Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Am I crazy or does the way Google search results appear look different, and horrible today? Also... Adblock Plus isn't perfect at catching ads on Youtube and that's new.

Anyone else having these issues?

Edit: I think I had a noscript rule blocking something google needed to load properly. Hrmph!

. The chrono cross remaster is getting panzar dragoon remake treatment the guy is not keeping it subtle anymore, https://mobile.twitter.com/Anseaume?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1464213585194852374%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgamerant.com%2Fchrono-cross-remake-developer-forever-entertainment%2F

Final Fantasy 14 Player Took 230 Million From A House-Buying Bot

And for those who want it in Video format!

FOUR DAYS

They did. And then they took the remastered trilogy down because they were caught illegally distributing music for which they didn't hold the rights lol

Rather than remove the music files from the game, they added flags that caused the in-game radios to skip songs they couldn't license. But because the music files were packaged within the games they were selling, they're technically still selling people property they weren't authorized to.

Oh heck yeah! @_@ I second this recommendation and would also like to thank Rooks for directing this hell of a gem to my attention as well!

It is an absolutely stellar game.

Aww, isn't that sweet? Everybody wins on Ragnarok! :D

More like... BESTok.

Speaking of old games, I'm sloooooooowly making my way through FFIII on the PSP. I'm going for a 100% chests and bestiary file, and I'm following a guide on GameFAQs (for the very similar Nintendo DS version of FFIII) that is regarded as the absolute best.

I hit a bit of a snag when the guide said I should be at 40% chests opened at a certain point when I was only at 39%. So, I spent hours going through old dungeons and checking my inventory for anything I could have possibly missed....

As I eventually found out, the PSP and Windows/iOS ports of the game removed a chest that was present in the original and DS ports of the game. The item it contains is minor and irrelevant, but the difference in the chest count throws off the percentage slightly. I went on a wild goose chase for nothing, all thanks to a chest that was removed for seemingly no reason.

Tl;dr: Completionism is a disease. Don't suffer like me.

Oof. I botted a house once.... It was my house that I accidentally let expire (despite playing consistently) and desperately wanted to get back. I couldn't stay awake all night clicking on it, so I downloaded a basic program to make it work. I keep a vast majority of my gil on retainers, so I guess if someone wanted to screw with me they wouldn't have done much damage....

I like that guide and I know exactly what you're talking about. That changed chest does throw it off. Oh, and that guide-writer really likes Refia. Understandable though.



To the "completionish is a disease. don't suffer like me" statement, this is my recent FFV Advance run and the reason I'm basically not playing through Final Fantasy V Pixel Remaster any time soon.



So many lost-forever locations in this game that I couldn't even go back and hunt down what I missed, even if I wanted to.

In other news, I played some FF14 tonight. All the chit-chat on this forum made me curious to give it a shot again. Got my character to level 5, figured out how to turn off other people's names (because F all of that clutter in towns), and set up my key configuration to mimic FF11's setup. I think 14 would have done better at launch/reborn if the controls were like 11s (or at least a "Legacy Controls From FFXI"-like setting option was there). I don't think I'll go back to it though. I just can't see myself devoting another lifetime to another MMO. It is really pretty on other people's YouTube videos of it, however.

Do you remember your server?

Hyperion on my free-to-play that I randomly use when I get the itch to play.

I just looked at my actual registered paid-for version of 14 and it says I made a character on Malboro server way back on Sep. 16, 2013. I literally bought the game, had a month of free play that came with the purchase, played with character creation screen and watched the multiple intros a few times over the course of a few days and never actually subbed.

Up next, however... it's time for me to go big on Final Fantasy VI for PC though. Low level game. 100% bestiary. All formations. All rare steals/drops (unless common steal/drop are better somehow, imo). I sense a lot of resetting in my future. Let's go!!!

The controls when I was giving XIV a shot are actually what prompted me to rejoin XI. I was having issues tabbing over to the targets I wanted and thought to myself "I remember this being a bit more intuitive in XI". But then I thought "Naw, I'm probably just remembering through rose-tinted glasses. Maybe I should play it again to prove to myself that XI is just a decrepit mess"

I resubscribed to XI and realized that its design just appealed more to me. It wasn't just nostalgia, it was a genuine appreciation for the experience. Still, I continued to endure XIV for the sake of having something to play with my friends. That is until they pushed me too far and made me genuinely hate it.

Oh, and one takeaway from Pixel Remasters is that the gallery is finally HD.

PSP:


Pixel Remaster:

This

Yay, somebody who knows what I'm talking about!


Indeed. I still get annoyed thinking of past FF titles that I didn't complete to my level of satisfaction. I killed so, so many enemies trying to get the super rare summons in FFIV before finally giving up in frustration. Also, Vivi's jump rope game in FFIX....


The desire to 100% is the main reason I barely even touched FFXII. I know I want to, but I'm not ready for that kind of commitment yet.

There's literal scripts to run it, as it's near-impossible for a human, lol...

Still wish 9 had a NG+, would make ***like that worthwhile.

Yup. Though my near-perfect save file is on a PS1 memory card. I bought a turbo controller just to beat Hippaul racing, but nothing was going to save me from Vivi's jump rope back in those days.