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Thought I could get a super early upgrade on my phone, but it turns out this is only the case if I renew my contract to be paying the same amount or more. Since I want to be paying significantly less, this will not be happening, boooooo.
Also I really don't know what phone I want. I'm looking at Oppo, since they have the best bargains contract-wise, but I don't know anything about them otherwise, so I don't know if they're good phones or not.
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I put Monster Hunter: World into the PS4 as a break from NEO: TWEWY, and it downloaded me 46Gb of updates, which (only) took three hours, holy moly, and now I kind of feel obligated to play it? And to think I was worried about the size of all the FFXV updates!
(It's to include the updates that came with Iceborne, which I have no intention of playing, but here they are on my PS4 anyway).
I like exploring, and OF COURSE I like my Palico - that was the entire reason I wanted to play. I do not like that every mainline quest feels like a boss fight. I also do not like that, in a very similar manner to Dark Souls, the camera is your worst enemy. I think you can get it to lock, but I haven't discovered how, yet. Your second worst enemy is the monsters clipping right into the scenery, because apparently collision detection is not a thing (also nine times out of ten your Palico will clip into your legs if you stand still anywhere). And for about ten hours or so of the game, your worst enemy is also the Anjanth. Which is my next main quest, and I don't wanna do it! (Let's be real, I'm not really invested in this beyond my cat friend)
Anyway, when I was making my character, I tried making my Palico look like my previous cat Charlie, and it worked too freaking well, and then I got upset and teary, which is why I've now got a generic ginger instead. He's called Bean because I'm not very imaginative. I've called all my cats that I've had as an adult some variation of name+bean for extremely daft reasons.
Also I totally forgot that character levels aren't a thing in Capcom games, lol. I kind of like it, because it's different, but also it feels like there's no progression, because I don't have a visual representation of it. But that's a minor gripe, really.
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Might as well do the next question on the meme since I'm here! (all questions here)
4. Do you have any Square-Enix related books? (e.g. artbooks, references, guides)
I have a book of Yoshitaka Amano's concept art for the first four Final Fantasies, which is called Dawn. I also have strategy guides for FFX, FFXIII, and XIII-2. And that's it, because books cost money! And are not easily accessible when you live in the middle of nowhere!
5. Do you collect any Square-Enix merchandise?
Yes? I have several action figures (Auron, Balthier, Gabranth, Ifrit, Gilgamesh, and Bahamut SIN); a Moogle plush; a Cactuar one; and also a tote bag that was made for Final Fantasy's 30th anniversary. The Moogle plush was from a convention in Milton Keynes in ~2008 (I squealed when I saw it), and the Cactuar plush and the bag were from the Squeenix store. Whereas the action figures were from various trips to Forbidden Planet in Manchester, if memory serves. Apart from Gabranth, who was one of the last birthday presents my dad ever bought me.
(Talking of imaginative names for things, the Moogle's name is Mog. The Cactuar doesn't even have one).
6. What's your favorite Square-Enix mascot character?
MOOGLES.
I mean, if you know anything about me, this is pretty obvious, right? What's not to love about a cat-bat-thing?
I like all versions of them, but I think my favourites are either the Crystal Chronicles ones, where they look like barrels (also Artemicion is stripy love!), or the FFXII version where they look more anthropomorphic and less cat-like.
Also I really don't know what phone I want. I'm looking at Oppo, since they have the best bargains contract-wise, but I don't know anything about them otherwise, so I don't know if they're good phones or not.
~
I put Monster Hunter: World into the PS4 as a break from NEO: TWEWY, and it downloaded me 46Gb of updates, which (only) took three hours, holy moly, and now I kind of feel obligated to play it? And to think I was worried about the size of all the FFXV updates!
(It's to include the updates that came with Iceborne, which I have no intention of playing, but here they are on my PS4 anyway).
