Yuuki's Rant #1

Okay Kit had her chance to rant now its my turn. Hurray someone gave the spaz public forum to vent his insanity onto! Anyway so let me begin with the subjects I plan to touch on. First I wanna talk about why some series need to be phased out. Then I will touch on the recent rise in paper thin characters. Finally I will end with simple moaning and complaining about people who put to much emphasis on a single part of a game rather than the game as a whole. Continue if you dare.

Recently I had the joy of playing Grandia 3 which in all truth wasn't a bad game but, it also wasn't the great game that people have been making it out to be. Also everyone has been making so much hype about FFXII and people actually thought X and X-2 were great. Those people are stupid. Both games weren't bad but, by far weren't gems. The games visually were at the top of their game buts story wise they left alot to be desire. And the new FF Tactics was fun and cute but no where near as good as the orginal. They tried and failed miserably at making the story as deep and provoking as the orginal's. In Grandia 3's case you just simply didn't care about the 2 main characters. They were both stereotypical heros. He was naive and cute and she had a mildly troubled past and a world saving agenda. Hello people how many times have we seen this. How about a hero who is lazy, snide, and, doesn't carry a sword and suck at magic. Like a snarky Archer or maybe promiscuous Dancer girl. No, fanboys just love the A Class mute retard sword weilding fighter with the balls to fight evil. This brings me to my next topic, bad character design. Okay so you can basically take almost every FF white mage female character and lay them over 1 another and they'd all be the same chick with different hair and clothes. All main male leads are required to weild a sword. Here's something I bet most people didn't know in "Bushido" (the japanese art of the samurai) The famed katana was actually rarely used. It was actually a last resort weapon, they were more common to use a bow or a long weapon such as a pike or spear. So I say give a hero a spear, a bow, or anything that isn't a sword for Christ sakes. Seriously people your basically playing the same game recolored. Is that what this genre has become? People desiring the same crap at jacked up prices. If that's true your dumb, if you'd actually like something different (which doesn't mean the old school stuff) try a game like Bard's Tale, Radiata Stories, Disgaea. You people who are so over zealous about how pretty a game looks rather than how good the story is or people who are over obsessed with games changing so much from the orginals and being so hardcore to the old stuff. Neither is good, yes alot fo the old games rock but they aren't visually or game play impressive for the most part. Games today lack the depth of previous installments in long series and the long series tend to snuff out the under dogs, because people don't buy what they haven't play 500 times before. Seriously people come out of your shells and buy the random obscure game and go "oooo" and "ahhh...this actually is kinda fun not great but, fun." That way designers will go "Hey they liked something new," and the next one will be a little bit better and hopefully this will lead to a change in this genre we call RPGs...though this is unlikely but, I have little faith in humanity.