First, if you don't have the money, tough ****. That's an incredibly weak excuse. Trying to justify piracy be saying "oh, I don't have the money" is like trying to justify shoplifting with the same argument. Manga is a luxury and not something you need to survive. Second, around this time last year, Viz, Funimation, Tokyopop, Del Rey and a few other publishers took legal action against several websites, including Mangafox, Onemanga and Manga Traders, threatening to sue if they didn't purge their copyrighted properties. One Manga took the route of voluntarily shutting down, Manga Traders has always permanently purged what they are asked to purge and I fully expect Mangafox to be sued into oblivion eventually considering their practice of purging until they think no one is looking. Its not that the copyright holders aren't taking legal action, its just that piracy is so rampant in the anime/manga industry that there's no way they can stop it.
Or you can just buy the official Viz translation instead of pirating.
I said "pop version." Basically, they're the "safe" alternative to symphonic metal by stripping out most of the metal elements. The result is easy commercial success, but not a very good band.
Evanescence is nothing more than a mediocre pop version of bands like Nightwish, Within Temptation and Epica.
Basically, its because Doctor Who is a series that can literally take place at any place at any time. The only limit to where the show can go is the end of the writers' imaginations. Which is kinda missing the point of the 9th Doctor. The 9th Doctor spent the majority of his season as a veteran of the Time War so of course he wasn't all sunshine and happiness. Because of this, he probably had the best character development out of any incarnation of The Doctor. He started as a cold man who tried to avoid opening up to anyone, but, partly thanks to, ugh, Rose, he was able to open up to a variety of people, companions or otherwise, including Rose's family and Captain Jack Harkness. This caused him to regenerate as a completely different person than he was after the Time War. Hell, he regenerated with a massive smile on his face. In other words, the 9th Doctor's run on the show was mostly about the character development than goofy adventures that are more common for the 10th and 11th Doctors. Honestly, I'm sure he would have had more comedy if Eccleston hadn't opted out of a second season. To this I have to give some credit to Russell T. Davies, despite how much I dislike him (especially for his bullshit order of "The 9th Doctor can only be seen traveling with Rose," thus making it very unlikely that we're going to see the 8th Doctor's regeneration in any form), as he managed to build a very good character arc for the 9th Doctor. Besides, to say that Eccleston's run was nothing but grim misery is pretty much wrong, for comedy coming straight from The Doctor, look at the episodes "The Unquiet Dead" (see his first interaction with Charles Dickenson), "Boom Town" (frankly, its not a very good episode, but it is still humorous due to the fact that it doesn't take itself seriously at all) and almost every interaction with Captain Jack he has.
More like it actually belonging to Microsoft as all assets of the Halo franchise are Microsoft's property.
Exactly what I was going to bring up. Nintendo isn't "abandoning" the Gamecube like some people accused them of doing for the Gameboy when the DSi had no GBA compatibility. This is simply a case of Nintendo not dwelling on old technology. The Gamecube hasn't been relevant since 2005, so there's no reason for Nintendo to continue to support it. Besides, at least they're not letting old systems be walking zombies like Sony insists on doing.
Well, its quite simple, actually, just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. Its a fantastic show, despite the occasional bad episode. Just The Doctor. Yes, and it was a very lame pun. As I happen to think Tennant is the most overrated Doctor, I have to say Christopher Eccleston. Yeah, he only last one season, but the packed more awesome into 13 episodes than Tennant and Smith have in their entire runs combined. Captain Jack Harkness. Yes, he counts. He appeared in multiple episodes and traveled in the TARDIS along side Rose (who I absolutely hate for becoming a complete Mary Sue after the first season) and Martha. Hell, he would have probably lasted longer if the Doctor didn't abandon him for whatever reason. About 82 Jelly Babies. Well, I did, what do you say about that? Bad Wolf was pretty good two-parter up until the ending, which I still say is a total ass pull on the part of Davies to have a convenient excuse to kill The Doctor thanks to Eccleston opting not to return for a second season. Its not. Bad Wolf was the story arc of the first season of the new series, you know, 6 years ago. Its especially unlikely that it will be revisited considering that Moffat is unlikely to bring in companions from Davies' run on the show for a few reason: First, many aspects of Davies' run are polarizing and I doubt Moffat wants to open up more flame wars than there already are, second, he made sure to burn as many bridges with the very first thing he wrote as head writer: The 10th Doctor's regeneration.
