You know the drill.


Kayma                 -                   Skybully

OK, did I miss the thread or something? I find it really hard to believe no one here has been playing this game.

I'll be going to PAX East in 2010, come hell or high water.


Hey everyone, you should go.

And lo, it came to be.

I'm heading to Boston this weekend, having spent too much money on what is ostensibly a huge frivolity, but fuck, I'm excited.

Anyone else going? I'll, uh, trade Pokemon with you.

If not, swag requests go here.

Toasty's fancy lads have a thread about us. I made this one to maintain parity.

I picked up Final fantasy IV: The After Years from the Wii Shop Channel today. My initial impressions (maybe 3 hours in):

-Ceodore is the worst name for an anything since Chrodechild. Stop it, you guys. Just stop.

-The game is very much FFIV. The sprites are all redone, but the music and scenarios all seem to b e lifted from the SNES title. I do think the battle backgrounds might be new, though. That said: nice looking sprites!

-Fuck. This game is hard. I haven't outright died yet, due to some quick menuing and dumb luck, but man... These monsters hit hard and often.

-Related: The encounter rate is fucking ridiculous. It feels like I'm fighting every 2.5 steps here. Way to boost the hour count on a downloadable games, guys.

That's a lot of bitching, but let me say this; I'm really enjoying the game so far. I kind of wish it had come out for the DSi shop instead, but I'm not unsatisfied. Too bad it's going to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 3700 Nintendo Funbux for the whole shebang.

Nintendo announces DSi, surprises no one.

12% smaller, bigger screens, no GBA slot, two cameras, internal storage, music playback.

Slightly more interesting, Wii Points are to be renamed Nintendo points, as Nintendo will be selling DS... stuff over WiFi.

They're also referring to it as their "third platform" since, well, it worked as a bluff once before.

I'm a sucker for Food Network. If video games are my true love, cooking is my younger, sexier mistress. I guess that makes IT my wicked mother-in-law or something. But I digress!

Watching Alton Brown's new special, Feasting on Waves. In the same vein as Brown's Feasting on Asphalt series, but instead of traipsing across the US on a motorbike, he's sailing around the Caribbean, finding dives and traditions and generally having a good old time. It's more fun than Suikoden IV!

It's fun (and a bit depressing) to see all these interesting places I'll probably never go. There's something about going to an island I've never heard of, grabbing random plants, and making bush tea that just sounds so alluring. And a bit dangerous.

Looking forward to the rest of this series. That Alton makes a good show.