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Nothingface
06-05-2011, 12:22 PM
*stands up alone*

morsdraconis
06-05-2011, 02:22 PM
Absolutely not. RPGs are definitely my first love. Sadly, they've REALLY went downhill since the old days. Gone are turnbased RPGs like Shining Force, Final Fantasy Tactics, the Gold Box games, etc. Gone is turnbased combat in normal RPGs (Final Fantasy 1-10). The new in-vogue thing to do is Action RPGs with mindnumbingly boring hack-n-slash combat where no real strategy is needed at all to win besides a few different combos. Gone is getting your ass kicked by a boss numerous times over until you figure out all the spells you need to cast at the beginning of the fight so you don't get clobbered.

Video games have become to moron friendly.

souljahbill
06-05-2011, 02:36 PM
There are only 2 RPGs I can play, Paper Mario and Mass Effect. I'm sure RPG-elitist will say Mass Effect is an action game with RPG elements. Whether its an RPG or not, I like it. I beat Pokemon Yellow and Silver back in the Gameboy days but can't play them now. Oblivion/Fallout games are too big for my blood so I won't play Skyrim.


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oweb26
06-05-2011, 02:54 PM
Absolutely not. RPGs are definitely my first love. Sadly, they've REALLY went downhill since the old days. Gone are turnbased RPGs like Shining Force, Final Fantasy Tactics, the Gold Box games, etc. Gone is turnbased combat in normal RPGs (Final Fantasy 1-10). The new in-vogue thing to do is Action RPGs with mindnumbingly boring hack-n-slash combat where no real strategy is needed at all to win besides a few different combos. Gone is getting your ass kicked by a boss numerous times over until you figure out all the spells you need to cast at the beginning of the fight so you don't get clobbered.

Video games have become to moron friendly.

Turnbased combat is IMO is outdated, I played a game recently where it was turnbased combat and it drove me nuts, as a grown man I don't want to hit a button I go hit a button you go, dammit I want to hack n slash, let me win or lose by me not some crazy ass formula for winning or losing. Actually I don't know why I ever liked it in the first place, so my hat is off to people who think thats fun!

Nothingface
06-05-2011, 05:23 PM
Im currently playing Radiant Historia for the DS. It's fine but alot of back tracking since its a time traveler type game. Game has alot of decisions u can make.

JBHuskers
06-05-2011, 05:31 PM
Definitely not alone in raising your hand :nod:

New School: Oblivion, Fallout

Old School: Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, Earthbound

morsdraconis
06-05-2011, 05:40 PM
Turnbased combat is IMO is outdated, I played a game recently where it was turnbased combat and it drove me nuts, as a grown man I don't want to hit a button I go hit a button you go, dammit I want to hack n slash, let me win or lose by me not some crazy ass formula for winning or losing. Actually I don't know why I ever liked it in the first place, so my hat is off to people who think thats fun!

It's absolutely not outdated. Turnbased combat is FAR more strategic than hack-n-slash crap, and that's what makes RPGs GREAT. When the combat is just setting up some boring set of parameters and letting the combat happen while occasionally changing something, you've got a game that's a shadow of the greatness that it could be. Combat doesn't have to be tedious, but not making it tedious doesn't mean reinventing the wheel. There's a reason why turnbased combat lasted in RPGs for 15-20 years and some of the best (and most loved) games used it. It's great. It makes for combat that is actually interesting and engaging.

JBHuskers
06-05-2011, 05:47 PM
I don't mind turnbased at all. Stoked that Square Enix is re-releasing the Final Fantasy's for PSN.

ram29jackson
06-05-2011, 06:05 PM
I fucking hate internet slang etc. ...RPG- of course I can google it but I'm just admitting to not knowing what it means initially and probably wont care once I know what it means haha

SmoothPancakes
06-05-2011, 06:24 PM
I fucking hate internet slang etc. ...RPG- of course I can google it but I'm just admitting to not knowing what it means initially and probably wont care once I know what it means haha

Ummmm... It's not internet slang. It's a game genre that's been around for decades.

souljahbill
06-05-2011, 06:56 PM
I fucking hate internet slang etc. ...RPG- of course I can google it but I'm just admitting to not knowing what it means initially and probably wont care once I know what it means haha

LMAO!

