Custom Moogle Munny
Here's a custom Munny I made to look like Mog from Final Fantasy 6. He is the best moogle. Made with Sculpey and acrylics. I'm trying to think of other cool video game related Munny customs to create, any suggestions?
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Podcast for 05-12-08 | Laaaaadieees?
It's ladies night on The Weekly Geek, as Colette and Jinny join the very manly Chris and the always testosterone-heavy Mack in what is possibly the ladiest podcast ever. Is Guitar Hero IV going to rock Rock Band? Is Lost Winds Colette's favorite game evar? (Protip: it is!) Other topics include mini map dependence, Emerald City Comic Con, Crisis Core, and more great TV. Enjoy the brisk flavor of this special podcast... ladies.
Ass-Kicking Anime Girls on the Internet?! WHAT
Dead Fantasy, a series created by Monty Oum, takes everything that nerds could ever possibly want and puts it into video form. Barring an epic Cheeto vs Mountain Dew battle, that is. It's a mashup of characters, DOA versus Final Fantasy, resulting in one long action sequence. Usually I'd be put off by the blatant fanboyism, but Dead Fantasy is actually really well choreographed. 11 minutes of action can get a little tedious (too much of a good thing, my dear Monty) but it definitely kicks ass.
Event Review: Final Fantasy [Nectar Lounge, Seattle WA]
Last night I had the pleasure of checking out Nectar Lounge in Fremont for the first time. I've started going to shows more frequently now that I live in a more central location, but I'd never found a show that caught my eye at Nectar until Final Fantasy came to town. You may remember Final Fantasy (the band, not the video game) as Owen Pallett, who we gush about on The Weekly Geek constantly. He is a brilliantly talented musician with his hands in almost everything these days, from Arcade Fire arrangements to his work on Beirut's newest Flying Cub Cup.
Nectar is a very intimate venue with a capacity of just over a hundred, a balcony bar area and a dance floor that opens up into a covered outdoor seating area. It's well-lit (a rarity for venues these days) allowing you to actually SEE the artist in context. I always get frustrated when I go to shows and they keep the place dark except for a spotlight on whoever is on stage. I get tunnel vision and it feels like I am somehow separated from the event. Not at Nectar.
Owen brought with him two other artists, one being a band called Welcome who sounded a bit like Pavement with a bass player/vocalist who looked like Beth Gibbons from Portishead. And by that I mean she was incredibly hot. The other opening act was Cadence Weapon, a fantastic hip hop artist often mashing 8-bit chiptunes with his "phat rhymes". No really, it was quite great. Owen himself could be seen in the back of the audience, nodding his head. When Owen came on stage the energy of the crowd changed. It went from boisterous dancing and cheering for Cadence to silent reverence and awe. That is the kind of reaction Owen gets when he starts doing his amazing looping violin acrobatics, sampling himself tapping on the strings with the back of his bow, thumping the body with his thumb or even yelling into the f-holes and looping that. All of this is perfectly timed to sound like a building, climaxing orchestral piece and every single arrangement is stunning. Owen brought along an overhead projector artist, who moved paper cut outs around to the music, painting a picture of the imaginary "8 schools of magic" world of Final Fantasy.
A couple new songs were performed from Owen's next LP, Heartland and they sounded fantastic. He brought along an electric piano and used that in his loops as well as his violin in the new songs and they felt richer and fuller than his previous material. A logical evolution. It's hard to imagine Owen not being inspired by the company he keeps, and it's great to see an artist I admire so much growing, not floundering. Owen's performances are touching, brilliant and humble with an adorable honesty shown through his apologies for mistakes mid-song, or the flustered look he gets on his face when one of his loops is even slightly off time. Someone in the crowd, during a moment of silence as Owen was setting up his next song, shouted "More like Final Fantastic!" I couldn't agree more.
It's an experience to see an artist of this caliber on stage doing what they do best, and lucky for you he just started touring the US. Check out Final Fantasy if he comes to your town, or you'll be missing out. Concert dates after the jump.
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Podcast for 10-15-07 | The Cake Is A Lie
This week, Chris, Grant and Amy talk about how incredibly amazing Portal is, gush about Valve and the Orange Box, talk about other video games (what!) including Final Fantasy Tactics for the PSP, Beautiful Katamari and the Haloez. Thundercats may not suck as a movie, Star Trek has almost been completely cast and we see the return of a beloved Weekly Geek feature: live Internet surfing! Oh, there's also a huge giveaway at the end, so be sure to stay tuned for that! Download the show here, or subscribe to the feed to get it delivered, hot and fresh every Monday evening! Show notes after the jump.
An Antlion Appears! Command?
