Well I’ll definetly have to think about that! Alright back to normal derailment talk.
Shenmue… brilliant or stupid? GO!
I think Shenmue was brilliant myself. It was well beyond its time, the ability to interact with just about everything and everyone, Shenmue 2 was not as good but still very good and someday, I pray that in some form I will at least see the end of the Shenmue Saga. Thoughts?
Shenmue was OK, it was a great idea and revolutionary for it’s time but I found it somewhat boring. But then I’ve never been a big fan of sandbox games, I think the GTA’s were boring as well. Feels like I’m just virtually killing time while I kill time in real life, LOL. I’d rather play a linear game with tight gameplay than an open game were the gameplay isn’t quite as good (the driving and shooting in GTA was always just, OK). The one game like this that I really enjoyed was Prototype, the controls were good and it was so much fun to just run around using all those powers to wreck havok, LOL.
Similiar subject, I loved Oblivion (don’t have Fallout 3 yet), but I just don’t have the time anymore for huge games like that. All those distracting side quests! I put about 40 hours into it and only finished about 5% of the main storyline, LOL. Then I get distracted by a new game and never go back and finish it.
Good multiplayer is also a blessing and a curse. I spend so much time on multi on newer games I rarely ever finish the single player. I think I had Gears of War 2 for over a year before I ever even played the single player.
Yeah… I mean time is definetly a crunch. I mean I’ve had to really divide up my time well and unfortunately my HDR game has suffered. I had to play Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 2, I still haven’t finished FF13 (which was my goal before Super came out…) and I’m now trying to learn how to play with a stick… there’s just not enough time during the day!
Sounds like you’d know about the origins of all my nicks then… I’m content saying the Langrisser series is the best of the strategic/sim SRPGs and that Tactics Ogre (and I suppose its GBA sequel) is the top tactical SRPG.
FFTA and its sequel are shadows of the original. There’s a reason many FFT fans, myself included, don’t like them. Anyway, any character with 97 Brave and Blade Grasp can crush melee characters.
On Grandia, I share the same opinion as studtrooper. An FFVII killer it was not; well, maybe for 12-year olds. Just opening the menu took awhile, even longer in the PS version. Saving random village after village actually starts getting old after awhile.
Anyway, I bought the US Shining Force III as well as all 3 JP scenarios plus the Premium Disc (no translation for those who haven’t researched the moon, although names you’ve set in English in Scenario 1 will stay in English in the JP later installments). It’s solid and lengthy but Shining Force II has the free roaming that makes it stand out IMO.
Silver Rain: If you haven’t gone to a tourney before, you really ought to go. No? But thou must!
Is it possible to get through the 2nd and 3rd chapters of SF3 without being able to read Japanese? Though at this point tracking down a working Saturn and all the copies of the game would be time consuming and expensive, LOL. Since there are now easier (and cheaper) to obtain versions of all those great 2D fighters on the Saturn I haven’t had a reason to get another one.
What was that 2D beat-em up with a fantasy theme on the Saturn that gets so much hype, can’t think of the name of it. I’d like to try it as well.
Oh I do the local tournaments here in Indianapolis. But its hard to justify to my wife taking a trip to Cincinnati when she’s 15 weeks pregnant, sick, and we have a two year old who is the most amazing two year old ever, but still a two year old (by every account we won the baby lottery…). So justifying a three day trip to Cincinnati could be hard… It’s also hard for me to be competitive at a tournament run on PS3 because I’ve only ever played (well) on the base 360 pad… I’m really trying to play with this TE I bought (its very nice and shiny but I suck on it… actually I’m not bad going right to left a la 2P but left to right a la 1P… nothing comes out… but I can already link hits better having the buttons right there…). Oh yeah and late May is right after finals so I’ll be grading all my final exams that many students who have no interest in ECON will pass by the skin of their teeth.
As a side note, I actually had all the money and everything put away to go to EVO this year until I found out my wife was pregnant again…
I feel you Silver, I have a wife and four kids(!), so I really don’t travel much for tournies either. I’d like to but it’s just not feasable. The farthest I get is to Columbus for Seasons Beatings. I figure if DGV can take a plane from Cali to C-bus for a tourney, I can drive for couple of hours to get there, LOL.