Ram, I gotta say, you are one of my favorite posters here. The things you say are so..............unique. You make me laugh somehow everyday with your posts.


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jaymo76
06-05-2011, 07:45 PM
Speaking of turned based games... I still LOVE the Sid Meiers Civilization series. Yes, I even enjoyed Civ Revolution for PS3, even though it wasn't in-depth enough.

SmoothPancakes
06-05-2011, 08:08 PM
Absolutely not. RPGs are definitely my first love. Sadly, they've REALLY went downhill since the old days. Gone are turnbased RPGs like Shining Force, Final Fantasy Tactics, the Gold Box games, etc. Gone is turnbased combat in normal RPGs (Final Fantasy 1-10). The new in-vogue thing to do is Action RPGs with mindnumbingly boring hack-n-slash combat where no real strategy is needed at all to win besides a few different combos. Gone is getting your ass kicked by a boss numerous times over until you figure out all the spells you need to cast at the beginning of the fight so you don't get clobbered.

Video games have become to moron friendly.

Ahh yes, the Final Fantasy series. I can't even begin to count how many total hours and days of my life I have spent playing the various FF games over the years. I still play them to this day. They're about the only games I still fire up my PS2 for to play.


It's absolutely not outdated. Turnbased combat is FAR more strategic than hack-n-slash crap, and that's what makes RPGs GREAT. When the combat is just setting up some boring set of parameters and letting the combat happen while occasionally changing something, you've got a game that's a shadow of the greatness that it could be. Combat doesn't have to be tedious, but not making it tedious doesn't mean reinventing the wheel. There's a reason why turnbased combat lasted in RPGs for 15-20 years and some of the best (and most loved) games used it. It's great. It makes for combat that is actually interesting and engaging.

Agreed. Having grown up on the Final Fantasy series (my first ever video game in my life, was FF7 on PS1), turn-based games will always get my instant attention. Hack-n-slash, while some can be fun, turn-based is the best in my opinion in strategy. Do you attack now, do you defend to lessen the damage of an impending attack against you, do you spend this turn healing or do you risk that you have enough health to hold on for another turn? I have never had as much fun in RPGs today like I used to back in the day. Hell, I remember spending dozens of attempts to defeat Ruby Weapon in FF7 and Omega Weapon in FF8.

Games today just are nowhere near what they used to be. Likes I said in another thread last week, in reply to one of your posts mors, games these days are made for the lowest common denominator so they can get as many sales as they can. Gone are the days of making games truly good and challenging, and long and full of tons of various side quests.

I really hope that one day the rumors do become true and FF7 gets an enhanced remake. I would buy a PS3 SOLELY for a remade FF7. I to this day still never tire of that game and the storyline is still one of the best in a game I have ever personally played.


Speaking of turned based games... I still LOVE the Sid Meiers Civilization series. Yes, I even enjoyed Civ Revolution for PS3, even though it wasn't in-depth enough.

Same here. I've got Civ III Complete, Civ IV with both expansion packs, and Civ V all currently installed on my computer. I also got, and enjoyed as well, Civ Revolution on 360. I've actually been thinking about firing Civ V up the past day or two. Haven't played it in a while and it's sounding really good right now.

souljahbill
06-05-2011, 08:19 PM
Ahh yes, the Final Fantasy series. You saying, "Ah, yes" reminds me of the Turian councilor in Mass Effect 2.

Ah, yes, "Reapers" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O92m-yy4gGk&feature=youtube_gdata_player)



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ram29jackson
06-05-2011, 08:29 PM
LMAO!

Ram, I gotta say, you are one of my favorite posters here. The things you say are so..............unique. You make me laugh somehow everyday with your posts.


