Xenogears. My very first time playing it. Yeah, I know, shut up. :wacko: Anyway, I'm trying not to set my expectations too high to avoid future disappointment, but still, I really hope it's as good as people tend to say.
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Xenogears. My very first time playing it. Yeah, I know, shut up. :wacko: Anyway, I'm trying not to set my expectations too high to avoid future disappointment, but still, I really hope it's as good as people tend to say.
Marvel Pinball.
Zen Studios really know how to create good, defying and fun pinball tables. Patience and loads of skill are needed to master them :O
As an initial precaution: Be prepared for A LOT of rough spots on the story line. The plot itself is good enough (although perhaps over hyped for what ultimately boils down to LOLALTERNATIVE-RELIGION-INTERPRETATIONLOL), but the presentation does leave a good deal to be desired.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Gare
DC Skies of Arcadia, starting from scratch after 5 years of leaving DC
Chronicles remake of Ys 2.
No, I still don't like Lilia. Crazy stalker girl can act all cute and innocent, but I KNOW THE TRUTH.
Duke Nukem Forever.
I'm enjoying it.
I came here to post just this, so I might as well just quote your post instead... :wacko:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chocobolicious
Demon's Souls and Super Adventure Island II. I can't help but to notice some Zelda II elements in the latter game.
Infected
I'm going through Fire Emblem (the GBA one that's just called 'Fire Emblem'). It's a good introduction to the whole Fire Emblem series, so I just started there.
well currently the games i'm playing are fallout new vegas, call of duty black ops, and eden eternal.
Ape Escape. Been awhile since I've played this one.
PS3 Sonic Unleashed
Still playing persona 4, in the last dungeon to get the good ending...
Spoiler warning:
/waits for Kermit to come in and give Lefty some unwanted lovin' :hello:Quote:
Originally Posted by LeftyGuitar
Also, I started playing LittleBigPlanet the other night, with hilarious results. Haven't played it since, but I've got two days to myself after tonight, so I'll probably spend a bit of time on it again. Lots of fun, so far. =)
Yeah, I think I'm more than prepared for stuff like that. I'm not expecting the second coming of Christ, just a pretty good game. :wacko: I'm quite liking it so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
I'm still undecided whether or not I want to play the Xenosaga games after I'm finished with Gears. I've heard mixed things about them. Not to mention that even those who like it tend to agree that Gears is better.
They're good, but much like Xenogears they have a lot of rough patches. Hilariously, it's the complete OPPOSITE from Gears. Gears has a great start, a poor middle, and a decent ending.
Saga has a decent start, a poor middle, and a great ending.
I think I might prefer Saga myself, but opinions are funny like that. There's plenty of reasons to dislike one or the other. And I think at least some of the dislike for Saga runs off the fact it's not really a sequel to Xenogears. At all. So it suffers from a bit of Chrono Cross syndrome from the more hardcore fanboy crowd. And...well.... the cutscenes. Not everyone's on board for a game that spends as much (or more if we're talking about Episode 1) time telling the story as it does letting you actually play the game.
X-Men 2:Clone Wars,Urban Strike.
Playing through the the console LoZ games and all the Mega Man X series. Pretty much dreading anything after X4. Lol
That reminds me, I started playing Ape Escape: On the Loose, the port of Ape Escape to the PSP, lately. I've loved Ape Escape ever since I was a kid, and I really need to pick up Ape Escape 2 some day. I have the third Ape Escape around somewhere, but I never got around to finding a copy of Ape Escape 2, and whenever I do find a copy of Ape Escape 2 I don't have any money to pay for it. >_>;Quote:
Originally Posted by LeftyGuitar
Either way...Ape Escape's a good game. I wish it were more popular over in the USA, though.
PS3 Tekken 6
Pocket Monsters Black
Braid
Still on Demon's Souls
and I got through with the Outland demo last night. Loved it, but I can't buy it because I'm a few cents short! ARGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!
Terraria. It's rather fun, but...it feels a bit like Minecraft, doesn't it? It's more polished (as it should be, considering Minecraft's beta and Terraria a formal release), and the addition of things like NPCs is very neat, but even so...
PSP Mini Zenonia
Actually ended up playing through Soul Blazer atm, and I kinda figured Terraria would be like Minecraft. :P
I gave up on Fire Emblem after realizing for the 500th time that I suck at every and any game at that. (I kept restarting this one chapter and realized that no matter what I did I would be losing, and then I saw that there was a recruitable character in the chapter, but I missed another character a few chapters back that I needed in order to get this new recruitable character.)
Long story short, I decided to take up Tale of Symphonia to finally play the one RPG for the Gamecube that everyone says is great that I never played. Yay.
Edit: I decided to go back to Fire Emblem despite my sucking at it. I simply need something to keep me busy, and if trying to beat impossible odds going through Fire Emblem will do it, then I'll take it.
FE7 is the second easiest game in the series; I don't see how anybody can suck at it! Especially since Marcus is there, with his power of awesome that lets you solo the game, and can even beat the final boss alone on the hardest difficulty.
