HAY GUYS

russ · Local time: Dec 21, 2007, 02:59 PM

The name dropping is just that. "Look at this, Sakaguchi worked on it". Whoopee.

Name dropping only works when the name you drop has actually done something worthwhile in the last decade. Sakaguchi, not so much. So far we've seen something painfully JRPG in Blue Dragon, and something that just oozes EMO-CRY-CRY in Lost Odyssey, so it's going to take a lot more than just name recognition for me to actually care about any of their future outsourced projects.

Maybe they should just go ahead and sell out to EA before the industry realizes that Sakaguchi is washed up.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

russ · Local time: Dec 22, 2007, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by Django!

Isn't that a mainstay in most JRPGs? ;-)

Most of my favorite JRPGs weren't based on an EMO-CRY-CRY premise though. Final Fantasy Tactics, Valkyrie Profile, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy VI all managed to be great, emotionally powerful game without asking us to feel sorry for their lead characters, to name a few examples. Why do I want to play 40 hours as some weepy guy, when I know that the entire time I am going to be yelling at my screen for him to grow a pair and get over it. You're fucking immortal, deal with it. Don't whine to me about your last 7 boyfriends dying of old age. I don't want to hear it. I want to run around, beat stuff up with an oversized sword, stop the spread of evil across a continent, deal with some emotional shit {deal with - not whine about} related to my quest to stop the spread of evil across a continent, and not whine about how when my HP gets to 0, I'm still aight cause I'm a fucking immortal.

This is why I like Mass Effect so much, despite its problems. You start out with the galactics powers-that-be pretty much calling you a crazy person. Do you sit around whining about it? No, you say fuck those guys, I'm handling business. When you present evidence proving that you aren't crazy, and they say "well, we believe part of that, but the rest is just crazy talk", do you whine about it? No, you say fuck those guys, I'm handling business. When the galactic powers-that-be ground your spaceship at port, even though you have an appointment on the other side of the galaxy, you know, to save said galaxy, do you cry about it and let the galaxy get destroyed? No, you get pissed off and then you say fuck those guys, I'm handling business.

Point is: enough with the crybaby shit Japan, I don't care.

There's nowhere I can't reach.