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Baggins on 09 February 2009
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mrstickball said:
Baggins said:
lol that's me told! :)

I mean it's been a good long while since we got a FFVIIFFIXFFXChrono TriggerChrono CrossPhatasy Star that was like OMFG!

Chrono Cross especially for me, was RPG of the century.

I enjoyed eternal sonata a lot. I know people look down on it but I found it fresh compared to other recent RPGs where they try to bring back the magic of the 90s and fail miserably. At least eternal sonata took it in another direction.

I know there are some Blue Dragon lovers in the house (mrstickball) I really honestly don't see the appeal in that game, felt like playing an RPG for children with some highlights.

LO is very good and has some of the old fashioned appeal but gets very bland at times more than I was comfortable with. Last Remnant, can't comment on that right now I'm only 5 hours in but it looks like it has the making of being similar to LO with slightly better production values but jerky at times and not polished as it could be.

Hey there we go just my take...coming from someone who loved the cheesy gay-isms of enchanted arms I'm not sure anyone would take my view seriously :)

Blue Dragon *was* childish. The VA was very Saturday morning cartoon-ish, but below that lied a very comprable Dragon Quest-esque game, with an impressive class system, and strategic combat system. Had the game been slightly more mature, it would have garnered better scores, I believe. Otherwise, the game is very impressive, and either my 2nd or 3rd favorite JRPG this gen (depending on my feeling of Lost Odyssey).

And my question would be: What was good about Eternal Sonata that Tales of Vesperia didn't have? ToV took every good thing about Eternal Sonata, and made it 10x better. It also took every bad thing about ES and fixed it too. No lame characters, Yuri is a tortured fiend of a protagonist vs. the cheezy Allegretto and lame Chopin. Visuals are comprable between both games, but ToV adds the whole fact that there's an actual overworld that you can free-roam in vs. Eternal Sonata which may be the most linear JRPG in history. Music is great in both games. ToV's story arc, as well as dialogue is actually understandable! I get the hole idea of Blastia, aer, and what's going on vs. Eternal Sonata's retarded story about the evil king and his mineral powder.

I'm maybe 40% of the way through Tales of Vesperia, about 25hrs in. I beat ES in that same amount of time.

Every Eternal Sonata fan is demanded to play Tales of Vesperia. Again, it's like arguing Beyond the Beyond against Final Fantasy VII. If you liked Beyond the Beyond, you should love FFVII    There is nothing in Eternal Sonata, nothing. That makes it better than Tales of Vesperia. The only arguable thing may be some graphical fidelity, and the music score has Chopin in ES. Otherwise, Tales of Vesperia is 10x better. I feel so sorry for the Europeans that haven't got this game yet.

 

I'm sorry simply couldn't get my head around the main character in BD. He was so annoying, nene seemed like an old guy that had gone senile with delusions of taking over the world. Still it wasn't terrible just some game breaking annoyances that spoilt it (wasn't too impressed with the selling point of *something* being in nearly every nook and cranny!)

1 gold....1 gold....1 gold...ahhhhhhhhhh help.

On the TOV...I'll confess I haven't actually played more than 10 mins of it :(

But by all accounts it sounds like a fantastic game. Euroland isn't fun.