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jecca_mehlota) wrote2008-11-21 11:17 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2008-11-21 11:17 pm
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But did you see the moonwalking bear?
Supernatural! ... !!!!! AND ALSO ♥ ♥ ♥ But please stop with the (I suppose this is potentially spoilerish? Those scenes you keep doing involving people without shirts, et cetera) because they are boring. (YES I AM A FREAK YOU ALL KNOW THIS.) <- NO RELEVANCE TO THE REST OF THIS ENTRY I JUST WANTED TO GET THAT OUT THERE. ... But, seriously, January? I hate you. I'm not even going to be home that week. Jerks.
I am not level 40 yet, but I did have free time this afternoon. And tomorrow I have class all day. Uuugh. Also it's still snowing. Also, I use the word "also" THIRTEEN TIMES in this entry, which is at least twelve times too many (but that's probably less than the number of times I compare something to how it's done in Final Fantasy XI). Apologies.
Anyway, Final Fantasy XII.
Okay, my save file tells me I’m at the Nam-Yensa Sandsea, Sandscale Bank. … Fourteen hours? That cannot possibly be—right, right, the clock runs when it’s paused, doesn’t it? Never mind, then.
OK I AM LOOKING FOR A TORTOISE? The Moogle seems to think so. Man. Stupid hard drive. I am useless.
Vossler. Vooossler. Who is he and why is he here? Oh man, I don’t remember this guy at all. WAIT RIGHT. Ship. Okay, okay, yes, I think I may remember you, sir.
BLUE DOTTED ZONE LINES. WHY.
So, I just zoned back into the area I’d last escaped from by accident, but let’s claim it was because I wanted to brush up on the combat system in this game, because I just completely fumbled my way through a battle. Why isn’t the battle menu popping up?? Oh right. ‘Cause I have to actually bring it up myself. Wrong game! WHERE IS AUTOLOCK WHY ISN’T IT WORKING. Oh right. That is Final Fantasy XI, as well. I AM GOING TO DIE. No, that’s also Final Fantasy XI.
Also, self: Penelo is not doing anything possibly because you have not turned Gambits on for her. Okay. GOOD JOB. Wait, why is Penelo even in my party? I was using Basch. I bet he died while I was running from elementals or something and I didn’t want to bother with a phoenix down.
(For the curious, my party consists of Balthier, Fran, and Basch, and of course our guest, Vossler. I will probably regret not leveling up Vaan at some point, but…)
OH HERE IS A TORTOISE!
… You know what is really confusing? This doesn’t look at all like where I remember being, which means my timeline of where I was is completely wrong. I know I was killed by tumbleweed turkeys, but now I do not know where I was when this happened.
Anyway, it’s kinda cool and kinda lame that I am just typing along while my party kills things and heals each other and all that fun stuff. I do find myself sorely missing Auto Run, though. I keep trying to figure out how to either turn that on or zoom the camera back out. (By turning the camera so it’s in the sky, I zoom out, but I like keeping it closer to the ground than that.) Thank goodness I play XI with a keyboard, or I worry I’d have gone completely mad already. No wonder my brother didn’t play much of this game. (He does use a PS2 controller for FFXI.)
NOW I BACKTRACK. Or, maybe not. The cutscene with the Moogle and the Urutan-Yensa thing leads me to conclude this was largely a waste of time. SO I GO BACK FROM MY BACKTRACKING. OKAY.
They’ve got weird legs, those Urutan-Yensa things.
DUST. Aww, poor thing. Now I feel bad. And the Moogle is sad, too, which should be illegal. But I get ANTI-GARUDA BERRYTHINGS.
… ?! MINE?! I don’t know what just happened, but something just blew up and hurt me a lot. By that I mean, Shut up, Balthier, I don’t care that you’ve been killed, I can’t spare the phoenix down. I only have six! Six is not a lot! waitno just found one. Handy. You may live again. AT LEAST WE HAVE PHOENIX DOWN IN THIS GAME OKAY. STOP WHINING, YOU'RE NOT DEAD ANYMORE, ARE YOU?
