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I went to see the screenshots and I have to admit I am disappointed. The demo we were shown a few months ago (the 3D rendered fight scene between Ganon and Link) was much more impressive and seemed to me to be the future of the Zelda series.
What we were promised was a beautifully-rendered adult Link (in what seemed a more real & detailed version of the 3D world we first saw in Ocarina of Time) and what we are given is... something that looks like it was stolen from a saturday morning kiddie show.
Even the 80s cartoon based on the Legend of Zelda looked better than this.
I'm wondering why they made this choice when developpers all seem to be converging towards more encompassing (and realistic) 3D worlds...
Graphics may get old, but a beautiful, epic story never loses its appeal. And FF3/6 has the most haunting story I have ever lived. I remember crying when the music started and the curtain rose on the Opera scene...
I wish Square would revisit the past and give us something better than the mass-market drivel that were FF8-9.
I wish Square would once more give us strong, capable female characters which are not emotional wrecks.
But more than that...
I wish Square will make enough money with the FF movie to hire a character designer. I mean, Rinoa, Garnet, Yuna and Aki LOOK THE SAME! Tidus is Squall with bleached hair! Come on Square, you can do better than that!
Zoi (who'll be playing FF3/6 again when everyone else will be in front of FF10)
>And it wasnt because of the 'astounding' graphics (the original FF games were never that great graphic wise),
I beg to differ on this point. (Although yes I will agree that characters such as the ones in FFVI/3 were never equalled...) when FFVI came out way back when on the SNES it was one of the biggest games around (clocking in at 16MB) and pushed the graphics enveloppe.
It used mode 7 and displayed more colors onscreen than any other game that preceeded it. Those of us who played it when it came out remember being astonished at the quality of these graphics and the details in the sprites.
But yes what makes me play it over and over again, while FFVIII is still behind my dresser (where I threw it in a fit of frustrationi after Squall mumbled his 100th "Whatever"), is that the game had a soul. And it's that soul that's been forgotten in newer installments.
Will I go see FF:TSW? Yes.
Will I enjoy it for anything more than eye-candy? Probably not.
I'm afraid this movie is another FFVIII.
Pretty but soulless.
I can relate: I am in a similar case as yours (but went from France to the US two years ago). I'm on "the next best thing to a diplomatic visa" (yeah right) which translates into "you don't even count as a US resident so you can't have a SSN". My employer also has a credit union, but I have been fighting an uphill battle to higher my credit limit, and end up having to charge a lot of my expenses on a foreign credit card. Yippi.
The worse part is that companies keep on spamming me (phone, snail-mail, e-mail) with 'pre-approved' cards (read: pre-approved for anyone except me because without a SSN I don't _exist_). *grumble*
This idea is simply preposterous.
We're turning the web into distinct little pieces that will be unable to interract with each other, while the interest of the web is its variety and world-wide reach.
Without a Japanese OS, inputting Japanese text, even in a Japanese version of Internet Explorer is a _pain_. (compared to just installing Japanese fonts to read web pages in the language) So with those URLs, we are deliberately limiting the number of people who can access the pages, by making it impossible for some to even type the address. I don't want to have to memorize strings of numbers to find my way around the net.
I don't see where is the problem with romanizing foreign words in URLs. English is the default language for international communications, and all 'language' editions of web browsers can type English characters. So this would make more sense, and keep URLs accessible to all.
Imagine needing a browser that can accept _all_ possible character sets (Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese)... o_O
(Note: I am French and I still find those French URLs unbelievably silly)
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I went to see the screenshots and I have to admit I am disappointed. The demo we were shown a few months ago (the 3D rendered fight scene between Ganon and Link) was much more impressive and seemed to me to be the future of the Zelda series.
What we were promised was a beautifully-rendered adult Link (in what seemed a more real & detailed version of the 3D world we first saw in Ocarina of Time) and what we are given is... something that looks like it was stolen from a saturday morning kiddie show.
Even the 80s cartoon based on the Legend of Zelda looked better than this.
I'm wondering why they made this choice when developpers all seem to be converging towards more encompassing (and realistic) 3D worlds...
Zoi
I beat FF3/6 for the nth time last week...
Graphics may get old, but a beautiful, epic story never loses its appeal. And FF3/6 has the most haunting story I have ever lived. I remember crying when the music started and the curtain rose on the Opera scene...
I wish Square would revisit the past and give us something better than the mass-market drivel that were FF8-9.
I wish Square would once more give us strong, capable female characters which are not emotional wrecks.
But more than that...
I wish Square will make enough money with the FF movie to hire a character designer. I mean, Rinoa, Garnet, Yuna and Aki LOOK THE SAME! Tidus is Squall with bleached hair! Come on Square, you can do better than that!
Zoi (who'll be playing FF3/6 again when everyone else will be in front of FF10)
>And it wasnt because of the 'astounding' graphics (the original FF games were never that great graphic wise),
I beg to differ on this point. (Although yes I will agree that characters such as the ones in FFVI/3 were never equalled...) when FFVI came out way back when on the SNES it was one of the biggest games around (clocking in at 16MB) and pushed the graphics enveloppe.
It used mode 7 and displayed more colors onscreen than any other game that preceeded it. Those of us who played it when it came out remember being astonished at the quality of these graphics and the details in the sprites.
But yes what makes me play it over and over again, while FFVIII is still behind my dresser (where I threw it in a fit of frustrationi after Squall mumbled his 100th "Whatever"), is that the game had a soul. And it's that soul that's been forgotten in newer installments.
Will I go see FF:TSW? Yes.
Will I enjoy it for anything more than eye-candy? Probably not.
I'm afraid this movie is another FFVIII.
Pretty but soulless.
Zoi
I can relate: I am in a similar case as yours (but went from France to the US two years ago). I'm on "the next best thing to a diplomatic visa" (yeah right) which translates into "you don't even count as a US resident so you can't have a SSN". My employer also has a credit union, but I have been fighting an uphill battle to higher my credit limit, and end up having to charge a lot of my expenses on a foreign credit card. Yippi.
The worse part is that companies keep on spamming me (phone, snail-mail, e-mail) with 'pre-approved' cards (read: pre-approved for anyone except me because without a SSN I don't _exist_). *grumble*
This idea is simply preposterous.
We're turning the web into distinct little pieces that will be unable to interract with each other, while the interest of the web is its variety and world-wide reach.
Without a Japanese OS, inputting Japanese text, even in a Japanese version of Internet Explorer is a _pain_. (compared to just installing Japanese fonts to read web pages in the language) So with those URLs, we are deliberately limiting the number of people who can access the pages, by making it impossible for some to even type the address. I don't want to have to memorize strings of numbers to find my way around the net.
I don't see where is the problem with romanizing foreign words in URLs. English is the default language for international communications, and all 'language' editions of web browsers can type English characters. So this would make more sense, and keep URLs accessible to all.
Imagine needing a browser that can accept _all_ possible character sets (Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese)... o_O
(Note: I am French and I still find those French URLs unbelievably silly)
You might want to add how some people within the PQ (party which was rooting for the 'yes' vote) encouraged militants to go and vote for others.
How some people went and voted multiple times, and on the air too (TV).
(you can vote without proof of ID in Canada)
How some clercs helped multiple people vote (each elector is only allowed to help one person).
And all of this in plain sight.
Which might be why I am not even fazed by the Florida elections story.
Once you live in Quebec for a while, you get used to everything.