haha, win. the length didnt bother me too much, i just found the difficulty to be a bit too high. to the point of causing me to exploit on of the flaws in the games system. but yea, that whole thing where spells took more than one turn to cast....so crap.

a lot of people dump on FFTA but its actually the game that made me a fan of the genre.

I beat Dragon Quest IX. I'm finally starting to slow down on this game a little. Just random quests and shit now. Still, I can't think of any other game I spent 80 hours on, save maybe FFVII (I leveled up to 99 on my first playthrough) or WoW, but that doesn't count.

Thanks for the replies.  I'll give it a shot and see how the first dozen episodes go.  Only thing that I foresee really pissing me off is a 13 year old main character.  We'll see how it goes.  Thanks.

Fucken A!  Loved the early press when the game first came out in Japanland.

I agree about the old box art haha

Can't wait to play.  And sorry, Ive been outta the loop, but I thought they released another Legend of Heroes (a more recent title)

what is there to explain? the gba FE's have more classes and better looking animations theres various omissions. plus MY UNIT sucks ass if you only want to make a female unit.

I DID enjoy FFXII a lot actually, the bigger problem with 'single player MMO' is when you take some of the worst aspects (grinding for items to pass a quest) without some of the best (large, well developed world). At worst I don't see Xenoblade taking only the worst there, and I certainly don't see it being as much of a time sink. Then again it's not like I'm limiting my game interests to JRPGs here either.

The phrase, "cliched, but well done," is how I would describe Lunar: SSSC. Even though the characters are super-archtypal, they're very well done. Between the anime cut scenes and the voice acting, you really got to know them much more inimately than most other RPGs.

Advance Wars is one of the best console tactics games.  You missed out if you're calling it average.. putting it in the same category as grindea factory trash is just sad.  Also note that Advance Wars is not an SRPG.. neither are a bunch of other games people have listed in this thread, but I haven't felt like pointing them all out.

Front Mission 4 is good if you like party management/customization.. so if you claim to be a tactics fan you should have enjoyed it more.. although that depends on your level of skill.  I've found that skill plays a pretty big role in whether someone likes FM4.. that and whether they like customizing and min/maxing mech configurations.

Check out www.tbstactics.com if you're a tactics fan.

As much as many may hate the Working Design's translations. The Sega cd and PlayStation Working Designs scripts made "Lunar the Silver Star" one of my favorite rpgs.

I haven't seen V Gundam, but if it's anything like Zeta Gundam then I can only give a mixed review. Sometimes the show is spot on, others it falls falt or is overly dramatic. Also, Zeta Gundam is fucking long. 50 episodes is a lot for a show that doesn't keep a consistent stride. I have five episodes to go before I'm done, but I can say the latter half was more enjoyable the former.

if you think the graphics in any of the gba fire emblems are shoddy the DS ones are worse. only a blind hardcore fan could like the DS FE's.