Pah, after all these years on the internet my view of sexuality is already freakishly warped, it’s not like you could do any more damage. Besides, I figured that was the actual reason! (Of course, you forgot the other reason: I wanted to sing The Coconut Song.)
Augh, totally, why would you hang enjoyment of anything on a ‘ship to the point where it not becoming canon makes you feel BETRAYED BY THE CREATORS? That I find romantic pairings as a whole to be vastly overrated by fandom doesn’t help. (I may have been spending too much time in the Assassin’s Creed fandom, which keeps ignoring the canon’s awesome ladies in favour of temporally baffling slash. The urge has been rising to scream “I don’t care! I’m just here to see people in pretty clothes climb on stuff and stab things stylishly! Also, stop calling Altair ‘Alty’ before I murder the lot of you! Adjshhagafkjh!”)
Yay! I look forward to your answers.
As to FF7 (warning, Western gamesnobbery ahead): Well, on the one hand, I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy fighting the same battle over and over and over and over and over, boss fights that take five hours with no save points, or the constant seething paranoia that I’ve missed some vital ability or backstory whose absence will totally screw me later on requiring me to have a FAQ open on my lap. Not at all a fan of the way the player character is glued to the ground, either. (That’s…just me; you may have noticed acrobatics can and will cause me to ignore all flaws a game has in favour of jumping around the environment like a deranged monkey on a pogo-stick, giggling all the while.) Also, it’s dated.
On the other, it’s remarkably impressive as a game and a piece of story-telling…egad, thirteen years later? It deserved its acclaim. Aeris’ death made my cry, there’s some glorious atmospheric bits (like when you escape the cells in Shinra to see blood on damn near everything, hear the creepy-creepy heartbeat music, and then find the Big Bad up to that point pinned to his desk with a sword; or seeing the Midgar Zolom impaled on the tree), Yuffie is awesome, Cloud is an adorable dork as well as screwed up in so many ways augh god what the hell, I loved the City of the Ancients, and of course the music is amazing. A lot of the environments make me wish someone had made a game where I could actually climb on them. I’d give a couple of fingers for a fully-explorable Midgar, for example.
I watched Advent Children, also. It made no sense, but there sure was a lot of fighting!
(I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR BABBLING ON THIEF AND SOTC (cough)I mean if you want to do that, I'm just trying to think of a meme that would let you.)
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Date: 2010-02-20 12:32 pm (UTC)Augh, totally, why would you hang enjoyment of anything on a ‘ship to the point where it not becoming canon makes you feel BETRAYED BY THE CREATORS? That I find romantic pairings as a whole to be vastly overrated by fandom doesn’t help. (I may have been spending too much time in the Assassin’s Creed fandom, which keeps ignoring the canon’s awesome ladies in favour of temporally baffling slash. The urge has been rising to scream “I don’t care! I’m just here to see people in pretty clothes climb on stuff and stab things stylishly! Also, stop calling Altair ‘Alty’ before I murder the lot of you! Adjshhagafkjh!”)
Yay! I look forward to your answers.
As to FF7 (warning, Western gamesnobbery ahead): Well, on the one hand, I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy fighting the same battle over and over and over and over and over, boss fights that take five hours with no save points, or the constant seething paranoia that I’ve missed some vital ability or backstory whose absence will totally screw me later on requiring me to have a FAQ open on my lap. Not at all a fan of the way the player character is glued to the ground, either. (That’s…just me; you may have noticed acrobatics can and will cause me to ignore all flaws a game has in favour of jumping around the environment like a deranged monkey on a pogo-stick, giggling all the while.) Also, it’s dated.
On the other, it’s remarkably impressive as a game and a piece of story-telling…egad, thirteen years later? It deserved its acclaim. Aeris’ death made my cry, there’s some glorious atmospheric bits (like when you escape the cells in Shinra to see blood on damn near everything, hear the creepy-creepy heartbeat music, and then find the Big Bad up to that point pinned to his desk with a sword; or seeing the Midgar Zolom impaled on the tree), Yuffie is awesome, Cloud is an adorable dork as well as screwed up in so many ways augh god what the hell, I loved the City of the Ancients, and of course the music is amazing. A lot of the environments make me wish someone had made a game where I could actually climb on them. I’d give a couple of fingers for a fully-explorable Midgar, for example.
I watched Advent Children, also. It made no sense, but there sure was a lot of fighting!
(I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR BABBLING ON THIEF AND SOTC (cough)I mean if you want to do that, I'm just trying to think of a meme that would let you.)