I like how dead people just vanish. MY THEORY: we make the people not in the party carry them. (They hate it.)
Lalala, getting hopelessly lost.
I keep looking for the minimap in the lower left and it is in the upper right and I am going MAD. (It's not like it's actually a minimap in XI, just a compass that shows where the monsters and NPCs and other people and stuff are. STILL. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LOCATION.)
Also, haha, I keep looking in the lower right to see what time it is.
MAN ONE OF THESE DAYS. One of these days I will remember that moving while waiting for a spell to cast will not stop the spell from being cast. And then I will get places a lot faster.
… See, ‘cause, in XI, moving interrupts your spell and you don’t cast it, so… oh my god I swear I'm going to shut up with the XI comparisons at some point. I promise.
Ah, I stepped on another one. It was an explosive trap. This time we nearly killed Vossler, but fortunately he is alive.
HE IS TOO GOOD TO HEAL HIMSELF, THOUGH.
“NO GUYS IT’S OKAY. I’LL JUST STAND HERE BLEEDING. STOP THAT. I SAID IT WAS TOTALLY COOL. DON’T CURE ME DO YOU SEE ME EVER CURING YOU??”
Now he’s angry. Angry with the rage only brought on by lack of blood loss!
Aaugh, noooo, more metal tower things.
Tumbleweed turkeys! \o/ Or Axebeaks, apparently. I like my name for them better. It is far more appropriate, for one.
BLUE GLOWY THING. IS IT AN ELEMENTAL?
NO IT IS A BOMB. Scary. Dx
Also: Hooray! Another ??? place! (The last one I went into - I do remember this part, ha - nearly killed me. ALSO IN XI ??? ARE POINTS YOU CAN CLICK ON AND THEY USUALLY SPAWN SOMETHING THAT CAN KILL YOU. ??? POINTS AND I HAVE A LONG, BLOODY HISTORY. LOOK AT ME NOT MAKE XI COMPARISONS. This one is full of musical toad-looking things. They are Bards oh yes. totally not with the comparisons, apparently. AUGH SLIME FELL ON MY HEAD. The equivalent of random battle, haha. Also Slimes are nasty and hurt. Possibly they are higher level than I am? I DO NOT KNOW. THIS CAVE IS GOING TO MURDER ME. I AM LEAVING. In a minute. NO HP.
EVERYONE REMAINING. RUN IN CIRCLES UNTIL YOUR MP IS BACK~
All nonparty members: ok, you know, I’ll take carrying the dead weight. At least we do not have to run around and look like idiots.
You know what, shut up, all of you. JUST FOR THAT, I’m tossingone two of you in to replace the dead guys. But we’re still leaving. (Also the place is a dead end, so, uh. No point in staying!)
No, Basch. We’re leaving. STOP FIGHTING.
…Oh. Right. Hafta use Flee.
Meanwhile, Ashe is wondering what she did to deserve having to carry three dead people. Sorry, Ashe. You were the highest level of them, so you get to sit out while Vaan and Penelo play catch up.
Hello, HP-Save-Tele Crystal. (oh, man, I went waaaay too far back.) MAKE THEM LIIIIIVE. Thank you.
Yay! Buying things! RAISE. I HAS. Now we all don’t have to be dead for ever. NOW WE CAN CAST THE SPELLS THAT MAKE THE PEOPLE STAND UP!
Also now we are broke.
And since the detour to the unexplored only leads to death (and was a complete dead end, besides), let’s, uh. Get back on track.
… oh, there is the map button! I knew there was one, I just could not remember how to get to it… Come on, like anyone uses Select for anything, ever.
ANOTHER EXPLOSIVE TRAP. Darn them. Two dead people! Seriously, is there a way to see those that I just have not noticed, or have forgotten about, or something?
DAMNIT. At least Balthier avoided the Silence one and can cast Vox on the others. VOSSLER IS OF COURSE DEAD SO HE IS NOT SILENCED, EITHER, BUT DOES ME NO GOOD. WHAT WITH BEING DEAD.
