The Shrine

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:33 pm**

And you can't have it.

I haven't even turned it on, though, so nothing really to report.

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:12 pm**

Just watched the keep-the-PS2-on-but-don't-press-start demo. I actually had tears in my eyes.

Then I turned it off. I'm going to savor for a few hours the fact that I have this entire game ahead of me.

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:06 pm**

None of the freaking stores in my area got in today! No EBs, no Gamestops, no Best Buys! Tomorrow I suppose!

I will be with you tomorrow, Mental.

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:20 pm**

Be warned - the opening movie is so good that you may explode from happiness if you're not prepared.

I actually turned it off halfway through the opening movie because my heart had reached the breaking point of goodness, and I knew I would be unable to appreciate the rest of it properly without a breather. That was about forty-five seconds ago.

I'm not going to spoil anything, but Oh My Freaking Goodness soihoaudjnlkhjiezroflmargrbostendrooooooool...

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:43 pm**

Mental wrote:Oh My Freaking Goodness soihoaudjnlkhjiezroflmargrbostendrooooooool...

I thought you said you weren't going to spoil anything!

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:45 pm**

I'm still waiting for the raging torrent of "happy" neurotransmitters in my head from watching the first half of the opening to subside before I start it up again.

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:24 am**

Mental wrote:
I'm not going to spoil anything, but Oh My Freaking Goodness soihoaudmickeydiesandsorabecomeskingoftheworldjnlkhjiezroflmargrbostendrooooooool...

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:41 am**

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20060329.jpg

Haha...Mental...you're Lilah.

Ah, heck, who am I kidding? I'm Lilah, too.

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:08 am**

I'll get it when I can get a used copy of it heh.

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:09 am**

And I'm Ethan, who would rather be playing DS (or DS Lite, mmm). I just finished KH1 last week, and I need some time to wash the taste of that game out of my mouth before I even try *renting* KHII.

Although I've heard there's no godawful platforming in this one, so that's something to look forward to.

And it seems that you'll have to do something besides hold down the fire button to get through the Gummi Ship sections - seriously, that was all I did for every trip except the last one - so there's another bonus there too. I've heard that the new Gummi Ship sections are both a) not pointless and b) like Panzer Dragoon Orta, which is good, but they will end up being nowhere near as awesome as Orta, which is not so good.

(Note to self: Watch your back from now on, since Mental is now going to fly across the country and kill you.

Oh wait, he'll be too busy playing KHII. S'all good.

)

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:01 pm**

Just got back from my lunch break with one. CC hadnt even had time to put stickers on it and it has that super fresh new game smell... ahhhh, now i get to stare at it all day and dream of playing tonight.

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:19 pm**

I picked mine up about 30 minutes ago from Best Buy. I know what you mean about staring at it, Flip.

I am taking my 19 inch TV over to my friends house so we can both play the game at the same time instead of taking turns. haha

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:35 pm**

Lox wrote:I picked mine up about 30 minutes ago from Best Buy. I know what you mean about staring at it, Flip.

I am taking my 19 inch TV over to my friends house so we can both play the game at the same time instead of taking turns. haha

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:50 pm**

I'm 11 hours in and all I can say is wow...holy fucking shit. I never expected the part where you play as Roxas to end the way it did.....just...the whole game...wow.

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:01 pm**

Agent 57 wrote:And I'm Ethan, who would rather be playing DS (or DS Lite, mmm). I just finished KH1 last week, and I need some time to wash the taste of that game out of my mouth before I even try *renting* KHII.

Although I've heard there's no godawful platforming in this one, so that's something to look forward to.

And it seems that you'll have to do something besides hold down the fire button to get through the Gummi Ship sections - seriously, that was all I did for every trip except the last one - so there's another bonus there too. I've heard that the new Gummi Ship sections are both a) not pointless and b) like Panzer Dragoon Orta, which is good, but they will end up being nowhere near as awesome as Orta, which is not so good.

(Note to self: Watch your back from now on, since Mental is now going to fly across the country and kill you.

Oh wait, he'll be too busy playing KHII. S'all good. )

Sez you. Now, I'm going to try to kill you from here with the power of my mind, and if you would just be so kind as to move towards the light...

