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[Matt W]

Play the first one, fuck the second.

[Andy]

matt w is stupid and i hate him.
Both are good, fun games, with a lot of neat environments and weapons. I would MUCH rather play Kingdom Hearts than any Final Fantasy game, even the two I enjoyed.

[Matt W]

First time quarrel, honeymoon's over from here on out!

But I don't see the appeal of playing a game where

A) To understand what's going on you have to have played not only its predecessor, but a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GAME on a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT system.
B) Your first 3-4 hours are rendered pretty much meaningless.
C) You can win the entire game, every boss, secret boss, Olympus Coliseum cup, etc. by simply mashing the same attack button over and over and over again. (And occasionally throwing in the trigger button triangle thing) The first game utilized all of the different spells in very well conceived fights (The Phantom, Ice Titan come to mind). True story: I never used a summon in KH2.

[Alex]

They're both okay, but were it not for their licensing tie-ins I don't think anybody would care that much about them.

But doing a whole bunch of cool Disney stuff (flying with Peter Pan, basically going through the plots of a bunch of fun movies, a Steamboat Willie level, etc) combined with some angst makes them pretty fun games to play through for kids.

[Andy]

First time quarrel, honeymoon's over from here on out!

But I don't see the appeal of playing a game where

A) To understand what's going on you have to have played not only its predecessor, but a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GAME on a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT system.
B) Your first 3-4 hours are rendered pretty much meaningless.
C) You can win the entire game, every boss, secret boss, Olympus Coliseum cup, etc. by simply mashing the same attack button over and over and over again. (And occasionally throwing in the trigger button triangle thing) The first game utilized all of the different spells in very well conceived fights (The Phantom, Ice Titan come to mind). True story: I never used a summon in KH2.

A) I didnt and had a perfectly enjoyable time with the sequel.
B) There was maybe two hours of intro stuff, which is admittedly much more than I wanted to play, but every RPG has a intro period of some sort.
C) Its a shame you didn't use summons, because some of them were kind of neat. In my experience summons are usually either extraneous or something you totally depend on. This might fall into the prior, but I still summoned them because they are super neato (minus chicken little because seriously). You CAN button mash most the time, but not always. And the reaction commands I thought were awesome.

Its a fun game to play, with a lot of fun reaction commands, summons, magic, weapons, environments, power ups, and party members. I don't need much more than that.


and thats the bottom line you candy ass

[Breffix]

A couple that I'm friends with broke up recently. The break-up actually started because of this game (he thought it sucked, she thought it was awesome). I'm no longer friends with either of them. It's just a frickin game, people. Damn.

[James]

hahah wow that's like Internet Message Board Hyperbole gone horribly awry

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

A couple that I'm friends with broke up recently. The break-up actually started because of this game (he thought it sucked, she thought it was awesome). I'm no longer friends with either of them. It's just a frickin game, people. Damn.

You have to give us the details now.

[Alan]

yeah the most important question being 'which game was it'

[webber]

kingdom hearts, the game currently being discussed

[Andy]

i would never leave matt for love of the game


unless he was a real dick about it

[blacktoothgrin]

I fell out with someone over Kingdom Hearts too. They spent all their time badly drawing themselves making out with Sora (but not Roxas cos omg!!1!!) and like spending hours telling me why they thought there was no Oliver & Company level.

[Andy]

I support your decision to forget them forever.

[Breffix]

Yeah, it was Kingdom Hearts II, but not just that. He didn't like that game, which apparently meant the world to her. And she equally didn't like Half Life 2, which was a "huge slam against (his) personality." This led to further and further arguments all equally stupid. You'd think you'd get something mundane like that figured out before getting married. Each consecutive fight they had made me think that I didn't really want these people as my friend.

I stopped hanging out with them before they broke up (apparently she found another KH2 fan in Arizona and left him one day), so I don't know what they're up to now.

All I'm saying is, no matter how good a game is, it's not worth fighting about. I play Warcraft III occasionally at a gaming center and although I'm great at Enfo's, everyone wants to play frickin Dota. I suck at Dota. People on my team (who have coerced me into playing, mind you) get so upset at me sucking that the game is no longer fun for them or me. It's just a damn game people. Always remember that.

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

Wow, what a couple of sad, pathetic individuals.

I literally pity them.

[Andy]

agreed.

[Matt W]

Hey Mugsy remember that time we wiped the floor with some folks from this board in the Rail USA game?

See we are cool now.

[Andy]

I remember something of that nature occurring as I sat stupidly in the corner staring at the inner brim of my dunce cap waiting for you to tell me what to do.

[Maynard,]

They actually divorced over it? Breaking up is one (over melodramatic) thing, but actually divorcing? That is possibly the dorkiest thing I have ever heard in my life. You'd think this kind of information, ranking it as highly as they did, would be brought up sometime during the courting period.

[blacktoothgrin]

Whatever makes them happy, I guess. If it wasn't working out then they done the right thing to split up.