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I'm playing Final Fantasy tactics a2, and it made me want to play FF XII again, too bad the international version lacks english menus, the Zodiac Job System seems pretty good.

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This would be my first computer FPS

Good game, but it's not FPS, it's much more an PC style rpg than a shooter.

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Still playing 999. I've unlocked three out of six endings so far. When I've gotten them all, I'll make a thread about it here!

I had never heard of it until your first post about it, and it sounds REALLY intriguing. I may have to pick that up.

For myself, I just finished a playthrough of FF10 and need to finish an open FF8 file next. Then, it's on to Vagrant Story, Mother 3, and Uncharted 1, all for the first time.

You definitely should give it a try. It's on pair with Professor Layton and Hotel Dusk, perhaps even better.

Hilariously, I was looking for a copy of 999 last week when I read so many glowing reviews of it. I couldn't find it, but I did find Ghost Trick, which I played last weekend. It's very short and linear, but I think it's as good as or better than every Phoenix Wright game (same creator). Definitely worth picking up if you like Phoenix Wright or visual adventure games in general.

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Chrono Cross and Valkyrie Profile at the moment, and was just shown Braid, which really makes me want to play it...wonder if my garbage-quality computer can support it.

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Hilariously, I was looking for a copy of 999 last week when I read so many glowing reviews of it. I couldn't find it, but I did find Ghost Trick, which I played last weekend. It's very short and linear, but I think it's as good as or better than every Phoenix Wright game (same creator). Definitely worth picking up if you like Phoenix Wright or visual adventure games in general.

Oh right, Ghost Trick... I need to buy that as well. I'm a fan of Ace Attorney.

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Chrono Cross and Valkyrie Profile at the moment, and was just shown Braid, which really makes me want to play it...wonder if my garbage-quality computer can support it.

Both fantastic games. I don't know if you've played it before or not, but in Valkyrie be sure to read a guide on how to get the A ending right away. Otherwise it'll be too late and you'll miss out on what is a really well done late-game plot, as opposed to a rather unimpressive B ending.

Right now I'm increasingly busy with classes, but I'm rather addicted to minecraft. My current project is a massive railway.

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Currently Playing : Final Fantasy V
Most Recently Beat : Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Favorite Game : Final Fantasy X

The newest CoNcast is up! Have a listen!

playing Dissidia, trying to get some better items. Wondering why all the lobbies seem to be empty even with the Dissidia 012 hype going on.

Dragon Quest VI and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 come out next week, and when those come out I'll be dead to the world for awhile. For now, I'm going to try and get three Platinum trophies for the Sly Cooper Collection. Once you get all three, you get a promotional trailer for Sly 4. I beat the first Sly game ages ago, but never got into the sequels. No time like the present.

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Ristar and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, both on Steam. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective on DS. All awesome games.

been playing mass effect 2, littlebigplanet 2, and dead space 2. me2 is great, lbp2 is great, but dead space 2 is laughably bad. the gameplay is really tight, but the story makes no sense and it isnt scary at all

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littlebigplanet 2

SO awesome. I played it at a friends for a night and we had a hayday with it!

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dead space 2 is laughably bad. the gameplay is really tight, but the story makes no sense and it isnt scary at all

I was afraid of this... I loved the first, but they set the bar pretty high on this... damn...

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Games on the Go
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy: Four Warriors of Light
Baldur's Gate

Too much to play, so little time!

Greg

I just purchased a used PSP with the intent of emulating EVERY GBA GAME EVAR (not literally, but you get the idea). Unfortunately, I'm finding the process of changing the firmware extremely confusing, and I'm not looking forward to downgrading the firmware to play, say, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town or Sword of Mana, only to end up upgrading it again if I want to play an actual PSP game, thus starting the whole cycle over again.

So I'm currently playing the only PSP game I own - Half-Minute Hero. It's part RPG, part shoot-em-up, part real-time strategy, where levels need to be completed in under 30 seconds. So yes, in the RPG mode, you need to explore, buy items and equipment, find and fight monsters, level up, heal when necessary, solve puzzles, complete sidequests, and kill a boss...all in under thirty seconds, or else the world goes boom.
The music is great, the gameplay is unique and fast-paced, the visuals are 8-bit, and the writing's hilarious. (Thank you, Barnes & Noble Wi-Fi, for letting me do some quick research on the aforementioned PSP's web browser before I purchased the game.)

