My favorite subject is programming, although my current teacher in the subject is quite lazy :/

Okami, I first found that game in some big bin in a electronics store with a big sign on it that said "All items in bin at X price" (can´t remember the price but it was very low), since I was shopping for presents I decided to buy it for my little brother thinking it was just some very simplistic and linear game that a 8 years old may enjoy.

Later on nearly a year after the game had been bought I heard from a friend that it was a good game and decided to ask my little brother if he had plaid it and he said "I didn´t understand it" (he didn´t and still doesn´t understand English) and at that point I thought "this must be a good game", since me and my little brother are like ying and yang, the sky and the earth and RPGs and MMORPGs when it comes to what kind of games we like.

So I bought the game from him and started to play it and ATM I think it may be one of the best if not the best PS2 games I´ve ever plaid, has some original concepts, a lighthearted environment while still having a nice storyline, so yeah my vote goes to Okami.

YourMajestyKen : Did you even read all the posts, it is by far not enough for religions just to give you beliefs and faiths in "somethings" to justify religions being good. For example let´s look at my father, I´ve already mentioned that he believes with all his heart that because he is a devout believer that he will live longer than his atheist sons (he has 4 sons, 3 are atheists and the last one is too young to understand the issue). Now he has the belief and hope that we will die early and this is bread/breed/howeveryouspellit from his faith in Christianity, I don´t really see this as being a positive thing.

Belief is not a good thing by itself, despite what people tend to claim. And you can always have hope and faith and you can always "believe" in a better future even without religion, religion does promote faith in a better future in most of the cases, however also in most of the cases religion promotes bad things as well, so I personally think it would be better if there was no religion in the world at all, after all I´m atheist and I´ve got my own hopes for the future and so can others.

My view is that while most religions have both good and bad points like a good point with Christianity is that it encourages people to be kind and giving to others and a bad point is that it for example portraits the skin tone of people as a sign of personal virtue, where the fairer the skin the better and the darker the skin the worse (white and black, good and evil, God and Satan... ect, the kind of stuff the KKK was born from) there, there still is one main factor most religion boils down to. Believing despite the lack of evidence.

Believing something without actually needing proofs leads people to accept things without bothering to think for themselves why they believe it, my parents are both devout Christians and if I ever dare to badmouth their religion when they try to stuff it down my throat they get angry and refuse to listen to whatever arguments I bring to the table, and the funniest part is, they have never read the bible, I´m the atheist here and I´ve read more of the bible than they have, my parents don´t need the bible to tell them that god exists, they just have blind faith. In the same manner they do not feel the need to know the personality of someone of another belief system as they just believe that they are evil, my mother does not need to know if her magic trinkets work or not since she just has to believe they do, my dad does not need to think of any reasons I may die an early death before he comes of age since he just believes that god will punish me for being atheist by making me have an early death.

Such blind belief breeds ignorance and leads to people having stupid views of things, I don´t think that is a good thing so in my opinion religions that demote critical thinking and open mindedness in favor of blind belief are bad, I´ve drawn wisdom from Christianity myself, as it for example teaches that you should treat others as you expect them to treat you, so I will not simply say "Religion is evil in all ways and nothing good can come from it." But I will say that anything good religion can teach can be taught without it, and with the removal of all religions the bad things it promotes would be diminished as well (there will always be people of every sort so I won´t say any specific human trait will be gone if religion went away) so I think it´s a positive thing if all religions die out.

Finding out that cos I bought FFX unknowing that it was the international version I could not get to explore the world like I wanted to after beating the main storyline, I´m on the last boss now but I don´t think I will finish the game, this is just crap and it brings the whole game from a good score of like 7 down to maybe 3 out of 10.

I know I "can" explore the whole worlds but that´s a bit too much extra bother for something that is enforced upon me and not others just because I was ignorant of the fact that there FFX is different between if it´s European, international or any other version.

Kaiser19 : What I´m getting at is that this is a thread about manga but not anime, and the first part of Naruto is different in the manga than in the anime, the manga just has rich and awesome storyline but the anime is plagued with fillers that bring the quality of part 1 down. So it´s not quite right to state that Shippuden is better since that terms is mostly used when talking about the anime that has bad points that the manga does not have, if his initial statement had been "I liked part 2 more than part 1" I wouldn´t have been as bothered but "Naruto Shippuden is better than Naruto" implies that the fillers are taken into account as part of "Naruto" so while I hate fillers I think I can still say that it´s not quite rational in a manga thread to state that the first part of a story is worse than the 2nd part when the 1st part is different in its anime form and in its manga form.

Tested a few of the games (sorry for being slow on updating) and I must say they are challenging but I think I can beat them, however there is one thing that keeps putting me off from them, the reason I like games in the first place.

I have always been fascinated by rich story-lines and what better way to experience a rich storyline than to put yourself in the shoes of one of the characters and to take part in the story, however with for example Gradius I find myself lacking interest every time I start up the game, not because I don´t like the challenge but because in terms of storyline I don´t get rewarded enough. Yes this may sound quite stupid but it just goes to show what kind of a character I am and where my love for games stems from so I may not have tested those games as much as they deserved.

