Semjaza

In terms of RPGs? For games in general, it depends on the genre. Anyway, I'd personally put character development first. This is most important to me in any RPG, moreso than a great involving story even. Good character development can totally make up for an average story. I find that since FF6 (which I admittedly love anyway), character development in the series is very mechanical. All the other things you have listed here depend on the game, but I'd put gameplay first in any of them. Design would probably be second.

Like was said... Try [url]www.gamefaqs.com[/url] and [url]www.gamewinners.com[/url] It's honestly really hard to review a game fairly if you cheat through it, but good luck heh :).

Being about 50s horror movies is all well and good. Fantomas has done stuff like that (although basically just covers of horror movie songs, but damn good anyway), and that's mostly what the Misfits are. Murderdolls just messed up somewhere along the way in my opinion.

I think it is one of the most shallow fighting games I've ever played. It's like a poor man's Virtua Fighter 4. I do not get it's popularity at all. I was kind of annoyed that DOA2 got average reviews, and then DOA3 came along... Despite being nearly exactly the same in every way it was getting great scores, some even calling it the best fighter ever (I believe Game Informer did this). This was all thanks to graphics.

What is this? 90 minutes of stupid crap instead of the normal 20 or so? Hope everyone else likes it, but I'm saving my money lol.

Even if that was the reason, they'd just replace him. It's not like that's not happened before.

I've liked AHC for years, and it was nice that they finally got a CD out that was easy to get hah. I didn't know anyone from Slipknot was involved right now. Someone tried telling me the Murderdolls sound like the Misfits, so I checked them out. The only way they are even related is in the pure campiness of the lyrics. I personally do not like the band. Oh well. Still kind of upset that I missed the Misfits show in Wisconsin a few days ago... Although I don't care as much considering only 1/4 of the real lineup was there haha.

There is an official site now... [url]www.playonline.com/ffx2/index.html[/url] There is a lot of info, art and shots available. Some cool wallpapers too.

The only deep thought to ever result from MadTV.

Yeah, Activision snuck it out the doors for all the systems already. PS2 would probably be the best version to get as it is the officially only online version. GC version supposedly runs the worst. Anyway, if you are desperate... try out [url]www.gamefaqs.com[/url]

I think the story mode is great. If you play it on Easy, of course there are less enemies and objectives that on Mormal. But what I thought was cool, is that you actually play less of the level on Easy. I've seen stuff in Normal and Hard that you can't even get to on Easy mode. Arcade Mode rocks too. I've only been playing Amateur League (which is overly easy to get Gold on), but it's a lot of fun. I've only player 2 player multi, but even that was great. The best muliplayer experience I ever had on a console lol. I'd say this is best FPS I ever played on a console too.

There supposedly are art galleries and such to unlock... I'm hoping a sound test too. Never know. In the meantime, Timesplitters 2 is still kickass :).

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Aries [/i] [B][color=darkblue][size=1] And who's Aries Spears? I swear I learn a new derivitive (if that's the right word and if I spelled it right) to my screen name every day. [/color][/size] [/B][/QUOTE] That one guy from MadTV... I was kidding around, I figured it wasn't based on that hahaha.

Well whatever it was... It was like 1 AM when I wrote it haha. Thanks though. Anyway, check out K, Glitter Girl, Creature and Crazy if you're insterested. I can't remember right now, but I think only Crazy is on their last CD. [url]http://www.kidneythieves.com/music.asp?bg=m[/url]

Put [url] before it and [/url ] after it. Take the space out of the second one. Should work after that.

I'm actually really surprised that Aries name isn't based of the god of war Aries... Maybe it's from Aries Spears haha :P.

My friend was telling me all this weird stuff about the show. Such as Helena being a mutant... He also went on about Joker paralyzing Batgirl, but that happened in the comics, so I don't know what his problem is hehe. Is the show that good? Smallville seems really hit or miss, and I don't know that I can stomach this show if it's mostly teen drama stuff.

I'm not sure what you mean by this... Bands that are doing well, but are still unknown to most people? Bands that are signed to bigger labels, yet aren't big themselves? I find that most everyone knows who Jimmy Eat World is.

Yes... I've had them in my sig forever, and it's nice to hear someone else likes them heh. Most of the songs on the CD are quite good. The vocalist has a nice voice, it's nice to have someone in an "industrial" type band that sounds good (although I find most female vocalists actually try to sing, and a lot of the male ones don't lol)... and while some of the lyrics are kind of predictable, I like the sound. In case this might help someone... Kidneytheives did that song at the end of the really, really bad movie "Queen of the Damned." It was called When I'm Dead, and to me was one of the better parts of the film heh. Curve is better than Kidneytheives in nearly every way though :). They are somewhat simliar in idea, but Curve seems more... I don't know, just more talented and interesting.

