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    Welcome! Hope you stick around and post lots and it's nice to meet you

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    Oh hello, new friend.

    I think XIII is a rubbish game for the most part, but I love XIII-2 and enjoy LR quite a bit. Nothing wrong with enjoying the trilogy!

    By the way, your ideas on comparing Lightning's development to the development of morality sounds super interesting. I've been sitting on an article idea for this site for a while now about how the XIII trilogy deals with fate and how the attitudes of the main characters regarding fate seem to shift between the three games. I think these games lend themselves well to doing some interesting analysis and interpretation, and it would make for some interesting discussion outside of the usual "These games suck" kind of threads.

    Did you like all of the other FF games you played?

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    Ooooh, a Moorcock fan. I'm in the middle of rereading the Elric saga. Welcome!


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    Kwehlcome! You haven't played FFIX yet, so I'm obligated to recommend it to you. Other than that, make yourself at home, and watch out for the chocobos; I've trained them to bite.

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    You're lucky my love for BioWare and Doctor Who outweighs my hatred for FFXIII

    Hi, Sam! Welcome to the forums. How are you?

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    I've had a friend try to get me to read the Elric books for years, but I've never gotten around to doing it. Not sure where a good place to start is really. Any suggestions you'd give for books by Moorcock?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scotty_ffgamer View Post
    I've had a friend try to get me to read the Elric books for years, but I've never gotten around to doing it. Not sure where a good place to start is really. Any suggestions you'd give for books by Moorcock?
    I know I might come under fire from Moorcock fans, but my advice is to NOT read the Elric books. I love The Dancers at the End of Time trilogy, but nothing else of Moorcock's has really grabbed me. The Dancers at the End of Time are also some of the few Moorcock books not completely bogged down in continuity: you can read and understand them perfectly well without having read anything else by Moorcock, which isn't really the case with a lot of his work.
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    That sounds like exactly what I need to read from him. I think that was my issue when I tried in the past.

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    Also, I'd avoid Moorcock's other End of Time stories (that aren't part of the Dancers trilogy).

    With the exception of White Stars, they're just dire. Especially The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming, it's misogynistic rubbish. Bleh.

    I'm not saying that Dancers are the only good Moorcock books, mind, far from it. I just think they're a good place to start.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian View Post
    I know I might come under fire from Moorcock fans, but my advice is to NOT read the Elric books.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kalevala View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian View Post
    I know I might come under fire from Moorcock fans, but my advice is to NOT read the Elric books.
    Sorry! They're just not my cup of tea.

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    It's a pleasure to welcome Mr. Formy to our ranks

    Already seen you post plenty, keep it up!

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    To be honest I glossed over hte fact you were dating in your original post. And didn't notice anything until I saw Formy's post. I was like "wait what" and went back it's plainly there!

    I was going to say, your non FF gaming opinions are echo of mine. Except Bayonetta, I haven't played that one. So nice gaming choices. Bioware is awesome!

    Welcome to our forums!

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    Like so many couples right? Although we're not really a EoFF couple as we didn't *meet* on here, but eh. Close enough.


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    Nothing wrong with that. Me and MissH are the same!

    The more the merrier

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