However I still stay by what I say, those games are by far harder than modern game but I think I could beat them however doing so would feel more like a grind to me than entertainment so I am not likely to finish all or any of those games.

legacyme3 : I think you are a little bit confused, in the manga there is not really any part of the story labeled specifically as "Shippuden", there is Part 1 that consists of all manga chapters up to 238 and then chapters 239-244 are a side story or a "Gaiden" that concerns the past of Hatake Kakashi and from 245 and onwards to the present story arch is Part two that starts at the same point as where Shippuden in the anime starts, that is when Naruto returns to Konoha(-gakure) after his journey with Jiraiya.

In the anime however the first 135 episodes are mainly the "Part 1" from the manga, the next 85 episodes are 'mostly' fillers so when judging the parts of the story it wouldn´t be prudent to say that Shippuden is better than the 220 episodes that come before it since episodes 136-220 of Naruto in the anime are not of the same quality and are not as fast paced as the episodes that follow the actual story from the manga.

So yeah, bottom line is that you need to take into account that a large part of the anime is only fillers and that the story from episodes 1-135+Shippuden-now should rather be counted as one fluent story that fits more together, and the purpose of this post, well it´s a bit of a personal campaign of mine against fillers, I just dislike fillers with a passion since they drag the quality of the story down and mislead viewers making them have a lower opinion of the whole story as it lays itself out in its entirety.

Making Fable 2 a Xbox exclusive was SUCH a good buisiness module.

Talking to dogs is more about the tone than the words, and the "make them feel human" thing is crap, the dog doesn´t care if he´s the only dog in a group of 4 =.=

So yeah about the tones, when a dog does something good people will often speak to it with light sweet mellow tones and such, and while shaming it in harsh angry tones, the words don´t matter, for example to compliment the dog you could say.

"Aaaawww I hate you b**ch and I hope you rot you evil mutt" in sweet tones, and to shame it you could go all...

"I LOVE YOU! YOU SEXY BEAST! YOU ARE THE BEST DOG EVER!"

At least as far as I understand it.

Oh final words, this is very important. Dogs, are, not, human.

Only cheated once, on my first math test ever in 1st grade of Elementary school.

I got a natural talent for maths and never have problem with it, but I also got ADD and I remember that in that test I wasn´t really paying attention to the paper I had just been given and I didn´t realize what was going on until the teacher said "time to turn in the tests" and I didn´t want to look stupid by getting a low grade so I started to do the test when the time was up XD and thus I cheated.

Never cheated again, I didn´t even know I had ADD back when I was a child so I thought I was just stupid or something not to notice a test was going on for 40 minutes! So I started to sit at the front desks and such from then on (and yes never missed a test again XD).

Edit: Ofc I got caught BTW, wasn´t really hiding it and the teacher would have to be blind not to notice that one child is suddenly franctically trying to do his test while everyone else is sitting quiet.

Can Superman overpower a black hole ? As far as I know Goku can teleport but Superman can´t and Goku can teleport object with him so...

Goku + grab superman + teleport with him to a black hole + teleport by himself back = ?

Maybe not death but a lockdown.

Yeah well perhaps my post was a bit unfair, the notion of war in this day and age just infuriates me, that the most advanced species on this planet can´t even manage to keep the peace and goes around having large scale internal conflicts. I´d go into it in more detail but I don´t think I should let it bother me too much, nothing I can change and it just makes me rage more.

As someone who´s from a country that has no army and as someone who is proud of that you can call me ignorant. But I can´t see what´s so great about people going around killing eachother, more so when there are army men enrolling as teens thinking it´s cool to be an army man with a gun go around shooting and torturing civilians (in some cases, by far not in all cases).

Only reason I can see for one country to send an army to another country is to liberate it from opression from the government and "serve our country" kinda implies it´s for the benefit of the invading country, it could be in defence but that raises the question "why can the other country threaten your country ?" well because it has an army ofcourse, and they think the same way "oh those great men serving our country", makes me sick.

Best of all would be if there was no army in any country at all, let the people of the country fight opression by themselves if need be, if there wasn´t for the presence of an army it wouldn´t be so easy to opress a country anyway.

Unless I´m mistaken Einstein himself thought there was only one good thing that came from war and that was suppoast to be that it kept overpopulation at bay but even then I think there are some better options for that.

In anycase, just look at for example North America, how often does the USA as large as it is have to fight itself ? And if not often than why ? Do they share stuff and resolve things like reasonable human beings within their own community, why can´t the rest of the world do that then ?

Again, I´m young and from a country that has no army so my opinion of armies may be clouded but I´ve yet to hear a convincing enough argument about the greatness of war and such to sway my mind, but feel free to try and enligthen me.

