Game: What game are you currently playing??

[fireheart]

Ryll and Junior: Really? I kinda liked the game actually, it has some of the elements I've always wanted in an RPG for one you don't try to save the world so for once it's not really as epic as other games. While I do agree that the combat got old it's not like it forces you to do it all the time.

And the main characters attitude is meant to be annoying so if you find him annoying it means they did a good job and obviously since he's annoying he grows up during the game.

As for the story I found it interesting and wanted to know how it would end and I'll admit there where a couple of plot twists I didn't see coming at all. While some of the plot is overused they manage to bring some good ones in there.

The equipment mattered to me since it was there most of my stat where or rather where I got most of my HP. Also thought the customization was a nice touch as you could make the game easier or harder on the fly. As for the badges don't know if I could have made it till the end with the ones you start with. For the brand thing I almost never checked it since it didn't make that much of a difference. I did like the whole part where the store clerks start to recognize you and stuff, small stuff but liked it

Music I agree on

All in all thought it was quite worth the money.

[RyougaZell]

Ryll:

Well... that is why I love that everyone has its own likes and dislikes. I personally loved TWEWY while I seriously lack the motivation to try the apollo games.

Junior:
Fun part of TWEWY is ACTUALLY playing both screens at the time. Specially with most bosses. If you ignored any of the screens with a boss you would lose in 5 seconds. If you ignore one screen, as Ryll said, the game gets boring fast.

About Nocturne... I already went pass the tower and it did gets a bit tiring, specially with so few story development between dungeons. But I am determined to get at least one of the six endings and be done with it. If I took 2 long painful years to finish Tales of the Abyss I know I can finish this game someday.

[Ryllharu]

Fun part of TWEWY is ACTUALLY playing both screens at the time. Specially with most bosses. If you ignored any of the screens with a boss you would lose in 5 seconds. If you ignore one screen, as Ryll said, the game gets boring fast.

This is actually the exact opposite experience I had. I had a lot of trouble with the earlier bosses when I was playing both screens. After I gave up and set the computer to take over instantly, the game turned into a cakewalk, bosses started going down without me even paying attention. I wait for the puck to come back and the partners even did well generating the super attacks under the AI. Easy, but as you said, a very tedious experience without both screens.

[itadakimasu]

Until the 5th. I'm just about to get to fly my epic flying mount in northrend too... but I need to have wow out of the picture to be able to focus on RL things for 2009 like school and certs

[Xelbair]

I..don't...believe...this... someone other than me quit wow without problems.
I'm thinking on getting DS, but its damn hard to find Onyx/Black in shops here.

[salmonman78]

I have successfully avoided WoW for almost a year now, damn I want to go back sometimes but well...my money and bandwidth has been reduced so can't.

Snagged SW:Knights of the Old Republic 2 for PC $7, loving it

[itadakimasu]

I'm doing good... my play time is up on the 5th and last night I only played for about 20 minutes. I went to outland and put my new epic flying mount to use and flew around ganking some horde, until a lvl 80 deathknight stopped me at which point i just logged out.

[RyougaZell]

The godly game known as Persona 4, leaving everything aside on stand by (except for Final Fantasy IV DS on my lunch break)

[Psyke]

I just bought LittleBigPlanet, and I'm looking foward to creating my own costumes and levels.

[Marik]

I'm playing Need For Speed: Undercover. It's better than I thought it was gonna be, seeing as it has so many terrible reviews.

[Xelbair]

i just got my hands on DS lite. now i just have to get some games and let the fun begin. I'm thinking of "The world ends with you" or "Final Fantasy 4". Which one in your opinion is better?

[Ryllharu]

FF4. My dislike of TWEWY aside, FF4 is one of the traditional FFs, good story, great characters...and hard. I'm less sure about the 3D DS remake, but the Chronicles version of the PS was the Japanese version, and it is rough. The story is long and often brutal (I like it way more than FF6). It will keep you occupied much longer than TWEWY.

I still recommend the Pheonix Wright series. Awesome text games with a lot of humor, some tough thinking involved, and by the time you get to the third one, an AMAZING story. The climax of the Fey family cases in the third game is some of the best writing and tension in a game I've seen in a while. (The second one kinda sucks though, I highly advise using faqs so you can at least get the story out of it. A lot of the cases are filled with dumb, instant-lose points and annoying characters, the circus case is the worst.)

[Xelbair]

Well, my cousin and friend are getting DS too, we are dividing which game one of us buys, Phoenix Wright series have gone to my cousin, along with survival horrors., i have FF and most rpgs on list, and my friend gets strategy games(i heard that advance wars is pretty awesome).
I think that i will stick with FF4. Thanks Ryllharu.

[fireheart]

Hmm had problems with Phoenix Wright to be honest, not that it was a bad game in anyway just that it was hard to stay focused after reading all that text after a couple of hours... not to mention that there's no skip button incase you lose. So after I put it away it gets hard to start playing again but did finish the first and the second, would play the third one as well but since my cousin is currently playing my version of it and it doesn't offer multiple savefiles I can't play it...

[Ryllharu]

I just saved constantly. I'd usually only have to A-button through a few screens, maybe 2 minutes tops. After a while you got a feel for when they were about to drop a bomb on you. Whenever the (duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh da duh-duh-duh-duh [really fast]) music started up, you just make a quick save and you can screw up over and over.

I do the same for any PC visual novels or h-games, even though they have a skip. Every 12-15 screens or if I feel like getting past a major conversation, I make a save.

[LaZie]

Playing Eternal Sonata for the PS3 right now. It's pretty awesome, just what I needed to fulfill my JRPG deficiency.

[fireheart]

Ryll: Really? Always thought that the quick save function worked as in Castlevania in that the save file disappears after you load it... guess I learned something new then. Will keep that in mind once I start on the third one. Have you tried Apollo Justice? Any good?

[Ryllharu]

Apollo Justice has its positives and negatives. There is a greatly expanded use of the stylus (since Trials and Tribulations, the 3rd game, was actually a GBA title in Japan) and the "Soko da!" element of finding the nervous ticks of the lying witnesses is a lot of fun.

On the downside, the cases aren't as much fun overall, and it's hard to get attached to the characters the same way you were to the Fey family due to the time jump of seven years. Trucy (new character) and Ema (from the final case in game 1) are great, but they still aren't Maya...

[Paper]

I'm currently playing RE4, I never really got into RE series back in the past, but a friend recommended it to me since he said the series was good and it was plus since RE5 is coming out. The funny thing about it is that im starting with RE 4, then after I beat it i'll start from the beginning at the mansion playing the GC version of RE1 on the wii.

I know it's ass backward but its hard to find RE1 for GC, I had to order online and wait patiently until it comes in mean time i believe im half way thru RE4

[itadakimasu]

i got fallout 3 for xmas (ps3) I was a little worried about the aiming w\ the ps3 controller vs PC but the battle system is pretty easy and straight forward.

An important note they even show when you're starting is that the game auto-saves pretty often, good and bad. Bad because I got bored after spending 3 hours playing and massacred most of the town, then went to play last night and it had saved so i restarted.

I think its a great game so far. its such a huge change from the first 2 games but the basic story and point systems are intact. it's just really a great game because of the choices you can make that will effect different factors later in the game. You could play through it several times and each time would be different.