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in other words you think its a joke...I'm older , i say what i want, within reason. As you get older it will make more sense to you.

souljahbill
06-05-2011, 08:34 PM
in other words you think its a joke...I'm older , i say what i want, within reason. As you get older it will make more sense to you.

LMAO!

I'm 33 years old but thanks for your wise words of wisdom, sensei.


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ram29jackson
06-05-2011, 08:37 PM
Ummmm... It's not internet slang. It's a game genre that's been around for decades.

well, if you dont care, you arent going to know what it means. and if you see it on the internet like LOL and IMO etc. its all just a bunch of internet slang....I'll go for shooters ,but not role playing games

ram29jackson
06-05-2011, 08:41 PM
LMAO!

I'm 33 years old but thanks for your wise words of wisdom, sensei.


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just 33? trust me, each decade will open your eyes further.

souljahbill
06-05-2011, 08:44 PM
just 33? trust me, each decade will open your eyes further.

What are you, 50?


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morsdraconis
06-05-2011, 08:54 PM
Having grown up on the Final Fantasy series (my first ever video game in my life, was FF7 on PS1), turn-based games will always get my instant attention. Hack-n-slash, while some can be fun, turn-based is the best in my opinion in strategy. Do you attack now, do you defend to lessen the damage of an impending attack against you, do you spend this turn healing or do you risk that you have enough health to hold on for another turn? I have never had as much fun in RPGs today like I used to back in the day. Hell, I remember spending dozens of attempts to defeat Ruby Weapon in FF7 and Omega Weapon in FF8.

This is where we will definitely differ Smooth. I HATE FF7. To me, it's the beginning of the end of truly good RPGs. FF7 made classic RPGs a thing of the past because of their instance of no/very limited random encounters, no need to grind for experience/money, and basically just waltz through the game.

To me, Final Fantasy will always be Final Fantasy IV (II in the US) and Final Fantasy VI (III in the US) though I definitely enjoyed Final Fantasy X (certainly helped that I could use Japanese voices instead of listening to the absolutely horrible English voice acting).

To me, I always remember spending an extra 20+ hours in Final Fantasy IV killing the Brachosaurs in the Dinosaur Forest (along with probably thousands of Tyranosaurs) to get 2 economizers so that I could cast Meteor for 1 mana (and combine it with the Gem Box to just utterly annihilate the last boss). That's the type of stuff that these RPGs just don't have anymore. Could I have beat the game without doing that? Sure, but I wanted to be basically unstoppable and I was because of that and I'll always remember that part and how fun it was.


Same here. I've got Civ III Complete, Civ IV with both expansion packs, and Civ V all currently installed on my computer. I also got, and enjoyed as well, Civ Revolution on 360. I've actually been thinking about firing Civ V up the past day or two. Haven't played it in a while and it's sounding really good right now.

The Civ games are a lot of fun, but I'm horrible at them. I end up getting sidetracked and building a ginormous army and just laying waste to everyone because the CPU is too scared to come my way at all.

SmoothPancakes
06-05-2011, 09:21 PM
This is where we will definitely differ Smooth. I HATE FF7. To me, it's the beginning of the end of truly good RPGs. FF7 made classic RPGs a thing of the past because of their instance of no/very limited random encounters, no need to grind for experience/money, and basically just waltz through the game.

To me, Final Fantasy will always be Final Fantasy IV (II in the US) and Final Fantasy VI (III in the US) though I definitely enjoyed Final Fantasy X (certainly helped that I could use Japanese voices instead of listening to the absolutely horrible English voice acting).

To me, I always remember spending an extra 20+ hours in Final Fantasy IV killing the Brachosaurs in the Dinosaur Forest (along with probably thousands of Tyranosaurs) to get 2 economizers so that I could cast Meteor for 1 mana (and combine it with the Gem Box to just utterly annihilate the last boss). That's the type of stuff that these RPGs just don't have anymore. Could I have beat the game without doing that? Sure, but I wanted to be basically unstoppable and I was because of that and I'll always remember that part and how fun it was.