You can add a saddle to an ostrich and paint it yellow but it will never be a chocobo. You can paint your cat white and glue a pom pom on its head but it will never be a moogle. Fortunately, you CAN own a Final Fantasy creature of your very own: an Antlion! AntlionDen.com is a supplier of fine antlion kits, perfect for level grinding with. I wonder what levels they start at!
Chocobo Black Mages: I'm Being Seriouslah
Based strictly on the adorable packaging (and maybe my Final Fantasy fan boy leanings), I bought SquareEnix's Chocobo Tales for the DS earlier this year. It was most certainly a novelty - cute little chickens, inside humor, mini games, and some collectible card slinging on the side. It was great though: challenging at moments and a fun little time killer for a handheld title.
If you liked that, you're sure to blow your top over SquEnix's purported upcoming Wii effort: Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon. Finally a reason to fire up that other small white thing next to my 360! Japanese game rag Famitsu had some lovely screenshots (including the one above) depicting not only a truer RPG game play format, but Chocobos donning the legendary Final Fantasy Black Mage and White Mage garb. This amazing role expansion for our favorite in-game fowls is exciting, to be sure, and it couldn't possibly get any cuter unless you rolled it up in icing and sequins and packaged it as a new Barbie accessory.
E3 2007: Hands-on with Final Fantasy 12 Revenant Wings
Final Fantasy 12 was definitely one of the best Final Fantasy games ever created, and Square Enix knows this. They know it so well that they are releasing about a million spinoffs in the same world as ff12, and surprisingly they all look pretty great. One of these spinoffs is a strange little tactics game for the DS called Revenant Wings. I got to play a bit of it on the show floor and I must say I was impressed. First off, Final Fantasy 12 on a portable system? Yes, please. Throw in some gorgeous fmv cutscenes, fantastic localization (Balthier's lines in the demo were priceless) and a new crisp almost chibi art style and you have a winner on your hands. My only issue with the demo was that the combat and gameplay was very slow paced, being a tactics game. You have to select the character you want to move with the stylus, then you have to select where you want them to walk or who you want them to attack, and then they sloooooooowly walk over and start auto attacking. The demo was pretty short and it didn't give a feel for the grand scope of the battle system, but from what I played I am certainly optimistic.
E3 2007: Hands-on with Final Fantasy Tactics PSP
I never played much of the original Final Fantasy Tactics. I remember everyone telling me how great it was, and when it finally came out as a greatest hits edition for the Playstation, I ran down to the store and snatched it up. Something about the load times and the fact that I would have to spend a LOT of time in game in order to get anywhere just made me depressed. I traded it in for something. I don't remember what. Probably something horrible. Then, when Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced came out, I thought I'd give the series another shot, this time on a portable system. Man, what a difference. I spent upwards of 300 hours in FFTA, and loved every minute of it. Now that the original Tactics is coming out for the PSP, I'm a bit excited to come back to the game in a new, shinier portable format. After playing it at E3, that's basically just what it is. There's a couple new features like new cutscenes, new jobs, and the addition of Balthier from FF12 (!), but for the most part it's just a redesign on a portable system. And that's ok by me.
So Indie It Hurts: Summer Music Podcast
Chris and Caspian are back to bring you the best music this summer. This is roll-your-windows-down and sing along music, Weekly Geek style. In this quarterly music podcast, we hope to turn you on to some of our picks for the best stuff currently being released, and show you some of the other artists we are currently obsessed with. If you like our regular video game and geek-themed podcast, you'll love the music podcast. Honest! Hit the jump for full show notes and links to purchase the tracks featured in the show. Have any comments or questions? Send them to mailbag@weeklygeekshow.com.
Podcast for 05-28-07 | Vin Kratos
Movies and Video Game commentary galore on this week's podcast featuring Chris Furniss, The Geek and White Mage (Colette couldn't make it this week because of head explosions). Listen! As The Geek and White Mage discuss their love of Pirates! Marvel! As Chris yet again alienates the "differently-abled"! Enjoy! Imagining Vin Diesel as Kratos in a God of War movie adaptation! You will not be disappointed. Download the podcast now as an mp3, subscribe to the feed or just plain play it in your web browser!
Podcast for 05-14-07 | Halo is Overrated
This week sees Chris Furniss, The Geek and White Mage trapped in a cave somewhere in the Welsh countryside discussing such matters as the Halo 3 beta, new Crackdown content, Square Enix's new offerings and how the TSA angers us. Subscribe now or download the MP3, you will be sorry if you didn't. Seriously. Hit the jump for some show notes!
Music Review: Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds
Owen Pallett makes the most confusingly fantastic brand of composition- hinging and teetering from Indie Folk to pseudo-Tchaikovsky pieces and furthering what can only be called Baroque Pop from the charted territory of Harry Nilsson and Van Dyke Parks. It would be original enough if he had the assistance of three philharmonic mercenaries to pull it off, but for the live arrangements (at least) he is the quartet. Aided by his violin, a bottle of Stella Artois, and a loop station, a YouTube bootleg shows Pallett sampling himself up to five layers thick on some songs- difficult enough for the average rock musician, let alone someone pulling off symphony worthy string passages.
