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[quote name='SL4IN']Pretty excited about Knights in the Nightmare coming stateside. Anyone else?[/quote]

What's the gameplay on this one? I loved Riviera, but I wasn't too enamored with Yggdra Union.
 
[quote name='Chacrana']but I don't see how they could have P3/4-style social links since there's really not too many people in the game...[/quote]

There's always Super Hitler

Now if that Persona remake comes out in the states I'm gonna have to buy a PSP... again :roll:
 
[quote name='Rodimus']There's always Super Hitler

Now if that Persona remake comes out in the states I'm gonna have to buy a PSP... again :roll:[/QUOTE]

Hehe I am actually in the process of trying to sell my modded PSP simply because there aint shit on the system. I only bought it for CC and KH and KH doesn't even have a scheduled release date!
 
I got Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World yesterday (it was $40 and I had a BB $25 gift card). I really wanted a new RPG and just couldn't wait for Star Ocean but I'm beginging to think I should've researched it more. The monster recruit/Pokemon system seems useless and out of place. It really makes it feel like an RPG for little kids. This game is damn ugly, and not just the graphics but the animation is poor. I hate the MC, probably one of the most annoying ever. The best part is the combat, however it isn't as smooth as the first one or Vesperia.
 
I beat Valkyria. I really liked the setting. I really disliked all the anime elements, like one-dimensional hobbies (durr, i like baking), the fantasy element kinda threw me off with lasers and stuff, and some things just didn't make sense to me.

Like near the end of the game:
Alicia turns Valkyria and gets ready to kick ass but Welkin is like NOOO DON'T DO IT, DON'T KICK THEIR ASS, and she's like ohh fine, let's make out. She shoulda just turned Valkyria and lasered the crap out of the tank. I don't see how this is an issue at all, maybe bombing yourself is a bad idea but Selvaria turned out alright just with the regular Valkryrur stuff.

Or with the ending:
So you're telling me that some guy was able to make a plane and be able to perform crazy flight maneuvers despite planes not being invented yet? IIRC the Wright Brothers plane lasted for 50 seconds in flight before crashing, and then they had to build another one. Come on now.

Great gameplay mechanics though. Scout is a little broken, and there are a lot of BS moments like Lancer spawning behind your tank and getting a free crit. I'd also rather see the dodging mechanic done away with, people should be able to flank sandbags for 100%, and something needs to be done with the status effects because they were mostly useless.
 
I'm not really liking Final Fantasy I. I guess it's a little too old school for my taste. The new cutscenes look awesome but I guess it's hard to go back after playing some of the newer games. Oh well, Tales of the World comes in next week.
 
[quote name='Rodimus']I got Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World yesterday (it was $40 and I had a BB $25 gift card). I really wanted a new RPG and just couldn't wait for Star Ocean but I'm beginging to think I should've researched it more. The monster recruit/Pokemon system seems useless and out of place. It really makes it feel like an RPG for little kids. This game is damn ugly, and not just the graphics but the animation is poor. I hate the MC, probably one of the most annoying ever. The best part is the combat, however it isn't as smooth as the first one or Vesperia.[/QUOTE]
Probably my biggest disappointment of last year. I know myself and a couple other people bitched about that game in this thread. It really is a shame it sucked so much since I loved the first one a lot.
 
[quote name='Rei no Otaku']Probably my biggest disappointment of last year. I know myself and a couple other people bitched about that game in this thread. It really is a shame it sucked so much since I loved the first one a lot.[/quote]

I didn't do any research, it was strictly an impulse buy, which is rare for me. I'm about 8 hours in. Does it get any better? If not it's probably going up on eBay very soon. Why did they decide to do the monster recruit thing? That just killed it for me.

[quote name='depascal22']Did they at least keep the same characters from the first Symphonia?[/quote]

They're there, but the main characters are different. From what I understand they pop in and out of your party during the course of the game. So you never really have a concrete party. So instead you recruit/evolve monsters. LAME

Anyone played the Kingdom Hearts CoM remake? I really haven't heard much about it considering the popularity of the series. Maybe I should've gotten that instead of ToS.
 
