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Originally posted by dakrum:
So...many...old...games...to...play...

I have Wizardry VII, Lufia II, some Castlevania games, the Bard's Tale, Might and Magic II (or more - who knows), FF6, Chrono Trigger, Master of Orion II, Disgaea I, and a few others left to try or buy for the ones I don't have. Yet to top that off, I have to get Etrian Odyssey I/II and The Dark Spire somehow without ripping my leg off.

Bah.

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Originally posted by Volcanon:
Master of Orion II is the best of the lot.
I forget what was the 'best' race, I think it was Industry +2, Unification, and something. Gave you a 6 turn colony base when you start at Pre-Warp.

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Thanks for the tip. Considering how much I enjoyed Master of Magic and people say Orion II is as good or better (although different), I can't wait to start!

I was able to get The Dark Spire and Etrian Odyssey I, but the excessive (and intuitively useless) wall-drawing required to complete EO1 is rather painful. You shouldn't need to draw many walls in a game where paths almost never run adjacent to each other. The game speed is painful too.

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Originally posted by dakrum:
Thanks for the tip. Considering how much I enjoyed Master of Magic and people say Orion II is as good or better (although different), I can't wait to start!

I was able to get The Dark Spire and Etrian Odyssey I, but the excessive (and intuitively useless) wall-drawing required to complete EO1 is rather painful. You shouldn't need to draw many walls in a game where paths almost never run adjacent to each other. The game speed is painful too.

Even dungeon-crawlers are easier than they were in the old days.

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positives: much more available customization for guns, skins, camo, facepaint, sites, etc.

-marathon doesn't give unlimited sprint, just extended

-you don't unlock attachments and guns by level only, you gain in game currency by playing, and can purchase attachments and such, so you unlock them in whatever order you want

-shotguns have extremely limited range

negatives so far:

-the remote control car bomb looks broken as hell as a 3 kill streak in the vids.

-no stopping power, pretty much everything takes 4-5 shots to kill

-attack dogs... /facepalm

With people taking far more hits before dying, you will see a hell of a lot more halo jumping around in the game. Hutch actually blasts one guy with his famas while getting shot at, switches to his magnums while jumping around getting hit, and finishes the guy off with pistols...

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Originally posted by dakrum:
The best two RPGs I can think of for story AND gameplay are Tales of Vesperia and Mass Effect 1/2 (you'll have to be part or all biotic in the first one and not an Adept/Infiltrator/Soldier in the second one). I don't feel that Dragon Age is that strong in the gameplay department, but that's a relative opinion only.

If you play as a Soldier or Infiltrator in either ME, you essentially are playing a TPS that still allows you to control all of your AI's skills though - at the cost of fighting with squishy allies.

Vesperia's story isn't well paced, but it's a JRPG with more gameplay depth and replayability than...well...I could put into words I guess. The combat is a little slow (similar to the Melee -> Brawl transition), but it is smooth throughout.

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Having just finished playing mass effect twice (and planning to buy ME2 soon)... QFT. Not only is soldier mildly boring (and you're practically forced to saddle yourself with allies that have the durability of balsa wood), you're missing out on pretty much all the fun if you're not at least partly biotic. The best shielding effect in the game plus disgusting radial attacks is too good to miss. Lift in particular is awesome...hurls everyone nearby into the air making them easy pickings. I've done a vanguard twice and I'm about 1/4 way through with an adept (the first time around).

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Originally posted by nderdog:
Not to get anyone's hopes up or anything, but, well... Forever may not be as far away as we thought.

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Originally posted by Malice327:
My wife will make me buy this for sure.

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Originally posted by Heresy19:
Yeah, twist your rubber arm here :P

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Originally posted by ProfileNotFound:
There are not many 360 RPGs worth playing. Blue Dragon is a pretty good one. It's made by some of the same people who did Chrono Trigger and focuses on storyline and gameplay rather than graphics. Unlike FF13 which I personally didn't like. I also really enjoyed this obscure turn based RPG called Operation Darkness. It has Nazis, Werewolfs, Vampires, and Demons...what's not to like?

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i bought and said zomg nazis and undead creatures then i played the tutorial part and promptly sold the game

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Originally posted by ryan2754:
So anyone else enjoy playing Fallout 3?

I just bought it for the hell of it, never being big into these type of games but it looked interesting.

There is so much **** to do, so much stuff to find.

You actually have to balance out like what you carry, and I have found it quite hard to keep ammo for all my guns - I seem to run out pretty easily. It's been a challenge, especially considering I am playing on the very hard difficulty.

Just curious if there are others out there that enjoyed it as much as I do - I've logged 15 hours into it and *SPOILER KINDA* haven't even talked to Three Dog yet. Been doing all the side challenges. *END SPOILER*

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I enjoyed playing Fallout 3, but as a huge fan of the first two PC games I'm a bit jaded. Bethesda did a nice job creating a huge, detailed wasteland to explore, but it's severely lacking the personality and humor that made me fall in love with the original games. I also didn't like the lack of role-playing elements--it's really a shooter at heart veiled by a thin layer of RPG. Nothing wrong with that, I just expected more than "kill, kill, kill" to solve nearly every situation in the game. If you're more of a pure shooter person, though, great game indeed.

The Last Story for Wii.... looks like a REALLY good RPG with REALLY good graphics (for a Wii software :P).

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Originally posted by Battle_of_Twits:
I just found out about the Dingoo Digital A320 and my jaw dropped. For all you old school gamers out there, it's your dream come true. This is a handheld device that plays NES, SNES, GBA, Sega Genesis ROMs and more, with emulators already pre-installed. It also can play music and video, has output for TV, a 4 GB flash drive (with mini SD slot for extra memory), and 6-8 hour battery life. I mean, it can do anything and you can find them on most websites for 80-100 bucks. I hope it's not too good to be true - I should be getting mine in about a week, so I'll let you know how it works.

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Originally posted by Malice327:
wth... anyone else getting issues with halo reach, where your guy randomly starts meleeing without you hitting that button? keeps getting me killed.

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Is this online or campaign?

I had that issue in MW2, where the RS click would be too sensitive.