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GAF recommendation II - Phantom Brave and Disagea?

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Odnetnin

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Let's see if I'm going to burned by the great GAF recommendation game again :) See topic, I was wondering if I should pick these babies up and at what prices would they be worth the price of entry. So far GAF recommendations that I've fallen for:


Odnetnin's GAF hit/miss recommendations
Mark of KRI - Fawful
Maximo - Fawful
DMC - Fawful
Gitaroo Man - currently under assessment of death. No one mentioned it was THIS hard
ICO - Bomba
PNO3 - I was happy with it. Okay for a B title
VJ - Great title. Too hard
Z.O.E - Miss... where's the fun
POP SOT - Fawful

I do like Ogre Tactics, FFT, FFTA, Front Mission games.

Fawful = f***ing awful
 
Phantom Brave is apparently $20 right now at Gamestop, according to this thread, so it's less risky if you don't like it.

I personally prefered Disgaea myself, although I haven't played a lot of Phantom Brave yet.
 
I'll be sure to tell you when I finally open my Disgaea, Phantom Brave, and La Pucelle. Which will be probably never.
 
If you like strat RPGs with lots and lots of numbers and levelling and all that stuff (i.e. if you are a stat whore), then you'll probably love Disgaea. If not, you probably won't.

Pretty straightforward, I think.

And Z.O.E. sucks. Z.O.E. 2 was the good one. :D
 
Odnetnin said:
Mark of KRI - Fawful
Maximo - Fawful
DMC - Fawful
Gitaroo Man - currently under assessment of death. No one mentioned it was THIS hard
ICO - Bomba
PNO3 - I was happy with it. Okay for a B title
VJ - Great title. Too hard
Z.O.E - Miss... where's the fun
POP SOT - Fawful
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You suck.
 
MoxManiac said:
Hard to say. You call Maximo awful, making it obvious you have no taste :P
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dunno. I couldn't get into the gameplay. Control seemed off and the camera seemed to want to warp around/shake and it make me feel nauseus. It does do that too.. When you walk in a straight line in Maximo, the camera just moves around a bit too much. Sold it off after 2 weeks. Not for me. The games I picked up off GAF recommendations often get great word of mouth... anyhow.
 
Odnetnin said:
Odnetnin's GAF hit/miss recommendations
Mark of KRI - Fawful
Maximo - Fawful
DMC - Fawful
Gitaroo Man - currently under assessment of death. No one mentioned it was THIS hard
ICO - Bomba
PNO3 - I was happy with it. Okay for a B title
VJ - Great title. Too hard
Z.O.E - Miss... where's the fun
POP SOT - Fawful
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Mark of Kri - agree
Maximo - strongly disagree
DMC - agree
Gitaroo Man - haven't played it
ICO - I thought it was boring. I stopped about an hour into it.
PN03 - agree
VJ - agree, but I don't think its "too" hard
ZOE - agree
POPSOT - haven't played it

I have both Disgaea and Phantom Brave but I've yet to play either of them. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't completely live up to the GAF hype though (and lets face it Disgaea got a lot of it).

Why not try Y's VI: The Ark of Napishtim? We seem to have similar tastes. I'm digging what I've played so far.
 
Odnetnin said:
Let's see if I'm going to burned by the great GAF recommendation game again :) See topic, I was wondering if I should pick these babies up and at what prices would they be worth the price of entry. So far GAF recommendations that I've fallen for:


Odnetnin's GAF hit/miss recommendations
Mark of KRI - Fawful
Maximo - Fawful
DMC - Fawful
Gitaroo Man - currently under assessment of death. No one mentioned it was THIS hard
ICO - Bomba
PNO3 - I was happy with it. Okay for a B title
VJ - Great title. Too hard
Z.O.E - Miss... where's the fun
POP SOT - Fawful

I do like Ogre Tactics, FFT, FFTA, Front Mission games.

