Real nice Ushgarak. So you leave me alone for a bit, wait for me to send you a PM asking for a status on the situation, and then you go on to ban me.
Nepthys, that was 3 minutes and 4 minutes respectively. I'd imagine that the reviewer also selected that from footage of his entire playthrough, and was using it because it took a relatively longer amount of time than the others, to help him make his point. Anyway, perhaps it seems tedious when you're simply watching it in a review, but within the game where you're usually playing it in a matter of hours at a time, it really isn't that big a deal. The more powerful monsters also have a habit of letting you draw greater quantities something he failed to mention.
oh let me guess, you're gonna talk about how linear it is, as if the final fantasy series has ever been about exploration. ffxiii has the finest graphics to a game to date, the best battle system of the series, and a kick ass story. best game to come out in a long time.
Thats still way too long to be standing around getting your ass kicked by monsters (which you didn't mention, its more irritating trying to do it against actual threats, and takes longer since you have to heal etc). And there are about 20-30 spells in FF8, probably more. Thats about an hour and a half just mashing draw, not taking into account summons or that you have to restock after using them.
Thats called grinding.
And having actually plyed ff8, I can attest to its bullshittery.
I was playing a Black Mage. The few spells I had were too weak to be useful and failed more often than not, so I was doing more damage hitting things with my staff. I could not afford to buy more spells, and the scrolls were never for sale anyway. I could not party with my friends; doing so hindered me as they started playing before I did and were higher levels, and the entire party's xp gain was calibrated off of THEIR levels, instead of doing so individually as a sensible game will. Oh, and quests? I did the few I could. Most of them, I wasn't a high enough level to even attempt. And the low level enemies outside of the main city were still hard enough that I'd have to rest to heal after every one, and gave almost no exp.
Oh but you see, the painfully anti-fun difficulty and necessitation of hours grinding is what made it so good! If you didn't enjoy it you're simply not one of the elite, you plebe.
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Oct 20th, 2010 08:19 PM
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