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It does indirectly.

FFX-2 had a female lead (actually it had an all female party). Influence system is a good start but there are still plenty of areas for improvement. People need to get over this idea that they somehow have a right to know the background of an NPC without any effort. No more KOTOR/Bioware spoonfeeding thank you very much. I'd take it even further so that you could only have a certain number of different level "friends" during any one game. Much like the Fire Emblem series where you have different support levels. C - Trivial meaning like someone you know but only chat about trivial subjects with. B - Close someone who you discuss all sorts of things with A - Intimate, this may or may not be sexual in nature but at this level they will share the deepest darkest secrets. Much like in real life you have more C's than B's and more B's than A's. As an example an A rating with NPC will forever preclude anything higher than a C rating with another particular NPC. In the Fire Emblem games, not only do the main characters have support levels, but also the NPCs too (independent of the main character).

Well Kaftan dosnt like consoles. But kind of overlooks the main reason for their popularity. 1. It will play games much better than a PC of the same price. 2. Games will 99% of the time work out of the box with no effort. If something dosnt work then you swap it. No messing about with drivers and having to track down just why something wont work. Those two things make them very appealing to the average consumer, as well as to people like me who are fed up jumping through hoops and patching things left and right just to get a game to work. Thats not counting the

What exactly have Sony stolen ? I know they nabbed nintendo stuff but I cant think of anything that was supposed to be on the PC. Since Nintendo sell their hardware at a profit and your idea kind of contradicts what a console is for in the first place don't see that happening somehow. Oh course if you selfishly want to hog all games for the PC , then that makes you no better than MS does it.

You really would prefer to think it was a joke.

Not only is it in stock it's

Bugs make good units because there are so many different kinds that do different things. Battalion Wars would be great fun with bugs instead of people. Maybe I will suggest it since they already have the engine. Ants was fun too , although more in an ant simulator way. Taking over the garden and then the house, and losing 100's of ants to the mower and the dreaded footsteps. Makes you wonder really, there are so many old games which would bring a new twist, yet they keep remaking the same old games which just do the same thing.

That was the RTS type game with bug troopers wasnt it :D

Swedish RPG as well. Think it was Swedish anyway. Very graphic, preffered Chill personally.

I think MS stepped more on what would have been PC titles. Sony didnt do that until the Xbox came along. I still think Nintendo could do really well as long as they can keep up a steady supply of games (which they didnt on the GC). The PS2's sold around 100,000,000 which leaves a lot of people with PS2 games to take advantage of the onboard BC. Two of the primary reasons I'm getting a PS3 , being able to play my PS2 (and a couple of PS) games without hassle and a Blu Ray player. Since all the 360 has to offer is games, the games have to be really special to entice me to buy one. I still have doubts that DvD will last a decent lifespan.

Not to America anyway.

Umm I thought IX was particularly easy. Although I think I had way more stuff than I normally would since I did Chocobo Hot and Cold to death and found the Chocobo City. From the way it's laid out the final boss of FFX is supposed to be that easy. Tying up lose ends. Anything after Dark Ixion wiped me out until I collected enough ribbon armours. Just for that reason alone I wouldnt call them easy. I never did beat the toughest creature. I just dont have the patience to level for the sake of it to that extent. Dunno about hardest but the one in Skies of Arcadia took me four hours to kill through its various forms. I was seriously underleveled in that game. I'd have probably cried if I lost I'd have stopped playing and I'm used to the encounters of most JRPGs. But then I bred a demon that cut the encounter rate and it got better after that. Still very good games if the encounter rate dosnt drive you nuts.

I was thinking more of the recent ones VII onwards. Thing that sticks out most about SMT is the encounter rate. You may be right. I'm not familiar with it. The same is true of any RPG though, if you level up enough. If you are talking about the very last boss (no spoilers since Mkreku is playing it) then I beat him in a single hit :D The "other" boss, was a different story though but I had no break damage or break HP limit items. The extra content monsters are MUCH harder than anything in the storyline. Might have to look into that

Katrina wasnt so much about riots though as leaving people in that craphole for a week. At least thats what most of the BBC coverage focused on.

If you read the underrated thread he's mourning the loss of the Xenosaga series (as well as waxing lyrical about it) Since the never felt the need to release the first part in Europe I've only seen the five hour movie in english. Still havnt gotten around to playing part II since it dosnt look like the sort of thing that you can squeeze in when you have a spare half hour. SMT are great. Pokemon with Demons instead of cute critters. But storywise not a patch on the FF's. No logical explanation for FFX-2's story being better than FFX, thats just puzzle. Did prefer the job system though.

You can still get BG&E at gameplay (PC and PS2)

IV was ok, but also disapointing. V's looking promising though if they see fit to release it over here.

Oh I dont care I just want to see if there are any that I havnt played yet

Sounds like the intro to the Six Million Dollar Woman dosnt it.

First I've heard of it. I'd guess he's refering to the second that America is perceicved to have done something wrong there are threads about it.

Such as ?

The second one. The graphics are not bad. Just not the sort of thing I can look at sat three feet away for long periods.

Off topic and out of curiosity: when does FFX become good? I've recently started playing it for the first time and so far it's been completely confusing and.. somewhat pointless. I gathered that I am a superstar Blitzball player (think Quidditch, only in water), then the town was blown to bits by Sin. After that there's been short episodes of me diving for some sort of pirates 1000 years into the future (!), me meeting a crappy Blitzball team in another country (!!) and me trying to save some weird priestess in a Temple of Trials. The really weird thing is that I've probably played the game for 2 hours.. of which I've probably had control of my character for 30 minutes while the game has practically played itself (unless you count running from point A to B in narrow corridors as playing). Does it get better or should I move on to something more my style? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It should become less confusing. Although some people are still confused even after the game ends. :D Final Fantasy games are about the story so I'd give it another 8 hours and then if your still not hooked go play something else. At the moment your not even out of the prologue.

I ended up taking mine back. Not because I disliked it, so much as couldnt see any point in replaying it. I was going to sell it on, but because it was still under 10 day warranty I got a full refund It was a fun game with a variety of different gameplay. But I wouldnt call it groundbreaking or anything.

In the description it says single mission. Guess it was wrong. Couldnt get it to work anyway. Wasnt a complete waste though, got a new PS2 pad out of it