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I'm really struggling to finish Divinity: Original Sin before my copy of FFXV arrives. Holy hell that game is looooong. If I don't finish it in time, I might just abandon it...

And I'm probably not going to finish World of Final Fantasy any time soon, though I really like it.

... meanwhile, I've bought/might buy some PS2 JRPGs that have been ported to PS4 because they're on sale, and also because I've heard they are great games and I never owned a PS2. Rogue Galaxy, Dark Cloud, Dark Cloud 2. Of course, I will never have time to play them...

edit: ...unless I am retired. I look forward to playing through my extensive backlog in ~2050, assuming the Earth has not yet imploded.

I almost never change mine, because it's usually covered by notifications, and it also gets replaced by album art if I'm listening to something. 

And thanks to the fingerprint scanner, my phone jumps to the home screen almost instantaneously anyway.

This is my friend's kitty <3 

I hope to have my own kitty someday...

Love it! Can't wait for my CD to arrive!

And I find it funny that they still employ Hideki to just flail around on stage. 

9 minutes ago, midi:nette said:

Noah responds:

So he's basically denying the allegations. This is my rush-job interpretation:

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Very shocked when I saw "that person"'s twitter. In this line of work rumours often spread on the internet but this time these are totally baseless stories and, on top of that, being written by someone in the same company. SHOKKU.

 

I can't follow that other tweet about LINE easily, someone else can translate that =_= I think he said, from the way "that person" spoke in their LINE conversations he might've had bad intentions/feelings toward Avanchick from the beginning.

So... does this explain why Rockstar's BLACK MARKET GANG I compilation sounded like such a mess?

I got the distinct impression, from the one time I listened to it, that every song EXCEPT for Avanchick's had bad quality recording. Like, bad mastering/mixing or whatever you call it. Also not enough auto-tuning to fix the vocals, so I ended up disliking every song except Avanchick's and maybe Devil Kitty's.

idk maybe it's just my bad ears or my bias because I was already a fan of Avanchick and had never heard of any of the other bands before.

Sucks, their songs got my website a decent amount of page hits.

Then again, I had been cursing them because I had to spend a few hours studying the HEBREW ALPHABET for one line in Apocrypha.

(and after all that work, still couldn't figure out how any of it was pronounced)

F U Kai >:(

2 hours ago, YuyoDrift said:

 

Tell me about it.

I am barely on Ch. 3 lol

 

WoFF on the vita is pretty solid, and the option to speed up/auto-pilot the battles I think was a great touch (have they been doing this for a while? cuz idk).

Easily makes the grind less grueling.

I am not digging the English Voice cast so much, so I'll probably switch over to the Japanese for a bit.

 

I think I'm on chapter 8. I didn't even try the English voices, obviously, because I am me and I hate almost all English dubs.

I'm also playing on Vita, it is a bit hitchy. Mostly due to frame rate drops at certain points. Also the load times (before/after each battle, and even navigating menus) aren't great. Haven't tried PS4 version, maybe that one runs better. Anyway, it is ok.

One other minor gripe - why didn't they implement any kind of touch screen interaction for the Vita version? I keep tapping the mini map to bring up the full-screen map and it doesn't work and it makes me crazy. Being forced to press that tiny select button so often is maddening.

Google tells me that the PC-port of FF9 and maybe FF Tactics on iOS have fast-forward options, and the upcoming FFXII remaster will also have it. (thank god)

lol

i need to play this game more

Voted D'espairsRay because [coll:set], MIRROR, and antique (the b-side collection thing) are so much more godlike than anything giru released it's not even a contest.

(in my opinion, of course)

also i'm still not over the disbandment due to Hizumi's voice/throat issues. 

I was never in the market for any new Nintendo console anyway..... but I just wanted to say how much I HAAAAAAAAAAAATE the name

Now I have to read a million "Switch" puns in gaming news headlines and forum discussions. I just browsed one single thread tangentially related to Switch and saw the puns and wanted to punch a hole in my screen. I'm just going to do my best to ignore its existence.

On a more general note..

"Wii" was really bad, but at least it wasn't a common word that has awkward mouthfeel.