Fawful = f***ing awful
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Posting to produce evidence that you have the most worthless taste in videogames. The fact that you called DMC "Fawful" and then called PNO3 "Okay for a B title" illustrates point perfectly. Solidifed. Entered into dictionary of shitty tastes.
 
sp0rsk said:
maximo?

how can you call that game awful?
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Odnetnin said:
dunno. I couldn't get into the gameplay. Control seemed off and the camera seemed to want to warp around/shake and it make me feel nauseus. It does do that too.. When you walk in a straight line in Maximo, the camera just moves around a bit too much. Sold it off after 2 weeks. Not for me. The games I picked up off GAF recommendations often get great word of mouth... anyhow.
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and for a next gen version of Ghost and Goblins... it felt like something was missing. Dunno.. maybe its just me. I tried to like it but ... :slinks away
 
Odnetnin said:
and for a next gen version of Ghost and Goblins... it felt like something was missing. Dunno.. maybe its just me. I tried to like it but ... :slinks away
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so far youve only talked about aestetic aspects of the game and nostalgia.

"Couldnt get into the gameplay" doesnt fly with me. Do you not like action games? There's nothing wrong or bad about the "gameplay" in maximo. Sure its not as complex as DMC3 but its still is fairly fast paced, also has some really well pulled off platforming elements (better implemented than most 3d platformers). The continue system also provides a good amt of difficulty as well, without making it ridiculously difficult.

You say "fucking awful" and yet you dont even give real reasons as to why it was so bad. Either this is an example of poor word choice or you're just wanting attention. Perhaps you were just in the wrong mindset when you played the game. Just saying "i couldnt get into it" says to me that you just werent in the mood to play it. Anyway, sounds more like an ignorant viewer more than it does an incompetant artist.
 
If he didn't like it, he didn't like it. Forget exactly why and move on.

I didn't think Ico was any good either. Maybe I was missing something but I was bored out of my mind. I quickly lost interest. I maybe spent $6 on the game total so I wasn't burned too badly. Managed to sell it off to some chump for $10, netting me a cool $4.

Phantom Brave is a decent SRPG. I haven't played an SRPG since I was playing Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics. There have been a lot of gameplay changes that in my opinion, are rather hit and miss. I don't like how characters only have five turns. I suppose that is made for other characters to get their time to attack but I just don't like it. Disgaea is too expensive. I noticed it was used at my local EB for $39. Maybe when its $10 cheaper. I don't care how good it is, its too costly at the moment.
 
sp0rsk said:
so far youve only talked about aestetic aspects of the game and nostalgia.

"Couldnt get into the gameplay" doesnt fly with me. Do you not like action games? There's nothing wrong or bad about the "gameplay" in maximo. Sure its not as complex as DMC3 but its still is fairly fast paced, also has some really well pulled off platforming elements (better implemented than most 3d platformers). The continue system also provides a good amt of difficulty as well, without making it ridiculously difficult.

You say "fucking awful" and yet you dont even give real reasons as to why it was so bad. Either this is an example of poor word choice or you're just wanting attention. Perhaps you were just in the wrong mindset when you played the game. Just saying "i couldnt get into it" says to me that you just werent in the mood to play it. Anyway, sounds more like an ignorant viewer more than it does an incompetant artist.
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did you miss my comments on floaty camera + lack lustre control. One comment about GnG does not equate to Nostalgia or Aesthetics (and while we're at that.. it was an ugly game too) I did have a problem with the way it didn't seem to be a good platform camera engine and I did play if for the better part of 3-4 hours. I just didn't think it was great. Okay maybe not fucking awful but it wasn't great and from the level of GAF hype... it should have been. Oh wait. Why the fuck am I going down this apologist path. The game just wasn't that good. If I can say DMC is Fawful than Maximo is the same. And oh its action elements? It didn't as though it was a fun game. It played like any other generic platformer except you could use weapons, do down thrusts and attack. I had more fun with Ratchet and clank and even the first Jak and Daxter (and that says a lot about what I think of Maximo; especially since I hate JnD). Compared to either of those... Maximo is rubbish

I had it for 2 weeks. Plenty of time to access a title but it seemed so generic.
 
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