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Post by Xeogred on Oct 7, 2022 10:45:01 GMT -5
I'd like to get you all trapped in a room with the only way out being playing some Crash 1-2. I think you guys would have unexpected fun. Never played Belmont's Revenge, but I know its OST is insane. I'm still trying to think of some games to drop on the topic. The urge to not say FFT is intense... OOPS! Nah... it's not AWFUL. But without a shadow of a doubt on God's green Earth one of the most overrated games in the business to me. I beat it a second time out of spite to double check myself but yeah, still thought it was pretty weak. I like just about every mainline FF and every other Matsuno game I've played far more.
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Post by Kazin on Oct 7, 2022 10:53:05 GMT -5
You've gotten farther than I have in FFT, I don't like that game very much at all and have never come close to beating it lol. I also hate Final Fantasy XII, which I did actually beat the HD version of, and was completely unmoved by it, whether it's the gameplay (absolutely dull) or the story (I barely remembered what happened and the characters - Balthier aside - are all some of the blandest in any RPG I've ever played). I don't seem to like Matsuno very much! The one Ogre Battle game I like - Ogre Battle 64 - he had nothing to do with lol
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Post by Sarge on Oct 7, 2022 11:19:02 GMT -5
I like Matsuno, but I wasn't wowed by FFXII either. I think I gave it a 7.5/10, which in my parlance is still "very good", but there's so much there that doesn't work for me. Original release, so I don't know how much the HD version smooths things out, but it's the same gripe I have about Xenoblade a lot of times - I don't love the combat. Xenoblade makes up for it in other ways, though. But Ex is an FFXII superfan, so I can recognize the quality and that it just wasn't the game for me. Speaking to Castlevania: Legends on Game Boy... hoooooo boy, I don't know if I've played a more aggressively bland game in my life. It's not even bad, it's just so thoroughly meh that it's uninteresting. (Although if someone gave me a copy I wouldn't turn it down.)
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Post by Ex on Oct 7, 2022 11:33:20 GMT -5
You guys are killing me. I loved FFT (far better than Tactics Ogre ), I loved FF12... it's the best 3D FF made yet. KazinThis is THE best Matsuno game: Highly recommended... although I do not yet have a good grasp on your tastes, so YMMV.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 7, 2022 12:00:28 GMT -5
Oh, I'm wholeheartedly on the Vagrant Story train. Fantastic stuff - I'd love to see a sequel or even a remaster. Although a proper one, not a low-effort one like Chrono Cross.
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Post by Kazin on Oct 7, 2022 12:43:07 GMT -5
I've always passed on Vagrant Story since I didn't like Matsuno's other work, so I've not played it. Perhaps someday... outside the Final Fantasy stuff, I've not played any Square games on PS1 besides SaGa Frontier a little bit.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 7, 2022 13:03:34 GMT -5
Did you enjoy Parasite Eve? In some ways it feels like a more complex version of that game's combat system, plus it sports an amazing localization and some of the best graphics on the PS1.
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Post by anayo on Oct 7, 2022 14:49:42 GMT -5
On the topic of Crash Bandicoot, my brother (the PSX owner of the house, in the 90s) had the game and I never got into it. Like a lot of early 3D stuff it came across as a slow, clunky tech demo type of experience. I didn't get a Playstation until 2004. It was obvious to me that Crash Bandicoot would have been awesome back when NES or Sega Genesis were my daily driver. However, its luster had largely worn off by the time I had a Gamecube, Dreamcast, and Pentium 4 PC.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 7, 2022 17:53:01 GMT -5
I don't think they play poorly, personally. They're just fairly basic. But Xeogred is right, they can also be pretty sadistic. I'm also going to warn y'all that trying to play through PS3 isn't ideal - it adds quite a bit of lag, on top of whatever display you're using. CRT if you're using real hardware is the way to go, and emulated on PC is probably pretty good as well on a monitor. I think I got my PSX in... Christmas of '99? Would have to be, given that the following year was Square's "Summer of Adventure", in which the bro and I got each other Chrono Cross and Legend of Mana. Funnily enough, he got me LoM and was the one that beat it (well before me), and the same happened with Chrono Cross. So I guess we were just giving them to ourselves? Haha.
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 7, 2022 18:13:49 GMT -5
That's funny. I'm still a Chrono Cross defender but one really has to disassociate it from Trigger to enjoy it on its own merits I think. I could be due for a replay someday (and I don't recall it being too long, 20-30 hours?)
Legend of Mana is one I didn't gel with, because I loved the SNES Mana games so much. LoM definitely seems more pure action focused and then the randomized overworld/level gimmick seemed weird. But I'd like to get the remaster someday and give it another look. Now that I know it's very different, I can go in with a different attitude. Oh yeah, Chrono Cross got the remaster treatment too. I'll consider that for both.
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