Oct 06 2008
Why video games are good for the soul
Playing video games relieves aggression. Little Miss Hacks with Sword would be tempted to… well, hack things with a sword in real life if she had no other outlet for her hostility.
Playing video games teaches humility. It’s impossible to be full of yourself when you’ve just had your ass handed to you by a short stack of pancakes.
- (From FFVII: Crisis Core by Square Enix)
Seriously, most hated monster in the game. The 10-story-tall summons with the planet-destroying attack that’s immune to magic so you have to walk RIGHT UP TO ITS GINORMOUS METAL-PLATED BELLY BUTTON AND HIT IT? Not as dreaded as the pancakes, which will not freakin’ die and have all kinds of heinous magic with which to put the hurt upon you.
That’s right. Magical, immortal pancakes. This Breakfast from Hell brought to you by the fine folks of Squeenix.
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October 7th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Ha! I have my ass handed to me by a short stack of pancakes every week. No video games required.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I am scared to eat pancakes at this point. I envision exacting my revenge on their tender fluffiness with my mighty fork, The Devourer… and then I envision them floating off the plate and dropping Graviga and Delta on my head and leaving me to die in a puddle of maple syrup.
I’ll stick to Cheerios, kthxbai.
October 8th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Scared of breakfast food are you. Master of the Pancakes you are not.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Playing Video Games Quiets the Mind: After nine straight hours of non-stop work and very, very energetic students, veging in front of the TV to the tune of Zelda or Harvest Moon relieves my tension quicker than a cow can shit.
Yes, ma’am.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:56 am
And if you’re a gamer, Japan is the right place to be. No waiting for the graphical translation and dubbing. (Tried playing an original import once. Couldn’t get past the tutorial, and the story we invented to explain the scenes we couldn’t understand turned out to be less than accurate, oddly enough. A picture really is worth a thousand words, but not necessarily the correct ones…)
And I’ve found something I hate as much as the pancakes. Now I can also frequently be heard cursing Red Bull in addition to pancakes. Baby Red Bull was immune to magic, but you could hit him in the butt until he died. Big Red Bull is totally immune to magic, totally immune to physical damage, totally immune to status effects, and Dispel doesn’t work on him. Basically, the strategy consists of running around to avoid getting killed and praying the slot machine thingy rolls you many summonses. (Darkness apparently works, but much to my disbelief, I lack Darkness…)
But it does take my mind off how much I loathe exercising.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:09 am
All your breakfast are belong to us.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:38 am
I will be buying a Japanese xbox 360 soon–which means prettyful Japanese games I can’t get for the American one. However, I have to learn Japanese a bit more -.-;;. Working on it. Really.
BUT so happy that FFXIII is coming out for xbox! YESSSSS!
October 10th, 2008 at 4:10 am
Now, see, here we’re going to rumble. Because Squeenix agreed to simultaneous platform release of FFXIII and Microsoft took for-frickin-ever to deliver the development kit for the Xbox version, we PS3 loyalists are having to wait an extra YEAR for an already-delayed game (first release date we were given was Summer 2007). One more year for a better game was acceptable, but two is pushing it. Consequently, we are all hating on the Xbox set now.
Why don’t any of the Xbox exclusives I want ever cross over? Yeah, I’m looking at you, Fable I and II.
(What Squeenix needs to do to make amends is remake FFVII. They categorically deny they are doing this, and it would be a really hard secret to keep, BUT they keep adding to the VII line—Advent Children, Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core—leaving us with this beloved yet technologically challenged pixel game sandwiched in the middle of the chronology, AND when they wanted to demonstrate the might of the PS3 a while back, rather than using an actual game they had in development, they trotted out a remade sequence from VII. Not something you just throw together over the weekend on the cheap, so I smell fish…)
