well I assume that there will have to be a price drop at some point. It may take a while, but especially since new hardware is coming within about a year, current game prices will drop as it get closer to launch time.
I went back to playing Final Fantasy X now, doing things I couldn’t do the first time around (like beating the Goers during the Blitzball tournament finals, and making Gatta kill himself. :wow: I felt a bit guilty, but at least that will quench all his adrenaline).
I change a bit between that and some Smackdown vs. Raw.
I’m still playing Persona 2: Eternal Punishment atm. I’m at the 2nd to the last level and just mastering my Persona’s. I’ve been trying to go back and beat games that I had never beaten (finished Dragon Warrior 7 before it) and the fact seeing my brother play Nocturne made me want to go back and start the game up from scratch.
From what I saw of Nocturne and from what he told me about it…the game is really good. No quarrels with the gameplay and the graphics are unbelievealbly good. Music is well-done as well. Then again though, I’m a huge Persona/Megami Tensei fan.
As for Digital Devil Saga…I suggest to anyone who is a fan of the series to pick it up asap. Not because it’s a must have right now game, because we as customers owe it to Atlus to pick it up at regular price…and here’s why:
Digital Devil Saga Box Set:
-Digital Devil Saga 1
-Digital Devil Saga 2
-Artbook
-Soundtracks
-Controller Armor
-And maybe a couple other small things
ALL of that…for $54.99. You cannot go wrong with that. Atlus has gone well out of their way to package such a great thing together that anyone who will want to get the game should get it when it comes out. That’s way too good of a deal.
Also, anyone that has kept up on recent gaming news knows that Atlus USA is going to publish Stella Deus, and Atlus of Japan product. The game looks…damn…good. It’s a Strategy/RPG, check it out: http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=4052
Digital Devil Saga I and II?
I wonder if that happens to be translated remakes of the Japanese NES Megaten games.
All the Megaten stuff I own:
NES/FC
DDS Megami Tensei II (Don’t try to play this in a NES system. It’s just like Akumajou Densetsu/Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse-J, the game contains a sound enhancement chip that makes incredible music. Only works on Japanese Famicom systems. NES systems won’t recognize the chip and the music will sound shitty.
SFC
Kyuuyaku Megaten, remakes of the first two games
Shin Megami Tensei II
Put in a few sessions of LoTR: BFME in.
Graphic is outstanding, I was already very impressed with it in High detail, haven’t tried ultra high yet. The incorporation of movies into the game was seamless, the controls are smooth, I recommend the games to any RTS fan.
All that sounds cool but I could never get into rpgs with the exception of SoA on DC. Stella looks pretty cool espicially the box art, but I don’t think these games are my bag. From a gameplay standpoint, they just don’t hold my intrest. I bought Disgaia(sp?) when it first came out and wanted to like it 'cuz the characters just caught my eye and the game seemed pretty funny storywise. If there is one thing I do like rpgs it’s the characer designs and style. I’ve wanted to try Persona so many times but I know I wouldn’t play it that much (like what happened with Disgaia). Maybe I’ll turn over a new leaf one of these days.
See, I don’t really agree. The lack of secret characters is a really bad thing, and part of what kills it for me. But there are several other reasons that I don’t like 2 as much as the first. While some of the new enemies are cool (I especially like the Grim Reaper-like guys), a lot of them just suck to fight. The little spiders that the aliens throw out make the aliens irritating pests, the nurses are really frustrating compared to Rosettas, and I really hate those electro-shield mother fuckers. The thing is that a lot of these new enemies don’t have set patterns to take them out. For instance, Rosettas vs. Nurses: Rosettas could be defeated by Slow Punch x2, SlowZ-RHOH. Nurses, the best I could manage was SlowZ-RHOH until a Rock On started, then try to combo as much as possible against a wall. Another big complaint I had was in the bosses. A lot of them run away like little pansies all the time, especially Frost Tiger and, to avoid spoilers, the final boss. Also, while the overall story was okay, the script just wasn’t as witty or humorous as in the first game. I also really hated the shit with Miss Bloody Rachel, which was just hokey and totally unbelievable.
Don’t get me wrong, all in all VJ2 was a decent game. I especially like some of the new puzzles involving Replay. But there are just some things about it that, when compared to the original, don’t stack up IMO.
About secret teams for VJ3, I had some ideas:
Captain Blue/Ivory: Might be cool to see Blue and his wife together.
Alastor the Styish/Jet Black: Pairing the two anti-heroes of the series together. I also think that you could do some cool mix-n-match of powers with this team. Have Al keep Roundtrip (Voomerangs) and get the new throw move, but have Replay to go with his electricity magic. Meanwhile, Jet gets the guns and bombs, but Mach Speed. Also, let them use their swords more. Al didn’t swing his sword enough in the original.
