The horrors of gaming editorials
PostPosted:Sun Mar 11, 2001 2:38 am
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Since I'm done with all the games on my DC, and nothing interesting will be out for the PSX/PC for a good while, and to top it off my CD ROM isn't working, I decided to drop by the old RPGamer and see what their editorial section says. Now I'm not one of those "GIA good, RPGamer bad" guy, though I primarily go to GIA just because their news gets updated more often. Anyway, a quick reading reminded me why I stopped reading them so long ago.
You got a few editorials claiming why FFXYZ is the best in the series, and they offer objective opinions like "FF6's music sucked because I said so."
Then there's one on why Nintendo doesn't need Square because Nintendo doesn't need the money. Sure, Mr. Yamaguchi can send me all the money he doesn't need.
There's your typical PSO whiner about how other people are in God mode and him, Joe Honest Gamer is getting screwed because he's not Godlike like everyone else. Last time I checked PSO is not a competitive game... if you want God mode, go buy a Gameshark or something. I played Diablo 1 on BNet. Enough said. There are people called friends that you play with rather than joining random games and hope you get lucky.
There's some editorial about why Yuffie and Selphie are actually good characters because they can hit for a lot of damage. Um, I don't hate them, but that's certainly not why I don't hate them. Besides, Yuffie only hits for 1X9999 with Universe and her stats/ultimate weapon all sucks, and Selphie's limit breaks are unpredictable at best. It's nice to have a Full-Cure ready for a Hell's Judgment but it's nothing Curaga or Recover couldn't do.
There's one about how Square games have overpowered characters. You've a choice to not use these super techinques, and it's not like Knights of the Round and Lionhearts are being sold in a store. The author also talked about Gogo being too overpowered in FF6. Had a good laugh out of that one.
And then there's this contest section where, despite sometimes people actually have something meaningful to say, I see stuff like "This editorial is a grade E because the mighty editor says there are spelling mistakes, and who cares if he actually had a point rather than talking about why FFXYZ is the best!"
Editorials sure have gone a long way since when I first proposed to Vestal (no, I don't think I'm the only person who suggested that idea, but the editorial section did pop up relatively soon after I wrote to him about that) to have such a section back in the days of SquareNet. Then again, it's not like everything was good and cherry back then...</div>
You got a few editorials claiming why FFXYZ is the best in the series, and they offer objective opinions like "FF6's music sucked because I said so."
Then there's one on why Nintendo doesn't need Square because Nintendo doesn't need the money. Sure, Mr. Yamaguchi can send me all the money he doesn't need.
There's your typical PSO whiner about how other people are in God mode and him, Joe Honest Gamer is getting screwed because he's not Godlike like everyone else. Last time I checked PSO is not a competitive game... if you want God mode, go buy a Gameshark or something. I played Diablo 1 on BNet. Enough said. There are people called friends that you play with rather than joining random games and hope you get lucky.
There's some editorial about why Yuffie and Selphie are actually good characters because they can hit for a lot of damage. Um, I don't hate them, but that's certainly not why I don't hate them. Besides, Yuffie only hits for 1X9999 with Universe and her stats/ultimate weapon all sucks, and Selphie's limit breaks are unpredictable at best. It's nice to have a Full-Cure ready for a Hell's Judgment but it's nothing Curaga or Recover couldn't do.
There's one about how Square games have overpowered characters. You've a choice to not use these super techinques, and it's not like Knights of the Round and Lionhearts are being sold in a store. The author also talked about Gogo being too overpowered in FF6. Had a good laugh out of that one.
And then there's this contest section where, despite sometimes people actually have something meaningful to say, I see stuff like "This editorial is a grade E because the mighty editor says there are spelling mistakes, and who cares if he actually had a point rather than talking about why FFXYZ is the best!"
Editorials sure have gone a long way since when I first proposed to Vestal (no, I don't think I'm the only person who suggested that idea, but the editorial section did pop up relatively soon after I wrote to him about that) to have such a section back in the days of SquareNet. Then again, it's not like everything was good and cherry back then...</div>