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Questions on a few Square-Enix games

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I Am Not Amused:
Bought SO:TtEoT. Only a few hours into the game and I already like it. I almost completley forgot about the whole cooking and alchemy and super advanced skills stuff from The Second Story for PSX! Oh, man, I cannot freaking wait. Also, if anyone has TSS that they want to sell cheap, please contact me NOW> I want that game so bad.

The Mighty Mopdecai:
I really liked Grandia II I played it on the dreamcast. Which was supposely the better version. then PS2 I don't about III it will probably be quite enjoyable rent it out.

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Grandia III

Radiata Stories

Romancing Saga

and Star Ocean: Till the End of Time



Anyone play any/all of these games. If so, which (if any) are worth purchasing or renting? Thanks much!

P.S. If anyone tells me to go to a review site, I will tell them that I prefer feedback from normal players as opposed to reviewers who most of the time have their heads up their collective asses.
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Grandia 3:  A good friend of mine said he couldn't stop playing for the first 6 hours.  Then he got to the second disc, and was so burnt out on the game going soley by the gameplay and not story, he's having a hard time finishing the game.

Radiata Stories:  Honestly, I don't know.  I worked in a video game store last holiday season and didn't hear a word about it.  I did look through a strategy guide and found out Lenneth Valkyrie, the main character of Valkyrie Profile, was a secret character and Lezard Valeth, one of the main enemies in the same game, was a secret boss, and almost picked it up for that alone.

Romancing SaGa:  It's a SaGa game.  Avoid it like the plague.

Star Ocean:  I hated it with a passion, because I went into it thinking it was, you know, going to be FUN like Star Ocean for the PS1 was.  I was horridly dissapointed.  The fighting system is so convoluted and grotesque.  Maybe it's because I was playing the vastly superior Tales of Symphonia at the time.  If you've got a gameCube or can import the Japanese version, get ToS.  Trust me, it's worth it.

AND!  I would like to mention the best game that Squeenix has made in about 6 years, you didn't mention, that being Dragon Quest 8.  I don't know a single person that played it, that liked more traditional RPGs in the past, that didn't enjoy it.

To be completely honest, I haven't been a fan of Square since the SNES days.  The only things they made post SNES that I enjoyed were Final Fantasy Tactics (which is one of my favorite games ever, I'll admit), Valkyrie Profile (or was that an Enix title?  Doesn't make much difference now, I suppose), and Final Fantasy 9.  After they made Final Fantasy 7, which was trash in my exceedingly unhumble opinion, they've been corporatized, making games entirely formulaic, not putting any effort into them, just going for the bottom dollar instead of making something that's genuinely enjoyable.

Merkava:
Radiata Stories is a refreshing, fun experience. You may have some fun with that one.

Grandia III has one of the best battle systems ever, but everything else sucks. The story is annoying and cheesey and there's not motivation to do anything. There are some moments, but the whole thing ends up being mediocre. This is a shame, since the first two games are classics. Pick them up. I highly recommend them.

Star Ocean 3 was pretty good. There were only two things that annoyed me about the game. One was the fact that you were stuck on the medieval planet for most of the game, leaving the visits to the other places feeling kinda rushed and underdeveloped. The other thing was that plot twist. Still, I enjoyed the game immensley. It's so fun and it's pretty darn well-made.

Also, FFVII trash? Sorry, but I can't see where you get that. FFVI was trash. Sorry, but at least FFVII's plot didn't fall apart half-way through and have a villian that had no development or motivation. Also, FFVII is revolutionary to the industry. It's a classic. But I don't want to start an FF fight, so I'll just bow out of that part of the conversation now. I think we can all agree that DQVIII is the best thing to come out of SE in a long while. That game kicked so much ass.

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