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No picture, but the original Shining Force. Fighting Dark Dragon at the very end of the game, fighting the head, main guy is basically at zero health and I only need one hit to kill the dragon. Was super underleveled and I think I was like 11, so my strat skills weren't top notch. Anyway, I...

Yeah, Vanilla WoW certainly erred more along the path of "You need a warrior to tank" style shenanigans. The only plus side for WoW is that there are 8 classes and 5 spots to fill vs 14 classes and 6 spots during that era. Druids at least could competitively heal vs. priests after a couple of...

I mostly agree with you Lithose, but I want to touch on the "you need an enchanter" bit for a moment. I, and I would like to think the vast majority of sane people, have no problem with classes being better at certain things and creating synergy with other classes in ways beyond tank/healer/dps...

Norse is going to win every poll like this because when you have a pantheon of badasses with chainmail and swords and shit vs. dudes in Togas or Furries, the choice is simple.

Draw is/was a terrible mechanic. Though I will definitely say this: The card game as a minigame was f'n great. The downside being the "Random" modifier or whatever it was that the Queen of Cards had that basically forced you to only carry the best cards and to instantly refine mediocre or...

Ashe! er, Vaan! or maybe Basch? Regardless, someone with an Esper is going to summon shit inside my apartment when I'm sleeping for double damage to kill me. Zodiac spear up the yin-yang =\

FF8 has terrible mob scaling, with certain drops and only happening at specific levels combined with mobs gaining random abilities at certain levels. Combine with needing specific drops for weapons and you end up with a fairly obfuscated progression path with easy to miss tiers of gear thanks...

Just pointing out... kiting wasn't really used as a group tactic for the vast majority of the game's life (including early EQ) hence it was a community outcry for maintaining a path for some classes to be able to solo effectively. Just, you know, pointing that out. Also, WoW did not add...

FF8 really does have two sides to that coin, though. It is -very- easy to be underpowered for a large portion of the game thanks to early junction missteps. It is largely on the player, imo, but understanding that you need to junction the high HP shit first and -then- the high damage stuff in...

I would like to see Phantasy Star 2, Shining Force 2, and Ogre Battle(snes version) redone and updated for modern consoles, complete with sick FMVs and systems that compliment but don't detract from the original awesomeness of those titles. I am probably in the minority, but I don't think FF7...

Brahne eating it and Dagger going silent mode for the next several hours of gameplay. If you are invested in the characters (I may be the only one, but I was invested in Vivi/Steiner/Zidane/Dagger from like hour 4) it is an incredibly powerful scene and the repercussions are felt gamewide. The...

The top rated one is yeah. ie, Final Fantasy XII international zodiac job system ntsj. It's the one I'm currently plowing through with what I mentioned above. You might have to monkey with the graphics settings a bit but it should run NP when you get it to the sweet spot. I simply changed...

Get pcsx2 and the international .iso. Play the game. You most likely want to switch the gfx options to hardware so it doesn't crash every 5 seconds, but it has created zero problems with me. Except the fact that unlike most FFs that have multiple jobs, you can't switch your shit around and...

Like I said above: the people who dislike the fact that the storyline hasn't matured with the rise of technology generally praise 4/6 and deride everything from 7 on. It isn't that the story is worse. Cloud/Squall/Zidane/Lightning/Vaan/Tidus have substantially more defined character traits as...

Not pretending in the slightest. The vast majority of people who don't think the newer games are as good usually cite 6/4(mine are 6 and 9. hehehehe) as the best in the entire series. I said 6 was amazing and don't disagree, but claiming that the titles pre-7 were all amazing pieces of...

To be fair, that really is the best place to find information and worthwhile guides on just about every game ever made. I mean he could have directly linked the ff8 item transmutation guide (Here) But honestly, it's no different from saying let me google that for you. By linking the entire...

Alright Cantrell knows how to move forward while maintaining the sound better than Cornell and crew. Can't wait for the rest of this album to drop.

Not to have the super dissenting opinion, but I really think the simplicity of the characters of old compared to the complexities of modern characters is the turn off. As people, we -want- to see the knight in shining armor who saves the day. We -want- to see the princess that gets saved and...