The Civ games are a lot of fun, but I'm horrible at them. I end up getting sidetracked and building a ginormous army and just laying waste to everyone because the CPU is too scared to come my way at all.

Damn, we must have played different games then. I couldn't stop getting into random encounters. Every 3 steps, another random encounter. Granted, I have never played II and III. I've played FF V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII, XIII, and Tactics. But never have had a chance to play any of the first four games.

Yeah, I can never get enough of the Civ games. I love both the military aspects and the city/nation building aspects. Probably why I am also an avid player of both the SimCity series and the Total War series, in addition to Civ, being able to fulfill both the military and city/nation building aspects that I love in games.

souljahbill
06-05-2011, 09:56 PM
Wait....grinding is what makes RPGs great? Ugh! That's the thing that I HATE about RPGs. I hate the need to grind.


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morsdraconis
06-05-2011, 11:21 PM
Damn, we must have played different games then. I couldn't stop getting into random encounters. Every 3 steps, another random encounter. Granted, I have never played II and III. I've played FF V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII, XIII, and Tactics. But never have had a chance to play any of the first four games.

I'll readily admit that I didn't play past the first disc of FFVII. I was just completely turned off by that game, but, that's just how I am sometimes. I have unreasonable hate for games sometimes. ;)

Also, you must be a bit confused with the numbering system for the FF games. 2 and 3 are actually 4 and 6 (the SNES games). 1 has always been 1, but 2 and 3 in Japan were Japanese only games that were in the same style as 1, but WAY harder. I've tried to play Japanese 2 and 3 and they are just brutally hard (like, able to die while grinding for the first few levels if you aren't careful).

So, in the US, the FF games are:

1 - NES
2 - NES (japan only)
3 - NES (japan only)
4 - SNES
5 - SNES (japan only - VERY cool game if you've never played it - the first game in the FF universe to have a job system class setup instead of predetermined classes based on the characters in the game)
6 - SNES
7 - PS1



Yeah, I can never get enough of the Civ games. I love both the military aspects and the city/nation building aspects. Probably why I am also an avid player of both the SimCity series and the Total War series, in addition to Civ, being able to fulfill both the military and city/nation building aspects that I love in games.

The SimCity games are confusing as hell to me. I love me some SimCity 1 and 2000 isn't too bad, but, beyond that, it got a little too complex for me.

As for Total War, I played the hell out of the Shogun 2 singleplayer stuff, but multiplayer was far too daunting for me in any of them (before Shogun 2, I hadn't played one since Rome).


Wait....grinding is what makes RPGs great? Ugh! That's the thing that I HATE about RPGs. I hate the need to grind.

But it's part of old school RPGs and it was what made them great. Those old school RPGs, if you didn't have to grind for money/experience, you could go through and beat them in like 6 hours or so instead of it taking 30+ hours.

The problem is, back then, RPGs and grinding for experience/money/loot were what the game was. It's been recently (and by recently, I mean in the last 10 years or so) with all the handholding and skipping through the forests of evil while beating the shit out of everything in your path with superhuman ease that have destroyed what RPGs used to mean. And it only gets worse as RPGs have been perverted into (as Smooth said earlier) the lowest common denominator and thus stripped of what used to make them RPGs.

Now, instead of hoping for a new console RPG that has combat that appeals to me and has an interesting storyline or characters, I have to constantly look at the bilge that is being pumped out. Not even a Final Fantasy game coming out means that I have a RPG that's enjoyable enough to play for 30+ hours. It's kinda sad when the last "rpg" that I played and liked was Disgaea 1 (aka number porn) on the PS2. And then, it was purely the grinding aspect that appealed to me (110 hours of gameplay and I could have kept going).

I'll say it again, they just don't make video games like they used to.

jaymo76
06-05-2011, 11:50 PM
Same here. I've got Civ III Complete, Civ IV with both expansion packs, and Civ V all currently installed on my computer. I also got, and enjoyed as well, Civ Revolution on 360. I've actually been thinking about firing Civ V up the past day or two. Haven't played it in a while and it's sounding really good right now.

