Now I am a huge Final Fantasy 7 fan, thank god for my mum buying me the game for my birthday or I may have missed out on one of the greatest gaming experiences I've ever had. I loved that game, great characters, great story, great game play, Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core was the reason I got a PSP, and the reason I wanted Crisis Core was because of the original Final Fantasy 7. Let's just say, I'm not enjoying this game.


How the hell do I centre this image?! Anyways, I own Advent Children on UMD and DVD, soon Bluray as well. I also own the original Final Fantasy 7, a decorated piece of glass saying 'Ben's Final Fantasy 7' room, Crisis Core of course and a limited edition Crisis Core PSP.

Why do I dislike this game? Well first off let's talk about the combat, it's slow, boring, repetitive and requires almost no skill. I really don't know what they were trying to do here, I mean, I win most battles because of that stupid slot wheel thing. I think the combat just lacks variety over all, it's simpl: cast magic, cast magic, cast magic, cast magic, block and then maybe bash X if you run out of teh pointzorz.

I mean, I don't have much of a problem with the story, because it's not milking the franchise as much as say, Advent Children, because it's based on something that was touched upon in the original game, What I do have a problem with though is the introduction of a random character that has never been mentioned before 'Genesis' another girly faced man witch. I just felt like this character was introduced to beef up the plot, because he's certainly not important in the overall FF7 plot

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate this game, I'm just not a huge fan, and I think that's saying a lot coming from a Final Fantasy 7 fanboy.

This is just gonna be short and quick but. I was just wondering your opinions on Kotaku.
I used to think it was the bee's knees, but I'm slowly migrating over to DESTRUCTOID.
Reasons for this are as follows:

1.) Destructoid has more of a community.

2.) Recently I have read a good number of stories on DTOID before Kotaku.

3.) Kotaku do hardly any original content.

4.) Their site layout sucks.

5.)The green they use burns my eyes.

Yeah so, what are your opinions on the site? I like it more here because the users have more of an identity.

Also. Didn't really know what category to put this in so tell me if it's wrong.

So, for those of you that didn't see it plastered all across the internet, OPM (Offical PLaystation Magazine) UK gave Killzone 2 a mighty 9 out of 10. I have managed to quickly glance through the review and from what I can make out there were a few gripes.

One being the weapon system. You can only carry one primary weapon and one secondary weapon at a time. Which means that there is no way you could carry, say, a shotgun and a sniper rifle at the same time. You could only carry a sniper rifle and a pistol. It seems a bit stingy if you ask me. Another complaint was the final boss. They said it was a little anti climactic, but from what they described it sounded pretty good to me.

Anyways, I shall be picking the game up at launch. I mean it can't be worse than Resistance 2 (which i traded in the other day for Mirror's Edge). Which I have already completed. It's a fantastic game with a few flaw but well worth spending your money on. My personal gripes were with the way the navigation was handled. For example, the first time through a level you have no idea where the hell you are supposed to go apart from a hint in the general direction by pressing the Circle/B Button. So a lot of time you'll be stopping to scan around where you have to go next, which completey brakes the flow of the game. Another gripe I have is the gimped combat, now, the gun play is pretty good but it would have been nice to see some combos or something for melee attacks as the combat usually feels very... hack and slash, but without the combos.

Anyways. This is random but you guys got any tips for conquering procrastination? I really need to get my graphics work done and I can't bring myself to do it.

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Yes I'm going to keep posting center tags until it works! (That's me BTW)

So. A lot of people recommended I do an introductory post. And complained I talked about anime... I just figured since there was a category I would use it... but for some reason I felt like I was getting told to GTFO. But maybe that wasn't the case ^^;

Anyways. Here's my introduction. My Name's Ben and I'm an 18 year old teenager from southern England. I own a PS3, Wii, DS Lite and PSP. I actually only just picked up my PSP the other day actually. A pre-owned silver Crisis Core one. It's actually pretty sexy. I've got about... 6 games for it already including Crisis Core Lumines 2 and Tekken: Dark Resurrection. Those three games alone should tell you I'm a pretty varied gamer; I enjoy all sorts of games, I don't really have a preference, although I do lean slightly towards fighting games and shooters like Devil May Cry 4, Virtua Fighter 5 and Call of Duty 4.

Now I said I have a Wii. I actually haven't played it in freaking ages. I mean I would download some games but they're bloody overpriced. I mean, an N64 game for £8 when I can pay £3.50 for a PSone game? I mean come on Nintendo... I suppose i haven't bought a Wii game in a while... mainly because I look at the production values of a Wii game and a PS3 game which are the same price and the production values on a PS3 game are always better (well most of the time). It's like, why would you spend £3 on some small fries when you can get some large fries for the same price?

Anyways. Hope you enjoyed my first 'proper' post. I'm usually funnier than this but I'm tired so meh... I mean it is almost 2am over here...

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NOTE: HOW THE HELL DO I CENTRE PICTURES?

So my first blog...

Why not make it about Anime eh?
I only recently just got into it. I was recommended Azumanga Daoih from a long time online friend and a few forum members from the ONM forums. It's an amazing anime, it's just so carefree and without trauma, it's the perfect thing to wind down to after a hard day, it's bound to bring a smile to your face. I think my favourite character is Tomo. She's just so energetic and random. Although, I do find [ur=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagura]Kagura[/url] pretty hawt (for a 2D drawing).

I've recently started watching Haruhi Suzumiya and I'm very much enjoying it. I love the sci fi element of it. I was expecting it just to be an everyday highschool anime. Also Koizumi's english dub voice is teh sex.

So, if you feel like recommending me some good animes feel free to. I've been recommended school ruble and plan on getting round to watching that after Haruhi Suzumiya. I did try watching Bleach but couldn't really get into it.