...in a game 3 times as long, even!

But yeah, IX is the shit, one of my favorites.

VIII is just... I don't even know.

I don't remember how long it took me; it was years ago. Total guess. 40 actually sounds right.

But yeah, I agree VII had tons of story, and a good one at that, I just think that for a video game the amount of time they spent on the story was overdone. Even for FF, which is of course built mainly on story and should be expected, they went too far and almost completely replaced the actual gameplay of it with story.

FFIX was perfect because it had a thorough story, fully developed characters and character relationships (well, for the most part), and it was still overshadowed but the incredible amount of interactive things to do. VI had a similar balance, and was great for the same reason (as well as the first Legend of Legaia--probably my favorite RPG ever).

I have XII, but I didn't get very far. I don't remember anything specific I didn't like, but it was a bit boring so I never even got halfway through. I bought it along with the huge guide right when it came out, and then started getting sick of video games. I should go back and beat it. I got Disgaea 2 at the same time and bailed on that, also. That was a lot of money blown.

Woah, sorry. I haven't talked about RPGs in a long time. Forgot how much I had to say about them.

Disgaea 2 is probably my favorite game released for the PS2... probably my favorite game released on any console in years besides Twilight Princess. Just amazing, addicting, just.. wow.

I have to agree FFIX is pretty much a perfect game. The thing about VII is, they did that entire game in like 8 months. The shortest time they ever spent making a Final Fantasy game. So, even thought it may feel a bit awkward in places, I think that's understandable. Not trying to make excuses for it -- I am not in love with it, but I do consider it quite the achievement all things considered.

FFXII sucks so much. It took me months to beat that thing; there's a game that is ALL gameplay, and it's all shit. Ugh.

Also, I'm at the point now where I'm getting kind of sick of video games. I just bought Tales of Legendia, Dark Cloud 2, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Brigandine, Alundra 2, Granstream Saga, Chaos Field and Guilty Gear X in the past month...

And I just can't really get up the energy to play through any of them.. I'll start one and then just kinda go meh..

I don't know if I've played any of those (I'm pretty sure I haven't) but I know I've heard most of them are good. Granstream Saga rings a bell as a game I always really wanted and never got. That and whichever Grandia was on the PS1.

Disgaea 1 was fucking great. Most fun I've ever had in a game. Phantom Brave is a close second. The thing about D2 is that it changed so little from the first one. I felt like I was just playing D1 again, and I spent probably 100 hours on that one.

Oh wait. I got Guilty Gear XX Accent Core a while ago. It's fucking awesome, but I didn't play it much. I forgot all about it.

Oh, see, I played Disgaea 2 first, so I can see what you mean. I personally prefer Disgaea 2, because it has fucking TINK in it! TINK!!! WITH A BASEBALL BAT!! Disgaea 1's the shit though.

Phantom Brave is fucking awesome. Too bad the story kinda sucks. But the gameplay is great, I love combining phantom units with rocks and trees. It was reeeeeeally easy, I beat that entire game at level 236 in about 21 hours.

I have Makai Kingdom and it's pretty cool, I have La Pucelle but the action's a bit too slow. I need to get Soul Nomad at some point.

I actually never beat Phantom Brave. I got to the very last boss, and he was about 1000x harder than the previous level. I hate leveling up, and by that point the fun was starting to wane. I usually beat games at a ridiculously low level. I think I beat FFIX at level 35.

I watched my ex gf play through Makai and Pucelle (and Atelier Iris). We alternated Nippon Ichi games while that was all coming out. I think I got the best games, for sure. She texted me randomly once, way after we broke up, asking for advice on Disgaea. I guess she went out and bought it for herself after I took it with me. Heh.

Haha I have Atelier Iris. Not my thing, too many fetch quests.

My girlfriend loves Disgaea. I have a picture of her dressed up like Plenair actually, lemme find it real fast..

Haha yeah. I got a random text saying, "Hey, how do you teach your healer star?" Way to break the silence.

EDIT: Hah awesome pic. I miss having a gf who likes video games. I fear I will never find another.

Haha I had to rep you for that. "Way to break the silence."

Don't worry, lots of chicks like games.. it's just usually DDR or Pokémon. I know tons of chicks with DSes.

Did I already rep you? I still can't. I don't rep often, I guess.

There are girls that like video games, but my ex liked video games more than I do. Like way more. She had posters of Cloud and her current MySpace picture is of her Ninendo shirt. And she was hot. I had a lot of things to consider before we finally broke up. It was not easy.

I'm sorry man. That does have to suck. My girlfriend loves games, b-movies, "weird" music, all the shit I do. She always dresses up like video game characters. I'm lucky I guess.

Many resent you...There are too few of those on the market.

I'll keep that in mind.

I guess since I've been out of the dating scene for 5 1/2 years I don't really recall but yeah.. a lot of girls suck.

i'm kind of getting back into computer games after having barely played them for the last 7 or so years (aside from new zelda games), i bought a PS2 a few months ago and i'm kind of catching up