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transience's top 50 games with writeups -- part 2, #17-#1.
| therealmnm | Posted 5/17/2007 11:20:07 AM | message detail | #051 |
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You aren't really supposed to be using the GFs for summoning anyways.
It's all about Junctioning. I just liked to show off the GF summons to
friends. I even wrote a parody about summons/GFs back in the day. Still
have it on my old computer. --- Currently playing: Guitar Hero 2, Gears of War, Saint's Row, SotN (XBLA), Burnout Revenge |
| transience | Posted 5/17/2007 11:21:17 AM | message detail | #052 |
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yeah, so I've heard. I never really learned exactly how to play FF8, mostly because I really, really didn't like the game. --- xyzzy |
| _Harmonica_ | Posted 5/17/2007 11:23:45 AM | message detail | #053 |
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FFVIII is easy to play! You spam GFs until you can get Aura spells. Then you start spamming limit breaks. --- In life you have to do a lot of things you don't ****ing want to do. Many times, that's what the **** life is... one vile ****ing task after another. - Al Swearengen |
| therealmnm | Posted 5/17/2007 11:34:45 AM | message detail | #054 |
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FFVIII is easy to play! You spam GFs until you can get Aura spells. Then you start spamming limit breaks. Wrong! You spam draw points, enemies, etc., for spells, use your GFs abilities (Card Mod FTW) to get even more powerful spells, and then junction those spells to your stats. Then simply hold X for battles. --- Currently playing: Guitar Hero 2, Gears of War, Saint's Row, SotN (XBLA), Burnout Revenge |
| Kaxon | Posted 5/17/2007 1:32:43 PM | message detail | #055 |
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The problem with FF VIII is that you just spend soooo much time drawing. I could have enjoyed it if not for that. --- "Kaxon is a joke account!" - MoogleKupo141 "Kaxon = Kleenex = _kro" - Redtooth |
| FfamranBunansa | Posted 5/17/2007 3:07:55 PM | message detail | #056 |
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That's why you set your GFs to learn Refine abilities and you learn
Card Mod as quickly as possible. It saves you a lot of time so you
don't have to draw all the time. Seriously, you can learn Siren's Life
Magic Refine fairly early on, and then it takes 10 Tents to have 100
Curagas. BAM! --- "Such high hopes I once had...but you ran, and they with you! Alas, your return is too late! Come, Ffamran! Revel in the glory of my triumph!" |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 4:45:17 PM | message detail | #057 |
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#14: Final Fantasy X Year: 2001 System: PS2 Developer: Square objectively, I'd call X the best in the FF series. it's got easily the best battle system and the best ability system in the sphere grid. your characters in FF10 are unique at first, but can be customizable once they get out of their paths. I love this mix. it's also got the best world in Spira, a place that feels really alive when compared to other console RPGs. I think my favourite part of FF10 is the interaction between the playable characters. the whole pilgramage thing is really a great way to develop a cast and FF10 does this beautifully. I may not like each individual character, but I do always enjoy the scenes where they're just chatting back and forth. Wakka's racism or whatever you call it, Rikku's perkiness, Lulu's blunt nature, Tidus's.. uh.. cluelessness?, and Yuna's determination are all really fantastic. I also love the personality they show when they're interacting in battle. it's really lame stuff, but I enjoy it nonetheless. FF10 also has some great boss fights, with the Seymour fights being particularly good. I also like Evrae a bunch. the downside to FF10? well, the linearity is just painful. it seriously is just a straight line. there's no such thing as a dungeon in FF10, it's just walk towards the blinking arrow until you hit the next screen, and then repeat. I didn't mind it so much my first time through, but on successive replays it's really boring. and now, I draw FF10 in ascii form! ------AUGH MY OLD MAN------------Temple-----------------SIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNN !!----------------Seymour------------------Temple------------------SIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNN !!---------> (repeat x4) the result is that FF10 has relatively low replay value. you can fabricate some replay value by doing various challenges involving the battle system and the sphere grid, but otherwise it's kinda boring until you get aways in when you get some more battle options. I don't find the battle system to be particularly fun to play with until you get to Macalania or so, because until then it's kinda standard fare. ("a flying enemy? better bring out Wakka!") once you get there though, it's a good time all the way to the end, even on replays. there's some optional stuff you can do towards the end and the monster arena is pretty cool, but catching monsters is tedious. and I didn't even mention the quests to get the ultimate weapons, which are borderline stupid. overall, it takes too long for the game to get nonlinear, and then when it does there's always one or two drawbacks to all the quests you can do. the other main flaw of course is the voice acting, which ranges from awkward (Yuna) to nerdy and annoying (Tidus). I enjoy most everyone else's voice though and it adds to the characters' personalities. Wakka's "ya", Auron's overall cliche badassness, Lulu and Rikku.. yeah, good stuff. too bad Tidus and Yuna have all of the lines though -- god, it's impossible to really enjoy Tidus when listening to his voice actor. I find that I like him better when thinking about him instead of actually watching him work his magic. fix the painful linearity and this game is probably in my top 5. it's still really really good, just not as amazing as it could have been. --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| therealmnm | Posted 5/17/2007 4:52:16 PM | message detail | #058 |
