[General Discussion] What are you currently playing???

On that note: Anyone who has actually found a copy of Wild Arms 4 might want to hold onto it. I haven't seen it at any Gamestop I've been to for a good 2-3 months, new or used...I figured I'd pick it up eventually, but I didn't think it would dry up so fast (it only came out in January!) Could be the next Suikoden 2/Valkyrie Profile...

I finally finished Suikoden V for the second time...114 total hours later, good ending and all. So that means it's time to finally see if Suikoden IV was better or worse than its' made out to be...Thus far, I see I was wise to jump straight to V. Not very interesting characters, extremely boring fights (four man parties...in a SUIKODEN game!) and a bad plot twist that set up the next 2 hours or so of pure tedium. I'll play it to see if it gets better and because I want to see how it tied into V, but I don't think I'm going to worry much about collecting all 108 Stars of Destiny in this one unless it gets a LOT better.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I thought I saw Code F drop to $29 new. It's disappeared too, but WA4 had been gone before that (by only a month or so). I haven't seen either one show up used yet. I ended up picking up Suikoden IV a couple weeks ago just incase I hit a scenario where I wanted to play it and wouldn't have been able to find a copy (and it took 5 Gamestops before I actually snagged one...it's definitely gotten more rare over the past 5-6 months). I had actually planned on playing WA4 instead, but I can't find it locally and I already had Suiko IV so...Heh, decision made.

Rockgamer: You might be wise to do so. The publisher, XSeed Games, seems to be providing very low stocks of games. I didn't see Shadow Hearts For the New World either the other day and it's very recent. Don't think it will be as hard to find yet, but it doesn't seem like they're in any hurry to replenish sold supplies.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Okay, I stand corrected on Wild Arms 4...A CC a little further out had an entire rack of them. Then I went to an EB near there and found 4 display boxes out on the rack (and one of Code F). Maybe Gamestop shipped all of their stock over to EB? Needless to say, I bought it. The playable intro was nice, especially the Klonoa-like sequences. And the battle system is the entire reason I have interest in the game and it's about what I figured...Hopefully it will become more intuitive as the game goes on. But dammit...Now I'm actually ENJOYING Suikoden IV and I don't want to start up another RPG yet. The fighting has gotten better and stuff finally seems to be happening, so I can't wait to replace some of the cronies currently in my party with future team members. I wonder how long until Princess Flare becomes available as a playable character...Then again, I haven't had to sail much yet, so I might be playing WA4 sooner than I might think.

Small nitpick: Jude in WA4 sounds like the American version of Gohan (DBZ)

But still...An entire rack of WA4. And clearance means they're likely not restocking it. What if it IS the next Suikoden 2/Valkyrie Profile... $_$

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.