Don't get smart with me, child. "Thou" is technically correct, but nobody says it anymore.
Wtf is an adaption.
I blame Jube. He must've been on /v/ too much recently or something.
That is probably the story about young Soichi and his distant family's pet cat. Not scary at all. He turns the thing into a fucking Pokemon, it's hilarious. Look for one where he's all grown up and running a (somehow) traveling haunted house inhabited by his family, where his son is the main attraction. It might be that he's never mentioned by name in the haunted house story, but it's definitely the same guy. Unless Junji Ito has a thing for making his Nightmare Fuel Station Attendants constantly chew on fastening nails.
Starring Plums as The Guy Who's Not Helping. AND THE CYCLE BEGINS ANEW.
This would never happen but it is awesome to think about. Can you imagine fighting Ozai? The kind of fury he would unleash? Trying to get in close while he's chucking wave after wave of flame at you... Leaping across pillars of rock to reach him as he launches giant fireballs... You could even have a button-mash reaction command where you and Aang work together to purify him. Korra's world might actually be a decent fit for the franchise, thematically speaking. It's just the right mix of fantasy and modern-age, kind of like Traverse Town was. Man, imagine what wonders Amon could work if he had the Heartless on his side. I bet he'd be a Clayton-style boss, where he calls a boss Heartless to defend him; only, he could probably handle himself a lot better than Clayton did when the chips were down.
Oh boy, this argument. *sigh.* First off, not a single reliable source confirms that Sora and only Sora was the chosen wielder of the Keyblade. It's funny how often people fail to translate to fiction the unreliability and the tendency to gloss over details characteristic of myths, legends, and rumors in non-fiction. In fact, the prophecies are clearly contradictory from the start! Triton mentions in his version that the Keyblade wielder "shatters peace and brings ruin," but this conflicts with the savior story everyone else holds to; the reason being that there is more than one Keyblade, more than one Keyblade wielder, and more than one direction for that power to take. Getting mad that there are so many Keyblade wielders now strikes me as not having paid attention to the first game. Second, no one has to master a Keyblade; it's never been a prerequisite for wielding one, even as far as BbS canon. The sole requirement is a strong heart. That's it. But the difference between holding a weapon and being proficient with it cannot be ignored, especially in the case of an unorthodox weapon like the Keyblade. Eraqus is not passing out Keyblade licenses, he's training Keyblade professionals. The mark of mastery is, at best, an artificial measure of skill, and I expected something like that to come along well before BbS was released. To address the original question: Is it taking itself too seriously? Hardly. Kingdom Hearts has drawn some hard lines it refuses to cross; there will never be a CoD-style recount of the Keyblade war, where people are beating each other bloody or violating their enemies' women to weaken their hearts or any of that gobbeldygook. Is it becoming more serious? Yes, somewhat. A series that runs long enough has trouble avoiding that without coming off as unseemly or lazy. Think of Pokémon for an example of this. If Kingdom Hearts is guilty of any crime, it's that of becoming too complex, or of adding on too many superfluous details. But even that is highly subjective; I, for one, welcome the development of dark characters like Xehanort and Riku and I wish Nomura would take that concept further, instead of consistently presenting the light as infallibly good and the dark as irreparably evil. Only briefly has he flirted with the idea, with things like Eraqus attempting to kill Ventus. What does bother me is the addition of new kinds of enemies over and over, most of whom have only enough in-universe justification to last a single game, and the fact that Xehanort has essentially been retconned into a master strategist whose dark tendrils are in every reach of the story, where he began as a mere blip on the radar. I also found the entire Χ-blade plot absurd. Those are hardly enough to keep me from enjoying the series overall, though, much less because it's taking itself too seriously.
Yeah, uh, WAT. But then I read the article and it made a lot of sense. Creating an immersive atmosphere from that perspective seems like something Miyamoto would want to try. And it could certainly be the case that he saw the work of Retro and found himself eager to deliver that sort of experience personally. I didn't play much of Prime, but one thing that really floored me was the environmental design. It's definitely made for first-person; it would seem so much more distant otherwise.
I've never played A Link to the Past, and I don't imagine any amount of sprucing up could fix the issue I had with Majora's Mask. So I have to lean in favor of that. Gives me an incentive to try it, and something to help flesh out my 3DS library when and if I acquire one.
Spoiler: Song Sample "Elon Tiellä" "Riisu" "Tuonen Viemää" Website (Finnish) • Wikipedia • Last.fm They've been called the Finnish Rammstein... by Rammstein themselves. That should tell you a lot about what you're going to hear. One of my favorite bands at the moment. Their lyrics are dark, though not so much in a brutish, violent way. Been a major inspiration in my writing lately, especially "Darmstadt" and "Elon Tiellä." This website appears to have translated many of their songs ("Darmstadt" being the one displayed there), but it doesn't seem to have an accessible home page. Instead, just enter in the url the album and song name you're looking for (The Wiki article has a discography), no spaces, no special characters, and see if it comes up. Works well enough for me.
Good luck getting anyone to settle on a game or games to play to decide it. I could beat anyone here at Dark Souls or Tenchu Z (time trial of course), but I would lose to a lobotomized monkey at any Battlefield or Need for Speed game. Best-case scenario is we divide it into sub-categories, but then it'll start to eat the awards list. I'm against it, but only in the capacity of official KH-V Awards. Sounds like a neat idea for a user-run contest or competition.
Beginning as a weak underdog is what a good hero's journey is all about! Besides, I think they'd at least beat the Princess Bride crew. Though Montoya would take out at least one of 'em with his little YOU KEEL MAI FADDER shtick.
Babe, he's from 4chan. He knows how to dig. Relax. :v
That's not actually what it's called. Soichi's just the owner of the haunted house, unless I got the name wrong.
>Jube gone for less than a day >LIVE THREAD LIIIIVE Relax, he knows we're reading. He'll pick it back up tonight, I'm sure.
Still not as scary as Soichi's haunted house-*brick'd*
Wherein you post weird things that you don't think anyone else does, and see if you're right or not. Please try not to post just to say "Hey I do that," otherwise we'll run out of content quickly. Leave some weirdness of your own! I'll start us off: I have such an insatiable love of mozzarella that I sometimes rip it out of the crust of cheese sticks/Pizza Hut stuffed-crust pizza and eat it bare. I even cook my mozza sticks 'til the cheese oozes out, since it becomes easier to remove when it cools. (And before you ask, just buying plain, crust-less mozza sticks would be silly because they're not cooked, and they'd turn to a big pile of mush if I put 'em in the oven. Not to say I don't eat them as well.)
...Wow. Everyone's read it already. I don't think a single person in this thread- WHOOPS GOT ONE. *ahem* As I was saying, first time I saw it I NOPE'd right the fuck out of there before I even finished the comic. I only saw the end through PewDiePie, bless his heart. At this point I actually have an MSN emote of the first scare on my other laptop, which I mainly use to creep the piss out of poor Kelly.
Why does this sound like an erotic parody written by PeterChimaera?
To their credit, the Avatar franchise hasn't had to fight literal gods yet. Perhaps they'll step it up then. Let's just hope nobody lets Amon get his hands on the Tesseract...
