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FFVI was an amazing game. One of my all time favorites and ranks right up there with FFVII. That game had weird too. lol. A psycho clown bent on destroying the world.. interesting characters. A couple hidden ones too like that guy that does the Mimic skill which is super OP because it can mimic summons.. and a yeti.  That yeti couldn't wear armor and only used a club, but damn if he wasn't good at clubbing enemies.  

FF7 didn't have a better story that FFVI, they were easily on par with each other. But FF7 beats out FF6 with its combat system. In FF6 your characters are set in stone with their skills and abilities. But the materia system in FF7 was so robust, you can make any character do just about anything. Everyone can cast spells, anyone could be a reviver, anyone a summoner, etc. The only major reasons for having specific characters on a team were for their unique combat style/weapon, melee or ranged, their limit breaks and whoever you personally liked best. But unlike FF6, FF7 had an actual endgame with grind mechanics. One of the last save points in the game is right before the final dungeon. The game even tells you, once you enter there is no going back out, save here so you can continue exploring the world. Aside from the stuff I already mentioned, the materia system provided a grind aspect for endgame. With all XP you got, your materia itself would level up too. As it leveled up its skills upgraded. Got a lightning materia.. level it up, now whoever has it equipped can use lightning 2.. then 3. But the real kicker is when you maxed out a materia, it would clone itself a new level 1 version. Then you can equip it on somebody else and start leveling it up. For high end materia, it was worth the grind to get all the characters powerful spells... well at least the three main characters on your team. Eventually you could get a master materia that had basically all spells except summons I think and then that was OP. Once you have a set of 3 materias you like for the characters, its kind of pointless to level them further when you can swap the materia to other characters.

But aside from all that I think this game hit a bunch of kids with puberty at just the right time.  Alot of guys got crushes on Tifa.. and females got a thing for Cloud. lol. Even though the characters looked blocky as hell, in cut scenes they looked cool and throughout the game it goes into character depth more and you start feeling for these two. Not going to lie, I had a thing for Tifa for years.  

For me the main draw of FFVII was all the extra stuff you could do in it. It was one of the first games for me that had an actual end game separate from the final boss. There was chocobo breeding, full world exploration with the air ship, 2 or 3 ultimate weapon optional boss battles that were insanely difficult. There were hidden characters, like Vincent that you could outright skip on getting and finish the game without even knowing he was a character. The customization with the materia was the best though. I tried so many different combos with different weapons to deck out all my characters to be so bad ass. lol. Limit breaks were awesome. Character diversity was top notch. It had everything from superhuman soldier Cloud, Tifa the bad ass woman that punches and kicks everything to death, a talking red wolf, a bad ass black dude, a vampire, a ninja girl, so many more.. a robot looking carnival thing with a cat sitting on it being remote controlled by some guy we never see... lmao. The plot was confusing as all hell initially, but overall enjoyable and more understandable with more world exploration.

Lol.. and Kotaku has a good point about the game.. its weird.

https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-vii-retrospective-the-weirdest-rpg-ever-1797547869

Hmm.. I wonder how many episodes they're planning on making this. I hope they come out on a regular basis too. I don't know how much time its been for them just to make the Midgar portion of the game, but thats really just a drop in the bucket for this. I wanted a FF7 remake, yes, but not a game being piecemealed out to me over the course of 10 years.

I didn't watch his video about this, but I can tell you why I think this movie will suck based just off the trailer. For me it was this last scene from X-Men Apocalypse:

When I saw this I thought to myself.. FINALLY! Fox has learned from Marvel. They can actually put the characters in their actual costumes and make it work! and then the Dark Phoenix trailer comes out.. guess what everyone is wearing again... generic matching costumes... again.

As soon as I saw this I lost all interest in this movie. That and its the Dark Phoenix saga.. again. Fox literally made this movie again. Except now with a different cast. And the trailer showed no aliens, no spaceship battles.. nothing of interest. And if their budget is so strapped they can't afford decent costumes, then theres no way they were going to do this movie any justice.

