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I'm fine with skipping ahead with III, as II is somewhat tedious with the leveling system (especially magic... I do not want to go and grind goblins just because my bolt and ice spells are weak.)

As for II, I just arrived at Deist, I think the name is and I'm about to take the egg to the spring inside the nearby cave. In somewhat amusing news, thanks to a Masochistic Grind, my spellcaster has more HP than anyone else...

Yeah, Maria's my resident Mage as well. She's up to Fire 2, but has low HP due to the monsters deciding to try and take out either Guy or Firion instead. I'm right at the entrance to the slave camp, but I'm gonna have to fall back to town, because I am out of MP... Hell, probably should journey all the way back to the starting point to buy a spell other than Fire.

Edit: Stormed the slave mines and enacted a terrific rescue last night. Beat up the commanding sergeant and then made off with the mithral. Sadly, I only had enough money to buy Firion a sword when all was said and done. Now, where the hell do I go to burn down that new airship prototype...

I pretty much have to gil grind, as I'm trying to buy all these lvl 3 and 4 spells, as well as weapons and healing items.

And I agree with you, stokerino, the prices in Elfheim are outrageous. Then again, most RPGs suffer the same problem when it comes to pricing. Especially with the inns.

Here's that map for you all, if you don't already have one.

Well, better late than never, I suppose. I seriously doubt I'll be able to finish by the end of the month, though. Let's see how far I get, though.

Edit: So used to the [sblock] command from other forums...

About what time on Tuesday evenings? And what's the creation rules?

Edit: Bah, beaten to it...

Wow, I'm really far behind on this. I was planning on getting Origins soon, but it can't be for a little while, since the only store near me with a new copy is where I go to class. Oh well, see you all for II.

In all my previous playthrough, I quit soon after I got to the brooms. I just got completely lost after that. The massive amount of leveling I had to do at the beginning is kind of discouraging at first.

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Entering Lake Hylia, from the main entrance, for the first time.

Imperial Glory: Ordering a bayonet charge for the first time, and watching my soldiers charge across the field of battle.

In the end I got that and FF Tactics. Tactics was £14.99 new, only £2 more than pre-owned so I got that, then it was a toss-up between III and IV. I went for IV.

Started with Tactics and enjoying it, but since I moved my bedroom around the free wall sockets are now at the other end of the room. Thus minimising 'lay and play' sessions to a few hours tops.

You talking about the Advance series, or the War of the Lions remake of the original. BTW, how are those games. I've only played the original PS1 version of the game.

I definately agree that XI should have just been called FF: Online. Haven't played XII yet, though. Still trying to beat IV on my PS1.

Actually, that's the DS FF you should get, Private ZJ

I'll have to start with Chrono Trigger after I finish FFIV.

Damn, my PS2's basically an SNES now...

The second-best console of all time is becoming the best console of all time when you need it? That sounds awesome to me.

It is, isn't it?

Still stuck on FFIV. *sighs

Fuck that. Chrono Trigger is the best fucking game EVER. It was also released on the Playstation, you shits. There is NO excuse not to play this game.

And I still haven't officially beat it. I had it for the Playstation, got to the last fight with Lavos and decided to level up some, and when I tried to load up my game again the save data was corrupted. I had no desire to play the game for another 70 hours at the time and otherwise I've just never found myself wanting to commit another 70 hours to it again. ONE DAY, though, I will oficially beat it.

I'll have to start with Chrono Trigger after I finish FFIV.

Damn, my PS2's basically an SNES now...

My FF gaming is decidedly old school at the moment, as I just bought new copies of Anthology and Chronicles. Mainly playing VI at the moment. Haven't even touched Chrono Trigger yet, though.

Triple Post FTW ~!

Yeah, so rivalry week owns all sorts of fucking ass.

GT has scored 23 straight points to open the 2nd half and take a 35 - 28 lead on UGA. They've done it by literally running right up their ass.

UVA stopped VT on 4th and a nut hair on the goal line to keep the game tied, and then you've got Clemson showing up and blowing South Carolina out of the water (a SC team that has only been out of one game all year).

and uh, NCST is looking to beat two teams in a row that they had no business beating this year.

