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True story: this game is actually what got my brother-in-law

True story: this game is actually what got my brother-in-law to actually like me. Before we bonded over video games I'm pretty sure he just saw me as some guy who married his sister. :P

jdodson Admin wrote on 01/30/2012 at 08:35pm

That's awesome! Video Games for Bonding! I demand a PSA from the govt about this. :)

Travis Admin wrote on 01/31/2012 at 10:11pm

The Fable games are amazing, yet really disappointing. I love playing them, I thoroughly enjoy them, there are just so many missteps along the way that make me wonder what they were smoking.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/01/2012 at 01:41am

Wondering what mis-steps you mean? Ive heard good things about Fable and always lamented the disclusion on the PS3. Though I do believe they had one on the PC?

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 02/01/2012 at 04:34am

I know the first one came out on PC, I think you can get the Fable III on Steam too.

The only complaint I had about the first one is how your character ages as you level up. So by the time you reach the end of the game you're an old man even though no one around you ages. It was a very weird design decision IMO. I usually just equipped gear that covered my face so I couldn't tell I was old looking. :P
I should also note that I have the Lost Chapters version of the first Fable, which has a lot of extra content and really helped flesh out the game.

Travis Admin wrote on 02/05/2012 at 06:43am

Jon, I can't really name anything specific, for the most part. I don't know how to quantify it. I don't really have any complaints about the first Fable, except that it was unpolished. There was a lot of potential that hadn't been achieved. Fable 3 was kinda messy though. The whole system of decisions that crops up about halfway through the game is bad-- you never know what you're going to need until it gets time to make the call. Further, the core game was basically just Fable 2 with a new plot.

jdodson Admin wrote on 02/05/2012 at 04:19pm

That makes sense, thanks.

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The nice thing about this game is that you can play as a

The nice thing about this game is that you can play as a group on some songs and all have your own part. I am still more of a fan of the 2nd one.

I stil think 2 is better than 3. I like the songs and the

I stil think 2 is better than 3. I like the songs and the format of the game. I also like how you can see your score so you know how close or far you are from the crown.

I remember really enjoying this game. Of course, I was a

I remember really enjoying this game. Of course, I was a big fan of the cartoon, so I was a bit biased. Now that I think about it, it was very similar to Mario Bros 2, in that you pick up items (generally boxes) and throw them at enemies. Fun game :)

Taking a break from programming to play Borderlands. First

Taking a break from programming to play Borderlands. First time I am playing since I beat it and it asked me which play through to load.

Awesome it lets you jump between them. Starting out play through 2.

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I forgot to write about the free agency period before the draft. As you're scouting college players, you also have the opportunity to sign free agents during the off season. These players have been cut from other teams, sometimes because they're not good enough to play, sometimes because they want more money than their team can pay. If you want to grab a good free agent, get them when they're first available. The good ones go quickly, and are expensive. (I'll usually get 2 free agents max, sometimes none at all).

The original Tetris for NES, (the one that Nintendo pulled

The original Tetris for NES, (the one that Nintendo pulled from the shelves so they could replace it with their own stupid version) really rocked. It was just like the coin op game, and you could play against another person which I loved. The one NES put out was single player only, which can be fun, but lacks the adrenaline of the original.

My sister owned this game, but I admit, I played it plenty

"My sister" owned this game, but I admit, I played it plenty as well.

The gameplay was terrible, and we didn't own the manual (I'm not actually sure how we got the game now that I think about it...). It was pretty much an impossible game, but that didn't stop me from trying!

I sunk multiple 80+ hour play throughs on the original for

I sunk multiple 80+ hour play through's on the original for the PS one, so when I heard they were re-releasing it on the PSP with added content and multiplayer I was sold. I actually got a PSP specifically to play this game. My room mate at the time also got it and we spent way too many hours playing the co-op missions over and over again trying to get the new gear that only drops from the new missions. The new content is actually really fun and really challenging. I just wish the PSP let you play over the internet so I could play this more often with other people.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 02:08am

I enjoyed Final Fantasy Tactics on the PS. I got the version for the PSP and enjoyed that as well. I don't think I was aware of added content or multiplayer functionality. I think I remember some minor changes such as names of monsters, I can't quite recall.

