The Old Skool Cult of Kefka, bitches!

[Georg Prime]

Yeah that's a really good point, my point of view of "best" and "favorite" usually differs a lot. I guess it's safe to say that DQ so far to me is probably the best, but maybe not my top favorite, I haven't even finished it yet though so I'll comment on that later. It's definitely one of my favorites though.

At this point in time, having played a pretty good amount of PS2 rpgs (but nowhere near all the good ones though), I'd say DQ VIII, Star Ocean 3, Xenosaga Trilogy (hard to group them as separate games), Valkyrie Profile 2 (from the little I've played of it atleast ) Final Fantasy XII and Rogue Galaxy are my favorite rpgs on the console. But I agree, we should have a discussion. I have vowed not to buy a new console until I play every worthwhile rpg on the PS2, and am currently going through the list pretty quickly. My biggest challenge is going to be playing all of Nippon Ichi's strategy rpgs back to back in one long marathon...

I was actually planning on starting a top ps2 rpg thread after i was done with a few more..needless to say the ps2 has one of the biggest rpg libraries around.

Oh yeah..and enjoy Valkyrie Profile Caesar, certainly one of my favorite rpgs around. I think the original is better than the sequel too..although they are pretty hard to compare because a lot has changed between them (though there are obviously still a lot of similarities). It's almost like trying to compare Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross. The einherjar have now become boring, randomly generated characters though.

[ZRO]

Cripes you guys put me to shame anymore, lol. My latest playings have been S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl and yet still more FFXI, lol. I'm honestly not sure how long it's been since I touched anything old-school. Only so many hours in the day unfortunately. ;;

CP:
STALKER
FFXI
CS:Source (oddball days! ^^)

[Setzertrancer]

Hello, I'm back at last.

So what been happening in this club for the last couple of months?

Oh and I recently got Dragon Quest 6 and for some reason I was kind of completely put off by the fact that it was a front view battle system. Dunno why just seem weird to me but is it a good game compared to say FF6.

I've also been having trouble playing games lately because whenever I get off work I don't really feel playing games for at least I'm finding it hard to commit myself to RPGs. I've restarted FF12 twice and only gotten halfway through, this is because when I don't play it for several weeks I lose the motivation to continue where I was. Could it be that working life is ruining my gaming life. Oh dear I hope not.

CP: FFIII
FFXII
Sonic and the Secret Rings

[Juice]

600 posts. *dances!*
thought i'd come by and let you all celebrate with me...! And tell you i heart you all <3 xDD


Its about time, ive been here about 5 years @_@


whaaaa *is excitable at 5am* glomps for all!

CP: erm... Trying to finish FFXII, but it hurts.
so playing =Harry Potter PS on Colour gameboy. This game is rediculously hard >.<

Wow.... you kids are really un-active...
i miss you all so i think you should come bavk and post smething fun soon (yes i do know that this isnt the 'im drunk and want to love you all thread") but oh well.
<3

[Georg Prime]

Hey congrats Juice *joins in dancing and raises a beer*.

Well I've definitely been away from the Cult from awhile and from TFF in general due to pure laziness and because I've been a bit busy with things. In gaming news, DQ VIII is currently on temporary hold. When we brought up the best/favorite ps2 games I thought the only thing that I would probably like more than DQ VIII....SUIKODEN! As much as I'm an avid old schooler, my favorite post SNES rpg series is suikoden hands down. When I think of amazing rpgs of the PS era..what do I think of? Suikoden II.

Anyhoo, so I recently ordered Suikoden III, IV, V and Tactics. I'm playing them in numerical order, even though it's not that big of deal which order you play them. I, II, and III are more direct sequels of one another though, atleast chronologically speaking. Basically from what I've heard from gaming sites and forums, and user reviews alike: III is great, IV is a disgrace (atleast to the series standards, but not a bad game all together), and V is a great return to the series roots (finally the original battle system is back). Seems like most still consider II the best though. I hope to tell my final verdict of all the games once I finish the new ones. I'm playing through Suikoden III right now and loving it though (despite a few problems like the camera angle and the strangely altered battle system).