Okay, seriously, no one else step on anything. I MEAN IT.
Also I am done here. Hello, people on chocobos! Ooh, shiny new bow. But no save crystal. Woe. *jogs around until everyone has full MP*
… And then I am given the option to save when I zone. Bah!
Scene!
Dear lord, we are in the middle of nowhere. I mean. Obviously. BUT LIKE. THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.
TEMPLE THING.
Another scene.
BIRD THING. FIGHT! EEK!
Wait is this Garuda? I HAVE BERRIES YOU DISLIKE. STAY BACK.
OR DON’T.
FINE, THEN. EAT THESE. STUPID BIRD I HOPE THEY GIVE YOU A STOMACH ACHE.
Blasted aerial bosses needing ranged weapons. STUPID BASCH NOT HAVING RANGED WEAPONS UNLOCKED.
Good thing I can fix that midbattle, ohohoho~
“The ancient device stirs.”
Okay but what-
Ooh, talking. History lesson! Raithwall guy. Shards. THE SUBTITLES NOT MATCHING THE ACTUAL DIALOGUE ANNOYS ME SO MUCH.
Balthier, did you just indirectly ask, ‘how hard can it be?’ Because if you did, I’m afraid I have to leave you out here for everyone’s safety. I will never not react to that with anything other than OH GOD NO. And then I'd have to leave Fran out here, too, and then I'd be out most of my party.
The chocobo merchant dude is here again. But I can’t afford anythiiiing. ...But, right. I can sell stuff! Now I have gil!
But I still do not buy anything, because I don’t think anyone can even use most of this stuff yet. Also, why are all the guns useless?
ALSO I HATE THE WEAPONS SYSTEM IN THIS GAME, JUST IN GENERAL.
RAGE.
AT TOMB OF ALMIGHTY DEAD RAITHWALL MAN. LOGGING OU----
… um. >___>;
SAVING AND TURNING IT OFF FOR THE NIGHT is what I meant to say. Yes.
HOW DID IT TAKE ME FOUR PAGES TO DO LIKE THREE THINGS? This is going to be a million pages long, isn't it.
Also, I don't plan on keeping a death list for this game, because I'd only count a GAME OVER as a death, and I'll probably whine a lot whenever I get one of those, so they'll be hard to miss.
Edit:
I ended up looking up the game's script and reading up until where my save file picked up. Yaaay, I know what's going on!
I am not level 40 yet, but I did have free time this afternoon. And tomorrow I have class all day. Uuugh. Also it's still snowing. Also, I use the word "also" THIRTEEN TIMES in this entry, which is at least twelve times too many (but that's probably less than the number of times I compare something to how it's done in Final Fantasy XI). Apologies.
Anyway, Final Fantasy XII.
Okay, my save file tells me I’m at the Nam-Yensa Sandsea, Sandscale Bank. … Fourteen hours? That cannot possibly be—right, right, the clock runs when it’s paused, doesn’t it? Never mind, then.
OK I AM LOOKING FOR A TORTOISE? The Moogle seems to think so. Man. Stupid hard drive. I am useless.
Vossler. Vooossler. Who is he and why is he here? Oh man, I don’t remember this guy at all. WAIT RIGHT. Ship. Okay, okay, yes, I think I may remember you, sir.
BLUE DOTTED ZONE LINES. WHY.
So, I just zoned back into the area I’d last escaped from by accident, but let’s claim it was because I wanted to brush up on the combat system in this game, because I just completely fumbled my way through a battle. Why isn’t the battle menu popping up?? Oh right. ‘Cause I have to actually bring it up myself. Wrong game! WHERE IS AUTOLOCK WHY ISN’T IT WORKING. Oh right. That is Final Fantasy XI, as well. I AM GOING TO DIE. No, that’s also Final Fantasy XI.
Also, self: Penelo is not doing anything possibly because you have not turned Gambits on for her. Okay. GOOD JOB. Wait, why is Penelo even in my party? I was using Basch. I bet he died while I was running from elementals or something and I didn’t want to bother with a phoenix down.
