[ SECRET POST #2193 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2193 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[GunnerKrigg Court]


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02.
[The Avengers]


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03.
[French & Saunders]


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04.
[X-Men/Marvel Universe]


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05.
[Tron: Uprising]


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06.
[Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman]


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07.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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08.
[The X-Files/Fox Mulder]


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09.
[Homestuck]


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10.
[True Grit]


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11.
[Saya no Uta]


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12.
[The Silmarillion]


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13.
[Homestuck]


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14.
[Supernatural]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 015 secrets from Secret Submission Post #313.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Video games recs

[thene]

FFXII is pretty amazing, but the plot structure is a mess due to the producer ragequitting halfway through the development process. Gameplaywise, what you (mostly) do is program how characters behave in combat, which some people find really fun and other people find really dull. It's a great RPG for exploring and doing gigantic sidequests, and the world it's set in is well-realised...but...then you get those stretches where the plot takes a hike for over 10 hours while you wander from A to B and kill things. Also, the main character is completely inconsequential to the story because he was forced on the producer by management, and that is really annoying. Amazingly fun game, though. I literally played it so much I sprained an eye muscle, and because a) I was so damn hooked, and b) the whole point is that you train FFXII to play itself, I kept playing even though I couldn't see.

I adore FFXIII and think it's underrated, but, uh, a lot of people disagree with me. I read it as some vicious trolling of JRPGs as a genre - almost all the characters obviously exist just to debunk a certain JRPG stereotype, and the entire world is made of meta. Unfortunately the very early part of the game is a bit excruciating for me, because your characters don't start gaining XP for the first couple of hours (not until they learn to use magic) and the lack of advancement made the gameplay feel pointless. Similarly the combat system is too basic early on - it gets very complex, strategic and fun by the endgame but wow does it take a while to get there.

FFXIII-2 has refined away everything that was wrong with FFXIII's combat system but unfortunately it sucks in all other respects.