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#101

I haven’t played a Final Fantasy since 8, and 7 was the last one that was actually enjoyable to me. 8 just turned me off the entire series, what with its magic drawing stupidity and level scaling, and although I only played it up to the train scene, the story up to that point had literally NOTHING to hook me on it.

I’ve been trying to put together the time to replay Xenogears, which was the last good Squaresoft game in my books, though my PS2 likes to randomly stop reading discs, forcing me to reset, and lack of time has meant that I haven’t actually done any gaming in the past week or so.

Also, the SNES Slayers RPG, even though it’s basically a NES Dragon Warrior game with better characters.

#102

Don’t forget the dialogue they spoke in. Hey, yay, faux-Shakespearean. Yeah. That makes it classy and SO MUCH BETTER.

Fuck you, Balthier.

#103

The last Final Fantasy I enjoyed (excluding 14) was probably 9. The story was enough to keep me interested, the gameplay was good, nothing really amazing but it was a fun time.

Everything after has been a ::dekar!:: for me. I did most of 10 before I stopped giving a shit, did 10-2 and while I liked the gameplay system, I found the story positively idiotic. I did not bother with em since.

15 looks nice, not ‘Zero throws money at a PS4’ nice however. A bit too bromantic roadtrip setup for my tastes.

#104

I liked X-2 just because of how irreverent it was. It took a positively gloom setting like FFX and was all “nah, man. Lighten up.” At least initially.

#105

4 Kings is apparently pretty build dependent. If you’re a face-tank, two hander they’re one of the easier bosses. If you can’t get/take a reasonable amount of damage, they can start to gang up on you quite a bit (I’ve heard) and just murder you. I had the same experience as you, though. It was a real pity, to be honest.

SL1 has been a different kettle of fish, though. Had a tough time against O&S, Seath is being annoying because he can basically one hit KO me. I’m pretty sure I know how to beat him, just haven’t had time to.

I want a PS4 pretty badly, though. I really want to play Bloodborne, and I’d give XV a shot at least.

#106

Ended up getting The Wonderful 101 from Club Nintendo’s fire sale recently. Made it past the prologue with a loose understanding on what I’m trying to do. I can already see Platinum’s humor at work with the game’s seemingly complete inability to hold a freeze frame.

#107

I would say yes. It is a good game even without the nostalgia.

#108

Why does Tales of Xillia have such horrible voice acting, and no Japanese voice option? :frowning:

#109

Sadly not the only thing that was horrible about this game…

#110

I’ve decided to take a break from playing Wonderful 101 to play Pac-Man on my Google Maps.

#111

lololol! This just in: an installment in the prolific “Tales” series turned out to be shitty, again. More details at 11.

#112

The last Final Fantasy game that captured me was actually 13-2. I thought it was fun to play. I really think that battle system they came up with for the 13’s was pretty cool. But I didn’t have a lot of drive to finish it. Last Final Fantasy game I beat was 10, I guess, which I really liked.

I also really want to play Bloodborne, but I also don’t have a PS4. I’ll probably get one eventually though, but it’ll probably be for Destiny 2 or something. I don’t know, I kind of made that last part up :x

#113

I did that today as well… played on the old road of my home back in northern Maine… shortest Pacman game ever.

#114

Phantasia and Destiny were good. Where did the series go wrong? :confused:

#115

I couldn’t bring myself to finish Xillia. Vesperia was so good, it spoiled me so this really fell short. When I saw Xillia 2 was coming out I gagged. Then I saw the box art and read on what it was about @_@.

#116

I only survived playing through Tales of Destiny cos I played it two-player with a friend who had already played through it, and he didn’t mind me giving it the “MST3K” treatment.

The only one I’ve come moderately close to enjoying was Vesperia, but I didn’t get to play enough of it to form an opinion.

#117

Vesperia was pretty fun, I just couldn’t get over how kid oriented the game was. This has really driven me away from the tales series in general. Regardless of the story overtones, the silliness of the dialogue and character interactions just ruins the immersion for me. Battle system was cool though, and it’s the last RPG I played that had a legitimate world map that you traverse. In the end I barely scratched the surface, playing maybe ten hours before trading it in.

There was this one game I played, Enchanted Arms, that was similarly over-the-top only in a cultural Japanese way. That kind of environment doesn’t really interest me - the personal relationships aren’t particularly unique or enigmatic and often trip over common Japanese tropes. One of the characters was transgender and the voice acting really beat you over the head with it. The battle system was pretty horrible too (it reminded me of Mega Man Battle Network, which is fine for a game boy but not a Xbox 360 game) so I lost interest within the day.

After these two, the only excursions I took into traditional JRPG fare was FF13, and we all know how that was. Even still, despite my enjoyment of 13-2, I was exposed to sensory overload with some of the environments and their soundtracks. I think I’m pretty much done with JRPGs, the American Bio-Ware/Obsidion/Bethesda styles of choose-your-own adventure game play are more enticing these days.

#118

Oh man, Enchanted Arms was super-frustrating to play, because I feel like it had all the foundations of a really good game, but just continuously just took all its potential and fucking blew it at every opportunity…and that game was pretty damn long, too.

But yeah, as much as I love jRPGs, I have a really hard time convincing myself to buy new ones, because I feel like many of the ones that come out today are anime-as-fuck (like the Tales games or Enchanted Arms). Even though games with stories like this can be really fun - Valkyria Chronicles on PS3 is a good example - but it’s also just really exhausting to watch those stories unfold. Hell, if Valkyria Chronicles’s gameplay was anything short of amazing, I probably would have hated it.

#119

I’ve wanted to get into more Bio-ware games like Dragon Age (my wife absolutely LOVES the Dragon Age series) but the only one I’ve been able to get into was Knights of the Old Republic. But I can agree, after covering JRPGs for the few years here, I was over-loaded. SRPGs like Fire Emblem and Shining Force were nice too, but again, they cause the same over-load after a while as well.

That is when I just decided to go back to the classic games like Mario, Mega Man, Castlevania, and even played Metroid for the first time… then I discovered the Speedrunning community and now I’m always looking for ways to beat games faster. I was excited when I set a world record for Phantasy Star II in a little over 1 hour and 15 minutes (while keeping Nei alive through the whole game), but then somebody beat it by at least 20 minutes, but that’s part of speedrunning. it’s also allowed my wife and I to race each other in certain games that we have enough copies for (like I beat her in racing A Link to the Past, but she beat me in Ocarina of Time). Gives us something to do together.

…how the hell did I side-track myself like that?

#120

How is it possible to beat Phantasy Star 2 in 20 minutes? It takes that long to walk to the first dungeon, with the slow-ass pace your characters take. :confused: