Comments by "redfish337" (@redfish337) on "WatchMojo.com" channel.

  1. LA is decentralized and has terrible public transportation. The only "must-see" is Hollywood, and despite recent improvements, still doesn't have much to see. IMHO, the best thing in  LA is the Griffith Observatory which is of high quality (and free), but who the hell goes to a city for an observatory? The actual Hollywood angle is ridiculously cheap-looking, and you can't even get anywhere near the Hollywood sign. The city hasn't capitalized on it's fame in a classy way- even the tourist areas are dangerous dumps once it gets dark. Sure, I appreciate having LA nearby for the airport (perhaps unfriendliest airport in the world), and it being an almost guaranteed tour date for musicians- but seriously, LA is boring and inconvenient at best, and a whole lot worse if I'm not trying to be nice. I recommend SF and SD far far more than LA.
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  2. A bunch of groups performed. It'd be like going to a rock/metal festival and throwing a bottle of piss at 50 cent.
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  3. +Xever mitcha Rather, Black Iron Tarkus...
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  4. +SpareSomeChange321 Gangnam Style is satire of people who think they're the shit, which already automatically puts it above 90% of the American mainstream.
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  5. How is Sephiroth epic? Even with the ridiculously over the top supernova version that is more cheezy than epic, he's just way too easy. Also, compared to the previous games... FF4-6... the final dungeon foolishly decided to branch instead of make you play through everything. It's short, and while pretty, a little disappointing. Of course, the PRE-crater scenes have good buildup... but I think the Midgar sequence ended up being more epic than Sephiroth.
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  6. Well, it's not like they didn't drag the whole Red John thing out too long anyway (Series was at it's best at strawberries and cream, season 3 finale). Once they killed him off they were pretty much looking to wind the series down to a finish. Considering how many shows get cut before they can even conclude- or at best, try to wrap everything up super fast, it's kind of nice that they could finish the main conflict and then wrap things up a little more nicely over a couple half seasons.
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  7. Why use higher quality when it doesn't matter? Higher quality takes longer to upload, and longer to download, and a lot of stuff can't even handle HD without delay. I mean, I know this computer can't handle 4K, so what would be the point in taking forever to upload at that level if hardly anyone could use it and would be automatically redirected to a lower setting? I know much more stuff can handle regular HD settings- but the point is the same- these videos are quick top 10 lists, not graphical showcases. That said, if the point of the top 10 IS graphics or effects, then yes, they should upload in the highest quality possible.
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  8. +Kira Inuzaki Watchmojo has too fast of a pace to be able to actually have quality. I don't expect much out of them. It's based on what other people say as well, not just their own opinions. It's why newscasters often sound like idiots- and is one of many reasons politicians do. You do the best you can, but when you're forced to be a 5 minute expert, it's obvious. However, when the finebros said one group but had a picture of another...
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  9. Any Dark Souls foe isn't a most pathetic game foe. 2:35 is an ambush by a horde of them early in the game that's probably killed thousands of players. They swarm... and if you're attacked by literally two foes at once in the game you risk being hit recovery locked... they're still deadly. I remember first playthrough, coming back to the parish from near the end game feeling like early game enemies were no threat. And they usually weren't. But one time I got locked and was trying to break free, and then the balder knights caught wind of my trouble and came up and backstabbed. That's Dark Souls for you. As soon as you let your guard down, you're #%$ed.
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  10. It's not even just that. They tried to be progressive with a lesbian ending but after being in straight relationships for the whole series,. they only get together after they are both severely traumatized. Yay? I don't know how anyone could be happy with that ending.
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  11. Kpop is more R&B than electronic anyway. Jpop runs more toward rock and electronic. Of course there will be exceptions.
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  12. Peter Jones To what? The list has Dexter. The Blacklist is all about the FBI taking down criminals. What makes the show intriguing is the moral complexity and maybe ulterior motives of manipulative Reddington, but on a week to week basis, the show basically comes down to Reddington tipping off the FBI about a criminal, who the FBI catch or kill with help, generally behind the scenes, from Reddington.
