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KALofKRYPTON

PSN: KALofKRYPTON (so you can see how often I don't play anything!)

Twitter: @KALofKRYPTON (at your own risk, I don't care if you're offended)

"Fate: Protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise." - Cmdr William T. Riker

JohnnyShoulder

@KALofKRYPTON @Th3solution Ha Ha i actually don't mind Sonic. I prefer him to Mario. I have Sonic Mania but only played the first level. That was the first sonic game i played since the Megadrive days.

Oh no! I've turned into on of them!

Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

PSN: JohnnyShoulder

KALofKRYPTON

@JohnnyShoulder You're not missing all that much IMO.

I love Sonic Heroes, but it's not that great a game. Generations is great. Colours is decent. Adventure (and 2) are overrated, 2006 is awful, as are Sonic 4 (p1/p2) Unleashed, Secret Ring, Boom, Black Knight, Lost World.
Some of racing games are great, All Stars and Transformed, one of the Sonic Riders games was good.

@Th3solution
Despite my feelings on the controller, the GameCube is great. Rogue Leader, Super Monkey Ball, Eternal Darkness, Pikmin, Viewtiful Joe, Ikaruga, Metroid Prime, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Battalion Wars, Resident Evil are worth owning one.

PSN: KALofKRYPTON (so you can see how often I don't play anything!)

Twitter: @KALofKRYPTON (at your own risk, I don't care if you're offended)

"Fate: Protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise." - Cmdr William T. Riker

FullbringIchigo

@JohnnyShoulder and soon you will be lost to us forever

BWHAA HAA HAA!!!

"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"

"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!

FullbringIchigo

@DerMeister apparently but i agree FFVIII was awesome and deserves a lot more love

besides most people hated it because they were and excuse me for saying it but, they were not smart enough to understand how the Draw and Junction system worked

and honestly it's one of the best systems in a FF game, for example i could have Sqaull so powerful by the end of Disc 1 that he could kill bosses in just a few hits

FFVIII deserves to be released on PSN in the same way FFVII and FFIX was

"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"

"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!

Nei

@FullbringIchigo it wasn't EXACTLY like the previous one, do you want people to try new things? What are you, insane? Look at how well Dragon Quest and Persona do with their late 1980s mechanics.

About VIII, it didn't help the main character was kind of a Negative Nancy to say the least XD...I think the game is cool and the mechanics very nice but the story/ party is the worst in FF history imho.

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Never belligerent but always uncompromising.

themcnoisy

@DerMeister I absolutely love ff8. The story up until the end of disc 1 is amazing imo. (It goes quickly downhill after that though). Okay the player party isnt great and full of bustling personalities, yet the worlds npcs are full of character like fugin, rajin, biggs, wedge, cid, laguna and norg.

The gameplay systems are fantastic. The drawing mechanic should have been sped up a touch imo as you spend a tad too long on that side of it. However once you have the required magic the stats are fully customisable. Triple Triad is the best card mini game of any game ever. Then you can synthesize cards combining the 2 systems!

The locations are another stand out. They all work together well creating a harmonius world. The music is excellent. The wage system is unique. The GFs are quality with my favourite portrayals of Ifrit, Shiva and Doomtrain. The secrets are few but well worth looking into and the map is vast.

What a game.

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PS3 Megathread 2019: The Last of Us
Multiplat 2018: Horizon Zero Dawn
Nintendo 2017: Super Mario Bros 3
Playstation 2016: Uncharted 2
Multiplat 2015: Final Fantasy 7

PSN: mc_noisy

kyleforrester87

The worst things about FF8? Getting paid a salary (seriously, where the hell are payroll based?) and the weirdly depressing crushingly drab menu screens.

The best thing? Quistis mmmmm.

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kyleforrester87

PSN: WigSplitter1987

LuckyLand

@FullbringIchigo Final Fantasy 7 was the first jrpg I ever tried. I hate almost all the other jrpgs and usually the reason is the same, they are so slow, frustrating and overloaded with dialogues that usually are pathetic and stereotyped, and want to force down your throat every few seconds all the stereotypes of the characters instead of showing them in a more subtle way (a subtle way that usually is much more interesting and effective).
Final fntasy 7 was so fast paced instead. It was very long anyway, but the pace of the game was completely different and everything happened in a much more compelling way. Right at the beginning of the game you were thrown in the middle of the action, you did not understood that much because you did not know what was happening, but everything was so exciting and a few important informations were simple enough to remember and understand after a short time, when you knew more of what was going on, you were able to understand much more and you saw that it made actually sense, so you got even more invested in the game. Everything about its story was so basic (in a good way), solid and tangible that it was easy to get invested into it and care about what was going to happen further into the game, but for the most part other jrpgs are so slow, boring and the characters and their motivations are so convoluted and unrelatable that I really hate this genre.

