Legend of Dragoon coming to PSN

Retr0gamer

So it seems Legend of Dragoon is coming to PSN next month, or LoD.

What does LoD stand for, I'll tell you. It stands for 'Don't fucking buy it!'. You'll hear a lot of morons talking about how it is a classic. It is in fact up there with shadow madness and beyond the beyond as the worst of the worst JRPGs ever made.

Consider this a warning.

martineatworld

"I still occasionally hear from fans of The Legend of Dragoon, and many want to know if there is a sequel. LOD2 was put into preproduction after I left the Japan Studio, but was eventually cancelled for some unknown reason, and the team members moved on to different projects. Some people still work in the Japan Studio, so we talk about the memories of developing LOD when we see each other at company functions."

Source: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/11/the-legend-of-dragoon-coming-to-psn-rpg-classic-reborn-may-1st/

There was almost a sequel, pity it was cancelled. I'm a self proclaimed LoD fanboy.

People should give it a chance!

animaX

Retro gives out about it so much that I'm temted to check it out to see what all the fuss is

RedXIV

Its a very stereotypical RPG, and while it has its flaws, it no way deserves the hammering Retr0 gives it

Don't get me wrong, there are many many better games you could play instead of this but its not the creamy pile of poo Retr0 keeps saying.

I've played it more than once (never beaten it, but will someday) and its simplicity is almost endearing

Kiith

I remember loving it when i played it first. Might check it out, and see if it's really as bad as Retro says :P

Retr0gamer

Kiith wrote: »

I remember loving it when i played it first. Might check it out, and see if it's really as bad as Retro says :P

It is.

It's not an unplayable mess but it does distill everything that is wrong with JRPGs into one game. There's no game breaking bugs, it's just so cliche and boring that it's soul destroying. It was a game so bad that it made me disinterested in games afterwards until Metroid Prime came around. Also for a game that has a plot that basically a poor episode of Power Rangers it's mind bogglingly long. To top it off it's got the slowest and worst battle system of any RPG.

RedXIV

One of my few guilty pleasures on this site is seeing Retr0 talk about LoD. No disrespect Retr0, but I always get a good laugh at how much you despise this game. Does usually make me look at my own standards but after that I'm content to be easily impressed.

I can only imagine the rage if that sequel had been released

Retr0gamer

Don't worry, the guys on the arcade and retro forum constantly wind me up about it to hear me go off on one about it

Then I made them play it and now they understand. My girlfriend likes laughing at crappy games and really wanted to play it. She played it for about 2 hours and told me she never wants to see the game ever again Doesn't stop them winding me up!

ancapailldorcha

This was my very first RPG. I think I'll end up buying it. I remember being quite foid of it.

Mindkiller

I think I played a demo. You could get nekkid in it.

Retr0gamer

Mindkiller wrote: »

I think I played a demo. You could get nekkid in it.

Nope, you couldn't. And even if you could hte blockiness of the graphics would not have been exactly erotic.

Sephiroth_dude

I found it a grind trying to level up,all my characters were under level 40 going into the final boss,also I read on gameinformer there was a rebalanced version because american gamers found it too hard.

Retr0gamer

You have to love Legend of Dragoon fans. One of them left a comment today on a blog post I made about the game ages ago:

'fag LOD is the best rpg of its time, maybe second to FFVII'

Not really making a good case for it, just like the rest of them

Fergus_

Really?

I had loads of fun with LoD

Retr0gamer

Fergus_ wrote: »

Really?

I had loads of fun with LoD

Even my hyperbole doesn't do this game justice. Ask yourself what age you were when you played it and then remember the crap like power rangers that you thought was the height of entertainment at the time.

Kiith

Hey! Insult LOD all you want, but leave Power Ranger out of this...or i'll set Bulk and Skull on you :pac:

Retr0gamer

Kiith wrote: »

Hey! Insult LOD all you want, but leave Power Ranger out of this...or i'll set Bulk and Skull on you :pac:

Bulk and Skull, the only good things about it

animaX

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Even my hyperbole doesn't do this game justice. Ask yourself what age you were when you played it and then remember the crap like power rangers that you thought was the height of entertainment at the time.

Fergus_

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Even my hyperbole doesn't do this game justice. Ask yourself what age you were when you played it and then remember the crap like power rangers that you thought was the height of entertainment at the time.

1 year ago at 17 :pac:

elekid

Just checked out a Youtube video of it and the graphics really remind me of FFVII - I'm kind of tempted to try it now, just to see if it really is that bad. I think this thread may be having the opposite of the intended effect for some people

One of the worst jrpgs I ever played was The Granstream Saga (the characters had no faces!!)

MitchKoobski

This was one of the few games I always wanted to play when I was younger. Friend had it for a while and I would watch him play it, but I never managed to get a copy myself.

Mindkiller

To me the graphics look like Runescape. The pre-rendered backdrops are amazing but the characters look so half-assed.

Retr0gamer

Game looked terrible when I played it. The backgrounds were pretty, especially the water effects which did look amazing. They were a bit cluttered though, you really want to leave the field indicators if you are unfortunate enough to play this one. The character models and battle engine graphics are god awful though. Remember this game was released in 2000. By that time we were getting games like MGS, FFVIII, Chrono Cross, G-Darius etc. on the PS1. This game on the other hand looked on par with FFVII, from 1997, except the framerate is even worse.

penev10

elekid wrote: »

One of the worst jrpgs I ever played was The Granstream Saga (the characters had no faces!!)

I vaguely remember that. Think I gave it about 3 or 4 hours and never went back. And in the days of the PSX where I'd play any old tripe that really is saying something!

Ridley

Laviiiiitz!!

martineatworld

elekid wrote: »

One of the worst jrpgs I ever played was The Granstream Saga (the characters had no faces!!)

I was addicted to a demo of that... Must go back to see if the actual game was awful...!

Retr0gamer

It got a good write up on HG101. It does look atrocious though.

Fergus_

One thing that really annoyed me about LoD though

Was when they ditched Shana and replaced her with a really unlikable character (Miranda)

ancapailldorcha

I think a poll might help this thread. Would it be worth buying?

Mindkiller

This guy on gamefaqs seem to think not.

"What is crap when you're already sitting in a pool of it?"

"This room is tidy. This shows a lot about this person's personality."
Dart, a strapping spiky-haired teenage male of main character cliches, was standing in a small, dainty room when this box of text vomited out of his mouth. I knew it was my fault for pressing X at every dresser in a room - it is the job of an RPG-completionist - but I was already drenched in the verbal diarrhea spewing from this self-proclaimed legend. Clumps of invisible slime, composed of watered-down music, constipated battle systems, and stomach-churning dialogue, had already slithered down my skin and onto the curved, porcelain, oversized toilet bowl. I wanted to get out, but either more diarrhea came slopping down on my head or I was forced to backtrack through the slush. No matter how much I hoped that my journey would end, The Legend of Dragoon kept crapping. So I decided to sit down and wait until it was done.


And so on

Retr0gamer

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I think a poll might help this thread. Would it be worth buying?

Do you enjoy boredom?

Best review I've seen of the game:

http://thegia.psy-q.ch/sites/www.thegia.com/psx/lod/lod.html