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Originally Posted by Minerva I am surprised to see Suikoden is actually known in this community (bar Aegis and probably Kid). |
I'm surprised your surprised. A great many people I know tell me about it. On a regular basis...repeatedly.
The Bard's Tale (the newest, I have, to my knowledge, all of them, but I had to use my newest disk to play them all) was very, very linear. In fact, I heard that the game can take as little as 16 hours to play with all the little side quests, not first hand, as I did not have the time to [play it throughly. Walkthroughs for it are typically short, but none the less helpful, if caught in a spot where it is not totally obvious what the hell your doing.
Lately I have played few games... I relented and actually bought Baldur's Gate 2 instead of borrowing it, an example of how far behind I am. The games I play now are strategy (Including, yes, SW: Armada & Sequel), city building (I own the entire Sierra series), and games with RPGish elements... Gladius, Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Summoner: A Goddess Reborn (forcibly, not by choice...), and many games similar to these.
Looking at lists of some console RPGs, many still available for PCs, those games left are, from what I have seen, are falling slowly from the top of console player's gaming piles. Not that it is consistent, but the only console game I can think of coming out right now is Mass Effect, Xbox 360 exclusive, and if there were some newer gaming opportunities coming out for the console, I would throw myself behind that right now. Looking at the console RPGs out there, many starting to age, it looks like the console exclusive industry itself is peaking.
Hey, though, who am I but an unknowing consumer in all this? Some past games still may have people interested, most definitely being series like FF.
I'll help where ever I can.