I have to say that I also usually hate Shin megami tensei games but for different reasons: SMT games are way too hard for me, to the point that I feel that they are totally unfair, and also in my opinion the level design in those games is too labyrinthine, the game itself is too hard and I don't like mazes, it just gives me headaches soon. I would like to play Lucifer's call and a few others SMT (not all of them, but some of them are really intriguing for me) but they are just too frustrating.

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I used to be a ripple user like you, then I took The Arrow in the knee

kyleforrester87

@LuckyLand FF7 is very fast paced. On replay it amazes me how quickly you breeze through visits to places like Costa Del Sol, Gongaga, Rocket Town etc.

I do think a modern remake with 3D environments could easily be several times longer without actually adding any new locations.

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kyleforrester87

PSN: WigSplitter1987

themcnoisy

@kyleforrester87 @LuckyLand Agreed on ff7 having an absolutely amazing intro. Its possibly the best introduction to a ff game ever. Other notable excellect intros are (and this is where its very arguable);

The Last of Us
The Walking Dead season 1
Mass Effect 2
Halo
Half Life
Resident Evil*

Final Fantasy 8 has a weak introductory phase, then gets better once you are called into war (after gathering Ifrit in the yawn fire caves)

*Resident Evils introduction is so well done I can piece it altogether in my head. The zombie turning over the corpse, the dogs through the window, getting the map from the statue placed strategically so you see it from the viewpoint. Amazingly paced intro right up there with ff7.

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Multiplat 2018: Horizon Zero Dawn
Nintendo 2017: Super Mario Bros 3
Playstation 2016: Uncharted 2
Multiplat 2015: Final Fantasy 7

PSN: mc_noisy

Buizel

@LuckyLand I disagree with some of your comments. I really enjoy ff7 but like most JRPGs I did find it to be sluggish at points. And also the story is very unclear imo. I don't think you can really understand Jenova or Sephiroth's motives without going through sidequests and consulting outside sources.

It does have an excellent opening though.

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At least 2'8".

FullbringIchigo

Unpopular Opinion: The Mega Drive was a better system than the SNES

"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"

"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!

KALofKRYPTON

@FullbringIchigo It is - far superior library, nicer hardware - it's cooler!

PSN: KALofKRYPTON (so you can see how often I don't play anything!)

Twitter: @KALofKRYPTON (at your own risk, I don't care if you're offended)

"Fate: Protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise." - Cmdr William T. Riker

FullbringIchigo

@KALofKRYPTON i thought it had a better controller too

"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"

"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!

KALofKRYPTON

@FullbringIchigo The 3 button has a special place, but the official 6 button Mega Drive pad is one of the greats - only bettered by the Saturn design (not the US/EU launch model, ew).

PSN: KALofKRYPTON (so you can see how often I don't play anything!)

Twitter: @KALofKRYPTON (at your own risk, I don't care if you're offended)

"Fate: Protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise." - Cmdr William T. Riker

FullbringIchigo

MORE Unpopular Opinions: Offset (asymmetrical) Analog sticks are terrible, Symmetrical ones are better

"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"

"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!

KALofKRYPTON

FullbringIchigo wrote:

MORE Unpopular Opinions: Offset (asymmetrical) Analog sticks are terrible, Symmetrical ones are better

Very true!!

PSN: KALofKRYPTON (so you can see how often I don't play anything!)

Twitter: @KALofKRYPTON (at your own risk, I don't care if you're offended)

"Fate: Protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise." - Cmdr William T. Riker

LuckyLand

FullbringIchigo wrote:

MORE Unpopular Opinions: Offset (asymmetrical) Analog sticks are terrible, Symmetrical ones are better

I prefer Symmetrical too but for me they are both good enough, I'm comfortable either way.

I used to be a ripple user like you, then I took The Arrow in the knee

FullbringIchigo

@RogerRoger honestly i have preferred both Sony handhelds to the last few Nintendo ones, the PSP over the DS because i didn't think the touch controls were all that well implemented apart from on Nintendo's first party games of course and the Vita over the 3DS because the 3D was a gimmick that lost it's appeal very quickly

now i'm not saying they are bad systems because they ain't, there are a lot of damn good, fun games on them i just think the PSP and Vita were better machines and if it wasn't for some of Sony's stupid practises EG: the price of memory cards then i think they would have been a lot more popular

i really hope Sony at least give handheld gaming one more try because i'm sure they can get it right

"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"

"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!

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