Game: Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII

[NM]

So has anyone gotten this game? I started playing it awhile ago and its not that bad of a game. I haven't gotten too far though, I only went through the tutorial levels and the first level of the game. Gameplay wise its ok, its a simplified third person shooter. Enemies come at you and you kill em with any of your guns or use your melee attack, thats all. But as you progress through the levels, your offered more missions, like protect the civilians and such. The lock on also makes the game even easier so I switched that to manual when I started the real game to at least make it more of a challenge.

The gameplay graphics are alright, somewhat on par with FFX. But the movie sequences in this game fucking rock (and I do have to say that it would have to be the highlight of the game). They look almost as if they came from the Advent Children movie itself. Theres no option for the languages but the English VA's from the movie do the voices for DoC and like the movie, they were decent.

Another awesome part about the game is the customization you can do for your guns. You get a handgun, rifle, and a machine gun. You can add a Sniper Rifle scope, materia, and when you get gil, you can upgrade your guns firing rate, accuracy, etc. Vincent's transformations also make their return in the game.

I can't say too much about the story since I'm not that far. But do I really need to? Vincent is already a kickass character from the original FF7.

[zibo]

Yep I got it and already beat it on hard level, to my suprise Hard wasn't that hard I expected it to be a bit longer + harder but over all great game also that Vincent Valentine is my favourite FF character

btw I hear theres a Extra Hard level is you beat the game, but how do I play it ? When I press Game Start it only can load my saves I can't start new game on Extra Hard

[TruthofMistake]

It looked good, but i suck at these kinds of games. Is the battle system hard to get used to? Shooters are so much harder on a console, and I really dont have the patience for a complicated system, no matter how good the game.

[zibo]

There is no battle system like in other FFs, it's just like any other 3rd person shooter, you come up to enemy point gun at them and shoot till they're dead.

[mage]

I heard this game is boring and unchallenging. Is there much advancement to the plot or is it just a fanboy piece of shit like AC?

[zibo]

I wasn't bored by the game, but there were lots of parts that were unchallenging even on hard level, as for the story, the story line is pretty descend there is some advancement as well as it has some flash backs of Vincent's past. The story line is over ok, but not as good as in the original FF7.

[mage]

Zibo, how long did it take you to beat it?

[Zinobi]

havent beat yet but got it the day it came out, havent gotten a whole lot of time to play.
i like it so far i just got to around the middle of the game.
i agree with NM the scenes that look straight out of AC are awesome.

It looked good, but i suck at these kinds of games. Is the battle system hard to get used to? Shooters are so much harder on a console, and I really dont have the patience for a complicated system, no matter how good the game.

you can hook up a usb keyboard and mouse and use those instead

[mage]

I just went and got it. Finished the tutorial.

[zibo]

Around like 15-20 hours on hard

[LaZie]

This game is good. Just that these types of games ala Halo gives me a headache if I play it for long periods of time Also, I started on Hard Mode and I've died a few times on each boss except Shelke

I just finished the HQ Siege stage.

[zibo]

I enjoyed playing this game very much, maybe I will start playing FF7 again

[mage]

on chapter 5 now, will probably finish the game tomorrow. enjoying the story so far.

[Genma]

I got it yesterday and played practically all day today (with the exception of the three hours it took me to do homework -- damn college! >_<) and I like it. Some of the voice acting is pretty corny, but that's about all I can find wrong with it.

[LaZie]

I can see why the game got such a bad score now. The repetitiveness really kicks in during chapter 9 and up.

[mage]

Just finished the game. Took 9 hours 41 minutes on hard and I didn't die once. This is the easiest fucking game I've ever played.. Even the last boss (easiest motherfucker ever) who was like the size of Midgar only took half my HP away. The story was cool, but it's too bad the gameplay sucked ass. Atleast the ending was more than 30 seconds this time. Oh, and Sephiroth's name was only even said once. Amazing.

Around like 15-20 hours on hard

Wow holy shit. You must suck hard.

[zibo]

Well, try without auto lock and other things that make it easier, but yes last boss was so easy, I jsut run around him and shoot him. Btw the 15-20 hour was assumption I didn;t sit there with timer. I played couple hours one day, couple others, so it should be around that much time.

Try playing on Extra hard, also without auto lock feature.

[mage]

You know there's a timer in the game right? Goto your menu>status and it shows time played. It also shows the cumulative stats from the whole game after you beat Omega Weiss.

[zibo]

12 hours just checked,

i still can't figure out how to play in extra hard,

[Zinobi]

zibo or mage did either of you take the time to find all 8 omega reports and all the G reports? or even the memory capsules? the model gun maybe?