posted 2004/08/12 at 19:49
In my video game discussion yesterday, I failed to mention that one of the things I was going to do this summer was to pick up Final Fantasy XI for PS2, but I've yet to do so. Really, as many good things as I've heard about it, I just don't think that the MMORPG experience can create the same lush storytelling that a pre-scripted RPG can. It also doesn't help that I heard all the horror stories about people losing their lives to MMORPGs before I ever tried one, and so I've been trying to avoid them. And in all honesty, I don't think Square should have made the game part of the "official" Final Fantasy lineage; in the past, games which deviated significantly from the FF template were assigned out-of-sequence titles like Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy Mystic Quest; why not make this new title "Final Fantasy Online" or something along those lines?
The paperwork snafu at UT apparently is resolved now, because I was able to register for classes yesterday. I still have to figure out when I'll need to meet for my research assistant duties, plus I need to schedule counseling and office hours up in the Spectrum office. I guess all of that kind of makes up for only having three courses this semester, huh? And I still don't know what's up with my Honours Thesis; one of my advisors called me yesterday, but the second is still AWOL so I have no clue when I'll be doing my defence. As long as I can still go to classes a week from Monday, though, I'm cool.
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