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| Iggy 6988th Post
 
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|  "Re(4):Re:Grandia 3" , posted Sun 7 Aug 21:03
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Over 35 isn't going to suck ass
つDMC2, Kaze no takuto, Nintendogs...
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and under 29 probably is.
つMinstrel, Avachu...
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I'd rather just bug Iggy to see how the Japanese forums are reacting to it.
I'm not interested in the series, I've never played it, and the buzz aroung the game is not amusing enough to make me look at it like for Nejibako.
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Then again, he's probably busy with Shadow Hearts 3.
One day, I'll understand what kind of image people have about me. My microcelebrity keeps surprising me.
I mean, I trust Pollyanna's tastes, but because I actually read her posts.
Right now, I'm probably busy with waking up and realizing I don't have anymore coffee, and I'm trying to remember where the aspirin is.
I'm also half blind, because I've just openned my windows and my eyeballs have melt because of the 2PM sun.
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| Pollyanna 1295th Post
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| "Re(7):Re:Grandia 3" , posted Mon 8 Aug 18:46
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If the main scenario writer is Takahiro Hasebe from Grandia I then I beg to differ. I'll hafta wait for the gamespot review though.
You can't "beg to differ" because you haven't played the game yet. Well, you can, but I'll point and laugh at you. Of course, maybe I'm misunderstanding you and you're using "interesting" as "something to get excited about". Because while you can't say (for sure) that the scenario will be interesting, you can say it's "something to get excited about" even if it might be disappointing in the end.
While the scenario to Grandia was enjoyable and charming, it was also generic. "Old school" is not an excuse for lack of innovation in my books and I have a growing intolerance for stereotypes in games.
also...
IGGY!
Unfortunately, Shania is not cool or funny in the least. Her taking her clothes off is gratuitous, borderline gross fanservice. When you talk about it, it's funny, but when you're playing the game, it's just annoying. She's an annoying, out of place trashy character that men will defend because she has big boobs and gets naked. She's on "their side."
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| Iggy 7001th Post
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| "Re(4):Re:Grandia 3" , posted Mon 8 Aug 19:06
What a shame.
It's not THAT difficult to make a terribly fanservicey character who would be fun at the same time, is it ?
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Still, find me a better magazine that will have a review within the week that I'll spend preparing to buy the game, and I'll happily read it, of course.
More interesting and accurate than magazines : reading player's opinions with a grain of salt.
Players are (usually) not paid by companies to say the game is great, don't say the game sucks because they have been paid by the rival company and (usually) have actually played the game they are talking about (and this last detail put Rogers out of ganchû).
With internet forums worldwide and 2ch in Japan, the videogame magazines don't serve any purpose at all anymore, beside giving jobs to some nerds who can't do anything positive with their life, like working in a bank, discovering a cure for AIDS, or selling organs stolen on 3rd world countries children.
ねんがんの ７０００をてにいれたぞ！
そう かんけいないね
=> 殺してでもうばいとる
ゆずってくれ たのむ！！
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| Pollyanna 1297th Post
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| "Re(4):Re:Grandia 3" , posted Mon 8 Aug 19:13:
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[Famitsu-induced panic]
So let's say you need to advice on which manga in Shonen Sunday is best to read (this is a trick question, but let's ignore that). So you walk outside, and like any day, you see a madman talking to his feces, an infant hanging from a powerline, a naked 78-year-old man pointing a gun to his head, a wild boar and a blind man who had his face ripped open by the wild boar.
NONE of these people are reliable sources for advice on which Shonen Sunday manga to read, so relying on any of them would be a mistake.
Regardless, I don't know that Famitsu has as much misinformation or reviews where the reviewers say things that are just WRONG or don't make any sense (like so many American publications), so I get your point. Still, my analogy stands.
Edit: Iggy posted while I was posting AGAIN!
No, you're right. I don't mind fanservicy characters if they have something else to them or they don't just SUCK. I don't hate Shania because she gets naked all the time, I hate her because she's one of a million lame female leads.
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| kurushimi
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| "Re(8):Re:Grandia 3" , posted Tue 9 Aug 07:58
Speaking of player reviews, here's a mini one snipped from the Grandia 3 gamefaqs boards:
Grandia 3 can be an absolute eye-candy, looks nice and plays nice, but only with the main game. You not getting much more gameplay out of it. The music, I like it in general. Theme song fits as much I was afraid it wouldn't. However, some battle msuic need more work, to bring out more excitement. Then again, there are next to no awesome or memorable fights in the game, except few. Then, the battle system, few twits here and there, even with few additions, like the Aerial Combo(which is cool, because you can have multiple characters hitting the enemy one after another, if your timing is right. Got a record, anyone? ^_^), the battle system is running in circle=Not going anywhere. The battle feels slower, maybe I am getting used to fast pace battles, especially like Atelier Iris Eternal Mana 2 which go similar functions of the Grandia series' battle system. The story, while genetic, I enjoy it overall, there are quite few touching scenes and I so fall for those.
Before all the anti-gamefaq people start hammering on me, this is from one of the few members whom I think has a credible opinion. But again, as everybody mentioned, player reviews need salt.
For his full rant, towards the bottom, poster is Kouli.
Oh and Iggy, personally I wouldn't call it microcelebrity status as much as...oddness. Plus, you seem to be similar to me in that you spend more time reading about games than than actually playing them.
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| Maou 698th Post
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| "Re(9):Re:Grandia 3" , posted Wed 10 Aug 05:29
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The story, while genetic, I enjoy it overall,
Hmmmm...I like genetics, but not in RPG's. Perhaps this writer secretly works for not Famitsu but for...GAMEPRO?
In the end, of course, reviews aren't that helpful, but I'll take a decent magazine editorial (hard to find) over random people I don't know, like everyone said, especially since there are people online who can tell me how Thousand Arms and SaGa Frontier are great games. If the MMCafe main page had reviews, I would enjoy reading them, and of course IC is much more likely to impress me nowdays with both wit and good reviews here and again.
PS: Polly, now I know I can spook you by sneaking up and saying "FAMITSU!" behind your back. Watch out...
人間はいつも私を驚かせてくれる。不思議なものだな、人間という存在は．．．
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