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1_up

I'm still a fan, but ...

Jun 16, 2006 00:25

I dunno - Dragon Quest 8 is a great game and all, but there is something missing about it that I really need a good RPG: Serious undertones and Epic Battles. To be honest, what drew me into RPGs as a young lad was the ferocity and grandeur to which they grew at times. The connections that formed between myself and the characters over time. I ( Read more... )

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jnick June 16 2006, 15:06:55 UTC

I feel that way about FFIII too, definitely connected to the characters. You really had to work to beat the boss at the top of Kafka's Tower... plus that dude in the castle during the dream sequence could be *extremely* tough if you hadn't leveled at all by the time you got to that point in the game... plus you couldn't leave if you couldn't beat him.

1_up June 16 2006, 16:01:47 UTC

Well, to be completely honest, I didn't have much trouble beating Kefka (not to be confused with Kafka, the German writer ;) ) at the top of the tower - but that was only because I had spent inane amounts of time leveling up during sidequests and what not.

FF3 is still the standard by which I compare all RPGs. It was so vast and expansive, you could literally be doing 1 of 12 things at any given time if you wanted to. And it was so goddamn fantastical and extreme at times ... I mean, one of the frickin boss battles occured as you were falling in the sky out of an airship. CMON! WHERE IS THAT THESE DAYS!!

Now, I find myself meandering through mole holes to fight an obese jazz loving mole boss who stole a harp who is racially profiled as a new orlean african american.

Also, Im having trouble placing that exact part of the game with the tough boss in the dream sequence... but thats ok, there were so many awesome things in that game that it would be ridiculous for me to remember them all.

I want to play it again now!

jnick June 16 2006, 16:42:21 UTC

No, I meant the boss that guards the chest at the top of Kefka's Tower ... not Kefka himself. That's the tower with just rows and rows of stairs that you can only use magic on.

1_up June 16 2006, 19:12:26 UTC

OsnapIrememberthat!

Yea, that tower was really cool and hard.

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1_up June 21 2006, 16:02:41 UTC

Yea, that's gotta be it. Suikoden 2 is yet to be matched in the are of creating such vivid and engaging drama. That, FF3, and I think Chrono Trigger as a close third, define what I love about RPG's