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[Disposable Ninja]

I really, really wish you could. Best motherfucking badass in the game.

Followed closely by Tali.

[Beat Bandit]

"You must have some interesting stories."

"Well, there was this one time when my entire species was doomed to extinction. That was pretty fun."

I think Wrex is deserving of his own thread to house his awesome.

[Brentai]

Hey, Brent, you heard anything about new World of Mana projects that are stewing in Squeenix HQ? Perhaps a remake of SD2/3? Or something more? I want answers, dammit, and I'm not above degrading myself to get them.

As wonderful as that offer is, I must admit that my insider information is limited to "stuff that people already know about exisiting Japanese releases, but hey English!"  I can tell you that the WoM project was a horrible, horrible trainwreck financially and the execs are definitely not jumping on the idea of putting more nails into the series' coffin at the moment.  Which is not to say that a 2/3 remake is out of the question.  DS rehashes are what we seem to do to keep ourselves afloat between now and the next Dragon Fantasy Hearts and once somebody important enough points out that what everybody loves about the DS is the wi-fi multiplayer and oh wow hey SoM is a really popular multiplayer game, it'll be in production faster than you can say "Koichi Ishii needs to stop smoking whatever he's been on."

[Classic]

I saw job-like costumes on three panel soul. I am excited for this Ring of Fates thing. Someone tell me it's gonna be awesome.

[A²]

I need to decide which unbeaten game I need to beat next.

Super Mario Galaxy
Sonic: Secret Rings
Digital Devil Saga
OoT: Master Quest
Okami
FFX-2
We <3 Katamari
Disgaea 2
Ico
Devil May Cry 2
Final Fantasy XII
Metal Gear Solid 3:S

[Classic]

Ico should delay the need to make your decision for about 10 hours of game time if you take a little time and go it slow. I liked it when I played it, anyhow

[PhoenixUltima]

If you choose to do all the optional shit in Disgaea 2 the game will eat all your free time like candy. Might want to save that game for when you have absolutely nothing else to do for like a couple of weeks.

[TA]

So I started playing Exteel a couple days ago.  Battlin' robuts, nothing really special about it, but it's decently fun.

But I found out something really amazingly stupid.  You start off with 25,000 of Moneys.  These moneys go quick when you're trying out various weapon types and setups and upgrades, trying to figure out what you do or do not like - since you've got two hands with which to carry weapons, and two setups for those hands that you can switch between, there's a lot of variations.  I managed to blow through all my starting money, and all my earning, before figuring out what sort of setup I'd like.  Of course, I'm at a fairly hefty penalty due to all the money wasted buying, testing, and then reselling stuff.  So, I figure, no problem, I'll just delete my character and restart now that I have some idea of what I want to do in this game, right?

Turns out, nope.  Can't do that.  It's an NCSoft online game - so you have your global PlayNC account, which all your other games are mini-accounts under.  Each Exteel account can have at most one character on it, which cannot be deleted or restarted and whose stats and inventory and whatnot are just your account's stats and inventory.  And you can only have one Exteel account per PlayNC account.  So in order to start over in Exteel, I would basically have to create an entire second identity on the NCSoft web system.  It's ... madness.  If the game weren't free-with-micropayments, I'd be intensely furious, but as it is they just managed to kill all my enthusiasm in one insane design decision.  Seriously, that sort of absolute permanence on the account, and then the absolute refusal to allow a second account on the same global thing ... that's just retarded.  And quer.

[A²]

A friend sent me FF7Dirge of Cerberus as a gift.

I'm not sure if she was being nice or insulting me, to be honest.

On Chapter 10.

[TA]

Oh, almost forgot, the people on the boards recommended grinding Last Stand mode to make it up.  Last Stand being twelve minutes of base defense against huge waves of things, for about 500 Moneys per run.  To make up a ~30k deficit.  Fuck Exteel.

[Fredward]

Plans for a Dwarven Rapture halted by lack of any goddamn fresh water. 

[Al Baron]

Plans for a Dwarven Rapture halted by lack of any goddamn fresh water. 

Are carps still the new elephants in the newest version or has Toady gotten around to fixing that?

