JRPG's and the suckage thereof
#16
Posted 25 October 2007 - 09:53 PM
#19
Posted 26 October 2007 - 03:03 AM
Hell yeah... not too mention that superfluous Quistis. And that annyoing Selphie. And that idiot Irvine. Xell at least had some punch. The whole game could have been much more enjoyable if they had just left those guys out and focused even more on a non-emo Squall, Rinoa, Edea, Laguna and his gang.
Ah well, but it definitely had the longest and best ending sequence if seen, so it at least makes up for its other shortcomings.
This post has been edited by Gobbler: 26 October 2007 - 03:04 AM
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#20
Posted 26 October 2007 - 01:40 PM
JRPG are certainly better than bad RPG with "Go kill 10 rats in my basement" kind of quests, hours of EXP, gold or item grinding and inexistant/boring story like Diablo 2 and Dragon Fable, but it doesn't score much higher. It doesn't beat computer RPGs where you can make moral choices, explore freely, decide which and how you want to complete your objectives, have discussions with NPC and learn spells and skills that have an use outside the battlefield, and none of them get any close to a good old pen and paper RPG played with friends.
But I had a lot of fun with Super Mario RPG, so I will probably give the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series a try.
#21
Posted 26 October 2007 - 02:05 PM
Again, see Tales of Symphonia for an example of this. That game managed to be even more frigging tedious than the usual jRPG turn based copypaste bullcrap, and it had a REAL TIME ACTION BATTLE SYSTEM. If that's not a gigantic failure, I don't know what is.
This post has been edited by Professor Saucy: 26 October 2007 - 02:06 PM
#23
Posted 29 October 2007 - 12:47 AM
The Prodian Anthology
#24
Posted 29 October 2007 - 01:25 AM
My only good memory of that game was uninstalling it to make room for Psychonauts, which didn't run anyway. But I did get rid of Morrowind, and that counts as a triumph in my book!
This post has been edited by Professor Saucy: 29 October 2007 - 01:39 AM
#27
Posted 29 October 2007 - 06:11 AM
Damn you, Prodian. I was just going to make that point as well.
-The League Against Tedium
#30
Posted 29 October 2007 - 02:36 PM
Right on. The most detailed world, intriguing story and fun gameplay I've ever seen in an RPG.