August 15, 2010
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8.15/2010
I think I'm officially done with Final Fantasy XIII. I beat the game last night, and the ending was decent, but attempting to get all of the trophies is an exercise in patience... and I'm not fit. I'm no foreigner to grinding. I've done it many times before in Disgaea, Valkyria Chronicles, Final Fantasy Tactics, and a variety of other games. But, Final Fantasy XIII makes you grind CP, which is used to "level" characters up, and grind gil, the currency of Final Fantasy games. The problem with this game is that you don't get gil from simply fighting battles, well at least not directly. You get it from selling items that you obtain from battle. What makes this ridiculous is that the items aren't guaranteed. You have a percentage chance of obtaining certain normal items and a drastically smaller probability of obtaining rare items. (On top of this, the percentage of getting these items are based on your battle score [out of five stars]. Score five out of five stars and you have the highest percentage.) You can equip particular accessories to increase the probability of acquiring the items, but they don't increase it to being nearly guaranteed outcomes from every battle. The cherry on top of this awful cake is that only the rare items really sell for money.
Sigh... screw the trophies. I'm done.
I think I'm addicted to watching True Blood.
Haven't been this into a show since Lost.
I'm debating whether I should get a Black Wii since my last Wii got stolen from a friend's place. The reason I would like a Wii is that I would like to mod it and be able to play old SNES games (like Earthbound) as well as play some choice games on the Wii when they come out. The problem is, and always has been, that I really don't use the Wii that much. Most of the time it collects dust until one of those rare Nintendo games (Mario Kart, Smash Bros., Legend of Zelda, Mario, or Metroid) comes out. Right now I have about one-hundred and seventy-five dollars in Gamestop, trade-in cash, so I would only need to pay fifty dollars in real money to get the Wii. Yet, every time I'm about to go purchase it, something within me tells me its not worth the fifty real dollars.
It's a bit sad that I can't decisively buy a Wii for fifty dollars.
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