[Platinum Sun]

I think at some point in the near future, probably during BlizzCon, all gamers are just going to spontaneously combust. I mean look at what's on the horizon for us:

WOW Wrath of the Lich King (As expected)
Starcraft II (Finally)
and now Diablo III (Sure it is just the release date, but never-the-less it's a
cancel-my-plans-for-suicide type of uber finally)

And it's not just Blizzard, Maxis is finally releasing Spore, and there's sure to be a collective nerdgasm over Chrono Trigger DS. This truly will be gamer fandom of apocalyptic proportions. I thought that Square Enix would take a break after Final Fantasy Tactics: Grimoire of the Rift, which I am having my own excessive awesome problems with. (I've logged over 20 hours on it in two days.) But nooooo.

This culmination of events is reaching a level of awesome that Chuck Norris wouldn't scoff at.

I can't be the only one to have seen the signs, tell me someone else has borne witness to the gathering storm.

Or just chat about these, and other impending RPGtrocities or RTSgeddons.

[Toasty]

Well it's nice to see you're not dead. :(

Don't know when Borderlands is comming out, but it seems worth spontaneously combusting over. There's some new RPG comming out for the DS who's name I have yet to learn that looks orgasmic.

But what's FFT:GotR like? I've never played any of the games in that series.

[Drizzy Drake]

Chrono Trigger almost made me orgasm. Now we just need a re-release of CC on the PSP and we'll be all set.

[Someone Else]

Pretty good year for PCs so far, though on the console side of things I'm a bit disappointed.

[Platinum Sun]

Toasty, on Jul 2 2008, 05:15 PM, said:

But what's FFT:GotR like? I've never played any of the games in that series.

I positively loved FFTA, and this one is virtually the same game so I feel the same way about it. They don't really make a secret about it being pretty much copied either. They ripped a lot of sprites and music from A1 and the interface is identical. They've added some neat features, and fixed some of the game's biggest flaws. Laws are no longer ultra-obnoxious, there's an auction system to gain territory, and the translations are improved as well. One thing the handheld components of the Ivalice Alliance seem to consistently fail at is plot.

GotR also ripped the story from A1, which is a bad thing. I never did like the fantasy world angle where a kid from Earth finds a magic tome (or Grimoire, which is totally different) that transports him to Ivalice where he adventures to find a way back home. This one has started off even worse in a way. The whole story is summed up pretty much in one cutscene. I won't say it because it's a spoiler. (not that you're missing much.) I'm not too far into the game, so I can hope that it gets more interesting. Regardless, it comes highly recommended from me. FFTA had the big failing of plot and I still Maxxed the living crap out of my whole clan before retiring it.

It wouldn't bother me so much if this didn't seem to be a pattern. They got close with FFXII Revenant Wings, but nothing near the caliber of the storytelling of their console games. I enjoyed the story in RW more than FFTA/A2 and I had no idea what was going on since I'd never played the original FFXII. Square Enix just seems to think that only children play handhelds and they should save all the brainpower of their writers for the consoles that 40-year old men play in their mother's basement. That way, he's happy and they can just slap some cookie-cutter fairy tale into the brilliant interface they made for the Game Boy.

Ok, I'm getting all emo because I only own a DS, but this topic is about awesome! As you were, carry on.

[Drizzy Drake]

PS, you are awesome.

[Laharl]

the awesome levels drop dramatically if you dont play MMORPGs :/

[Legolastom]

Only one of those is an MMORPG and its an expansion anyway.

[Toasty]

MMO's are full of suck. Until they have virtual reality MMO's, I'm not interested.

[Laharl]

Legolastom, on Jul 3 2008, 09:45 AM, said:

Only one of those is an MMORPG and its an expansion anyway.

so the new Diablo is an offline single player game then?

[Legolastom]

Its an MORPG or ORPG; MMORPGs are generally the ones where you have massive worlds where everone on the server is there, thus the "Massive" part of the name.

Huge difference.

[Split Infinity]

If there's thousands of people connecting to a server at once, it's massive regardless.