(For the curious, my party consists of Balthier, Fran, and Basch, and of course our guest, Vossler. I will probably regret not leveling up Vaan at some point, but…)
OH HERE IS A TORTOISE!
… You know what is really confusing? This doesn’t look at all like where I remember being, which means my timeline of where I was is completely wrong. I know I was killed by tumbleweed turkeys, but now I do not know where I was when this happened.
Anyway, it’s kinda cool and kinda lame that I am just typing along while my party kills things and heals each other and all that fun stuff. I do find myself sorely missing Auto Run, though. I keep trying to figure out how to either turn that on or zoom the camera back out. (By turning the camera so it’s in the sky, I zoom out, but I like keeping it closer to the ground than that.) Thank goodness I play XI with a keyboard, or I worry I’d have gone completely mad already. No wonder my brother didn’t play much of this game. (He does use a PS2 controller for FFXI.)
NOW I BACKTRACK. Or, maybe not. The cutscene with the Moogle and the Urutan-Yensa thing leads me to conclude this was largely a waste of time. SO I GO BACK FROM MY BACKTRACKING. OKAY.
They’ve got weird legs, those Urutan-Yensa things.
DUST. Aww, poor thing. Now I feel bad. And the Moogle is sad, too, which should be illegal. But I get ANTI-GARUDA BERRYTHINGS.
… ?! MINE?! I don’t know what just happened, but something just blew up and hurt me a lot. By that I mean, Shut up, Balthier, I don’t care that you’ve been killed, I can’t spare the phoenix down. I only have six! Six is not a lot! waitno just found one. Handy. You may live again. AT LEAST WE HAVE PHOENIX DOWN IN THIS GAME OKAY. STOP WHINING, YOU'RE NOT DEAD ANYMORE, ARE YOU?
I like how dead people just vanish. MY THEORY: we make the people not in the party carry them. (They hate it.)
Lalala, getting hopelessly lost.
I keep looking for the minimap in the lower left and it is in the upper right and I am going MAD. (It's not like it's actually a minimap in XI, just a compass that shows where the monsters and NPCs and other people and stuff are. STILL. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LOCATION.)
Also, haha, I keep looking in the lower right to see what time it is.
MAN ONE OF THESE DAYS. One of these days I will remember that moving while waiting for a spell to cast will not stop the spell from being cast. And then I will get places a lot faster.
… See, ‘cause, in XI, moving interrupts your spell and you don’t cast it, so… oh my god I swear I'm going to shut up with the XI comparisons at some point. I promise.
Ah, I stepped on another one. It was an explosive trap. This time we nearly killed Vossler, but fortunately he is alive.
HE IS TOO GOOD TO HEAL HIMSELF, THOUGH.
“NO GUYS IT’S OKAY. I’LL JUST STAND HERE BLEEDING. STOP THAT. I SAID IT WAS TOTALLY COOL. DON’T CURE ME DO YOU SEE ME EVER CURING YOU??”
Now he’s angry. Angry with the rage only brought on by lack of blood loss!
Aaugh, noooo, more metal tower things.
Tumbleweed turkeys! \o/ Or Axebeaks, apparently. I like my name for them better. It is far more appropriate, for one.
BLUE GLOWY THING. IS IT AN ELEMENTAL?
NO IT IS A BOMB. Scary. Dx
Also: Hooray! Another ??? place! (The last one I went into - I do remember this part, ha - nearly killed me. ALSO IN XI ??? ARE POINTS YOU CAN CLICK ON AND THEY USUALLY SPAWN SOMETHING THAT CAN KILL YOU. ??? POINTS AND I HAVE A LONG, BLOODY HISTORY. LOOK AT ME NOT MAKE XI COMPARISONS. This one is full of musical toad-looking things. They are Bards oh yes. totally not with the comparisons, apparently. AUGH SLIME FELL ON MY HEAD. The equivalent of random battle, haha. Also Slimes are nasty and hurt. Possibly they are higher level than I am? I DO NOT KNOW. THIS CAVE IS GOING TO MURDER ME. I AM LEAVING. In a minute. NO HP.