VJ2-----ah yes…the comedy wasn’t quite up to par…but the enemies are still good, imo…actually, they’re probably a step above the enemies from part 1. Nurses were particularly interesting ideas…but they can easily be taken care of with Dragon kick…1 or 2 of those knocks an aura off, which dizzies them. My complaint regarding this, however…is more of a technical issue from the game itself: Whenever nurses get “RockOned” it’s time for some un-natural Slowdown :sad: It’s 1 or both of the following things here:
- VJ2 was made with Ps2 in mind as well, and any multiplatform release has to be made based off the techspec.s of the lowest common denominator = ps2.
- On top of this^…they bumped up the detail of the graphics on just about all small details, like crosshairs, item boxes, blue/red bottles, even the rainbow V graphics! Stupid decision, imo…this wasn’t even necessary. You don’t really notice the small graphical things in VJ enough for it to matter. The action is too frantic to focus on those things for more than half a second.
Laser Shielders --destroyed by Voomerangs, Silvia’s shots, or simple red hot kicks.
Overall, I love the whole thing with Miss Bloody Rachel…I’m just disappointed that she isn’t playable, just like the last boss. Also, the fact that you can save between each stage with her hurts the difficulty of what was apparently supposed to be another Mag 5 situation.
There are quite a few small flaws with this game…but I think the presence of playable bonus characters would’ve made a huge difference…making it equal or even better than the first game.
wow. imma get that pack then. sounds like a good deal!
Completed stages 10-19 of N. I halfway expected some kind of royal fanfare after fighting my way through episode 19… some of the shit they make you do is just sick. Dancing around the inside of a huge empty space for five minutes with those satanically accurate homing missiles chasing you? Jesus.
Incidentally, Million, your new avatar kicks ass.
Robots don’t work that way (I’m tlaking about the whole “devloping a heart” thing). Sci-Fi as far back as Star Trek: TOS has made that mistake, and it just rubs me the wrong way every time.
I just started playing Tales of Symphonia a couple days ago. Its pretty fun, but I’m not a big fan of rpgs with “action-style” fights like Star Ocean, as opposed to traditional turn-based fights. There seems to be less strategy involved when you’re mashing on attack and your other 3 party members are controlled by the AI.
Which reminds me- Grandia II still had the best battle system ever. Half action, half turn-based, lots of strategy involved. Anyone know if they made [or are making] a sequel to this game? I know they ported it to PS2, but iirc it was a terrible port.
Anybody finish Tales yet? Its supposed to take around 40-50 hours. 
OMG!!! imagine that!!! Someone on a forum devoted to video games playing the exact same game you are!!!
OMFG!!!
Still playing Metal Gear Solid 3, not so far with it, but yeah, I give it like an hour or so during the Winter Break, hehe.
Hah and I recently played my PS2 import copy of Bonanza Bros, that game brings back some memories with my cousin, haha.
What made the port terrible? I’d be willing to put up with quite a bit to play Grandia II again.
Rawr, we got a feisty one here. =]
I think it had to do with weak graphics/audio, even when compared to the DC version.
Actually, maybe terrible was the wrong word. I just looked it up on Gamespot, and it got some decent reviews.
You guys should check it out if you already havent.
Front Mission 4.
I liked tactics, so I like this.
eh. Im just being an ass 
I played around a bit more with Metroid on NintenDS the other day at a Target. I could get into that…at least as long as those controls can be changed. Perhaps when it drops to 100(by which time I’ll have money…one way or another, dammit. I wouldn’t care if people had to die.) then I could consider getting one. Besides, it’s getting a Viewtiful Joe game…so I must have it eventually. One chat-program “game” for it got the lowest scores EVER in the current EGM. It was funny…ah yes…“Ping Pals”. They gave it a 1.5, 0.0, and 0.0! This has to be the lowest ever, cuz I think it even beats out that Mortal Kombat game for GBA about 2 years ago. It’s a new level of lame…a new bottom-of-the-barrel…at least according to the reviewers at EGM.
I haven’t played anything in a long time(several days) now…hey, they still have that “Ultimate Gaming Rig!” contest in EGM…
*Dark Samus looks cool…too bad you can’t play as her in Metroid Prime2, apparently. :sad:
You know that there’s a new side-scrolling Mario coming out for that? Also a new Sonic, which I first thought was full 3D but is also apparently going to be side-scrolling.
Those are the reasons that I already bought a DS.
The Metroid demo comes with the DS, and there are other control setups for that game. But IMO they all stink. All of them require the use of the touch screen in some way. That’s actually probably my one dissappointment about the DS. They’re kinda over-hyping the touch screen. Sometimes I think it actually gets in the way, though. On 64 DS, you have to use the TS to make menu selections. “CONTINUE”, “SAVE & CONTINUE”, “SAVE & QUIT” options after collecting each star. I’d rather be ale to just use the buttons to make the selection and keep playing. Instead I have to pull out the stylus, click the choice, put the stylus back.
All in all, though, the DS rocks. It’s a really nice hand-held.