Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:26:59 GMT

Flying Omelette wrote:
I wouldn't care so much about people being hard on FFMQ if only people were as hard on other games for being "too easy". Games like Rescue Rangers, DuckTales, River City Ransom, Super Mario Land, Dracula X, and others. But all of those games have reputations for being "great" and amongst the "best ever". And of course, people aren't usually tough on other RPGs that are...

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (MaskedSheik) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:10:00 GMT

There's probably an evolutionary advantage to such bluster :/

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feeds@yuku.com (abaxa) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:46:07 GMT

Flying Omelette wrote:
But here's the question:

What is it about people that makes them so adamantly-opposed to learning, growing, maturing..."bettering" yourself a little, so to speak? It seems to go entirely against the idea of evolution (but maybe not natural selection, I suppose). I offered one possible answer to that - being "too young", because I know from personal experience...

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:58:32 GMT

Flying Omelette wrote:

James FP wrote:

mobiusclimber wrote:
look at rhapsody. i could sit and list all the problems w/ that game but i LOVE it regardless. and it really is just a matter of taste.
1997 called. It wants its powers of argument/persuasion back.
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Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:44:08 GMT

James FP wrote:

mobiusclimber wrote:
look at rhapsody. i could sit and list all the problems w/ that game but i LOVE it regardless. and it really is just a matter of taste.
1997 called. It wants its powers of argument/persuasion back.

Hah! John Solomon posted this in response to someone giving him a link to goatse:

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Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:26:20 GMT

Guess I should've quoted myself. But I was in a hurry. My bad.

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:28:57 GMT

I wasn't even sure why you posted that in this thread at first.

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:20:48 GMT

No, it's just that it's rarer to see agreement on that subject outside of these forums. I know I don't really get around much, but as I pointed out above, in the rare case that I do, my points still end up getting ignored in favor of arguing over semantics.

You know, if someone really wanted to argue against that post of mine, they could have used some of the examples that are picked apart in that blog. Some of those comics really, truly are so awful (and purposefully...

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (James FP) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:03:57 GMT

What? Do people on the forums not count or something? I've been saying that for years.

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:44:54 GMT

Well, finally, someone who agrees with me.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:00:02 GMT

Okay, maybe there are other examples, like the e-reader.

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:50:52 GMT

On this subject, I rarely try to make comments on the business side of games. I make no predictions about whether a game will or won't be a hit, or what a company should do to attract a certain market. I confine my comments to the artistic merits of games -- and I know that just because something is good doesn't necessarily mean it will be a hit.

I think the one exception of that is that I do think the financial failure of the Virtual Boy was easy to predict for...

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:27:00 GMT

That's probably the main reason Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was made and released - most people who dislike that game will say it's because Square thinks Americans are too dumb for harder RPGs, but I think it's more likely because they were trying everything they could think of to penetrate the American market and figured on a "beginner" RPG being able to ease more people into the genre. It didn't work, but at least they were trying and at least they cared enough...

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:18:52 GMT

Another thing about Square being "stupid" for what they chose to release is, What is your evidence that it was "stupid"?

According to Wikipedia, the world-wide sales of Chrono Trigger outside of Japan were less than 300,000. For a game that's as loved as that game is, those sales are shockingly low. And that's as compared to sales of over 2 million in Japan.

So, how can someone second-guess the localization decisions of Square then? How can you...

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:23:52 GMT

Truthfully, I do feel I was too harsh in Reply #42. Even if it was somewhat-deserved, it's a personal failing when I announce that I'm not really angry or upset, but then get agitated several posts later, especially since getting angry in topics is usually impossible to take seriously and ends up being funny instead.

But here's the...

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:49:47 GMT

James FP wrote:

mobiusclimber wrote:
look at rhapsody. i could sit and list all the problems w/ that game but i LOVE it regardless. and it really is just a matter of taste.
1997 called. It wants its powers of argument/persuasion back.

What's funny about that is that these days it seems most arguments we see are really...

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (James FP) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:42:20 GMT

I like the taste of Square's onions:

They go delicious in salads and soups and as hamburger toppings.

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Lord Vyce) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:07:25 GMT

mobiusclimber wrote:
i've come to the conclusion that the big wigs at square are pretty stupid, and i've conveniently started blaming everything on them. why else would we not get seiken densetsu 3 and bahamat lagoon? why give us ff mystic quest and secret of evermore and think those will outsell ff5 and the two previously mentioned? but i guess that's everyone's complaint, innit?

You can't...

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:42:18 GMT

"Lunar is very repetitive and boring." you make the same types of posts that you blast me for. that was your entire post. very persuasive if you ask me.

That was a short post, made by a long-time poster, taken out of context. There's nothing inherently wrong with making short posts. As for that short post in particular...

#1 - How do you know another argument wasn't made by another poster about that subject, and he was agreeing with...

Re: Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:36:11 GMT

You fucker! You did that on purpose to trick me into reading your post at work.

Secret of Mana Mysteries and Glitches

feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:54:08 GMT

It might seem a bit lame to just link to a topic on another board, but this one is pretty cool. Also forgive me if it's been posted before at some point... it's been around for a while.

boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs...c=19170063

One of the glitches there that I remember experiencing was after the boy falls during the introduction, the...