Healers in VG, especially 3-6 months in, were retarded OP as classes. There was a cleric in my guild that could solo shit that three equally geared and equally skilled other players grouped simply could not due to class design. To this day I think BMs and Disciples are still ridiculously...

I loved the Etrian Odyssey games. The second one wasn't magical compared to the other two, but still solid. If are a fan of some fairly difficult fights with old school map making built into the game... You simply can't go wrong with those three.

Yeah, the palettes for everyone but Fran and Balthier were damn near identical if I remember right.

Yeah, the massive FF12 thread went into the nitty gritty on why Penelo/Vaan/Ashe were just simply better characters at endgame than the rest. It was open form for the majority of the game, but when you started hitting the higher level hunts (anything 45+) and especially around 70 (Gilgamesh et...

I played Dark Souls on the PC with a controller =| I am sure it was a shitty port, but if you have the equipment it really wasn't. It was fairly faithful otherwise. An xbox 360 controller makes a world of difference and should basically be required by games this generation. Hell, I can't...

Rezz casts Fear. Go away plz. I love the idea of a sandbox, but I abhor the idea that games need to be uninstanced to be viable. You can have both easily without requiring one or the other. Raid content is instanced, non-raid c ontent is not. Voila. Kick that shit up to 11 and call it a...

The spawning grounds of Township Rebellion as well as being a hotbed for HOSS hilarity makes it a win. The server was high-larry-ous.

For the win.

Agreed. When information starts to flow, this thread will go right into bonkersland. I look forward to that day. Personally I think the speculation is fun. It lets you decide what is the best path without having any concept of what is occurring so you can properly shit on things that don't...

Like me =| Asian grindfests are asian grindfests. Pretty graphics just disguise the grind initially.

Eh, I wouldn't say that the IP means nothing. I just want to get the idea that today's market doesn't have a whole lot of fucks to give for IPs of yesteryear. Which is effectively what EQ is. Had EQ1 required WoW style players, more than 50% of my "endgame" raiding guild would have been left...

Put dragons with weird resist patterns into the game. Hell, make that a staple of endgame raiding. Nothing uses disease till you end up with Zlexack 2x a raid. Mak ethat hard to overcome via gear but possible with passives. If you have killed Venril and you have owned Trak... poison should...

Convo is quickly becoming my favorite mmo forum poster. Also I am drunk so posting in this forum is hilarious at best. Tad/Super: Seriously guys, take off the shades and involve yourselves in the modern market. Shit is not the same as 1999.

Dawnguard was crap DLC. If that's the best, then apparently I don't buy enough DLC in a given year.

As someone who fell for the videogame mangina thing not once, but twice, I have to say that trusting the webz for that type of information is asking to be disappointed. I didn't think Evelys was a chick, I also didn't care wtf Evelys was or wasn't. I just want a stable home =|

Situational gear should be almost as important as generic gear. Sidegrades included. But instead of requiring you to wear a hauberk of frost resist, incorporate a passive bonus to frost resist by killing the fuck out of some ice dragons or something. I -love- the idea of passive bonuses. It...

VG had movement while casting. You were slowed way down in how fast you moved, but it didn't interrupt the spell. Goddamn that was a great idea and every game needs to copy it. Healing or no.

edit - lots of harsh words deleted. I'll state it clearly so that tad10 and supertouch can understand. EQ has a lot of market pull... with people who played EQ1. EQ2 is not EQ1. That market pull? Is entirely confined to people who played the original game and enjoyed that experience. The...

Interesting for sure. While I generally don't find the Warhammer Fantasy world nearly as entertaining as WH40K, with the total war guys being in charge of a fantasy license of this scope I am definitely intrigued.

Awesome. Loved Dark Souls and I would like to think the developers know why people love it. High hopes indeed.

No U. I made a statement, put something resembling effort into supporting it, and you respond with baseless insults. Put some effort into explaining why a 13 year old game is still relevant in today's market. Because EQ2? Isn't EQ1. It's WoW with a bastardized version of EQ's lore and 3...

Oh I'm not saying that it won't be popular with WoW players. My response was to tad's idea that a "lot" of people having played EQ means it is still relevant. Lots of people played Dragon Warrior/Quest 1 for the NES, but it doesn't make it remotely close to relevant in today's market...