I'm playing Pokemon on Switch. I'm buying a Switch. I'm going to switch from PC to Switch. The game runs poorly on Switch. The Switch version is the best version. Which Switch game should I buy first? I got the itch to buy a Switch. Hit the switch to turn on the Switch.

ughhhhjhhhhhhhhhhhjjghhjjnnngmnbmhjjktgjkmbnmhj,hj,hj,

.. maybe I should say something positive.

The idea of a console that seamlessly transforms into a portable is very interesting.

It'd be nice (for me) if Sony did something like this with Vita/PS4. I mean, without the limitations of Remote Play.

Then again, these days I don't bring my Vita outside of my house. If I'm gonna "game on the go", I'm more likely to just pull out my phone. And, ooh guess what, my phone can Remote Play provided I have a good Wifi connection and preferably a controller with me!

I like any holiday that

1. gives me a day off from work

2. does not require me to say holiday greetings

3. does not require me to buy/receive gifts & cards

4. does not require me to attend parties or gatherings

So that's like.. Labour Day, Victoria Day, Civic Holiday, Family Day, Canada Day. Most of those are Canada-specific work holidays, but you get my point.

The WORST holiday, by far, is Christmas. As someone who's worked in retail before, there are very few things I hate more than Christmas carols and having to say/hear "Merry Christmas" 500 times during every day of the "holiday season".

18 hours ago, Original Saku said:

 

Shit looks tight as fuck, I might need to go ahead and play Yakuza 5 since I've been putting it off for so long, oh and also isn't 0 supposed to be coming here next year?

yes yes yes and yes. There is a reason I can and will ramble on endlessly about this series. Yakuza 0 is easily the most *fun* game I've played on PS4, and it's also a great starting point because it's a prequel. Western release date: Jan 24, 2017. 

side note:

I was CRINGING at the guy's pronunciation in that video, lol. Not that I blame him, it's just super jarring when I've heard the words/names in actual Japanese so much.

yaKOOza (a very common mistake, but it's pretty much the accepted English pronunciation I guess)

kamuROE-choe

kaZOOma KIR-yu

100% self-taught over 12-13 years, never been to a single class and don't have any Japanese-speaking family or friends. My university offered a beginner Japanese course, but they only had space for like 20 students per semester, so I never got into it. So during boring lectures, I would fill my margins with hiragana & katakana practice. Not really sure how I passed my courses. 

After I finished school, I bought a couple of grammar books and learned a lot from those. Also learned a TON of vocabulary from doing romaji lyrics, and picked up a lot from watching anime/dramas, and playing Japanese video games. Interestingly, I went to Chinese writing/reading lessons during my childhood but my Japanese ability is far far faaaaaar better. (probably because I had very little interest in Chinese when I was young)

I suck at writing kanji/Chinese from memory, but that's mostly due to not practicing it at all. I know all about radicals and stroke order and can *copy* the characters easily.

.. Hmm, I voted wrong for the "Speaking" part. I put Intermediate but I really should've put Beginner. My speaking ability is mostly untested, and native speakers talk too fast for me to understand easily. (However, when I went to Japan I was told that my pronunciation is very good)

I got the "Pawlatinum" trophy in Catlateral Damage on Friday. Toughest platinum ever thanks to whatever form of motion sickness it caused me. 

(platinum not actually hard to get, just required a small amount of grind)

Then I went on a bit of a spending spree and bought Jazzpunk, Akiba's Trip, and Corpse Party: Blood Drive.

Akiba's Trip - This will probably sit in my backlog for a good long time. Bought it because it was on sale and it's totally normal to find it funny to beat the clothes off of anime teens vampires and no it's not creepy at all haha nope.

Corpse Party - Also one for the backlog, because after I bought it, I realized that it requires you to know what the hell happened in the previous 2 games. Guess I'll have to read some plot summaries. I just bought it on impulse because it was on sale and it is totally normal to want to see gruesome bloody anime death horror and don't worry it's totally not going to cause deep psychological trauma haha nope.

Jazzpunk - I played and beat and platinumed this game on Saturday. Yeah it came out on PC like 3 years ago, and yeah I'm sure it's waaaaay cheaper than the $15.99 I paid for it, but this is the price I pay for platinum. Overall it was a really great experience, with tons of funny gags and references to other games, and it was just fun to walk around and explore and find/do random shit. Sure it is pretty short, but $15.99 is about what I'd have to pay to go watch a movie and it wouldn't even give me a single trophy, so in that respect, VALUE.