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Owen Pallet: GayGamer?
Owen Pallet (better known as the artist Final Fantasy, arranger of amazing orchestrations for Arcade Fire) released an album in 2006 called He Poos Clouds. Which should be enough for you to go out and buy the album alone. The title track is filled with game references including the lines "gotta find and kill my shadow self/ gotta dig up every secret seashell" (Link's Awakening reference! yay!) and stating that "Every boy I have ever loved has been digital".
Today must just be Gay Day here at The Weekly Geek. Check out the video for He Poos Clouds here. Not only is it about video games, it's quite excellent!
I just can't stop listening to this album. For serious.
Top 5 List: Top 5 Difficult and Awesome Games
While this same kind of list has been making the rounds this week, I SWEAR I've had the idea in my mind for a while. Honest!
Everyone has played those games that just rock your world. It rocks your socks clean off but they're so FREAKING HARD. This is the official Weekly Geek Top 5 Difficult and Awesome Games list. Because there are some games that are just so completely mindblowingly difficult, but we still play them. Because we hate ourselves. Hit the jump for our list, and post a comment with your own list!
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Win a DS Lite from Some Gays!
As far as internet BFFs go, GayGamer and The Weekly Geek are the bestest best can get. We take turns playing Super Mario Bros together, we ride bikes, one time we even built a tunnel fort out of cardboard boxes. That's why I am proud to pass on the word that our buds are giving away a DS Lite and a copy of Final Fantasy VI Advance!
Check out their site for contest details and be sure to check out their upcoming podcast. It's got that Weekly Geek touch, if you know what I mean.
Game Review: Final Fantasy VI Advance (GBA)
An iconic game in the SNES RPG era, Final Fantasy VI (then known as Final Fantasy 3) made many people gamers. It was the transition point. Here we had a game that actually took itself seriously. Fantastic, sweeping plot. Beautifully composed musical score. Interesting characters. Gorgeous, hand-drawn monsters and landscapes. Secrets galore. Final Fantasy VI really had it all. The last of the Final Fantasy titles to get the Gameboy Advance treatment, and in actuality most likely the last great Gameboy Advance game, how does Final Fantasy VI Advance stand up to the original? We have a couple added features including a new localization and bonus dungeons, but does it feel the same? Does it still have that magic that we all felt 15 (!) years ago?
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Final Fantasy 1 on a Microsoft console?
That's right folks, Siliconera dug up this footage of Final Fantasy 1 on the MSX2 which was ported over in 1989. It had slightly better graphics and sound, but horrible scrolling. Neat little bit of FF history!
Final Fantasy 12 Impressions
Final Fantasy 12 is a huge, immersive game. In order to do a proper review, I would have to complete it in its entirety. I am not ready to do this yet. I want to spend as much time as I can with the game, tweaking characters, exploring and unlocking and experiencing everything that SquareEnix has chosen to throw at me with this newest iteration in the classic series. So, that being said, I am about 20 hours in to the game and ready to make my judgement. Get it?! LIKE THE JUDGES IN THE.... Nevermind.
Final Fantasy 12 is the first game in the Final Fantasy series that takes place in a world featured in a previous game. You'd think since the games are numbered that they would all be direct sequels of one another, but noooooo. FF12 chooses the world of Ivalice, which was in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. I spent a good 400 hours in FFTA, so needless to say I was going to enjoy FF12 by default. What is the most interesting thing about FF12 to me is that most of the staff that usually works on FF games at Squeenix has left. The team that made FFTA made FF12, and it shows. The game is absolutely amazing. Only 20 hours in and it is already my favorite Final Fantasy (yes, even over 9, which I am obsessed with). It combines the best elements of Final Fantasy 11, Tactics Advance, 10 and 6 and somehow makes it into an even better game. Read past the jump for the real reason why I am so nuts over Final Fantasy 12.
For every good Game, there's a good Soundtrack.
