02-17-2009, 12:05 PM | #281 |
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I never quite liked Runescape either. But Suikoden for PS1 was a nice RPG. The early Zelda games (pre-N64) were fun too. I also had a huge liking for Final Fantasy VII (as one might tell from my avvy actually) as well the earlier Final Fantasy games.
My favourite RPG, all categories, is Final Fantasy Adventure for Gameboy. Ah, it makes me nostalgic
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02-17-2009, 12:12 PM | #282 |
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Video games ARE a lot of fun. Especially MarioBros. games.
In our family we sort of have a "season" for video games. For the rest of the year we don't play them.
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02-17-2009, 12:44 PM | #283 |
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In the Mario Brothers games you travel through little landscapes, looking for stuff, right? Stuff powers you up? So you can fly and get to another place and get more stuff? And when you've used it, it goes away until you earn it again.
Am I close? What happens in Final Fantasy? People fight?
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But right! The only reason why I haven't played the other games is that the battles are goddamn turn-based! No sense in that. Intense action, heart-stopping ambushes, you have to use your fingers as much as your head to keep your character alive! AND! I finally got that art diploma work home (actually a while ago ) I'll be posting it soon in appropriate thread ("Crap Art"?) EDIT: Sis: What happens...? Don't let me start OK. Some two thousand years ago, a meteor fell to the planet (not ours). Within was "heaven's dark harbinger", a calamity called Jenova. She was a virus-like creature, able to make her separated cells do her bidding in other creatures. She either killed or transformed into monsters most of the Cetra, the Ancients who protected the planet. I think what happened then was that the remaining Cetra imprisoned her into the place where she originally fell, the Northern Crater. 2000 years after, the ShinRa Manufacturing's scientists found her body (not exactly dead), mistaking her for one of the Ancients. Being aware of the great power the Cetra had, they extracted her cells from her in their lab. Their goal: to create superhuman warriors and workers, who could help dig for the energy source, mako, which was actually the planet's Lifestream. This caused the planet to weaken. ShinRA Manuf. became ShinRA Electric Company, commanding their warrior group, the SOLDIER. They all had Jenova cells in them. ShinRA's Deepground had become a lab for mad scientists to defy all laws of nature. They wanted to create an elite-elite group, SOLDIER 1st class. These included Angeal, Genesis and Sephiroth. Two of these, Genesis (or "G") and Sephiroth ("S") turned against everyone but themselves. Angeal voluntarily perished at the hands of his apprentice, Zack. Genesis also fell to Zack, but not permanently. Until now, he slumbered deep beneath Midgar (=ShinRa). Sephiroth, upon discovering his origins, burned the town of Nibelheim to ground, and before disappearing, vowed to one day become the ruler of the planet. Years later he returned, summoning the Meteor to crush the planet's shell, in order to trick the planet into flowing its Lifestream into the wound and then absorbing it, gaining as much power as a god. This didn't work out, as Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Cid, Red XIII (an ancient whose real name I forgot), Vincent, Reeve and Cait Sith stopped him, but the Meteor already hovered above the planet. Then Aerith, another Cetra (well only half) managed to have her dying prayers (Sephiroth's blade had felled her) be heard by Holy, a magic as strong as the Meteor. It was too late though. When all seemed lost, the Lifestream synchronized with Holy and enveloped Midgar, ShinRa, and the Meteor. It's been three years since the Meteorfall. The rest is up to you to find out. And yes, in Dirge of Cerberus, "The fate of the world will be decided in a storm of bullets!"
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And in SmashBros you beat up all your other friends, who play goodguys and badguys whom are all sorts of characters from all sorts of games, get into a battle royal with one another smashing the bejesus out of everyone. It's fun.
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02-17-2009, 01:25 PM | #286 |
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Final Fantasy's are AWESOME. Sis, it's actually quite a complicated storyline. Sure, there's fighting & levelling up (it's an RPG afterall), but there's also story, character development, and my favourite part of a game, EXPLORATION!
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02-17-2009, 01:56 PM | #287 |
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For the record, most Final Fantasy's are freestanding. The background Noble Elf Lord provided doesn't apply to the other games.
BoP had the essential stuff covered I think.
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02-17-2009, 02:33 PM | #288 |
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You lose me right away on exploration. You have a character, and he or she walks around for a bit, trying doors, or choosing paths, and there might be something significant they happen across? Or something might attack, and then you unloose the fell sword and slice them into tournadoes.
*sigh* I'm really not trying to be a jacka$$, and I'm listening carefully. Remember, you're explaining a rainbow to a deaf person, here.
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02-17-2009, 03:12 PM | #289 |
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Just for the record, Final Fantasy's are excellent, as is Morrowind. They are (at least the ones I know) well-crafted and beautiful portraits of characters, events, and worlds.
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(Hey Mari, how's the game with the islands called?)
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02-17-2009, 03:25 PM | #292 |
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'The Hobbit' was a GREAT game! I loved it. Underrated, for sure.
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02-17-2009, 03:31 PM | #293 |
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I don't think I'm ever going to beat it, though. It started out fun, but now it's rather frustrating.
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What level are you in? There were indeed some tough areas to get past, for sure. Mirkwood was very very annoying...
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02-17-2009, 03:44 PM | #295 |
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I never played that.
Earn, I'm playing Wonderland Online. It's a cute game, but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners or people who don't like having to wander around. Some things are quite hard to figure out. By the way, my connection has been failing me for the past few days, so I have trouble being here/posting.
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O_O Good luck with that... *runs*
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02-17-2009, 04:17 PM | #298 |
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Yeah it's played on the internet. And there is some fighting, but it isn't difficult. You just choose which action (attack, spell or item) you want to take and if your level is high enough you win. If not, you'll find yourself back at a safe point
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02-17-2009, 10:05 PM | #299 |
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I am offically back.
*pounces on random people*
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Are you officially back for a long period of time, or officially back from your work?
How goes the work, by the way?
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