Also, I like to start from older games come up, for if you play a newer game with newer gameplay dynamics etc, going back to an old mechanic might seem stale.

Paper Mario:TTYD one of the best games i ever played.

i know when other people hype up stuff, u r more critical about them but i just loved it and was sad when it was over :(

Dont forget the side quest in it coz that was awesome too

So I started Paper Mario: the Thousand Year door last night and I'm fighting to hold back my rage because this is supposed to be such a good game.

I'm digging the art, I'm digging the writing, and I'm digging the gameplay but I HATE games that throw walls and walls of text at you for the first hour.  Even with how much I like the writing, I've been going through dialogue really quickly just because I want to play the damn game.  I'd almost rather wait for an install.

I played this game for about an hour last night and maybe only actually played 15 minutes. The rest of the time it was people talking and talking and talking and talking and huge amounts of tutorials.

I was turned off to Okami because of this, FFXII did the same thing but with movies, Super Paper Mario did this, and apparently this game does it too.

And I don't understand why games fucking do this because it's so fucking aggravating. Look at something like FFVI, the game may have had terrible gameplay but what did you do in the first hour of that game?

• You met Vicks, Wedge, and Terra on that cool cliff
• You saw the awesome cut scene of them walking towards Narshe
• You had lots of fights with the cool Magitech armor
• You had a boss fight
• You ran around with Locke
• You had the multiple party fight with the moogles.

That is how you start an epic game like that.  What did you do in the first hour of Paper Mario: the Thousand Year Door?

• Read walls of text
• Play a few short battles constantly interrupted by tutorials

That is bullshit. I'm going to continue the game because it's so highly recommended but just know I'm silently shaking my fist in anger at it in my head.

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And I realize it may sound unfair to compare any game to one of the best RPG's and games of all time, but considering how highly recommended Paper Mario: the Thousand Year Door is, I consider it a fair comparison.

@ twesterm
Go play COD4 and you can take out your frustration by blowing a few guys away with the coolest weapons.

Funny enough, I considered playing CoD4 last night because I just wanted to play something after getting pissed off at Paper Mario but it was already 1AM and I was tired. 

Also, I knew that if I put down Paper Mario and start another game, I would likely never pick it up again and like I said, I want to finish the game.

Shouldn't you say "Magnum Opus" ?

Good pick with Paper Mario.

Play Beyond Good and Evil first. Then play the rest in the order they were released.

It really is a good game if you like shooters.

Good thing as well you can just play it for a while and then get into something else.

No big story to worry about. Try it you will really knock good fun out of it.

Also the checkpoints are quite forgiving.

I started it and I wasn't blown away by it.  It's good, but then again, I'm not an uber shooter fan.  I was getting frustrated early on because I kept shooting my own people in the early sniper mission.  :-p

Play Valkyria Chronicles first then go to Gamstop and pick up Tales of Vesperia.