aka_Pyro's definitions
1a: Rat- a small, omnivorous, usually disease carrying rodent.
1b: Morning star- a powerful club or mace.
1c: Rat Morning Star: a weapon/summoned monster forged from a dead rat tied to a stick and infused with Bankai energy, resulting in a 15' tall undead rat warrior with a giant pole attached to its tail.
1b: Morning star- a powerful club or mace.
1c: Rat Morning Star: a weapon/summoned monster forged from a dead rat tied to a stick and infused with Bankai energy, resulting in a 15' tall undead rat warrior with a giant pole attached to its tail.
by aka_Pyro July 12, 2007
Get the Rat Morning Starmug. A bar skag without a bar.
A hideous, nocturnal bar-dwelling groupie/parasite that is at least 2 decades older than its target audience: drunken, desperate young men and middle aged men willing to engage in conversation with any thing they can fuck without it being considered gay.
A hideous, nocturnal bar-dwelling groupie/parasite that is at least 2 decades older than its target audience: drunken, desperate young men and middle aged men willing to engage in conversation with any thing they can fuck without it being considered gay.
by aka_pyro April 8, 2007
Get the skig-skagmug. The only decent reason to play on any of Sony's game systems. Sports games don't even count as games, for those of you who weren't in the know.
by aka_Pyro May 23, 2007
Get the Final Fantasymug. 1. A combat law enforcement agent and mediator in Square-Enix's Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the GBA. These individuals would oversee the battle and enforce the daily laws with rewards for performing recommended actions, and punishment for breaking the law. Later in the game, said laws could be counteracted with special law cards, which could erase and create new laws.
2. An elite branch of the Archadian Imperial Military from Square-Enix's Final Fantasy XII for PS2. These distinguished warriors wear unique and elaborate suits of armor that mirrored the armor of the above judges.
2. An elite branch of the Archadian Imperial Military from Square-Enix's Final Fantasy XII for PS2. These distinguished warriors wear unique and elaborate suits of armor that mirrored the armor of the above judges.
1. Weak, Fire was outlawed and I accidentally used my fighter's Backdraft! Now the Judge just sent him to prison!
2. Holy crap, I'm up against some Judge and a handful of Imperial Soldiers... Gotta kill the weaklings first...
2. Holy crap, I'm up against some Judge and a handful of Imperial Soldiers... Gotta kill the weaklings first...
by aka_Pyro May 25, 2007
Get the Judgemug. In lieu of the gross oversimplification of this game provided above or below this definition, I would like to say that Final Fantasy XII, an RPG published by Square-Enix for the Sony Play Station 2, is brilliantly distinguishable from its 11+ predecessors in the Final Fantasy series by its high production values, extravagant voice acting, a plot line easily identifiable as a blatant rip-off of Star Wars yet so intricate that it's more than forgivable if you're a fan of the series.
Essentially, if you liked LucasArts' Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic series for Xbox and PC for its gameplay, then you will have nothing against FFXII's gameplay. If you liked Star Wars Episodes IV-VI for their creepy-cult-forming stories, then you will fall in love with FFXII, because 90% of what made up A New Hope great is there: the princess without a kingdom, the orphaned boy with an above-average destiny from the desert, his slightly less-important side-kick, the knight of an extinct order, the awesome pirate that men envy and women adore, and his tall, dark, and fuzzy sidekick who used to live in a realm of gigantic trees. Hell, S-E even threw in their own Cloud City, complete with a Lando-character! But he's white and has a funny accent.
Since I cannot respectably portray the plot of this game without spoiling it, I will just go to say that you will not finish this game in the time you can finish KotOR, which took approximately 40 hours, and FFXII has already eaten up 55 hours of my time, and I'm not even halfway through it.
If you played Final Fantasy X and thought the Sphere Grid was too linear in terms of character stat development, then you will probably enjoy FFXII's mode of development, the License Board, in which you have total control of your character's spell development, weapons and armor that he or she can equip, and even which 2 of the 12 total Espers in the game that they can summon.
If you played FFX and thought that the Overdrives were over the top, then you haven't mopped the floor with the faces of boss characters until you've made use of the Quickening system. In contrast to the other games in the series, where each character has a few unique, super powerful attacks that they are able to use one at a time after they've charged their gauge, FFXII gives each character 3 fully offensive attacks that can be CHAINED together with the Quickenings from two other party members for a powerful combo capable of felling bosses before they can lay a hand on you. But, there's a couple of caveats: one, the MP gauge, also known as your Mist Gauge, is shared by both your magic AND your Quickenings, and two, it's also your Summoning gauge. So, you can't summon a monster, perform magic powerful magic, and then unload some serious pain with a Mist Chain without using some ethers or elixirs (if you have only one Quickening unlocked, that is). But, on the plus side, each Quickening you acquire on the License board will give you 100% more Mist at your disposal, so technically, you CAN do all three MP related actions if you have acquired all 3 Quickenings for your character.
