What RPG are you playing right now?

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Say goodbye to the next 80 hours of your life.

I'm playing nothing right now but starting Grandia tomorrow!
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BoneSnapDeez wrote:Say goodbye to the next 80 hours of your life.

I'm playing nothing right now but starting Grandia tomorrow!
yeah I know, I just popped it in last night just to test it out, then 3 hours later I was hooked. I really need to start Grandia first before I get too involved. A really shame that they didn't offer a 480p option on DQ 8, Star Ocean had 480p don't know why they didn't for DQ which came out after it I believe. Just imagine what it would look like in glorious 480p on my HD Panasonic Tau CRT 8)
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BoneSnapDeez wrote:Say goodbye to the next 80 hours of your life.

I'm playing nothing right now but starting Grandia tomorrow!
I started early to both A. Test the waters and B. If things went well get the head start, because I KNOW I wouldn't be able to finish it in the months time.

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I managed to finish PSO in one month so I hope I can handle Grandia.

Though PSO was insanely addictive. Lost sleep because of it. I could play PSO in 5 hour stretches. Doubt I could do that with any other game.

I should be fine if I dedicate 2 hours to Grandia per day. Most likely it'll be 10 PM - midnight.
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Wow I just found out that the US version of Dragon Quest 8 is superior to the Japanese version and in a rather huge way. The Japanese version lacks that incredible orchestral soundtrack and wonderful voice acting, really rather baffling how the west got the superior version of a JRPG.
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Is there a source on that? That sounds kind of silly, the series has had a big name composer for every game I believe.
BoneSnapDeez wrote:I managed to finish PSO in one month so I hope I can handle Grandia.

Though PSO was insanely addictive. Lost sleep because of it. I could play PSO in 5 hour stretches. Doubt I could do that with any other game.

I should be fine if I dedicate 2 hours to Grandia per day. Most likely it'll be 10 PM - midnight.
Phantasy Star Online????

lol, somehow I had 90 hours on my PSO (GC) game back in the day, all offline too.
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Xeogred wrote:Is there a source on that? That sounds kind of silly, the series has had a big name composer for every game I believe.
Big name composer is not the same thing as orchestral soundtrack. Koichi Sugiyama did the music again (he's DQ's Uematsu), but it was improved in the overseas release.
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It is really sad that DQ 8 hasn't had a proper rerelease, it had a iOS and Android release rather recently but it is god awful. No voiceacting or orchestral music, abysmally choppy framerate, terrible DRM, a $20 pricetag, and for some unkown stupid reason the game is only able to be played in vertical portrait mode. What a shame because this game would do so well on the Vita or 3DS.
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MrPopo wrote:
Xeogred wrote:Is there a source on that? That sounds kind of silly, the series has had a big name composer for every game I believe.
Big name composer is not the same thing as orchestral soundtrack. Koichi Sugiyama did the music again (he's DQ's Uematsu), but it was improved in the overseas release.
Wikipedia wrote:Additions and changes to the North American version of Dragon Quest VIII included voice acting, new animations, enhanced music and sound effects, additional spells and attacks, and a new menu interface.[
I was just kind of suggesting it seemed silly because I would "assume" the music is a big part of the series and treated as such... so that's definitely really weird.

Then again, I guess there's the whole FFVII midi music on the original PC release. Speaking of that... according to some Steam reviews, the Steam version actually has a reworked translation?
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I'm 45 hours into Dragon Quest VIII, and it has stayed consistently good thus far.
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