Kinda sad that all the best Wii RPGs are Gamecube games. If ToS 2 had turned out as good as the first one, I would have already bought a Wii.


[quote name='Rodimus']Anyone played the Kingdom Hearts CoM remake? I really haven't heard much about it considering the popularity of the series. Maybe I should've gotten that instead of ToS.[/quote]

Yeah, I was curious about that KH remake as well. It seems to have slid under the radar, cause I haven't heard much about it at all.
 
[quote name='kainzero']I beat Valkyria. I really liked the setting. I really disliked all the anime elements, like one-dimensional hobbies (durr, i like baking), the fantasy element kinda threw me off with lasers and stuff, and some things just didn't make sense to me.

Like near the end of the game:
Alicia turns Valkyria and gets ready to kick ass but Welkin is like NOOO DON'T DO IT, DON'T KICK THEIR ASS, and she's like ohh fine, let's make out. She shoulda just turned Valkyria and lasered the crap out of the tank. I don't see how this is an issue at all, maybe bombing yourself is a bad idea but Selvaria turned out alright just with the regular Valkryrur stuff.
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man why u gotta be such a hater?!?!

I dont see how that's any different than real life... guys do dumb things coz they fall in love with girls, and girls do dumb things becoz girls do dumb things period.

plus I'ma one-dimensional hobby your ass to Kogi's taco truck t(-_-t) and what?!?!?!

oh yah... I jus beat this game too!!! like right jus now! I loved it!!!

I dont think it's an RPG tho... to me it's so strategy based that it feels more like an Advance Wars type of game.

now my next RPG to play thru:

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[quote name='Rodimus']Anyone played the Kingdom Hearts CoM remake? I really haven't heard much about it considering the popularity of the series. Maybe I should've gotten that instead of ToS.[/QUOTE]

If you played the GBA version, there's nothing too big you'll get from the PS2 version, IMO. They did add voice-acting, however, which might get people's attention. They added in new cards, new sleights, and I think some new bosses, but it still wasn't enough to get me to purchase it. I really don't know why either, since I love me some KH.
 
[quote name='Rodimus']I didn't do any research, it was strictly an impulse buy, which is rare for me. I'm about 8 hours in. Does it get any better? If not it's probably going up on eBay very soon. Why did they decide to do the monster recruit thing? That just killed it for me.[/quote]
I didn't even make it past 3 hours. After I realized how much grinding I would need to do in order to progress I just stopped playing. And it didn't help that I hated the Monster recruiting and the new characters as well...

They're there, but the main characters are different. From what I understand they pop in and out of your party during the course of the game. So you never really have a concrete party. So instead you recruit/evolve monsters. LAME
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They do join your party permanently later on in the game. But they have a level cap(I think it's 50) and you can't change their equipment.
 
yeay~!!

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anyway I dont understand something about Grandia...

like u turn on the game, start a new game, watch sum cutscenes, press the A button, whatever...

then u check your stats when u finally get your first chance to and your player is at Level 10.

wtf?!?!?! where did levels 1-9 go?!?!

what's the fukkyn point of starting me at level 10?!?! there's no logic behind it, it makes no sense.
 
I'm on the last chapter of Yakuza its taken me like 2+years and a dead ps3 laser to finish this game! Next up maybe Persona 3 FES or (depends if I get my ps3 fixed within the next week or two) I will finish Fallout 3, then start Valkyria.
 
[quote name='JEKKI']now my next RPG to play thru:

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Are you playing it on a Dreamcast? I loved this game on the DC. But Skies of Arcadia was my fave on the DC. BTW, I need to hunt down the GC version of Skies.
 
Just finished Lost Odyssey. What a under appreciated game by the press, of course not so much by the fanbase/JRPG fans it seems. Great game although they really didn't stray much outside of the basic FF formula. But if your a fan of the Final Fantasy series LO is probably the closest you'll get to Final Fantasy.

