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Apr 12th, 2006 06:52 PM
SLjimbolian I had much more fun playing SD3 than SoM, which the whole game was just confusing for me.
Apr 5th, 2006 07:23 PM
Emu I played it with Kevin as a main character, and then I picked Carlie and the black mage slut. Kevin is fun as hell to play, especially when he becomes a Bashkar or whatever it is
Apr 5th, 2006 06:43 PM
James Well, when I started playing it, it definitely felt "off" compared to Secret of Mana. But I stuck it out. And the game is short, so it's not hard to get far very quickly.

But now I'm at the point where you have to kill the dragons, and the difficulty ramped up a lot, and you really need to level up to stand a chance. Enemies gang up on you and deal a lot of damage, so all my characters keep dying. So now I'm just grinding, and grinding is tedious, especially with gameplay that you weren't too fond of from the start. I didn't mind the game at first, but the further I got into it, the more it got to me. And I am a completionist, so I feel that I've come this far, I should see if I can finish it one of these days.
Apr 5th, 2006 04:05 PM
timrpgland The AI of your allies is pretty bad and switching characters becomes tiresome in that kind of battle style. There's something about the game that kept me playing and I thought it was a very good experience.

Something has to be said about you thinking it's one of the worst games but somehow you are far into it. Either you are a completionist no matter what or SD3 has somehow sucked you in even while you hate it.

What characters did you select?
Apr 5th, 2006 03:52 PM
James
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I liked SD3 a lot. Better than SoM or SoE. I've only played it through once, however. Duran as the main character as a paladin, Lise as a Dragon Master and then Angela as a Magus . Ended up fighting the 2nd toughest boss (supposedly). That dragon thing. The music is awesome and the graphics were quite good. I just wish we got a real translatin but they did a good job with the translated rom from what I can tell. I liked the branching off classes the most. It had a decent difficulty but after a while the fighting got pretty boring.
I'm a good way's into SD3, and I've about given up on it. They took all the good stuff about Secret of Mana, and threw it out. The game plays so stiff, with poor ally AI. Combat is stiff and glitchy. Story is boring because you apparently can't write a compelling tale involving 6 characters when you're only playing as three of them at a time (on top of which, the game is intentionally short, encouraging you to play through with different party members which is retarded). Leveling up is a chore.

I pretty much think it's one of the worst games I've ever played. But because I made it so far, I still wanna finish it. Except that means I have to play it.
Apr 5th, 2006 03:50 PM
camacazio I haven't played 3. I'm still trying to beat 2, about half way through, but that game takes such a horribly large amount of leveling up and item use.
Apr 5th, 2006 03:43 PM
timrpgland I have and it was good. I have a tough time deciding between 3 & 4 though.
Apr 5th, 2006 03:40 PM
camacazio Yeah. But play Phantasy Star 4--gave me a HUGE rpg boner.
Apr 5th, 2006 03:35 PM
timrpgland
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The final fantasy series in general isn't very good. It's 'the standard' but the more I started to play outside of it the more I realized that there's better stuff.
I agree as a whole but a couple games in the series really stick out, IMO.
Apr 5th, 2006 03:33 PM
Guitar Woman
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Oh and FF4 was one of my favorite games growing up but I can't play any of the final fantasies anymore ;< they're just awful to me now ;<
Even 6? Because that game was great

I'm such a dork when it comes to FF6, I printed out a bunch of sheet music and everything ;<
I'm confused. I remember you battling about IX over VI...? If you like VI I'm going to have a tough time hating you but I'll do my best
I used to like 9, but I replayed that one a while ago and realized how awful it is

edit: And yeah, the Final Fantasy series only has about 2 or 3 really good games in it.
Apr 5th, 2006 03:32 PM
camacazio The final fantasy series in general isn't very good. It's 'the standard' but the more I started to play outside of it the more I realized that there's better stuff.
Apr 5th, 2006 03:27 PM
timrpgland
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Oh and FF4 was one of my favorite games growing up but I can't play any of the final fantasies anymore ;< they're just awful to me now ;<
Even 6? Because that game was great

