Recent content by Terragent

Ha. I usually relied on Esuna to deal with status issues, and since the only status conditions that you can only heal with items (Stop and Doom) weren't present in the Second Ascent, I figured the only real potential loss from item sealing was MP restoration via Ether (because undead are immune...

Actually, that's because of the choice you made with the sealing at the start of the second ascent - the four sealing options are magicks, attacks, items, and minimap (not technicks). I usually seal items, for the record. Also, this is amazing. Given me some great laughs and made me love (and...

For me, I'd say it's a mix of option 2 and option 3; the game didn't really take anything but the most superficial gameplay elements from the original Deus Ex, it completely threw out the original game's aesthetic and future-history in favour of a brand new scenario, but at the same time it...

Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3. Right now. They're fun, they let you play pretty much however you like, they've got great music. No, they're not on any modern consoles. Who cares? It's the twenty-first century, emulate them. In the same vein, the original Front Mission (either emulate the...

You're joking, right? It still had magic gravity, engines that are always on, and the same ridiculous speed-of-plot nonsense as, well, pretty much every other show. At least Trek and its ilk had the indistinguishable-from-magic handwave option open: Firefly deliberately cultivated a low-tech...

When said source material is frequently a horrible mess of pointless detail and wonky characterisation, that may well be a point in favour of the films. The films had to abide by restrictions that Rowling simply chose to ignore from Goblet of Fire onwards: namely, they had editors looking over...

You know what science fiction TV series really needs a reboot? Blake's 7. You know, the one that was actually well-written but had every episode filmed in a gravel pit because the BBC doesn't have money? The one that did the whole "nuanced characters portrayed in shades of grey" a full decade...

You're joking, right? Everyone knows that there are only two Sonic the Hedgehog games: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Beyond the Metroid Primes and F-Zero GX (which honestly is probably best on the Gamecube anyway since it depends a bit on a flawless framerate and the...

You know, this island was also the location for the very end of Killer 7. If you want a more videogame-ish angle, anyway.

Site is pretty borked. Want to look at the second page of a category? Have fun with your non-functional links that just point you to # on the current page. Too much focus on pretty pictures, not enough on basic page functionality. The big-picture objective is pretty enough, but you have to...

That's not even the end of 1996's ground-breaking games; we've also got Quake, Mechwarrior II Mercenaries, Pilotwings 64... For me, though, it would probably have to be 1995. Command & Conquer, Mechwarrior II, Warcraft II, Chrono Trigger, Heroes of Might & Magic, Kirby's Dream Land 2, Seiken...

I like being ignored - it's very validating to know that you're unable to come up with a satisfactory answer to any of my rebuttals. (incidentally, used games are cheap as anything over here)

You're just not reading these, are you? >Cost of labour has basically held steady with inflation over the last twenty years >Cost of importing goods has been drastically reduced over the same period >Prices have stayed the same I wonder where all of those savings have gone?

Given that Australian retailers import their software from the USA, the change in currency strength has inflated their profit per unit by a ludicrous amount; they weren't going out of business paying their workers when it cost them twice as much to get the software from the US back in the '90s...

Surely you are joking. Leaving out the fact that the minimum wage doesn't (and shouldn't!) respond to the price of luxuries at all, it's also putting the cart before the horse. Why is someone's labour suddenly worth less simply because a publisher has reduced the price of its goods to bring them...