I actually need to find another copy... mine was scratched up. Maybe if I have a free day I will pick up Civ Rev this week. That will hold me over until NCAA 12.

SmoothPancakes
06-06-2011, 12:18 AM
I'll readily admit that I didn't play past the first disc of FFVII. I was just completely turned off by that game, but, that's just how I am sometimes. I have unreasonable hate for games sometimes. ;)

Also, you must be a bit confused with the numbering system for the FF games. 2 and 3 are actually 4 and 6 (the SNES games). 1 has always been 1, but 2 and 3 in Japan were Japanese only games that were in the same style as 1, but WAY harder. I've tried to play Japanese 2 and 3 and they are just brutally hard (like, able to die while grinding for the first few levels if you aren't careful).

So, in the US, the FF games are:

1 - NES
2 - NES (japan only)
3 - NES (japan only)
4 - SNES
5 - SNES (japan only - VERY cool game if you've never played it - the first game in the FF universe to have a job system class setup instead of predetermined classes based on the characters in the game)
6 - SNES
7 - PS1




The SimCity games are confusing as hell to me. I love me some SimCity 1 and 2000 isn't too bad, but, beyond that, it got a little too complex for me.

As for Total War, I played the hell out of the Shogun 2 singleplayer stuff, but multiplayer was far too daunting for me in any of them (before Shogun 2, I hadn't played one since Rome).



But it's part of old school RPGs and it was what made them great. Those old school RPGs, if you didn't have to grind for money/experience, you could go through and beat them in like 6 hours or so instead of it taking 30+ hours.

The problem is, back then, RPGs and grinding for experience/money/loot were what the game was. It's been recently (and by recently, I mean in the last 10 years or so) with all the handholding and skipping through the forests of evil while beating the shit out of everything in your path with superhuman ease that have destroyed what RPGs used to mean. And it only gets worse as RPGs have been perverted into (as Smooth said earlier) the lowest common denominator and thus stripped of what used to make them RPGs.

Now, instead of hoping for a new console RPG that has combat that appeals to me and has an interesting storyline or characters, I have to constantly look at the bilge that is being pumped out. Not even a Final Fantasy game coming out means that I have a RPG that's enjoyable enough to play for 30+ hours. It's kinda sad when the last "rpg" that I played and liked was Disgaea 1 (aka number porn) on the PS2. And then, it was purely the grinding aspect that appealed to me (110 hours of gameplay and I could have kept going).

I'll say it again, they just don't make video games like they used to.

I played FFV and FFVI on PS1, when they were released in the US under the title Final Fantasy Anthology. They also released FFIV and Chrono Trigger together on the PS1 under the title Final Fantasy Chronicles in 2001, and then FFI and FFII on the PS1 in the US in 2002 under the title Final Fantasy Origins.

Yeah, SimCity 4 can definitely get complex at times, especially when building cities in the giant portions of the region map. You can end up with a ton of things going on at once and sitting there for a while trying to organize everything. SimCity 2000 was a fun game. I spent lots of hours on that game.

Total War is probably the series that gets the overwhelming majority of my PC time (outside of R.U.S.E. and World in Conflict). I played Rome for more hours than I can count, and still like to fire it up every now and then. Empire easily sucked up my time, probably putting in excess of 150, 200 hours into it, and like Rome, I still play it now and then. Napoleon was alright, but it felt a lot like Empire, just with a new skin and new soldier and unit names. Shogun 2, I actually just bought last week, when Steam was having a sale on it, I picked it up for $34.49, although I haven't had a chance to play it yet. I think I may have to finally jump into Shogun 2 here over the next day or two.

