Bored Again: Future of gaming

[DepthBlade]

Ofcourse you think FF\'s overrated, everytime a conversation like this pops up someone always mentions it being overrated and no the only ones that might be are 10-2 and 11 the rest are good story lines and well put together XD

[Adeli]

I am sorry, I love VII and X, but the greatest Final Fantasy of all time, is VI.
It has the most indepth story of the entire series, if it was in 3d, it\'d get more credit I\'m sure. I love that game.
Above that, I find the characters to be highly interesting. None of them had really annoying aspects to them, unlike later games.
Wakka, need I say more... Cait Sith? That weird frog-eating thing from IX... I even forget its stupid name, I remember... Quina Quen... what the hell?
Give me Terra, Locke, Shadow, Cyan and the others any time.

Oh, and to get back on topic, I find action games in dire need of a choose your own adventure style, but RPGs should be strongly, very strongly, story-oriented.
Two of my favourite RPGs are Suikoden, and Suikoden 2, I love them.
Games like Fallout and Knights of the Old Republic are acceptable, you choose your path, but follow the same storyline.
I loved the ability in Jedi Academy to really choose Light or Dark, not like the way it was in Jedi Knight.

To cap it off, RPGs, need freedom of choice, but also need a storyline. The freedom should be in how you react to the story.

[Harkin]

I.Storyline
  1.Good path
  2.Bad Path

that and a good story and great characters and you may have yourself a great game...

[Merdarion]

Originally posted by Annah
Sadly, yes that is true.
 I wish I could play again a game made only for the story, like Planescape Torment, Septerra Core, Vampire the Masquerade - Redemption ...

Well try Legacy of Kain: Deviance

[thezambOWNie]

I\'m actually really dissapointed to see all of these FF bashers. Thats all i grew up with i never really got a chance with MMORPGS with the lousy comp my dad had and my lovly dial up so i stuck with the console games and after beating VII for the first time i couldnt get off of the FF series. I mean look at VIII i actually really liked the game but i know that it doesnt hold a candle what is considered a \"true RPG\" and IX.....well IX= crappy story line and halfbaked developers slapping what was before a very credible name onto probably the worst piece i\'ve ever seen in my life. Anyway regaurdless i\'ve never got to play the old school NES series of FF and i heard VI is almost as good as VII but i think i can safly say that unless a sequel is made....which would probably end up just as IX did Sephiroth, Cloud, Jenova....yup thats where i\'ll stay.

[seperot]

Originally posted by Merdarion
Well try Legacy of Kain: Deviance

You mean \"Legacy of Kain\", who\'s latest series installment is called Defiance... don\'t forget the previous 4 games: Blood Omen, Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2 and Blood Omen 2. You can hardly understand such an incredibly involved and complex story without playing all of them at least twice.

Yes I\'m a LoK fanatic.


Edit: Damn you Sep for signing me out of my Moogie account and making me post as you!! ><