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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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FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Must get back to Disgaea some time. I think I got pwned so went to
> play something else a bit easier. I'll set aside a power-levelling
> day and get my own back. Or my pwn back, as it were.
Me too, i still have about 30,000 levels left on Laharl to level up and there's a couple more items i need to get up to level 100
> Must get back to Disgaea some time. I think I got pwned so went to
> play something else a bit easier. I'll set aside a power-levelling
> day and get my own back. Or my pwn back, as it were.
Me too, i still have about 30,000 levels left on Laharl to level up and there's a couple more items i need to get up to level 100
Must get back to Disgaea some time. I think I got pwned so went to play something else a bit easier. I'll set aside a power-levelling day and get my own back. Or my pwn back, as it were.
Still got Star Ocean as well. But that was starting to bore me.
And Ace Combat 5 is out tomorrow. Everything else joins the back of the line right away. Can't wait .... can't fecking wait.
Excuse me while I run around the room making aeroplane noises.
Still got Star Ocean as well. But that was starting to bore me.
And Ace Combat 5 is out tomorrow. Everything else joins the back of the line right away. Can't wait .... can't fecking wait.
Excuse me while I run around the room making aeroplane noises.
Always liked you FFF :-D
But yea whenever Disgaea players talk about power levelling it usually involves the EXP-rich area i was telling Coin about earlier on in the topic, that or the one where you can power level your weapons up on
But yea whenever Disgaea players talk about power levelling it usually involves the EXP-rich area i was telling Coin about earlier on in the topic, that or the one where you can power level your weapons up on
I've always thought of power-levelling as Kawada says - just levelling yourself up to needlessly high levels so you can breeze through a chunk of the game (and for a bit of fun). You could have stopped in about half the time and still got through, but you didn't.
It usually involves finding an EXP-rich area with lots of enemies in it, so your level:time ratio is sweet. And occasionally some kind of command loop where you can just leave the controller with a few buttons held down and it'll do it almost automatically.
It usually involves finding an EXP-rich area with lots of enemies in it, so your level:time ratio is sweet. And occasionally some kind of command loop where you can just leave the controller with a few buttons held down and it'll do it almost automatically.
Bwahahahahahaha...
Ouch. I'm stuck again on Disgaea. Man, this game just keeps kicking me in the nuts.
Ouch. I'm stuck again on Disgaea. Man, this game just keeps kicking me in the nuts.
Indeed
They all result in having a powerful character around somewhere though.
Can be many things it seems :-D
In the review I read 'power levelling' was basically playing parts over and over to get yourself up to a level where you could beat the next part of a game, as if you tried straight away - you died quickly.
I think they both work because in the Disgaea sense you are just levelling yourself to insane powerful levels and i think that's where that term came from in that instance
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