[General Discussion] Titles you just can't get into

I'm sorry everyone, but I'll have to put down Vagrant Story. Now all the RPG fans will kill me. It's hard, complicated, and leaves me going WTF most of the time. I also find that this is probably one of the most dark, both emotional and physically speaking, games from Square that I've played.

I'm also not a fan of how you have to be absolute PRO at basically your timing skills with the combos. You've basically got to get your timing of the hits down to a science, or an art, to yield maximum damage before. I feel like I'm so underpowered, and that same boss is still wasting me like holy shit.

Another thing is the whole RISK factor, which I can understand, but I can't seem to master this. I do tend to button mash, which is probably why the risk keeps increasing, causing my damage to the enemies to decrease, while exposing myself for a counterattack.

I'm sure Vagrant Story is a great game. Hell, very few Square titles have disappointed me, and VS doesn't disappoint - it's just ... something I can't get into, and it's not newb friendly.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Ultima

I bought Virtual On: MARZ for PS2 a while ago and its just terrible. I can't even play it. I don't know if it's so much I can't get into it than it's a terrible game.

It's not you, it's the game. I tried this game when I was in a shop in Ginza, Tokyo, and at that time I was like, what the hell is this game? Why isn't this fast pace and fresh as the original 2 character fighter? The controls were sluggish, the mechs slow, and it was like you're fighting in a giant jar of molasses.

So yeah, I don't blame you if you can't get into that piece of crap game.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Ayos

And I refuse, flat-out REFUSE, to get into World of Warcraft. I just say no.

After wanting to find out what this whole "FIFTY DRAGON KILL POINTS MINUS" dealy was that was floating around on the internet, I took it up upon myself to see that this was basically the 40 some member raid on the Dragon Onyxia, which from what I hear is one of the most difficult monsters to take on. I mean, 40 fricken people to take down 1 monster.

At any rate, I looked up some youtube links and watched some 12 minute video of them raiding it. EVEN GROUPS LEFT, ODD GROUPS RIGHT, DOTS VERY SLOWLY PLEASE. I have to say I was both confused and bored at the same time. So I see the guy cast like this magic at the thing, along with 39 other dudes doing the same thing. I was like okay. Then he said STOP. So everyone stops. I'm assuming you can't piss off the dragon too much or else it will dish out super attacks or something, and make the dragons aggro unbearable. So they sit there for like 1 minute just curing themselves or whatever, then he says START!

I don't think I could really bother with these kinds of things. I'm sure it takes a lot of coordination and skill to attack such a beast, but at the same time much of World of Warcraft looks a lot of "rinse and repeat" type stuff (which I could say the exact same thing for FFXII, but anyways).

Again I've actually never played 1 minute of WoW ever in my life, so perhaps I don't quite see what's so addicting about it, which turns to another point why I don't want to start, after hearing so many horror stories of people turning basically into computer potatos glued to this game.

How ya doing, buddy?

So like did you know what you were doing during those 5 - 10 minutes? I'd probably end up using some black magic spell against myself LOL. Oh what does this button do? :kills entire party:

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

In regards to Valkyrie Profile 1, I can totally see where the "non fans" of this game are coming from. After playing for about 2 or 3 hours on December 24, 2005 - which happened to be when this Ebay purchase came, I was already ready to go WHAT THE HELL DID I SPEND $100 USD FOR? I thought the pacing was weird, the story was somewhat lacking, and you're just following one place to the next according to your "Lenneth Spidey Sense goes tingling".

But then something in side me said, well this is just the beginning, there HAS to be something that the fans of this series like so much about it. So I decided to stick with it, and after beating my first dungeon, I was like okay, I got the hang of this. One thing I always feared was that I'd run out of periods, however, this wasn't the case. For the latter part of the game for chapters 5 to 8, I actually had MORE than enough periods to take care of business.

In short, despite a rocky start in the game, I'm glad I stuck with it and beat it. Maybe next year I might take a crack at this game again, this time on hard to get the flame jewels.

How ya doing, buddy?