That's what I thought at first, but this is Sony we're talking about. They don't let old hardware die. They're still letting the PS2 be a walking zombie years after its stopped being relevant and arguably removed backwards compatibility to sell PS3 owners PS2s. Even if they let the PSP die when it should, it doesn't change that this is also jumping the gun. We don't know when the NGP will be out. For all we know, it could be this holiday season or it could be next year. It simply seems odd to me that Sony would release PSP games on the PS3 when the PSP is still alive. Hell, it seems odd to me that they wouldn't do this for the NGP to give incentive to buy it when it comes out.
You know, what Sony doesn't seem to get is that, to sell PSPs, you don't put PSP games on the PS3 or PS2. Looking at it from a business perspective, they're giving customers little incentive to buy a PSP when you can just buy a good portion of the games on PS2 or PS3.
It's pretty good. Not as good as Amon Amarth, mind you, but still pretty good.
I can say that the only thing that bugs me about the freebies is that Europeans can get Ratchet and Clank, but Americans can't. It doesn't help that the only other free game that I have any interest in (InFamous) is something I already have. Still, I'm not complaining about Sony giving us stuff for free and I'll probably grab Wipeout HD, Modnation Racers and Killzone Liberation.
I never played Soul Blade, Soul Calibur was quite good, Soul Calibur II was good, Soul Calibur III was Soul Calibur II Deluxe and Soul Calibur IV is what Soul Calibur III should have been. I'm cautiously optimistic about Soul Calibur V.
Honestly, this is quite pointless. It won't be accepted by anyone as they'll assume its purposely a less accurate translation in an attempt to be, and I stress how much I hate using this term, "politically correct." Christians will reject it as a "corruption" of the original texts. Sure they'd reject any new translation that isn't their preferred translation, but they'll reject this one more vehemently than they would any other, purely because it is assumed to be intentionally less accurate. Non-Christians will continue to not care and will most likely laugh at this. Me, I happen to not care as I'm not a Christian. I also don't know for sure if these are valid choices for translation, but I really don't care.
Hoo boy, where to start? While I'm not the biggest fan of it, there is nothing wrong with making a political statement in comics. DC does it from time to time and Marvel does it quite often. For example, a few months ago, as part of Batman, Inc., DC introduced Nightrunner, AKA, Le Batman of France. Nightrunner happens to be a Muslim, causing racists to get pissed. DC did this for two reasons. First, it made a good origin story due to the second reason. The second reason is that it made a positive and relevant anti-racism and anti-religious intolerance messages (see footnote.) Another example would be Marvel's Civil War, but the less said about that bit of soapboxing (that used Iron Man as an allegory for conservatives and Captain America as an allegory for liberals, even though Captain America is one of the most conservative superheroes in comics), the better. This, however, is a publicity stunt disguised as a political statement. Sure its less blatant than the last publicity stunt that DC pulled that resulted in any canon surrounding Wonder Woman being completely ****ed, but its still a blatant publicity stunt to try and bring in more readers. What's worse is that this is completely pointless. Superman is, symbolically, a citizen of the world and no single country. He doesn't have a US citizenship to renounce. Due to his symbolic worldwide citizenship, he has every right to go wherever he wants and help whoever he wants. This comic, by stating that he is an American, is contradicting a pretty major part of Superman's character for the sake of pretending its a political statement to pull a publicity stunt to bring in more readers. Both fortunately and unfortunately, its working. Comic stores all over the country are sold out of Action Comics #900 and there's a second printing on the way. I say this is fortune because its gotten people who might normally not read comics to pick the issue up and more people reading is a good thing. I say its also unfortunate because its just further proof that controversy sells. Most of the non-comic readers who picked up Action Comics #900 only picked it up because of the controversy and will most likely only stick around for another two or three issues before losing interest. This also means that DC is likely to pull more publicity stunts instead of trying to bring in more readers with compelling and interesting storytelling. Personally, I was going to pick up either Action Comics or Superman now that JMS's train wreck of a story that is "Grounded" is out of the way, but I think I'll continue to pass it up, much like I did with Wonder Woman when she got her publicity stunt in the form of a total retool. Besides, if this really was to get "The American Way" removed from his slogan, they'd have been much better off doing it quietly by just not using it anymore. *For those who don't know, there has been some problems in France with race and religion based violence. DC's use of these events for Nightrunner's origin story was basically them saying that violence based on race and religion is stupid. Now, this made the racists at the Council of Conservative Citizens go nuts. They got pissed because it wasn't a "true Frenchman" that was being given the title of Le Batman of France. Just about every comic news source didn't try to hide how stupid this was (and one in particular took a break from the news just to call the Council of Conservative Citizens the racists they are.)
