Karifean
is a Level 30 Priest
Witch of Theatergoing

hey, how be things?

That's exactly my gripe. With a much better writer on board, XIII could have had a really great story, because the potential is there. Still, the way it is written really makes it hard to enjoy any of the characters. I especially take issue with Snow and Hope's resolution because I saw it done in Persona 3 before and it was executed much better

I also like to exaggerate my point for fun (especially around certain members, whose buttons are so easy to push ). Call me a troll, but maybe that's what I am? I don't hate Yuffie quite so much, though she does seem like a pretty unnecessary character, only put in there to fill in a quota of the cute underage girl, which is hella exploitative and I'm just tired of. but that's just my opinion

But yeah, I'm also kind of done with the "How can you hate them! They're such a good person! What do you have against good people?" thing. That is why I made this distinction, because so many times my attitude has been demonized whenever I expressed my dislike for Snow. Sure, he may be a nice guy. but the way he is implemented is really one of the reasons XIII's story failed in my eyes. I hate him because he doesn't work, because his character annoys me. And then people tell me I'm terrible for wanting to punch nice people in the face. You'd think I eat live puppies as a hobby from all those comments, really

I may have been a bit too direct in how I discribe it

The thing is, I do treat characters like people as long as they are written as such. Granted, writing a character that seems like a genuine person is insanely hard and rarely done, so instead of focusing on how the character is as a person, I focus on their other merits and how they work in the context of the story. Which is, for example, why Enoshima is one of my favorite video game characters of all time, despite being written as something removed so far from what a human being is as is possible.

Macht nichts, ich finde es nur manchmal gut, wenn jemand der was weiß, was dazu sagt, aber du tust sowieso besser daran, das nicht zu machen, weil es schlauer ist. Das meine ich ganz ehrlich. Ich wünschte mir, ich könnte manchmal so leicht aufhören zu posten. Ich meine, manchmal geht es schon, aber dann wieder nicht.>_>

Wäre cool, wenn du nochmal was dazu sagen könntest. Muss nichts großartiges sein, scheint mir aber schon wieder in Richtung "DBZ"Problematik zu gehen.

Not the last time I played but maybe recently. I hope so, it'll make it easier for me to play. And when games have that option, those who want a challenge can have access to that to. It seems to be becoming a more common thing so hopefully it'll stick

It can certainly be frustrating for not good players like me. But I enjoy it.

I'm pretty awful at Breath of Fire III and Dragon Age Origins lately! Thank goodness for difficulty modes on a lot of modern games

No, no, I was kind of more expressing a bit of annoyance at a certain... trend on this, uh.. forum. yeah. A trend

I do kind of keep thinking I may have some kind of mental disorder or something due to how different my view of certain things is to other people on a lot of occassions. Like, the consensus about Kingdom Hearts (and I mean about fans, because I know a lot of people just don't like the series and that's okay) is that the story is an incomprehensible mess but it's still great because of the battle system and Disney cameos. And I'm like, totally stumped because at no point was anything about KH not clear to me and I really cannot understand how someone could struggle with comprehending it. And while I think it's cool that I can enjoy it, it's still kind of a bummer to hear that all the time when I do in fact enjoy the story a lot.

Hi!

I can, yeah. I think a lot of RPG's have the problem of Press X to win. Magic is cool and useful but isn't sustainable when doing the main story of a new game because you don't know when you'll get an inn or whatever and most limit your magic and magic restoration. When I play XIII I personally have to be much more involved and watch the combat and pay attention to white I'm doing. With most others I can do homework while holding down the attack button and looking up every once in a while to make sure I haven't died. So I think XIII definitely adds more depth that a lot of RPG's are lacking