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With the exception of Final Fantasy Legend III and the Dragon Warrior Monsters titles, I've never played a Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy game.

A large part of that is due to the fact that I've never owned an SNES, a PSX, or a PS2. I've had an NES for years, but I was still too young to read and comprehend the dialogue in the games when they were more readily available. By the time I was old enough to enjoy the games, they'd already become rare.

Don't get me wrong - I do like RPGs...well, I like some RPGs. I loved the Pokémon games, and Paper Mario and Mario and Luigi were both great. I've played Diablo II, though I've never finished it. I'm currently enjoying Falcon's Eye, a great remake of Nethack for the PC.

I think my problem is that I get bored with RPGs fairly quickly. The random encounters, the constant leveling up, the inane dialogue...I just get fed up and return to the genres I'm more comfortable with, like action and adventure.

And just to get this out as well, I've never played the original Legend of Zelda or Link to the Past, nor have I played Super Mario RPG. I've also never touched an MMORPG. Come to think of it...I don't think I've ever finished a Square or Enix RPG.

So...am I a freak of nature, or are there other gamers like me?

Yes! You're a freak;, but you're our freak, so we love your cheap ass anyway :-)

Especially in videogame themed underwear ;-)

So who are you wearing today?
{Even if the picture on your undies is drawn with imaginary ink :-)

PS,

how are the Dragon Warrior Monsters titles?

inane dialogue. It's the same reason I can't play Animal Crossing either. I don't like to read video games, I don't like to watch them either. I like action, pure and simple. FF could never have existed and I couldn't care less.

diablo 2 is an MMORPG.....so you have played one

Originally Posted by pimp_daddy_smurf diablo 2 is an MMORPG.....so you have played one

No it isnt.

BTW, don't worry about not having played Link to the Past, I honestly really don't like it that much. I've played every Zelda game (every game on the nintendo consoles that is) and I can honestly say that LttP is just really, really annoying. I picked it up for the GBA, got to the second dark world temple and haven't played it since. So whatever. You really do need to play the original though.

You are not missing anything with regard to the more recent FF games. Since FF7 they have relied too much on cgi cutscenes to make up for a lackluster game. I never played the snes or nes games.

yeah diablo 2 is a MMORPG>........you play an RPG with tons of other people online and build up stats....i would know i played the game for 2 years

FFVII is by far a great game however the recent FF games have gone down hill Ex: FFx-2 anyways. I was never a RPG fan till this game. Now I love them they are just to long sometimes. Its hard to play one when you work/ have school/ have a family to take care of / and bills to pay. Oh and CAG to type in! I would try the old nes zelda games though these are action RPGs no reading or anything like normal RpGs.

I would try Golden Sun if I were you. The story is good and it just gripped me.

This is coming from someone who is not really into RPG's

Man that was on clearence at traget and passed it up! Pretty good then?

Originally Posted by Gothic_Walrus With the exception of Final Fantasy Legend III and the Dragon Warrior Monsters titles, I've never played a Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy game. A large part of that is due to the fact that I've never owned an SNES, a PSX, or a PS2. I've had an NES for years, but I was still too young to read and comprehend the dialogue in the games when they were more readily available. By the time I was old enough to enjoy the games, they'd already become rare. Don't get me wrong - I do like RPGs...well, I like some RPGs. I loved the Pokémon games, and Paper Mario and Mario and Luigi were both great. I've played Diablo II, though I've never finished it. I'm currently enjoying Falcon's Eye, a great remake of Nethack for the PC. I think my problem is that I get bored with RPGs fairly quickly. The random encounters, the constant leveling up, the inane dialogue...I just get fed up and return to the genres I'm more comfortable with, like action and adventure. And just to get this out as well, I've never played the original Legend of Zelda or Link to the Past, nor have I played Super Mario RPG. I've also never touched an MMORPG. Come to think of it...I don't think I've ever finished a Square or Enix RPG. So...am I a freak of nature, or are there other gamers like me?

You should buy a cheap PlayStation. You can find tons of good games for cheap. For $50 you can get a PS and 2-3 good games.

Or, you could buy a PS2 and play all the good games as well as the good ps1 games.

Diablo 2 is not a MMORPG, you can't be online on the same game with more than like 3 or four people (if i remember correctly) On a MMORPG you are online on the same server with thousands of people at the same time.

Diablo 2 is NOT a MMORPG, it's just an online RPG.
MMORPGs consist of people playing together in a PERSISTANT world.
FF7 was not a lacklust game, it rocked. You blasphemer.

Actually, I find it harder to believe that you've never owned a SNES or Sony system than the fact that you've never played a FF/DW game. If you haven't owned a Sony console, you've missed a heck of a lot more than just FF.

I love RPGs, but I have a bad habit of getting halfway through the game and not finishing. I either get really busy with something (school usually) all of a sudden, or another game steals me away. With the original Baldur's Gate (not Dark Alliance), I was about 85% done with the game when Rollercoaster Tycoon came along and I got really addicted. I tried to finish Final Fantasy Tactics last summer before I started graduate school, but when late August came around, I was 2/3 through the game and had to stop. I'm halfway through Final Fantasy V and VI and Chrono Trigger, and 90% through Brave Fencer Mushashi.

However, I have been able to finish an equal number of RPGs: Dragon Warrior, Zelda 2-4 (Adventure of Link, Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time), Final Fantasy IV several times, Soul Blazer, Final Fantasy VII, Skies of Arcadia, and KoToR. With KoToR I was worried because I tried to play it over Christmas break, and I wasn't sure I'd be able to finish it before I started another semester at grad school and became swamped with homework. I finished it the night of the first day of classes, just before the homework started. I guess it's not really that exciting, but it was a close call; KoToR almost suffered the same fate as the other nearly-complete RPGs I've attempted.

Overall, I guess it balances out between finished and half-finished. Does anyone else have this problem of starting an RPG, getting halfway through, and never finishing?

The breaking point for me is the turn-based combat . . .

I just haven't really enjoyed giving up control. The SNES Final Fantasy games sucked because you get caught in tons of random battles when you were trying to just get from point A to point B.

Also if you think you are bad I own just about every Zelda game and have not beat a single one

Ocarina of Crap is not Zelda 4; that would be Link's Awakening, a superb game.