Shoot on the game world/Final Fantasy X

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>whacked Out wrestling (wOw)</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="whacked Out wrestling (wOw)"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Shoot on the game world/Final Fantasy X</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Shoot on the game world/Final Fantasy X</I></div> <div> I somehow recieved FFX for Christmas. I'd read from an EGM and heard from an EB Retailer that FFX was going to miss the Christmas rush. Strangely enough, I'd gotten it for Christmas, much to my immediate delight. I played Metal Gear Solid 2 first. The game, might I say, simply rocked. It was shorter than I'd expected, but the story and gameplay was very solid, and I enjoyed it to the very last hit I placed on Solidus Snake (during which, I uttered a famous Bruce Willis catchphrase) </div> <bR> <div> Afterwards, my brother asked me to play Devil May Cry. The game wasn't as good as MGS2, but it still rocked; I enjoyed it, but after the gameplay got a bit uninteresting, I realized my cat had disappeared, so I turned off the PS2 and went to look for it for two hours before discovering it had been lurking under my bed. </div> <bR> <div> Soon after, I hoped to enjoy what surely must have been the cream of the crop: Final Fantasy X. Unfortunately, the game made about as much sense to me as Campbell's CODEC messages towards the end of the aforementioned MGS2. The few characters I met were bland, the diologue was wretched, and the battles, ugh- the battles were some of the most idiotic things I've ever witnessed in my 17 years of playing video games, worse, even, than the incredibly stupid battles of, say, Cybercop, or, worse, Twisted Metal IV. </div> <bR> <div> Final Fantasy VII is my favorite game. I'm not saying it's the GREATEST game ever made, since Phantasy Star IV is obviously superior. I didn't like Final Fantasy VI at all, but I liked Final Fantasy V a bit; In my opinion, it's on the same level as Chrono Cross. After FF7, the series began to get a bit worse with each game: FF8 was great, but not perfect, FF9 was decent, and this, this distortion, which is FF10, is probably, on first glance, one of the, dare I say it, worst games ever made, right up there with Bible Adventures and Quest 64. I may give it another chance after I've recovered from the shock. </div> <bR> <div> Tomorrow, I'm going to buy some games for my Game Boy Advance, for which I traded my N64. I'll buy some expansions for the little powerhouse, buy a game, and hopefully experience a simpler time when games were actually, dare I even utter the words, GOOD. Not great, just good. I understand now, that there was never a "Golden Age" of video games. Such things simply don't exist. But there was a time, when all games could be expected to be at least average, maybe a bit above or below. It was a time when despite the possible consequences, people would attempt a unique or abstract idea, most of which caught on. Remember Dynamite Headdy? Vectorman? Or the crown jewel of all unique ideas, Comix Zone? When was the last time you saw a game as innovative as the aforementioned ones? </div> <bR> <div> Ever since Sony entered the industry, and I'm not blaming them for anything, the people who were mainstream gamers became hardcore gamers, and the people who had nothing to do with video games became mainstream gamers. And sadly, gaming changed, not for the worse, not for the better, just changed. They forgot about me; not about everybody, just about me. There was a time in my life when, well, I wanted to commit suicide. It's not a point in my life I like talking about. But the way I figured it, I'd wait till Sonic and Knuckles came out, I'd buy it, beat it, THEN I'd kill myself. I'd get the next game I wanted after that, THEN I'd kill myself. And that's the way it went. </div> <bR> <div> I actually procrastinated the taking of my own life because I loved video games so much. After a while, I regained things to live for, and I stopped considering suicide. In short, video games saved my life. But now, it's like video games have forgotten their past, and now it's costing them their future. You wonder why Sega left consoles? Because making video games turned into merely making money. We were getting colorless trite like Tomb Raider and the Army Men games just to make huge corporations a few bucks. And ultimately, who gets screwed? Everybody. Cousin Amy, Uncle Mark, Mrs. Firg down the street. Your boss. Brad Pitt. Even Bozo the freakin' Clown for all I know. In the meantime, we get what the corporations want, not what WE want, and in the meantime, censors like the PTC are taking what little good things we are given and usind them to wipe themselves. It's a monopoly, but not over an industry, but over the consumers. That's all I have to say about that. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>