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However, how do we all feel about Final Fantasy IX?

I ask because it's out on ps4 today after an announcement at the Tokyo game show. It's not a remaster, but just a port of the enhanced pc port from a few years ago. We just get to play it on ps4 now.

I remember not really caring for it back in the day, but I was in college and being pulled in a million different directions at the time. It was 17 years ago, and I am thinking maybe I should give it another go.

On a separate note I went to Wal-Mart for the first time since my surgery, and they had two Nintendo Switch consoles in stock. It was weird to see then in the wild.

Are any of you seeing them in the wild with any frequency?
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I thought we all agreed that Final Fantasy XII was trash?

Granted trash that we can still see where it possibly once was a viable product, but it's garbage now. It's all rotted, and festering, and stinky.

Even if Square has put on a new coat of paint it's still rotten at the core. Entity, I applaud your effort in trying to enjoy and salvage the game, but just move on with your life. You deserve better.

"Its them, not you."
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Well ****!

Bobby the Brain" Heenan passed away today. Cancer is a dirty, dirty, Butthole. I feel even worse because I thought he had already passed away, but he had not as I wrongly mentioned earlier in the topic.

In my opinion was the greatest heel commentator in the history of wrestling. He wasn't a bad manger either.

Damn it, this sucks. Maybe he won't be in pain any longer. Hopefully he will get to rest in peace.

http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/09/18/bobby-the-brain-heenan-passes-away
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I have been watching some streams of Samus Returns, and it looks damn good actually. More importantly it feels like a natural 2d Metroid game. Mercury Steam has made some terrible games, but this doesn't look like one of them.

The most impressive thing about Samus Returns is the difficulty level of the game. Metroid games should be hard, and this fame looks brutal in places.

I suppose the game can be critiqued for being very much the same Metroid games that were made before like Zero Mission or Fusion, but enough has been added to keep it fresh.

Basically the same complaints about the static nature of this game could be made with the Legend of Zelda games until Breath of the Wild, or Ocarina of Time bought Zelda into the third dimension.

Either way a new 3D Prime game is coming probably in 2019 for The Switch so hopefully we get more 2d games along with the Prime 3d games. A Switch 2d Metroid would be sweet.
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One of the more terrible aspects of kidney failure and being on hemo dialysis, other than the 2 two inch needles that get stabbed in my chest 3 times a week, is the fact that I'm on constant fluid restriction.

Meaning I only csn drink 24 to 32 ounces of fluid in a 24 hour period. It stinks because that is not a lot of liquid. That's basically a little over one bottle of water a day. There is also hidden liquid in food. Soup, Apple sauce, ice cream, it's all counted as liquid.

I basically just eat ice all day. I know it's liquid, but it's not consumed as fast. It's miserable because I really can't eat chicken wings during football games because of the heat and thus the thirst that follows from the heat. (Bye, bye hot wings or any spicy food.)

Can any of you imagine living like this for a few days, weeks, or 4 years like I have? Did I mention the needles beind stabbed in my chest?
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Kind of sad that I didn't get a Beta code for Dragonball Fighters Z. I have been watching the game on stream for a few hours and it looks as wonderful as it did at E3.

I love Arc Systems Work games. Guilty Gear, Blaz Blue, and even the Persona 4 fihting game were all solid. I especially love the music in Guilty Gear. (Shout out to Noontide, i l lovw that track.)

However, as a 90's kid I have a special place in my heart for Dragonball Z. Anyway the game looks great.
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The only time Big Show was cool or useful was in WCW when he was billed as Andre The Giant's son, nd came to the ring smoking cigarettes.

In his WWE career he has mostly jobbed and put over younger talent. He also cried a lot too. Seriously, the man can cry on demand.

Basically Big Show is only as strong or weak as the story line calls for in that particular feud.
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As much as I love wrestling I have let my WWE network subscription lapse. I do watch, rather I fast forward, through most of Raw and Smackdown, but I only care about the big 4 pay per views anyway. And by then they usually offer a free month, and I don't miss the things I really care about.

