Blue Dragon is a unique game for me. Namely, it’s one that I have actually beaten. Oh, granted, it took me a while. I teetered on the edge of no return of this JRPG for about a year and a half before I finally piloted my airship-fish into the atmosphere sucking hole at the end [...]
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If you’re a regular reader here at Faceplant then you know that I’m not particularly fond of jRPGs. In fact, I’m relatively new to the whole RPG genre. But Infinite Space for the regular old Nintendo DS intrigued me. I read about it on a news post by one Tycho Brahe early last year, and [...]
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One of my favorite probably unintentional ironies in the video game world is the fact that Final Fantasy is still a thing. I know the original Final Fantasy was named as such since Squaresoft never intended to survive past the game’s release, but that one, sole game resurrected the entire franchise and made the name [...]
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Anyone who has been reading Faceplant! for a while is probably aware that I’m a sucker for RPG games. I like the tedious micro management that accompanies battles and character upgrade menus, watching the best laid plans of the vapid and shallow characters in the game go completely to hell, and nothing quite beats that [...]
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Resonance of Fate caught my eye a few months back because it still remains one of the few RPGs that exist on the Xbox 360, which is quickly becoming overrun by first and third person shooters. Sure, we’ve got the Mass Effect series, Oblivion and Fallout 3, but a lot of the traditional RPG formula [...]
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Final Fantasy XIII takes a long time to get moving, but once it does it has all the majesty and wonder that you could expect from seeing a 300 pound man barrel down a steep hill, careening through traffic and injuring civilians. Just be patient, man. Just calm down.
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Sluggy Freelance, Daily
MSPaint Adventures, > Daily
Dr. McNinja, MWF
XKCD, MWF
Sam and Fuzzy MWF
Blank it, MR
Spacetrawler, MW
Oh Goodie! sporadic
Order of the Stick, Sporadic
Axe Cop, Sporadic
Hark! a vagrant, Sporadic
Pictures for Sad Children, Sporadic
Erfworld, Sporadic
Boxer Hockey, Sporadic
Hanna is not a boy's name, Sporadic
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What’s up with Japanese RPG’s?
Japanese RPG’s made me the gaming nerd I am today. I can remember the exact moment that gaming TRULY hooked me. I went over to my friend Patrick’s house one afternoon. His step brother was visiting from out of town and had brought with him a game called Final Fantasy 2 for the Super Nintendo. [...]
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