Do you actualy play Yu-Gi-Oh?

I enjoy pissing fanboys off too. And on that note I agree with you, Naruto is not a ninja! He’s just a possesed emo punk. Have you ever seen a ninja that wears Orange?

naruto sucks ive seen the first 2 mins and i was freaked out wtf is sexjitsu after he shouts tht out loud he turns into a naked woman
sourounded by smoke its freaky!

Well, aside from your rants, Kefka’s song is the best part of this game so far. Which, of course, isn’t in this game.

Haha, nice Big Lebowski reference.

I thought that the Blitzball mini-game in Final Fantasy X was cool but I didn’t much care for the other mini-games.

Keep up the good work Spoony, I think that your music intro is awesome and that your Final Fantasy VIII review is one of your best.

there’s no card game in shenmue :D

Oh, Towers of Hanoi how I loathe you.

You made a KOTOR and a Big Lebowski reference you sir are now my favorite.

There is this action RPG called Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories. The entire battle system is card battles. P.S. the other two Kingdom Hearts games don’t have any card battles, but both have a world made of minigames, and also made by Square Enix. Okay the first one was made by Squaresoft but they are the same thing.

That STD illustration of the card rule is exactly how I’ve always described it, as well. I’m wondering if someone at Square was actually thinking of that when they came up with it.

How about a game of Lucky Hit. Haha just brilliant.

FF8 indeed is the worst FF game EVER. Even X-2 is better.

Okay, 1st off the Blitzball mini-game isn’t a card game, it’s more like underwater soccer/football which the only complaint I have there is how it’s nigh impossible to sustain air for more then 5 minutes underwater.

2nd I don’t see why it sucks, I mean yeah if you want the stuff for Wakka’s Overdrive and his Ult weapon you’ll have to play a lot so it’ll get repetitive, but other then that it’s pretty barebarable

I really don’t get why X has such a bad rap, okay I’ll admit some of the VA and the lip syncing was bad but other then that it was a pretty good game.

dude, i never changed the original rules, there’s a way to play with no new rules, just the original, I FUCKING HATE the aditional rules, but I also liked to play the card game with no new rules ^^

You said its been 17 years since you played it. FF8 hit stores in 99. Its only been out for 10 years. =/

Screw you Spoony.
Katamari Damacy has AMAZING music and is great despite making me want to shave my legs and watch musical theater for some reason.

OK I totally agree with this.

I fucking hate FF mini games as it is, but this…THIS TOOK THE PISS >:(

This game looks awful, but then again all final fantasy games look like trash. Maybe because I don’t like animu stuff. Good stuff though spoony.

I find it kinda funny how your ment to be on this world saving adventure traviling through space and time to defeat a powerful, menacing force…and still find the time to point you finger at 7 year old kids saying “neener neener” while you take his prized Dark Magician.

“Ugh Squall aren’t we on a quest to save humanity.”

“Well we’ll move on to that when I win my Shiva back from that stupid queen of cards”

I admit I enjoyed Tetra Master in FF9 but I cannot actually express why, especially because I DETEST Triple Triad. I cannot stand this card game. Which is odd, because the fundamental rules (before you get into the ridiculousness of other rules and town rules and blah, blah, blah) aren’t that different from Tetra Master.

God damn Triple Triad. Just… uuuugh.

You, sir, win massive points for making a reference to Shenmue II. Rock on.

Yeay for Katamari Damacy… that was the best part of the video … except the bad teacher -giggles- she’s so hot…

wait was he knocking Katamari or supporting it? I LOVED that game… come on spoony your not being an jerk are you?

Hmm i love RPG and would love to play D&D but i dont have the imagination, but i hate turned based games, seems to slow for me and as you said busy work, same animations 95% of the time. Reminds me of Digimon 2 for the Ps1 :P

The card games are one of the things I could have done without in ff8. Esp the random rule. I hardly even played it while playing ff8 because there is no need to. Once I had my Laguna card, I was happy to pretend the others didn't exist.

hey lovin the review! but whats that song in the middle its bugin the hell outta me!

kinda want to play spooney at mtg now

Yay! Kefka theme song for the start, only problem is that it was from the GBA mix. Still awesome though because VI was the best in the entire series.

