Final Fantasy III Commercial
crafted by: PaulLeona Lewis was a terrible choice for a Final Fantasy XIII theme-song singer. Granted, games never have good songs, but even that Spec Ops: The Line trailer had Bjork, and that's the only thing that made me interested in that game. I can only dream of a Lady Gaga Final Fantasy commercial...
Random Encounters: GameStop casts GP Rain!
crafted by: Paul
"Where'd I put my lunch?"
A few days ago the video game blogs were abuzz with the news that GameStop would be offering two of March's biggest titles, Final Fantasy XIII and God of War III, for $20 with the trade-in of two select titles. After sizing up the list of titles they'd accept for the promotion, I realized that I could part with two Xbox 360 games I wouldn't miss if that meant getting Final Fantasy for a relative steal. Not many hours later, even bigger news broke that GameStop would be offering a whopping 50% bonus on all titles traded in for the next three weeks. Hot damn that's a good deal, I thought, but no way would the games I intend to trade be over $40, so that Final Fantasy deal is still top notch.
Yesterday I strutted myself into GameStop after work and dropped my two trade-ins down before the emaciated sales assistant. I said I wanted to pre-order the PS3 Final Fantasy with the $40 off deal. He screwed his dead eyes to mine and explained that the games would prob be worth more with the 50% trade-in. "All right, let's see," I dead-panned back, trying to keep the upper-hand, which is lost sometimes in a treacherous swamp like GameStop.
"With the trade-in bonus, you'll make $54 off these games," the clerk breathed.
Let's stop the story-telling before I hurt myself. So in two weeks, I'll be getting Final Fantasy XIII for $10 thanks to this sweet GameStop deal. I highly reccomend you consider selling those "meh" games you own and trading in for at least something new. I'm debating getting rid of the two Modern Warfares in exchange for Darksiders or Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Why? Tanks.
Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 Screens Revealed
crafted by: PaulJust hours ago Square released the first official screens of the American Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII. Unless you've been living in an otaku-proof cave for the past year, you know that Square's next-gen juggernaut was originally PS3-exclusive until E3 of last year. Fan boys have been slinging mud ever since, and the much-maligned differences between the PS3 and 360 versions of Bayonetta only stoked the flame-mud-war.
Of course, I was never going to buy a post-Final Fantasy VI game for a system that wasn't Playstation. But I did believe that the PS3 version, being the native form of the game and all, would be superior in terms of graphics and sound. Only the sheer brute strength of the PS3 could render Shiva's breasts the way they were meant to be rendered. When I heard that the 360 version would sport 4 discs (to the PS3's 1) and compressed sound and video, I considered the any argument over which version would be better to be null and void. Here's the PS3 version lookin' smooooooth and handsome:
BOING
But certain other bloggers on this site (cough ALEX cough) were still worried about pre-ordering the inferior version of the game. "The Blu Ray read time is slower!" they said. Well now there is proof that the 360 version sucks:
What is this, Final Fantasy XII?
This doesn't look like it's going to be nearly as bad as Final Fantasy X at all! (...)
The Collector: My Collecting
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Don't even try and talk to me about Greatest Hits
Collecting video games is an incredibly subjective undertaking. Most people collect because of nostalgia - the games they collect recalling a certain impressionistic, youthful part of their life. Other people collect because they get to a certain age where they can afford the items they couldn't when they were younger (and video games are expensive for kids). Still others collect because they know they can sell it to the aforementioned people for much more than it was initially worth.
Out of my friends, I don't have the biggest or most diverse collection of games (that goes to Alex). But I'm certainly the person with the most invested in a specific collection of old games. That collection is Playstation 1 RPG's.
So why do I collect these games? Video game collecting, for me, is certainly a combination of the aforementioned reasons. Video games were an intrinsic part of my childhood, so I am certainly nostalgic for the games I played when I was younger. Furthermore, I was never left wanting for a video game thanks to my loving parents (and my being an only child), but I still couldn't buy willy nilly every game I wanted, so there are gaps in the collection I have been eager to fill since middle school.
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