It...BEGINS

It...BEGINS

Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Vash on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 4:51pm
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The last of my games finally arrived a week or so ago, and now its time to share the names of the games.

Legend of Legaia

Legaia 2

Chrono Cross

The Legend of Dragoon

Dragon Warrior VII (7)

Saga Frontier

Saga Frontier 2

Wild Arms

Wild Arms 2

Final Fantasy VIII (8)

Final Fantasy IX (9)

Final Fantasy Chronicles (Final Fantasy VI [6], Chrono Trigger)

Grandia 2

Skies of Arcadia Legends

The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Presell Gamecube disc)

Shenmue II

Quest 64

Banjo-Kazooie (I think it falls into the genre of Platformer, but it may provided a bit of rpg-esque gameplay perhaps?)

Banjo-Tooie (Read above)

I also got some other games which weren't really RPGs but were bought
so me, my dad, and my brother could play togather and were old
classics.

Road-Rash: Jailbreak

Namco Museum (Vol. 1 and 3)

Tribes: Ariel Assault

Socom II

Duke Nukem 64

Goldeneye 007

Turok: Dinosaur hunter

Gauntlet Legends

Sou Calibur 2

I also bought Kingdom Hearts (beat it weeks ago; except Sephiroth,
which I am currently getting owned by), Halo 2 (traded my Halo 1 copy
for it, and I love the MP aspect of the game ) and a DS with Super
Mario 64. I also pre-ordered my PSP.

I also traded my RE4 Demo Disc / RE: Outbreak CD for a gameboy
advance with: The legend of Zelda (Classic, Four Swords, Link to the
past), Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls, Mortal Kombat, and an action
replay with the Four Swords adventure strategy guide. Not too shabby
trades

All I can say is run for the woods because after I complete all of
these games I will become a gamer-species. My DNA will form to make
tiny Tetris strands which will be aided by Pikmin!
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Crono on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 7:02pm
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Oh, have you joined the PlayStation RPG club? The system that has an
innumeral amount of endless rpgs on it that one person could never
finish all of them. I know I'll never beat all the rpgs I own ... and
that's basically my entire PS1 collection (roughly 32 games). 32 games
  • 72 hours = 96 days. I don't think I need to spend about 3 months of
my life finishing these games.

However, you've got some good games there... Wild Arms 2 is just like 1 except better ... They're both really fun though.

Hurry up on Dragon Warrior, VIII is coming out soon. (For some reason it's cell shaded)

I wish I could find Dragon Warrior/Quest 3-6. I mean, I know they'd all be in Japanese, but, I hear V is the best one.

The Ocarina of Time for GC is nothing special, seriously. If you own
the N64 version, it's a good buy, otherwise, it's just going to make
your Zelda collection look complete.

I have Grandia 2, Skies of Arcadia, and Shenmu 2 for DC. Personally,
from what I've played, I'd say Skies of Arcadia is the best out of the
three ... but, that's just me.

Man, I remember playing Quest64 and being so pissed at the end. Fun
game though (may not be anymore, I think it's more of a nastalgia thing)

Chrono Cross was a joke. I was and am very pissed off at that game.
Apparently, they're making a third game and they said they're
making it more like the first one.

The only thing worse then Chrono Cross is Final Fantasy VIII. Play it
until disc 2 or the beginning of disc 3 ... there's really no point in
going farther.

I've always wanted to play Legaia, let me know how it is.
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Mouse on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 7:51pm
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Mmmmmmmmmmm, Chrooonoootriggerrr....
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by ReNo on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 7:56pm
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Did I miss something here? What do you mean the last of your games
arrived? Did you just buy all of these, were they in storage, or what?

I've always meant to get around to buying Skies of Arcadia, but DC
games are hard to find anywhere other than Ebay, and I can never be
bothered going through the hassle of that. Grandia 2 and Shenmue 1/2
are both excellent games, though particularly with Shenmue if it
doesn't appeal outright, it probably won't appeal at all.
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Vash on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 7:57pm
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I have Ocarina of time for N64 Crono :smile: . And Reno, I bought them all on Christmas day when I got a bunch of money.
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by ReNo on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 8:22pm
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I think you went a bit overboard buying them all at once :biggrin: Oh well, have fun!
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Adam Hawkins on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 8:33pm
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ReNo, you should check out the Gamestation shop if you have them up in Scotland. They've always got a bunch of cheap DC games kicking around somewhere (usually about ?5ish).
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Vash on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 9:01pm
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He's right Reno - for all those games only costed me around $250-300 dollars.
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by parakeet on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 9:14pm
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ive never had 300$ ... ever... = P oh well. Enjoy ur games Vash !
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by ReNo on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 9:16pm
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My mum mentioned that there was a new games shop opening up in
Edinburgh, so it could well be gamestation. I'll need to drop by
sometime and check it out, thanks for the heads up :smile:
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by omegaslayer on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 9:20pm
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<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Crono</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>I've always wanted to play Legaia, let me know how it is.
</DIV></DIV>