I'm planning on borrowing my friend's copies of Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Dissidia Final Fantasy, so I have those to look forward to. If anyone has any other suggestions for PSP games, I'm all ears.
I'm debating with myself on whether to get the 20th Anniversary Edition of Final Fantasy I. I've already played and beaten the Dawn of Souls version, although the enhanced visuals and music (plus bonus dungeons and superboss) are always neat. But I digress.

I've also been playing Final Fantasy VIII, but I honestly don't think I have it in me to finish it. I've wandered around Ultimecia Castle for hours. The Enc-None ability is now my best friend, but I've only been able to beat the first miniboss that holds a sealed command, and I stupidly chose to regain the Save command (having temporarily forgotten that there's a save point right outside the front door), instead of, say, Magic, GF, or Limit Break. (Or Draw, to utilize the oodles and oodles of draw points in the castle.)
I've only been able to find a small handful of the other minibosses with sealed commands, but every single one of them wipes the floor with me, since I can only use regular attacks. Way to go, Jim.


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Dragon Quest VI and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 come out next week, and when those come out I'll be dead to the world for awhile.  For now, I'm going to try and get three Platinum trophies for the Sly Cooper Collection.  Once you get all three, you get a promotional trailer for Sly 4.  I beat the first Sly game ages ago, but never got into the sequels.  No time like the present.

This ain't happening. Not if Sly 3 is as long and elaborate as Sly 2. I'm really kicking myself for not getting into this series earlier, because Sly 2 is where the games "found themselves." It cuts the item collection of Sly 1 from 700+ clue bottles to 240, and ditches its clumsy platforming with sneak-jumping mechanics to a much more fluid marriage between platforming and stealth. It's also bold, colorful, and hilarious. I beat Sly 1 in less than 7 hours, but Sly 2 is going to take me 15-20. Okay first game, excellent second game.

And those Platinum trophies, yeah.... Well, that's another big difference between Sly 1 and Sly 2. Sly 1 requires you to beat the game (check) and collect ALL of the 700+ clue bottles (nope). Sly 2 requires you to beat the game (almost), get about 30 of the clue bottles (check), and buy a few specific upgrades using coins obtained by selling loot and pickpocketing from enemies (check). Guess which I prefer?

But yeah, I'll finish Sly 2 and at least get started on Sly 3. I sincerely doubt I'll finish 3 before MvC3 comes out and I lock myself in my house for 10 days.

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I've also been playing Final Fantasy VIII, but I honestly don't think I have it in me to finish it. I've wandered around Ultimecia Castle for hours. The Enc-None ability is now my best friend, but I've only been able to beat the first miniboss that holds a sealed command, and I stupidly chose to regain the Save command (having temporarily forgotten that there's a save point right outside the front door), instead of, say, Magic, GF, or Limit Break. (Or Draw, to utilize the oodles and oodles of draw points in the castle.)
I've only been able to find a small handful of the other minibosses with sealed commands, but every single one of them wipes the floor with me, since I can only use regular attacks. Way to go, Jim.

If you're still interested in it I would recommend getting your team down to yellow HP and use Selphie's limit break The End for an instant kill. Also try Rapture with Selphie. The End rarely appears, Rapture appears fairly often. I'm not sure if Rapture works on the Castle bosses. Try it out anyway I'd say.

I checked it up and this is all wrong, you do need to unlock Limit Breaks. Oh well, I'd recommend getting them as soon as you've killed your next one, if you do. The stuff below still applies though if you're interested in going back to it.

One way out of the problem is to get one or two of your least levelled characters into a team with Squall. The enemy's level will go down drastically and you'll find them a lot easier to beat. Hopefully you'll have Selphie or someone still on level 10 or so. If you're really adventurous, dedicated, and have Eden, go to the Island Closest to Heaven or ICT Hell and use Devour on the monsters to boost Squall's base stats.

At the moment I'm not playing many games. I downloaded Angry Birds because so many of my friends have it and I've been periodically playing through it getting three stars on all the levels. I'm on the second world now stuck on a silly level. It's fun anyway. Not too much effort required. Next game I'll play will be FFXII: International. Finally my friend has got a Japanese copy and an English translation patch, and a PC that can emulate it. I've waited for this game for about two years. Still my third favourite FF game, now with a lot more stuff and a better balance overall. Can't wait.

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I've also been playing Final Fantasy VIII, but I honestly don't think I have it in me to finish it. I've wandered around Ultimecia Castle for hours. The Enc-None ability is now my best friend, but I've only been able to beat the first miniboss that holds a sealed command, and I stupidly chose to regain the Save command (having temporarily forgotten that there's a save point right outside the front door), instead of, say, Magic, GF, or Limit Break. (Or Draw, to utilize the oodles and oodles of draw points in the castle.)
I've only been able to find a small handful of the other minibosses with sealed commands, but every single one of them wipes the floor with me, since I can only use regular attacks. Way to go, Jim.

