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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? :D
 
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.
 
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
 
[quote name='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? :D[/quote]
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.
 
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.
 
I love it when people, especially reviewers, get annoyed with random battles and then cry "it suckz0rz1!!"

Granted some games implement it better than others, but random battles are part of rpg's all the way back to D&D.
 
[quote name='redgopher']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.[/quote]


Are you kidding me? that is probably the best Zelda IMO. I think Zelda 2 was the weakest of the bunch
 
I have never played a Final Fantasy game either. I now own sealed copies of FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX and FF Chronicles however. I feel like someday I'll want to play them.

Dragon Warrior is another thing though...I love dragon warrior. I think if you were to start, I'd skip Dragon Warrior 1. Go right to Dragon Warrior 3. Good stuff. If you can get the NES cart, I recommend that. But if you need to save money, you can get the gameboy cart...not the same but really close.
 
I've played through and enjoyed Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 3 and Mystic Quest, Secret Of Evermore, Actraiser, Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past, and Super Mario RPG for the SNES. I also played Drakken and The 7'th Saga and they weren't my thing (but that's another story). However, I have not been able to get myself to play most of the RPG's that came out during and since the Playstation era. I own FF8 but I only played it once in the 1 1/2 years I have owned it, and I got about 30 minutes into the game and never went back. I owned Dark Cloud for PS2 but couldn't stand it and got rid of it. The only thing I really played and enjoyed was Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time and other than that, nothing I've tried has hooked me as much as the RPGs of the SNES era. It's a little odd.
However, I'm interested in FF7 since everyone seems to praise it so I want to see if it lives up to the hype. And I want to get Paper Mario someday too.
 
Of all the games Gothic_Walrus listed in his original post, the only one I've ever played is the original Zelda. Never played a FF game and probably never will. Just not big with the RPGs.
 
diablo 2 is not an mmorpg, u only play with 8 people at once, while mmo's have thousands more in one game.
 
[quote name='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? :D[/quote]

*gasp* Blasphemy!
YOU ARE BANISHED FROM THE LAND!!!! j/k

I can understand what you're saying. I'm a huge fan of RPG's and I'd have to agree that sometimes the leveling up stuff gets more than tedious. Somtimes it's just hard to stay interested in a game long enough to beat it. I've had Xenosaga for a while now and I still haven't beaten it, just played it off and on from time to time. RPG's just aren't everyone's cup of tea. Play whatever games you like playing.

The only suggestion I'd make is to give Link to the Past a try. The best Zelda game IMHO.
 
[quote name='Simon Adebesi']i dont consider pokemon a rpg.[/quote]

What would you consider Pokemon then? I'm pretty sure Nintendo considers Pokemon an RPG, and they're the people who published it.
 
[quote name='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? :D[/quote]

It's no big deal. Honestly, I'm surprised the Final Fantasy games are as popular as they are. I've beaten FF 5 through 10 and enjoyed all of them, but you have to have that nerd instinct to enjoy leveling-up (random battles are not fun in and of themselves, but only for what they lead to) and getting new weapons and items and abilities. Also, the stories tend to spiral out in all directions and always include some mention of a life force or some kind of earth energy, or something like that. As a side note, the popularity of FF 7 is beyond me. I don't understand why it stands out so much in everyone's book.

Fundamentally, I think games should be about action and reflexes. Of course that can make games frustrating, which is one reason some people consider RPGs their favorite genre. With a little time, luck, and thought, any RPG can be beaten.
 
[quote name='alongx'][quote name='Simon Adebesi']i dont consider pokemon a rpg.[/quote]

What would you consider Pokemon then? I'm pretty sure Nintendo considers Pokemon an RPG, and they're the people who published it.[/quote]

Well, it's more like chicken-fighting for gamers. Anyway, the main character never gets better, only his imprisoned elementals. Red Fox or whatever the hell that kid's name is starts out a dweeb and ends up a dweeb. His slaves do all the fighting. Personally I'd rather play as a Charmander catching pansies like the main character and making him get off his lazy A and get smeared all over the place.
 
Hiya,

Don't like RPGs? No Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior? That's cool, though... The original Dragon Warrior games (don't know about Dragon Warrior 7 for the Playstation) focused a lot on leveling up... but the Final Fantasy games didn't (with the exception of FF1. I don't know about FF2 or FF5, but the other FF games, just playing through the game gave you enough levels, usually). If you don't like RPGs because of the turn-based system, random encounters, and text, you should try the following:

? Metal Gear Solid (Playstation)
+ Devil May Cry (Playstation 2)
? Just about any Zelda game... I'd suggest A Link to the Past (SNES)
- Super Metroid (SNES)
? Secret of Mana (SNES)

I've put a ? next to games I'm not sure you'd like, a + next to ones you'd probably like, and a - next to ones you 'may not' like... I'm really curious about what you'd say regarding Metal Gear Solid and Secret of Mana, though. Metal Gear Solid relies a LOT on the story, but at the same time, has a lot of action-style gameplay. Secret of Mana does have story elements and all, but you still get to run around and kill stuff without turn-based combat... plus it can be up to 3 players.

Now for the semi-off topic posts:

A Link to the Past (SNES) was a great game... had a lot of variety in its dungeons, and so on. Fun adventure game... and there're a fair amount of things to do and discover. There's not a lot of reading to do, and your mission is, for the most part, pretty clear. You might want to look into it if you don't like RPGs, but like adventure games.

FF7... was okay. Don't have much else to say, cause this isn't the place for that discussion. :p

Pokemon is an RPG, in my opinion... though it could also be 'adventure'. Ash (original main character) doesn't develop at all... and none of the characters develop personalities, and so on. However, there is a single goal in mind (to be the best pokemon trainer blah blah), with set obstacles in the way... so 'adventure' would be a fair category. :D

~Kap
 
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