EDIT - Ok, a fourth post would just be retarded. Holy shit Kansas/Mizzou ... the whole second half was nuts

The Mizzou-Kansas game was horrendous for me, just a complete rollercoaster of emotion. My heart sank right to the floor when Meir caught that final touchdown pass, only for it to even lower on that final imcompletion of Missouri's. Still, a damn good game.

I fear that sports collections may become a problem for me one day. For Smackdown, I only need to buy Smackdown vs RAW and this years (oh, and a real copy of Smackdown 1 ) to have all of them. Plus, if could buy the FIFA games for the pennies that stores offered I might be able to knock something up there. I have the early SNES games but after that i'd need 98 through to 09.

I'm thankful that my collection of sports game started rather late, and that all the old ones can be found for a buck each, save for the more recent ones. The PS1 NCAAs were probably the most expensive, since they were about four bucks. I only need the current one and the two Bill Walsh College football games to complete that collection.

Madden's a little more tricky, however.

And, yes, I do play them. I'd be playing a Dynasty in all of them if I only had the memory card space.

Always trade it, knock down the cost of the next game I want. I traded in Madden 09 to get Gears of War 2 most recently, got $31 for Madden, which is spectacular considering how quick sports title's value drops.

I only hold onto games with really good replay value, so mostly sports games or multiplayer shooters.

Conversly I have a friend who never trades in anything and has easily close to 1000 games, if not more.

Prices don't really drop--at least here--until the season's over, so I'm not really surprised at that price.

Wait... you trade in the old versions?

*looks at NCAA Football and Madden NFL collections with a smile.*

Wow, I think I prepared a little too much for my second battle with Seymour in FFX...

I had all the characters well leveled up and had their overdrives prepared. The majority of Yuna's summons had their overdrives ready as well. It only took about five rounds and I couldn't get my usual cycle of every character to give them all AP... I'm going to try again.

So FFIX's being delivered in the next day or two, I got it from eBay on Saturday, so it should be here any day.

I know they've never really taken off in the past, but anyone up for a FFIX playthrough and discussion thread, so we can all verbally masturbate over Vivi together?

*sighs*

I want to play FFIX again. Same with VII, VIII and Tactics. I need to a new PS2... One that doesn't hate PS1 games.

According to Amazon:

Pre-order "TNA Impact" for Xbox 360 and receive an Amazon exclusive in-game character unlock code for Spike TV's Mike Tenay as a gift with your purchase. The code to access the character will be sent to you via email after the game releases. Offer good while supplies last.

... sweet!

Old post, but...

Any bets on how long it takes for the code to be leaked to the general public? I say within five hours.

Damn, a topic purge took the one I'd already filled out on another forum... This is going to be tough. And include a lot of Pearl Jam and Meat Puppets.

For the sake of fairness, I'm ignoring compilations, soundtracks, live albums, and box sets.

1984: Meat Puppets II

1985: Up on the Sun- Meat Puppets (told you...)

1986: Master of Puppets-Metallica

1987: The Joshua Tree-U2

1988: Nothing's Shocking-Jane's Addiction

1989: Bleach-Nirvana

1990: Ritual de lo Habitual-Jane's Addiction

1991: Ten-Pearl Jam

1992: Dirt-Alice in Chains

1993: Vs-Pearl Jam

1994: Too High to Die-Meat Puppets

1995: Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness-Smashing Pumpkins

1996: No Code-Pearl Jam

1997: The Colour and the Shape-Foo Fighters

1998: Yield-Pearl Jam

1999: Californication-Red Hot Chili Peppers

2000: Binaural-Pearl Jam

2001: Lateralus-Tool

2002: Riot Act-Pearl Jam

2003: Lost Dogs-Pearl Jam (I'm breaking my own rule regarding compilations because I could find nothing else I remotely liked in 2003.)

2004: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb-U2 (Only choice)

2005: Out of Exile-Audioslave

2006: Pearl Jam

2007: Rise to Your Knees-Meat Puppets

2008: Don't have one yet.

I am very disappointed with the seemingly death of BC, as well. It may very well be a dealbreaker for when I have the money to upgrade consoles.