I like exploring, and OF COURSE I like my Palico - that was the entire reason I wanted to play. I do not like that every mainline quest feels like a boss fight. I also do not like that, in a very similar manner to Dark Souls, the camera is your worst enemy. I think you can get it to lock, but I haven't discovered how, yet. Your second worst enemy is the monsters clipping right into the scenery, because apparently collision detection is not a thing (also nine times out of ten your Palico will clip into your legs if you stand still anywhere). And for about ten hours or so of the game, your worst enemy is also the Anjanth. Which is my next main quest, and I don't wanna do it! (Let's be real, I'm not really invested in this beyond my cat friend)
Anyway, when I was making my character, I tried making my Palico look like my previous cat Charlie, and it worked too freaking well, and then I got upset and teary, which is why I've now got a generic ginger instead. He's called Bean because I'm not very imaginative. I've called all my cats that I've had as an adult some variation of name+bean for extremely daft reasons.
Also I totally forgot that character levels aren't a thing in Capcom games, lol. I kind of like it, because it's different, but also it feels like there's no progression, because I don't have a visual representation of it. But that's a minor gripe, really.
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Might as well do the next question on the meme since I'm here! (all questions here)
4. Do you have any Square-Enix related books? (e.g. artbooks, references, guides)
I have a book of Yoshitaka Amano's concept art for the first four Final Fantasies, which is called Dawn. I also have strategy guides for FFX, FFXIII, and XIII-2. And that's it, because books cost money! And are not easily accessible when you live in the middle of nowhere!
5. Do you collect any Square-Enix merchandise?
Yes? I have several action figures (Auron, Balthier, Gabranth, Ifrit, Gilgamesh, and Bahamut SIN); a Moogle plush; a Cactuar one; and also a tote bag that was made for Final Fantasy's 30th anniversary. The Moogle plush was from a convention in Milton Keynes in ~2008 (I squealed when I saw it), and the Cactuar plush and the bag were from the Squeenix store. Whereas the action figures were from various trips to Forbidden Planet in Manchester, if memory serves. Apart from Gabranth, who was one of the last birthday presents my dad ever bought me.
(Talking of imaginative names for things, the Moogle's name is Mog. The Cactuar doesn't even have one).
6. What's your favorite Square-Enix mascot character?
MOOGLES.
I mean, if you know anything about me, this is pretty obvious, right? What's not to love about a cat-bat-thing?
I like all versions of them, but I think my favourites are either the Crystal Chronicles ones, where they look like barrels (also Artemicion is stripy love!), or the FFXII version where they look more anthropomorphic and less cat-like.
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You've reminded me that I used to have an Auron as well until he broke. Sadness. ;_; The figures are so expensive now I probably couldn't afford to replace him even if they have made another one!
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My Auron broke, too! His elbow joint broke on one arm, so I fixed it with superglue, but I obviously can't pose him now (all my figures are in their boxes, so it's kind of irrelevant, but at the time I wanted to). Oh man, figure prices are super scary these days, and I thought they were bad enough back when I could afford them!
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Oh man...that's...yikes. Yes, let us find rich people with no money sense to buy them for us!
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FF x Monster HunterFF Explorers) but the camera in World/Rise looks like an absolute nightmare to me.I'm sorry the palico made you sad though :(
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It is. Like, IDK if you've played Dark Souls, but somehow the camera in MHW is even worse.
I wasn't expecting to get one that looked so much like Charlie, I think, so it shocked me. Like the pattern of her colour blocks, and the exact shade of grey that she was was so accurate, and yet it was coincidence that I could even get the Palico to look like that. Also I started thinking about her getting hurt in a fight (even though it's not real), so that probably did it, too.
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I made it to the end of the plot (such as it was) in FF Explorers and had enjoyed my time with it until then, and then I realized there was nothing more for me to do but grind bosses for ever more complex clothes, and then I decided I was done. Which was a wise decision on my part! But it was quite fun while I played it and I'm glad I had the sense to quit while that was true.
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*nods*
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