Lord Foortwenti

@Mmmmz Yeah, but what you aren't realizing is this....

When you pay "full price", as you call it, you are paying $50-60 for a game that, in this day and age, you will get MAYBE 50 hours from, at the absolute most a hundred.

But, when you pay $40 for a MMO, and then pay the monthly sub, you are getting, and this is no hyperbole, THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of hours of gameplay.

So, you tell me, which is the better value? 50-60 bucks for MAYBE a hundred hours in the rarest of cases? Or 40 + monthly sub for THOUSANDS of hours?

Well you obviously have my arrows...and I hope my bow too b/c I can't find the darn thing. Hopefully no orcs or Uruk-Hai come knocking until I get them back.

In CiV I've run into a ton of bugs that generally make the game unfun, things such as resources not being properly counted, or units getting stuck in a loop where the game keeps telling you that they need orders and won't let you proceed to the next turn.

@Chazzr joking about what? And no, I wasn't.

If you mean joking about them being better then the Final Fantasy of the same period...they most definitely are WAAAY better then early Final Fantasy's. Graphic, story, and game-play wise the Phantasy Star series is FAR superior to early FF.

If you mean joking about part 3 being fairly good, then no I wasn't joking about that either. It's certainly not as good as the rest of the series, but it's not terribly either.

And although I didn't say it, the Phantasy Star RPG's are also far superior to the PSO series as well. I mean, the PSO's are alright, and fun games in their own right, but I wish they would've given them their own series name so there isn't confusion between the two.

A continuation of the "real" Phantasy Star series is VERY, VERY long overdue. The original, and parts 2 and 4 are some of the best JRPG's ever made imho, and were just as good, if not better than their Final Fantasy contemporaries. Phantasy Star 3 was really a pretty good game too imho, I kind of liked all the different paths and characters you could play through the marriage and generations features. The only reason I don't consider it as good as the rest is b/c the story was kind of....well, it was kind of weird and tried too hard to make some very odd connections.

I really hope this isn't just a remake of the originals, although that would be nice too, but another true sequel to the main series is what I really want.

At the top of my list would be the crew from the original Phantasy Star, my favorite game evar; I'd also like to invite the silent dude from GTA3 specifically b/c he never talks; the chick from the cover of the EverQuest series as she'd have some interesting tales of phat lootz; ooh I'd really like a chance to pick the brain of Raziel and Kain from the Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver games so they could explain the crazy ass, convoluted, time jumping plot of the series; and finally, I'd want one of the psycho midgets from Borderlands to be there, for obvious reasons.

Alis
Myau
Odin
Noah (yes NOAH, not LUTZ!!!!)
Quiet guy from GTA3
Firiona Vie (EQ chick)
Raziel
Kain
Psycho Midget

@syrik zero Amen yo.

Here's hoping EA smartens the f' up and releases this as a separate download on XBL/PSN. I do NOT want to buy a $60 NBA game I'll never, ever play, to get this one only worth about $20-30, and I doubt many other people do either. This was an asinine decision on EA's part, I mean, they obviously did it hoping to boost sales of NBA Elite 11 or w/e the frig it's called, but I don't think it's gonna work.

IMHO, they'd make a lot more separating the 2 and making NBA Jam it's own game for download on XBL/PSN for like 1600pts ($20). I'd buy it, no doubt.

Well, my favorite class in TF2 is Medic, and in MMO's I enjoy playing (EQ)Bard-type classes, so I would definitely have to say that the Support class would be what I am looking forward to trying.

I know it's kind of boring, but my fave is lots and lots of super crispy, but NOT burnt, bacon coupled w/ an American cheese omelet, and home fries, slapped onto a piece or two of rye toast to make a messy as hell samich but damn is it good ...... mmmmmmmmm, now I'm hungry

When I was 7 or 8 I saw this movie about a ventriloquist dummy that came to life and proceeded to kill people and generally scare the shit out of everyone, except for the little boy who found him b/c he needed to keep him alive until he was strong enough to take over the boys body. Well, needless to say it scared me to no end and one night, while lying in bed, I had these porcelain clown statues on my dresser....and I swear I saw one of them turn it's freakin head and look at me!!!!!! Well, of course I proceeded to jump out of bed and ran down stairs screaming. I wasn't able to sleep w/o a light on for like a year after that, and I eventually had to totally destroy the offending statue, and all his statue friends in case they were evil too, before I was able to get a good nights sleep.