Again, the game played itself. The only input you had to do was switching between Paradigms. Literally, all you had to do was remind the game to use auto-battle and switch between Paradigms as needed. Again, you needed a grand total of three or four Paradigms through the whole game, an offensive Paradigm, a defensive Paradigm, a support Paradigm and a balanced Paradigm. Older games had you actually control your characters. You actually had to THINK about what you wanted to do instead of mash "auto-battle" until the end of the battle. Micro-managing is pointless as you're just going to choose the same attack that auto-battle does, which automatically chooses attacks that the enemy is weak against after you use Libra. This is what I mean by FFXIII playing itself. All you literally have to do is Libra, then switch between two to four Paradigms through the battle. Get low on health? Defensive Paradigm, then let the AI do the work. Need to buff/debuff? Support Paradigm, then let the AI do the work. Need to build up the Stagger meter? Balanced Paradigm, then let the AI do the work. Need an all out attack? Offensive Paradigm, then let the AI do the work. By making two thirds of the party purely AI controlled, they effectively stupid-proofed the game by removing almost any semblance of control. They tried to justify it by saying "it speeds up the game," when in reality, it doesn't speed up the game at all. Its still the ATB system, the very system used by the majority of the rest of the series. The difference being that it went from a turn-based system that kept you on your toes to a turn based system that did everything for you.
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I'm starting to think that FFvXIII is the new Duke Nukem Forever since its the vanity project of the person in charge (seriously, anyone else get the feeling that Nomura's got a serious ego problem with this game?) and we'd gone years between the early trailers and the first gameplay footage.
The difference being you could effectively micro-manage and you had to program the AI yourself. FFXIII's AI isn't programmable. At all. Like I said earlier, every battle is Libra, X, X, X, X, X, L1, X, X, X. No, it was not satisfactory. It PLAYED ITSELF.
So the opposite extreme of high speed, but no real control isn't a problem? I'm sorry, but I'd prefer not to basically watch a game play itself, which is what FFXIII did. Also, newsflash, FFXIII DID use a form of turn-based system. It used the EXACT SAME ATB system used by almost every main series game since FFIV. FFIV-IX used it, FFXII used it, Chrono Trigger used and Bahamut Lagoon used it, all in varying forms. The ATB system has always been a system designed to keep battles moving and give the illusion of real-time combat. FFXIII was just as real time as FFXII. The difference is that FFXIII more or less played itself.
This, 1000 times..... even if the combat was the only thing FFX-2 had going for it.
No, speed is not the problem. The problem is that you don't have any real control. There's no real difference between micro-managing and using auto battle. The only difference between them being that you hit X three extra times. Like I said, for all we know its the new Stagger meter. No, it really doesn't add variety. You're going to use three, at most, during any given battle. You're then going to rotate through those three in the order you need them. Effectively, you're spending the whole battle doing this: Libra, X, X, X, X, L1, X, X, X, X, X, L1, X, X, X, X, X with no real thought process as Libra makes the AI automatically use abilities that are strong against the target with the only strategy involving switching between an attack Paradigm, a balanced Paradigm and a defensive Paradigm. Of course, this isn't taking into consideration the pointlessness of the faux open ended Crystarium. Honestly, I was willing to give Square the benefit of the doubt since I like FFXIII's narrative, but seeing as they insist on using a horribly designed system like the Paradigm system, most of my hope for FFXIII-2 is gone.
For all we know, that's the new Stagger meter. It could also be fluff. Honestly, the Paradigm system is beyond repair if they don't slow it down and give you full control, which, based on the "auto-battle" option, they have not.
So, it doesn't show anything of the battle system, despite the fact that the interface is almost identical to the one in FFXIII? Seriously, the only difference between the XIII interface and the XIII-2 interface is that XIII-2 appears to not have the stagger meter, which, honestly, will probably remove more of what little interactivity XIII had.
You want to know why people hate them? Well, there's two reasons I can think of. First, its popular to hate them. Hipsters jump on bandwagons to pretend that they're unique, when, in reality, they only do it to try and impress people. Second, for a real reason for people to hate them: Linkin Park is an unoriginal piece of crap of a band. Even when they try to do something new, they fail. HARD. For example, "The Catalyst" is one of the worst songs I've ever heard. However, when they're not trying to do anything new, they're riding the bandwagon of what's popular. They started as a less metal Korn derivative. They were basically pop-nu-metal. And it worked. They got tons of success from it. Of course, as nu-metal was very much a fad, at least for the mainstream, they risked fading into obscurity once nu-metal stopped being mainstream. So they decided to switch to alternative rock once that got popular. And it STILL worked. And since emo and alt rock has stopped being as popular as it was a few years ago, they switched styles again. For the life of me, however, I cannot figure out what in the **** they were thinking this time.
Logically, Sony would be trying to sell PSPs to people that don't have them, which is why this doesn't make sense. They're removing reasons to buy a PSP, which, from a business perspective, is a downright stupid move.