As for Braun... I too like him a lot and I don't usually like the monster characters that Vince builds. However, they are going to probably feed him to Roman or Brock, and both of them suck.

Roman is about as interesting as watching paint dry, and Brock is just a roided up part timer that greatly benefits from Paul Heyman being stellar on the mic. It's hard if not impossible to get behind those 2 morons.

However, I do love me some Miz. How do all of you feel about him?
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Vince McMahon is 72 years old. 72. He isn't 50 or even sixty. And by God can this man take a bump! Not only that, but he's better on the Mic and cutting a promo than 3/4 of the wrestling talent he has on his roster.



No wonder he has to send Ole Roman the Reigns to acting classes. The man has carnival barker in his blood. Great job Vince, and nurse that massive headache he probably has this afternoon. I mean he's going to nurse it with booze, pills, and steroids, but he deserves those things.
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Apple now wants you to pay a grand for an Iphone X. I'm not paying 1 dollar for any Apple product let alone a grand for a phone that does the same exact thing a 150 dollar Android phone can do. (Wirelss charging included.)

Wait... Androids can't unlock the phone with your face. Well, that's clearly worth a thousand dollars.

I'm just sick of these yearly press conferences that don't announce anything new or worthwhile. Just slightly better versions of last years phone. This is the phone industry's version of Madden.

And I don't buy Madden wither.
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J.J. Is back to direct Episode IX.

After Disney, and by Disney I mean Kathleen Kennedy, fired apparent ego maniac Colin Trevorrow, they needed a writer and director for Star Wars episode IX and J.J. was free.

I like The Force Awakens, and this just completes the circle. Hopefully, the movie isn't a remake of Jedi because Ewoks suck. Sorry Sobe. (Who I hope isn't dead.)
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Nintendo says to not pay more than 80 bucks for the SNES Classic Edition. (Which is the retail price.)

My suggestion to that is to make more consoles so there isn't a shortage, and to directly control the preorder process instead of farming it out to retailers to mess up spectacularly.

All I know is that my handicapped butt is going to be at Best Buy on the 24th very very early. That way the wife and I can get tickets to actually get a copy. I suggest you do the same if you want a copy of the retro console.

http://gizmodo.com/nintendo-urges-public-don-t-pay-more-than-80-for-snes-1803138702
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I'm just going to leave this video right here.



Also, Metroid Samus Returns drops on Friday. I'm broke but I want the game, and Nintendo games never really drop in price. Therefore, playing the waiting game and hoping for a price drop isn't a viable iption.

Are any of you geeks playing Destiny 2? If so is it better than Destiny vanilla? I'm thinking it's just marginally better than the first. Which means it's not woeth owning or investing hundreds of hours into the game.
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I watch football for the geometry. The angles of the passes and the leverage required to push a 280 pound human around. You know, math and all that jazz.

On geekier notes It (The Movie) has made a metric ton of money this weekend. And I heard that the movie is actually pretty good too. I will never be able to see the movie as my wife has terrible nightmares and does not watch scary movies. Which means I don't watch scary movies.

Therefore, if any of you do see the movie let me know if It (The Movie) is any good.
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NFL football starts today or what my wife and I call it, CTE ball. Sadly this takes a day away from my video game playing schedule, and as my back log is huge this is a problem.

I already know The Cowboys aren't going to win The Superbowl, but I can pretend for the next 17 weeks of the year that they can. At this poiknt I think I route for The Cowboys because so much hate exist for them that I do it out of spite. And isn't spite how things really get accomplished in life?
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I have three thoughts about that picture.

One of them is that Jerry Lawler is "The King" of perverts.

On a separate note: My wife is convinced that Hurricane Irma is somehow going to Miss Florida and destroy us here in South Mossissippi. Her mom has the same thoughts too. She's looking more and more correct as NOAA keeps shifting the damn storm further West with each update.

