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1968
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Anyone played Baroque before?
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on: April 14, 2008, 06:06:27 PM
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Believe me, we do. The difference between, say, this site's Romancing SaGa review and Game Informer's pretty much speaks for itself. And that's just the first of many examples that comes to my mind. RPGFan and Gamecritics (and 1up, to a lesser extent) are the only places I really trust for reviews these days. Some of Game Informers reviews are ridiculously short (a measly paragraph), but they still get the point across on whether or not they think you should play the game. If you want reason as to why to play the game though, checking other places is the best option. Game Informer is more for its scores than its text. |
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1971
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The Rest / General Discussions / RPGFan Gaming Journal: The Road to Infinity
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on: April 13, 2008, 06:41:19 PM
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*sigh* I'm giving up on Radiata Stories.
I love the story and the characters, but I simply cannot force myself through its dull, hollow gameplay any longer.
Also, I'm actually closer to beating SF: EXA than I've gotten in any game since Persona 3. I absolutely loved Radiata Stories. I can't believe you can't get through that but you can get through Shining Force Exa, but to each his own. |
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1973
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Final Fantasy VI Advance, a query
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on: April 12, 2008, 04:42:32 PM
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In fact I think FFIX is really under rated as far as Final Fantasy's go, I never understood why either. Someone once said that FF9 is like macaroni and cheese. It's very good and you like it, but it's not an extreme, exciting, "love it/hate it" flavor that FF7 and FF8 were. People vehemently loved and vehemently hated FF7 and FF8. With FF9, people mostly just liked it. It was a throwback title to the days of yore. It didn't try to push the genre envelope like FF7 and 8 did and it's for that reason that people are probably more ambivalent to it as opposed to 7 and 8. I've had love/hate relationships with FF7 and 8. I liked FF9 from beginning to end. But I remember my experiences with FF7 and 8 more vividly than I do 9. Speaking of darkness in FF games, maybe it's because my benchmark for what I consider a dark video game is something like a Shin Megami Tensei game or Still Life for PC, I don't really recall any FF games being "dark." They've been morose and sometimes depressing, but not dark in that more sinister gothic macabre way. I would be curious to see how a macabre FF would turn out. Would it still retain its FF-ness, or will it be a case like Bahamut Lagoon, where it was supposed to be Final Fantasy Tactics, but because it veered so far away from the FF-ness that it became a whole 'nother game? I don't know, I just cannot see Final Fantasy in a Boogiepop Phantom mold. As for FF6, though I wasn't fond of the title, it was part of the JRPG evolution in the 16-bit days where storylines went beyond the veneer of high adventure and included heavier themes like death and loss. Parasite Eve is the closest thing to a dark FF title and liked it for the most part. |
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1974
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Media / Anime, TV, and Movies / Death Note sucks
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on: April 12, 2008, 01:46:31 AM
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I don't watch anime so I wouldn't know, but I have like 3-4 friends that praise that anime like none other and own the entire series etc... they always say the ending was awesome, I do remember that.
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1975
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Final Fantasy VI Advance, a query
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on: April 11, 2008, 10:31:40 PM
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Also, did you beat Omega Weapon in FF8? That's one of the hardest boss fights ever, unless you resort to invincibility items. Um, yeah. Who the hell would bother doing this fight without use of invincibility items? They're in the game for a reason, it's not cheating. It's not a hard battle at all. Ruby + Emerald were a lot harder, and there were no invinicibility items to help there. (for the record, the only over-the-top FF boss I never beat was Osma. wtf was up with that globe of death?) You never beat Osma? I thought he was the easiest "uber" boss of the PS1 final fantasies. All you need is equipment to absorb dark and he has no chance. |
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1978
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Final Fantasy VI Advance, a query
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on: April 10, 2008, 08:44:33 PM
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I'd go with FF8 as the darkest of the series, there is just so much emotional despair in that game and everyone is scared to death of Edea towards the beginning. I know there is a love story that kind of throws off the dark stuff, but I still think that game was pretty dark.
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1980
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Valkyrie Profile: The Accused One
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on: April 08, 2008, 10:22:42 PM
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It doesn't matter to me which system they are on. All I want to know is which console the game is on first and that is the system I am going to buy it for, because I am impatient and own both systems already :P.
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