anyone else waiting for contact to be released? (ds rpg)

I only played Earthbound, but the Mother trilogy would be awesome.

still psyched.

Not much of an action RPG as I thought it would be, and the save system really does miss the point of portable gaming entirely, but so far it's just enough nonsense to be a pleasant reminder of the good old days when sprites ruled the earth and Mode 7 was AMAZING.

Other than that, the weapon options thus far have included a frying pan and a tee-ball bat, and I given a girl several flowers and fought a tiger to save a monkey who stole an apron from a chef who lives on a deserted island.

ah yes console RPGs

I finally got around to playing this. I'm only about 1/2 to 2/3rds done with it, but damn, there is so much to both like and so much to dislike, both intensely, about the game.

Nice to see Grasshopper continuing their tradition of saying TO HELL if this gameplay works properly or not, but atmosphere and story are so important and embellished, given way more thought than 90% of games out there. Probably more to say after I've beaten it, in a while.

I really do want to see a Capturing the Friedmans RPG now.

-- Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, January 5, 2007 5:21 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

PSYCHEDELIC FRACTALS

I'll pass on the CtF RPG, in retrospect.

Good "mindfuck" ending. Best part especially was the video gaming shopping mall/concert hall chapter. Really goddamn annoying gameplay system that tests your patience at even getting through all this crap to get to the story bits, which are pretty shallow anyway. Still, I'm glad somebody is trying to make these kinds of games (if only the actual RPG part wasn't so mindnumbingly tedious and grinding, fuck the fishing and cooking).

Anyone else play through this blasted game? There were certain... things that relied on Earthbound nostalgia, but then it was never going to have that kind of shattering effect on your psyche because you knew the surprises coming in, more or less.

An impassioned defense piece - I agree with the spirit of it, even though I don't share the writer's full optimism about the game, as he brushes over its frustations.

http://tinycartridge.com/post/154469657/mochi-and-those-damned-vanilla-skies

bringing that lit-crit to you in the '09:

"It wasn’t Contact though, that made me think differently about this way of telling a story. It was Mr. Dickens. Though I haven’t read an immense amount of his work, he does specifically address the reader in Hard Times, and it didn’t seem silly at all. It was a great help in establishing the satire of these sad characters and their world-views. "

"Really goddamn annoying gameplay system that tests your patience at even getting through all this crap to get to the story bits, which are pretty shallow anyway. Still, I'm glad somebody is trying to make these kinds of games (if only the actual RPG part wasn't so mindnumbingly tedious and grinding, fuck the fishing and cooking)"

^^ exactly why i sold this /:

i do agree that it does some impressive things, but it felt like it only was going to spend two minutes doing those impressive things for every hour i played it

i feel like this would work better on emulator where u can just ff through all the crappy parts

i mean i like all this softly sleeping dreaming and stylus bleeding seaming into a reality thats teeming with the words o nevermore but this game was boring and sucked pretty much full stop

The DS RPG i'm waiting for is a port that may never ever happen.
I don't think I should say what it is...
― The GZeus (The GZeus), Thursday, January 4, 2007 8:49 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

surprisingly he actually meant bahamut lagoon

a port that may never even happen

ever port in a happen

may port every happen never