Anime, a love affair or passing fancy?

[Charter_Mage]

I still think that 90%+ of games are derivative and/or crap, but that doesn't matter, because I've diversified myself a bit now.

This is completly nothing to do with the topic but really why are there so many rubbish games, and why can't i ever get the kind of game i want. Is there a reason i ask why you can't have beautiful graphics like a final fantasy game and it not be a boring turn based strategy game or a beat em' up. Why can't there be a fantasy game like final fantasy, with interesting characters like final fantasy and the option of co-op missions like the third LOTR game but it not be a turn based strategy game.

 

[Miaka-chan]

pokemon was a global obsession at one point i think. Yay imprisoning animals and making them kill each other! XD

Pokemon don't die in battle, if they did I could NEVER play my games again :cry:
I think they only die of old age :lol:
I love Pokemon - I want a Blastoise and a Garados

 

[subedii]

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=1

 

[Charter_Mage]

Pokemon don't die in battle, if they did I could NEVER play my games again :cry:
I think they only die of old age :lol:
I love Pokemon - I want a Blastoise and a Garados

Yeah i was going to pick up on that but i thought i would leave it.
I love all the cutsie ones like Togepi etc, but my favourite is Charizard (i've always loved dragons....and wolves....ow, and dogs....oooo and guys that turn into dogs and wolves....ok, ok i will shut up now).
I still love Pokemon....always will, and i will never regret the hundreds of pounds i spent buying cards or the even more hundreds of pounds i spent buying merchandise, in fact i still watch it sometime....even with that stupid Max and May

 

[Rurouni H]

The key is balance. I don't know how it is for everyone else, but for me, if I do something, (even something I really enjoy) too much, I'm going to end up getting bored with it.

Take a break, give it some time, and come back with fresh eyes. It could be a week, it could be months or even a year. But it makes your entertainment a lot more satisfying in the end.

Same with me, I've found. Like food, you eat one thing constantly, you get really really bored of it.

 

[LadyGreen]

To live with anime is like a piece of my soul is missing. Anime's my whole life (pathetic) , with out anime I wouldn't be me. I would be some misserable girl working from 9 to 5 going home and doing nothing. Nothing to look forward too. But anime the more I have the more I want. :twisted: :wink:

No, no, no, you should never think it's pathetic to love anime so much. Anime is such a wonderful part of my life, with out it i would just be a friendless loser with a freakish love of collecting. With it my lifes a little less boring, and also it makes me to laugh to myself sometime to think that i have discovered such a great thing while there are still many people who won't even give it the light of day and don't know what they are missing

Yeah your right is not pathetic. I dodn't know were would I be with out anime. I wouldn't have that good friends I have now. 8)


Valha

 

[Tessai]

Anime

I'd just shrivel up and die without Anime.

22 years old, 178 R2 Anime dvds, and my interest is never waining

 

[Ramen89]

I feel incomplete without anime, lol not really but my life wouldnt be the same without it, I dont understand how some people dont like it, If I ever get bored of anime somebody shoot me.

 

[Garnet]

sorry about the mistake. The Final Fntasy anime looks nothing like the games but apparantly there was another anime and manga made based on the 7 to 9 characters.

 

[valha]

sorry about the mistake. The Final Fntasy anime looks nothing like the games but apparantly there was another anime and manga made based on the 7 to 9 characters.

Well there is Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children thats based after final fantasy 7 and is all done in CG. That should be out soon in japan.

 

[Charter_Mage]

Well there is Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children thats based after final fantasy 7 and is all done in CG. That should be out soon in japan.

I'm really looking forward to this, beautiful CG work and there looks like theres going to be a few good looking guys aswell....i hope i won't be too lost by the plot though because i havn't played Final Fantasy VII

 

[Red XIII]

Well there is Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children thats based after final fantasy 7 and is all done in CG. That should be out soon in japan.

I'm really looking forward to this, beautiful CG work and there looks like theres going to be a few good looking guys aswell....i hope i won't be too lost by the plot though because i havn't played Final Fantasy VII

To be honest, I'll doubt there'll be much of a plot, the emphasis will probably be on visuals.

 

[Charter_Mage]

To be honest, I'll doubt there'll be much of a plot, the emphasis will probably be on visuals.

True, true. I didn't think a huge amount of the first film, but then i think that bombed at the box office for the reason that there wasn't much of a plot, and so i heard that they tried to make it alot better this time round, but i guess we'll see

 

[subedii]

From what I've been reading they're aiming this film mainly at the fans (EDGE had a good interview and preview of it related to this, I might post some of the questions and answers later if you guys are interested), not at the massmarket. While having played FFVII isn't essentiall, you likely will miss out a fair chunk of it if you see the film without having done so.

That's one of the reasons why it's mainly a DVD release (IIRC, there still aren't any real plans for a theatrical release, at least not on a major scale).

Basically, they aren't intent on repeating what happened with Spirits Within. From the previews I read of the special showing (IIRC, there was a special pre-screening of an incomplete version of the film at the Venice film festival. 1up.com (which is a fairly major games website) did a writeup of it which sounds very positive. Personally, I just skimmed it, because it's got LOT's of spoilers (they give you a warni, it'ng before they start though, so that's OK. Basically the first couple of paragraphs and the last paragraph are designated 'safe' :mrgreen

Anyway, if you want to read it ( and remember, THERE ARE SPOILERS, so don't blame me if you read something you didn't want to know until you watched it in person), it's here:

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3134435&did=1

As for me, it's been years since I played FFVII, but I reckon I remember enough to watch the film and get it.