If you liked being able to set behaviors in the KotOR series for your party members, in FFXII, you can fully automate your characters that you aren't directly controlling through the use of fully customizable instructions for them to follow, called Gambits. Of course, due to the nature of the Gambits, it takes a bit of practice to remember to check and re-customize these gambits for each area you visit or each enemy you fight, because you don't want your characters to be sitting around casting Shell on each other when you're being ravaged by melee fighters, or sitting around casting any magic when you want to save their Mist Charges for Quickenings and Summons.
For full reviews of the game, try a site like GameSpy, or IGN.
Essentially, if you liked LucasArts' Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic series for Xbox and PC for its gameplay, then you will have nothing against FFXII's gameplay. If you liked Star Wars Episodes IV-VI for their creepy-cult-forming stories, then you will fall in love with FFXII, because 90% of what made up A New Hope great is there: the princess without a kingdom, the orphaned boy with an above-average destiny from the desert, his slightly less-important side-kick, the knight of an extinct order, the awesome pirate that men envy and women adore, and his tall, dark, and fuzzy sidekick who used to live in a realm of gigantic trees. Hell, S-E even threw in their own Cloud City, complete with a Lando-character! But he's white and has a funny accent.
Since I cannot respectably portray the plot of this game without spoiling it, I will just go to say that you will not finish this game in the time you can finish KotOR, which took approximately 40 hours, and FFXII has already eaten up 55 hours of my time, and I'm not even halfway through it.
If you played Final Fantasy X and thought the Sphere Grid was too linear in terms of character stat development, then you will probably enjoy FFXII's mode of development, the License Board, in which you have total control of your character's spell development, weapons and armor that he or she can equip, and even which 2 of the 12 total Espers in the game that they can summon.
If you played FFX and thought that the Overdrives were over the top, then you haven't mopped the floor with the faces of boss characters until you've made use of the Quickening system. In contrast to the other games in the series, where each character has a few unique, super powerful attacks that they are able to use one at a time after they've charged their gauge, FFXII gives each character 3 fully offensive attacks that can be CHAINED together with the Quickenings from two other party members for a powerful combo capable of felling bosses before they can lay a hand on you. But, there's a couple of caveats: one, the MP gauge, also known as your Mist Gauge, is shared by both your magic AND your Quickenings, and two, it's also your Summoning gauge. So, you can't summon a monster, perform magic powerful magic, and then unload some serious pain with a Mist Chain without using some ethers or elixirs (if you have only one Quickening unlocked, that is). But, on the plus side, each Quickening you acquire on the License board will give you 100% more Mist at your disposal, so technically, you CAN do all three MP related actions if you have acquired all 3 Quickenings for your character.
If you liked being able to set behaviors in the KotOR series for your party members, in FFXII, you can fully automate your characters that you aren't directly controlling through the use of fully customizable instructions for them to follow, called Gambits. Of course, due to the nature of the Gambits, it takes a bit of practice to remember to check and re-customize these gambits for each area you visit or each enemy you fight, because you don't want your characters to be sitting around casting Shell on each other when you're being ravaged by melee fighters, or sitting around casting any magic when you want to save their Mist Charges for Quickenings and Summons.
For full reviews of the game, try a site like GameSpy, or IGN.
Final Fantasy XII scored well according to many respected reviewers. I like it better than FFX, personally. Square-Enix has outdone themselves in this PS2 classic.
by aka_Pyro November 25, 2007
Get the Final Fantasy XIImug. A miniature gaming deity spawned from the Divine Realm of Nintendo. Great for long car rides, and owning the crap out of friends in 4-player games that are now sadly obsolete.
person1: dude, you bring your GBA?
person2: you know it!
(Game Boy Advance: yes, yes, succumb to my infinitely gargantuan library that makes the collective library of PS3 and Xbox 360 look like a school library selection of useful books. Alas, my library is only rivaled by that of my newer relatives, the DS and Wii!)
person2: you know it!
(Game Boy Advance: yes, yes, succumb to my infinitely gargantuan library that makes the collective library of PS3 and Xbox 360 look like a school library selection of useful books. Alas, my library is only rivaled by that of my newer relatives, the DS and Wii!)
by aka_Pyro May 6, 2007
Get the Game Boy Advancemug. 1. an excuse by a large marketing corporation to capitalize on a source material, usually a movie, decent or not. Usually a piece of garbage so bad that it doesn't even deserve a rental (i.e. most Lucasarts games between 97 and 2003), with few anomalous exceptions (i.e. Revenge of the Sith, Chronicles of Riddick,The Clone Wars, Battlefront). Just as there are movie games that suck, there are also game movies made after excellent games that shame the game/entire series itself (i.e. Doom, Tomb Raider, Bloodrayne), although some times there are movies and games made at the same time based on each other that suck equally (i.e. Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis, Superman 64). For these reasons, companies that commit these horrible deeds have sold less because of the large increase of trusted game reviewers.
person1: Dude, did you hear the review for that Chronicles of Riddick movie game?
person2: Yeah, that was a big surprise.
person2: Yeah, that was a big surprise.
by aka_Pyro April 5, 2007
Get the movie gamemug.