Sarvis said:If he'd <i>played</i> the game his statement would be fine. He hasn't, therefore his statement is meaningless. For all he knows it is on the level of Fallout, he has nothing to base his judgement on.
I liked the first Super Mario RPG though, it was really good...
Sheriff05 said:Sarvis said:If he'd <i>played</i> the game his statement would be fine. He hasn't, therefore his statement is meaningless. For all he knows it is on the level of Fallout, he has nothing to base his judgement on.
How about a fucking screen shot, Sarvis how old are you?
there you have it, you're of the pre disposition to enjoy these types of games.
I'm not, hence my opinion. My statement is only meaningless if you're a dipshit who likes playing RPG's designed for pre schoolers.
Otaku_Hanzo said:Console RPGs are console RPGs and I judge them solely based on that fact. The same goes with cRPGs. I keep them in their own classes simply because they ARE their own classes. There have been attempts to bring console style RPGs to the computer and they have not done well. There was also an attempt to bring a computer RPG to console (Diablo) and it also did not do so well. Matter of fact, it plain ass sucked.
Each class draws their own crowd and alot of console RPGers I've known feel daunted by the RPGs released on computer simply because they don't wish to deal with the complexity of managing their character. They just want to wander around, fight shit, and watch cinematics. They don't want massive dialogue choices or anything like that. And it's vice versa when it comes to some of the more elitists in the cRPG crowd. They absolutely abhor console RPGs because of their simplicity.
Me? I don't care. I love gaming. Period. I prefer the deep complexity offered in most cRPGs over the simplicity of console RPGs, but I can take either or. No biggie to me. I'll gladly hold my copy of FF9 high right alongside the likes of FO. Is FF9 equal to or better than FO? No. Not really. But it's the console equivalent of FO to me, if that makes sense to anyone. If not, oh well. I'm gonna go play Hitman.
Fez said:Have you tried any other PC RPGs? Especially ones with turn-based combat, like Fallout 1 + 2, Avernum and Geneforge. There are lots of good examples. Arcanum was notorious for having poor combat, it's saving grace was the interesting setting and story. You'd like it more if you prefer diplomat/thief characters.
The demo of Fallout was more a sort of tech demo, it's ancient. The combat is better in the full game and the sequel had a few nice additions too, but remember that it is also a role-playing game, not just a squad-based tactical game. If you want turn based combat with little RPG elements, try the Jagged Alliance games or the Silent Storm games. You should ahve a look around the forums you'll find no end of suggestions. Gearhead has quite fun combat too. You should seriously consider giving Anachronox a go too, superb story and enviroment and it is heavily influenced by the console style RPGs. It was made on the Quake 2 engine so it should run on your machine OK if Q2 runs fine.
I think you've just been unfortunate in your choice of PC games so far, there is bound to be ones to suit your taste.
Volourn said:FF6, and FF8 are my favorites FFs. FF2, 7, and 10 are runnerups. Don't get me started on the piece of crap FFs known as FF5, and FFT. *puke*
Otaku_Hanzo said:Anachronox.... oh Anachronox. Alas, I cannot find my copy and cannot find it anywhere for sale. Perhaps someday I will come across it once again. For now though, I must mourn the loss of my copy and just go on with life.![]()
Otaku_Hanzo said:Storywise, yes FF6 was the pinnacle of the FF series.
Fez said:Otaku_Hanzo said:Anachronox.... oh Anachronox. Alas, I cannot find my copy and cannot find it anywhere for sale. Perhaps someday I will come across it once again. For now though, I must mourn the loss of my copy and just go on with life.![]()
I'm betting that it would be easy to find on P2P or maybe off of a friend as it had very poor protection.
FFT has totally different combat to those other games, I'd say it was just a matter of tastes, some love it, some hate it. I liked both kinds and there are plenty here who hate them all.![]()
Have you tried the gameboy and PSX versions?
Avin said:Otaku_Hanzo said:Storywise, yes FF6 was the pinnacle of the FF series.
the truth.
ff6 is the planescape of console rpgs.
Exitium said:I'm sorry, but that belongs to ChronoTrigger.