What RPG are you playing right now?

[Xeogred]

Xenogears is STILL my favorite rpg, PLAY THAT SHIT

Before FF7?

Flip a coin, it's win-win for the most part!

.... although plot/character wise I'd say Xenogears blows FF7 out of the water.

[SwooshBear]

Xenogears is STILL my favorite rpg, PLAY THAT SHIT

Before FF7?

Flip a coin, it's win-win for the most part!

.... although plot/character wise I'd say Xenogears blows FF7 out of the water.

Really? Never heard much about Xenogears. Just curious cause FF7 is my favorite RPG (typical I know)

[Xeogred]

Eh, I'd put plenty of JRPG's above FF7 in terms of plot, lol. Suikoden 1-2, Breath of Fire 4, the Chrono games, FF6, Tactics Ogre, etc.

[MrEco]

As of this writing I haven't actually started playing it yet but I bought Valkyria Chronicles. After having heard literally nothing but praise for this games from many different sources I finally got around to buying it and it arrived in the mail today. Sadly, I might have to put off playing it for a little while because I'm not done with Oblivion yet and don't want to add too many games to my backlog (Already like 4 or 5 currently).

Secondly, though it hasn't arrived in the mail yet I also ordered The Fallout Collection containing Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics. Never played any of them but I figured that if I loved Fallout 3 and New Vegas so much there must be something to enjoy in the older ones despite having very different combat. I've heard they are a lot more difficult though which might be something to worry about. Anything I should be careful about when I do eventually start em up?

[brunoafh]

Well, be prepared to start second guessing Fallout 3 heavily.

[MrEco]

What exactly do you mean by "second guessing?"

[Xeogred]

Must be a fan of the older games.

If that's the case... I'll play the devil's advocate and say, I'm not a big fan of the old Fallout's and I also hated 3, usually not a big fan of Bethesda games. I played 50 hours of New Vegas though, so ... I think it made the cut for me!

Fallout was great, but pretty flawed to me. If you're in it for the story and dialogue you might get more out of it, but I basically just got really bored of the combat after awhile. It's just basic point and click, turn based stuff, and your friendly AI is usually pretty terrible. If you're around tight corners they'll shoot you up a lot on accident. That said, the atmosphere, music, and all that are top notch. But yeah, the gameplay just got stale for me after awhile, but I'm not an expert on the games or anything. I got to the very end but couldn't finish it.

I wish the old Fallout games had combat like Jagged Alliance 2 or something, now that would be insane. Though I haven't played Fallout Tactics, I hear it's like the JA series... but not as good. Who knows.

Also that said, New Vegas wasn't perfect at all or anything either. It was fun while the novelty lasted though.

[avrame]

........thanks...

Don't worry, he doesn't actually die in the course of the game (I'm assuming you thought you just got a major spoiler). That's just a(n interesting) theory about why the events of FF8 are so bizarre and nonsensical.

Ahhhhh, Alright. I was a little miffed for a moment! haha.

Oops, my bad on that part, but I recalled you mentioned you were near the end of the game already. Someone just mentioned that at the end of Disc 1, you can go with the idea that Squall died from the Ice magic, and the story still makes good sense.

Sorta like Inception, except, imagine that Cobb (Leonardo) spent the WHOLE movie still asleep in that basement in India. If you rewatch the movie, when he rushes back to the bathroom and spins his totem, it falls off the counter and he never confirms that he woke up. Trippy, no?

[MrEco]

Must be a fan of the older games.

If that's the case... I'll play the devil's advocate and say, I'm not a big fan of the old Fallout's and I also hated 3, usually not a big fan of Bethesda games. I played 50 hours of New Vegas though, so ... I think it made the cut for me!

Fallout was great, but pretty flawed to me. If you're in it for the story and dialogue you might get more out of it, but I basically just got really bored of the combat after awhile. It's just basic point and click, turn based stuff, and your friendly AI is usually pretty terrible. If you're around tight corners they'll shoot you up a lot on accident. That said, the atmosphere, music, and all that are top notch. But yeah, the gameplay just got stale for me after awhile, but I'm not an expert on the games or anything. I got to the very end but couldn't finish it.

I wish the old Fallout games had combat like Jagged Alliance 2 or something, now that would be insane. Though I haven't played Fallout Tactics, I hear it's like the JA series... but not as good. Who knows.

Also that said, New Vegas wasn't perfect at all or anything either. It was fun while the novelty lasted though.

Yeah the things I liked about Fallout 3 and New Vegas were the story, dialogue, characters, and the great atmosphere. The combat wasn't exactly stand out amazing or anything but I never found it bad and it kept me entertained.

[brunoafh]

Yeah the things I liked about Fallout 3 and New Vegas were the story, dialogue, characters, and the great atmosphere.

Well then you should definitely play the original Fallout games, because that's what they do best. If you can tolerate old school point and click PC games, you're sure to love them. I didn't really like Fallout 3 because it kind of pales in comparison to the originals both in the atmosphere it creates and in the writing.

That, and I find Bethesda RPGs to be excruciatingly boring after about 5 hours.