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:07 pm**

M'k'n'zy wrote:I'm 11 hours in and all I can say is wow...holy fucking shit. I never expected the part where you play as Roxas to end the way it did.....just...the whole game...wow.

Is it that difficult just to say you are 11 hours in and it is great without adding something specific?

Was it a spoiler, no, but it is annoying to know that something AMAZING will happen 11 hours in at the end of Roxas part and that Roxas is a playable character/story arc when i didnt know that?

FUCKING YES!

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:59 pm**

Sorry i cursed at you mac, i feel bad, but i'm the kind of guy who even hates it when friends tell me, "There is a twist at the end of the movie." or, "You'll love what happens in the beginning." etc. I like no anticipation at all... CANT WAIT TO PLAY!!!

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:04 pm**

I'm not too sold on the whole anagram X guys being a good idea. To me it sounds like something from Chrono Cross where they thought it's a great idea to tear apart everything you may have liked about the previous game. That said I do have confidence in the game engine so I'll be picking it up after I'm done with Grandia 3.

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:48 pm**

close to 20 hours in, still awesome.

Ok that time Mental? ^_^

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:48 pm**

BTW just as a note, by the time I hit 11 hours about 15-20 amazing things had happened already, so just have fun ^_^

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:09 am**

M'k'n'zy wrote:close to 20 hours in, still awesome.

Ok that time Mental? ^_^

That was Flip, not me. I did find the spoiler mildly annoying, but I realize that coming into contact with any public forum in between purchasing and finishing a game this wildly popular carries spoiler risks every time...I pretty much thought you were within quite acceptable spoilerish limits.

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:34 am**

*drool*

I am about 3 hours in and this game is so awesome.

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:01 am**

Mental wrote:
M'k'n'zy wrote:close to 20 hours in, still awesome.

Ok that time Mental? ^_^
That was Flip, not me. I did find the spoiler mildly annoying, but I realize that coming into contact with any public forum in between purchasing and finishing a game this wildly popular carries spoiler risks every time...I pretty much thought you were within quite acceptable spoilerish limits.

Sorry I guess I wasnt paying close enough attention lol. My bad

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:05 am**

I refuse to read this thread out of fear of spoilers, that being said I hope you all are enjoying the game as much as I am ;p

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:05 am**

Lox wrote:*drool*

I am about 3 hours in and this game is so awesome.

Thats about where i stopped last night, too. I really like it. nuff said.

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:15 am**

Eric wrote:I refuse to read this thread out of fear of spoilers, that being said I hope you all are enjoying the game as much as I am ;p

Oh yeah.

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:21 am**

Penny Arcade's getting in on the fun...I was warmly amused by this one.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic

(Note to all: There are no spoilers in the comic or Tycho's post, unless you count completely, utterly fabricated ones.)

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:06 pm**

Just finished the game. All I will say is wow.

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:08 pm**

You guys are making me crazy. I think Im gonna buy the game with my NCAA pool money

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:20 pm**

M'k'n'zy wrote:Just finished the game. All I will say is wow.

What the heck is wrong with you? I only last night got to the part where the game actually "starts"...

Sera: It's worth it.

PostPosted:**Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:08 am**

Oddly, playing tonight I was starting to wish for *less* gameplay. It seems like there's a new mechanic every time you turn left or right...

PostPosted:**Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:50 am**

I'm going to go on the semi-acceptable spoilers-risk and say something here...and that something is that they did something I could not have dreamed possible.

They made Mickey Mouse into a ****ing badass. I'm not saying anything else, but...wow. Just wow.

PostPosted:**Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:49 pm**

Mental wrote:
M'k'n'zy wrote:Just finished the game. All I will say is wow.
What the heck is wrong with you? I only last night got to the part where the game actually "starts"...

Sera: It's worth it.

What can I say, I just couldnt put the game down lol ^_^ Of course, the fact that it took me slightly less than 30 hours to play though the story was kinda unexpected. For those who consider gametime a spolier, I'm sorry.

PostPosted:**Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:23 pm**

So far, I agree with Famitsu more or less - they gave it 39/40. I'd say so far it's been the tiniest few things short of perfect. If anything, the gameplay is the tiniest bit too "busy", but maybe that changes later...the Gummi stuff still feels tacked-on plotwise, but it's so much fun I barely care. It is still rocking my fucking world.