Favourite moments:

By the way, I now have over 5000 trophies. Congratulate me on wasting my life away.

I recognize that iTunes has many faults, but I've used it to manage my music library for probably 10+ years. iTunes also has a lot of data I actually use, like play counts, ratings, "last played" time stamps, playlists, auto-updating playlists, and so on. I can't be bothered to figure out if/how I can transfer that data to another player.

I have not had any issues with the last.fm official scrobbler for years. I play a song, it scrobbles, everything is fine.

As for scrobbling from mobile devices... when I was using an iPhone, I used CloudScrob ($0.99 CAD) with the default music player. There are probably better options out there now. CloudScrob was a bit flaky. I currently scrobble from my Android phone with zero issues, using "Simple Last.fm" scrobbler and Rocket Player (both are free). I also paid $6.99 CAD for iSyncr, which syncs iTunes playlists to my phone and reports play counts/ratings/time stamps back to iTunes. Overpriced, but it keeps my data accurate, and saves me time and headaches so whatever.

What a disappointing track list.

And to add salt to that wound, they make 2 versions with 2 different PVs and 2 different bonus tracks, pretty much forcing fans who would normally only buy "the one with the PV" or "the one with the extra song" to buy both versions. (although, Piero was on a compilation before, but I didn't buy that because I didn't like any of the other songs on it)

Not gonna bother buying this, it's just too much money. Hopefully Rocklyric posts the lyrics.

(and yes, I know they are far from the first band to do this, but it doesn't mean I have to support that practice)

Is that the finalized track list? Because it's just all of their singles in order of release (except Eternal and To Heart are switched?) with all the new stuff at the end. If that's final, that's a hell of a lazy ordering.

Anyway, at least the album covers are, as usual, on point.

My alphabetical list, featuring plenty of unpopular choices

amber gris - Temari is a god-tier singer and lyricist. I got a little bored of them toward the end of their lifespan, but their earlier works are untouchable.

アンド (And) - Ikuma is one of my favourite screamers. Their album "-&-" is a classic.

シンディケイト (CindyKate) - They perfected their unique "Dasakakkoii" (lame-cool) style. Their disbandment remains my single most devastating one.

Crimson Shiva / SHIVA - Mostly here because of Tokiya's enchanting voice. Enchanting in the sense that I'm never sure if he's awesome or terrible. He straddles that line with perfect balance and I can't get enough of him.

D'espairsRay - The first all-male VK band that I really got into. They were my gateway drug into the rest of VK.

Dolly - I would put Mitsu on the same level as Temari - almost unbearably beautiful singing and songwriting. I also appreciated their lighter pop/electronic approach.

jealkb - A band basically born out of making fun of VK, but ended up making catchy-as-hell rock music far more interesting than many of their serious VK counterparts.

己龍 (Kiryu) - The very best at what they do - "Far Eastern Horror Rock". Mahiro is the perfect vocalist for their style. It is not easy to do what he does with his voice.

R指定 (R-shitei) - Scored major points with me for experimenting with many different genres. Their album 人間失格 is so godly.

the GazettE - They have so many great songs and it has been fascinating to watch their evolution over the years. (even though their current phase is not overly pleasing to me)

Janne Da Arc's "DOLLS" is definitely one of my fave songs from them! Came out right when I was first getting into Japanese music, and that album (ARCADIA) was a pretty big influence on me.

01 スガシカオ (Suga Shikao) - 性的敗北  (Seiteki haiboku)  [2000]

02 スネオヘアー (Suneohair) - moon face  [2005]

03 Heartsdales - Wet'N Wild feat. SUITE CHIC  [2003] 

04 栗山千明 (Kuriyama Chiaki) - おいしい季節 (Oishii kisetsu)  [2011]

05 GO!GO!7188 - パパパンツ  (Papa Pantsu)  [2002]

06 Earth, Wind & Fire - September [1978]

07 ペンタゴン (Pentagon) - 蝿 (Hae)  [2015]

08 荘野ジュリ (Shono Juli) - オルゴール  (Orgel)  [2004]

09 山本サヤカ (Yamamoto Sayaka) - 祭りのあと  (Matsuri no ato)  [2005]

10 Erykah Badu - Penitentiary Philosophy [2000]

(I added the year of release out of personal interest. Wow a lot of my music is 'old')

Hmm, this is a pretty nice genre spread, lol. 

