Recent content by Savo

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    Where to start with the Persona series?

    The Persona series is odd in that it's almost best played backwards. Start with 3, proceed to 4 if you like it, and then go to the Persona 2 duology if you still want more. 3 and 4 destroy 2 in terms of gameplay and overall fun (and they have significantly better production values due to being...
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    The real significance of female protagonists

    Question for anyone who might know??has there been any kind of research into the number of female "hardcore" gamers? There is that often quoted statistic that women make up 50% of the gaming population, but I believe that research covered all kinds of games, including phone and mobile games...
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    Is Fire Emblem: Awakening worth 40 dollars?

    Not really. Depends on if you require any kind of challenge from your games. The difficulty is hilariously broken, even on Hard Classic (I haven't played any higher than that). There is little to no benefit on many missions to take anyone besides your most godly overpowered characters with you...
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    Your biggest rage quit?

    This thread is perfectly timed, since I just rage quit Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Regular enemy mobs massacre me despite me boosting around the place like a mofo. I try to get in close, but I get hit with endless combos and laser spam that you can only...
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    Poll: Shin Megami Tensei vs Persona. Which do you prefer?

    I prefer Persona. The rest of the games like Digital Devil Saga have good stories, but the dungeon crawling can be REALLY hard to sit through at times. Persona breaks up the dungeon crawling with extensive story and social sim elements, so it's a lot easier to handle.
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    PS4 Hits 7 Million - Consoles Really Aren't In Trouble

    Give it some time and they'll be fine. They don't have much for games right now (especially if you already own a gaming PC) but they'll develop their libraries over time. The consoles still have most of the advantages they've always had?-simplicity, exclusives, low entry cost, etc--so I don't...
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    What changes to anime would you make?

    Get as far the fuck away as they can from high school. I don't mind shows about high-schoolers in principle. They can be great fun. What infuriates me is when I check out the new anime release schedule and 95% of the shows are about high-schoolers or people of highschool age. I'd love to see...
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    When Innovation Is Bad

    If a developer has to choose between innovation and keeping things the same, I'd far rather they innovate. It's a lot better to roll the dice and takes some risks than to keep things the same for years on end. Case in point is the Assassin's Creed series. I quit after the third game because the...
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    Joining the glorious PC Master Race

    Admittedly the PC average metacritic score is a hell of a lot higher than I would have guessed it to be. Yes, there are good PC exclusives. I would never dispute that. However, the ratio of garbage to good games is considerably higher than it is on consoles, because it's a lot easier to make...
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    Joining the glorious PC Master Race

    Go with the 360 controller. It works with damn near everything and it's a solid controller. I'm sorry but that list makes me laugh every time I see it brought up. People think it proves that consoles are getting the short end of the stick for exclusives, but it says the exact opposite for...
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    Not being able to get into older games.

    I would posit that almost no games actually age well. I won't play games made before the 7th generation of consoles because it's a sea of disappointment and frustration. Nine times out of ten, a game will feel horribly dated and unoriginal, even if its technically more complex than games that...
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    Poll: Do You Like Using Over-Powered Classes?

    It's a game-breaker if it's in a single-player game. It's one of the reasons why Fire Emblem: Awakening so utterly collapsed halfway through the game. It takes no effort at all to create a tactician who is a god among men, which breaks the remaining campaign missions in half. I could solo...
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    The Failure of 'Dark' Fantasy

    It's been too long since I played DA:O to launch into an extremely deep discussion of its handling of morality and dark fantasy, but it's probably one of the better fantasy games I've played as far as story goes. There's a lot of grey areas and the fact that it doesn't use a morality meter was...
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    So... Which version of Persona 3 should I get?

    Go with FES. The gameplay in the portable version is better, but it's nothing massive. The AI is stupid, but a good player will be able to compensate for their lack of intelligence. They did the best they could with the PSP's hardware, but they had to cut or edit a lot of stuff, like running...
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    Have you ever bought a game on PC and not been able to play it?

    Yup, you just have to live with it with PC gaming. It happens more often with older games, but it happens with newer ones too. I've given up hope of ever getting Bioshock 2 Minerva's Den to work, because it's just not worth spending hours trying to fix a game I'll beat in several hours.