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  13. Dominic Francis Who knows. That doesn't mean it didn't happen. Reading Festival.
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  14. TheInspire96 Tokyo is huge. Some areas the land is still so valuable that they pretty much build 2 meter wide buildings at the edge of the property of other buildings. If you want land in that area... or that apartment on the 50th floor of some fancy building, yes, it can be ridiculously expensive. But there's affordable housing- and as I said, all of Tokyo is relatively safe- so there's no huge penalty for choosing a "bad" area even though the prices will be a fraction.
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  15. +SquirrelKnight FF9 has severe issues with the ATB. If you don't know what I mean, go watch some youtube videos. Even simple actions like using an eye drop- and even without using time-wasting skills like summons- can take 30+ seconds to get through the queue. Everyone just feels super delayed. Because of the queue, pretty much all the characters spend most of the battle with their ATB bar full- they're just waiting for their chosen action to resolve! This is a massive design flaw. As for FF8, it still runs fairly smoothly like predecessors FF6 and FF7. The main issue here is the junction system (good in theory, good if balanced well, but in reality, done poorly), and the enemies leveling with you system. Overall, that provides screwy balance for the WHOLE game. FF7 has it's own issues, but frankly nothing at egregious as these battle system issues that affect the following games top to bottom, start to finish. FFX-2 runs great, but screwed up almost everything else. Now if we could slap FFX-2's system onto FF7-9 and then take a look at it, it'd be a closer fight. But FF8 and FF9 are hampered just so terribly by poor choices with the battle system.
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  16. 1) Block the right lane, especially when there SHOULD be enough room for the cars behind to turn on red. 2) Signal... but not actually turn... 3) Pull out in front of you, and then drive really slow.
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  17. +96miffy There are a couple kinds of glitches. And that's what makes it hard to say, as some are a bit of a grey area too. Personally, I actually really enjoy Super Metroid speedruns, as for the most part, they seem to allow the mockball and the crystal flash squat issue, and I guess fast kill Kraid. Maybe a couple others. To me, these are elegant, skillful or ingenious, and while they cut off a few seconds or minutes, they come across as nifty semi-legal ways to get through doors/paths a little bit out of order. I mean, really, it's not like the mockball is really all that weird- it comes across as a skill like wall or bomb jumping. On the other hand, I've tried watching other games' speed runs where it's like they glitched the game to hell. Heck, all those SMB games with warp whistles and crap like that- that's a totally legal way to crap all over a speedrun. Anyone who uses a totally in the game warp whistle for a speed run time is cutting out huge areas of the game. And to me THAT is what is uninteresting. I want to see the whole game speedrun- so glitches (or even features) that that wipe out huge sections of the game are a huge turnoff.
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  18. jojag5 It's because it's all horror stories. It's expensive... if you you're trying to make it that way. If you cherry pick electronics and movies and taxis and city center housing it can definitely look that way. On the other hand, Disneyland is about half the cost of the US... there's no tipping almost anywhere, there are 100 yen stores all over and cheap $3-6 meals at 24-hour shops. As I say, there are 100 yen stores all over... and 300 yen stores... and then the next price point is 1000! It's not exactly true, but for the most part things seem to go dirt cheap --> cheap --> expensive -->$(*$ expensive without a lot of middle ground.
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  19. +jtbrad Storyline to CT is okay, but is perhaps the weakest link to an exceptional game.
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  20. Consoles suck for about 2-3 years after release. Nintendo used to have ridiculously good 1st party games that typically came about before that since they could check out the hardware in advance, but they've mostly lost their edge there. Besides those, there are usually only a handful made within the first few years that are really considered as hallmark games of a system. Honestly, the early releases this gen are fairly strong and numerous (and mostly also released on PS3...), but I still don't understand early adopters in consoles. I mean, it's a vote for a certain system- a really expensive vote that could be near wasted if you choose wrong- but even now a lot of games are still being released on PS3. And these days if you actually wait the consoles don't just get smaller/lighter/cheaper with fewer bugs... you get extra storage and perks too. I don't think there's much reason to get one for another year or so.