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I don't find the battle system to be particularly fun to play with
until you get to Macalania or so, because until then it's kinda
standard fare. ("a flying enemy? better bring out Wakka!") once you get
there though The force is strong in this one. --- Currently playing: Guitar Hero 2, Gears of War, Saint's Row, SotN (XBLA), Burnout Revenge |
| LegendarySnake | Posted 5/17/2007 4:53:25 PM | message detail | #059 |
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the result is that FF10 has relatively low replay value. Are you kiddin' me? I probably replay FFX more than any other RPG I own. Well, to each his own, I suppose. And I still maintain that J.A. Taylor did a great job with Tidus. --- "I never felt truly alive until I was staring death in the face." "I'll die...after I kill you." |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 4:55:17 PM | message detail | #060 |
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FFX-2 has about ten times the replay value of FFX. of course, it's about 1/100th of the game that FFX is, but that replay value means a lot to me, and thus it just missed my list. --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| Whit3_Rabb1t | Posted 5/17/2007 5:09:23 PM | message detail | #061 |
| Prediction: I have only played two of Tranny's top 13 games. And one of them is Zero Mission. |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 5:10:38 PM | message detail | #062 |
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if that's all of my top 13 you've played, you either haven't played some real classics or dislike RPGs. (also possible) --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| Giggsalot | Posted 5/17/2007 5:12:02 PM | message detail | #063 |
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Will Giggs have played any or will he revel in his youth and ignorance? Read on to find out! --- The nature of Monkey was... irrepressible! http://www.last.fm/user/giggsalot/ |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 5/17/2007 5:12:06 PM | message detail | #064 |
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You know, I used to know your top 10, but that's when FF9 was on it.
Not sure what replaced it there, but I could probably pick out 10 of
the remaining 13 games here. --- Sign up to nominate Gilgamesh for SC2k7! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34669782 |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 5:12:46 PM | message detail | #065 |
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yeah, if anyone knows my top games, it's you. you saved that one list of mine from a long time ago! --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| Whit3_Rabb1t | Posted 5/17/2007 5:13:02 PM | message detail | #066 |
| It's not that I dislike RPGs, it's just that I've only recently acquired a PS2/Ps1 and I have been kind of avoiding the RPGs because there are so damn many of them and I don't know where to start. |
| Whit3_Rabb1t | Posted 5/17/2007 5:13:53 PM | message detail | #067 |
| Oh and SNES was my first console. |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 5:14:03 PM | message detail | #068 |
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good places to start, if you're interested: PS1: FF7 PS2: FFX, Shadow Hearts: Covenant Gamecube: Tales of Symphonia SNES: Chrono Trigger, FF6 --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 5/17/2007 5:17:20 PM | message detail | #069 |
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Alright, let's see. I know Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy IV are on there (sup 6 versions of each game). Chrono Trigger's on there too. Obviously Zero Mission and Super Metroid. Shadow Hearts, and Covenant as well as Xenogears. That's eight. Hmmm. Xenosaga 3 maybe? I haven't been paying super-close attention, but if that's not on the list yet, it's gonna be showing up soon. Phoenix Wright 1 should be up here too, I think. Well, that's 10. Tetris'll probably be up there too. Dunno about the other two, but if I thought about it a bit more I might be able to figure them out. --- Sign up to nominate Gilgamesh for SC2k7! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34669782 |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 5:27:17 PM | message detail | #070 |
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wtf spoilers now if you're really good you'll guess what's next --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| Super Destroy | Posted 5/17/2007 5:27:23 PM | message detail | #071 |
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Time to play catch-up. Zork! Mega-indie cred there. Althoughlower than I would have thought. DDR was expected. Lode Runner, great choice. More RPGs, meh. --- Hardcore™ - We'll probably be modded for this... (>ò_ó)>---{[=(>x_x)> |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 5:28:01 PM | message detail | #072 |
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if I make this list two years ago, Zork's in my top ten. no joke. I used to play it every week for no reason whatsoever. --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| Super Destroy | Posted 5/17/2007 5:30:33 PM | message detail | #073 |
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Why'd it drop so much? Better games or did it finally start to get old? --- Hardcore™ - We'll probably be modded for this... (>ò_ó)>---{[=(>x_x)> |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 5/17/2007 5:31:18 PM | message detail | #074 |
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Alright, next is gonna be PW1. --- Sign up to nominate Gilgamesh for SC2k7! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34669782 |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 5:31:23 PM | message detail | #075 |
