What are you playing?

noodler

God drawing was lame. Last time I played it through I at least had my strongest magic user draw to cut down on turns.

finalfantasist

Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story, Final Fantasy 12 and Star Ocean Second Evolution.

Aurongroove

Final Fantasy Tactics A2, it;s not bad, but I've reached that awkward stage where I've already beaten it, and got montblanc and them, but some of the new missions arent appearing.


for example, the bangaa/nu mou of the rupies, I've fought on both sides but the next mission won't appear, nor will certain other mission I know shoudl be appearing. I'm not one to look up walkthroughs though, but it's stupid the thing wont appear when I've compleated every single mission that has appeard so far! and all level of brightmoor and finished the damn game

Zerroth

Olds cool SNES games!

Have recently finished Actraiser (not really an RPG), Soul Blazer and Illusion of Time. Now playing through Terranigma!

carbonkid

Just starting FFV now. Cant put my finger on it but theres something i really like about snes games visually. Looks wise everything seems more complete or together than any of the psx games.

Suppose FF wont be bringing back in the ability to control an air/sailing ship around the world map.

Retr0gamer

Zerroth wrote: »

Olds cool SNES games!

Have recently finished Actraiser (not really an RPG), Soul Blazer and Illusion of Time. Now playing through Terranigma!

Actraiser is excellent but a very strange game. The sim parts and platforming parts aren't great at all but the game taken as a whole is brilliant. No faulting the soundtrack either. I really must play the rest of the Quintet Quadrilogy like you are doing.

Ramza

Tales of Hearts

CodeMonkey

Just started Persona 4 and I like it. It fixes a lot of little annoying stuff in P3 like including a shortcut key to travel to other destinations instead of running to the end of the mini area.

Also being familiar with the terminology of the SMT world like bufu equals ice spells helps getting into the game a lot easier.

elekid

Aurongroove wrote: »

Final Fantasy Tactics A2

Me too and enjoying it a lot more than expected. I've got 205 quests out of 300 done with a game time of 60 hours so it's pretty long.

From what I hear the methods of unlocking certain quests are not so easy to find by yourself, in typical FF style.

Dragons Revenge

CodeMonkey wrote: »

Just started Persona 4 and I like it. It fixes a lot of little annoying stuff in P3 like including a shortcut key to travel to other destinations instead of running to the end of the mini area.

Also being familiar with the terminology of the SMT world like bufu equals ice spells helps getting into the game a lot easier.

I just brought P4 myself. I'm juggling b/t that and P3 right now. It took me a while to understand which spell is which element. The Japanese name stat buff spells (or stat-lowering) I'll never be able to commit to memory.

Damn I love the music in both those games.

I'm also playing Assassin's Creed and Odin's Sphere.

carbonkid

Im bit confused...is Persona 4 an anime first thats made into a game? Looks interesting!

Retr0gamer

It's a game series, there's no anime. It's a spin-off from the main Shin Megami Tensei series of games from atlus designed to be more appealing to a more casual audience. It's also brilliant.

carbonkid

Would you recommend starting from the first one or just hope right in at P4? Actually cant find a P1 game anywhere...even on eurogamer or amazon o_O

Wanna give this one a try...looks bit different ^^

Dragons Revenge

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's a game series, there's no anime. It's a spin-off from the main Shin Megami Tensei series of games from atlus designed to be more appealing to a more casual audience. It's also brilliant.

There is an anime, actually. It came out like 2 or 3 years ago.

You can start the games from any point; they're completely non - canon. The first two are OOP and extremely difficult to find for less than insanely expensive. The original was remade for the PSP, but reviews are less than stellar.

You may as well start from 4 and work your way back.

noodler

Dragons Revenge wrote: »

There is an anime, actually. It came out like 2 or 3 years ago.

You can start the games from any point; they're completely non - canon. The first two are OOP and extremely difficult to find for less than insanely expensive. The original was remade for the PSP, but reviews are less than stellar.

You may as well start from 4 and work your way back.

Agreed, I did 4 first and am now about 50 or so floors into Tartarus in 3.

