finally i know how to pronounce "ifrit"
I think that spending time customizing lj/profile layouts is much akin to buying small&lovely journals- which is to say I labor under the impression that aesthetically pleasing things reap prose of like quality. Which is false, false, false. (I have many such journals, all blank.)
Though I guess I could see this (somewhat) ridiculously froofy layout as reward for finally writing something, albeit an entry in a kink meme. sigh sigh.
In more video game news, I've been dragged leapt (and here lj questions my spelling: I thought leapt was correct?? who knows.) back into the word of Final Fantasy. I bought FFXII the other day and have since played like a thing possessed. Oh god. I hope I at least manage to finish this one.
I'll start by saying that, when it comes to RPGs, I'm fairly old-school. I like turn-based battle systems and I deeply resent any changes to the status quo. This is one of the reasons I dropped FFX so quickly. I am a simple person and I hated the sphere grid.
I'm also a shallow, shallow person and purchased FFXII mostly because of the fanfic I've read. I had no idea that they had completely re-worked the battle system and that they had replaced the sphere grid with a similar concept, the license board. I griped about not receiving gil for killing monsters, the very concept of the gambit system, and having to control the camera. I did not like active battling during Vagrant Story, and that was when I was in better game-playing shape.
Of course now I see the complete error of my ways. Everything is brilliant! Squeenix can do no wrong! These are not the droids I'm looking for! But, sarcasm aside, I wonder if I wouldn't like FFX more now- maybe the past four years have instilled some sort of patience in me? Unlikely.
The story would be more enjoyable if I didn't know everything that happened in advance. As it is, the pace is a little slow for my liking- I'm about a fifth of the way through, and I still haven't gotten all my party members.
But really, just playing an FF game again is so much fun. I forgot how epic the storylines were. The first RPG I ever played was Super Mario and the Legend of the Seven Stars, a fairly obscure game that was released for the SNES. It was the last (and possibly only) collaboration between Nintendo and Squaresoft and it's a game that I replay every few years, still.
It was released twelve years ago. Man.
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