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dunno001 on 13 November 2010

Euphoria14 said:

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If they dumb it all down I will hate S-E. Not everything has to be ridiculously simple. This is a big problem this gen. Everyone assumes that people are too stupid to enjoy games with challenge.

This is pretty much why I gave up on S-E games. They're way too easy; I find their games from the 16-bit era to have more challenge than today's games. Though, it was their watering down of games that led me to find Atlus...

Atlus and NIS for me.

NIS (well, NISA) lost me with the lack of quality control on many of their titles. I'll still get one of their titles over an S-E game, though. An NIS game with good QC > anything post 1996 from S-E.

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outlawauron on 13 November 2010

jarrod said:

outlawauron said:

I can't really blame Mistwalker as they did an phenominal job on Lost Odyssey. I think Feel.plus played a giant role in that.

Although, story and game design aside (although we don't actually know who did what exactly), Blue Dragon had major problems outside of that. It was a shoddy game. Place your hate for Level 5 aside for a moment. I understand the complaints but substituting Artoon is like 8x worse.

The story in BD was trash, but the combat and job systems were stellar, some of the best this gen I'd say even. And all RPGs should ape it's encounter system. Nice town/dungeon design too, it really is a pretty little game.

Artoon can be hit or miss, but I thought Blue Dragon was a pretty underrated effort, especially in the west. Easily better than Lost *yawn* Odyssey... what felt so shoddy to you exactly?

The job system became quite broken later on, but I did enjoy the mechanics of the battle system. Shame those same battles were bogged down with horrid slowdown and framerate issues. I tried a myriad of things to improve performance but it would stutter at nearly the same point every time. (right before casting a spell or going from a 'charge' stance to the actual attack).

If anything, I find Blue Dragon overrated from my standpoint. Blue Dragon's review average is a 7.7. That's far too kind, imo.