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[Date of Lies]

I'm not a big SRPG player but I do like them. My favorite being Final Fantasy Tactics. I was burned with FFTA but I still played a while. Tactics Ogre wasn't bad, but I never killed the last boss.

What I want to know is how solid class development is. I want good clean development which gives you good reason to spend hours leveling up. I want interesting mixes in moves.

Damnit, I want a real sequel to FFT. This anime crap is turning me off, but the graphics look nice atleast. Hope the story has some relevence, not just some gigantic sweat drops, numeric symboles and characters falling down for no reason. Is the story atleast half serious?

 

[GaimeGuy]

do you have an N64?

 

[Dead]

Yes it is

 

[Date of Lies]

do you have an N64?

Where am I going to find Ogre Battle?

 

[GaimeGuy]

haha. You read my mind.

try the used games section at your local retailers. hopefully you'll come across it.

 

[Date of Lies]

haha. You read my mind.

try the used games section at your local retailers. hopefully you'll come across it.

I can try to track it down on ebay. The price is still reasonable. 8 cart-only Ogre Battles got posted up with 24.99$ as a starting bid: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8157750371&rd=1

So how good is Ogre Battle? Has it aged well?

FFT has aged impecably. One of the few PS1 games that have, along with SOTN.

 

[GaimeGuy]

I can try to track it down on ebay. The price is still reasonable. 8 cart-only Ogre Battles got posted up with 24.99$ as a starting bid: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8157750371&rd=1

So how good is Ogre Battle? Has it aged well?

FFT has aged impecably. One of the few PS1 games that have, along with SOTN.

OB64 is my favorite game of all time, next to Ocarina of Time.

That should tell you how good it is.

and 25 dollars for this gem is a steal. Get it

Edit: It's pretty easy, but very fun.

 

[Date of Lies]

I read a few reviews, looking fine. But what should I expect in terms of lenght?



Now I need my brother's credit card or something.

 

[Prospero]

OB64 took me about 60 hours to complete.

Disgaea is well worth your time, but OB64 is a better game.

 

[Hawksley]

Where do you see Disgaea for $50 CDN, exactly?

 

[beerbelly]

OB64 is severely dated and simple in design. I don't think you'll enjoy it as much as you would have back in 1999. Get Disgea...although I'm sure I've seen it cheaper else where. Look harder.

 

[Date of Lies]

Sorry but I've been looking for quite some time and there isn't any copies of this game anywhere, let alone under 69.99 or even 79.99 canadien.

Some guy is selling me the game for 55$ though.

 

[CO_Andy]

OB64 iz a really easy game after the beginning, but it has a fantastic story.

 

[beerbelly]

Check your pm Date of Lies.

 

[iapetus]

Yes, Disgaea is worth every penny/cent/dinar/rupee/rouble/markka/3 horn + 3 claw you pay for it. However much that is. For those in the UK, that's £20 from GAME at the moment. No excuse.

FFT has aged impecably

In the sense that it's still as fundamentally broken as it ever was, you're right.

Disgaea is also fundamentally broken, but it's fundamentally broken in better ways.

 

[Date of Lies]

read and replied, beerbelly.

iatpetus: Aside from the overpowered Cid character, how would you say the game is "broken"?

 

[belgurdo]

read and replied, beerbelly.

iatpetus: Aside from the overpowered Cid character, how would you say the game is "broken"?

Calculators and Samurai?

 

[Date of Lies]

Calculators and Samurai?

you think they're overpowered?

considering the game is a bit on the hard side, I didn't think they were that overpowered. Of course, I didn't make a team of 6 calculators or anything.

 

[iapetus]

Oh, you'll love Disgaea, then. Plays just as nicely if you choose to ignore the broken aspects of the game, but it really comes into its own once you start abusing what's on offer and power-levelling to a ridiculous extent, with plenty of alternative endings and special items to reward those who do.

Problem with FFT was that it wasn't intentional. Cid was overpowered, the learning curve on the game was all over the place (with most of it being trivial with a couple of missions where the difficulty spiked ludicrously - in one case to the extent that I'd lost the mission before I got a chance to do anything). Calculators were so abusive it wasn't funny as long as you have a basic grasp of maths. Who needs six? Just one is enough to leave the enemy screaming for mercy.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I liked FFT. Just think it was a bit overrated, when there are better and more finely tuned SRPGs out there.

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

Eh, I could never really get into Disgaea. I got to the bit where you had to get a level 10 item, and quit. 100 level dungeon stuff just really bores me at the moment. Also I felt that they just threw a bunch of extra crap in there to try and up the depth but ended up making it overly fussy. I just want an SRPG that is me pitting my parties abilities against the opposing teams abilities without all the colour squares and special effects squares etc.

Something between the utter simplisity of Shining Force and the throw everything but the kitchen sink in to make it appear like there's lots of gameplay approach of Disgaea would be nice.

3d chess never took off for a reason.

 

[ToxicAdam]

I think FFT shines so much because there was NOTHING like it on the PS1. So, even its flaws had to be overlooked, because it owned the genre on its platform.

I loved OB64 also, but found it too easy. I was an autopilot for 90% of that game. The SNES Ogre Battle gave me more difficulty.