What RPG are you playing right now?

[ZeroAX]

Xenoblade Chronicles. This game is SO GOOD. It has taken the best from classinc JRPGs, MMO games (small quests instead of grinding) a GREAT story (so far) a magical music score (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kevxYFSY1sk I love this piece) AMAZING and very involving combat system. Such a good game. This will be an all time classic in the future I'm sure.

[BoringSupreez]

Xenoblade Chronicles. This game is SO GOOD. It has taken the best from classinc JRPGs, MMO games (small quests instead of grinding) a GREAT story (so far) a magical music score (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kevxYFSY1sk I love this piece) AMAZING and very involving combat system. Such a good game. This will be an all time classic in the future I'm sure.

You're just rubbing the fact that most of us will never be able to play that game in our face, aren't you?

[Gnashvar]

Fallout

[ZeroAX]

You're just rubbing the fact that most of us will never be able to play that game in our face, aren't you?

.....well...a little

I mean I don't remember ever in the past Europe getting better treatment by Nintendo than NA. And well dude....just soft mod a wii and I can tell you a place to buy the game cheap (around 60$ with shipping (42€)......damn the $ has fallen).

Mind you the game really IS THAT GOOD. I mean I'm very hard to please when it comes to JRPGs....basically I don't really like the genre. Meaning I can only play the best games in the genre (FF, Skies of Arcadia, Valkyria Chronicles...which is closer to Advance wars but oh well), so the fact that this game is soooooooooo good in so many places, and the fact that it fixes a lot of the complaints I have about the genre WHILE KEEPING the stuff we love about the genre (I'm looking at you Final Fantasy and your no world maps and your no towns and NPCs) makes it an amazing game for which hasn't felt a chore at all (at least till till now (about 6 hours of gametime), which is something I can't tell for even my favorite JRPGs, FF6 and Skies of Arcadia.

[Xeogred]

Admittedly that post you responded to was written more for CFFJR instead of being a response to yours. I do agree though that the World of Ruin is a very different animal from the World of Balance. Kefka does one thing I can think of in the World of Ruin, which is to randomly attack a town with his tower's death ray...which gets mentioned once. Beyond that, no, he's pretty much done all he could, what more is there for him to do? He's already destroyed the world, killed main characters, taken over the planet, released a dozen or so legendary monsters, and formed a crazy cult, all within the year you're out of it. He's just sitting up there drinking a cold one and waiting for you.

You're right though, that ending is rather depressing and not very rewarding.

Yeah I thought that was for CFFJR, heh. Have you played FFV? I just feel like the third part of that game was kind of similar in what they were going for, but I liked the execution a lot more. The pressure was on and things were tense, ExDeath was ripping holes in the universe off and on throughout this part, still going around doing things on his own, succeeding left and right, sending out monsters from The Void to take you down in your tracks, etc. The whole third part of the game felt like one huge chase to stop ExDeath at the most critical point. It was epic! If only the WoR had that kind of pacing. Perhaps Kefka does get the tower and divides a few continents off and on with him still being more involved with things, and less brown, that would have been cool, but instead... it's game over man.

It's also funny to consider what ExDeath's goal was. He was hilarious, but it was far more insane than Kefka's deus ex machina plans. "THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE MEAN NOTHING!"

World of Balance, for some reason I was thinking World of Light.

But anyways it still goes without saying, I keep saying it lately but I think I'm just extra critical on FFVI based off the dozen or so times I've beaten it. So there's no doubt in my mind it's still one of my favorites and I'm feeling pressured to hit it up again sometime this year since it's been awhile. I do feel like it's pretty hard to rank FFIV-FFVII, those 4 easily being my favorites with FFV as a new one thrown in there. I just had no complaints playing through the GBA version of FFV at all. FFVII I have plenty of issues with, lol, but it's another one I've beaten several times, I love the atmosphere/setting, Materia system, and it's just a lot of fun.

[Ack]

I must admit that I've only played through the first third or so of Final Fantasy V. I don't own a copy in English(I have an imported Super Famicom cart to show off, but that's it). I should give it another shot when I can.

It is fun though playing through Square's glory days, back when they were fighting with Enix for the best RPGs. I really do miss that era of JRPGs.

[noiseredux]

I must admit that I've only played through the first third or so of Final Fantasy V. I don't own a copy in English(I have an imported Super Famicom cart to show off, but that's it). I should give it another shot when I can.

It is fun though playing through Square's glory days, back when they were fighting with Enix for the best RPGs. I really do miss that era of JRPGs.

V is one of the few FF's that I haven'd really devoted much time to. Some day.

[Xeogred]

Just be sure to give FFV sometime. It's goofier but if you can roll with it, it's a blast. I also can't stress enough that the GBA version is probably the best version to go with. The PSX version is awful translation wise and has weird exploits, and unlike FFIV Advance that suffers from lag and an ATB bug or FFVI Advance that just looks terrible in everyway, the port of FFV was excellent. I even thought some of the music was better and more intense on the GBA hardware.

But yeah, good ol' Square Soft and Enix. I find it pretty fascinating how it was practically a given for every SNES Enix game to have heavy religious themes, pretty weird. I was looking over this list of games recently and a lot of them look pretty cool (on the left, lots of fan translated only stuff)
http://www.fantasyanime.com/index.htm

Treasure of the Rudras is one I've been meaning to really play for a long time, the game really looks like a spinoff of FFVI or something, lol.

[Ack]

I wish we had gotten Bahamut Lagoon. I've beaten it via emulator, but oh how I wish we had actually gotten a hard copy here in the US.

[Nutty]

Recently bought a PSP 3000 and 2 games:



Really getting into the tactical stuff since I bought (and have 120 hours on) Disgaea 1 for PS2. The customization ability of these games is staggering...