Sad day, indeed, guys

All this Jeff Gertsmann affair is really disturbing. Until Jeff is re-hired again or proof that he was not fired
because of the K&L review, I am not coming back here.

Rendarian, Visionary, Sonicare, Crovax.... it has been great to discuss and share opinions with you, guys,
these last four years. Hope I see you soon.

farewell

Milikito

First of all, you will have to be really condescending with my grammar today. I got some nice wine with the dinner
and that will surely emphasize my poor language skills

I had been playing some Etrian Odissey in my DS for many weeks after beating Puzzle Quest to death, until I decided, I a couple weeks ago, that I should come back to the real c.l.a.s.s.i.c.s. That´s what I have been playing during the last month (well, what my work had allowed me, sadly ):

PS2;

• FFXII: Oh my, so good you are, Matsuno´s joy. I have found lately that random encounters in traditional JRPGs are testing my patience now that I am getting older and older. Etrian Odissey is a good example of this. However, with FFXII I have rediscovered the joy of grinding for the pure awesomeness of it. Why, oh, why did you have, Oh Square, to fire Matsuno. He has this perverted obsession on making the games I adore the most (just keep reading). I don´t think I will be able to digest the low blow of seeing him making a waggle rendition for the Wii, if the rumours are true.
• GT4: It´s strange. I bought the game and did not try it for a year and a half. It´s like GT3, with the strange property of looking incredibly great on my HD TV.How so? PD are really good, no matter how slow they release their products. So I am sure I will eventually be buying a PS3 and GT5, despite Sony and their autodestructive and nihilist fate. I would not hate buying Eye of Judgement either
• The Red Star: 20 dollars for this is a bargain. What a hidden gem. The Ikaruga ****boss levels are lovely. Buy this game already, guys. Really.

Wii:

• Oh, yeah... the Wii. That cool console with the Tennis game. Well, it ends up that I got tired of Wii Tennis (after 2000 points, there is no point anymore in keep playing). However, I got Paper Mario on VC. Paper Mario is made of the substance of the dreaming stars and the essence of the olympic nectar. I wonder how I could miss this N64 gem. It obliterates Paper Mario for the GC and many RPGs I have in good regard. Sometimes, the admiration I feel for Nintendo can only be compared with my hatred for them

DS:

• Not much DS love, lately. Picross is great, though. I still have to buy Zelda.

PSP:

• And here my love for Matsuno continues. I am having a combined orgy of Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy Tactics. Being in PAL land, I wonder two things... how I could live without having played FFT before, and second, what were Square thinking when they developed FFTA for GBA. The second is a raw
  and simple attempt of insulting the intelligence of the customer. Or his age. Or both things. I might be stupid, but I am old. So, I will be careful before doing the same mistake for FFTA DS. Looking at the sales in Japan, it might happen than more than one may share some of my opinions on this particular subject.
• Power Stone. This port got so many critics. And this really brings me to believe that maybe I should have bought a Dreamcast when I had the opportunity. Because this game is so funny in all his dumbness.

So, sorry for my verbosity. I would love to hear from you which game has stole your attempts of having a proper life lately. Except if that game is BioShock, because in that case, I´m going to envy you so much that it won´t be healthy for my decrepit body...

regards, guys

Vanillaware just confirmed an "Odin Sphere"-lke action RPG for the Wii, with waggle sword action:

May be, at the end, the Wii will end up being the spiritual successor of the PS2, and not a Wii-tennis console with
mini-games showelware. Yay!