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ever play Zork? it's not gameplay, it's memorization. at a certain point it's no different than a typing tutor. --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 5:33:05 PM | message detail | #076 |
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heck, i don't even have to look at the game n, n, u, get egg, d, s, s, open window, w, open sack, get garlic, w, open case, get all, move rug, open trap, d, n, kill troll with sword, drop sword, again, again, e, e... --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| TheKnightOfNee | Posted 5/17/2007 5:40:13 PM | message detail | #077 |
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Open sack? Arg.... Stupid me, always trying to get sack and such. --- Sushi, Kamikaze, Fujiyama, Nippon-Ichi... "i love you and aiya" - An IM from Richie259. Awww. |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 5:41:12 PM | message detail | #078 |
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inside has the garlic! you use it to get past the evil bat dude who otherwise brings you to certain death or an infinite loop! --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 5/17/2007 5:44:01 PM | message detail | #079 |
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Heh, I had to make a slimmed down version of Zork for one of my Assembly Language projects last year. --- Sign up to nominate Gilgamesh for SC2k7! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34669782 |
| Not Dave | Posted 5/17/2007 6:01:50 PM | message detail | #080 |
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hey, at least ffx isn't any higher --- the man |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 6:04:12 PM | message detail | #081 |
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#13: Chrono Trigger Year: 1995 System: SNES Developer: Square Chrono Trigger is incredibly fun because the plot and level design are really simple. I really enjoy CT for its minimal world design. for a game that has a fairly large scope and several different eras, there's only a couple small town and dungeon areas in each. if this game was made today, it'd probably have a huge world with all kinds of stuff going on, and that would really ruin CT's charm. anyone that claims CT is a complex game is flat-out wrong. it's simple and fun to play. the other thing I like about the game is that it has a perfect difficulty level. I also love the balance between the characters. you can ask anybody what party they used in CT and you'll almost always get a different answer. I find that kind of balance really impressive, that each character has their own strengths and weaknesses and no one party is 100% correct. kudos to the developers for pulling that off. my favourite part of CT? I'm not really sure, but I find CT incredibly addicting from around the time you get Frog to the end of Zeal. it's practically the entire game, I know, but it's just all so much fun to play. my least favourite part of the game is absolutely the end when the game gets nonlinear. I don't enjoy doing all of the sidequests and Lavos is pretty freaking difficult if you don't have optimal equips. I like a couple of the sidequests (Geno Dome, Black Omen) but the rest just don't really appeal to me very much. plus they're just a lot harder if you don't do them in some kind of logical order. CT is just about perfect up to that point on the difficulty scale (except the Golem Twins -- AUGH) and it really boosts from then on. it's not hard if you fight a lot or know what you're doing, but I don't do either of those. yeah, I think this game is brilliant. its simple nature means that I love to replay it, even though I sometimes don't finish it due to not caring for the end. I'm not sure what about it is so much fun, but damn, once I start playing it I just can not stop. Trigger is more than the sum of its parts, and there's something about it that just makes me smile whenever I play it. I think that's awesome and not many games can make me feel that way. --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 5/17/2007 6:05:00 PM | message detail | #082 |
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Bah, I fail. I thought CT would be a bit higher than that. --- Sign up to nominate Gilgamesh for SC2k7! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34669782 |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 6:06:53 PM | message detail | #083 |
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you can keep trying! --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 5/17/2007 6:11:48 PM | message detail | #084 |
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1. Metroid Zero Mission 2. Xenogears 3. Final Fantasy 4. Shadow Hearts 5. Super Metroid 6. Tetris 7. Final Fantasy IV 8. ??? 9. Shadow Hearts: Covenant 10. Xenosaga III 11. ??? 12. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Gogogo. --- Sign up to nominate Gilgamesh for SC2k7! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34669782 |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 6:12:51 PM | message detail | #085 |
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??? kicks SH2's ass. --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 5/17/2007 6:13:21 PM | message detail | #086 |
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Darn you mystery game #1. --- Sign up to nominate Gilgamesh for SC2k7! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34669782 |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 5/17/2007 6:16:21 PM | message detail | #087 |
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Oh, Mystery Game #2 is Portrait of Ruin. --- Sign up to nominate Gilgamesh for SC2k7! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34669782 |
| HeroicElectrode | Posted 5/17/2007 6:18:00 PM | message detail | #088 |
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Chrono Trigger is awesome. I never got bored of it, it was never too
easy but never too hard, and the game didn't drag on too long, either.
