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Only reason I could even think of them complaining about the cane was if the girl was waving it around haphazardly at face level like she was practicing fencing. Somehow I doubt that's the case. Dickish paper-pushers seems more feasible. Reminds me of my own school days when there was a...

Some games take a while to get going. Some games take a long while to even start acting like games. This is a common issue with JRPGs but there are games in other genres too that hold back a central mechanic or the main conflict in the plot until hours in. Most notorious example I recall is...

I'm not alone! Agree with everything already said and would like to add it's actually nigh impossible to grind since there's a boss fight like every 3 rooms. When you finally beat one you get a RANDOM status upgrade that may or may not happen. I really tried to like the game but the pacing is...

That reminds me of Betrayal of Krondor. Getting damaged in battle would make allies and enemies alike weaker and less likely to hit. That basically just meant whoever landed the first blow would most likely land the last blow. I recall it was the primary reason I quickly gave up on that game.

Breath of fire: Dragon quarter It's a short JRPG that makes it clear from the start it's going to be hard, and offers the option to start over while keeping gained levels and equipment. With that in mind I was prepared to deal with nigh-impossible odds and whatnot. However, when I gave up it...

There are no heroes in Borderlands. There are just those that still spare some thought to collateral damage. How can you gleam over the fact that the way Jack planned to go about cleaning up Pandora was good ol'fashioned apocalypse, killing the fighters and bystanders alike. By same logic...

I have wholeheartedly hated DRM since SecuROM messed up my registry to the point I had to re-install my OS. No game is worth that much hassle. Some CDs refusing to play in the car stereo because of some DRM tomfoolery sure didn't help. You know what would dismantle half of the arguments in...

Both the designs are fairly original, certainly not something that would detract my interest. I'm sorry to say I only notice character design when it rubs me the wrong way. For instance FFIX was hard to get into because the supposedly human characters looked like bobbleheads to me. I was once...

I know right! I had him arrested TWICE and he still offered me his LEGIT passport to get out if necessary. Has to be the only time a homely bunch of pixels has moved me to such a degree.

I know people who think you do, and always found that line of thinking pretty backwards. Emotional ties aside, if children are obligated to get the career they do in order to secure their parent's old age, like they did for their parents, nobody lives for their own sake. It starts to resemble...

I can second that. I would never speak my EA account or any other forcefed BS account username in polite company.

The anonymity(sp?) of the Internet is grand. You get judged by only your deeds and words, nobody knows your gender or race unless you disclose it. There is still one way to give a negative impression without really doing anything: choose to name your avatar **** Slime, Periodblood or...

I'm a 27 year old unicorn, where's mah badge?! Though I have been proposed to twice. My life is fucked up in all but the literal sense. Don't really care about other people's sexlife and I wish they stopped prying about mine, IRL that is. The term "about the age to start a family" has popped...

After some thought I realize my worry was less that this boy was insane and more that he was growing up to be a prick. See, he was mostly especially polite and considerate so the cat incident was really unusual. When I told him he was hurting the cat his first answer was "Yeah, so?" How would...

Cumbersome title, I know. I got pretty creeped out trying to explain to my relative's son why pulling a cat's tail isn't nice. He really seemed to have no sense of empathy whatsoever at age 7. Then there's this little girl I know well that keeps having nightmares about geometrical shapes...