Recently Vista has deactivated itself on me, and the key on my laptop's casing isn't recognised as valid. I've backed everything I need to up by deliberatly bombing it out and then booting up in Safe Mode so no worries there. I've tried http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en but that refuses to do anything and I'm at a bit of a loss. Any help would be...well...helpful. Otherwise I'll take it down to the local computer shop and get them to have a look at it.

Thanks in advance.

I'm not the type to buy a high-priced game just as it comes out, so I don't own a copy, but I have tried it out in-store. The graphics are really amazing, but I didn't feel nearly as comfortable with it as I did with III. I don't know whether it was just the current set-up, but the controls were just different enough to completely throw me.

Wouldn't buy...maybe in a year or so second hand, (and if I had a console to play it on) but not now.

A very happy birthday from me too.

I have really enjoyed playing FFX. One new thing which it brings to the series is the ability to play a very high-powered game, if that's what you want. The HP cap of 9999 has presided throughout the series, but FFX let's you play a HP cap 99999 game if that's the way you want to play it, or you can just stay with a 9999 game. Really good idea, and has extended the game's lifespan for me loads. Very controversial, the way the entire system worked, but in a good way, it's refreshingly different.

The plot of the game is, as has been said before, really excellent. It doesn't match up to..say...FFVI or Legacy of Kain, but it's still highly commendable.

From the way I understand it lots of herds pass through the Great Valley. Often wondered how they find it so easy to get in when the Sharpteeth need to have a hole accidentally created for them or some such. I suppose Sharpteeth could follow a herd, lots of predatory animals stalk herds, looking for an oppertunity to pick on the weak.

Hehe, that's good.

Hello and a warm welcome.

Hehe...I like that. Thanks for posting it. Some interesting ideas in there, as well as being amusing.

I think at least in part the gang were basically forced into friendship by unfortunate circumstances. Although Littlefoot and Cera were already making a start before the great earthquake, playing in the mud together.

Alright Malte, glad nothing too bad came from it. Hope you're out of there soon.