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  21. DCMONSTERARMY Singapore should generally run about 70% of the cost of a coastal city of America. And if you're desperate for deals you can just cross the border to Malaysia and it drops down to like 30-40% and is a "I can't decide, I'll just get both!" zone.
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  22. heyohay twice aoa And J-pop has a billion ballads too. EVERYONE has ballads. It's the other stuff that is actually identifying.
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  23. heyohay twice aoa With rare exceptions, I don't like ballads. I'd never showcase how good a pop group is with a ballad (I may, with a solo artist or band though), since I think the point of a pop group is to showcase energy.
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  24. heyohay twice aoa I don't really know how the system works enough to dispute it. If "band" style groups have the same contract rules, debts and restrictions as idol groups or not. I think when K-pop is being referred to in the West it usually means those in the style of BIGBANG or SNSD though. If they have the same rules, stuff like CNBlue would basically be the same, even if there's a bit of distinction in sound and style. If they aren't under the same rules though then they really shouldn't be brought up as you'd never bring up SCANDAL or whatever in a discussion of J-pop, especially if the focus was on idols. That's a straight up band. But I'm focusing just on the idols when I say K-pop leans toward R&B and J-pop towards electronic and rock in their sound. Everyone has their own R&B, electronic, and rock groups and artists- I was comparing the basic sound behind boy and girl song and dance units.
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  25. Ehhhh??? Narita is in the middle of Chiba. Haneda is the one along Tokyo bay.
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  26. +herro preasers I think it was downgraded a bit because, although famous, it isn't very representative of a type of K-pop music, nor has it really spawned successful copycats. It's pretty much one and done; an outlier, and that hurts its ability to really be "iconic".
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  27. +Wesley Helgeson She's K-pop. But the Japanese market is well... about 15-20 times more lucrative than the Korean market, so artists often try to make the jump (Japanese market is about as big as the US's... it's just insular so people outside of Japan don't get much of it). Not unlike all the UK acts trying to sell in America, though of course the language barrier makes the jump into Japan a little harder. And it was probably even harder those days due to legal restrictions from WW2 period finally starting to break down-. she was probably one of the first major artists to successfully make the jump. Her first few Korean albums sold around 100-400K. Strong, but her Japanese albums sold 400K-1.25million... and... although I'm not sure of historical prices, most likely, commanded significantly higher prices (Japanese albums, these days, sell for about 30-40 USD each).
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  28. Contra Waterfall level isn't that hard or frustrating... EXCEPT for one part you inconceivably left out. When playing with someone else. One person is either running up so fast that the other person falls off the bottom of the screen. Or the other guy is going so slow that the guy in front starts getting shot at without being able to dodge properly. THAT'S why it's frustrating, and perhaps worthy of #10 or an honorable mention. Single player? Easy.
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  29. I don't really understand the point of the Grievers. They're far TOO dangerous. If the point of the story is to find the strongest (or something like that), why use something so overpowering? It's like saying the strongest is whoever could make it across no man's land against a bunch of machine gun nests. That's just luck mate.
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  30. LAX has been renovated recently, so it actually looks pretty nice. But the airport sucks because the customs/security staff suck. I mean, I can't totally blame them since LAX gets terrorist threats and everything, but I have seen many a person walk through customs with a "WTF?!" look on their face at just how shit the staff there is. Almost every time I go through there some foreign tourist is flabbergasted that they haven't long since been fired.
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  31. Speaking as an American, all US airports (and airlines) suck.
