It affected me, but nowhere near the way it affected others. I thought Celes's suicide attempt in FFVI was a more moving moment.

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How tough is the game? Is it around the same difficulty of Dragon Quest V and VI on DS or is it tougher?

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It's pretty tough. IIRC, it's been a while I played it a while ago on the NES; DWIII was the hardest one of the 4 original NES titles.

I thought DWII was tougher actually, but III comes in a very close 2nd.

Think it's tough now, wait till you get to new game plus...

Actually, new game + isn't that bad, but you really have to mind your surroundings a lot more and know how to give yourself some breathing space from your enemies. Bad@ss psychos give me a hard time in plus mode, but maybe I just need to find a gun with some more punch.

It depends. If you are looking for most "bang for the buck" I'd say Borderlands 2. However if you never played the first, then I might recommend Dishonored. You don't need to play the first Borderlands to enjoy BL2, but it helps in regards to stroy and characters.

No. Play FFVI on SNES, then play it on GBA. You can tell there were limitations of what the GBA can do just by listening to the music.

I will say that gamespot's review is pretty much on the money. It's Borderlands; they didn't really change much, they just improved everything from the original. The story is already more interesting, Handsome Jack is one of those villains that are likable even though he is a jerk, the AI is smarter(not a whole lot smarter, though), the guns do seem more varied although I'm still rather early in. The enemy variety is bigger, I can tell that already. Vehicles are back, but sadly they control the same as before.

I picked the Siren, and thus far I'm having a pretty good time. I will say though, if you got tired of brown in the first game you'll breathe a sigh of relief when you start seeing colors outside of gray and white. First couple hours of the game that's about all you'll see. As much as I miss phasewalking, the phaselock is great in it's own right. Come on to a group with a bunch of enemies that has a badass in their ranks? Throw him in a bubble and dispatch the rest. On more than one occasion that has been a saving grace.

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[QUOTE="Fightingfan"] There's been internet goes back to the 60s, and goes mainstream around the late 80s, there's not reason we needed magazines in the 90s, or late 80s. Paper printing is a dead media, that still doesn't answer the question as to why we need them now. Especially PC gamers, who are typically less ignorant in their hobby then other video game consumers.Emerald_Warrior

I didn't know of anyone having the internet until probably 1994. I'm sure a very, very small minority of people had the internet in the late 80s and early 90s, but it wasn't until the late 90s that the internet became way more mainstream, at least in terms of personal use. Because of the lack of mainstream online use, the role gaming magazines plated, even PC gamer, was huge in terms of gaming news.

There were message boards and email, and amazingly enough even some game servers back in the 80s and very early 90s. But the modern internet, as in the world wide web didn't exist until the early 90s. IIRC it was 1991. I did a paper on this a long time ago. You can actually still go and visit the original public URL that first opened back then.

http://info.cern.ch/

But in all practicality, your average middle-class American didn't really have internet until AOL got popular in the latter half of the 90s. Thank god we all got smart enough to move beyond AOL.

This.

Based on my own experiences I would even say it was even the very late 90's-very early 2000's in which you could consider the internet to be found in a majority of homes. It didn't begin for me until 1999 and that was with WebTV(anyone remember those?).

So yeah, gaming magazines were important all through the 80's and 90's.

never understood gaming magazines, especially PC gamer. Just google what you wanna know.Fightingfan

There was a time when the internet didn't exist, you know. ;)

Not surprising as the digital age has all but taken over...but still depressing :(

It was a great run. Thanks for the memories, Nintendo.