The Weekly Geek's Top Ten Video Game Soundtracks are As Follows:
Caspian
1. Legend of Zelda - Link to the Past
2. Final Fantasy VI
3. Grant Theft Auto - Vice City
4. Mega Man X
5. Final Fantasy XI
6. Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion
7. Metroid
8. Street Fighter II
9. Yoshi's Island
10. Castlevania
White Mage
1. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
2. Wild Arms
3. Final Fantasy VIII
4. Final Fantasy X
5. Final Fantasy Tactics
6. Kingdom Hearts
7. Final Fantasy X-2
8. Final Fantasy VII
9. Kingdom Hearts 2
10. Final Fantasy XI
The Geek
1. Final Fantasy VI
2. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
3. Katamari Damacy
4. Kingdom Hearts
5. Final Fantasy Tactics
6. Mega Man 2
7. Metroid Prime
8. Super Mario World
9. Shadow of the Colossus
10. Xbox Custom Soundtrack Feature
Frodo
1. Mega Man 2
2. Katamari Damacy
3. Final Fantasy VI
4. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
5. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
6. Super Mario World
7. Metroid Prime
8. Super Mario Bros. 3
9. Final Fantasy XI
10. Animal Crossing
Honorable Mentions:
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Actraiser
Super Mario Kart
Secret of Mana
Check it out! Frodo and Caspian explain their favorite game soundtrack picks after the jump.
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Podcasty Goodness for Monday, July 17th, 2006
On this week's podcast, The Geek and Frodo kick it old school, talking about The Amazing Screw On Head, third party love for Nintendo, hardcore gamers and as always, Snakes on a Plane. It just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Oh, video games are also discussed. Naturally.
- Watch the pilot for The Amazing Screw On Head
- Final Fantasy Characters in Mario Hoops!
- Undeniable Proof of Evolution?
- HARDCORE PC GAMER NETWORK CARDS!!!!
- EA Announces 6 Games for Wii
- GimmeSomeTune - iTunes Album Cover Art Ripper and more
- MIcrosoft Wants To Buy You A Pizza
- The Truth About Children and Violent Video Games
- New Atari Game Released. Yes, You Read That Right.
- Burger King The Movie
- The XBOY?
--Frodo
Podcast for Monday, April 17th 2006
Wanna know how The Geek got his first Playstation 2? No? Well too bad! This week your favorite geeks discuss nostalgia and your normal round of gaming news. Here are some notes.
Podcast for Monday, April 10th 2006
In this exciting installment, The Geek, Frodo and White Mage discuss the Half Life series, and their love of all things Final Fantasy, Disney, and the two mashed together. Then, Frodo answers the mailbag. Here are some notes!
Podcast for Monday, February 20th 2006
This week, Frodo, The Geek and Nevery discuss viruses on the Mac, Sony's XBOX Live-like service, Hub, the new DS web browser and they surf IMDB live, on the air for your amusement.
Show notes! They are delicious!
- New video game awards show. Will it be not crappy?
- Final Fantasy Advent Children voice actors announced
- Official Nintendo DS web browser
- Free [adult swim] cartoons online!
- PS3 "Hub" service announced
- Stargate MMO Details
- Mac OSX virus information
- Play Katamari Damacy II online
- WoW board game
- PacMan Board game wooooo
- Reggie Sounds Off
--Frodo (frodo@weeklygeekshow.com)
Podcast for Monday, December 5th
This week, The Geek, Frodo and White Mage discuss more Xbox 360 stuff, Animal Crossing Wild World, Nintendo DS wifi, new Final Fantasy beverages, online gaming communities and Sony generally being retarded. Also The Geek discusses The Flash and cusses a lot (don't worry, it's bleeped for all you youngins out there).
You can download the show here or add http://www.weeklygeekshow.com/weeklygeek.rss to your podcasting software!
Show notes:
- Frodo's 1up.com member page
- 40,000 Xbox 360s sold on eBay
- Sony using fake graffiti to advertise the PSP
- Top 15 richest fictional people according to forbes
- Super Mario Blue Twilight Download
- DSMeet
- Final Fantasy Potion
- Print your own Monopoly moneys!
- Costco ultimate standup arcade unit.
Thanks to Nintendo, Channel Frederator and the letter B.
This week's music was The Power Is On - The Go Team!
---Frodo (frodo@weeklygeekshow.com)
Final Fantasy XI Frustration
Yesterday was so frustrating. All I wanted to do was play FFXI and it was down. I had to satisfy myself with Halo 2, which isn't a very good substitute. Yes, it has killing, but no moogles, no chocobos, and no NewFunkAllstars (my linkshell). The frustration is always worse when you know in two days it's going to be down again for scheduled maintenance.
Over the past couple months, nearly every bit of unscheduled downtime has had the same basic explanation:
"After investigation, we have confirmed that the login difficulties are due to a continuous DDoS attack from anonymous third parties. This is currently affecting certain ISP (Internet Service Provider) users.We will continue investigating the issue and bring this matter to a speedy resolution. We will also inform you with any new updates when they become available.
If you cannot log into FINAL FANTASY XI, we ask that you please wait a while and then try again.
We deeply apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience."
With such frequent use over a long period of time, I am beginning to wonder if "DDoS attack" has become a blanket excuse.
I have been patient. I have been understanding. But, after last night, my patience and understanding is wearing thin.
--White Mage
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