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Lover of all things RPG that i am (apart from anything with Final Fantasy X or X-2 in the title) i thought i'd bring to your attention a couple of more great RPG titles in the wings that will hopefully reach the shores of Europe (if not ah well i'll have them anyway :-D)
First on the list is Radiata Stories done by the folks at Tri-Ace who did the great Star Ocean 3. It keeps the same battle system from SO3 and you can see the enemies before they attack so you can decide whether to charge in or save your energy and give them a miss.
It apparantly has a playable cast of characters of around 150 characters although whether it'll be like Suikoden 3 where quite a few of them were only support characters and not actually fighters remains to be seen.
Speaking of which it does seem to have quite a similar graphical feel to Suikoden so should be quite impressive visually if that sort of stuff determines whether you buy a game or not.
Release date is January in Japan so probably be waiting a while for that one :-D
and next to bring your attention to is the successor to the great Shining Force series on the Megadrive - Shining Tears.
First off graphics zealots (damn censors) may as well go now as you won't be getting ultra realistic 3D graphics with this one, instead you get the far better cartoony style graphics which are very crisp and smooth (i prefer this and sprites to the FFX style graphics anyway)
Big selling point i think of this is the co-op 2 player mode, so if you and a mate have about 40-50 free hours you can give it a blast :-D
One thing putting me off slightly is that they've done away with the strategy elements of the previous games and gone for a more action orientated style of fighting, but then i liked it in SO3 so maybe i'll like it in this.
Release date is March 2005 for America so at least there'll be a english version sooner then Radiata
and lastly the grand daddy - Dragon Quest VIII (Dragon Warrior in the west)
again using cartoony, cel shaded graphics my favourite RPG series finally comes onto the little black box. Still has pretty much the same battle system as old so basically it's good old turn based combat with random encounters although larger more powerful enemies appear on the screen (kind of like Ruby weapon in FF7 in a way) follows the traditional RPG mantra of head into town, talk to people and buy stuff, leave town, beat up monsters until you get to another town. Lovely :-D
big improvement though over the old games which may seem small and quite a weird thing to mention in this day and age is the fact you can now speak to characters with a press of a button instead of having to go to the menu and selecting 'Talk' very glad they've added that in, it was the only thing i hated in the previous games.
January/Feb American release date for this me thinks. Again can't wait.
First on the list is Radiata Stories done by the folks at Tri-Ace who did the great Star Ocean 3. It keeps the same battle system from SO3 and you can see the enemies before they attack so you can decide whether to charge in or save your energy and give them a miss.
It apparantly has a playable cast of characters of around 150 characters although whether it'll be like Suikoden 3 where quite a few of them were only support characters and not actually fighters remains to be seen.
Speaking of which it does seem to have quite a similar graphical feel to Suikoden so should be quite impressive visually if that sort of stuff determines whether you buy a game or not.
Release date is January in Japan so probably be waiting a while for that one :-D
and next to bring your attention to is the successor to the great Shining Force series on the Megadrive - Shining Tears.
First off graphics zealots (damn censors) may as well go now as you won't be getting ultra realistic 3D graphics with this one, instead you get the far better cartoony style graphics which are very crisp and smooth (i prefer this and sprites to the FFX style graphics anyway)
Big selling point i think of this is the co-op 2 player mode, so if you and a mate have about 40-50 free hours you can give it a blast :-D
One thing putting me off slightly is that they've done away with the strategy elements of the previous games and gone for a more action orientated style of fighting, but then i liked it in SO3 so maybe i'll like it in this.
Release date is March 2005 for America so at least there'll be a english version sooner then Radiata
and lastly the grand daddy - Dragon Quest VIII (Dragon Warrior in the west)
again using cartoony, cel shaded graphics my favourite RPG series finally comes onto the little black box. Still has pretty much the same battle system as old so basically it's good old turn based combat with random encounters although larger more powerful enemies appear on the screen (kind of like Ruby weapon in FF7 in a way) follows the traditional RPG mantra of head into town, talk to people and buy stuff, leave town, beat up monsters until you get to another town. Lovely :-D
big improvement though over the old games which may seem small and quite a weird thing to mention in this day and age is the fact you can now speak to characters with a press of a button instead of having to go to the menu and selecting 'Talk' very glad they've added that in, it was the only thing i hated in the previous games.
January/Feb American release date for this me thinks. Again can't wait.
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Never heard of it referred to as a treadmill before though.
That's what I was thinking, but it's interesting, eh?
I've got no clue what he means. Maybe he's talking about how you press X to bring your character screen up, X to select them, X to bring up the attack screen, X to select the attack, triangle to bring up the menu and X to execute the attack and then you level up if the enemy gives you enough EXP.
Aye, I know that much...
Only, have a look at this thread: [URL] http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=1880 [/URL].
"X, X, X, X, triangle, X, X, triangle, level up (!) ... or the circle button whenever you want to exploit the game's mechanic."
Just confusing me :'(...
Only, have a look at this thread: [URL] http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=1880 [/URL].
"X, X, X, X, triangle, X, X, triangle, level up (!) ... or the circle button whenever you want to exploit the game's mechanic."
Just confusing me :'(...
Coin wrote:
> Apparently there's an exploitable treadmill / game mechanic. Just
> wondering... Found it?
no idea what your on about with the treadmill/game mechanic :-D If you mean somewhere to level up easily and quickly then the Cave of Ordeal 3 is the place to go
> Apparently there's an exploitable treadmill / game mechanic. Just
> wondering... Found it?
no idea what your on about with the treadmill/game mechanic :-D If you mean somewhere to level up easily and quickly then the Cave of Ordeal 3 is the place to go
Yaaar.
Now leveling up... 'Tis good to be around level 75 methinks.
Apparently there's an exploitable treadmill / game mechanic. Just wondering... Found it?
Now leveling up... 'Tis good to be around level 75 methinks.
Apparently there's an exploitable treadmill / game mechanic. Just wondering... Found it?
Hehe :D.
Small matters of Gran Turismo 4 arriving and you getting me bloody back interested in Disgaea :-D
But why wasn't it good enough to hold your attention???
Only played the first one in the two part set (Growlanser 2 and 3) for a few hours then i got distracted by other games. Was good though the small bit i played, another sprite based strategy RPG so of course i love it and it has the sort of world map found in Final Fantasy Tactics. Nice combat system as well.
I'd suggest getting it if you can
I'd suggest getting it if you can
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