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- Tsunami Jones
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- SarahtheBoring
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I keep hearing that half of the Suikoden series rocks and half of it sucks, but I can never remember which is which. So, since 3+ aren't hard to find or expensive, I figure the only thing to do is to play through and make up my own mind. (Have already played and liked 1 and 2.)Flint the Dwarf wrote:Also, Suikoden 5 on your list, GREAT choice. Game was a complete surprise for me. First 5 hours were slow, but the next 70 were great. Yes, I racked up nearly 75 hours on that game before I beat it.
But Oblivion is the ultimate game until the next ultimate game comes along *hyperventilates* ...that's cool. I'm glad that people can still enjoy Morrowind. I loved that game and played the hell out of it; I think I had more hours on it than Oblivion, actually. (I played both on their respective XBoxen, borrowed, so there wasn't a PC issue. )
- Flint the Dwarf
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I think the general consensus is that 4 and Tactics sucks, but 1-3 and 5 are pretty good. I've only played small parts of 1 and 2, and none of 3 though.SarahtheBoring wrote:I keep hearing that half of the Suikoden series rocks and half of it sucks, but I can never remember which is which.
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- Otohiko
- Joined: Mon May 05, 2003 8:32 pm
Here's a kind of odd question - and at the risk of sounding like an elitist - is genre preference a cultural/sub-cultural/socioeconomic/age-related thing, or am I just grossly out of step with everyone?
I find it kinda peculiar that most of my peers in North America whom I'd want to have any association with (and many AMVers fall under that category) have the exact same set of favorite game genres: arcade (I put Guitar Hero and DDR under this grouping), hack-and-slash RPGs (I put Blizzard's Diablo and MMORPGs in this category), JRPG, shooters, light strategy. There is also a hugely noticable lean towards consoles over PC games.
As soon as I go to Russia for example, while a lot of the same genres ARE popular too, but alongside them strategy games and simulations, for example, are VERY big, and consoles are mostly sneered at in favour of PC. Meanwhile if I go to find consolation in simmers' communities - it doesn't matter where people are from, they obviously prefer these types of games and they likewise sneer at consoles. But, from my observation, the average age of those types of gamers is about 35.
Not that I have anything against the typical games here, just wondering what's up, and how come I'm clearly so out there? Did I miss something in these games, or am I just weird like that?
I find it kinda peculiar that most of my peers in North America whom I'd want to have any association with (and many AMVers fall under that category) have the exact same set of favorite game genres: arcade (I put Guitar Hero and DDR under this grouping), hack-and-slash RPGs (I put Blizzard's Diablo and MMORPGs in this category), JRPG, shooters, light strategy. There is also a hugely noticable lean towards consoles over PC games.
As soon as I go to Russia for example, while a lot of the same genres ARE popular too, but alongside them strategy games and simulations, for example, are VERY big, and consoles are mostly sneered at in favour of PC. Meanwhile if I go to find consolation in simmers' communities - it doesn't matter where people are from, they obviously prefer these types of games and they likewise sneer at consoles. But, from my observation, the average age of those types of gamers is about 35.
Not that I have anything against the typical games here, just wondering what's up, and how come I'm clearly so out there? Did I miss something in these games, or am I just weird like that?
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- Moderation Hero
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- Status: Always around, creating more AMVs. :)
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Since I have an older computer, I haven't been playing anything modern on it. However, I do enjoy a game of Zuma or Bejeweled 2 to pass the time. For other games: UT2k4, Neverwinter Nights Diamond, and three tall stacks of CDs full of old classics (and not so classic) PC games I still need to go through and finish.
Console-wise, I'm working to finish Dirge of Cerberus, Final Fantasy III, and Chrono Cross' New Game + mode.
Console-wise, I'm working to finish Dirge of Cerberus, Final Fantasy III, and Chrono Cross' New Game + mode.
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- Moonlight Soldier
- girl with bells
- Joined: Thu Jul 03, 2003 1:45 pm
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Well, you'd have to give me some examples when you say strategy and sim. But, I play a lot of what I'd consider strategy games, (IE: Age of Empires, Ogre Battle, etc).Otohiko wrote: Not that I have anything against the typical games here, just wondering what's up, and how come I'm clearly so out there? Did I miss something in these games, or am I just weird like that?
The only games I'll play on my PC are AoE and Gunbound. I have CSS, but my computer has a heart attack every time I play it.
I think a lot of North American games are sold on hype and brand recognition.
I'll never pick a console based on things criteria such as graphics capabilities. I wait to see if there's enough games I know I want to play that get released for it. (IE: my shiny new DS lite.)
Hell, my SNES is still hooked up so I can play games such as Seventh Saga and whatnot.
And right now I'm playing FFIII for DS. Soon to be followed with Mage Knight Destiny's Soldier.