[Fredward]

I think that's been fixed. The wiki is inconclusive.

[jsnlxndrlv]

Finished FFCC Ring of Fates.

I had pretty much given up on the Square side of Square Enix once Matsuno quit in the middle of developing FFXII.  I didn't have a lot of patience for Japanese RPGs in general, and the endless sea of spin-offs and cash-ins didn't inspire me with any confidence.  Ironic, then, that the game that reignited my interest in Square's offering is just such a spin-off.

Crystal Chronicle was a reasonably fun game in multiplayer once you got over the fact that carrying the bucket is kind of a pain, but if you'd actually managed to assemble the  nine components necessary to play it with friends, you were probably better off playing Zelda: Four Swords Adventure instead.  (Which is ironic, because FSA was vastly superior as a single-player experience.)  Crystal Chronicle turns into a slow and repetitious grind in its later stages, and the disparity between individual characters got kind of unmanageable if you had any sort of variation in attendance.  It was at least somewhat redeemed by sophistication in its world and story design and a mature approach to the concept of an adventuring party.

Ring of Fates is better.  I'm not sure it's any easier to organize multiplayer--rather than needing a Gamecube and wires plus four GBA-GC connector cables and three friends with GBAs, each person playing needs a DS and a copy of the game.  It's less of a burden for one person, but it's still a challenge to arrange.  I can definitely say the single-player is a huge improvement, though.  It's pretty easy, but it works well as an action RPG/platformer, and the equipment synthesis system is very satisfying.  The voice acting's decent, and while I'm not sure what I think about the accents for Alhanelem and Meeth, the writing here is really excellent.  It's every bit as dark in tone as Brent said it was.

This is also the first game I've played where I can recall not being disappointed by implementation of the New Game+.

[Brentai]

I'm really quite surprised by all the buzz about RoF.  I sort of pegged it as one of the handheld titles that was going to just fly past everyone.

It's also somewhat disappointing that a lot of people are going to see my Brawl stage named "Ring of Fights" and actually get the reference (and I mean the specific reference.)

[Classic]

Cooperative fast paced adventure combat a-la Secret of Mana was really good. Anything that can be compared to it in gameplay can't help but merit some significant buzz from a great many nerds.

Right?

[A²]

...Ring of Fates has Secret of Mana-esque gameplay?


SOLD

[Classic]

Well, this is what I actually heard...

...Ring of Fates has Secret of Mana-esque gameplay?

From Christ Kohler, so let that color your opinion. And there's the full article.

[Brentai]

It's Secret of Mana-esque inasmuch as it's a multiplayer action RPG, but it doesn't really match up as far as combat and spell/item systems.  It's much, much closer to, say, Phantasy Star Universe (not so much PSO because it does not have a charmingly clunky combat system, it's just run-up-and-hit-attack-until-they-die).  To give you a better idea of what you're buying, the best part of the game is crafting weapons/armor and making costumes.  Well, that and slamming squirrels against a rock wall for extra items.

[Norondor]

It's much, much closer to, say, Phantasy Star Universe (not so much PSO because it does not have a charmingly clunky combat system, it's just run-up-and-hit-attack-until-they-die).

Actually, that's not as true anymore! The expansion they put out recently (well, ok, "recently") added timed attacks to melee combat. Not in the PSO sense where you lose your combo and stand around looking like a horse's ass if you time it wrong -- rather you get a guaranteed critical strike if you time it just right, usually a bit slower than your normal attack rate if you just mash the attack button. There's nothing like that for Forces or Rangers, because they don't have attack combos, which is totally ok with me, because what kind of idiot can't pull the trigger on a rifle more than three times without having to take a breather?

In fact, all-in-all the expansion for PSU fixed almost all my complaints about it. You can actually get enough mission points to level jobs now and enough money to equip yourself and the combat is better and there's content now and the auction system is enormously better and there's nearly no reliance on having to craft if you don't want to waste your time like i don't. It's much, much closer to just being a graphically-updated PSO for the year 2000 and that's a fine thing, particularly given the $0 price point the game is going for on the PC.