Completed RPGs: 2008 Edition

[CluelessWonder]

Short List:
Mass Effect
Infinite Undiscovery

[Sinner2000]

2008, let me see...

so far I've completed:
Spectrobes
Metal Gear Solid
MGS Portable Ops
MGS 4
DOA 2
Saint Seiya: The Hades
Dynasty Gundam
W40k Dark Crusade
Dark Mist
Growlanser: Heritage of War
Shadow Hearts: From the New World
Spectral vs Generation
Ar_Tonelico
Dirge of Cerberus
Samurai Champloo
Trapt
Devil May Cry 3
Soul Calibur 4
The Bouncer
Hokutonoken
Virtual On
Shikigami no Shiro: Nanayozuki Gensoukyoku
Zachabell
Arcana Heart
Mushihimesama
Psyvariar 2
Gigawing Generations
Ibara
Bleach blade battle
Neo Contra
Basara Cross
Disgaea 3
kessen III
Warriors Orochi
Astro Boy
Dynasty Warriors DS
valkyria Chronicles

..yeah, its been a good year :D
I know they're not all RPGs but ah well.. I keep a list of my completed games..

though currently in the middle of:
The Witcher
Enchanted Arms
Soul Nomad
Persona 3
Disgaea I
Metroid Prime: Hunters
Yggdra Union
SRW: MX
SRT: W
Odin Sphere

but I'm getting through them gradually... :P

*first post!*

[Raziel]

So, let's see, this year I've beaten:

Persona 3 - 9/10
Koudelka - 7/10
Suikoden 2 - 8/10
Xenogears - 5/10
Kingdom Hearts - 6/10
Shadow Hearts - 7/10


Not bad. :P Those are ratings by the way, in case someone is wondering.

[Blace]

Xenogears - 5/10
Kingdom Hearts - 6/10


Not bad. :P Those are ratings by the way, in case someone is wondering.

You serious? Those games are great.

[Lard]

I barely finished anything this year. I still haven't finished DDS2, or The Answer in Persona 3.

My NY resolution is to finish games once I start them.

[Raziel]

You serious? Those games are great.

Of course.

Xenogears tried to do something different with it's story, but most of the elements are so superficial and unnecessary it's not even funny. It's like they were hell-bent on adding religious references and left the flow of the plot on a back burner. Characters were uninteresting and I couldn't care less what happens to 'em. Gameplay was frustrating due to platforming segments (come on, when your game has an incompetent 3D engine, why the hell would you add platforming into your game??) and exploring various locations was extremely painful because of the horrible engine. Music made my ears bleed; for the first time I muted my TV while playing a game (battle themes were okay though). I've never done that before.  The only saving grace for the game was the battle system which I enjoyed.

Kingdom Hearts wasn't THAT bad, it just had a wonky camera and the worlds had mediocre level design. Oh, and Square's portion of the game brought down the game for me. More Disney, less Square.

[mizuki_no_beatdown]

Xenogears...  Music made my ears bleed

 
 Now it's my turn...
 
 ARE YOU SERIOUS?!

[Draak]

Let's see...

Persona 3 FES
Tales of The Abyss
Shadow of the Colossus
.hack//Infection
.hack//Mutation
.hack//Outbreak
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney
Chrono Trigger DS
Dragon Quest IV
Final Fantasy IV

My new year resolution is to beat the first Disgaea, as it remains unfinished since 2006 :P

[Hidoshi]

You serious? Those games are great.

Of course.

Xenogears tried to do something different with it's story, but most of the elements are so superficial and unnecessary it's not even funny. It's like they were hell-bent on adding religious references and left the flow of the plot on a back burner. Characters were uninteresting and I couldn't care less what happens to 'em. Gameplay was frustrating due to platforming segments (come on, when your game has an incompetent 3D engine, why the hell would you add platforming into your game??) and exploring various locations was extremely painful because of the horrible engine. Music made my ears bleed; for the first time I muted my TV while playing a game (battle themes were okay though). I've never done that before.  The only saving grace for the game was the battle system which I enjoyed.

Kingdom Hearts wasn't THAT bad, it just had a wonky camera and the worlds had mediocre level design. Oh, and Square's portion of the game brought down the game for me. More Disney, less Square.

You slag Xenogears and then try to elevate Kingdom Hearts?

You sir are in possession of the BIGGEST sack of bullshit this board has seen in years.

Addendum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN0qRKjfX3s This is something you need to see.

[Krelian]

Adding the first Ys on the list on the last update of the year:

-Folklore
-Tales of Rebirth
-Star Ocean 1
-Terranigma (re)
-Lost Odyssey
-Valkyrie Profile 2 (re)
-Dragon Quest V
-Star Ocean 2
-Persona 2 eternal punishment
-Lufia 1
-Dragon quest IV
-Ys I

[Eusis]

I came in fully expecting to say this was kind of a lame year for me, but wow. I didn't realize I beat that many this year. Not that it'll change unless I blitz through something, but it was still pretty good.

[Royal]

- Blue Dragon
- Brave Story: New Traveler
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
- Disgaea 1
- Eternal Sonata
- Final Fantasy III
- Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
- Final Fantasy Tactics A2
- From the Abyss
- Hoshigami
- Infinite Undiscovery
- Izuna
- Jeanne D'Arc
- Lost Odyssey
- Mass Effect
- Persona 3
- Riviera
- Rhapsody
- SMT Raidou Kuzunoha
- Suikoden V
- Tales of the World
- The World Ends With You

[Prime Mover]

Eh, I didn't really like Xenogears all that much either. It was kind of superficial, to be honest... a lot of pandering to the type of anime heads who love a lot of needlessly convoluted psuedo-religious elements in their plots (ie: Evangelion Neon Genesis). I didn't care for Xenogears much in the same way I didn't like Eva. The music wasn't too bad, one of Mitsuda's better soundtracks (allthough apart from Chrono Trigger, I'm not a big fan of Mitsuda), so I won't agree that the music made my ears bleed. It was still nothing on Uematsu's FF6-9s soundtracks, though, but it was a good solid second-rate effort. His soundtracks went WAY downhill after Xenogears though. The battlesystem was interestingly different, if kinda repeatitive, and some of the story was interesting. Overall, I liked it a lot better than Chrono Chross, but honestly, 6/10 is probably about right.

Kingdom Hearts, however, I couldn't finish, or really even get into. Terrible battle system, tiny dungeons that were somehow impossible to navigate, shitty dialog, and all of the life sucked out of the disney characters... that game sucked, I'm sorry, but it did.