Spoiler: An explanation I don't think The Silence aren't menacing until you realize the quieter aspects of their terror. Think about it, if The Silence have been controlling humanity through post hypnotic suggestions through our entire history, this means that they were responsible for an unimaginable amount of death and destruction. For just one chain of events, they confirmed, in the episode, that The Silence pushed humanity towards the creation of NASA so they could get their hands on the basis for the little girl's power armor, IE, a spacesuit. Now, let's look at the very basic chain of events that lead up to the creation of NASA: First, we have World War I. It is easy to imagine that a Silent caused the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. This is important because the treaties signed at the end of World War I were part of the direct causes of World War II. World War II and, by extension, the NAZI Holocaust, were likely caused by The Silence in an effort to get humanity to start the mid-war arms race that produced the nuclear bomb and the rocket, thus leading to the space program due to the fact that the technology that made it possibly to leave the Earth's atmosphere was developed during World War II. This means that The Silence likely caused millions of deaths and two massive wars in just 30 years, just to get their hands on a spacesuit. Also, both the person who runs the orphanage and Amy had holes in their memories induced by The Silence. Ever have a part of your memory missing that seems out of place for you to forget it? Also also, what's the say that The Silence haven't made you do something through their usual methods? Also also also, how many Silence have you killed? Anyway, I'm really loving the start of the new season. It seems like its going to be a much more story driven season than usual. Spoiler: Theories Also, some theories: First, I think The Doctor has set it up so that his death will be prevented. This should be obvious considering that, while Matt Smith is the youngest person to play The Doctor, he's not going to be on the show forever, not to mention that it is seriously doubtful that the BBC would have let Moffat kill the main character of one of their most popular shows in such an unceremonious way. Second, I think the little girl might either be The Doctor's granddaughter from all the way back in the 60s or the daughter of River Song. The implications that she's Amy's daughter is a red herring. Notice that River was also sick after encountering The Silence. Third, River Song killed The Doctor. However, it was not the 11th Doctor she killed. She possibly killed the 12th Doctor. To this, I point out her first appearance where she had a sonic screwdriver, but it was neither the 9/10th Doctor version that the 10th Doctor had, nor was it the 11th Doctor's claw screwdriver.
New movies tend to be released on Fridays here, but a couple days isn't a big deal. My problem is when something is released weeks or months before in one region than it is in another.
Except that it really doesn't make any sense to release it later in one region than another as it will lead to more piracy, good quality available or not. This isn't the 90s, where the internet wasn't viable for nearly as much as it is today. This is an era where downloading a movie is a google search away.
As someone who lives in the US, where the movie isn't out yet: Why in the ****!! is Marvel waiting until May 6 to release it here? There's no reason to wait since the movie's already finished, not to mention that it just causes more people to pirate the damn movie. Might seem like a random comparison, but let's look at the BBC's treatment of the American airing of Doctor Who. Up until the current season, they'd wait about a year or so before finally airing new episodes. This resulted in mass downloading since geeks are not a patient group of people as we've been horribly spoiled by the internet.
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Anonymous is a completely unorganized group that consists of 4Chan users, so its never Anonymous. Its likely a hacker that's a part of Anonymous as 4Chan is popular among black hats, but the group itself is not the cyber terrorist organization that they want you to think they are. If you use 4Chan, you're a part of Anonymous. The greatest extent of their organized activity consists of organizing protests against Scientology. Anyway, this PSN fiasco is proof of Sony's complete lack of care toward their customers. If they actually cared, they'd have issued a statement much sooner than a week after the attack.
It's a matter of people looking at the first two generations through the nostalgia goggles. Nevermind that Red, Blue and Yellow were buggy and unbalanced messes of games, those will always be considered "the best" due entirely to the fact that people played them when they were young. People will complain about the "regrettable" designs, which they claim the first two generations did not have. To Gen I purists, I point out Jinx in all her racist glory as well as Lickitung, Tangela and Mr. Mime. To the Gen II purists, I point out Shuckle and Delibird. Personally, I'm a fan of the Gen II Pokemon, but not because I'm a purist, but rather because I don't care for the other generations as much as Gen II, plus the nostalgia goggles doesn't exactly point me away from it (really, though, I say the best generations in terms of Pokemon design are, in this order, II, IV, I, V, III.) There's also the "its the same, so it sucks" complaint. Ok, except that they're not. Granted, the series is formulaic, but last I checked, every game had a different set of gym leaders with variations on type as well as variations on which Pokemon are available. You can't just play the exact same way in every game. However, to be fair, the formula was starting to get stale by Gen IV, which was fixed when Gen V came and the storyline actually became a major part of the game. In terms of the battle system, I've seen people clamor for a real time system, which would be impossible to implement. I will agree that the battle system is pretty stale, but it would be impossible to implement 649 different movesets for a real time system. Moving away from the games, let's look at the anime. I always hear how it used to be good, but sucks now, how it stopped being good when Misty was written off and how it should just end because its gotten stale and more general complaints about how Gens I and II were the best. And, again, I have to say that this is entirely the nostalgia filter at work. In fact, the anime has been consistent in quality since day 1 in that its never been all that good. Its a kid's show made to sell the games, cards, toys, etc. In fact, its completely average in terms of merchandise vehicles. It has been this way since day 1. It has always been about selling things to kids, not to entertain teenagers or adults. In other words, no, the franchise is not losing quality, but rather, the fans are growing up.
I'm only really familiar with their older material and, frankly, its not that good. Its just generic metalcore that barely stands on its own. Better than garbage like Underoath or Bullet for My Valentine, though.
Because it was originally an SNES game, there was no indication in the Kotaku article that it would be a PS1 Classic. Again, they could have simply released it as a standard PSN game. Again, the only thing the Kotaku article pointed out was that it had the PS1 version's enhancements, not that it would be released as a PS1 Classic.
And FFVI isn't a PS1 game. Its an SNES game. The only thing they say about it is that it has the PS1 version's enhancements. They don't say whether or not it'll be a PS1 Classic. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not going to rule out the possibility, but until there's definitive proof, we can't say for sure that it'll be a PS1 Classic or just a regular PSN game.
There's no indication in the article that it'll be a PS1 Classic, just that it has the PS1 version's enhancements, just like how the DS version of Chrono Trigger is. That said, I already have the GBA version, so I have no reason to waste my money on this version. EDIT: Also, FFVI is NOT the "Most Beloved Final Fantasy," it just has the most vocal fanboys. FFVII is generally the more popular game..... Even if FFVI is still a better game.
Alright, I'm going to be blunt. You have no idea what you're talking about.
