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Well, I did enjoy the game a lot, I only wish it had more "side quests"; it was a lot more start at point A and go to point B than some of their other games :/

Best FF game ever?  Seriously?  Have you even played the older FF games?

06:03:29 Jun 8th 10 - Lady Megan Fox:
Well, I did enjoy the game a lot,

Finally, someone with common sense!

10:48:48 Jun 8th 10 - Mr. Leadthrower:

Best FF game ever?  Seriously?  Have you even played the older FF games?

Yeah I played everyone one of them! 7, 9, 10 = boring. Rest = semi ok. FFXIII = OMFG AWESOME MASTERPEICE!!!!!!!! Seriously, you got bad tastes.

07:42:28 Jun 8th 10 - Lady Patches Ohoulihan:

Overall it was a great game. I got it the day it came out in the US and beat the "story line" in a week. (i was on vacation! lol)
I must admit that the first 20-30hr were very boring for game play but thats when most of the story line is also given. Battles during that time were also fairly brainless with next to no sub quest given.

As for the "Post Story Line" quest and trophy's to obtain, you can easily spend 5x more time trying to do those then you did beating the story line itself. IMO, that is where the game play really comes out. Battles are no longer just auto and go and one slip up means certain doom.

Being OCD about my rpg's, I am still currently getting all of the tier 3 weapons and fully upgraded accessories but admittedly I have played better FF's.

My main complaints were the lack of control over my party member's actions and the lack of sidequests and tough optional bosses <remember the hell wyrm in FF XII?>

But on the other hand I can think of several FF's that were much worse <remembers IX and shudders> so its not bad, i had fun with it. Yarlin is right, the latter missions in the post game requires alot more strategy and timing <give me those damned traps, stoopid turtles!!>

Admitedly I dunno much about rpg's today and I have not played any of the FF's but from what I've seen from a few of the latest rpg's I can do naught but support Mr Leadthrower statement when he says today's gamers are so easily appeased by all the pretty graphics.

Until I played Dagger (now were talking oldskool) Ultima8 was for me one of the best rpg's I'd come across. Now, the graphics in Dagger are absolutely crappy with very limited character portraits taking on both male and female roles
... but if you can get beyond that, the game, for it's age, would be better than many of the rpg's I have seen todate, especially if it got a facelift by simply introducing more character portraits put in their proper male/female roles - If there is one rpg I would love to revive and improve upon it would be Dagger.

If your really into rpg's and have never played it your totally missing out, especially as it's available for free today, courtesy of the developers though you might need DosBox to play it (also free).

I'd love to hear from others what their best rpg's to date have been,  both old and nu-skool but would especially love to hear from those that have played Dagger and can more or less give their view and compare it with some of the best rpg's since.

Bones

I wondered the same thing, sounds like it.  Excellent game....all the elder scrolls have been.  But once again I think the newer ones have let good gaming ideas take a backseat to whatever is easiest to make graphics for.

Modern rpgs you dont even need to pay attention to whatever the quest you are assigned.  Just blindly run at the little red arrow/line on your compass.  If you get lost, just check your highly detailed map.  Little hands on the screen point you the direction to go and icons are above the quest givers heads to let you know you need to talk to them.

Yes Sir Mr Dead Orative, DaggerFall -The Elder Scrolls -Thanks, that is the one I talk about
... Did you play it and if so how do you rate it in comparison to more recent rpg's

theFinal fantasy 13 is good so far im about 4 hours into it, iv been to busy working to play it often, one thing i dont like is how easy it is to fight

i wish it was more difficult but the graphics and story is pretty good

Played on it again last night, meh. The battle system sucks so bad. It's a good idea in theory, if it was still turn based, control all the players fully, sort of thing.

I think to run it you would need to use a Dos emulator, I used DosBox which I believe works in all Windows environments, 32 & 64 bit and  is free.
I recall that you do need to somewhat reconfigure DosBox to run Dagger (as it is called under Dos) but it is relatively easy though I cannot of the top of my head remember where I got the info on the req. tweaks, you would have to search that out.

Yes, I'd have to agree, would probably be awesome if they got together.

elder scrolls ^_^

omfg these blueray disks are SOOO fragile. I just droped the disk from a metre hieght and it shattered on the end, and cracked all the way to the hole in the center. Oh well, it was only ff13, no big loss. Say, can I have your spare toaster?

I liked:

FFVIII (most) & FFX

FFVIII was just awesome with the flying school!

Played it last night too, up to disc 3 now.

It's abit better, but it's in no way as good as most of the other FFs.

Meh... haven't finished it yet.  I somewhat like it, but overall, it feels like they spent too much time on cool graphics instead of gameplay and story.  True, there are some cool parts in the game, but overall it's only a slight improvement from FFXII.

Also, all who think Lightening was a badass fighter, say Aye.

Got a bit further into the game....really getting sick of the single corridor BS.  I heard it opened up later on, but, must be later than I am.  Also, I'm ready to strangle every character in the game for whining constantly.

What is the point of making a game where none of the characters are enjoyable?

Thats only because your either too unintelligent to understand it, too impatient, or just someone who absolutely *must* and I mean a *must* see constant blowing up, killing, more blowing up, blood and guts everywhere, yet even more blowing up, and yeah, just blowing stuff up.

Ur just angreh cuz u no r gud at Call of Dooty

They way the characters look (hairstyle etc) is quite common in some places that aren't America.

Its common to have guys look like girls in other countries? No wonder why we make fun of you peeps :P

FF5 was my favorite in terms of gameplay.

FF13 failed on a lot of levels. I didn't bother to read the thread, but I assume at least a few other people agree with me. There were a million disappointments, but the linear story progression was the most apparent. Regardless, it was still an enjoyable game; but I had hoped for more.