I’ve never played FF8 and from what I’ve read of your review so far, I don’t think I’d be interested. When it comes to RPGs, I prefer easy to understand, intuitive systems. Not so easy I can go on autopilot but no so difficult that increasing my stats becomes a guessing game.

As for mini-games, I tend not to enjoy them because they tend to distract you from the plot. I actually enjoyed blitzball, though because I’m actually pretty good at it. The first game is frustrating and hard but after that you discover that somehow you’re maybe the third best team in the league, and once you level your guys up they can actually do some pretty cool things.

I’ve never played FF8 and from what I’ve read of your review so far, I don’t think I’d be interested. When it comes to RPGs, I prefer easy to understand, intuitive systems. Not so easy I can go on autopilot but no so difficult that increasing my stats becomes a guessing game.

As for mini-games, I tend not to enjoy them because they tend to distract you from the plot. I actually enjoyed blitzball, though because I’m actually pretty good at it. The first game is frustrating and hard but after that you discover that somehow you’re maybe the third best team in the league, and once you level your guys up they can actually do some pretty cool things.

Can’t tell if the Katamari reference was positive or negative… Maybe it was neither. But I thought it was a fun puzzler, if you can get past the ungodly fruity overtones. Interesting work of art as far as games go. Not recommended for drug addicts, would probably freak ‘em out in a big way.

The card games in RPGs are indeed a bit ridiculous. I don’t mind them as side things that you aren’t required to mess with aside from like one little five minute mission, like Pazzak in KotoR… but I don’t wanna be forced into those things. Give me poker, or solitaire, or chess in a game. That’s cool, that’s awesome. But to heck with these crappy card games I would never play again outside of one specific RPG. I don’t understand the rhyme or reason behind learning a whole card game, then never using that info IRL or even in the following games. What is the point? That’s space for information that my head could use learning spanish or programming or something. It’s nonsense. =/ Teach us something useful, RPG Industry.

I was getting so upset watching the card games and thinking “hate, hate, HATE”
But then Katamari popped up at the end and I don’t care whether it was a joke or not, FUCK YEAH KATAMARI, that’ll eliminate all of the bad memories from that skanky game.

Thirty hour sidequest?! That is fucking insane. I don’t really like sidequests in games but they’re okay if they don’t take long and you get a decent reward at the end. Harkening back to the classic that is OoT, getting a top score in the mini games gave you a bigger bomb bag or quiver and this had a purpose as you progress. Of course there are two I can think of that were pointless at least to me, not counting the Giant’s Knife: getting all 100 Skulltulas gives you only Rupees (1st 30/40 give good awards) and the Biggoron Sword sidequest, just use the Megaton Hammer in the final battle xoxo 

Did you just make fun of katamari damacy?

ahhhh….oooooh, frickin direct…yeah that sucks

You don’t actually have to play pazaak in Knights of the Old Republic.  or at least I never did.  I only did the swoop races because it actually involved something.  I mean who wants to play a card game in a….  Oh, sorry Spoony.

I think it was this game that started my hatred for side-quests in RPG. At least in Phantasy Star IV, you can do the side quests and in most cases level up your characters before doing the next main quest. But these days side quests are just plain stupid. And don’t even get me started on Blitzball.

Why did you even bother with mentioning the Card Game for fuck’s sake? I didn’t bother and I was way too young to know any better when it came out.

Holy shit you’re right, that’s the most annoying thing I’ve heard in quite some time.

I hate this game.

Wow, you complain about drawing magic (which I totally agree with), and then dismiss the rewards for the card game as being worthless stuff that you “don’t even need.” Those rewards are basically an endless supply of the best magic in the game without ever having to draw again! Given the completely backwards, counter-intuitive magic system that discourages you from ever casting magic because, if you do, you “lose” that magic, causing your junctioned stats to decrease, these card game rewards are excellent indeed!