That makes me think Overwatch is taking a lesson from GW2's pvp matchmaking.. that sounds horrible.  

I wonder if they're still planning on doing this game in episode format or not. A release date is great but its not giving much details. It doesn't say anything about it being "part 1" or if the purchase price is the full game, etc. All the trailers and clips they've released so far only show scenes that happen from the first 20 minutes of the old game. What about any clips of the 40+ hours worth of other content? I'm feeling a bit skeptical that the full game is actually done.. I hope it is. I'd buy it instantly.

Not really a spoil for SC2's LotV, but there still is technically a special zerg queen out there made by Kerrigan that was stuck in a Protoss ship heading towards Protoss space with the directive to kill them all.. I think it was stuck having to go extremely slow tho because the ships drive was damaged. I don't think that queen was even mentioned in LotV tho. My guess is that was supposed to be the tie in to a starcraft 3 set further into the future. Rogue zerg forces that threaten everything. I dunno but thats the only thing I can think of. I mean technically StarCraft 2 ended great and kinda finalized everything from StarCraft 1. Any future sequel would really be best if it introduced completely new characters after a major time skip.

All these times they'd blame "netcode". I bet you're right. Thats some crap right there. Now it makes me wonder about all those times I'd have shot someone in the head in a perfect shot in BF1 and see no damage indicators. Those people must have had the boost going for them. Meanwhile we brush it off as lag or netcode issues. f*ck that. But the idea that they negatively affect whale's game play to increase the likely hood of them to buy upgrades doesn't make sense to me. Because I sure as hell am no whale and every time I've tried BF1 and BFV I've mostly had just shit game experiences and it makes me not want to play at all anymore. Hell, if anything, I'm so casual now I'd half expect me to roll through enemies on occasion just to give me a bit of hope that the game is still for me based on that video.. but instead I kept getting steam rolled. wtf.

I'm a big StarCraft fan for the RTS aspect, the lore and gameplay.. a first person shooter StarCraft getting canceled. That doesn't bother me. I want StarCraft 3, the RTS, not another FPS game. I'm surprised they'd make an Overwatch 2. I thought they'd just keep Overwatch expanding forever. Except maybe remove characters on occasion.. but if they did that all the people that bought skins for those characters would rage. I bet its starting to be cumbersome for them to balance all the characters they have now. Then again if they want money, what better way to get more cash than basically resetting the game and forcing everyone to buy brand new skins all over again, they just have to make brand new maps, reduce the amount of characters, change some weapons around and call it a sequel. Its worked for COD all these years.

lmao!  If you thought those guys looked like power ranger enemies you should skip ahead to the last battle to see the crab men.  

Another movie I forgot to update my post about.. Not going to lie.. I thought this movie was going to be crap and it turned into one of the best movies I've seen in the last year. I've watched it multiple times now over the months. It makes all the other DC live action movies look like garbage in comparison except for Wonder Woman. I always saw Aquaman as a joke ever since the Super Friends cartoon. XD And I never cared much for Jason Momoa as an actor ever since Stargate Atlantis. So two things I don't like... I expected more DC garbage.. But he nailed this role and this movie was awesome. Shocked the hell out of me. The cast was great, the plot was great, the CG was top notch and the fights were bad ass. Aquaman as a character is flawed and overcomes his issues.. you'd think a character played by a guy looking like Jason Momoa wouldn't have flaws in a movie like this, but everyone of Atlantian origins is a bad ass. lol. And their tech is extremely powerful. I think the highlight of this movie for me is that a good 1/3 of it is basically a live action Uncharted style movie. Theres a quest to find an item in ancient ruins and it leads to some great adventuring and on land combat scenes. The underwater combat is awesome and it really emphasizes that DC had no idea how they were going to do it back when they showed a clip of Aquaman in Batman vs Superman. I would love to see a sequel to this movie. And I hope to all god that DC makes all their live action movies this good going forward.

