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Post by Revolver Ocelot on Mar 17, 2012 14:15:47 GMT -5
Back in the day, I used to write reviews for GameFAQs. This was one of my first: It's rough, ruff. It was a fun little (giant) game, but it had quite a few problems.
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Post by galactictomahawk on Mar 18, 2012 2:07:32 GMT -5
All I remember about Legend of Dragoon was that I was basically more indifferent towards it than anything I've played in my life.
Like if I ever need to give an example of the one definitive game that I didn't exactly hate but was too bored with to replay or even care about on any conceivable level that would definitely be it.
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Post by Ike on Mar 18, 2012 2:55:03 GMT -5
WARNING HUGE BATTLEPOST IS APPROACHING FAST I've tried on at least 3 occasions to play through LoD. The first time I tried playing was somewhere like 6 or 7 years ago, around 2005 or 2006 if I'm not mistaken, so the game was last-gen but not outright old yet. I also made an attempted playthrough of it about a year ago. I did enjoy it a bit at first, but I have to preface this with the caveat that I have an extremely high tolerance for JRPG nonsense. I thought the addition system was interesting enough to keep the pace moving and make me actually pay attention, so it gets points for that. I liked the music alright and the graphics teetered between two extremes of being pretty good and downright ugly. The main character models were similar; Dart and Rose's models looked pretty good, while Lavitz and Shana's were inexcusably terrible. Don't both of those characters die, too? Maybe that's why they didn't bother adding any kind of texture to their polygons. This game is basically the ur-PS1JRPG. It apes nearly every successful JRPG that came before it, not least of which being FF7. It's almost uncanny to the point where you can practically play RPG Trope Bingo with this game. - Blonde, spiky haired main character with a large sword - His hometown was burned down by the villain - Childhood friend love interest to whom he is oblivious - Evil empire using magic energy to be evil - A silver haired mysterious villain with unknown motivations - A party member who is secretly a member of an ancient extinct race of which the villain is also a member - Elaborate transformation cutscenes And all this shit happens by disc 2, which is as far as I got on both occasions. This game has more padding than the shipping box of an elite practical katana. If it would've been half the length and had taken a pause and said "maybe we shouldn't be cribbing the entirety of Final Fantasy 7's 2nd act" it would have been passable. The game had a few ideas that made it unique, like the addition system, but all of that is drowned out by the derivative-of-a-derivative presentation and the poor execution of most of these factors. There seemed to be a lack of proper coordination between the people designing the world and the programmers. A lot of the prerendered backgrounds are damn near impossible to navigate and have no clear path of passage through them but for the fact that they (wisely, in this case) cribbed the door highlighting function from FF7 that tells you where the exits and the player are in any given room. Sometimes I wonder whether a better translation would have helped the game, but thinking on it I feel like it would have only reinforced the profound generic-ness of the story. There's something to be said for leaving things to the imagination. I don't think it's possible to really enjoy this game if you don't already have nostalgia for it. This is coming from someone who has beaten the majority of the scenarios in SaGa Frontier in the last year or two, something I have no nostalgia for but found tolerable in spite of its flaws. If you do have nostalgia for the game, go ahead and enjoy it! There's nothing wrong with that. I knew I'd find one! I don't hate the game myself it's just the people that defend the game are somewhat infamous. Really? That's news to me I rarely find people who defend Mystic Quest. If I get the time I will write up an epic carepost defending Mystic Quest. I legit love that game.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Mar 18, 2012 21:18:55 GMT -5
Wow so much vitriol against LoD. Funny thing is, I don't think there's anything wrong with the complaints leveled against it, but I still enjoyed the time I had with it and it certainly wasn't one of my early RPGs by any stretch. Maybe we should get a Game Club episode on it to finally bury the hatchet. If you guys don't want to completely play in the dark, I can scan the Expert Gamer issue that had the guide in it. I second this. It's been awhile and I want to beat it more then just once. Can someone point me to the rules for this Gameclub thing?
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Post by Ike on Apr 2, 2012 15:12:23 GMT -5
bump
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Post by Super Orbus on Apr 2, 2012 15:24:29 GMT -5
Lol. The perils of literal translation.
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Post by retr0gamer on Apr 2, 2012 17:58:02 GMT -5
Maybe I'm too harsh on it afterall
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Apr 2, 2012 20:58:16 GMT -5
(repondng to op here) I myself quite enjoyed Legend of Dragoon and regretted selling my only copy way back when (When I foolish enough to believe that trading in games was worth doing). I haven't looked hard mind you, but it seems most copies available for sale these days are really expensive
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2012 21:09:40 GMT -5
There were no fewer than three copies of this game at my sister's house a couple of months ago. I swiped one of the two black label versions for myself, since I sold mine years and years ago. I really just can't justify paying honest money for that thing again.
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Post by xerxes on Apr 2, 2012 22:00:28 GMT -5
(notes hatred)
(silently adds Legend of Dragoon to Game Club Randomizer queue)
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Post by Ike on Apr 3, 2012 6:13:58 GMT -5
(notes hatred) (silently adds Legend of Dragoon to Game Club Randomizer queue) i was fucking waiting for this
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Post by retr0gamer on Apr 3, 2012 10:38:13 GMT -5
(notes hatred) (silently adds Legend of Dragoon to Game Club Randomizer queue) Why would you inflict that on people? You're worse than Kony ever was.
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Post by vetus on Apr 3, 2012 11:03:41 GMT -5
...it appears the majority here seems to hate or pretend it never happened. I have never played this game but I remember it as one of the few jrpgs for Playstation which were 4 cd-roms (along with FFVIII and Koudelka) and that it was one of the most hyped jrpgs for its era that got positive review from Gamepro. Speaking for FFVII killers, how much jrps for PS1 were being promoted as FF killers? ;D
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Post by The Great Klaid on Apr 3, 2012 11:07:50 GMT -5
Well, now I got that out of my system... How do you feel about Beyond the Beyond?
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Post by Allie on Apr 3, 2012 11:12:45 GMT -5
(notes hatred) (silently adds Legend of Dragoon to Game Club Randomizer queue) Two Words. Shadow Madness.
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