It was stuck in a list of games everyone "thought" Nintendo would bring over here... That included stuff like Tomato Adventure, Magical Vacation and Fire Emblem. No news since then, who knows if it'll ever come here. Custom Robo started off on the N64. I believe Marigul made it (whoever it was, it was an upstart small game studio Nintendo helped fund). The concept was that you built these robots and had them do things and battle. There were two, and neither came out here. I'm hoping for the GBA version to make it here, but I'm not optimistic. Atlus has been trying to bring over weird games Nintendo didn't bring here itself (such as Cubivore, Tactics Ogre on GBA and Ogre Battle 64). I'm hoping they might pick up some of these games as well.

Not a big fan of Madonna (cool way back, now she is kind of blending in with everyone else). The song itself is not bad though... I think someday they should use the song "My Big Hero" by 12 Rounds in a Bond movie heh :).

Dickens bored the hell out of me... I love to read, and as anyone in or past highschool knows, you probably have to read a few things by him (as well as so many others). I can barely read the first 20 pages of anything he writes, as there are just far too many useless details in them for my taste. Some people might like that, but bleh. I didn't like one of them. I would have rather we spent more time with writers like Longfellow and Shakespeare, but that's me. I still hate thinking that I had to read Dickens, Grapes of Wrath and Portrait of a Lady. Yuck.

Long, long story... I get really long winded about it, so scroll down to the bottom if you don't want to read it all... it's summarized down there. [b]Long version: [/b]Azazel isn't exactly "satan" as so many movies make people believe, even if his name is one of the infernal names contained in LaVey's Satanic Bible (so are Ifrit and Shiva, for FF people hah). I generally assume Semjaza-Azazel and Azazel are the same angel due to references to the name in the Bible and Apocyrpha. Long ago books of the Bible, which came to be known as the Apocrypha, had not yet been removed from the Bible, and so they were still considered Scripture, and therefore the Law. Most people don't know about these books now, but they were more or less removed. Among them were the Enochian Gospels and the Infant Gospels (which detailed the child life of Jesus, a lot of which involved him acting out in anger and killing others as he got used to his powers). Anyway, the books also tell of the Watchers, angels whose duty it was to watch over mankind. They became too interested though, and came down to earth to teach man what they knew, as well as having childen with some of then women (all Watchers are male). Two hundred of them, led by the great angel [b]Semjaza-Azazel[/b], are said to have come here in the age between Creation and the Flood. They taught men many things they weren't exactly supposed to know... medicine, astronomy, writing, weapsons making, smithing and even birth control and abortion. Most importantly they taught man the art of magic. The Apocrypha makes it very clear that magic is something from Heaven, a skill given to people directly through these angels (with ironicly is one of the reasons it was removed, considering magic is considered "evil" as of now). Of course, considering man wasn't supposed to know this, the archangels angels complained to God (Michael, Gabriel, Sariel and Uriel). I'd imagine mostly because these were sacred and secret things only angels were supposed to know of at the time. God had punished angels for giving men secrets in the past (such as Prometheus for teaching man fire), so he sent his angels to punish the Watchers. They were defeated in battle, forced to watch as their families were slaughtered (their children were known as the Nephilim, mostly slaughtered because they were simply not [i]supposed[/i] to exist - although it's not very clear that they were completed eradicated, as stories say they are the ones resonsbile for the Tower of Babel), and then imprisoned in the mountains, deserts and seas of the earth until Judgement Day, when they will be cast into the lake of eternal fire. Basically, Hell. A lot of this leads into the start of Vampires as well... The Nephilim are said to have basically become the slaves of men until they rose against them... Killing them, devouring them and drinking their blood. Apparently, they did this to eachother as well. A lot of stories seem to make reference to this, especially paper based Vampire RP games (Book of Nod comes to mind). [b]Short version:[/b] Semjaza-Azazel led his fellow angels down to earth. He personally taught man weapon making and usage, and I also belive the art of war. He and his kind were defeated by God and the archangels, and are now destined to suffer for enternity.. Like the rest of the watchers he is basically considered a fallen angel. I am not very clear on if he is considered the same angel as Azazel (I would say yes they are the same, but it's not like I'm the foremost authority lol); Azazel is more or less considered a demon at this point. If anyone read all that, I owe them a cookie :D Edited for clarity ;).

Just got an email... I'm accepted into the beta testing program. Too bad I don't have 50 bucks to get the Live kit, but I'll scrounge it up haha. And according to journalists invited to Xbox Live bootcamps, MS can flag and pick out modded Xboxes. In fact, they went so far to say that Unreal Championship will be disabled on any Xbox that uses an Evolution mod.

Considering how much he seems to care about both of them, I'm not about to stick one in the category of "easy" girls (I assume this is what you mean by exposing lol). He also said the one he is with would get upset, so obviously she is the type to have these "you're cheating on me!" emotions. I just think it's in his best interest not to risk upsetting either of them, and just sort his thoughts out on this. I'm not going to say that he should go with one or the other... There aren't even enough facts here for anyone to really pick one over the other. It is definite that he has to sort out what he's thinking anyway, and I'm willing to bet that they'd still be around when he made a decision. Everyone can have their opinion on it... But that's mine hah.