And yeah, FFXIII definitely fits the "lowest common denominator" standing for RPG games. That game was literally nothing but following a tight, walled path, having your hand held and led, the entire game, beginning to end. No real exploration or anything, like the earlier Final Fantasies. And don't even get me started on the encounter system that began in FFXII and carried into FFXIII. I hate this "you can see the encounter and monsters in front of you, do you fight or try and sneak past them" system. Bring back the random encounters! Nothing would get me on the edge of my seat more than traveling through an area where I knew there were some monsters that were higher leveled than my characters and would probably be able to whoop my ass with ease if I got into a battle with them. Then when that random encounter screen wipe would happen, I'd hold my breath every time waiting to see what the monsters were going to be that I was about to face.

Nothing is better than that feeling of not having a single clue of what the hell you're about to fight until you actually get into the battle screen. Now we have this "you can see every monster and potential fight coming up from halfway across the screen" crap. This current system that they've had in FFXII and FXIII is a disgrace to every Final Fantasy game ever made up through FFX. They should have left the random encounters system alone and never touched it. The crap changes they made taking out random encounters for the current system, it'd be like taking out the calls in recruiting in NCAA and just giving you a list of recruits who will sign instantly with you and giving you the option of offering a scholarship or not. It completely takes out and ruins the fun of the system and was a terrible change.

morsdraconis
06-06-2011, 12:58 AM
It's pretty sad that the only RPG series still using the tried and true combat system of turned based combat is Dragon Warrior. Sadly, the last one and next one in the series are both Wii only games so I haven't gotten to play them, but Dragon Warrior VII for the PS2 is one of the best RPGs on the planet. It's ridiculously long (like 120+ hours) and takes a bit of time to get into (somewhere in the range of 7-10 hours at the beginning), but, it's some of the most rich storytelling and characters I've ever seen for a RPG and WELL worth it.

JBHuskers
06-06-2011, 08:19 AM
Random Encounters sounds like a Cinemax series.

SmoothPancakes
06-06-2011, 09:16 AM
Random Encounters sounds like a Cinemax series.

It sounds like a promotion your club should do on Saturday nights. :D

JBHuskers
06-06-2011, 09:49 AM
It sounds like a promotion your club should do on Saturday nights. :D

It should be a perk for being the DJ....

DariusLock
06-06-2011, 11:29 AM
Ram must be the oldest s.o.b. here!

Nothingface
06-06-2011, 11:36 AM
All i buy anymore are turn based RPGs on the DS. I wanna just relax, press them lil buttons and destroy the enemy. I don't care too much for action rpgs anymore. I hate having to set an AI on another character and hope he/she does what i wanted. I'm done with too much leveling up tho. I always took ridiculous amount of time trying to get my characters buff. Fuck that...only level when need to.

Nothingface
06-06-2011, 04:58 PM
ANYONE want to buy a Nintendo DSi with a bundle of RPG's?


Final Fantasy III & IV
Radiant Historia
Nostalgia
Suikoden Tierkreis
Golden Sun Dark Dawn
Dragon Quest VI & IX

ram29jackson
06-06-2011, 06:04 PM
Ram must be the oldest s.o.b. here!


:rolleyes: dont call me old,.. or an s.o.b.:D

baseballplyrmvp
06-06-2011, 11:09 PM
i loved the star wars: kotor games (1+2). i just wish they would do another game like those two, with a way longer storyline.

morsdraconis
06-06-2011, 11:32 PM
i loved the star wars: kotor games (1+2). i just wish they would do another game like those two, with a way longer storyline.

I really wish that The Old Republic was that instead of a freakin' MMO. MMOs are, by far, the worst game genre ever. Jesus what a huge waste of time they are.

natcret
06-08-2011, 07:18 PM
just 33? trust me, each decade will open your eyes further.

Well, I guess this old guy will chime in and give my thought on RPGs over the years (and yes, I owned Strat-o-matic Baseball and had an electric football game).

Growing up in the era of table top games and then transitioning to computers, there are many RPGs that I have really enjoyed over the years. From my perspective, it has been the RPG that has paved the way for advances in gaming technology. Seeing the current transformation of Fallout, Mass Effect, and most recently L.A. Noire, programmers are always pushing the boundaries to present a story that truly captures the spirit of RPG and to introduce new players to a world that us old guys already call home.

