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They also tend to be shorter. So proportionately speaking it probably ends up at the same rate of 10% of fun, and 90% of WHEN THE FUCK WILL THIS SHIT END!
i'm not sure if zelda's an RPG. it's more like an adventure game (see point & click games, progress depends on solution of puzzles) with focus on action as well.
Nothing like a good Pikohn post to derail a good thread
Anyway, I've always thought of Zelda as being in the action RPG subgenre.
Obviously you could divide this subgenre down again (and maybe again), but the collectiong shit, villages, dungeon exploration, and fighting make it a lot more akin with a console RPG than with a point and click adventure.
"RPG" in the videogame sense more or less means number-juggling, with detailed stat systems, experience grinding, etc. In "action rpg", profound lack of skill can be corrected for via profound patience in killing countless peons and accumulating levels and such. In non-two Zelda, all murdering those peons does is gain money and bombs and stuff.
(Yes, Symphony of the Night is an "Action RPG", as is River City Ransom)
Well, when he says tangents, I assume he's referring to the countless fetch quests and such that hinder actual progression of the story. Sure, with Fou-Lu there was a bit more prograssion of the story throughout, but once his part of the story is over, you just go through a bunch of sidetracking fetch quest crap right on until the end. It actually felt worse to me in BoF4, tbh.
Well, i don't know if they officially ended it, but after a few years without a single word on a new game....well, let's just say I don't think BoF will have the kind of pull for another sequel that Chrono Trigger had....
On the other hand, this is Capcom, so that might have some sort of policy that mandates at least ten games to a series.
Damien wrote:I read of Magicbox that it's a GBA game, but they're as Engrish as fuck, so who knows?
The quote was 'Square Enix announced Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Fuuketsu no Guurimore, the sequel to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for GBA, no details or platform was announced.'
So, no platform has been announced. The GBA bit was just info on the original FFTA.
...still, I don't really have much excitement for it anyway. FFTA never clicked with me like I'd like it to.
They altered it. It was under the GBA news heading thismorning, and mentioned it was on the GBA. they must have employed a part time editor or something.
I need to be clued in as im a nub, Square enix, info pleeeeez.
Your pain and sorrow you feel every once in a while, that is what fuels me, your pain is what keeps me alive, and I feel just fine!!!!!!!!!!!!! "BE SORROWFULL"
Whisp wrote:I need to be clued in as im a nub, Square enix, info pleeeeez.
What sort of info?
The info is contained in the threads.
Fell free to ask specific questions, or start your own threads if a game is not already being discussed.
Is square enix a game cuz ive never heard of it before..... or is it related to square gamer?
Your pain and sorrow you feel every once in a while, that is what fuels me, your pain is what keeps me alive, and I feel just fine!!!!!!!!!!!!! "BE SORROWFULL"
Square Enix is a game company, Whisp. Actually it used to be two companies (Squaresoft, and Enix) but they merged a while ago. They've produced mostly RPGs, such as the Final Fantasy series, and the Dragon Quest series.
Square Gamer was named after Squaresoft, back then long before they merged with Enix.
I'm officially never buying a Square-Enix product ever again due solely to the underwater kissing scene in FFX. That, coupled with the laughing scene, crossed the threshhold for tolerable gayness in a video game.
Fire-3 wrote:I'm officially never buying a Square-Enix product ever again due solely to the underwater kissing scene in FFX. That, coupled with the laughing scene, crossed the threshhold for tolerable gayness in a video game.
I think that threshold was crossed looong ago
Also, open up, dude. If you think a guy[*] kissing a girl is gay, there's something wrong with you.
[*] okay, maybe a whiny, girly(?) guy... But that'd make it lesbian, not gay. Aren't straight guys supposed to love them lesbians?
