Timewaster's Guide Archive

I dunno... I like the second one better, myself.  And they aren't really all that bad.

I think that Tetsuya Nomura could save the franchise.  We'll see how Versus XIII is, I guess, but all of his other games are really quite something. 

But yeah, I think the series has really just gotten worse and worse lately.  X was the last decent game, but it's still pretty weak.

All around, Square has really been pretty disappointing lately.  :-(

So... not directly related, but pretty close...

Was anyone else terribly disappointed by Final Fantasy XIII?  I mean, it was better than any of the ps2 iterations, but, IMO, that doesn't mean a whole lot.  I thought the characters were a little to generic and uninteresting, and the story was convoluted to the point that you actually have to read it in the little journal thing to really take anything away from it.  I mean, it was gorgeous, but honestly that isn't enough for me....  I didn't hate the battle system entirely, but it was a little too auto-played.  I just had to kind of sit there, and press "x" from time to time.

If I was going to recommend someone a new game for their ps3, I'd tell them to go with Heavy Rain.  It has some problems - actually... a lot of problems - but it was a far superior experience, in my opinion.

 Hironobu Sakaguchi leaving Square doesn't seem to have done them much good, really.  At least we have "The Last Story" to look forward from his Mistwalker studio.

So... I'm very nearly finished with my first novel - I am finishing up all the major revisions that I know it needs, and then passing it out to some people to make sure that I didn't miss something.  I plan on trying to publish it when it is finished, assuming I don't decide it is a pile of garbage (which I don't expect).  However, it is only about 300 pages long, which is MUCH shorter than most fantasy novels that I have read.

Maybe this is an absurd question, but is it too short?  I mean, I tell the story that needs to be told, but I just can't shake the feeling that it is too short.  <shrug>  Obviously you can't really tell me for sure, since you haven't read it, but what do you think?

I watched this film several weeks ago, and it has been just playing over and over in my head ever since.  I find myself thinking back to it frequently.  I was just wondering if anyone else has seen it and had a similar reaction.  Like it?  Dislike it?

I think it's so haunting because of its mysterious quality - it's haunting for the same reason that the boys can't stop thinking about the titular suicides. 

I've also seen Sofia Coppola's other films, Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, and they share a similar element.  She seems to make great films, IMO.  Her new one should be out this year... Somewhere, I think it is called.

Jaime Lannister is going to overtake Rand Al'Thor, pretty soon!  Quickly, guys, vote!

http://www.suvudu.com/2010/04/cage-match-2010-championship-5-rand-althor-versus-15-jaime-lannister.html?ref=Widget_Bracket

Interesting,,, I thought AVATAR was really pretty terrible.

It had superb visuals, some decent acting, and a plot that could have been mildly interesting, but... Man... the dialog was SOOOO bad.  I basically think of it of a film with the budget of an epic along the lines of Gone with the Wind and Ben-Hur, but the script of a Lifetime flick.  For me, gorgeous visuals are simply not enough, though I would still recommend people to see it, to see how far CGI has really come.

Honestly, if this film hadn't had such gorgeous CG, it would have been a colossal failure.  It seems that they spent so much money on the visuals, that they didn't have enough to actually pay someone to edit the script. 

Also, Mtbikemom, in what way was it anti- big business?  Maybe anti-"Military-industrial complex".  Very anti-government.  But not so much big business... unless you're only referring to the military-industrial complex.