Obsession(s) of the Week: 3/27/2010 - 4/23/2010

Final Fantasy XIII. 

In beauty, this is undoubtedly a Square FF game. So far, I'm enjoying the story. No one character annoys me except maybe Snow and there's no villain for me to love. At least, no physical, human-like looking villain for me to love. Musically, it's pretty good but not one of my favourite FF soundtracks to date. The battle system is fast-paced  but I'm used it by now. It's not a bad system of 'leveling' either and very similar to Final Fantasy X. Weapons and the lack of gil though is driving me nuts! I'm only 20 hours in though, so we will see how this goes...

Update on 5/23/2010:

My PS3 has been kaput for about a month now.  At almost 40 hours in or whatever it was, I was almost done with the game with two remaining chapters.  It was going well but I could safely say not my favourite FF of the series, and not in the Top 3 thus far.

35 - 40 Hours In

Nearing the end of Chapter 11 of a 13 Chapters game and my PS3 decides to die.

Somehow I want to blame Square but really all I can do is blame my dastardly luck with Sony and electronic products.

Quite frankly, I'm surprised I managed to have the system for as long as I have without some sort of ill-luck until today.

FFXIII Update

Really, Square Enix? A pre-order bonus of FFXIII comes with an excerpt from a full strategy guide?

Well don't I feel special and awesome.

I am disgusted.

Nerd Post: Complete With Non-Zombie Rage and a Dash of Fan-Service

I, for one, am very much looking forward to March.

No, it's not that Spring is upon us in a matter of weeks.  As I have stated before I do not like Spring for it reminds me that Summer is right around the corner.

It's that the first week and a half of March will bring with it Muse @ MSG, the release of Gorillaz' new album, and the release of Final Fantasy XIII.

I was really happy until last week and now I am less so.

Why?

For some reason, Square Enix thought it was okay to eff over the US Sony PS3 users.

Why, Sony?

Why would you ass-effery have the release of a Limited Edition bleck...argh..xbox..cough...meh FFXIII console and not release A THING special edition wise for the PS3?

W.
T.
F.

How many evil Microsoft dollars did they throw at you, Square?!?!

As a child of the Commodore 64 and Atari, I never had the 'fortune' of owning an SNES, NES or Sega.
The PS was the first 'console' owned by The HOchieS when that beautiful dirty grey little thing was released so many years ago.

Since then, I've been a Sony Girl and yes, I've dabbled in the arts of Nintendo too because you know, Link just screams 'luz me'.

I suppose this is a little of what Nintendo users felt when Final Fantasy VII was released for the PS.
Oh, so this is what a slap to the face feels like.

Ohhhh.

And might I say, "OW" while I'm at it?

As each day marches closer to March 9, I hope that Square will surprise me by dropping that awful "Enix" from their name, return "Soft" in its stead and with it, bring some dignity back to Sony when the PS ruled (although in Enix's defense, you guys may put out solid games that I've not played so I cannot be dismissive of you).

I cannot believe I bought an effin' PS3 JUST for this game only for it to be released 3 years after the fact and without two postcards as the UK version's getting.

I almost feel a boycott coming along especially since I have no towns to visit, with no bars to get sloshed in or play the piano, no houses to go into and steal elixirs from unsuspecting grandfathers and gil from wee ones.  Who am I supposed to make fun of now?!

It only hurts all the more after having finally finished Final Fantasy Tactics, after a personal fear of that game like no other for 12 years.

Now there was a game: an amazing story with so much deception and murder that those sprites shocked me with their 'stabby' behaviour, penchant for poison and heretic-branding rhetoric.

The music was nothing short of brilliant and the characters were many to keep track of but who cares? My little Zarnyx/Ramza was the cutest.

Although. he was a little, umm...too...defined in the ass for a sprite.

I'm certain those white pants didn't help the situation any either.

White pants never do.

They never do.

A Day Full of Awesome Announcements

Will I be going to see M@WS again? Oh hells yeah! That's the plan as of now anyway.

Also, March 9th, 2010... After almost 3 years, I'll finally get to use the PS3 for the reason I bought it...to play Final Fantasy XIII.

I only have 3 1/2 months to clear up my gaming schedule...
Don't deny me, H1!

Currently: Plotting