I've been playing the shit out of FFXIII (fucking like 27 hours....), and there's a few terrible things about the game, and definitely a few groanworthy moments, but I actually dig it and find it really fun as long as you think of it like playing a book, because there's a lot of story and a lot of reading. I actually read everything that comes into the datalog and most of it is boring or literally a description of what happened over the past 5 minutes, but it actually brings up stuff during the recaps that aren't really brought up in the game itself.

I guess overall my favorite thing about this game, and all final fantasy games really, is that they take their time to develop a world and a history. I loved that facet of 12, because it really felt like this was some world that had been developing and it all kind of meshed together. Except for the fact that they chose some really stupid names for important concept (the whole fal'Cie and l'Cie and Cie'th shit is ridiculous and unnecessary) they actually fashioned a pretty cool and interesting world, and so far the story is intriguing and kind of dramatic even if it's a little hokey.

I also play all my games super high, so that might be why I can like the game. Which is ok with me.

I want to have a finished playthrough that I can import into Dragon Age 2, and I no longer have my older saves so I'm playing a lot of Dragon Age: Origins.

Giving Mass Effect another try.

dude monday night combat is AWESOME

About to buy Vagrant Story on the US PSN and finally beat it. Also trying to play through Soul Nomad because I loved Ogre Battle and the fights are fun but everything else about the game is kinda bleh.

Played a couple hours of Brave Battle Saga but seem to have lost the data when i updated my version of Fusion. Oh well- once more unto the breach, dear friends.

Boiling Point: Road to Hell. Or Xenus if you must call it that too.

With Pokemon Black/White hitting soon, I picked up on playing both Pearl and Soul Silver.

I'm looking for a SRPG to play and I heard Valkria Chronicles was really easy so I'm thinking of some ps2 games like Disgaea or Stella Dues. Or maybe Valkrie Profile but that's more of an RPG I think.

I heard a lot of people liked Maki Kingdom but I didn't see it at gamestop so I decided to pick up Stella Deus which looked pretty cool.

Yo so i played the Dragon Age II demo and this game seems like a piece of shit. The texture are laughably low resolution, a lot of the models leave quite a bit to be desired, and all the cutscenes are shoddy as fuck. The fighting also isn't really all that fun,  a few skills (like the MAIN ATTACK BUTTON) don't really feel like they have correct feedback, ie. pushing attack will either attack once or a few times, sometimes he'll even stab, make a movement, and then stab again. It's just very off- putting  to push X 3 times and your guy will stab, make a momement, stab, duck, and stab again.

Anyways I kinda want to buy it though because I don't know any other games with gameplay like that!! I want a push-button action-RPG with REAL skills to buy and upgrade, and this looks like the best option. There is a copy of Sacred 2 that is getting progessively cheaper at the nearest gamestop (it's down to 17.99 now), and while it also looks kind of shitty (i'm not expecting greatness from Sacred 2) I did enjoy Sacred 1 (on the PC) and I think it'll give me the "WoW MMO" feel. It feels shitty to want to basically play solo WoW on my PS3, but I enjoy the action rpg genre so long as you actually get to upgrade stats and skills, like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (which is more brawler but still action-rpg for sure). Anyways if you have a recommendation for PS3 action rpgs that are not shooters I am all ears.

Anyways I really want to talk about inFamous. I got this over the weekend and I like this game. I have played Prototype and I enjoy the style of this game better. Prototype is like you are a comic-book superhero, whereas infamous you are like, Heroes superhero. Nothing is fantastic and it's presented with "gritty realism".

So I just gotta say they fuckin nail the atmosphere in this game, at least for me. I spent yesterday getting just ridiculously high (I was actually just trying to use some up because I had nowhere to put it and it would dry out) and playing the shit out of it. I fucking love the sounds in this game. There's basically no music, at least none I can recall, but instead there's just lots of ambient noise, and then this weird avant garde noise shit, with like guitar squelching and feedback and stuff. It's really really eerie (like seriously, it would kinda scare me if I was alone at night eerie) and I just feel like it matches with the atmosphere they are going for really well. I don't know why this stuck out to me so much but I guess I was just really into the game, and I noticed that these "music" parts (which come about randomly, most of the time youre running around to normal ambient noises and people yelling or something) were really tripping me out, and it really made me FEEL something. I like it.