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Final Fantasy XII CE price drop + Cosplayers make me want to die photo

Kotaku (the only other website on the internet who can claim to have derived their name from a Mary Shelley novella) had an article up today revealing to the world that the Electronics Boutique/Gamestop conglomerate would be dropping the price on the Collector's Edition of Final Fantasy XII just in time for the holidays. If you don't have FFXII already, you will be able to get the Fancy Sparkly Edition (now with 20% more homoeroticism!) for the same price as the regular Lame-o Edition (that gives you crabs), $49.99.

More important than that, they had a link to one of the most disturbing photo galleries you will ever see on God's green internet. Gamestop recently concluded a contest where people could dress up as various Final Fantasy characters, and, as you can probably guess, the lamest of the lame and the, er, fattiest of the fatties showed up in droves to strut far too much flesh in costumes not meant for reality. Sadly, they wound the gallery in a tight ball of Flash and bad juju that prevents me from ripping off their images, but hit that link that I provided above for copious amounts of photographs that you can use to frighten the elderly or traumatize young girls into bulimia


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DJTyrant's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 02:42
DJTyrant
The cosplays are not that bad, I have seen FAR FAR worse.

There are some good one's in there with the bad one's but none that are eye gouge worthy.
jimjo's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 02:53
jimjo
please tell me that one on our right isnt a ladyboy....
Aetsen's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 03:42
Aetsen
Not enough chicks dressed up as Squall making out with Chicks dressed up like Cloud.
Haole Boi X's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 04:47
Haole Boi X
That chick on the middle left is hot! :p
ShadowXP's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 05:10
ShadowXP
That makes me want to die.
Zero_'s Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 06:00
Zero_
Aww common, some of them are pretty damn good!
Corpse Explosion's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 06:14
Corpse Explosion
Shit, I love this website (and you too kotaku). You managed to generate a genuine lol moment from me there.
kevinski's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 07:57
kevinski
Yeah, most of those are pretty lame-ass, but I must give some of them credit for trying something reasonably original. Seeing Gogo (FFVI) done in cosplay fashion is rather impressive.
Rosseh's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 07:59
Rosseh
Balthier would kick there ass for making him look so uncool and like a midget.
BahamutZero's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 10:33
BahamutZero
I'd hit the viera
Lord_Satorious's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 14:22
Lord_Satorious
Well, think of the psychology behind cosplay. They're dressing up as someone else, someone more interesting, and with a better love life probably. These people [the cosplayers] are trying to escape from the mundane and insignificance of their ordinary lives to become scantily-clad princesses or androgynous heroes. Not that all cosplay is bad, some of it can be pretty good, I appreciate a well-made cosplay as much as the next guy. Sadly, we can't all be beautiful people, and it's the--as George Carlin put it--those with severe appearance deficits, that drag the overall quality of cosplay down.
deiga-the-semivaliant's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 17:09
deiga-the-semivaliant
First off, it's a submit your photo contest. And you guys should know as well as anybody how many cosplay pictures are floating around the internet. I'll bet my left nut that half of those pictures were sent by people who aren't even in them.

I mean, c'mon! Half of those pictures are of Japanese people! They shouldn't even know what GameStop is!

Ugh, I almost vomited a few times looking through that gallery. Who in their right mind would dress as Yuna with cankles that large?!!
brad drac's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 17:49
brad drac
Sounds like SOMEBODY's angry their entry was rejected...

I abhor looking at fat people in skimpy costumes as much as everyone else, but some of those costumes are pretty damn good. I wouldn't cosplay myself, but what's with the hateful revulsion? Did cosplayers kill your family and rape your dog or something?
Seifersythe's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 17:55
Seifersythe
"Ha ha Cosplay is teh funny, let's make teh blog post about it! Surely this is news!"

Really, have you seen bad cosplay? The majority of these are actually pretty decent and some are damn amazing.

The elitism of some gamers is amazing. Some act as if hte obsessive are a geek exclusive group. This isn't any more hardkore or obsessive then those people that paint there whole body and go to football games.
deiga-the-semivaliant's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 18:26
deiga-the-semivaliant
Ha ha, was that to me brad?

No, I didn't enter it. Mainly because I don't have the time, money, patience, or obsession.

But it still irks me.
brad drac's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/10/2006 19:51
brad drac
Well, actually it was directed at nex, but I guess it applies to you too. To be honest, the FFX-2 yuna on page 1 justified the whole thing for me.
LadyLucifer's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/20/2006 16:01
LadyLucifer
Wow.. obese girls love that Lulu lol. A good half of the contestants had the likeness of their subject but wow...some were very, very wrong.
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