I never did pick the game back up...

But I digress...

Momentum is important for most things in life, whether it's reading a book, working on a new hobby, or playing through a video game.

You know, that might make a good commercial for BOB. Well, maybe with the screen panning to a smiling, sleeping child at the end.

With a bruise on their cheek.

You made me laugh so hard that I cried. Thanks. I needed that.

As for myself, I'm rather lucky. I haven't had my XBox red ring and I've never had problems with my PS3, both of which I got at about the same time (two months prior to the PS3 launch for the 360 and 2 weeks after the launch for the PS3). So far, both have lasted longer than my original XBox, which committed suicide after 1.5 years, or (in a way) my PS2, which I've had to adjust the lens for several times.

I just hope my good luck continues. (crosses her fingers)

The visuals were quite good. I don't know what some others have talked about as far as them being something related to a last gen system. I have yet to see a last gen system come close to pulling off such graphics. That being said, the environment wasn't sufficiently interesting. Unlike many games, I just didn't feel inspired to explore the environment in order to see what there is to see.

Also, I'd read enough about the game that nothing really struck me as being 'new'. I was really hoping to see level where you could play as part of the rebellion force, but that just didn't happen, unfortunately. The demo is a rather large size, and I understand that they probably left out such aspects in order to keep the size somewhere under that of a regular DVD (which isn't saying much).

Overall, after the demo, I feel a need to rent it before I'd consider purchasing it. After playing through until the rebel scenarios, THEN I'll see whether the game lives up to its hype.

There was an insane amount of awesome stuff in that trailer. I certainly hope it lives up to what we saw there, and don't particularly doubt that it will.

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The only times I've EVER been tempted to do so is when antipiracy measures have gotten strict enough to where they've either hurt the PC or made the game access so inconvenient that it ruins the enjoyability factor (usually, these have been games which have had SecuRom, past and future implementations, on them). However, people have to consider that pirating a game isn't making a statement to the game manufacturer other than "You obviously needed stricter security measures".

That's why I've chosen to boycott such games (or, in Bioshock's case, get the Xbox 360 version), but there are too many people pirating rather than boycotting and petitioning. If that wasn't the case, we would at least have a hope of countermeasures against things such as having to go online to reauthorize a game every ten days.

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I didn't mean to imply that I didn't like the game. Shoot, I loved the game. In fact, I've played through it several times both by myself and with a friend (switching off after dying). I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel, but probably wouldn't touch a movie based off of it with a ten foot pole. And that's if the movie somehow got good reviews (aka, it's not an Uwe Boll movie).

Oh, wait...

Well, now I guess I know what to do with my life savings. ^^

That, or buy a PS3 (boo, hiss, bad joke)

Sorry, I think I told a partial fib. It ended up being the one of the main themes for many of the Final Fantasy games. You can find it at 1:30 and it lasts about 20 seconds. (1:30 is a different key than normally used, and you hear the regular version at 1:20)

The most ironic part is that the pirates will probably have a version which gets around said protection. Sometimes I really hate having morals, and that really shouldn't be the case.

I can't wait, and this is the first time I've heard about this game.

Stupid mutt.

Oh, wait...never mind.

Still, nothing beats Freeman talking about G-man on Coast to Coast.

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Currently, I'm gaming up to three hours a day, in between searching for a new job (harumph). Normally, it's at around 1-2 hours a day, if I'm lucky.

I, fortunately, have yet to have to actually return a game to any outlet. However, without fail, every outlet I've gone to has had a return policy where they would only exchange for the exact same game. I know that, in the past, EB Games had a 30 day return policy where you could exchange games up to one time for any other game, but it's been a long time before I've seen such a policy.

Unfortunately, this is probably due to the fact that people suck. No, really. I know that said EB Games policy only lasted about three, or so, months (at least where I lived at the time), before having to be changed due to so many people either treating it like a free rental program or simply copying the game and returning it for another game to copy.

What I'm trying to say, is that, yes, it sucks. Especially when you weren't trying to get the better end of a deal per se. However, I, at least somewhat, understand where Blockbuster is coming from. It's all a matter of perspective.

In other words, yes, FF IX definitely has quite a few fans out there. Just not as many as FF VII.

Sony doesn't release the same content all over the world because the even the same game is required to be different, depending on where it's released. The main difference would be the language used in the menus and dialogue, but there are other differences as well, such as cultural references. Shoot, many games don't even get released in the US because of cultural differences.

I hope that answered your question.

In that case, I want my google maps for the various Final Fantasy series, dang it.

...but I'm sure that's just me, so...