| Kasz216 said: Not that i can think of really, you didn't like Tactics Ogre and most games follow that. I just picked up Soul Nomad and the World Devourers, that seems like a good game. It mixed the Ogre battle and Disgaea styles into a game where you play like disgaea but each unit is actually a squad of guys who make one attack Ogrebattle style based on placement. Though some characters get special ranged attacks. Gladius I really liked, and is cheap for the gamecube, Xbox and PS2... though there can be balancing issues do to the dumb AI. Summoners destroy everuone, and there are some events only Women can compete in... and no Bonus being a man, so recruiting any male gladiators is a waste of time. Future Tactics you can find for REAL cheap I imagine, last time I was in a Toys R US I saw it for like... 4.95. In that game the characters suck but it's worth playing for how it's executed. You move in a turn based, like ring format, where you can jump around and try to get on the top of objects... can shoot, while aiming, then duck behind cover. It's a great fresh take that would be better if the rest of the game didn't suck... also a cover system, since it seems cheap what you can do at times. Front Mission 3 is a favorite of mine. 4 Just doesn't hold the same candle. I once played an emulated translated Bahamut lagoon at a friends house that had an amazing story, and again Ogre battle meets turn based SRPG style. Other then that they're mostly derivitive... trying to be Final Fantasy tactics... who was just trying to be Tactics Ogre in the first place. Of course that doesn't matter to me because SRPGs are to me what FPS are to most americans apparently. |
The thing about the FFT-style games is that I don't mind them that much. It's just that I found FFT itself to be rather boring. The characters were uninteresting/unremarkable and the plot was one big "meh." The jobs were so-so and the battles were okay, but the storyline just didn't have any momentum. I didn't care about a single character by the end of the game. The end itself was a "meh" too. It wasn't a "OMG that final battle was awesome!" rather it was more along the lines of "Oh, that was the final battle? Whatever."
Gladius I may check out. I find myself trying a lot of older GC games thanks to the Wii's BC.
Bahamut Lagoon looks really good so I may have a look at that too.
Thanks Kasz.