Edit: Edited out a bit of unreasonable comments.

hypermonkey : Dubbed /cringe, please don´t torture yourself by watching anime shows dubbed, only anime I´ve liked more dubbed than subbed is the anime of Rumiko works and that´s because the main male characters of Ranma 1/2 and InuYasha are voice acted by Kappei Yamaguchi (also the voice actor of Usopp in One Piece) and he has a voice I really dislike

My vote goes to the Elderscroll series if I can announce a series as best, if I must pick a single game I... I... I can´t decide between Morrowind and Oblivion, most hardcore TES fans will say "Morrowind!" but the dice-roll system for hits is actually a curse in the disguise of a blessing, most players will miss quite a bit as melee and finally when you start to hit well you will be so strong you kill stuff in one hit, so the fighting goes from

"AAAAARRRRRGGGHHH HIT HIT HIT!!! *breaks mouse smashing the left mouse button*"

to

"WHEEE let´s play whack a mole jump around and *hit* and *hit* and down they go "

While in Oblivion the jumps are smaller in terms of power, and you actually hit the enemy when you see your sword go through it.

WoW is popular because of the skinner box effect, those familiar with it will see the connection (BTW yes I´ve plaid WoW for 5 years and had great fun, but the community is dead and I don´t have the time I had before to play. I will still play Cataclysm but only through the quests and such, I´ll never play again with the mindset that I am going to do endgame content, endgame is just a skinner box in disguise (as most skinner boxes are)).

RPG cos there IS NO SUCH THING AS AN MMORPG

How can that be ? You ask, well let me explain.

An RPG must contain 3 elements.

1. Character development & progression: This is where you as the player put yourself in the shoes of your character and develop it as you will and the world around you should respond to that, but the same goes for named NPC´s within the RPG, if you kill a key figure and it respawns in 5 minutes and you kill it again and again that character is not progressing, it doesn´t die even if you kill it. What about that wolf I killed, it´s back in the RPG I´m playing ? Well the wolf is not a key character, if it has a name besides its generic name then it´s important and when you kill it, it should stay dead unless ressurected also if a dwarf hates orcs and you rolled an orc the dwarf should hate you initially as much as any other orc, that is his disposition towards you should be less than towards other players that are perhaps dwarfs themselves.

2. Interactive storyline: So you entered the dark fortress and slew the evil overlord freeing the nearby town from its evil grasp ? Great! You´ve saved the day and nothing can change it and it´s time to celebra... did you say the same evil overlord spawned and another person came to kill it and that person freed the village as well ? And the chief also gave him his heirloom staff passed down through generations of village chiefs! NO! That is not what you call an interactive storyline! In this case "MMORPG´s" lack the element of Interactive storyline as much as they lack the element of character development every-time those cripples you healed becomes cripples again within the next 5 minutes.

3. Stats: Yes, the mother of all decisions (RNG or the dice is the father), the status or the stats. This is not mario where you jump on something and it dies, or if it doesn´t die the first time it takes the same amount of damage be it that you are playing the slim Luigi or the fat Mario. No, a RPG will grant big burly character types generally more strength than small slender figures (generally not always) and more charisma to the outspoken human than the dumb goblin (again, generally). Unless ofc you raise your stats, however this is in many MMORPG´s (I like to call them MMOAG´s or Massively Multi-played Action Games) but a game does not count as an RPG if it only has one of the three elements it needs, much like a good cake is not a cake if you only dumped a bunch of flour on the table and declared it a cake.

What about dungeons and dragons ?

D&D session and generally not online, and that D&D online game doesn´t have the elements an RPG needs, doesn´t even have the immersion that adds to the quality of a good RPG.

What if you play a D&D session online ?

... crap, well you lose a lot of immersion since while it´s possible to roleplay in first person online it doesn´t come out as well as when around the table where you can voice act, and even with microphones it´s still not the same and... well fu, so it is possible but you don´t get a "massive" crowd together online to play D&D without some people you don´t know and such gatherings of people tend to have people that break the immersion and don´t play right, trolls if you will call them so.

So in conclusion, I can be happy with a MORPG (Multi-played Online Role Playing Game) but not MMORPG, and after all I´ve never seen a online game where I could immerse myself as well as with RPG´s such as the Elderscrolls series and alike game.

I´ve read the manga and watched the anime and I´ve really enjoyed both, I don´t quite know what adult swim is but I´m hoping they have the show subbed but not dubbed, anyway I can say without spoiling anything that Kekkaishi has a great storyline and scenes are generally not wasted, there is very little that does not have to do with the storyline in one way or another as you go further, oh and about the dogs... read spoilers below the spoiler tag if you will but if not STAY AWAY! or I will feel bad

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There was a comment about Tokine´s dog Hakubi being gay... well you guessed wrong however, Yoshimori´s dog Madarao is gay








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Naruto (puts his fire resistance gear on), Berserk (manga is whole lot better than the anime) and Inuyasha are likely my top 3 (not in any specific order), but ofc it´s hard to pick any specific one as being "best" some have better storyline, some better fighting scenes, some better comedy and so on and so on.

Generally though what makes a good manga for me is the storyline, a good storyline is always a must.

Making a reply post here instead of a edit to say my thanks for the suggestions, but now I´m also wondering "What production year does a game need to have to classify as 'old' ?"