If you're still interested in it I would recommend getting your team down to yellow HP and use Selphie's limit break The End for an instant kill. Also try Rapture with Selphie. The End rarely appears, Rapture appears fairly often. I'm not sure if Rapture works on the Castle bosses. Try it out anyway I'd say.

I checked it up and this is all wrong, you do need to unlock Limit Breaks. Oh well, I'd recommend getting them as soon as you've killed your next one, if you do. The stuff below still applies though if you're interested in going back to it.

One way out of the problem is to get one or two of your least levelled characters into a team with Squall. The enemy's level will go down drastically and you'll find them a lot easier to beat. Hopefully you'll have Selphie or someone still on level 10 or so. If you're really adventurous, dedicated, and have Eden, go to the Island Closest to Heaven or ICT Hell and use Devour on the monsters to boost Squall's base stats.

I FINALLY beat FFVIII. It's been a part of my collection for so, so long and I just beat it tonight.

That final battle is epic, and super drawn out. Wowzers!

I was so confused, though!

During the ending cutscene, I kept seeing text popping up and it was all garbled and gibberish, and I thought, "Well, maybe it's the whole 'time compression' thing" Turns out my copy of the game is glitched in some fashion. WTF, right? Haha. Considering I've never played the game to completion, and here it is broken hahaha. Weird. Anyways, YouTube let me follow along.

This happened to anyone else that's braved this game?

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Games on the Go
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy: Four Warriors of Light
Baldur's Gate

Too much to play, so little time!

Greg

I want to finish ff8 ff5 FFX and ff legends 1 2 and 3.After that i have resident evil 3 perhaps splinter cell oblivion dragon age origins and many other games.



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Well, I did it. I beat all three Sly games before MvC3 came out. I'm going to go out and get some air and sunshine, because once MvC3 does come out those are two things I'll be forsaking.

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Well, I did it. I beat all three Sly games before MvC3 came out. I'm going to go out and get some air and sunshine, because once MvC3 does come out those are two things I'll be forsaking.

What are those games you are talking about? mostly i'm curious.

I'm also wondering about the so called mistwalker games too which i heard.
I may give them another chance.

What was it:eternia? or something like that? and blue lagoon?


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Well, I did it.  I beat all three Sly games before MvC3 came out.  I'm going to go out and get some air and sunshine, because once MvC3 does come out those are two things I'll be forsaking.

What are those games you are talking about? mostly i'm curious.

I'm also wondering about the so called mistwalker games too which i heard.
I may give them another chance.

What was it:eternia? or something like that? and blue lagoon?

Sly Cooper is a series of stealth-platformer games for the PS2. Made into HD recently for a PS3 collection.

Mistwalker is a company formed by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. So far they've made Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey (pair of XBOX 360 RPGs), Archaic Sealed Heat (DS RPG), and spinoffs of Blue Dragon. They're coming out with a new game called The Last Story later this year.

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I've also been playing Final Fantasy VIII, but I honestly don't think I have it in me to finish it. I've wandered around Ultimecia Castle for hours. The Enc-None ability is now my best friend, but I've only been able to beat the first miniboss that holds a sealed command, and I stupidly chose to regain the Save command (having temporarily forgotten that there's a save point right outside the front door), instead of, say, Magic, GF, or Limit Break. (Or Draw, to utilize the oodles and oodles of draw points in the castle.)
I've only been able to find a small handful of the other minibosses with sealed commands, but every single one of them wipes the floor with me, since I can only use regular attacks. Way to go, Jim.

If you're still interested in it I would recommend getting your team down to yellow HP and use Selphie's limit break The End for an instant kill. Also try Rapture with Selphie. The End rarely appears, Rapture appears fairly often. I'm not sure if Rapture works on the Castle bosses. Try it out anyway I'd say.

I checked it up and this is all wrong, you do need to unlock Limit Breaks. Oh well, I'd recommend getting them as soon as you've killed your next one, if you do. The stuff below still applies though if you're interested in going back to it.

One way out of the problem is to get one or two of your least levelled characters into a team with Squall. The enemy's level will go down drastically and you'll find them a lot easier to beat. Hopefully you'll have Selphie or someone still on level 10 or so. If you're really adventurous, dedicated, and have Eden, go to the Island Closest to Heaven or ICT Hell and use Devour on the monsters to boost Squall's base stats.