Now I realize that some of you may not have been born when some of the RPGs I have played came out and by today's standards, these old games would be equivalent to carrying a brick cell phone or rotary phone dailing. But, during their time, these games were absolutely awesome. Here are some of my favorites, both old and new:

Older stuff:

Sierra's Police Quest, Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry (the originals), and Gabriel Knight Series
All Civilization games
Sword of the Samurai and SuperHero League of Hoboken
Origin Games: Wing Commander Series (the movie sucked), Privateer, Ultima Series, Crusader No Remorse and Crusader No Regret
All Blizzard Games (Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft)
Baldur's Gate
Knights of the Old Republic
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
X-Com and Command and Conquer

New Stuff by series:
Hitman
Splinter Cell
Metal Gear Solid
Mass Effect
God of War
Fallout
Assassins Creed

DariusLock
06-08-2011, 07:48 PM
:rolleyes: dont call me old,.. or an s.o.b.:D

I meant to express love with every word of that statement haha.

morsdraconis
06-08-2011, 07:52 PM
Really disappointed that no one has said they played the old SSI Gold Box games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_box_games#Titles) besides me. I guess they're just too old for most of you guys. I started playing Pool of Radiance (not the horrible remake, Ruins of Myth Drannor). It and Curse of the Azure Bonds were the two old Gold Box games that I never played as a kid. Unfortunately, Pool of Radiance is insane and expects you to fight 4 Trolls at level 3. Anyone that knows AD&D knows that that is insane. Haven't tried to trudge through the fight again, but it's incredibly annoying trying to kill those fuckers.

morsdraconis
06-08-2011, 11:37 PM
Really disappointed that no one has said they played the old SSI Gold Box games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_box_games#Titles) besides me. I guess they're just too old for most of you guys. I started playing Pool of Radiance (not the horrible remake, Ruins of Myth Drannor). It and Curse of the Azure Bonds were the two old Gold Box games that I never played as a kid. Unfortunately, Pool of Radiance is insane and expects you to fight 4 Trolls at level 3. Anyone that knows AD&D knows that that is insane. Haven't tried to trudge through the fight again, but it's incredibly annoying trying to kill those fuckers.

Well, killed those fuckers and worked my way to about halfway through it. The game is fairly short, but still, I've probably played about 8-10 hours worth already. Can't wait until Pools of Darkness or Secret of Silver Blades where it's like epic 20-40 hours worth of gameplay.

natcret
06-09-2011, 03:48 PM
Really disappointed that no one has said they played the old SSI Gold Box games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_box_games#Titles) besides me. I guess they're just too old for most of you guys. I started playing Pool of Radiance (not the horrible remake, Ruins of Myth Drannor). It and Curse of the Azure Bonds were the two old Gold Box games that I never played as a kid. Unfortunately, Pool of Radiance is insane and expects you to fight 4 Trolls at level 3. Anyone that knows AD&D knows that that is insane. Haven't tried to trudge through the fight again, but it's incredibly annoying trying to kill those fuckers.

I played the Eye of Beholder Series which i thought was good. However, most SSI games I played were war-related such as Silent Hunter and Knights of the Desert.

baseballplyrmvp
06-12-2011, 08:17 PM
i loved the star wars: kotor games (1+2). i just wish they would do another game like those two, with a way longer storyline.


I really wish that The Old Republic was that instead of a freakin' MMO. MMOs are, by far, the worst game genre ever. Jesus what a huge waste of time they are.my dream star wars game involves a storyline/plot rivaling the kotor series (with more than just 5 worlds), TFU controls, and the old republic style online play. what would be cool, is if you could export your character from the storyline, at any time, and take it online to play against people.

jaymo76
06-19-2011, 07:03 PM
Played the demo of Civ Revolution today for the first time in a long time (still haven't repurchased the game). Damn it's addictive. I forgot how much fun it is, even though it is a far, far simplified version.