I can't believe I didn't post about this movie after watching it. I loved Deadpool 2. So much better than the first movie. XD Domino's luck ability was amazing and the comedy in this was spot on. I really hope Deadpool 3 happens.

Finally got caught up. I loved this series. I don't get why AMC canceled it. Instead they greenlight Nosfurato... I watched the first ep of that and almost fell asleep. Moon is 60!? wtf. Him and Sunny are doing amazing for their ages.

The Widow was my favorite character. Bad ass women are the best and highly under-represented in tv series and movies. Bajie was my second favorite character. He had some of the best lines. One of them went something like.. "And here you are delivering a shit of defeat out of the anus of victory."

If Into the Badlands is fully and completely done, then I hope the people that made it get their hands on the Xena license. I would love to see a Xena remake made by the people behind Into the Badlands.

I'm glad The 100 is still going strong. At least I can still get my strong bad ass female fix from that show.

Captain Marvel was an enjoyable movie. Brie Larson makes a good superhero, but the movie felt like it limited her character a bit because of the partial amnesia. Seems like Marvel was held back with her persona because for the majority of the movie she doesn't actually know who she actually is or have access to her entire memories prior to becoming a Kree soldier. This isn't really a spoiler because its shown in the first 5 minutes of the movie that she has the amnesia issue. And her character had little screen time in Endgame so its hard to see how Captain Marvel has progressed since then. I'd like to see a sequel. The biggest flaw tho is her powers. Holy crap she is OP. By the end of the movie she doesn't seem to have any weakness or even fatigue. In the old X-Men cartoons, Rogue actually absorbed the majority of Captain Marvel's powers. I'm wondering if they set her up to be this OP because they'll get the X-men in and maybe have old school Rogue show up and siphon some of that power away without completely crippling Marvel into a coma in the process.

I do like the reveal of how Fury lost his eye tho.

I saw so many negative reviews bombs for this movie because of some comments Brie said. lol. People get butt hurt over every comment anyone makes anymore.

Also, its fun watching Kong Skull Island now and seeing the actors/actress that play Loki, Fury and Captain Marvel all in another movie together.

I got an email from Google about their Stadia game service today. The console free, controller with dongle streaming only game service. Here is the link with the info:

https://store.google.com/product/stadia_founders_edition

To have surround sound I'd have to pay $9.99 a month. wtf. So not only do I have to buy the games, but to get a basic feature like surround sound I'd have to pay into their monthly plan. Sure there is no upfront cost of a console, and the service should technically scale like PC gaming, but relying on my internet connection to give me the best game performance, especially over a wifi to any of my TVs seems like I'll have crap perfomance. Even though their test site says my 80 mpbs connection will be great, I doubt it. I'm wondering how many people will complain about input lag on day one.

Maybe because I started the game when it went free for PS+ after it was out and patched years after release I had a different experience. I dunno. Every mission I'd do, I'd stealth the hell out of everyone, somehow miss one or two people, get spotted, get frustrated, whip out a big gun and shoot the f*ckers in the head, and have to flee because somehow, even though nobody was left alive, and I could have sworn I disabled every radio station, an alarm would go off and a helicopter will come in to kill me. I'd eventually exit the area and get my mission ranking of D and $5 (not really that low, but considerably lower than an A rank). wtf. So I kill 2 people and my ranking goes from A to D and my cash is crippled. I was in the red so often if felt like punishment for not playing the way Kojima intended. So the next couple missions, I'd C4 the radio towers, snipe some guys, melee people, do another C4, lure a guy over, blow him up.. enjoy myself. D rank again.. $5. after a handful of those missions I couldn't even afford to fulcrum anything anymore and said f*ck it. I watched the rest of the game on youtube and I'm glad I skipped the aggravation. The game was bogged down with endless loading screens to. Sure they masked the loading screens with filler like its credit scenes before a movie, but it was still massive loading screens. And the big reveal of the language parasite felt like a complete rip off of the movie/novel Pontypool. I hope Death Stranding is truely unique and creative and not some mishmash of genres with an overbearing boring plot that will only reveal itself over a series of games and prequels. The twist ending was dumb like every other MGS ending too.  and that tank fight at the end.. Snake has an army at this point and a massive base... and he can only call in some supply drops for RPGs or whatever and a support helicopter... or he could have just summoned maybe 15 extra guys along with those rpgs and got shit taken care of like a pro.