Soul Blazer's a great game. Just finished my own LP of it not that long ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by megamanax
I 'was' playing Star Ocean Til the End of Time, but then I remembered all the reasons why I disliked that game as I got near the end again (I've beaten it once before years ago).
So then I threw in Star Ocean: The Second Story, and was having an absolute ball on one of the harder difficulty settings until my scratched disk decided it wanted to freeze up and give me a black screen twice after battles in the Mountain Temple.
Lost interest and then started browsing online for people to play older games with, came across these forums and figured it might be one of my best shots. Around the same time I came across the MMORPG NEStalgia, and decided to give that game a shot (free to play, need to pay for a subscription to get access to half the classes/some items)...decent game so far, but it's definitely one of those games that appeals to older RPG players and repels people who care about things like say...graphics. :)
Frick. I plan on going through the entire series, too. >_>Quote:
Originally Posted by Aeolus Aeneas
But yeah, I'm doing ok now. I refuse to use Marcus, though. He's an experience hog, and I'd rather have a more balanced team. I'm just really bad at this kind of game. I'm not a good tactician in any way. Maybe it has something to do with me trying to get every character and refusing to let any character die? Also I'm going for every side-quest, so that might be a part of it, perhaps.
I abused the arena, though, so now the game should be much easier. I'm at chapter 18 and I have 7 character at level 20 (without promotion) an 2 characters at level 20 (with promotion). I'll do the same with arenas later in the game, too, so I shouldn't have much trouble.
If you know, what's the easiest and the hardest one in the series? I'm just curious.
Vampire Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
You will learn to appreciate Marcus, especially if you wait until around chapter 20 to use him, since that's when everybody should start promoting. But still, he's a magnificent utility unit with great weapon ranks, solid stats, the weapon triangle on his side and has the mounted movement bonus making him an omnipresent threat to all enemies.
The gaiden missions aren't hard to get in 7, unlike some of the missions in 6. Unless you're going for 19xx, but I assume you're not playing in Hector mode so that's moot.
Easiest: FE8 (Sacred Stones) for the GBA. It's so easy that promoted enemy units have the stats of the same level UNPROMOTED enemy units. So you'll be running into Druids with stats of Shamans. Also, if you get the Japanese version, the rookie units have higher growth rates than the US version, even though they get 50 levels (10 for their rookie class, 20 for base and 20 for promoted). That was their attempt to balance them out... even though they never bothered to make promoted enemy units, you know, have better stats.
Hardest: That's up for debate, really. Though a lot of people say FE5, AKA Thracia 776 for the Super Famicom (SNES). I personally haven't played it beyond one mission, so I can't say for certain if it is the hardest.
Decided to start up FFFXII again, pretty fun so far.
Playing Mega Man 10 at the moment.
Alright, thanks Aeolus. I'll reconsider using Marcus more, but I think I have a team that wipes the floor with every enemy (I'm at chapter 20 right now) as is, so I think I'll be fine for the rest of the game. Half of my guys are promoted and at level 20 and the other half are at level 20 and awaiting promotion items as I get them.
It's funny that you say that the Sacred Stones are the easiest Fire Emblem game, though, because I actually thought you might say that one. I've played it before and I remember it as being pretty darn easy. I took a look at Thracia 776 before, and I think you might be right when you say it's the hardest. It certainly looks challenging if anything.
That's because Sacred Stones tried to be FE2, only they made random battles far too easy to abuse for level ups. In FE2, random battles tended to be more of an annoyance and the EXP gains were low, so unless you were crazy (like me, who played the game about 4 times because of bad roms), you wouldn't reach high levels very easily, especially when you got to the monster battles. About the only way they could have made Sacred Stones easier is if they included third tier promotions and made the Falcon Knights able to do three times damage to monsters like in FE2.
But you should be happy because Sacred Stones doesn't use magic like FE2. With the use of HP to cast spells.
Playing some Alice: Madness Returns as well as the first game.
I love me some American McGee.
How's Madness Returns, if you are far enough to judge?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheRealSpiders
I finished the first game and thought it had some excellent art direction and level design, but pretty meh gameplay/combat.
Currently playing Pinball Dreaming - a PSP minis release of Pinball Dreams. Go go 1992!
I'm curious as well as to how the game is. I was a fan of the first one, and from seeing other people play it and the previews of it I thought it looked pretty good, but I don't know if it's worth the buy or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheRealSpiders
Anyways, I finished Fire Emblem 7 and I'm onto Fire Emblem 6. Hopefully I'll be able to get through this one unscathed.
ha ha ha... no. Enemies actually have Luck in that game, and they have Killer weapons. So yeah, enjoy the crits! And the War Dragons! And Thieves not being able to promote at all! And having to find and keep all of the Divine Weapons (as in not letting them break) along with Fa's Dragon Stone to get to the real final boss!
Also, like axes? Well then you won't because they have really crap accuracy now!