I will probably make it out to Indy for one of those tournies out there at least once, Immortal keeps bugging me to go, LOL. I might see you out there.
Economics was my major in college!
Guardian Heroes ?
Yeah! Econ rocks! I loved it so much I got my Ph.D, my wife loves me so much she dealt with me being a Ph.D. student… I married a damn good woman.
Indianapolis is a fine city. I personally feel its the most underrated city in America. If you have the chance to come this way you totally should! I’d love to take a trip to Season’s Beatings, maybe I’ll make it out for SB5. From what I heard HDR at SB4 was pretty hot.
Well, Damdai, DGV, Diago, De Maverick, ImmortalBMW, some scrub named mad possum, all travelled to Columbus for the last Season’s Beatings, so it was pretty awesome (though having to play Damdai for my third match wasn’t so awesome, LOL).
Gaurdian Heroes! That’s it! Thanks, Shari. Was that game all it was cracked up to be?
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It’s very easy to progress through the games although you’ll miss out on stuff obviously. There’s an outstanding guide by Wolfgang Landgraf that details all aspects of Shining Force III (as well as other games; they’re honestly the most impressive online guides I know of for any game): http://rpg-home.lunar-net.com/choose.htm
It’s actually not time-consuming at all finding the SS system, 4-in-1, and games but it will cost a bit. I think the whole SFIII set (US, JP 1-3, Premium Disc) cost me $200. Nothing beats playing them how they were intended on the actual system.
Anyway, there are actually 2 hyped fantasy-themed 2D beat-em-up on the SS: Guardian Heroes and the JP-only Dungeons & Dragons Collection. Both are excellent although Guardian Heroes is more like a melee sidescroller using 3 different planes rather than a normal “belt scrolling” beat-em-up.
Yeah that’s a pretty good cast right there… I’m making the committment right now, SB5, I’ll be there.
So Guardian Heroes? I have to admit… never played it… never heard of it until just now… but you know what I liked alot? Virtual On. Crazy mechs beating each other up in stupid ways? TOTALLY AWESOME.
Never played it to be honest.
People mention it in the same breath as TMNT in terms of beat-em up games though so it can’t be that bad.
You like Shenmue? I like you.
You just now like me? Man you’ve been my main man forever Noriega! How come you’re just now on board? Of course then you went and abandoned everybody’s favorite British intelligence agent for some sexually confused Spaniard… but you know what? Shenmue trancends all that petty crap. Shenmue is (was) awesome… Yu Suzuki’s masterpiece… NOW JUST FINISH THE DAMN STORY! lol
It’s hard for me not to love Shenmue. The Dreamcast was my second console (after SNES) and Shenmue was my second game for it (after MvC2). That being said, the game isn’t fun. It’s too long, too boring and why is moving boxes for point A to point B one of the MAJOR focal points of the game? If I weren’t looking back at the game with nostalgia, I would probably hate it…but I can’t.
Oh, fun fact: my initials are AAA. Whenever I get a high score in a Capcom game and put in my initials, the game replaces them wit h CAP.
You can’t hate Shenmue because of what Shenmue represents. It represents FREEdom (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment, thanks Yu Suzuki!). The whole idea of really living this guy’s life, dealing with his daily problems while trying to solve this overarching drama… its engaging. And racing forklifts is AWESOME!
You can’t hate it, but can find it boring. LOL.
Some love to have; I hate to love. :bgrin:
Silver, I’ll give you that the 70 man fight was pretty epic and when I first saw the graphics I pretty much shat myself, but they could’ve sped up the story a bit (and by “a bit”, I mean “a lot”).
I know its hard to love you… stupid knee bash, move forward, j. srk walkup knee bash, crup, knee bash… knee bash… knee bash… who the hell let the scrubby Ken player in here? lol j/k.
(In case anyone thinks I’m being a jerk, he jokes himself about being a scrub, two, he does love his knee bash, and three, he’s got a sense of humor and can take a joke… seriously, GA, we need to play some long sets, I love playing against your Ken!)