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  32. ***** That's a lot of bests for one country. Anyway, as for me as a foreigner, easily of biggest concern to me is the crime rate, which consistently rates poorly, even when just compared to South America. How can the "best people" have the 18th highest murder rate in the world? And heck, 15th once we cut out the little islands with under 100 per year. Of the true world player countries, Brazil is the worst by murder rate. So it just comes across as the gloss of Carnival and Rio over the truth of grime and crime.
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  33. Again, it's really not that bad. Very few necessities cost much at all. It's better than a lot of large cities. Now, when you start getting to basic UNNECESSITIES, that's where it starts to add up. Cars cost a fortune to maintain. There's a lot of "giri" expenses if you're involved in society... stuff that you technically don't HAVE to pay, but it'd be socially awkward or worse if you don't.
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  34. I've done it. It's fun. Hostels are $15-35, and generally immaculate. You can get a 1, 2, or 3 week rail pass as a tourist. Expensive, but travel is expensive there, and it'll do most of the heavy lifting for you, and you can do say Kanto and Kansai for a week or two on each end of the trip. It's on the expensive end for backpacking, but it's Japan.
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  35. Ganon's Castle is a terrible final level though. The final boss and ending sequence are quite exciting (and therefore not important for this list), but the level itself is lackluster- made by putting a bunch mini-zones of each level you've been to already. The original, and Link to the Past, have much better designed final zones.
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  36. Problem with FFXIII's tutorial isn't that the tutorials don't stop- adding more stuff is great- thank god they added all that stuff late in the game to finally cut down the linearity!... it's that the game basically isn't even in place until 2+ hours in when you can finally start leveling up and the game starts looking a bit more like how it will the rest of the game.
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  37. It is indeed a J sound... at least as far as Studio Ghibli is concerned.
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  38. Danninja11 When did who say what? It's a soft g, as in giraffe.
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  39. Danninja11 The Maserati Ghibli is spelled ギブリ... that's a hard g, as "gift" in Japanese. Apparently this is actually the correct way to say it in Italian, but I don't know Italian. Studio Ghibli is spelled ジブリ, which is a soft g, as in giraffe. I don't know why Miyazaki and company did this, but they did. The correct way is with a "j" sound. It's basically the only thing in this video that did pronounce halfway correct.
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  40. double chesseburger McFlurry EggMcMuffin MegaMuffin Double Quarter Pounder, Cheese Fries BBQ Sauce shaka (shaka) Chicken Teritama (w/ cheese) raspberry coke, if they have one of the fancy machines
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  41. Actually, I thought of a couple other things. If you go to LA, you should go to Universal Studios. There are other Universal Studios in the world- the difference is Universal Studios in LA isn't a theme park- it's a theme park tacked onto a studio. They really do use those stages and backdrops that appear on the studio tour, and they'll occasionally even be filming. The tour is probably the most actually Hollywood thing you can do easily that doesn't require scheduling... and you can spend the rest of the day doing the Theme Park attractions or Universal City Walk. And, you could also try to get into a taping of Jimmy Kimmel or a reality or game show or something like that. Most companies have moved most of their filming way out of the area though, and Hollywood Boulevard is perhaps the biggest tourist trap I've ever seen- despite it looking pretty shady (and it getting reaaal shady if you just go a bit farther). I haven't been to Times Square in a long while though.
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  42. +Kevin Fetters If FF9's ATB wasn't totally screwed up, it may have had a chance. Okay, it wouldn't, because it just wasn't that popular. Nevertheless- it can never really compete with the best of RPGs because of how broken the ATB system was. It's no wonder they switched to a non-ATB turn based system for FFX... before more or less perfecting the ATB system for FFX-2 (while screwing almost every other thing up, unfortunately...)
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  43. Zeratultheking FF6 does it. You get quite overpowered if you abuse the stat boosts from espers sufficiently. The "stat boost" is in your level- which feeds directly into the damage formula- same as FF9. There are plenty of other issues with the battle system though- as you say, it can easily be beaten at level 1... because 3 of the strongest attacks in the game don't depend on level at all and can be boosted to cheez level without gaining any levels. FF7 has some issues (most significantly, it's a lot like the earlier games in having craploads of bugs...), but overall runs smoothly and is at the point it only needs a bit of minor tweaking. If I had my way I'd change up the typical FF system and add a lot of "physical skill" materia and a bit more character differentiation, but it runs fairly well as is.
