyama. Mr. Matsuyama is so cool! He is one of my favorite people in the gaming business. He talks a lot about G.U. in this interview. Some of his answers are really vague, but others, like what characters' names mean, were things I was wondering myself.

This is from IGN.com and has a lot of images and pictures from .hack//G.U. Redemption. Haseo looks so cool! I so want to play that game!

So, let's discuss .hack//G.U. Redemption. Like what you think what will happen and stuff. Maybe you noticed something about G.U. I missed? Something else? Or we can just discuss .hack//G.U. in general. "
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Super Smash Bros. Melee

2 years 4 months ago

"Super Smash Bros. Melee is such a fun game! I usually play as Jigglypuff. I don't claim to be an expert, but I'm better than some. I can L-cancel and I know how to control Rest. Controlling Rest is so much fun! It's easy to knock others out of the stage by doing that."
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl

2 years 4 months ago

"I am really looking forward to Brawl. To me, it's the killer app for the Wii. I think it's very interesting that there are so many ways to play with the controllers, like, you can use the GCN controller or the Wii ones. Too cool! I'm really interested in seeing what new characters will be added to this game too.

Volt Tackle! (o^-_-^o)"
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Most Annoying Thing In A Game

2 years 4 months ago

"I have nothing against cutscenes, but if a game is going to have them, I want them to be so short that they're over when I finish making and eating a sandwich or I want them to engage me as a player like the cutscenes in Resident Evil 4 or Metal Gear Solid 3.

Long loading times and poor gameplay annoy me like no other. I remember the loading times in Final Fantasy Chronicles were so long, I could leave it for hours and finally, it would be done loading. If a game is going to have loading times, it should be in seconds or minutes, not hours! Poor gameplay is just unforgivable. It's one of the few things that can make never pick up a game again."
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Game franchises that need to die... and why?

2 years 4 months ago

"I'm with Copybeaver here. It isn't so much that game franchises need to die, it's that the companies need to put more thought into each and every single game they produce for that franchise and not release so many games. Quality over quantity. Think about it. Would more gamers widen their eyes over another Megaman game or Xenogears 2? Exactly."
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what do you think about bleach?

2 years 9 months ago

"I like Bleach. The characters are appealing and the character designs are so original. It has a nice OST too and while the story isn't the deepest ever, it does its job well and I like the plot twists. It also has good filler! Yay!"
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Do your friends like anime?

2 years 9 months ago

"Some of my friends like it and some of them don't. There's a club at my school and we hang out there and watch and read and draw and all of that good stuff."
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