MGS 1 was the best. Psycho mantis, that vampire guy.. so many unique characters. Some paranormal mixed with a modern shooter. That was unique, fun and memorable. All I'll remember of MGSV is Silent walking around mostly naked and I could hit a button on my controller to make my horse shit on command.  

 I didn't even think about that. I wonder if that was one of his conditions for being in the game.. I need a motorcycle and maybe a dog.  I just hope this game is nothing like MGS. MGSV was the most boring game ever to me after a while. With all the options of playing however you'd like with such a variety of weapons, it was pointless because the game would highly cripple your cash flow with mission rankings and force you to replay missions "stealthy" like Kojima wants you to play or you'd hit a wall of no progress. It was endless fulcom, stun dart, knock people out, stare at a nice machine gun in your inventory but never use it. Death Stranding better be more action than stealth mechanics BS.

Well at least we finally get to see something about the game. It definitely looks interesting and weird. I still refuse to pre-order it. Knowing Kojima half the game will be spent in a codec screen talking to people and the ending will be a huge dumb twist like all the MSG games. That trailer is full of hype like Division 1's, Mass Effect Andromeda, Destiny 2, Anthem, etc. etc.

That's alot better than last month. 

Sony needed to get their heads out of their asses in terms of cross play. I'm guessing they will fully embrace it since they'll use MS server infrastructure. And I'm glad they are doing that. PSN has always been garbage. At one point I had 200 mbps internet, now its 100 mbps... I've never seen a game or update from sony download even close to 30 mbps on my ps4. Its so damn slow.

That looks like a scene taken right out of the book. Creepy as hell. The only thing that is odd to me is that brief shot of a circus. I don't recall a circus in the book.

It looks really good so far. I'm hoping it'll be released within the next decade.

That Sonic should be burned. WTF were they thinking.. and I still don't get why the hell the Sonic movie has to be just him in the real world.. they could have made it a "live-action" movie like Lion King is "live action" and have it based in the video game world of Sonic the Hedgehog. Everyone focuses on how Sonic looks like an abomination, but honestly the entire movie looks like crap. I'm guessing Robotnick at the end of the trailer is going to be at the end of the movie and this entire mess of a film will be yet another origin story movie. Somehow Sonic got transported into the human world, has to get a bunch of rings, that are actually some super conductive new alien alloy that the US military is collecting for new weapons programs or some crap, and has to use those rings to get back to his planet. So it'll be Sonic and some guy that's helping him get back home E.T. style, mix some childish humor in there, have Sonic take out some military forces.. only a mad scientist can defeat him so they hire Jim Carry.. and by then theres 20 minutes left of the movie that might be decent.. then credits and a brief cameo of Tails looking worse than anything we've seen so far as he hints at a sequel.

It was a good movie. The finale was epic and it was great closure for such a long ongoing plot line.

Omg that's some epic looking fights.. 17 monsters. We're finally getting a godzilla movie that focuses on godzilla battles.

Wait even longer and after the wallpaper TVs the next step will be 48k contact lenses. The tech will be so advanced and small it can powered by your own eyeball heat and will be synced to your phone. Choose a video or movie to stream and your entire vision will be filled with life like imagery, full 3d, etc. Put in the earbuds and you're all set. Want to play a game, no problem, switch it over to the playstation app and grab a controller.