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ghostribbon
Joined: 27 Jun 2009
Location: NEO KENYA
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 Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:30 am |
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| GrouchoClub wrote: |
| I started playing Dark Cloud, mostly because the main tv in the house was already in use and so I was making do with my lil' deuce coup SD and PS2. I kind of like the setup with items so far: The mayor of your town gives you the stuff you'll need, but you only get one of each thing, so it becomes a little resource management dealy. It's definitely a collectathon (and spiritual sequel to Act Raiser?) and the combat is really really shallow, but I dunno...it's kinda just pleasant. |
That's one of my favorite PlayStation 2 games. I really enjoy those shallow action RPGs/dungeon crawlers. There's a goddamn hell of a lot of grinding, though, and items don't stack, which gets incredibly annoying after a while. A lot of people give up before completing the first dungeon because you're stuck with mediocre weapons that take a lot of time to upgrade, which means you spend quite a long time in that one dungeon. Once you get past it, though, upgrading your weapons becomes easier (especially in the third dungeon, since the backfloor key can be bought), so the later dungeons don't feel as long and drawn out.
(If you don't know, the mayor stops giving you free items after you complete the old gaffer's shop, so make the most of it while you can.) |
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ghostribbon
Joined: 27 Jun 2009
Location: NEO KENYA
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:00 am |
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| Loki Laufeyson wrote: |
| after about 15 minutes of the most generic rpg dialogue i'd ever seen with no end in sight, and not even a single second of actual gameplay, i deleted ragnarok ds. |
Seriously. I've played about three hours of it (over the past couple of days), and so far, it's been nothing but fetch quests, incredibly shitty dialogue, and party members getting stuck on minor obstructions. I've been trying to tough it out, because I like the job system, but it's really grating on me (there's a status effect -- blind -- that zooms the camera in all the way so you can't see shit, and the enemies that can inflict this status effect on you are everywhere, it's driving me crazy). Other annoyances: you can't freely explore the world, you can't walk around towns (it's menu-based), you have to use the stylus for pretty much everything (you can't even use the face buttons to progress the god-awful dialogue), you have to find the maps when you enter a new area (the screen is small, and it's easy to get lost, so this can be a big deal), and you can't customize your character.
I guess I was naive to think that this would be a good game. I had actually been looking forward to this because, every biennially or so, I'll have the urge to play Ragnarok Online again (it's the only MMORPG I'm ever able to get into, even it's just for a few weeks), and I'll have to go and look for a good private server with rates that aren't absurdly high, and download a 1GB client. I was hoping this game would result in my not having to do that anymore. Oh well. |
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