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I've just started to play Rogue Galaxy, my second attempt in the past year - originally the naff voice acting put me off, so now I'm trying this 'undub' version... but, for the life of me I just can't get into it. I want to like it, I really do. I'm roughly 12 hours in, but everything seems so... repeditive. Even for an RPG. The dungeons go on for hours, with a random battle every 30 seconds and an "action-RPG"-style system which amounts to little more than tap X, wait for party member XYZ to KO, open menu, choose 'resurrect' item, etc, etc.. ad nauseum. Reviews seems universally positive, so I have to ask, am I missing something?
Does it get any better? Does it get any (and I'm being hopeful here) darker? I can't shake the feeling that the only thing it has going for it is sheer scale.
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what did you think was wrong with the voice acting?

I feel the same way about Rouge... when you found what you are missing here, please let me known

i think its just a required taste. i can see it getting repeditive by mid game (because it does) when you get to pick from three areas looking for kings or something. (i forget exactly) i stoped around their personally. not because i dislike it but because im sort of stuck ^^. but i believe you have to have a knack for repeditive games. like i enjoy the .hack series and thats probally one of the most repeditive rpg series ever in my opinion (even g.u.). i enjoy the weapon combo system personally. thats what really got me into it. and most characters are quite fun.

Well... I play through the tree titles of .hack g.u. series too and enjoy them. About Rouge, I like the incredible wide environment like the capital city. It's more that you can expect from a sixty generation game.

However I lost the interest in Rouge in some point before the end of the first CD. (It has two discs, right? I don't remember... ) I believe that the critic has been a little bit too generous with this game.

neoclasic wrote:Well... I play through the tree titles of .hack g.u. series too and enjoy them. About Rouge, I like the incredible wide environment like the capital city. It's more that you can expect from a sixty generation game.

However I lost the interest in Rouge in some point before the end of the first CD. (It has two discs, right? I don't remember... ) I believe that the critic has been a little bit too generous with this game.

no its one disk or at least in the us. im sure its the same everywhere else but what do i know.....

I have to agree with all that you said. Roque Galaxy is a bad game, despite having an average of 8 and being praised even more by most players.

It's bad designed from beggining to end.

Have you enjoyed other Level 5 RPGs? Dark Cloud or Dragon Quest VIII?

It was my first level 5 game, and the one that i was most intriged about at first, so RG drove me away of other level 5 games. I do have those games you mention as i managed to buy them both for 8€, so if they turn out to be bad it won't hurt like RG, but they are at the very end of my waiting list. Dragon Quest VIII is the one i'm most interested about of them all, it seems like a good game but nothing groundbreaking at the same time.

I just know for a fact that Rogue Galaxy is as this guy describes it. If you are actually looking for advice about those two other games, i'm not the right guy to ask about them.

I made it something like 25 hours in to the game before stopping...it is super, super repetitive, especially as it goes on, and the voice acting is hilariously bad but didn't bother me any more than the voice acting from most games. I pretty much stopped when I started having to re-visit already explored planets (going to new areas on these planets, but still)... I do believe it's a good game, especially since I don't like many RPGs of the past couple of generations of consoles, and it's definitely better than Square's efforts lately, but if it had been released in PS1 era it would have been ignored as just another repetitive, not-particularly-deep JRPG with a totally ignorable plot.