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  44. Zeratultheking You asked for a game where leveling up doesn't increase stats. And I gave you one. FF6. From the wikia: "Unlike other games, characters' stats — with the exception of HP and MP — do not rise on leveling up, but are instead boosted by equipping weapons, relics and magicite. Magicite permanently increase a stat on level up, while the others increase them when equipped." The only way to permanently increase core stats- strength, magic, speed, and the pretty much useless stamina, is to level up with an appropriate magicite equipped. And, low level game aside, this probably means the first 20 levels or so won't be giving any stat boosts at all, as magiciate isn't available until around the 25-35% point of the game- and you still need to wait a bit longer for bismarck or zoneseek to actually get optimal gains. Also, I may add... stats DO increase in FF9. In a rather annoying way that depends on your current stats- and therefore giving a better boost when you have more +stats on your equipment. 
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  45. Zeratultheking Well, fortunately you linked the right guide, so any inquiring mind can check it and know how it really works. It saves me the trouble trying to argue with you in case someone reads what you wrote and is misled. They can just check that guide. There are guides available for FF6 as well, which will state that stats do not increase with level up, and give optimal leveling routines for the various versions of the game (which have differing probable final equipment).
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  46. Tales of Zestiria and Persona 5 are still coming out for PS3. And a long list of other possibly good games. It's not over until it's over.
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  47. Χριστινα Σπυριδου Yes, those places are expensive. Lots of people live in New York- but Manhattan is very expensive overall. Washington DC is... actually pretty bad and dangerous downtown... I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have a reason to be there (job related to government/NGO/lobbyist). Hawaii is nice- but if you look at it on a map- you'll see how isolated it is- Honolulu is the biggest city farthest from any other big city- that obviously depends on what is meant by "big"... but again, just look at a globe with Honolulu dead center. That's why stuff is expensive there. The coasts are most expensive, but they're also the most welcoming to foreigners. If you just want a nice place to live... San Diego is nice? Well, (realistically) follow your dream- where you go depends on what you want life to be like.
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  48. (Just make sure you really bother to research the place... like I said, Washingon DC or Miami or even LA have some nice areas- and sometimes that's all you see- but I wouldn't really recommend people live IN those cities if they have a choice. Unless they have the money to live in one of the better areas- but I think all of those have some nice things out in the suburbs- but someone just trying to stake out a new life...? Not recommended really... Other cities are nicer downtown, others are boring. Just don't get caught up in the image without doing research about real life.
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  49. Χριστινα Σπυριδου It just depends on the area. New Orleans is pretty dangerous overall, and another Katrina is basically inevitable- it's in a hurricane zone and below sea level.., buyer beware (not a bad place for holiday though). Anyway, just basically assume that every downtown area in the US has safe and dangerous areas. Do your research before you rent/buy- but once you live there it's easy enough to avoid the bad areas. That includes Honolulu. But yes, Hawaii is a great place to live, despite the prices. The food is sooooo good, and even though it can be a bit humid with tropical bugs around, somehow the beauty of the place just brightens your day. The preponderance of guns is unlikely to be a problem if you avoid the bad areas. I have never ever, not even once, seen a gun fire a real bullet. Maybe twice I've heard one fired. In terms of other forms of crime- robbery, etc... no different from Europe. Some areas are like the Nordic countries where you pretty much expect no issues- and others are like some of the southern or Eastern countries where you better hug your bag in front of you in certain crowded areas. So again, research, research, research! =)
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  50. +Pookie Gibson Don't listen to their pronunciations! But uhh... yes, SHINee is more or less pronounced like shiny.
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