I miss the days of games letting you just hop in and experiment, instead of tutorial after tutorial. It's one of the things we'll be talking about on our old man edition of PixlTalk.
I remember being so frustrated with customers when IX came out. The people that cut their teeth on VII complained that IX wasn't an FF game. I was like "Children, that IS a Final Fantasy game!"
There's definitely a generational divide between the SNES and PSX games. I have a special affinity for those older games, but the "newer" games are high on my ranking.
I have a full ranking, but FF IV remains my favorite. It was my first, and to this day, I love the 5 man party, the music, and the tragedy-filled story. People got weepy over Aeris? Characters did left and right in IV.
My least favorite is II. Uneven difficulty, broken magic system, annoying leveling mechanic. Bah!
You hit the nail on the head, Jesse. I was clenching my teeth through this entire episode.
I always find people that complain about the changes to FF XII and XIII to be kind of odd. The series has always been about change, and especially since FF VII, the games have changed drastically.
FF VIII had that odd magic system, with the way you had to siphon spells from enemies and use spells to junction to your stats. FF IX went back to the SNES days, with a four member party and traditional job classes. X completely removed the ATB system and went for a true turn-based mechanic. Then they did a total 180 with X-2, making one of the most hectic battle systems of the series. I love XI, but I agree with Jesse-it shouldn't have a number. FF XII is the single player version of FF XI, right down to the mission structure. And XIII became a twitch-based battle system, requiring super fast reflexes and thinking on the fly. They're all great, just in different ways.
No comment on Asura's Wrath. I'll talk about it on our next show. ~.^
Yeah, I remember hearing some sites specifically saying that the PS3 version of Skyrim wasn't in their GOTY considerations. Pretty sad.
But still...BWAH, HA HA! Mortal Kombat.
I imagine that the layoffs come from the Rage team. They were probably contract workers brought in to get the game shipped. That's usually the case in these stories. Still sucks though.
This pleases me. When they announced the "action", "story", and "RPG" modes, I started to worry.
Oh, I meant the Mass Effect 3 demo. I can't wait for the Amalur demo fo sho.
I kind of don't want to play that demo. I'm probably the biggest Mass Effect fan on staff, but I'm trying to avoid as much about the game as I can before it comes out. That being said, I don't think my will is strong enough to stop myself. Especially because I'm worried that this one will have even less RPG elements than ME 2.
