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Compared to Puzzle Quest it...just wasn't as good of a game. I played PQ for days at a time, many hours per day before I grew tired of the gameplay.
You know, it's just...honestly Bejeweled Twist (which the gameplay here is based on) isn't that fun for me I think. The pacing is slower than other match 3 games which some will say (and I will agree) that it adds a sort of ponderous layer to the moves you make and there's that extra layer of "tactical" choice. But what it gains in 'skillful' play it loses in pacing.
I really thought this game would improve on the idea of puzzle based rpg style games but after all I just feel that this entire little "niche genre" has never improved on the original Puzzle Quest and has just been regressing steadily.
03:37 PM
It is nice to find out that it doesn't compare. That and this paid for DLC makes this game an easy one to skip for me.
02:34 PM
Way too slow Square Enix. Way too slow.
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Wow, I now realise how incomplete my life was until I saw this picture.
02:29 PM
02:33 PM
But it costs $1 extra. :(
I'm not sure why it's bad though, the game starts out cheaper and you get options. Buying items to enhance yourself in a singleplayer game - I don't really see how it's much different from buying a strategy guide.
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03:04 PM
There's no other way about it. It's blatant profiteering and if people continue to buy and not be bothered by it; it's going to get much, much worse and soon entire levels will be day one DLC and real features.
It's just like The Sims 3 undoing 90% of the Sims 2 and its expansions just so they can re-release it for the Sims 3 as DLC and more expansions.
I honestly don't understand how it's tolerated or are all gamers Doctors and Lawyers now?
03:10 PM
And your comment is offensively off-base - comparing offering DLC to rape is pretty fucking sick. Guess what? Nobody's forcing you to buy DLC.
03:51 PM
04:04 PM
Think of it this way - you can't walk into a store and walk out with a loaf of bread without paying for it, and you need food to live. What entitles you to extra options on a videogame for free?
04:11 PM
Also, I'm absolutely certain the people responsible for these decisions would rape someone without a second thought if they thought there were money in it. They are in marketing, after all.
04:12 PM
Here's your hint for life. Words have multiple meanings and uses. There's this book based on such a notion called a THESAURUS. Perhaps you've heard of one?
Rape is not just relegated to sexual deviancy. Just like stupidity isn't relegated to just you.
And again, apparently you can not foresee trends in business or how they even work. You're exactly right it's a business and do you really want said businesses to find that it's a great profit model to ship unfinished games? That the first meeting be about any new game is how to make DLC the main platform?
If you give ANY company leeway they'll run with it until it's too late. I am not against all DLC and optional content is perfectly fine.
To be perfectly clear, I don't really care about the DLC in this article, but it still needs to be kept in check. It's a few items now in one game, then another but later it'll be like the Sims 3 where it's a few hundred and it's all fine and dandy because we don't have to buy it. So instead of leading the industry towards a positive future we're leading them down a destructive one simply because people like you would HATE to question them, and when everyone else is sick of it, you'll act like you were against it from the start.
Brilliant.
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02:23 PM
XIII's battle system looks like it shares a lot in common with X-2's, with a little bit of X's. Looks interesting.
Really can't wait to play this game.
02:21 PM
I wonder if Jumbo Cactuar will make it in the game as an Eidolon...
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It's staring at me. At my soul.
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This has been stated thousands of times.
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THIS. i hated that shit with a passion myself. it almost made the game feel less natural and more mechanical.
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What? I'm not thinking anything dirty! I just...like them.
:cough:
11/19/09
LET THE INNUENDO THREAD BEGIN
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I mean, come on.
I still love Quisty dearly, though.
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#speakup
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...500 years after Final Fantasy X, the now-prominent(on another planet) Shinra corporation has broken off into another division with similar twisted goals back in Spira...
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