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11/05/09
DELETE DELETE DELETE
I mean... Empty Trash! Empty Trash! #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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Now you can never unsee it. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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(Maybe it's time for a vision check.) #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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Sold (^o^)/ #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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Or you just use Battle Crown formation and kill everything in two rounds. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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No opinion whatsoever on the actual game though (it's a DS RPG, so I'm just going to shut up), just think the box art is really ugly. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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@Archaotic: I blame it on that helmet. It looks like it was built out of the scraps off an old muscle car. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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The logo just looks VERY lazily done. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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If you really don't want to argue with people, don't drop obvious flamebait. Just skip the thread and move on. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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Archaotic has made very valid arguments against the glut of JRPGs on the DS in the past. Personally I wouldn't take anything he's said as flamebait and nothing he said was argumentative. Maybe you need to chill out? #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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Without fanboying, of course. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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And as a sci fi junkie, I love this cover so much I want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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Which is, quite frankly, awesome. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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You don't have to be a fanboy to be against something on a certain console. I love my DS, I play it all the time. I am sick of seeing some of my favorite devs dump so much of their time and resources into making portable RPGs with weak stories and shitty graphics instead of throwing the fans a god damn bone and giving us the epic experiences we've grown accustomed to playing on more powerful hardware on a TV.
Damn, I just elaborated way more than intended to =P
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I'd love more console games, but right now, nobody's buying them. This is a business, not a charity. Maybe if FFXIII sells really well, there might be some interest in more console JRPGs. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
11/05/09
I don't understand this. You claim others are looking to start an argument when they're trying to avoid one. Then you poke and prod and act annoying and start one yourself. When the other party explains their opinions you explain why they're not valid complaints.
No shit this industry isn't a charity. That doesn't mean I can't be annoyed by the lack of great titles in my favorite genre. The people of my state repealed the gay marriage law, that was passed last year, yesterday. I can't do shit about it right now but that doesn't mean I'm not entitled to be upset about it.
The complaint is not about bad games. I just don't like DS RPGs. RPGs have always been epic experiences for me that draw me into their world with cutting edge graphics, moving soundtracks, and believable worlds and characters. That is rarely delivered on the DS. Even when it is it isn't delivered in the same capacity that it could be on a home console.
It's like this: watching something like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings in a movie theater is an experience. Watching the same movie on my PSP's 4.3" screen with a set of low-end earbuds is a time killer. Playing the newest Final Fantasy, that took years of hard work and love to make, on my TV with surround sound is an experience. Playing a port of FFIV remade in terrible 3D graphics on my DS's 2.5" screen with it's shitty stereo speakers is not going to come close to matching that experience.
Last generation awesome RPGs were in overabundance on the PS2. It was an all you can eat buffet of fantastic games with pretty graphics, awesome soundtracks, well-told stories, and worlds that I wanted to wrap myself up in and no matter how hard you tried you could never get your fill. This generation we're still waiting for FFXIII and in the meantime the only worthwhile JRPG we've seen was Lost Odyssey.
I don't care if the DS is popular and makes companies boatloads of money. An RPG on the DS can never go toe to toe with an RPG on a home console. I'm not being a fanboy, I'm not being elitist. I just have high standards. #shinmegamitenseistrangejourney
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RPGs are not limited to just pretty graphics. Refusing to play any game because it's not on a console is the definition of elitism and is extremely typical of the "core" right now.
To further your analogy, it would be like complaining that Firefly is terrible compared to Star Wars because the former is on television and not a film (and ignore Serenity for a second, okay?). Or that Doctor Horrible is incapable of telling a moving story about superheroes because it's distributed on the internet and cannot be "epic" like Spider-Man 3.
And my original point was that if anyone here didn't want to start an argument, you don't do it by saying "DS RPGs are terrible. But don't argue with me!" I mean, if I marched into another thread here and said "Sucky like all PS3 games, but I don't feel ike arguing," would I be anything *but* a troll? It's just being passive aggressive, while trying to divest oneself of responsibility.
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Again for someone claiming others are trying to be argumentative I find it ironic that you're the only one that actually is being argumentative. I have stated my opinion and backed it up, that is all. You're trying to tell me my opinion is either invalid or flawed, thus arguing.
This is fruitless and it's a conversation that's been beaten to death in the past and never gets anywhere. So with that I'm leaving this conversation. Good day sir.
Addendum: Just for the record I've enjoyed numerous DS RPGs (keyword: ENJOYED). That doesn't change the fact that none of them were very engrossing or high quality experiences.
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No, but you can pick up Arakune and mash bugs out to win. #blazblueportable
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Or you can pick Rachel and spam lightning rods.
Or you can pick Bang or Hakumen and mash counter.
Cry more, it's called l2p. #blazblueportable
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All those don't work on good players. Arakune mashing bugs works against people of all levels. #blazblueportable
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None of those*
terrible grammar on my part #blazblueportable
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-long throw break window (~8 frames?, fastest poke is 5 frames. you can basically poke out of any throw making it useless outside of carl's clap trap. there is also throw break buffering which makes throws even more useless [except against people who mash recovery and terrible scrubs, who you really don't even need to throw to win]... Read More
-slow pokes (going back to the 4-5 frame poke thing. you can basically jump out of every mix-up or pressure string since pokes are so slow. also making you be able to block 90% of attacks without fd in the air without tension means even scrubs can jump out of any pressure string, unlike in gg you would have a risk/reward of losing tension and eating meaty anti airs if you tried to jump out of shit
-3 way roll (another way to help scrubs who don't know how to block oki wakeup games by removing it completely)
-zoning (top tier characters are too good at zoning and pressure except carl[who will fucking kill you off a 5a], whereas most of the cast can only do shit once they up close. either make pure zoning characters or pure rushdown. characters with both will obviously unbalance game
-There are lots more character specific shit that I don't feel like getting into.
I wouldn't say roster size is the only flaw... #blazblueportable
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The PSP's hardware doesn't offer that much flexibility in terms of pixel-level rendering, unfortunately. That's also a reason why Valkyria Chronicles 2 on the PSP doesn't have the celshaded style of the first game (they didn't even implement at least outlines). #blazblueportable
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That makes me glad I didn't end up buying it then. I can't even pick up Street Fighter IV, do Street Fighter-like moves and win. #blazblueportable
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You can charge buffer and charge partition to throw sonic booms faster than fireballs. #blazblueportable
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Oh, well then I guess you wouldn't know they're great games that work great on the PSP. I've high hopes for this. #blazblueportable
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Fightstick all the way baby. #blazblueportable
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I mean bad elitism. Bad! #blazblueportable
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i bought my psp for street fighter alpha 3 and tekken dark resurrection many moons ago.. and man do those controls suck.
i absolutely loathe the analog nub, and the way the dpad sinks in on the psp makes it unusable for precise fighting.
i have mvs and cps2 emulators on my psp, and man does it make me mad to try and play seriously. so yeah its possible.. but not all that fun (cept powerstone.. that game was great on the psp). #blazblueportable
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I stuffed tiny slips of cardboard under my d-pad. didn't glue shit. #blazblueportable
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