Psychic Dominator from Yuris Revenge. Not only did it turn your opponents own people against him but also did a shockwave about as powerful as a nuke attack. That's pretty badass.

Also, Strider Hiryuu's Cypher sword beats a lightsaber any day.

I actually think the Desolators were pretty badass. They could kill infantry instantly and damage vehicles. I put a few around the uninhabitaed parts of my base and no spies or engineers ever got to my buildings :milk:

Yum. I was a fan of Tesla Tanks rank 3...pretty lame, but it did the job. I really didn't like playing Yuri's team, but man oh man....when he had a clone army coming at me and I sent a half dozen dogs...yeah.

That's because once you get past the mind control, Yuri is really weak. When properly deployed the V3 rockets are very hard to beat (provided they have some support). There are too many cheap tactics to use in RA2, which is why when I read Computer Gaming World magazine, it always had people submitting RA2 tricks.

Oh don't get me started:

Tera Flare (FF VII) - Nothing like nuking the earth multiple times with Bahamut ZERO

Grand Cross (FF VIII) - Ultimecia/Edea (I forget) friggin' links her hands to two planets in outer space with electricity, then smacks the planets right onto you! W00T!

Eden (FF VIII) - I don't know what the hell this is, and why Ultima Weapon has it, but 30000 damage initially is nothing to laugh at.

Ark (FF IX) - Regretfully, despite his transformer's fancy red outer spacelaser show, a single swipe from Stener will do just as much as this...

Southern Cross (FF IX) - Necron unleashes the cosmic energy of four planets onto you inflicing you with lots of negative status and mega damage.

Meteor Impact (Disgaea) - crash!

Meteor Shower (Chrono Cross) - only a level 4 spell, but you can see my cosmic-themed obsession. Two meteors crash right into the enemy. To think, you can use this multiple times if you have several equipped.


The rape:
Empress Massacre (Valkyrie Profile) - and what massacre has been unfolded here! Iseria Queen slice and dices you SO many times with her angel stick, then creates a tornado, lifts you up, freezes, then smacks you back the floor. The funny part is the fact that it goes on for a while, and the developers made sure that the character died if you didn't have guts or auto item, hence e name, Empress Massacre!

Ether Strike (Valkyrie Profile) - Freya's finisher reports of upwards of 1000000 damage....yes 1 million

Favorite Spell would probably be summoning Anima and using the overdrive in FFX.

I also found Neo Bahamut to the most kick ass summon in FFVII. While some went too over the top (KoTR, Bahamut Zero), Neo Bahamut showed us how a summon should look.
And then there's Beta, when I finally got the Enemy Skill from the Midgar Zolom, I couldn't stop using it. It was the first attack I had that could do over 1000 damage consistently. I was a Beta whore and coudn't still can't resist using the attack for the awesome sound it produces.

No, not really. Boomers are the best navy unit in the game (you can build them very early on, they are unaffected by squids, have very tough armour, and combine 2 subs and a dreadnaught for half the price), and Gattling guns are the best (non-mass) anti-air weapons. Magnetrons can juggle 3-4 other tanks on the hands of an expert (plus they have huge range). Lashers are good medium tanks for their price, and UFOs can depower the WHOLE BASE. For base defense you can put gattling and lasher tanks in Tank Bunkers, it will increase their range, power, defense, and makes them fire about 3 times as fast. Virus troops are good anti infantry and Initiates are absurdly overpowered inside buildings (they can take out an apocalypse tank before it can fire back). That and Yuri also has much better economy (slave miners), and an infinite source of money using the Genetic Mutator and the Grinder.

Of course without Mind Control its much easier to overpower a Yuri player just with numbers alone.

Best attack / spell EVER
 

Self-explainitory. Of all the games you have played,w hich attack / spell had the best freaking animation and damage possibilities (or one of the two)?

For me, it would be the Erde Kaiser attack for XenoSaga I. It basially killed everything except for two bosses (Sophie Pethos and Proto Dora and had a several minute animation. It first assembled from it's parts in a very transformers fashion, and then, in slow motion, raised it's sword with the moon as a background and slashed down. During the attack itself, you saw this:
http://www.rpgdreamer.com/rpgworld/x...enosaga-84.jpg

Crappy picture, but all I could find.

Magus' spell in Chrono Trigger entitled Dark Matter i thought had a really good animation. That was the first 3-Desque thing i saw on a SuperNES.

I also really liked Lynx's Forever Zero in Chrono Cross. That was by far the coolest looking spell. Everyother one paled in comparison.