I'm such a dork when it comes to FF6, I printed out a bunch of sheet music and everything ;<
I'm confused. I remember you battling about IX over VI...? If you like VI I'm going to have a tough time hating you but I'll do my best
Apr 5th, 2006 03:23 PM
timrpgland I liked SD3 a lot. Better than SoM or SoE. I've only played it through once, however. Duran as the main character as a paladin, Lise as a Dragon Master and then Angela as a Magus . Ended up fighting the 2nd toughest boss (supposedly). That dragon thing. The music is awesome and the graphics were quite good. I just wish we got a real translatin but they did a good job with the translated rom from what I can tell. I liked the branching off classes the most. It had a decent difficulty but after a while the fighting got pretty boring.
Apr 5th, 2006 03:17 PM
Guitar Woman
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Originally Posted by Chojin
Oh and FF4 was one of my favorite games growing up but I can't play any of the final fantasies anymore ;< they're just awful to me now ;<
1 and 6 are the only ones I can still tolerate because I haven't beat 1 yet and because 6 was just so awesome ;<

I'm such a dork when it comes to FF6, I printed out a bunch of sheet music and character art, I'm even considering getting a tatoo of that pic of Mog with a Martini ;<
Apr 5th, 2006 02:55 PM
Vampywampy Wait, why hasn't anyone mentioned Seiken Densetsu 3? :<


It's better than Evermore. :<
Apr 5th, 2006 02:38 PM
Supafly345 Secret of Evermore, I'm telling you. Similar gameplay only much more fun.
Apr 5th, 2006 02:23 PM
Vampywampy Is this Battletoads? :<
Apr 5th, 2006 02:17 PM
Chojin I never liked Secret of Mana, but I don't remember it being hard. Go play battletoads and then tell us all about how hard rpgs are ;<

Oh and FF4 was one of my favorite games growing up but I can't play any of the final fantasies anymore ;< they're just awful to me now ;<
Apr 5th, 2006 01:51 PM
Emu No, she just hates shit, like any decent American.
Apr 5th, 2006 01:43 PM
James Guitar Woman hates games.
Apr 5th, 2006 01:42 PM
Emu
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Another thing I like about Evermore is the soundtrack. It's all cool and evil-sounding and stuff, unlike the semi-crappy music in SoM.
The soundtrack is the best part. The Halls of Collosia have the best music, I think.
Apr 5th, 2006 01:37 PM
the_dudefather first rpg i played was 'swords and serpents'. which sucked.

i got maniac mansion the same day so that wasnt so bad
Apr 5th, 2006 01:36 PM
Guitar Woman I'm playing Evermore right now, and I have to say it's shitloads better than Mana. The difficulty has been toned way down to the point where it's still kind of hard but it's actually possible to progress through the game without wanting to run the programmers over with your car. I don't think I could play it without savestates, though ;<

Another thing I like about Evermore is the soundtrack. It's all cool and evil-sounding and stuff, unlike the semi-crappy music in SoM.

The only thing I don't like is how my little guy runs like a tard and has an ugly ducktail ;<
Apr 5th, 2006 01:09 PM
Vampywampy SoM is better when playing it with another person. ;<

Seiken Densetsu 3 is awesome too, but I prefer SoM.
Apr 5th, 2006 12:59 PM
Guitar Woman FF4 was actually my first RPG ever, and it made me dislike the genre so much that I stayed away from it until Quest 64.

I wouldn't hate the game so much if they didn't make the death scenes so fucking cheesy, and if Rosa didn't play into the "Olive Oyl" stereotype every second that she's on the screen.

OH HELP ME CECIL I'M SICK WITH A FEVER AND I NEED YOU TO GET THE SANDRUBY FOR ME SO I CAN JOIN YOUR PARTY AS A HORRIBLY CRAPPY WHITE MAGE, OH CECIL I'VE BEEN KIDNAPPED AND AM BEING HELD AT THE TOP OF AN INCREDIBLY HIGH TOWER GUARDED BY AN UNSPEAKABLE AMOUNT OF ANNOYING CREATURES WITH WHOM FIGHTING BECOMES THE MOST FUCKING TEDIOUS THING IN ALL OF EXISTANCE AFTER 2 MINUTES, PLEASE SAVE ME SO WE CAN HAVE HARD SEX AFTER I HUMP YOUR LEG A MILLION TIMES IN FRONT OF ALL THE OTHER CHARACTERS BECAUSE I HAVE NO SHAME AT ALL, OH CECIL I JUST LOVE KISSING YOUR ASS, LET ME DO IT SOME MORE
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