EVERYONE REMAINING. RUN IN CIRCLES UNTIL YOUR MP IS BACK~
All nonparty members: ok, you know, I’ll take carrying the dead weight. At least we do not have to run around and look like idiots.
You know what, shut up, all of you. JUST FOR THAT, I’m tossing
No, Basch. We’re leaving. STOP FIGHTING.
…Oh. Right. Hafta use Flee.
Meanwhile, Ashe is wondering what she did to deserve having to carry three dead people. Sorry, Ashe. You were the highest level of them, so you get to sit out while Vaan and Penelo play catch up.
Hello, HP-Save-Tele Crystal. (oh, man, I went waaaay too far back.) MAKE THEM LIIIIIVE. Thank you.
Yay! Buying things! RAISE. I HAS. Now we all don’t have to be dead for ever. NOW WE CAN CAST THE SPELLS THAT MAKE THE PEOPLE STAND UP!
Also now we are broke.
And since the detour to the unexplored only leads to death (and was a complete dead end, besides), let’s, uh. Get back on track.
… oh, there is the map button! I knew there was one, I just could not remember how to get to it… Come on, like anyone uses Select for anything, ever.
ANOTHER EXPLOSIVE TRAP. Darn them. Two dead people! Seriously, is there a way to see those that I just have not noticed, or have forgotten about, or something?
DAMNIT. At least Balthier avoided the Silence one and can cast Vox on the others. VOSSLER IS OF COURSE DEAD SO HE IS NOT SILENCED, EITHER, BUT DOES ME NO GOOD. WHAT WITH BEING DEAD.
Okay, seriously, no one else step on anything. I MEAN IT.
Also I am done here. Hello, people on chocobos! Ooh, shiny new bow. But no save crystal. Woe. *jogs around until everyone has full MP*
… And then I am given the option to save when I zone. Bah!
Scene!
Dear lord, we are in the middle of nowhere. I mean. Obviously. BUT LIKE. THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.
TEMPLE THING.
Another scene.
BIRD THING. FIGHT! EEK!
Wait is this Garuda? I HAVE BERRIES YOU DISLIKE. STAY BACK.
OR DON’T.
FINE, THEN. EAT THESE. STUPID BIRD I HOPE THEY GIVE YOU A STOMACH ACHE.
Blasted aerial bosses needing ranged weapons. STUPID BASCH NOT HAVING RANGED WEAPONS UNLOCKED.
Good thing I can fix that midbattle, ohohoho~
“The ancient device stirs.”
Okay but what-
Ooh, talking. History lesson! Raithwall guy. Shards. THE SUBTITLES NOT MATCHING THE ACTUAL DIALOGUE ANNOYS ME SO MUCH.
Balthier, did you just indirectly ask, ‘how hard can it be?’ Because if you did, I’m afraid I have to leave you out here for everyone’s safety. I will never not react to that with anything other than OH GOD NO. And then I'd have to leave Fran out here, too, and then I'd be out most of my party.
The chocobo merchant dude is here again. But I can’t afford anythiiiing. ...But, right. I can sell stuff! Now I have gil!
But I still do not buy anything, because I don’t think anyone can even use most of this stuff yet. Also, why are all the guns useless?
ALSO I HATE THE WEAPONS SYSTEM IN THIS GAME, JUST IN GENERAL.
RAGE.
AT TOMB OF ALMIGHTY DEAD RAITHWALL MAN. LOGGING OU----
… um. >___>;
SAVING AND TURNING IT OFF FOR THE NIGHT is what I meant to say. Yes.
HOW DID IT TAKE ME FOUR PAGES TO DO LIKE THREE THINGS? This is going to be a million pages long, isn't it.
Also, I don't plan on keeping a death list for this game, because I'd only count a GAME OVER as a death, and I'll probably whine a lot whenever I get one of those, so they'll be hard to miss.
Edit:
I ended up looking up the game's script and reading up until where my save file picked up. Yaaay, I know what's going on!