Humble85 said:
Dragunai said:
The formulaic rpgs to which you refer seem to be mostly cloning good games such as anything by bioware or blizzard in order to leech the success of those games to a rather easily amused generation of gamers and I am proud to stand up on my snobby old school gaming veteran soap box and shout that the modern age of the games industry is pandering big time to the casual era of uninteliigent cry babies who ***** if the game requires more effort or thinking than point crosshair press button which is why we have to suffer this bile churning insurgence of FPS games who in turn breed the notion that these immature self righteous dumbasses are somehow gaming gods while they flee from the challenge of RTS / RPG games which actually require you to think all the while shouting "it sucks, you suck, get a life you nerd" from their bedrooms because its after 8pm and their mommy wont let them out their room after curfew.
You took the term "zero punctuation" quite literally, didnt you?
But I agree with you. Because, as for ...
Valkyrie101 said:
New ones [...] generally [have] better stories and more engaging characters/dialogue. O
... I have to ask:"Where? Show me!" I may have missed some games in the past. As for Fallout 2, i dont know how it was "amazingly" difficult, except that the first dungeon was a bit of a more challenge than the cave in 1.
Didnt take anything from zero, Just personal preference.
Ben is more into FPS games than RPGs while I fall into his catergory of loathing, the online rpg gamer ^_^ and yet despite his constant abuse I come back to his reviews each week haha.
Rewold said:
Dragunai said:
Rewold said:
I don't really know how to explain it but I think FF7(started replaying it yesterday) just has something I don't feel today's RPG's have.
A massive cult following of obsessive Cosplaying fanboys who refuse to let it go as a distinctly mediocre game with a predictable storyline and the least functional magic system in the series?
I thought FF7 had the best magic system in the series with FF9 close second...I guess our tastes are worlds apart.
FF7 didnt have a magic system, it had "take materia A, attach to Character B, Cast spell C"
FF9 actually had a functioning magic system. Vivi learnt dark spells from whatever was equipped then to use them along with the auto shizzle you had to spend those blue gems, Garnet, Aka Dagger, Aka Princess slutbag used white magic, Steiner used the magic sword system when combined with vivi in the party. It was genius, 7 just let you staple any spell, any skill to any character meaning each and every single character in 7 was interchangable and thus you could focus on just your fav 3 unlike 9 where each character had unique skills to offer from the ground up.
So yes Our tastes are very different. I like sophisticated depth and tactical arrangemnts of character combinations while any FF7 fan likes having a spikey haired emo run around with 2 interchangable B characters who have no unique traits outside their limit breaks and even those were of limited use beyond Climhazard.
Even Zidane in FF9 was a far superior character to Cloud because Zidane was a spunky fun loving rogue while Cloud just like squall was a standard issue print of an anti hero. Frankly in FF7/8 I loved the supporting characters like Quistis, Zell and selphie because they were fun and light hearted when Squall was off mopping somewhere, same in FF7 with Barret and Yuffie because they had personality.
Writing was better in 8 and 9 better enemies because in 8 you had Edea and Seifer for a big part of the story as the main enemy and my favourite FF badguy EVER! Kuja in FF9. Dude was mint in his inception, style and even his personal bg music was awesome.
Then you get Sephiroth, the most over hyped silver haired conceptualisation of anything that is considered "cool" in the cosplay world - long white / silver hair, big ass sword, black cloak / coat. The guy is such a sterotype it makes me wanna puke.
Hell Kuja even came in 2 flavours - vanilla and strawberry.
heres a link to his theme tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkamgZq-wT8
(listen out for the drumline and piano fusion which makes it eerie)
