Recent content by Tadrith

Unfortunately, I lack experience with the original Doctors and like so many people only have experience with the reboot, so please understand that my ability to select is based entirely on the new series. 1. Donna Noble Of any of the new companions, except possibly Rory, she had the...

For immediate replayability, something in the sandbox-RPG genre (Fallout 3, New Vegas, Oblivion, etc.) is always fun as the approach you take can vary each playthrough (though my experience is that there's frequently an optimized approach to the early portions of the game and/or levelling that...

I have to agree with the trend on FFXIII. While I didn't really have a huge issue with the core mechanics of it, I found the plot and character development SORELY lacking. Gameplay felt a bit like an unholy union between a MMORPG and modern Console RPG, making a rather large portion of...

The fiends weren't part of the original japanese release of the game, but were added in for the director's cut, and iirc you needed to defeat them in order. Since the second one was kind of in the middle of nowhere on the map it ends up pretty easy to short-circuit that sidequest. The only one...

In regards to the Disgaea things, it's best to keep in mind that NIS Strat-RPGs are pretty much universally built around exploiting the system (well, really success in most Strat-RPGs is about grinding and exploiting the system) and that they give you every tool you could possibly need to do so...

As an RPG fan, it really pisses me off when series decide to "reinvent" themselves between iterations, dropping the things that made them fun in favor of ungainly mechanics. The Final Fantasy franchise is particularly guilty of this, seeming to take an approach to new games of incorporating...

I figure that the Shin Megami Tensei Pentagram [http://defaultprime.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ShinMegamiTensei.jpg] would probably make a great tattoo, but given what you've said about your preferences in games I doubt it'd work for you. Though, given your preference for visceral...

Hrmmm....given that most people aren't sticking with just one, I'm going to say Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, and Suikoden 2, in no particular order.

Hrmm...kinda surprised no one has mentioned Final Fantasy XIII yet. COULD have been a great game, if they found a way to tie all those Cie'th Stone missions into the plot, provided endings for the two rather obvious alternative resolutions to the narrative and oh yea....gave the player a few...

Suikoden (Pretty much the whole series): Here's some godly magical powers, go raise an army and start/win a civil-war. FFXIII: Wait for the movie to pause, then walk forward to trigger more movie. Disgaea series: Beat the game, become a badass, THEN play. Bayonetta: Behold the magic of...

The thing is, that's sentiment is true of every game in the Shin Megami Tensei line. With the majority of games in the series starting with "and the world is destroyed" it's hardly a surprise. And along that line, I'd offer SMT: Nocturne as one of the biggest culprits, since, even though I...

*shrugs* I think the main issue is that mass media tends to ignore the fact that a video game rating of "M" is the same as a movie rating of "R" while (and this is prompted by something that irritated me in that youtube link) an "AO" rating is the equivalent of NC-17/XXX. Unfortunately, this...

In keeping with HellToaster's nomination of Mortal Kombat characters, I have to toss in the SoulCalibur series, since just hunting after either of the iconic blades from the series seems to do a number on one's sanity and ability to differentiate right from wrong. And I'm going to reiterate...

Magna Carta on the PS2, since I just found gameplay dreadfully painful Suikoden: Tierkris....maybe I ought to give it a second chance some day, but in the hour or so I played, I didn't see anything I love about the rest of the series and just sort of lost interest.

Hrmm...well, for video games Star Ocean: Til The End of Time certainly deserves a nod...and Xenosaga though, that's more confusion than mindfuckery.... And I'm surprised no one's mentioned Serial Experiments Lain yet...by the end I felt like I sort of got it, but at the same time there was...