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Add another entry to the Games I Won’t Be Buying category: Final Fantasy Tactics A2, for the Nintendo DS.

I’m sad to say that I’ve just this morning lost interest in Final Fantasy Tactics A2. I was enjoying it, but felt my excitement steadily waning as I “progressed” further in the game’s so-called story. Tactics A2 is another game in the Final Fantasy franchise that features a Job System, wherein you can change each and every character’s array of abilities around and focus them in all different directions at any time. You can specialize, generalize, and even pursue some pretty esoteric combinations of empowerment. Some jobs are better than others, though, and if you spend to long in one of these sub-par jobs you can seriously gimp your character’s long-term play worth. As such, one of the main features to skillful gameplay is effectively strategizing your characters’ jobs and abilities, planning out their builds a bit in advance so as to ensure maximum battlefield efficiency. Read more

In this article, Tycho loudly lambastes Electronic Arts’s chosen DRM encoding which will be present in the upcoming PC port of Mass Effect. Sounds awesome of them to say so, right?

But lookee here, they’ve gone and added it to their own game!

That is just not cool, man. Not cool at all. I was looking forward to this game. I really, really hope there is some kind of misunderstanding. If not, this will be yet another game that I can add to the list of “new games which are driving me further and further away from PC gaming.” It is indeed getting close to time for me to purchase an Xbox 360. Thank the gods I’ll soon be living with a proud owner of a PS3. At least the consoles never have to deal with this total BS.

When I spend money on a game, I want to purchase it; what I do not want to do is purchase the right to request permission to be able to play their game.

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Here’s the link for the discussion at Penny-Arcade. Here’s the link for the discussion at the Greenhouse forums.