I am playing something old school though, and something I know Jintatsu might like! And that game is...*drumroll*...Shining Force CD! I didn't know this game existed, but it's a compilation of two remakes of the Game Gear games Shining Force Gaiden and Shining Force Gaiden II. Visually, right on par with Shining Force II. Gameplay wise though, all the free roaming town sequences are gone, so it's basically strictly battles. Still, with two games, and the same classic shining force battles, it's a must play for fans of the series.

[ZRO]

For once my post actually contains something (sit down, this might hurt you) BESIDES FFXI!

Ya rly.

In the old-school gaming era: Played some NES and 64 last night. Yes, I'm aware 64 isn't that old, but considering we're 2 systems past it anymore, I think it's earned it's induction into the old-school halls. Much fun was had with Anticipation and Marble Madness for the NES. Then more fun was had admittedly as we broke out first Star Fox 64, the Super Smash Bros., and finally a little bit of Mario Kart 64 to top it off, with many rounds of Battle and several VS. races, mostly consisting of Rainbow Road and Wario's Stadium. A little bit of Starcraft thrown into the mix in preparation for the upcoming Starcraft 2 some time in the future (gameplay trailers exist now, it looks SO damned pretty).

So ya, little bit of old-school for once from the old-school loving Mithra. =^.^=

CP: Read the post, yar.

[Scorpian]

I Still Live..however Gaia has swalloed me wholesale, But i still emerge, also...thebisho is having comp...situation..I'm surprised the aussie has been silent about it but yeah...I'd ask you guys to join me @ gaia so we could make an Old SKool guild..but I know how thsoe things USUAlly turn out lol

*kills jin*

[LocoColt04]

...did you SERIOUSLY just utter those words?

Join you at Gaia? WHATTHEFUCKNO. =(



My old school gaming as of late has consisted of Valkyrie Profile, and a handful of virtual console games on the Wii (Street Fighter II, Excitebike, Link to the Past, and Sonic). No gaming otherwise.

GASP! No current-gen games running?! Nope, not at the moment. Too busy.

[Mistress Sheena]

...Gaia? Fuck no.

Fuck Gaia in the ass. Gaia sucks and you know it. Get away from Gaia. It is horrible.

And oh. I'm playing Pokemon Pearl at the moment. Along with Emerad, Fire Red, and Ruby. =P

[Jin]

Scorp...did you get younger? Only 12 year olds have the time to sift through the 3 million threads on Gaia. You scare me. Old skool to them is N64...

I think you should kill yourself instead of me for that.

Gaming gaming gaming what gaming? Kotor2 as always? Sure. It's only my 20th file or so. Shining Force 2 when I feel like it. Yup. Zro is dead again? Mother ****er. Bisho bastard! >=O

Pokemon Pearl, ugliest starting pokemon to date? I think so. "We already have a water turtle, let's make a grass one even though turtles have nothing to do with grass!" Silly.

Least cohearant post ever? Oh yes.

Alcohol in my slurpee? Yes indeed. =)

CP:
Shining Force 2
Kotor2

[Georg Prime]

Yay for old school gaming, Nintendo 64, Wii..and alcohol Jin.

I'll make this short. Playing Suikoden III still and It's been sucking my life away, so far I have to say this is probably my favorite RPG on the PS2 thus far. About 30 hours into it..probably another 30 or more to go?

On top of that I've been playing Shining Force CD. The cool part about the game? Multiple difficulty settings (one of my annoyances was that the original games were a bit on the easy side). So I've been playing the game on extra hard mode which wasn't too bad until I got up to about Chapter 3 and the battles are suddenly REALLY hard and my characters are way under leveled. So I've been stuck on the same battle for days now.

Old school question (for ZRO, noticing his awesome banners):

Is Mega Man X Collection worth getting? I loved the original three on the SNES , especially the first one. I've heard the later games in the series aren't exactly stellar though

[Jin]

I have the 10000th post in this forum. Booyah! =D

Funny thing about Shining Force and difficulty. For my current SF2 file, I decided to put the difficulty up to "ouch", the supposed hardest. The witch seemed pretty certain I'd die, but so far there has been absolutely NO difference. I think the programers just got lazy and decided to use the difficulty settings for psychological warfare, rather than actually making it harder.