2nd best RPG after Skies of Arcadia.

Go buy.

If it wasn't for WoW I would have played through this again by now.

Tphi wrote:
> Suprised no one's made a topic on this already, but tis out today. I
> haven't got it yet - in the last month I've bought Wario, Resi and
> Splitters and they've kinda left me low on cash.
>
> Those who got it today/have already imported (Psycho Fox, WS etc.),
> is it worth my money? I'm an RPG fan as ye may know, but an RPG fan
> slightly put off by all this card fighting business. So.. verdicts
> anyone?

Heh, I too got it only yesterday, I will however definetly get Zelda GC (unless it's a universal release). What I have played so far has amazed me, and even though i'm not yet an expert of the battle system I still have been using it quite well. I'm so far at the Lower Celestial River trying to get past the Waterfall.

It's exactly what I thought it would be like, brilliant.

Shut up.

Stay out of this topic buddy, take it somewhere else you stupid n00b.

Amazon don't pick up on a lot of things, they would have had "Batten kaitos" on the future release list a lot earlier than 2 months away even if a release date wasn't in the works, they did it with Tales.

Add ToS!!!

I'm tempted by Baiten Kaitos. I'm not a big RPG fan, but it DOES look good. I also need to pick up Skies at some point. Hopefully it will surpass my initial Dreamcast demo disappointment on cube.

Tphi wrote:
> Skies is supreme.. but like any RPG it takes a little while to get
> fully into it. If you excuse some ageing graphics it is true RPG
> brilliance.

I didn't give that a second look, and even i'm playing classic SNES RPG's and they have far worse graphics.

The graphics never worried me much, but if you've seen the Hi-Res screenshots of the Dreamcast version working on a PC via emulator, you begin to dream of what may have been.. Click Here

Tphi wrote:
> The graphics never worried me much, but if you've seen the Hi-Res
> screenshots of the Dreamcast version working on a PC via emulator,
> you begin to dream of what may have been..
> Click Here

Not bad at all, I may try to get a dreamcast emu just to try it out on the PC :)

I COULD get this I suppose but I have spent £100 already this month on various things, and that's my limit. Hmm maybe wait until next month, or the month after that, or the one after that. I need to get Splinter Cell Chaos Theory as well.

Tphi wrote:
> Fox, and other people who just got it, how's it going? Just watched
> another video for it and it looks dang enticing.. Can someone
> convince my threadbare wallet to buy buy buy?

Well for one if you like good music in games then this will be the very frst thing you'll like about this game, it has a huge souund track of both exploration and battle music (not just the same old battle music over and over throughout the game) and not only that but the music playlist that you can listen to any music you have heard already at any time you want, I supose it's as if listening to every musical piece in the game is a small sidequest in itself.

Then there is the characters and the dialogue, all the characters have completely different personalities and my favourite one other than Kalas (the  cool blue hairded rogue and main hero of the game) is Gibari (yes, yes, the on that says "The Bas**rds!!" in the trailer) because not only is one of the most powerfullest fighters you can get to play as, but he also brings the quite amusing sarcastic remarks here and there.

The story of the game is rival to that of Tales (which is one of the best I have seen) and the voice acting although slightly ruined by the constant loud background music can still be heard, plus with the aid of subtitles at   every piece of dialogue (except in battle mode during special attacks) though that is not too much of a bother. Also I think the voice actor who plays Lyude isn't that great as he doesn't seem to bring too much emotion to the characer at times, but the other characters are certainly the opposite though.

The battle system is quite difficult to explain, but it is a lot better then in say "Lost Kingdoms" also being a card based battling RPG, and from my little experience of the game when I frst played it I found I got to grips with the battle system easily after the first few battles.

There are other points but it would be best left for first hand experience to find out what they are as this is a must have game.

Stupid Amazon DIE!

Can't you turn the music down a bit and voices up a bit like in most games?

Ah well, need to get this.
Been looking forward to it for ages ... but now I have no money.

Lyude > The Great Mizuti > Kalas > others

Use the skull items when you get them, they give the highest stats boost, although they inflict confusion upon the characters in battles, it's barely a hindrance at all.

Mmmm maybe I will get this.

According to Gamespot, Splinter Cell 3 is a bit rubbles on cube. I'll see what my wallet thinks.

In reply to Tami ToS's character development is much better than Soa's thanks to the skits although the story in Skies is better. ToS is relatively easy but it makes up for it by being long.

The-IronFlame wrote:
> In reply to Tami ToS's character development is much better than Soa's
> thanks to the skits although the story in Skies is better.

Yeh I'd agree with that. The Skies character development is practically nil, apart from Fina becoming more air-piratey as the game goes on. It's probably because Tales has a larger playable cast, although the later characters in the story (Presea/Regal) never interested me and Genis was just a whining kid who I kicked out the party from the word go.
I don't know why Skies is better overall, but it is. It has Drachma in, that's probably why. Drachma > All.