Tri-Ace has made precisely one good game: the original Valkyrie Profile. That’s it. Seriously, that’s it. Those guys love to turn what should be wicked ideas (usually some sort of real-time combat mechanic) into convoluted nonsense. They also write shit stories. EDIT - And, except for Albel Nox and possibly Cliff, some of the worst characters known to man.
I guaran-damn-tee you if you hired Naughty Dog to make the kind of game Tri-Ace “specializes” in you’d have something easy to play, fun to play, and relatively well-written.
I played it for a bit then sold my copy. I regret doing so, as I keep hearing good things. The dialog was superb in that game, and the short stories about Caim’s past were great, but the combat system got on my nerves.
Dr. B’s dream sequences involve nobody dying, which simultaneously makes B awesome and the stories admittedly kind of dumb.
At least with the earlier Tri-Ace games the fun combat system and outside crafting system counter-balanced the awful story and horrible characters. Star Ocean 2’s pros definitely outweighed the cons, but every Star Ocean after that, however, was overpowered by the awful story and horrible characters.
EDIT: LO was bogged down by its own dedication to being an “old-school JRPG”, which should be read as, “non-enjoyable battle mechanics.”
I think DHEvil is pretty guilty of most of this stuff to. Halo, Cod, and most of the other games he mentioned arn’t bad games. He may not like them but that doesn’t mean they are bad. Especially Halo. Those are very good games over all with an over all massive bang for your buck
Must resist urge to smash Halo for being the mediocre fps it is with almost zero original concepts that they stole from other games and claimed as original.
To be fair, what games don’t borrow from other sources these days?
After I become a screenwriter, I want to become a game designer, and one of the games I want to design (rather, that I am currently designing on paper and want to get made) is a mix of concepts borrowed from Namco’s Tales, Gears of War, and Mario and Luigi. And yes, if that sounds like the best game EVER, it’s because I’m hoping it will be.
Dr. B day is everyday, and the celebration is to live, dammit, live.
also note that most games in general suck ass nowadays, the last age of actual great gaming fun where on the ps2. even ps1, snes had better shit to offer than any of the new gen systems we got nowadays. its like a dicksucking orgy nowadays, where the creativety?
also jpn still got the best fighters and racers. all rpg’s nowadays suck ass, cept that japan actually made the greatest shit long ago already (ff6, ct). the west has fps’s, which is a genre i dispise. soo all in all, people like me have been getting the sort end of the stick since the last 5 years or longer. games in general suck, probably because the shitty ass gamers with their shitty skill levels who only play bs nowadays. back in the days you actually had to have some gaming skills and memmory skills to beat a game. now with the shit as easy as it is (you cant even die on some games), add the infinite credits, shits gone bad. honestly, nothing on the next gen systems is all that. even the best is just mediocre. it all looks & sounds good, and thats it.
only good thing is the resurgence of fighters, but now with input lag cause of hd tv’s, wtf happened?
Halo gets to much hate, halo took a bunch of idea’s and basically provided it for console play online and it ran smooth. Also the story in the 1st halo was pretty sweet.
It succeded because of the same reason Phantsy start online did back in the day, it provided something for console gamers than they really didn’t have at the time.
Halo reach is awesome and its not because they added a bunch of new stuff, just because its more refined than all the others and easy to jump in find a group and play.
It isn’t that they borrowed it is it that they claimed it as original and said they were the first ones to think of it and implement it. Also Halo is just incredibly mediocre as a game in general.
lol halo sucks, mw shits all over it. at least play good fps games instead of mediocre crap like that. shit even gow was was better than halo (such a shit series, dont get the hype at all).
Name one JRPG where there’s a zombie city that’s friendly, and one of the zombies recites ancient chinese poetry? I know a western RPG that does. Oh shit, it’s also the same RPG that references Kafka’s Metamorphosis (There’s an art gallery in this game I am thinking of, where one of the paintings depicts the story of an insect that woke up as a man.)