Legaia was an okay RPG, it had a some what good story (long), but the gameplay would get repeditive, attacking with cominations of up down left right attacks would allow you to make "special" attacks that would take up AP (ability points) ex: left left down (I think) is super punch (you can find all the combos in on the internet at any cheaters web site), but you only have enough space to exicute 3 or 4 moves, later as you level up you get more space to exicute your moves. After the "first" area the game got repeditive, it would get to point to where you set everyone up and you would fall asleep while your character exicuted their moves. The bosses were insanely impossible to beat whenever you come across them. You could also "absorb" some special monsters and that was your maigic portion of the game.

Legaia two was a nice change from the first, but would also get repeditive like the first, the story was short (never finished it), and after you get the pirate girl, there is no point to continue since she is insanely powerful.

Over all ill suggest Legaia 1 (not legaia 2) to play if you've gotton board with all other RPGs. But sure as heck it was better than Quest 64 (although I enjoyed this game also)
Banjo Kazooie was a great game I thought, but I never got around to Banjo Tooie, let Me know how that game turned out.
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Kage_Prototype on Thu Jan 13th 2005 at 10:11pm
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And I thought buying 9 and a half games at once was overkill. :lol:
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Campaignjunkie on Fri Jan 14th 2005 at 12:12am
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I remember Legaia 1; my first PS rpg! That game was pretty good, but
yeah, the fighting got pretty tedious. I disagree with omegaslayer
though, the bosses were a nice challenge and change of pace from the
repetitive battles. Ah, I still remember the super-combo-blast things
that each character had. It blew my mind!... At the time. :smile:

Grandia 2 has, by far, one of the best battle systems ever devised. I
would purposely attack monsters just to play another battle. There was
just so much depth to it; unfortunately, the enemy AI wouldn't exploit
such depth and the sheer majority of battles were far too easy as a
result. But anyway, the voice-over quality was great (done by the same
people who did MGS I believe). Too bad the story and the "plot-twist"
sucked!

Skies of Arcadia was amazing on the Dreamcast. Lots of open-endedness
to the gameplay and quests, and the theme (Age of Exploration + giant
floating islands) was really fresh and original. I agree this is
probably the best RPG on Dreamcast.

My poor beloved Dreamcast! :sad:
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Vash on Fri Jan 14th 2005 at 12:28am
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hugs Campaign Your Dreamcast is in a better place now. And Final
Fantasy 7 was my first RPG ever (got it with my first PS1 ever). Ah,
the memories :smile: .
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by omegaslayer on Fri Jan 14th 2005 at 12:36am
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Cam- Have you tried the secret "super moves" before, those blew my
mind, as soon as you learn them they are not recorded. And I agree with
you, the bosses were a nice change of pace, but the shere jump of
diffuculty going into each boss battle was too great, a good game eases
into the boss battles, ex: (I cant remember the name) the boss at the
top of the tower that would cast ROT on you is a great example, it took
me a week to just barely make it by.

BTW legaia was my first RPG and PS1 game :biggrin:

Does anyone know when<span class="postbody">
The Legend of Dragoon 2 is comming out?

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Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Crono on Fri Jan 14th 2005 at 3:41am
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Yes, I <3 Skies of Arcadia. I still
have crazy attractions to Record of Lodoss War, if I ever find it
that is.

Man ... Legend of Dragoon is sooooo crappy. I mean it
looks beautiful (like most SONY made games), but it's just soooooooo
boring.
There's a better game made by SONY, it's called ICO, play
it.

Oh
and a recount: I have 23 PS1 RPGs. Crazy. I'm still
looking for others that I wanted to play too (Persona 1 and 2). I
think I have somewhere around 45 RPGs on all systems. And that's
strict RPG. Not things that have anything remotely like
action/adventure game play. Also, no, I'm not proud of this, I'll never
finish most of them (and some of them I never want to see again).
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by parakeet on Sat Jan 15th 2005 at 1:53pm
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I have rolw on dvd ^_^
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by habboi on Sat Jan 15th 2005 at 3:16pm
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You have a good choice in games my friend

Kingdom Hearts

Zelda

Banjo Kazooi

Are all great games!
Re: It...BEGINS Posted by Junkyard God on Sat Jan 15th 2005 at 4:17pm
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turok : dinosaur hunter :smile: <3 , i just finished it again ,for liek the 100s time hahaha it's sooo nice :smile: