Brainwashed by ASCII
My friend Stef and I agree that graphics are certainly not everything when it comes to playing games. Our friend Matt doesn’t agree, unless the game is in HD with ‘bloom‘ effects everywhere and even the tiniest graphical options turned up to the point his laptop melts or his PS3 catches fire, he won’t even consider playing it. He is what is know as, in our circle at least, a graphics whore.
No, he doesn’t sleep with people for money, and no, he doesn’t sleep with people for graphics even though that’s what this moniker may suggest. He just likes high-spec graphics in games a lot. This often surfaces in our chats about gaming (hey, we are computer science students, what do you expect us to talk about? Girls? pfft.) as the phrase “Yeah, but just look at the graphics!”.
Sometimes this is him proclaiming his love for the “realistic” people on screen and sometimes this is him brushing away these games like dirt off his shoulder.
More fool him I say.
The underdog has telekinesis
I am a big Final Fantasy fan. I have played most of them and also own quite a few of them too (I - PSX, II - PSX, III - DS, VII - PSX, VIII - PSX & PC, IX - PSX, X - PS2, X2 - PS2, XI - PC and XII - PS2) so I am greatly anticipating the worldwide (stops the Japanese completing it months before I get to put it in my console) release of the next installment - FFXIII. (more…)