No real problems doing it that way.

super_furry

Just started Magna Carta II. It looks brilliant - really atmospheric and well done but the voice acting is hideous, with the main character the most annoying since Tidus whinged his way through FFX. I've actually turned off the voices now. It also does the annoying old RPG standard of cutting away to two cardboard cutouts of the characters for dialogue.

Still though, there's enough there to keep me playing.

Dragons Revenge

I was curious about the Magna Carta games. I may pick them up one of these days.

You know who was really bad in FFX? Yuna.

Gummy Panda

I'm back playing DQ IV. it's made me realise why Japanese love DQ more then FF.

Got all the choosen bar one. Just need to grind fir that boss fight.

Retr0gamer

I really want to play the DQ games on the DS. While I hear 4 is great 5 is supposedly amazing.

Dragons Revenge

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Never heard of that,what console is that on?

Trying to finish rogue galaxy but Im stuck ona flipping boss .

Which boss? I just finished it a couple weeks ago. I was stuck in a dungeon for almost a week (the two towers one), but ended up leveling up like mad, and so the rest of the game was cake.

I'm Juggling Persona 3 and 4 right now. (Lotta Persona fans here)

noodler

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Im back playing rogue galaxy again seeing if I can finish it once and for all.

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Never heard of that,what console is that on?

Trying to finish rogue galaxy but Im stuck ona flipping boss .

Dragons Revenge wrote: »

Which boss? I just finished it a couple weeks ago. I was stuck in a dungeon for almost a week (the two towers one), but ended up leveling up like mad, and so the rest of the game was cake.

I'm Juggling Persona 3 and 4 right now. (Lotta Persona fans here)

I have Rogue Galaxy to play, whats it like then? I like Level 5 but and loved ssy DQ8 but couldn't get into Dark Chronicle at all.

Retr0gamer

I've heard you either love it or hate it. Be prepared to put a long time into it, it's a very long game with tonnes of side quests. I played a few hours of it but got side tracked but liked what I played. It's no DQ8 though.

Dragons Revenge

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I've heard you either love it or hate it. Be prepared to put a long time into it, it's a very long game with tonnes of side quests. I played a few hours of it but got side tracked but liked what I played. It's no DQ8 though.

I flew through the game. I didn't bother with the sidequests (I did do some of the hunts for exp. sake) since they didn't really seem to offer much by way of rewards.

I played it right after Lost Odyssey, so I thought it was a breath of fresh air. The story started interesting and then went off in a totally different direction, as if the first part didn't even matter. It was a pretty likable cast too. I've played worse.

Sephiroth_dude

Dragons Revenge wrote: »

Which boss? I just finished it a couple weeks ago. I was stuck in a dungeon for almost a week (the two towers one), but ended up leveling up like mad, and so the rest of the game was cake.

Thats the one Im stuck on,he disapears and ends up somewhere else when you try to hit him and then does this spinning attack and killS any of my characters that are close enough to him in one go :O

Sephiroth_dude

noodler wrote: »

I have Rogue Galaxy to play, whats it like then? I like Level 5 but and loved ssy DQ8 but couldn't get into Dark Chronicle at all.

Its a great game,good storyline but some of the bosses are a bitch to get past.

Gummy Panda

Dragon Quest iv is so good. Some nice little features that you know were cutting edge story telling back in the NES era.

If DQV is better, then I'm in for a treat. Also I think DQVI DS is nearly done. That was the really expensive one that sold for about €100 at original release :eek:

Retr0gamer

I really hope DQVI gets released in even the US at least since it's the last main series DQ game yet to receive an official translation.

Gummy Panda

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I really hope DQVI gets released in even the US at least since it's the last main series DQ game yet to receive an official translation.

I thought that was a given that US was getting a translation

Retr0gamer

Started the English fan translation of Front Mission 5. So far it seems to be more like FM3 than the disappointing FM4 with smaller battlegrounds and less enemies. The story seems to have some of the neo square enix rot in it though but the series always had a weak story so if it is half as good as Front Mission 3 I'll be a happy retr0.

Retr0gamer

One last thing FM5 looks a bit nasty on a HD TV. It seems to be running at a lower resolution than most PS2 games. To top it off there's no anti aliasing so coupled with the low resolution there's really bad jaggies everywhere.