The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>So I finally bought a PS2 this week. They were next to impossible to find in L.A. when I looked, but I found a package deal thing going on at a specialty toy store. Came with Jak II and Gran Turismo 3, I had to buy a game at full price so I got MGS 3, and then I got FFX and Soul Calibur II.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?d ... -05">Penny Arcade - Something Borrowed</a>

The first major thing that I'm concerned about is the post that I'm linking to, because I feel like it may have spoiled FFX for me, and I may be reduced to a broken shell if that has happened. Is this Penny Arcade strip a spoiler?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Gran Turismo 3 is wonderful, I had no idea a driving game could be this much fun. Best thing is I'm not really addicted to it like some other games, so when I play it's just for a half hour or hour at a time, and it's so relaxing.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I haven't played MGS3 very much yet. Penny Arcade didn't like it at all. I started skipping Codec conversations before the game even started so that may be a bad sign, but we'll see. The grass is f***ing amazing though.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Why didn't anyone tell me how much Soul Caliber II rocks? I have a mission now: I must become good enough with Ivy to perfom Summon Suffering and Calamity Symphony on cue.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Finally, I haven't really played Jak II, maybe it'll be useful if I'm bored someday. And FFX is the greatest game for any system ever. I hope to God it hasn't been spoiled for me by Penny Arcade. And if anyone on this board spoils any of it for me know that you will have ruined a poor man's soul.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Also, Sine, are you ever going to move to a single-threaded topic system? This one is getting too confusing for me...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Soul Calibur 2 is The One Fighting Game to Rule Them All</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Heh. Dude, you gotta play an FF *when* it comes out or else, as an avid denizen of the big triple-double-ya, you're doomed to spoilers. My advice? Cancel your Internet subscription until you finish the game, and don't wait a year to play the next FF.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>So is it a spoiler? Please tell me! Just say "yes" if it is. No other information.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Sorry, but it's definately a 'Yes'</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>*Sob*</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>You can collapse the thread by clicking on the little (6/11) marker.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>hahaha poor Mental, luckily I had finished FFX before that came out</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, after about a couple years, spoilers are fair game. Fortunately, if you're going for the budget gaming, you can still buy the game at six months or so.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>The "semi-threaded" type format? Yeah, I think I'm going to switch boards here soon. I'm just curious how favorable the change would be.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>The spoiler probably covers a lot, but not everything.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Soul Calibur 2 is a great game, but it is more like an expansion to the original game than a brand new thing. They weakened some characters, most notable of these was Cervantes who I will agree was overpowered in the first one. I liked the music, story, and mission mode in Soul Calibur more than Soul Calibur 2. The best new thing in Soul Calibur 2 was the addition of Link, he's not the best character (Raphael is my best to use now) but he is the one I find the most fun to play because of the flashy looking attacks.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Just start binging on grain alcohol until your memory is cleared</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I wouldn't worry too much about it, the plot is fairly strait forward and predictable, if you know something ahead of time, it won't really make a difference in your enjoyment of the game.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>With the exception of Soul Calibur not having Talim, I thought Soul Calibur 1 was better</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>To be honest, that particular spoiler is more of a footnote than anything else.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It's not a big deal because Tidus isn't important to the story anyway (it's done on purpose). The main character is supposed to be Yuna, you're just there for the ride</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Exactly. For all of Tidus's talk about how it's "his story", it really isn't.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>It's not confusing if you maintain one topic per thread.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Not very, I imagine. This is just how we talk to each other, and chaning board formats will change that.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I concur. I actually find this set up much better</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's kinda impossible, isn't it? I mean, it's not like we mean to do 7 topics per thread, it's just the way the conversations go</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I still prefer this script to any other I've used. Plese don't change to another.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, after looking at FFX2, I guess Tidus's the only person who had enough senses left to tell the story of the adventure (Y/R went crazy, others just retired)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>Is it one of the new cool thin ones?</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>My friend bought a new, thin one from the EB next to where he works.

They were selling them in a bundle for $200 with the PS2, a controller, a memory card, and a game and maybe some other stuff.

He traded in his old PS2 and 2 PS2 games for $100 store credit.

He then took all of the extra stuff to a Walmart and returned it for store credit there.

He basically broke even and got the game as a Christmas present for his brother-in-law. :)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>When i was younger i would return things on sale at one store to Toys R Us for a higher store credit. Only at Toys, they give you Geoffrey Dollars (paper monopoly type money), so if i got something like a $50 Geoffrey dollar i would buy a $1 pack of gum or something and the idiots would give you the $49 in cash instead of more Geofrey Dollars.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I was referring to what he did in this thread.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I actually think this sort of board works better for a more intimate userbase. I would like to see some bubbling action though.</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Agreed. I love this board set up. It's the best I've ever used.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Let's not do FFX-2 spoilers in post topics, veiled or no.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>I prefer to pretend X2 never happened, myself.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Amen to that.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>This is a good one. Plus we're all accustomed to it, we can't change.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I like to think Yuna/Rikku just went crazy as opposed to actually think about what happened in X2.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I haven't played it yet, I'm thinking of playing it after I'm done the main game.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Spare yourself the girly annoyance, Payne is the only cool one.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Really? From what I gathered, Rikku seems to be the most interesting.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Sub, annoying for interesting and you'd be closer.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Plus, Flip and I are accountants, our entire livelihood is based on as little change as possible</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Rikku was interesting and cheerful in FFX. In FFX2 she's just hyper</div>