While I'm tempted to give it to the Heartsdales track (for being unintentionally hilarious and also featuring Queen Namie), or Kuriyama Chiaki (because I love her and was surprised that she is a capable-enough singer and that song was written by Shiina Ringo), I will award the win to Suneohair. I feel like he is very underappreciated. "moon face" is a great chill track with a nice bass line.

I never posted in that Top 10 favourites thread, therefore this list is invalid!

not that it would have changed anything

The only ones in the top 50 that I would've had in my list are D'espairsRay, the GazettE, and Kiryu

And I've never even heard of deadman before. Maybe not surprising.

Sorry to spam with Yakuza 6 posts (not actually sorry)

but...

Also in the game:

DIVE AND SHOOT FISH

BATTLE WITH SHARKS

BABYSIT A BABY

RUN YOUR OWN GANG

PLAY UKELELE IN FRONT OF A CROWD

HANG OUT WITH DRINKING BUDDIES

GET SWOLE

PLAY CLASSIC SEGA GAMES

BASEBALL SIMULATION GAME

MANAGE A GODDAMN CAT CAFE  <-- day 1 confirmed

this is clearly the greatest game series ever i don't understand why it is not selling 50 million copies

delays ahoy!

South Park has been delayed to "Q1 2017" ..

welp, that frees up time for FFXV.

edit:

More Yakuza hype!

These gifs LOOK incredible, I hope the final product looks like this.

This is SO HYPE lol

WOW NEW PRICE YEN WOW WOW LINEUP NOW

Japanese rappers literally rapping about upcoming PS4 games. Including FFXV, Persona 5, TLG, Gravity Daze 2, World of FF, and Yakuza 6

If this doesn't convince Japanese gamers to buy a PS4, nothing will =p

~

Speaking of Yakuza 6...

Although I feel like I'm the only fan of Yakuza around here...

New details about Yakuza 6

(early plot spoilers, don't click if you don't want to know. don't even read the URL)

This series is so crazy. I love it.

Also, they are giving Kiryu a smartphone for texting/social media/selfies (lol). He's using the latest XPERIA (though it's not the android UI). I will be tickled every time I see that phone because I literally just bought the exact same phone in the same colour. (actually, not sure if it's X/XA/XP/XZ/XC but they all kinda look the same)

Kiryu looks old. And yes, that is the janky Xperia camera interface.

Anyway, getting super tempted to get this as soon as I'm done with FFXV (it's out Dec 8, holy hell those 2 weeks are packed). Ain't waiting years for localization like a scrub. 

8 hours ago, Original Saku said:

 

Ah man I'm so salty right now, back in 2006 when the game first came out, it was easily a 9-10/10 game for me and a lot of other people... I wonder if it just didn't age well? I admittedly haven't played it in some years despite owning it on both PS2 and PS3 xD I just remember how awesome and innovative it felt back then, it really just seemed like something that had never been done before at the time. Tons of character and charm as well.

Well, if it let me button through the dialogue (instead of waiting for the text to scroll out slowly and forcing me to listen to those "voices") I would've bumped it up to 8/10. That issue also contributed to the game feeling too long. If the brush controls worked properly 100% of the time (or maybe I just suck at drawing with analog stick) I would've bumped it up to 9/10. I still think it is overall a great game and I understand how most people would've given it high scores at the time.   I'm a bit of a tough critic with .. maybe unconventional tastes, don't be salty!

8 hours ago, Original Saku said:

Since I got a job, my video game time has severely plummeted, I'm sad

Hey, congrats man!

Now you can watch your backlog grow even bigger!

54 minutes ago, YuyoDrift said:

 

HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THISSSSSSSS??????

Not gonna lie

My first thought when I saw that PS4 was "oh god who spilled something on that ps4??"

I guess it looks ok. 

But the new slim model has one huge problem for me - they removed the optical port.

I specifically bought new speakers with optical ports so I could use optical audio with my PS4. (my display is a computer monitor...) So if I'm gonna replace my OG PS4, I'd have to buy the Pro... *frowny face*

3 minutes ago, YuyoDrift said:

 

lol what's that game about anyway?

(sirius question)

There's a kid who befriends a gigantic dog/cat/bird creature. (and I do mean GIGANTIC)

They explore some ruins together.

That's the extent of my knowledge on this topic.