I love Squall's Lionheart in FFXIII. Especially since the only time i upgraded his gunblade was from the revolver straight to Lionheart, so i get that move almost ever time i use Renzokuken.

Those are the ones that stick out in my memory right now.

Pretty:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...gawingBomb.jpg

Cause RPGs ain't the only genre that gets impressive looking attacks.

I thought Giga Wing's attacks were kind of shitty actually.
Compared to Ibara

I could insert a million Disgaea attacks here, but there's only one which really stands out. Chrono Trigger, Antipode. I never used it because Magus' attacks are just so neat, but that was definitely one of the strongest attacks in the game. Too bad it required Marle, who is good for nothing.

Yeah Disgaea is enticing my brain too, since It's my current game. The flashier ones out of the many sexy attacks are:

Dimension Slash - roll, roll, roll, roll, freeze! SLICE THE BATTLEFIELD~!
Avalanche - lift, knock..TELEPORT! ...STA-STA-STA...STAB!~! Make a crater with the enemy's remains >=)
Terminus Omega - Crash into the wall...SCRAPE the enemy against the wall...throw down..energy fist!

Mages' Omega and Tera spells deserve honourable mention, more so for the fact that the mages giggle so playfully right before they wipe out the enemy with such an extravagant summon.


No, but for my current best attack ever:

Empress Massacre performed by the Iseria Queen in Valkyrie Profile.
You were meant to die from this pure angelic slice-em-up beatdown. Stabstabstabstabstabstabsbstab, sliceslicesliceslice, vortex, smackdown. So many hits <3...

I actually liked the Miracle Arts in Legend Of Legaia and the Miracle Arts in Legaia 2: Duel Saga (not sure if they are called Miracle in Legaia 2).

Anyways...those arts is just those things you watch and after its done you say "Damn...He just got his ass handed to him"

What a coincidence. I'm playing Legend of Legaia now.

I love the miracle arts too.

I also love the graphics of Shining Force 3 and Bolt spells.

Blaze 4 is my favorite graphical spell ever in SF3.

When you did the miracle art...did you say what i wrote...lol...or something in that matter?

Some of the best attacks that I saw, well.... I can't really remember.

I remeber Megaman X's Hadoken attack. I used it on Sigma and it was the funniest thing I ever saw.

I also remember Bahamuts Mega Flare in FFX. I really liked that too.

I didn't know he would be appearing in the next game :edgartpg:

My favorite: Ark and Eden from the Final Fantasy Series: Let's face it: Summoning a giant robot/mech, and ones that transform is awesome. If they could combine Ark's Transforming with Eden's over the top preperation, the summon would be a mini-movie of uber-awesome proportions, not to mention size :tpg:

To add to that: Sephiroth's "Supernova" - Come on, its a freakin attack that breaks planets! Too bad you didn't instakill from it.

Another very impressive attack comes from Xenosaga, some of Kos-Mos's attacks were just cool to watch, especially when she brought out the giant gun and pelted the enemy with bullets. The circles were a nice extra touch.

finally, in Tekken 4, there's this move where Steve Fox pulls back and then just slams you in slight slow motion. It was a very cool move that actually looked doable IRL.

wow........... yeah, i meant VIII. Terribly sorry.

I do also like this one spell in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, i think it's called comet. Well, yeah, it's so big, they don't even bother with the normal battle screen, it just happens on the map. It's pretty crazy.

The best attack/spell ever in my books is Geese's Raging/Raising Storm, from various games.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../GEESESVC2.JPG

When fighting games were new, he was the only character to come along and completely humble you. You knew right away that you weren't remotely in his league. The Raging Storm was only one of the reasons for that, but it was the most impressive looking as well.

I was always rather partial to Quan Chi's fatality in Mortal Kombat 4 where he rips off his opponents leg and beats him to death with it. I haven't seen it in ages, but in grade 5 I thought that was the coolest shit ever.

Although not as uber powerful, Shin Onimusha's Tenkai Nankobo had a move called "Enlightenment" where he whirls the spear around his body like a friggin' tornado, causing jagged and continuous damage. Perfect.

Vergil's Judgement Cut is slow but packs massive damage if used properly.

Too bad Quan Chi has to be one of the worst Mortal Kombat characters.

Actually disregard that, he isn't Sheeva.

FINAL ATOMIC BUSTER owns everything else, of course. Huge amount of damage and long enough animation for you to sneak a peek at your opponent's face. No other wimpy 720 move comes close.

It was also ridiculously hard to pull off in the middle of a match in the earlier games. That's partly what made it so cool.