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 01/24/2014 at 06:37pm

Yep! They added two new classes: Onion knight and Dark Knight. Onion knight is kinda lame and boring. While the job is level 1-7 it's incredibly weak and it's stats suck. Once it's level 8 though it has the highest stats in the game and can equip all equipment, including some special Onion Knight only gear that's crazy overpowered. Unfortunately, you can't use ANY abilities while in the class, which makes it incredibly boring. :\

Dark Knight though... is awesome and also overpowered, lol. It's like a toned down Orlandu that any character can become. The requirements to unlock it are insane though. You have to have level 8 in all the advanced melee jobs, master Knight and Black Mage, and kill (when they turn into crysals/boxes) 20 enemies. Still, it's worth it to make your generic characters that you may have grown attached to just as (if not more) powerful than the special characters. :)

Speaking of Special characters, there are also two new characters to recruit from other FF games. You can recruit Luso from FF Tactics Advance 2 and Balthier from FFXII. Luso is just a clone of the Main character with an added innate Secret Hunt passive. Balthier is a mix of a thief and mechanic, having all the abilities of both plus much better gear options (guns and knight swords!) and a special ability Barrage, which basically attacks 4 times at half strength.

There are two multiplayer modes that they added. One is a basic vs. mode where you fight another player. The other is a series of co-op missions that are actually very, very challenging and a lot of fun. You really need to bring your crazy overpowered builds into the later missions if you hope to beat them. When this game came out my and my room mate at the time both got PSP's and this game, so we played it quite a bit. :)

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 11:44pm

Cool. I don't know if I knew about the new additions and I've just forgotten or not. Have you played FF Tactics Advanced? I loved that game and it is why I got a Gameboy SP when it came out. Then I got FFTA2 and loved that as well.

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 01/25/2014 at 02:36am

I have FF Tactics advance, but I wasn't a huge fan of it. There were two main reasons I gave up on it. First up was that, while having abilities tied to your equipment wasn't that bad (see FFIX for a game with a similiar mechanic) the fact that nearly ALL the abilities were tied to weapons sucked. It took so long to learn each new ability that it was a serious drag on the pace of the game.

The other thing I wasn't a huge fan of was the Judges/rules system. It was an interesting idea but I think it was poorly executed. Throwing random rules into a match was nice to kind of spice things up at first but by the time you progressed into the game where they were throwing out 3 rules every match it became annoying. Plus some of the rules were pure bullshit, lol. Like when you get the rule "cannot attack monsters" and the enemy team has monsters on their side but the winning condition requires you kill the entire team. It also did not help that around that same time I got Tactics Ogre (also on Gameboy) and it was all around a MUCH better tactics game. Because I never really liked the first one, I never tried FF Tactics 2, but I did hear that it was much better than the first one.

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 01/25/2014 at 02:39am

Correction: I never tried FF tactics advance 2. If they made a sequel to the PSone/PSP FF Tactics I would be all over that.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/25/2014 at 02:40am

Good points! I haven't played Tactics Ogre, but I've heard it's good. I'm aware there are a few versions of it as well.

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 01/25/2014 at 02:47am

Specifically, it was Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis for GBA. Great game if you can find it! Amazon has one new for the low, low price of $99.95 if you're interested. :P That game also had a neat multiplayer aspect that my (at the time) room mate and I absolutely abused to the point of being dirty cheaters, lol. Unlocking advanced jobs at level 1? No problem.

I also played the N64 Ogre game, Ogre Battle 64. It is a very different kind of game, it's kind of more of an RTS than a tactics game, but still really fun.

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 01/25/2014 at 02:53am

It's worth noting that Yatsumi Matsuno, one of the main people behind FF Tactics and Tactics Ogre is working on a new game. I posted about it not that long ago: http://cheerfulghost.com/WhiteboySlim/posts/1834

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/25/2014 at 02:55am

Wow! Isn't it amazing how expensive some of these old games are!? Hehehe. I saw your post about the game.

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I actually really like this game, but I cant bring myself to

I actually really like this game, but I can't bring myself to play it a second time. The dialogue is painful to sit through. The actual writing isn't horrible, it's the little emote animations the character do in between everything (and I mean everything) they say. It takes half an hour to talk to an NPC and get your next quest. It's too bad too, because the rest of the game is actually really great.

Jason_Diaz wrote on 01/31/2012 at 08:08am

I actually did not mind this about the game, what I hated was that when you chose all your actions if you had all your characters chose to attack the same guy, if the enemy died after just 2 actions your 3rd characters action would attack at the empty spot from where the defeated enemy just was, instead of automatically attacking the next enemy to the right or left as in most any other RPG, this really REALLY bugged me. But I have played through the game at least 2 or 3 times. The sequel is even twice as big and long as the first. I have yet to play the DS one.

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 01/31/2012 at 07:11pm

I didn't remember the attacking thing! Wow, yeah that is terrible. Did they fix that in the squeals at all? I haven't tried any of them besides the first game.

Jason_Diaz wrote on 02/02/2012 at 03:47am

No it was still like that in the sequel on GBA. I have no idea about the DS one, I havent played it!

Timogorgon Member Post Author wrote on 02/02/2012 at 05:19am

That is so weird they didn't fix that. I can't imagine anyone felt that was a good design decision. It's annoying enough that I'm kinda glad I passed on the sequels. There's too many other good games out there I can spend time on :D

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