Everything about CT was perfect for what it was meant to be, and I
totally agree with the sense that the minimalist, yet still deep,
universe was exactly what the game should have been. --- Naye745 BZZ! |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 7:28:53 PM | message detail | #089 |
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#12: Final Fantasy IV Year: 1991 System: SNES Developer: Square holy crap square fanboy in tha house FF4 is a game I have unlimited memories with. before the whole world got spoiled on Aeris, I got spoiled on Golbez in 1991. I still haven't forgiven the bastard for dropping that on me. I remember renting this game (I got a SNES because I saw this game was out) and getting up at about 4 in the morning so I could play it. I was amazed by its graphics and how much better they were from the original, which is just funny to say today. I remember getting to a certain point (the moon) and running out of time, returning it and re-renting it a few weeks later, only to get to the same spot. ahh, those were the days. Final Fantasy IV is really awesome because, like Suikoden, the game's plot just moves. 15 hours and an entire story is told. I love that. I also like its story, which to me is the ultimate good vs. evil plot in an RPG. it's not the greatest thing, but I enjoy that aspect of it because it moves the plot along very nicely. I love FF4's five-character system and its unique characters. unique characters are a big thing to me and FF4 was the first game I'd played that had storyline characters that were unique in battle. FF4 also has some amazing boss fights. the battle system isn't the greatest and it's fairly broken, but the awesome boss fights make me love it regardless. I love Baigan for some reason, Evil Wall is a great test of your strength, Rubicant is an awesome fight and the Four Fiends is my favourite boss battle in the entire series. I even enjoy some of the optional fights, like Plague or Ogopogo. flaws for FF4? I... I'm not really sure. the battle speed is all kinds of messed up, to the point that the FF4 Advance port tried to add ATB bars and completely broke the speed of the game. I love how you can get a preemptive strike which means you'll only get hit three times before you move instead of five. I wish there was a way to fix this without nerfing the difficulty of the game, but there probably isn't; hell, it's even charming in its own silly way. I guess you could criticize the incredible spike in difficulty when you hit the last dungeon, but that's also something I'm completely used to. basically, FF4 is a flawless RPG to me. I have nothing I can complain about. --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| ZFS | Posted 5/17/2007 7:29:54 PM | message detail | #090 |
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aww yeah to these last three games --- Called "Godslayer" by some, feared by most. |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 5/17/2007 7:30:05 PM | message detail | #091 |
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Oh wow, that sucker dropped. --- Sign up to nominate Gilgamesh for SC2k7! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34669782 |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 7:31:29 PM | message detail | #092 |
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it looked ??? in the face and was like '...crap.' --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| SHINE GET 64 | Posted 5/17/2007 7:32:06 PM | message detail | #093 |
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Ninja Gaiden II must be really high on this list! or not on it at all, but I can't imagine tranny doing a such great injustice to us all --- SHINE. The Cream of Mega Man Fanboyism. Pokemon Diamond FC: 3952 3486 0222 |
| KleenexTissue50 | Posted 5/17/2007 7:32:37 PM | message detail | #094 |
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Well then, drop FFIV down to 12 and bump everything else up one on my list. --- Sign up to nominate Gilgamesh for SC2k7! http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs9/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=34669782 |
| Janus5000 | Posted 5/17/2007 7:32:52 PM | message detail | #095 |
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aw yeah last rpgs on this list I've actually played Good choices, too. --- http://www.scorehero.com/scores.php?user=2916&diff=4 IT'S SOME KIND OF A TEXAS PSYCHOBILLY FREAKOUT THAT'S WHAT IT IS |
| Super Destroy | Posted 5/17/2007 7:44:28 PM | message detail | #096 |
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More RPGs. --- Hardcore™ - We'll probably be modded for this... (>ò_ó)>---{[=(>x_x)> |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 7:56:49 PM | message detail | #097 |
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if you insist! --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| therealmnm | Posted 5/17/2007 8:09:50 PM | message detail | #098 |
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Ninja Gaiden II is on my list SHINE. I'm cool like that. --- Currently playing: Guitar Hero 2, Gears of War, Saint's Row, SotN (XBLA), Burnout Revenge |
| trannyscience | Posted 5/17/2007 8:10:54 PM | message detail | #099 |
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Ninja Gaiden's fun from time to time, but I wouldn't call it a great
game. it's too annoying for me to play more than a few levels
regularly, either. it's not really the fun kind of difficulty. --- i do not violation any rules "I'm abusing my powers and locking this stupid topic." - Kaas |
| therealmnm | Posted 5/17/2007 8:14:07 PM | message detail | #100 |
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That's because you can't handle the power of 2 ninja doppledangers plus Windmill Shurikens! --- Currently playing: Guitar Hero 2, Gears of War, Saint's Row, SotN (XBLA), Burnout Revenge |