As I can't live without fresh water because I need kidney dialysis 3 times a week, it means I could be venturing to north Texas on Monday or Tuesday. Either way I hope she is wrong, but we will know if her psychic powers are strong by tomorrow night.

She had already called her mom about taking care of the kitty cats. (Batman and Ellie.)
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In The King's defense Paige isn't the worst looking lady that worked in the WWE. (Sable, Awesome Kong, Alexa Bliss.) Well, Bliss needs yo eat a damn sammich. (Yes, I'm aware she has anorexia, but she's way too scrawny for my taste.) Awesome Kong is just scary and to think she has a kid. Sable was just not attractive to me.

However, Paige is a bit nasty, and by a bit nasty, I mean real nasty. Her marrying Alberto Del Rio plus the sex tape with Brad Maddox and Xavier Woods sealed her nastiness for me. That's not even mentioning the fact that she has all sorts of issues. Drugs, self esteem, and mommy and daddy issues. Also, abandonment issues too.

The King is still doing what any other guy would do. Look at a decent looking girl's ass. I'm not going to judge him for doing that at all.
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Holy Crap I thought Bobby "The Brain" Heenan was dead. Son of a gun. Yeah, cancer is a pain in the rear.

I've been trying to mention that in South Park: The Fractured but Whole that if you start the game as a minority (Basically Black) the game difficulty is harder. The choices are less favorable, people treat you worse, and overall life in the game is more of a challenge.

The obvious response is, "That's racist." But it is pretty funny and truthful. I'm sure the NAACP is going to complain, but as a minority o thinking pretty funny.

What do some of you non minorities thunk?
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The two best things Booker T has ever done is his "King Booker" gimmick after winning King of the Ring. It was great the he had a terrible fake British accent and called everyone "Peasants."

The second thing was his horrible,but funny, fued with The Boogeyman where he screamed and cried how much he hated, "That Worm Eating Bastard."

Both of those feuds made me laugh, and thus they get a pass.

His commentary is not on that list, but I've heard worse. The truth is we all need Bobby "The Brain" Heenan to not be dead and come and show people how to do great color heel commentary.

"Get this ham and egger out of the ring."
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The whole Corey Graves "Finding" a video tape of Enzo and Cass was just terrible. So damn terrible that I just asked my wife if she remembered that happening and she went, "Huh... No...!"

The only thing she remembers about Corey Graves isn't his stint in NXT, but the fact that he's never not given money to a tatoo parlor. Look at him, he's a walking back alley tatoo parlor billboard. Or he's helping one particular tatoo artist put his kod's through college.

Either way he's what we got on commentary and he's better than The King verbally sexually harrasing all the female wrestlers every single match.

The commentary choices are slim over at WWE.
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JBL was still a problem for the overall environment, but him quitting versus getting fired really doesn't do anything for the environment and culture of bullying at WWE.

Nevertheless, he was just okay on commentary and I'm not saying Corey Graves is a better choice as a heel commentator, but maybe things will just get a little bit better behind the scenes. Like a half rainbow after a bad thunderstorm.

I miss CM Punk. He was great in the ring and on commentary and he was awesome at cutting promos.
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I love you Entity. Mainly for answering the topic question. But also for being an awesome gal too.

I honestly thought that answering the opening question was a newbie trap.

Either way good job answering the question.
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"Anything can happen on Halloween. Your dog could turn into a cat."



Thank you all for posting and keeping the topic going. You know the rules by now. Post anything Geek related. Comic books, video games, music, wrestling, board games, movies, television, etc... As long as it's Geek related or interesting.

Per usual we have an opening question to keep the topic going, and that question is:

"Who is your favorite and least favorite video game protagonist and antagonist? Explain why."

Bonus Question: How could their appearance in the game have been improved to make the experience actually enjoyable?

Wrap up from "Super Geek Odyssey" coming up!
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