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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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I have Suikoden 1,2,3.
I would say that the first one isn't worth 80 pounds even though i paid that.
I would say that the first one isn't worth 80 pounds even though i paid that.
hah.......no.
I love my Ps2 and it's red Japanese cousin, still tons of RPG's to play through first before even think of selling. Just type in Import PS2 prices in google and you'll get a ton of sites offering to flog you one, or ask Alistair where he got his as he said he got a good deal.
Failing that Ebay may be a good hunting ground if you do that
I love my Ps2 and it's red Japanese cousin, still tons of RPG's to play through first before even think of selling. Just type in Import PS2 prices in google and you'll get a ton of sites offering to flog you one, or ask Alistair where he got his as he said he got a good deal.
Failing that Ebay may be a good hunting ground if you do that
You sellin'?
Coin wrote:
> Yes but the price!
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> The price!
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> How much would Sukoden and an import PS2 cost?
With the exchange rate as it is could probably get an import one for around 80 quid, far as getting a copy of Suikoden 3? Good luck with that :-D Although they did produce another batch of them a while back so you might get lucky
> ( / were the other ones on the PS2?)
All on PS2, as it's the Sony forum, Laker keeps it all Sony here :-D
> Yes but the price!
>
>
> The price!
>
> How much would Sukoden and an import PS2 cost?
With the exchange rate as it is could probably get an import one for around 80 quid, far as getting a copy of Suikoden 3? Good luck with that :-D Although they did produce another batch of them a while back so you might get lucky
> ( / were the other ones on the PS2?)
All on PS2, as it's the Sony forum, Laker keeps it all Sony here :-D
Yes but the price!
The price!
How much would Sukoden and an import PS2 cost?
( / were the other ones on the PS2?)
The price!
How much would Sukoden and an import PS2 cost?
( / were the other ones on the PS2?)
American and Japanese selection of PS2 games >>>>>>>> Europe's releases :-D
Everyone should import as there's loads of great games that never see the light of day in Europe
Everyone should import as there's loads of great games that never see the light of day in Europe
ARGH! ARGH! ARGH!
I want an import PS2.
Argh.
And I want it now.
And cheap.
Argh.
I want an import PS2.
Argh.
And I want it now.
And cheap.
Argh.
Very good game, it basically follows the story of 3 characters and their lives until they all finally meet up at one point. You play through each characters story for the first chapter or 2 then you get to control them all. Along the way you have the option to convince all 108 of the stars to join your party and they serve different purposes, some are just fighters to join your party whereas others are shopkeepers, blacksmiths etc etc
Battle system was awkward at first and i have to say i preferred the original one as with this you have 3 groups of 2 characters fighting and they perform their actions at the same time. It is turn based combat but is quite fast.
i loved it even if the final boss was hard seeing as i didn't level up properly (kind of strange for me :-D) but at least it posed a challenge.
Would have to get it on import though as it won't be coming out over here.
Battle system was awkward at first and i have to say i preferred the original one as with this you have 3 groups of 2 characters fighting and they perform their actions at the same time. It is turn based combat but is quite fast.
i loved it even if the final boss was hard seeing as i didn't level up properly (kind of strange for me :-D) but at least it posed a challenge.
Would have to get it on import though as it won't be coming out over here.
Suikoden, rather.
I've heard about Suidoken.
What's it like?
What's it like?
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