Wolf Kanno
is a Level 99 Chocobo
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Yeah... I'm hoping my parents' financial situation gets better and maybe I'll get a PS4 for Xmas. Things aren't looking up though

I totally agree and I'm happy he made that decision.

That reminds me - I heard this piece of news that FFXV's first half is more open world, while the latter is more linear. Not to the point of XIII-linear, but just more focused on the story. This makes sense, IMO, because as much fun as I had in games like Morrowind, it really would have helped immensely had there been some more focus as the story progressed. I mention this because I've heard many people complain that No Man's Sky is so overwhelmingly huge.

Wow. Drama always sucks, but yay for all the rest! Too bad you couldn't get into too much detail at the panel, but it's still great that fun was had by all

Oh right! How did that go for you?

Yeah, well, what can you do. We get good music in DQ and that's all that matters. It's a shame we're not getting the best possible product here, but we'll make do, I think.

So, anything interesting you're playing right now?

I just swung by the first time in forever and saw your birthday message to me from several months ago. I'm not sure what was more startling: that someone had wished me happy birthday here years after my last regular activity, or that I still have hair in my user profile picture.

From what I heard, no, it's rather a licensing issue. As it turns out, Koichi Sugiyama is actually a total dick. On top of being the Japanese equivalent of a Holocaust denier (he says this didn't happen, basically), he's in charge of this organization that is responsible for all those music license deals and in general being stingy as all hell. They just couldn't secure a contract and he believes that the synth works better for the games (which I completely disagree with, since the synths he uses were never good and I feel his music loses a lot of its appeal when it;s not performed live).

In general, I'm miffed that the reason is political and not technical, really, because if it were just size limitations there would be a chance we'd get the orchestral version as DLC, but no cigar. Damn, a man can compose awesome music and still be kind of a dick. I get the feeling Western Dragon Quest fans aren't that respected in Japan.

So apparently they're replacing the fully orchestral soundtrack of DQVII 3DS into MIDI for the localized version. I am friggin' devastated

Please don't let them do this to VIII

Speaking of IV, I totally forgot about the randomized stats thing until you mentioned it again. Do you know if that was carried over to the DS version? I could imagine how that would suck for anyone wanting to take on Proto-Babil.