At the moment I'm not playing many games. I downloaded Angry Birds because so many of my friends have it and I've been periodically playing through it getting three stars on all the levels. I'm on the second world now stuck on a silly level. It's fun anyway. Not too much effort required. Next game I'll play will be FFXII: International. Finally my friend has got a Japanese copy and an English translation patch, and a PC that can emulate it. I've waited for this game for about two years. Still my third favourite FF game, now with a lot more stuff and a better balance overall. Can't wait.

I would have gone to get Eden (since I have every other GF) if I could figure out how to get back to the damn Ragnarok. There are portals outside of the castle, but those lead to continents that the Ragnarok isn't on.
Also, I've played Angry Birds exactly once. Frankly, I don't get what the big deal is.

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HEAD SAUCE
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HEAVEN PEE
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Heh heh...mostly been doing some Dreamcast work lately, RPGs I missed out on and a few shooters.

- Skies of Arcadia
- Evolution
- Dino Crisis
- Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
- Resident Evil 3
- Snatcher (Sega CD)

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Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is the main course, handhelds are the side dish. I am love-love-loving MvC3. Way better than 2.

Finishing up my loooong-delayed playthrough of Crisis Core: FF VII. Totally exceeds my expectations. Quite a good little time-waster. I'm at Nibelheim now, so certain scenes seem... familiar. I'm also stunned at the audio and visual quality for a PSP game. I think that some Dissidia staff may have worked on this game, because the soundtrack uses a lot of the same instrumentation.

After this I think I'm going to try Jeanne D'Arc, also on the PSP. I like strategy RPGs, I love Level-5, I think I might like this game. There's also Dragon Quest VI, which I bought last week, but my DS is out on loan so two of my friends can play Ghost Trick .

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Finishing up my loooong-delayed playthrough of Crisis Core: FF VII.

I honestly don't think I'll ever finish that game. it just seems more like a chore than anything.

I'm currently trying to finally play through Final Fantasy 9, since it's one of the few I haven't finished, but I'm forgetting why I put it down the first time and stopped. It's quite a chore at times too.

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A creature born from eternal darkness and heavenly light. One single entity, birthed of two opposites. They somehow coexist, to create I, the Lunarian Prince...

Tactics Ogre PSP, Valkyrie Profile, just finished a playthrough of Chrono Cross for my wife's entertainment. Not sure what game to show her next...

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After this I think I'm going to try Jeanne D'Arc, also on the PSP.

Aaaahhhhh, I've been looking for that one for a while. None of the GameStops I go to have it.

I've been taking a break from Birth By Sleep to play Dissidia. I'm on the third chapter of Shade Impulse, and I'm finding it ridicuously difficult. Since Onion Knight is the only character of mine - except Bartz - who's level is higher than 20 (Onion's nearly level 50), my options are somewhat limited, so I'm trying to grind Bartz and Terra in Quick Battles.

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LEMON-DY
HEAD SAUCE
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IN A BEAR
HEAVEN PEE
DAFFY-ROTH
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Team Fortress 2, Dragon Quest VIII, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and some SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis games that I bought on Steam.

I'm also thinking of replaying the Professor Layton trilogy.

At the moment, I'm giving the Dragon Age II public demo a couple tries. Beyond that, I'm trying to finish one more Dragon Age: Origins playthrough before DAII proper comes in the mail.

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Console RPG Cliches

Would anyone be interested in playing Rift?

I'm also sucked back into WoW on my hunter. one-shotting everything is pretty cool. Someone play with me I'm on Sargeras, horde. My hunter's name is Prin!

I'm also "playing" (read: haven't touched in 2 weeks) FFXIII still.

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After this I think I'm going to try Jeanne D'Arc, also on the PSP.

Aaaahhhhh, I've been looking for that one for a while. None of the GameStops I go to have it.

Scratch that! I finally found a copy. I wasn't even looking for it, either; I was actually looking for Mega Man: Powered Up, which I bought. I was throughly enjoying it until I remembered that I'm not particularly good at Mega Man games. It's still really fun, though.
And since I get to pick up my paycheck today, I can also get a copy of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Final Fantasy!

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YOU CARRY
EAT A BAG
LEMON-DY
HEAD SAUCE
JIM CARREY
IN A BEAR
HEAVEN PEE
DAFFY-ROTH
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Jeanne D'Arc was pretty good for the 45 minutes I played it, but it was derailed by my receiving my R4i in the mail yesterday. A few patches and ROMs later, I was running this hot ticket and a translated version of Tales of Innocence. Those two and MvC3 will command my attention for a good long while.

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