I gotta get a better TV, though. I played it on my mom's big-screen with awesome picture tube and the game nearly took me to another fucking dimension...

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:27 am**

I dont like the fact that is doesnt have a 16:9 video option. Radiata Stories by Sqeenix that i bought earlier this year did, so i thought it was a trend they were going to continue...

(Shadows of the Colossus had widescreen, too, KH2 fucked up)

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:31 am**

Flip wrote:I dont like the fact that is doesnt have a 16:9 video option. Radiata Stories by Sqeenix that i bought earlier this year did, so i thought it was a trend they were going to continue...

(Shadows of the Colossus had widescreen, too, KH2 fucked up)

I don't have a TV that can handle that so I'm ok with it.

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:14 pm**

Agent 57 wrote:I've heard that the new Gummi Ship sections are both a) not pointless and b) like Panzer Dragoon Orta, which is good, but they will end up being nowhere near as awesome as Orta, which is not so good.

For what it's worth, I'm lagging extremely much on actually playing the game because of my tendencies to play the Gummi sections over and over and over again. It might not be Panzer Dragoon Orta - then again, I never played Orta, so it might be - but it's quite good. "RPG Starfox on acid" is how I kept thinking of it the first few times I played - it's also very, very hard if you're playing on Proud Mode (KHII's equivalent of Hard).

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:27 am**

Yeah, I'm liking the new Gummi Ship modes. It's challenging enough to try to get A's and there are goals to achieve so I don't mind replaying the levels with my upgraded ships. Plus, the ship building mode is much more intuitive, imo.

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:51 am**

I'm trying to keep this thread free of spoilers, so I won't say anything, but I have found a strategy for Gummi stuff that's ridiculously effective...I suppose I could wait until more people have finished it before starting the "spoilered" thread, though.

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:00 am**

I finished it a couple days ago. spectacular eniding and that boss battle......

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:24 am**

I picked it up yesterday. Having a good time so far, but Im still in the intro part of the game.

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:30 pm**

Chris Hansbrough wrote:I finished it a couple days ago. spectacular eniding and that boss battle......

Oh yeah. Final boss = much death. You will die at least once I can almost guarentee it.

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:44 am**

The more I play the Gummi Ship sections, the more I become addicted to playing them again.

I have spent maybe the last 3 hours out of 4 in the game building my awesome Gummi Ship and blasting crap.

PostPosted:**Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:13 pm**

Kingdom Hearts 2 is the best space shooter I've ever played. Oh yeah, the other part of the game...fuck that! Get me back on my Gummi Ship!

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:38 am**

AAAAAAAH SPOILERRIFIC!!!!!

<font color=white>Use nothing but Gravity cannons, and an optional laser or two (according to preference). Put as many power-enhancing items on as possible, and if you can afford the speed hit, multiple cockpits. Later on, use Teeny ships with more Gravity weapons in a front-formation. With Graviga cannons, the destruction wreaked by your ship is beyond ludicrous...

I have S-Ranks on almost every Mission 1 and 2 course, working on the 3's...</font>

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:50 am**

Spoiler based off of Nev's spoiler (highlight it):

What do the multiple cockpits do?
I know what you mean about the gravity cannons. My ship is a beast right now. haha

End Spoiler Question

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:13 am**

Lox wrote:Spoiler based off of Nev's spoiler (highlight it):

What do the multiple cockpits do?
I know what you mean about the gravity cannons. My ship is a beast right now. haha

End Spoiler Question

More cockpits = huge speed hit, and correspondingly huge power increase (i.e., your shots are more powerful). I've had three cockpits on a single ship, and usually it can barely move when you get that far, but two is not out of the question for a well-designed ship.

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:54 pm**

Why don't you just start a spoiler thread? Changing font color isn't reliable.

PostPosted:**Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:34 pm**

Kupek wrote:Why don't you just start a spoiler thread? Changing font color isn't reliable.

Why don't you just shut the heck up?

Someone else is free to start one. I only had 1 question (and it wasn't realllllllly a spoiler, I just wanted to be careful) and it has been answered.

The Shrine

Kingdom Hearts II is mine!

Kingdom Hearts II is mine!