I would give it a 8.6 tipping the B bridge into the B+. I enjoyed it a lot more then Blue Dragon (though I think my wife really loved Blue Dragon).

Now that shes done with Persona 4 I'll probably go back and finish that up before Star Ocean 4 hits, just in case I decide to go grab that.

I'm not looking as much forward to Suikoden DS because the import impressions on Gamefaqs seem to be pretty "meh".
 
I just finished up Chrono Trigger on the DS. I haven't played it in years, and the game is still great.

The DS Suikoden is the next game I'm really looking forward to despite impressions.
 
[quote name='FloodsAreUponUS']I want SO4 to be good so badly, its like the only real JRPG this year.[/quote]

I'm hoping this as well. I'm dying to play this game. SO3 was one of my favorite RPG's, even if quite a few SO fans didn't like it.
 
[quote name='js1']Are you playing it on a Dreamcast? I loved this game on the DC. But Skies of Arcadia was my fave on the DC. BTW, I need to hunt down the GC version of Skies.[/QUOTE]


yes! Dreamcast version! I gotta complete albeit in a busted azz case copy from goozex that I posted a pic of sum pages back!

I also jus got this off goozex:

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I want to get Lost Odyssey too, it's down to 700 points on goozex now and I have heard so many good things about it,

but I got Grandia and FFX-2 to keep me busy prolly til like june lol.
 
I dunno, I think Grandia II is so, so skippable. If you've played Grandia 1, you've already played the battle system. If you've tried any other RPG ever, you've already heard the story. What's left?
 
[quote name='FloodsAreUponUS']I want SO4 to be good so badly, its like the only real JRPG this year.[/quote]
I'll probably hold off on picking that up right away. I have a few other games I'd like to complete first....
 
I should play my copy of Grandia II someday.

Also, what exactly are the differences between the DC and Gamecube versions of Skies of Arcadia. I heard there are less random encounters in the GC version but I was just curious as to the others. I played through the Cube version and loved it so it's more of a curiositty thing since I probably won't ever play the DC version.
 
The Cube version added that thing where you find the sky fish or whatever. Also the bounty system was added. Finally the music in the GC version is worse.
 
[quote name='FloodsAreUponUS']If there are less RE in the GC version I don't wanna play the DC one.[/quote]
Agreed, as much as I loved the game I hated the high random encounter rate.
 
Yah, the encounter rate was crazy enough in the GC version. I've been watching Last Exile lately, and it has really reminded me a lot of SoA. I wish Sega would resurect this game and make it their primary franchise RPG series instead of beating the Phantasy Star series to death like they're doing.
 
[quote name='FloodsAreUponUS']I want Sega to bring Yakuza 3 over, and get Ryu out of that damn cave!

fuck Skies of Arcadia.

Yakuza and Shenmue>Anything else by Sega.[/quote]
lol shenmue


valkyria chronicles is way more awesome.
hopefully they reuse and refine that system, preferably not in a direct sequel.

if you wanna race forklifts instead, then damn. you need to get out more.
 
[quote name='ChibiJosh']What's the gameplay on this one? I loved Riviera, but I wasn't too enamored with Yggdra Union.[/quote]

It's really, weird. It's kind of like Riviera's gameplay, but with a shmup kinda mixed in.
 
Shenmue caused Sega to go under. There, I said it.

Shit had more hype than FF7, except that it wished it was half as successful.
 
Airships > Lucky Hit

Looking forward to the Genesis collection. Its been awhile since I played the REAL Phantasy Star games. Oh, and Shining Force.

Damn, what happened, Sega? They used to be such an RPG powerhouse.

And don't worry about Yakuza 3. If anything, Sony will make Sega release it here. They need all the exclusives they can get.
 
Yakuza is awesome Shenmue is boring. I wish people wouldn't compare to the two, or if they did they would be like "Yakuza is what Shenmue would be like if it didn't suck"
 
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